Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Don't Miss the Connection

In a post titled Know Your Enemy, Billy Beck has this to say about Hillary Clinton.

She is a steely-eyed Stalinist, on a mission to save the world. Her religion is temporally coincident with the leftist philosophy which has suffused the time of her life, and there is actually no fundamental contradiction here. People might scream about abortion in this context, but that is really only a (logically) high-level concrete of no serious consequence to her fundamentals. You can point out that contradiction, she will dismiss it flippantly and then carry on. It’s not a big deal because her basic socialism is unquestionably Christian in character.

In response to Billy’s post, Bithead, over at Bit’sBlog, titles a post Oh, I’ll questiton it... and states the following.

I don’t think there’s anything particularly Christian about the policies of Stalin.

Now, were you to say that she has taken on Christianity as an affectation so as to reduce voter resistance to her and her policies, you would be a great deal more accurate. I put that in the same mold as Bubba waltzing out of a church with a huge Bible in his hand, and then going back to the oval office to find Monica still waiting for him, under the desk. There’s no question in my mind whatever, that both of them wrapped themselves in the outward trappings of Christianity for one reason; to advance their political goals.

Bithead then ends his post with this comment.

Christianity as a belief structure holds no motivation for either of them. Rather, being identified so is a means to power, for it’s own sake. That, in fact, is the only thing that’s ever driven either one of them.

While Bithead is correct that there is not “anything particularly Christian about the policies of Stalin,” and that there is an expediency to the Clinton’s being associated with Christianity, I think he is misunderstanding the premise of Billy’s post.

Stalin’s policies were, indeed, monsterous.  His policies devoured hordes of individuals, not very Christian, as he attempted to guild the fallacy that is socialism.  Be that as it may, the socialist mind, and the Christian mind, are not that far apart in their ideologies to “save the world."

There are many similarities between Christianity and Socialism, both ideologies founded by Jews who in their own lifetimes were hated by the authorities and had to flee to other countries. Marxism has its own “old and new testaments”: Das Kapital and State and Revolution respectively. There are direct comparisons between the letters of the apostles and those books written by exiles to “believers”in other countries giving advice etc. such as Lenin’s “What is to be done?”.

Crimes have been committed in the name of the two ideologies by people who really didn’t represent the movements; the Spanish inquisition, witch burning, and Stalinist terror.

More importantly, both want to change the world for the better, eliminate poverty of both lifestyle and health (even though Christ said that the poor would always be with us), restore and improve the natural environment and bring an end to wars. Even though we disagree on homosexuality, sex before marriage and abortion, in those issues on which we have common ground socialists and Christians have had a long and healthy tradition of working together in the past and no doubt will have in the future.

The above quote was written by a third year chemistry student, and I do not think that one needs a more learned discourse from some professorial moonbat in this case to understand that the connection Billy points to in his post is unquestionably there.

Posted by John Venlet on 10/24 at 09:31 AM
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