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A Comment Submitted to Roderick Long

Roderick Long, in a post entitled “Brothers in Arms" has embraced new terminology for creationism and socialism.

"Most creationists profess to hold socialism in disdain; most socialists profess to hold creationism in disdain. Neither side seems sufficiently disturbed by the strong similarity between the two viewpoints.

Both creationists and socialists distrust invisible-hand processes and cannot conceive of order emerging except through some sort of centralised top-down control. (And neither side has much fondness for Herbert Spencer!)

From now on I’m calling creationism “cosmic socialism,” and socialism “political creationism.”

My email comment to Roderick.

Roderick -

While I appreciate your suggested nomenclature for creationism, I think “cosmic socialism,” as a term, would be more aptly applied to the man made dogmas conjured by organized religions in regards to the teachings of Christ. Creationism, as you are aware, is “a doctrine or theory holding that matter, the various forms of life, and the world were created by God out of nothing and usu. in the way described in Genesis.”

Though creationism is a “top-down” theory, it is not from this doctrine that the errant socialist ideals, in Christianity, arose. Those errant ideals arose from within organized Christian religion hierarchies as a means of fleecing the flocks of their hard earned dollars.

Best

John Venlet

Posted by on 01/23 at 07:27 AM