Quote to start the week

 

 

"Take god out of the equation,

and all you have left is social justice."

-- Daniel Greenfield

 

Daniel is especially brilliant today.  This is not to be missed:

God as Government

 

.... If there are no unique revelations, no special scriptures and no vital testaments... then each religion's identity becomes a formality, is reduced to a series of dubious traditions that don't really matter in the bigger picture. If all religions are equally valid, then they are also equally invalid.... 

 

 

In the absence of theology, the only religion that remains is the universal one of "being nice to other people". Take god out of the equation, and all you have left is social justice. Liberalization leads to secularization with the end result that religion becomes one gigantic "being nice to other people" project. And what is the best possible vehicle for social justice projects, but government.  And so governments became gods. Their mission to build kingdoms of heaven on earth, utopias in which no one went hungry and which everyone was equally prosperous....

Comments

[Mannie Sherberg]

I have but two comments: First, Daniel Greenfield thinks like a genius and writes like an angel. He is an adornment to the human race. Second, not a one of those governments that promised to achieve utopias in which no one goes hungry and everyone is equally prosperous has, of course, ever succeeded. The grim and grisly reality is that every one of them -- whether the Soviet Union or Red China or North Korea or any other -- has produced a "utopia" in which a tiny elite is well fed and prosperous and the immense remainder of the people are equally malnourished (or starved) and equally impoverished. No invention in history has produced more misery than "Government as God."

[Tom Glennon]

I spent three hours this morning in a meeting with a Colonel and Major in the Army. The Major is just back from Afghanistan. After being with these men, it is indeed disheartening to listen to the president, and his pronouncements about both religion and warfare. As Mannie wrote, no government that replaced Gd with government has ever delivered anything but misery. May I add that a cult of personality, replacing a representative government, can only result in a loss of all that the Creator has given us, the freedom to choose our own destiny.