tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post5688519880610458117..comments2024-03-01T14:27:35.794-08:00Comments on Albion Awakening: Jesus Was Left WingBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-60155795914289402842017-10-21T05:35:16.638-07:002017-10-21T05:35:16.638-07:00The Devil and his legion of demons would still hav...The Devil and his legion of demons would still have us ask Pontius Pilate's question, "what is truth?" whenever we are standing face to face with the Truth. Once we remove God from the equation, our universe becomes flattened to utilitarian and materialistic concerns - a Baconian view of what is provable by evidence only. Truth ceases to be a person, and thus personal, and becomes instead an abstraction. As an abstraction it can be readily subjected to manipulations by our whims and foibles.<br /><br />If we are left wing, truth becomes left wing. If we are nationalist, truth becomes nationalist. If we are liberals, truth is liberal. If we are communists, truth is communist, etc., etc., etc.<br /><br />Thank you for these follow up comments. The word diabolical is from the Greek <i>diƔbolos</i>, literally 'to throw across', i.e. to accuse, to scatter. The disintegration of society, and our current obsession with deconstructionism (an attack on the word and the Word) is clearly diabolical. We live in a nihilistic anti-culture that constantly accuses, that constantly scatters. Deliberate perversions of truth by demonic beings makes sense, perhaps the only thing that makes any sense.Thomas Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162413436187942775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-63346227047256570022017-10-21T03:56:10.695-07:002017-10-21T03:56:10.695-07:00Some interesting comments. Thank you. My view is t...Some interesting comments. Thank you. My view is that much modern leftism, whatever its origins, is the result of deliberate perversion of truth by demonic beings. But once you take God out of the equation more or less anything goes and the disintegration of society is inevitable, especially once the legacy of belief in God has died out and you've spent the interest on your spiritual capital.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-12996932423153713272017-10-20T19:32:47.055-07:002017-10-20T19:32:47.055-07:00Jesus Christ, in orthodox teaching, is fully God a...Jesus Christ, in orthodox teaching, is fully God and fully Man. As fully God, one can echo Isaiah, '"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways", declares the LORD.' Herein lies a caution against the sin of presumption. <br /><br />'The Son of God became the Son of Man so that the sons of Man may become sons of God.' The ideologues of modernity and post modernity are very far removed from any semblance of sons of God, including most progressive Christians. <br /><br />One can argue that the Old Testament teachings are much more closely aligned to the Left than Christianity, emphasizing as they do that 'struggle' is part of the divine plan (such as the change of name of Jacob to Israel, "he who strives with God and man and lives") and the deliverance of the children of Israel from bondage in Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land. Not unexpectedly, therefore, European and American Jews have tended to be at the forefront of leftist causes. Paradoxically, Israeli Jews, in contrast and for similar reasons, tend to gravitate toward nationalistic identities that are often associated with the right. <br /><br />Secularism, however, is rooted in the Christendom past. In many ways the two major ideologies of the west, liberalism and communism, are derivative of a Trinitarian worldview whereby God is understood as an Oneness of distinct persons who move and have their being in communion with one another. If human beings are made in the image of God, then we, too, flourish best when as persons we move and have our being in communion with one another. Once people lost the faith, the temptation arose to idolize either the person (liberalism) or the communion (communism). <br /><br />Jesus is not so much left wing than the right hand of the Father. He is the second person of the Trinity. To know God is to know the Trinity.Thomas Hendersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162413436187942775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-90510934464924492852017-10-19T02:27:44.230-07:002017-10-19T02:27:44.230-07:00Chiu ChunLing has left a new comment on your post ...Chiu ChunLing has left a new comment on your post "Jesus Was Left Wing": <br /><br /> While the modernist doctrines of Marxism are relatively new, I think it is dangerous to disregard what Marxism has in common with every ideology of plunder (often calling for revolution against a locally established order before turning to conquest of other lands).<br /><br />[Marxism insists] that coveting what others lawfully possess is the highest (and often sole) moral imperative in life.<br /><br /> This is why no Christians or any other honest communalists were ever Communists, because Communism absolutely requires that the pool of shared possessions be imposed and maintained involuntarily, it is a fundamental tenet of the ideology as defined from the outset and in every serious attempt at implementation since. All voluntary communes reject coveting entirely by virtue of allowing anyone to refuse to join in the first place. In other words, they renounce utterly any claim on what belongs to a neighbor until after that neighbor has already given up ownership of it. <br /><br />[Note - I have edited this comment because it contains a false statement requiring refutation - but which raises issues which I have decided are outside the scope of this blog.]Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-89708777256323270822017-10-18T02:45:31.313-07:002017-10-18T02:45:31.313-07:00Nova, I take your point and I don't disagree w...Nova, I take your point and I don't disagree with it but I was juxtaposing modern secular left with traditional spiritual here rather than purely political left and right, neither of which interest me. I see the essence of this kind of leftism as anti-God as communism specifically was. So the motivations of Jesus and his disciples, like those of monks and nuns who also live communally, were completely different to communists.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-63880368891140307932017-10-17T22:05:52.668-07:002017-10-17T22:05:52.668-07:00@Nova - I don't think it is correct to refer t...@Nova - I don't think it is correct to refer to communal sharing as communist since the situation is approximated (more closely than in any communist societ) by hunter gatherers. <br /><br />https://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/evolpsych.html<br /><br />I agree that the entire official Western system is corrupt - but it isn't a matter of whether we 'deserve' hell. The Christian position is that we all 'deserve' hell but repentance will save anybody (with certainty, not 'a chance'). <br /><br />Our problem is that we do not repent; more exactly that Western Man actively-rejects Heaven (God) and *chooses* hell. From the Christian perspective, our value system is (mostly) *inverted*. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154359965221795553.post-30975160807554609042017-10-17T17:42:19.931-07:002017-10-17T17:42:19.931-07:00The Apostles and early disciples were in purely te...The Apostles and early disciples were in purely technical terms, communists. Jesus repeatedly exhorts his followers to sell *all* their possessions and adopt a life where everything is shared communally. They were most certainly not modern Leftists, however. As for right-wingers, they are at least as far removed from the Christ-centered life as people on the Left (especially Randian libertarians, who if anything are more firmly opposed to God than even the Marxists). Bruce Charlton's assessment is correct: the entire Western system is corrupt, left and right. We don't deserve anything but hell -- every one of us. Only through divine grace and mercy do we stand a chance. Stephen Macdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13474300559219020772noreply@blogger.com