I WAS BEING ACCUSED of apostasy from "the left" almost a decade ago because I held there were morals higher than "The First Amendment" or "The Bill of Rights" or "The Declaration of the Rights Of Man," etc. Or, in fact, any program of pie-in-the-sky, never to be achieved, OR NOT POSSIBLY ACHIEVED IN THE NEAR FUTURE theorizing.
There is plenty of territory to the left of "the left" and it's power comes from the belief that God made things so as materialist, atheist, scientism flounders around in denying that we are more than machines made of meat, that our thoughts are predetermined by the content of, not out character, our minds or our souls but whatever molecules happen to be in our heads and, stupidest of all for them and any kind of morality, that their necessary claims that there are no such things as moral absolutes, in which case any society that wants to do anything from not voting for atheists to discriminate against atheists to make atheism a capital crime is OK as long as that's what they like. There is, by the way, no more wrong with someone not voting for an atheist on that ground than there would be to not vote for an FLDS polygamist or a Catholic Integralist (FYI, bunkie, Catholics aren't fundamentalists but they can be integralists). I doubt that you would ever vote for either and I certainly wouldn't. There are many People of many identities I would not vote for THOUGH I HOLD THEY ARE OWED EQUALITY OF RIGHTS. There is no right to hold public office, it is a privilege one earns by gaining the majority of votes in an election by the free choice of voters. I have voted for at least one atheist in the past but he was not a materialist or a believer in scientism. If he had been he may not have had my vote.
It's not that difficult to find yourself far more radical as a Christian than you were when you were an agnostic such as I was. Back when I would have described myself as a democratic socialist, though one who always rejected Marxism. Now I'm a radical leveler who thinks socialism is small potatoes next to the radicalism of the Mosaic Law and the Gospel of Jesus.
Here's what I said August 20, 2013.
No. I'm more radically radical than I've ever been, more desirous of changing reality, moving towards the real agenda of radicalism. There is nothing more really radical than reality. The entire program of political radicalism of, as I usually put it, traditional American liberalism, consists of actually making the lives of people better. Nothing any radical-in-their-own-and-millions-of-others-minds has ever done is as radical as the passing of a law that feeds and houses poor people, provides people with health care, or even a local statute that protects a spot of the environment. No matter how much they declare or what they advocate to achieve that greatest desideratum of those on the play left, to be the most leftist of all in the room, without really improving lives they're no different from the mushy middle and the conservative status quo. Worse, they discredit the real left, hindering their work.
There is nothing more radical than the agenda I have:
- 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.
Nothing, nothing that exists in the entire leftist books sections of the set of all of the libraries in the world, is more radical than that. And I doubt anyone can come up with something more radical.
Now I would point out that there is no scientific or logically demonstrable "proof" of that, it's a choice to believe it based in experience and observation AND A BELIEF THAT THAT IS HOW GOD ORDERS THINGS. If any atheist has an explanation for their belief in it while being a materialist or a believer in scientism, I'd like to see them try and make it unassailable to their fellow materialist-atheist-scientism believer buddies. If you think that admitting that that belief is a choice impeaches my belief, you chose to believe what you do, you just won't admit it.
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