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“The average Lefty has a deep loathing of Religious people in general, even more so for them if they be conservative (particularly if socially conservative).”
This cannot be pointed out or repeated often enough.
The left is possessed with a deep, abiding bigotry towards religion, with particulary vicious hatred for all but the most emasculated and exsanguinated forms of Christianity. The only mildly passionate Christianity tolerated by the left is ‘liberation theology’ which isn’t real religion at all but is collectivism hiding behind a bible (see Notre Dame).
I’m not talking about dispassionate, intelligent debates about the finer points of theological discourse, here. That’s a healthy thing. No, I’m talking about seething, palpable bigotry and hatred.
Nearly all white Obama voters have feelings towards devout Christians that are not meaningfully different from the evil feelings that the old bigoted southerners had towards black folks. The best proof of this is what the left did to Sarah Palin, but there are many, many other examples.
In order for the leftist philosophy to be true, there has to be a straw man – a bogeyman – that represents an ultimate level of evil that cannot be topped. The evil the left has chosen is the white male Christian heterosexual non-marxist. No matter what someone who doesn’t fit that category does, no matter how much destruction, death, or suffering is caused by someone gay, or black, or Muslim, or female, or collectivist, they are NOT permitted to be perceived as more evil than the white male Christian heterosexual non-marxist who is just goobing along in life minding his own business.
To do so – to admit that your bogeyman really isn’t always evil, or that your officially designated ‘oppressed’ are not reflexively simon pure – would mean that the most basic and cherished axiom of the left was false, and that therefore everything else that follows from that premise is also false. The idea of having to do the hard work of rebuilding the infrastructure of their worldview is too daunting for most on the left. So they resolve the cognitive dissonance by downgrading the horrors of the non-white, non-gay, non-female, non-religious, and non-capitalists, no matter how awful, relative to any real or perceived wrongs by the hated bogeyman, no matter how slight.
It’s intellectually easier, that way, and immersion in cultural marxism creates the milieu where the illusion that this represents logic can more easily be believed.
