Liberal’s god and their religion

Ann Coulter talked about liberals being godless, but Bob Ellis comes at liberals from this angle:

J. Matt Barber's column today at CNS News points out a spiritual truth about liberalism.

He mentions a sermon he heard a few weeks ago at Rivermont Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Lynchburg, VA by Pastor John Mabray:

In his sermon, Pastor Mabray illustrated that, although they've now assumed a more contemporary flair, the fundamentals of Baal worship remain alive and well today. The principal pillars of Baalism were child sacrifice, sexual immorality (both heterosexual and homosexual) and pantheism (reverence of creation over the Creator).

Ritualistic Baal worship, in sum, looked a little like this: Adults would gather around the altar of Baal. Infants would then be burned alive as a sacrificial offering to the deity.

Amid horrific screams and the stench of charred human flesh, congregants – men and women alike – would engage in bisexual orgies. The ritual of convenience was intended to produce economic prosperity by prompting Baal to bring rain for the fertility of "mother earth."

To revisit the key point I bold-typed above, modern liberalism and ancient paganism are strikingly similar in their practice of child sacrifice, sexual license and reverence of creation over the Creator.

These are some points I know Pastor Steve Hickey at Voices Carry has preached and taught on before.

I am going to take the "child sacrifice" point and put into the context brought forward on Page 326 of Jonah Goldberg’s book "Liberal Fascism":

Since Plato’s Republic, politicians, intellectuals, and priests have been fascinated with the idea of "capturing" children for social-engineering purposes. This is why Robespierre advocated that children be raised by the state. Hitler—who understood as well as any the importance of winning the hearts and minds of youth—once remarked, "When an opponent says ‘I will not come over to your side,’ I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already…You will passion. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing but this new community.’" Woodrow Wilson candidly observed that the primary mission of the educator was to make children as unlike their parents as possible. Charlotte Perkins Gilman stated is more starkly. "There is no more brilliant hope on earth to-day," the feminist icon proclaimed, "than this new though about child…the recognition of the child,’ children as a class, children as citizens with rights to be guaranteed only by the state; instead of our previous attitude toward them of absolute personal [that is parental] ownership—the unchecked tyranny…of the private home."

Progressive education has two parents, Prussia and John Dewey. The kindergarten was transplanted into the United States from Prussia in the nineteenth century because American reformers were so enamored of the order and patriotic indoctrination young children received outside the home (the better to weed out the un-American traits of immigrants). One of the core tenets of the early kindergartens was the dogma that "the government is the true parent of the children, the state is sovereign over the family." The progressive followers of John Dewey expanded this program to make public schools incubators of a national religion. They discarded the militaristic rigidity of the Prussian model, but retained the aim of indoctrinating children. The models were informal, couched in the sincere desire to make learning "fun," "relevant," and "empowering." The self-esteem obsession that saturates our schools today harks back to the Deweyan reforms from before World War II. But beneath the individualistic rhetoric lies a mission for democratic social justice, a mission Dewey himself defined as a religion.

[Note: The kindergarten points needs to be considered in regard to the pre-school legislation that will no doubt be attempted for the third year in a row.]

I think that gives a firm foundation for what Bob Ellis said next:

And, as Barber points out, the ancient gods are in ascension in America right now:

Nonetheless, the aforementioned pillars of postmodern Baalism – abortion, sexual relativism and radical environmentalism – will almost certainly make rapid headway over the next four to eight years, with or without help from the Christian left. The gods of liberalism have a new high priest in Barack Obama, and enjoy many devout followers in the Democratic-controlled Congress, liberal media and halls of academia.

There is indeed nothing new under the sun. The human race keeps doing the same old stupid thing and repeating the same old sins.

And the same old sins are from following the humanist worldview. Historically that worldview dominated the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and now today’s Postmodernism. And yes, Obama is their Messiah with faithful followers drunk by the Kool-Aid they were served up in Deweyan-based public education system. And that is further re-enforced by this:

Suppose your aim is to obtain power over an entire society. You’ve decided that violent revolution is not the way to go. It’s disruptive, and if history is any guide, you might get your own nose bloodied a time or two. What do you do? This question has been asked – and answered – more than once. The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s answer – undertaking a "long march through the institutions" to infiltrate and "capture the culture" by stealth – is perhaps the best known. Gramsci wasn’t the first to come up with this idea, though. An earlier version already existed. It involved capturing the minds of the young. Moreover, if the job of transmitting a civilization’s aggregate knowledge and cultural heritage is entrusted to a single network of institutions, then so much the better.

We’ve had such a network for well over a hundred years. It’s called the public education system. We have Horace Mann and his Harvard Unitarians to thank for doing more than anyone else to get it started back in the 1840s. Mann studied the "Prussian model" in Europe and returned home to found the first such schools in this country. This model involves the state raising children to meet the needs of the state. This model gave us the word kindergarten, the product of an analogy between raising children (kinder) and growing vegetables in a garden (garten).

I’ve long considered the phrase public education a misnomer. It implies an institution that serves the public. It has been quite a while since government schools served the public, however. The slow decline in their capacity to educate since embracing Deweyan "progressive education" early in the last century is so well documented I need not repeat it here. Nor need I discuss more recent fads like OBE. But in the 1990s we went from the frying pan into the fire. As literacy levels plummeted to embarrassing lows, the feds began the largest power grab over education in U.S. history – in a move intended to pull in private schools and home schooling parents as well, eventually. At this point we come to the latest attempt to expose what the feds are doing to American children and why: Professor Allen Quist’s FedEd: The New Federal Curriculum and How It’s Enforced. Quist is imminently qualified to write it. An author and political scientist who also has a divinity degree, he was in the Minnesota House of Representatives in the 1980s, where he served on the House Education Committee and was influential in legalizing home schooling in that state. He has been involved with school boards. He currently teaches political science at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato, Minnesota.

Time to buy my second case of Quist’s book and provide truth to the Pierre Capitol Culture again during this year’s legislature. We must stop the sacrificing of children to the state whose religion of secular humanism is being established as the national religion. That is a direct violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment. Sadly, the liberals are violating their own separation rule. The solution is not the banning of religion in schools, but the inclusion of all religions. We need to reform public education by making it pro-choice with vouchers so parents can educate children in a school based on their own worldview. We must make it affordable and less expensive by eliminating the bureaucracy that currently enforces state sanctioned standards and teacher accreditation that establishes the humanist religion. That last thing we need to do is force those K-12 standards onto the private preschools. It is now time to allow parents to educate their children in an environment where God and His son Jesus Christ is welcomed, if they so choose.

Have a Merry Christmas.