A common ideology on the left is the rejection of God and religion. As if they don’t understand that they are made in the image of God, they can’t help themselves but embrace religious ideas. They will complain about fundamentalists and how they’re trying to push the religion on others yet in some ways they are even more aggressive in trying to force others to accept their religious ideas.
There are different denominations within leftist religion like global warming. They are convinced that the world is coming to an end quickly if we don’t radically stop our use of oil and gas. They will stand in the street with signs made from petroleum products in sneakers made from petroleum products dressed in clothes that are made of petroleum products and use their phones to organize which are made of petroleum products to demonize petroleum products. And then not content with holding these beliefs to themselves they want to force these beliefs on others. They will block traffic, try to destroy paintings in museums, and do other acts of vandalism to push their religious ideas on others.
All. Religions are based on kernels of truth. Many religions claim revelatory knowledge and the left talks about being woke.
Another denomination in their religions is systemic racism. Again a kernel of past truth but they’re willing to burn down buildings, beat people up, and shut down conversations with the threat of violence to force people to believe as they do.
It is an ecumenical movement on the left with a combined different denominations and one through DEI. And they use the force of a well-designed network to try to destroy businesses and individuals if they don’t take on their religion. It’s interesting how uncompromising these leftist religions can get. They would be hard-pressed to find a conventional religion that has the tyranny that the left demonstrates.
Now the left likes to complain about the money in traditional religious movements yet the left is all about the money. BLM is a classic denomination within leftist religions and they are experts at threatening businesses to give them money or else suffer boycotts. They have their own superrich preachers who live in mansions after blackmailing businesses to give them millions of dollars.
I would be surprised if anyone could give an example of an Orthodox religion being as abusive as the religions on the left.
So I find it interesting how the left condemns people of faith and says that religions are dangerous when the left has a pretty high body count (The Summer of Love) billions of dollars of property damage in trying to expand their religions. During the summer of love, they were forcing white people to kneel and apologize for racism. Talk about converting people on the street.
When we decide to reject God there is a God-shaped void in all of us that we will fill with something. And not all religions in the world have deities. We have secular humanism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Jainism, and others.
Do you see the religious fervor in leftist movements?
What constitutes a religion?
John Keefe
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