I have always believed mankind seeks an omniscient, all-powerful supernatural to fill in the gaps our minds are too immature to supply on their own.
Before anybody gets upset with that statement, let me say it has always been my personal belief that all man’s gods have always been the same God since creation. He presented himself in a way humans of those epochs could comprehend Him. I believe He reveals more of Himself as we humans develop greater ability to comprehend on higher levels and I’ve always thought that was why the Christian Bible tells us to “seek the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 4:29-31).
Religions are constructed from our comprehensions of God. When people reject God, they still need the comfort derived from the structure and rituals of religion.
As the American left fell away from God, they began a search for a new religion that could provide that structure and ritual. By my reckoning, they have been looking for a century or so.
For as much as they claim to hate religion and God, they desperately want a religion and a god of their own.
They first tried to corrupt the major religions but even then, Christianity was too restrictive – it tells them not to do things they like to do. Judaism is for Jews, whom, like the Nazis, the American left doesn’t much like. Islam showed some promise because the jihadis hate Jews, too – but it was too violent and throwing gays off tall buildings doesn’t look good around election time. Atheism wasn’t workable because as I noted, mankind has always needed gods and man was not really supernatural enough.
I’ve known many people who “church” shop within a given denomination. I’ve known people who shopped denominations – Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, Catholic, etc. I knew a few people in college who shopped religions – Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and all sorts of variants thereof.
But even after trying on more religions than there are discounted shirts at a T.J. Maxx, nothing fit.
They came close in the 1960’s with all the drug induced new age spiritualism, free love, and radical communism – but America just refused it tune in, turn on, and drop out – society was not leftist enough. Neither political party, the Democrats or the Republicans were ready to give up on the nuclear family, American traditions, Judeo-Christian morality, or conservative politics.
But there are religious aspects to most social movements they engage as potential religions – from the civil rights movement, women’s “liberation”, climate change, abortion, gun control, ANTIFA, BLM, and of course, LGBTQ, especially the T because claiming a man can be a woman just because he wants to be is the sharpest stick ever to poke in the eye of every single major religion on Planet Earth. It was a giant FU to the greatest creation of any god – nature itself.
Somewhere – probably during the Clinton administration – young left-wing Democrats, sick of their parent’s drift from radical activism into Main Street lives began to realize there was already a framework in place, one that would fulfill their greatest desires and Marx began to float back to the top of leftist minds. Marx’s total rejection of God and religion was attractive, but Marxism had all the trappings of a religion, and when these new acolytes looked at all their prized social movements, government was at the center.
Now, all they had to do was replace God in American life with the state, so they got themselves elected to local, state, and federal government and began what truly was the “Great Replacement”.
Ludwig Von Mises called this new religion statolatry, the literal worship of the state.
A decade ago, Dennis Prager confirmed the left had finally found a new church home:
“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.
[That dogma is] a belief system that transcends reason. No rational person can deny that big governments have caused almost all the great evils of the last century, arguably the bloodiest in history. Who killed the 20 to 30 million Soviet citizens in the Gulag Archipelago — big government or big business? Hint: There were no private businesses in the Soviet Union. Who deliberately caused 75 million Chinese to starve to death — big government or big business? Hint: See previous hint. Did Coca-Cola kill 5 million Ukrainians? Did Big Oil slaughter a quarter of the Cambodian population? Would there have been a Holocaust without the huge Nazi state?”
At its root, it isn’t about collectivism or communism for them, it is about worship of the state as a replacement for a God they have rejected, some entity more powerful than themselves (as long as it isn’t God) they can swear fealty to and garner both dispensation for their sins and blessings for their actions.
I can't refute your analysis.,
Thus my understanding that our greatest mission in life is to bring people to Jesus and salvation. I'm not out knocking on doors for my religious beliefs, although I have knocked on doors for politics. (Hmm..)
I simply live within the boundaries of my religion. Sometimes that includes sharing my personal life experiences. I have, as of last month, 3 inoperable brain tumors. I woke up today and literally thanked God for the honor. I pray for our once great country and the citizens therein.