Power and Control: The Same Old Religion

Friday, April 04, 2008

Marxism is the religion of thieves

5 comments:

Unknown said...: As is islam.

One way you could split religions is how much they look ahead.

Christianity values poverty (or at least "financial modesty"), work, very big very long term public works (some were planned to last 800 years, AND actually finished), values extremely stable relationships (they are expected to last until the participants are dead, and preferably even beyond that), the dead are respected, pictured, remembered, and their words are written down ...

Islam values extreme stolen richess, authority over others ("amr bi alma 'ruf wa nahi 'an alnunkar"), again acquired by force, divided according to allah's representative on earth's wishes (that's what a kaliphate is). This richess is not to be earned, but is to be taken, or provided by allah (who really hasn't been providing very much, of course some arabs claim oil comes to them that way). Everything is an object to be bartered and consumed in the very short term, even women.; Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:46:00 AM UTC
Unknown said...: And it's the same with communism/socialism. You fix the problems of the next few days/next few months, by causing utterly massive problems just slightly down the road.

Obviously if you do this (either and islamic state like Iran, or socialism like North Korea or Zimbabwe), currency inflation immediately spirals out of control and the country takes a nosedive.

BUT : now they have found the way to do it : you just impose it on the whole world at the same time through CO2 regulations, which are controlling the energy flow through industry and society in general. And you just impose it on everyone at the same time.

And when everyone finds themselves subject to communism, surely it will work, right ? We'll just repeal the law of supply and demand, and to get rid of this pesky competition we just conquer the entire planet.

Again socialism and islam agree on this. Use force and terror, not convincing like Christianity, to submit the entire world to work for you.; Friday, April 4, 2008 at 11:51:00 AM UTC
M. Simon said...: Tom,

Excellent point! I'm going to use that.

Thank you. You will pardon if I don't give you a HT but it would ruin the look. My thanks!; Friday, April 4, 2008 at 1:59:00 PM UTC
LarryD said...: Yes, the money quotes are:

Matthew 28:19 "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"

Mark 16:15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

Compare

Exodus 19:6 "and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."; Friday, April 4, 2008 at 8:38:00 PM UTC
Snake Oil Baron said...: Islam is to Christianity what crystal meth and crack is to beer and pot.

More to the point, Marxism/fascism is truly a religion. When religious folk speak of the many deaths at the hands of "secularist ideologies" and say that: "a person who does not believe in God does not believe in nothing but believes in anything" they are only half right. The thinking that results in having faith and emotion equal to logic as an epistemological source is dangerous no matter whether it is applied to God, society, race or the economy.

I believe in whatever religion demands teaching informal logic and critical thinking in schools.; Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 5:13:00 AM UTC