Democrats and their allies are screeching that a practicing Christian in the House Speaker role is a sign of the coming "theocracy".
These hysterical people, of course, are idiots. They are already slaves to their own secular humanist religion.
Like Marx, the left cannot abide any religion that proposes there are higher morals and a higher power than that which the state possesses. That's why, at the mere mention of Christianity, they run screaming "Theocracy! The right is instituting a theocracy!" Any practicing Christian is a threat. When you look at what the new Speaker and his wife have said, 20 years ago, none of it would have seemed out of the ordinary - even some of them, Obama and Biden included, claimed to have the same beliefs.
The fact is that statism has become a religion - actually Ludwig Von Mises coined the word "statolatry", which he defined as the literal worship of government. That's what the left believes. They are secular humanists and even secular humanists have a god.
Back in 2012, Dennis Prager noted:
"You cannot understand the Left if you do not understand that leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some left-wing Christians’ and Jews’ claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those characteristics is dogma. People who believe in leftism have as many dogmas as the most fundamentalist Christian."
When you step back to view America’s descent into madness, a macro view reveals a solid correlation between that descent and the decline of religion in our daily lives – and I’m not just talking about the drastic reduction in church attendance, I’m talking about the rise of pop culture, megachurch, faux-Christianity. This rise features churches abandoning biblical teaching, the incorporation of cultural fads in worship and even pastors and priests who do not believe in God.
History itself has proven three things:
There is a close tie between classical liberalism and Christian teachings, and
To classical liberals such as John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Acton to name a few, power by itself has always appeared to be a consummate evil, an ever present corrupting force that cannot be destroyed but must be diluted to be survived, and
To contemporary collectivists (aka Democrats, progressives, American leftists, socialists, Marxists and communists), power is something to be courted and concentrated, a goal in and of itself.
Christianity is an important force against the rise of Godless collectivism.
I do not believe that every person in America must be a Christian, but the loss of Christian values and morality has opened the door to replacement morals and values that are illegitimate other than to support a desired outcome.
Christianity is an individual choice, a conversion of the heart; however, in order to maintain the liberty that is so unique to our country, I do believe that America’s basis in Christian principles must be preserved and followed.
This is not to say that America must or should become a theocracy because the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are not theocratic – they are universal and transcendent statements of a free people.
F.A. Hayek said:
“There are strong reasons for believing that what to us appear the worst features of totalitarian systems are not accidental byproducts but phenomena which totalitarianism is certain to sooner or later produce.”
Hayek was not promoting Christianity when he identified the evil that must be ignored to be a collectivist. He did that from logical deduction based on observations taken in the middle of the horror of Germany’s experiment in the evils of national socialism.
History proves that in the modern world, classical liberalism combined with Christian tenets seem to be to be the best (and perhaps only) defense against statolatrist evils. To stop collectivism and the oppression that inexorably follows, statolatry and immorality, an internal sense of right and wrong must return to our daily lives.
Yes, the horror. The new House Speaker admits to being a humble sinner whose only path to redemption is to accept the grace of Someone who commanded us to "love one another".
Within this current century I can recall Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee openly stating that nominees to the Supreme Court should be disqualified if they adhered to traditional Catholic teachings since this would “bias” them on cases pertaining to abortion. In effect they were rejecting Article Six’s prohibition on using any “test of conscience” as a condition for holding a national office.