Hate Mail - Answer To An Accusation of Apostasy

Someone who has done me the honor of looking at my recent archive is, nonetheless, outraged that I hold the positions I do.  It would seem that, as the folks at the Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter 7 determined that mudbloods with magical powers got them illegitimately,  it is clearly implied that someone who holds my religious beliefs is not allowed to hold the political views I hold.   It would appear they believe I stole those things from the "real left"*.

Well, I'll put my leftist agenda up against anybodies and am bold and arrogant enough to assert that not only will I match them on any item legitimately on that list, but I'll explain both why they are consonant with my religious beliefs in a way that they can never square them with their materialism and that history proves that all of those positions were held by religious folk long before any atheist they can name had them.

I have given a list of things I believe in before as well as a short account of the general principals those are based in.

- Total equality,

-  Holding that rights are as real as the screen you're reading this on held in tension with the as real  rights of everyone else and so,

-  The stand that there is a real, consequential obligation to respect those rights in other people and another obligation to demand the equal ability to practice them for yourself and others. 

From those come anything that can possibly comprise a real agenda of a left that is not merely a variation on the right which is based on their opposites.  To the extent that something deviates from that is the extent to which it is actually the opposite of liberalism.

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I looked at Charlie Hebdo's past record of crap and note that even as some on the pseudo-left want to lay claim to it, translated into English, produced by English speakers,  no one would have any problem seeing it for being particularly brutal and cynical hate speech of the far right.   The confusion over that I take as further confirmation of my contention that the materialist, pseudo-left is actually nothing like a real left.  The hate gushing from that pseudo-left, encouraging the continuation of the flow of hate from Charlie Hebdo, cheering them on, even further confirmation of that.   If their goals are not incompatible with what is more than just equivalent to, but actually identical to the hate talk of the Pam Gellers, the FOX hate talkers, the radio hate-talkers of the far right, if they encourage and cheer as Charlie Hebdo starts up with talk welcomed by the French neo-Fascists, who are, actually, gaining enough strength to become a real force if not the force in French politics, then that proves my contention.

The real left has to reject the hate-talkers, the materialist pseudo-left, which is worse than a burden, it is the mill stone that has sunk us in a sewer which they, as well as their equivalent on the right have polluted.

In recent reading I came across something that would have once surprised me, Horst Mahler, whose name I sort of remember from the the terrorism of the Red Army Faction in Europe, "switched sides" and became a Hitler praising neo-Nazi, Holocaust denying member of the far right.   It's sort of a German translation of the Christopher Hitchens act here, only Hitchens knew to hitch his wagon to those already with power.  He was always a soft-handed tough guy.

It's not an uncommon sight among members of the hate-talking, violence promoting, materialist "left" as they find their opportunities with that identity waning.  I have mentioned before that the presumed giant leap from some kind of Marxism or Maoism (also in Mahler's case) to the extreme far right, is actually a baby step, one which many have made.  The step in the other direction isn't something I can recall anyone doing, not to the materialist "left", though I have seen some on the basis of religious conversion out of the far right.

Anyone who champions what Charlie Hebdo puts out has given us ample reason to reject as someone we have anything in common with.  A person who can champion the publication of hate talk which is known to incite deadly violence even as that violence is going on will prove to be the Mahler-Hitchens kind of "leftist" in the end.   That goes for webloids and even print magazines, as well.

*  The lore of the atheist "left" is based securely in not knowing anything about the past, as those two late and tossed off posts I did yesterday indicate.  They don't even know anything about the history of atheism as recently as the past century.  They have no idea of the provenance of the incidental political positions they take, no more than that those are not compatible with the substrate of their basic ideology.  Perhaps that accounts for the frequent apostasy of the kind mentioned in this post, that discrepancy has a way of, eventually, mattering and it will be the incidental political positions that are abandoned rather than the basic materialist ideology.  That's pretty much the entire history of "Marxist" governance as well as such early attempts as the French Revolution which was certainly no festival of liberty, equality and fraternity.  If you were one of the brothers your biggest danger came from your brothers gaining unequal powers, throwing you in jail and cutting your head off after a summary trial based on the fashion of the hour.  I will admit that watching Americans who know essentially everything they know about the French revolution and French culture from reading novels and watching them sing The Marseillaise in Casablanca going on about it all of a sudden is pretty weird.