I’ve always been fairly resistant to the concept of religion, but now, in the elderly condition I’ve achieved, I’ve come to the notion that even if there is no actual truth to it, religion lies at the base of everything humanity does. The principles of Judeo-Christianity are simple and effectively promote a humanitarian existence to all involved. There seems, logically, to be little reason to fight against the principles. Yet fight against them, many do.
One of the most effective ideologies conflicting with this positive interest of any traditional religion, is Marxism. One of the principle concepts used to sell Marxism is a critique of the most prominent and successful economic ideology in history, capitalism. Marxism paints “the worker,” (the prime beneficiary of capitalism), into a position of victimhood. Victims of the capitalists who exploit them in order to profit in some way from their labor. The Marxist goal being to convert society from a capitalist ideology to communism. This removal of society from capitalism, necessitates a change of private ownership of business enterprises over to a “public” ownership. Which, of course, doesn’t and hasn’t and never will, happen. Rather we see conversion from private, to government ownership. It is all, actually, far more complex, but this is the basis. One of the principalities of this change is the reduction of individualism and reduction of the importance of unique human souls. Thus the concepts of Biblical Judeo-Christianity are diametrically opposed to Marxist principle.
Thus, problematic to the concept of Marxism are such Biblical principles as the nuclear family. The traditional family value system promotes values and principle directly oppositional to Marxist principle such as parental rights and authority over the children of a family and the passage of belongings and wealth from one generation of family to the the next. The education of children becomes in Marxism, a state principle. Home education is out of the question, which we see has become rather the rule in America.
Government becomes the ultimate authority, no room being left for such ideological nonsense as Bibles, churches, evangelism and so forth. Certainly no Jesus Christ, Popes, Saints and such. The ultimate authority left standing in the shoes of a God, is government. Example of this are to be found in every Communist society, and the movement toward such is present in all socialist societies as well.
Falling by the wayside is private property ownership. The Biblical premise of the individual right to own private property and the command for believers to create wealth to promote God’s covenant Oh me! Progressive taxation opposing the biblical principle that all people, irrespective of their income, should pay the same percentage which is a “flat tax.” Oh my! Freedom of speech enjoya zero consideration, the state being in complete control of all interpersonal exchanges. hmmm… Sounds familiar, no?
On the face of it, particularly to Judeo-Christians, it all seems too completely bizarre for consideration, Satanic in fact. However dark, mysterious and evil it seems to be, the societal evolution toward Marxism has been going on for a century. To a great extent Marx’s principles, presented in “The Communist Manifesto,” have become official policy in the USA. What I refer to as “the demonicrat party,” has been openly promoting those principles for decades. Our “education” system has gone far beyond hinting, to absolute promotion of of Marxist principles including a series of lies such as climate change (which is natural rather than man made); bald faced Marxist principles like critical race theory. Absolute falsehoods which contribute to the dumbing down of American students as well as the indoctrination it was designed to foster and is accomplishing quite nicely.
It was during this “educational” extravaganza that I became aware of a Marxist sidestream, “cultural Marxism.” This is a vast simplification of a complex evolution, but pure economic Marxism was failing for simple and obvious reasons and so, had to be replaced with more complex and variable alternatives. Much more complex ideologies like personal identity. including aspects like race, sexuality, religion, nationality. The idea of working and ruling class being made severely more complicated and, essentially, left behind.
It had been decades since my previous studies so I was astonished by the differences I saw. The focus of the professors had evolved from an appreciation of performance, to notice of liberally approved behaviors. The class “stars,” tended to be liberal lesbians. The more liberal the better. My being a hard-core conservative would’ve spelled doom, but I had the advantage of being an old, long-haired hippie in a wheelchair with a Service Dog, and I was careful, for the most part, to keep rational political, and behavioral principles to myself. So I made it through, earning a BS in Creative Writing, MA in humanities (Folklore) and finally a PhD also in humanities (Mythology and Occultism). That being an aside, another notable Marxist principle of my educational experience was the Marxism. I had more than one professor who openly promoted the fact that they were, what they called, “neo-Marxists,” Neo-Marxism comes under the broader framework of the New Left. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds a broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy. Beyond the mystery of it, I didn’t care, I wanted to become Dr. Bacon, and earning that at the hands of pserudoreligionists was and still is, fine with me, although it saddens me that our “education” system has come down to this.
The bottom line important portion of this is that the anti-religion aspect of Marxism was in full effect. While the lost essence of folklore is that it is neither true nor false. It is the lore of whatever folk group is in question. In terms of folk groups, USU has gone from the hard-core Mormon college environment of my youth, to a full blown Marxist institution of today. The irony of it is that while in Marxism there can be no God, the religious aspect of the question is every bit as potent as any deistic concept imaginable, and the God in this case, is liberalism as it breathes and breeds in the church of the demonic rats. Whatever truth there is or isn’t, we’re all praying to our own Gods, and the God of governmental power is a mighty one indeed! Thus, in spite of my intended abstinence, I find myself dancing in full to the music of divine principle, but doing so without the blindfold of modernity.
~Bacon
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