Saturday, July 20, 2019

"Secularism" Meh!

I'd much, much rather be dealing with the thinking of Brueggemann, Kung, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Susannah Heschel and Marilynne Robinson than the idiocy of the atheists but the atheists are the ones damaging the American left.  I think that's been done largely by duping liberals into believing that secularism, an administrative necessity in an egalitarian democracy is some kind of moral requirement for the left, itself.  We don't owe the sacrifice of the most powerful engine of liberal change in the history of the United States, the morality of the Jewish-Christian-Islamic tradition, to the atheists.  It was when that was done, beginning in the mid-1960s that the left started its nose dive into Nixonian, Reganite, Bushist and now Trumpian fascism.  This is a political blog, after all, dedicated to the left winning by being true to its foundations and the foundation of those foundations.   Atheists don't have a right to run the left into the ground to suit their very limited ends.  And we've been stupid enough to let them do it.  Well, no more. Not as Trump is in office and the Republicans have staffed the courts with fascists, white supremacists and traitors.

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  1. By and large the political response to Trump has to be a moral appeal, or there is no appeal against him at all. It's just the lesser if two weevils, and that inspires no one to vote. That's the difference between the "old" candidates (Biden and Bernie) and the younger ones. Enthusiasm based on a moral stance wins. IMHO, anyway.

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    1. It's the only thing that has worked in the past. The Reverend MLK and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference did things to change things, the secularists piddled that success away.

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