The Moral and Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Left
To the left, sin is being out of alignment with their values - but their values are fungible.
This linked article from the Mises Institute is a read well worth the investment in time.
Hayek observed that the committed collectivist must hold to no morals of his own because the only thing that matters is the success of the plan and loyalty to the leader (which are one and the same).
Such is true. We are witnessing this in the Democrat agenda - nothing must stand in the way of their plans and there is no law, rule or moral code that cannot be broken in pursuit of that plan.
The only definition they have for evil is opposition to their agenda.
If you remember, Obama said this quiet part out loud in a 2004 interview Obama did with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times:
FALSANI: “Do you believe in sin?”
OBAMA: “Yes.”
FALSANI: “What is sin?”
OBAMA: “Being out of alignment with my values.”
This exchange is far more revealing than pre-presidential Obama intended.
Note that Obama said “my values” and not “God’s Laws”.
That is a very important distinction for one simple reason – what progressives call “values” are often social constructs, fungible and malleable faddish beliefs that can change based on the need for them to fit into a certain desired perspective.
Progressives allow their morality to exist on a sliding scale so they can be the popular kids in the class, no matter what the issue may be. It is helpful to a leftist agenda to not be too solidly anchored to any given position.
Pinning down a progressive is like trying to hold Jell-O in your bare hands.
But true values, like principles, are immutable.
Think of this in terms of what the Democrats did to candidate and then President Trump.
So if being out of line with Obama’s “values” is the equivalent of sin and Obama's cabal could determine what sin is, we are well and truly screwed as a country – for if your sin is defined as opposition to my values – and my values are changeable – there is literally no action I can take that isn’t explainable or excusable.
There is literally nothing I can’t define as moral in my quest to defeat you.
And viewed in that light, it would make sense that any power at Obama’s disposal should not be brought to bear against the sinner Trump in favor of the anointed Hillary.
If our values – the Constitution being the primary definition of them where government involvement and power resides – are fungible to the whims of the personal values of a President and Attorney General, we are truly living witnesses to the transformation of a representative republic into a sort of monarchy by proxy where “progressive” politicians can decide what the laws mean and change them as they see fit.
We are seeing this today with Merrick Garland, the Soros-backed DA's around the country and in the egregious treatment of the J6 protestors (as compared to the treatment of the BLM/ANITFA rioters/looters).
Just remember that to a progressive, being arbitrary and capricious isn’t a negative, it is a “value”.