The Left’s Civil Religion, Part Two: Heretics

By Thaddeus G. McCotter| December 1st, 2018

As discussed when last we chatted, per Jean Jacques Rousseau, the regressive Left has been dragging humanity back to an allegedly pristine state of nature to escape corrupting civilization. Integral to the Left’s aims is foisting upon us soon-to-be noble savages a civil religion, the tenets of which must be believed over and above any others. Moreover, these can never be contradicted. If a heretic disbelieves or denies the civil religion, he will be branded as such by whatever “ism” is convenient; and reeducated, imprisoned, and sometimes even tortured or even killed.

Of course, in America today, heretics to the civil religion are not yet imprisoned, tortured, or killed by the Left. Nevertheless, one of the most painful lessons of the 20th century is how the demonization and dehumanization of one’s real or imagined opponents can lead to horrors once thought unimaginable. And the danger escalates in proportion to how casually and cavalierly the would-be oppressors cast their epithets and calumnies upon their would-be victims.

This is not to say that all who employ such tactics hope to imprison or otherwise physically harm those they perceive as heretics to their imposed civil religion. No, the vast majority would settle for the heretics to be silenced, shunned, and unemployed. But that is precisely the first step leading to the ultimate abyss of totalitarianism.

Right now, one need only look at how the Left demands everyone grovel before the climate change cult. From the moment Al Gore said the “science is settled,” the Left would brook no opposition on their apocalyptic call to have the world’s government control the weather by controlling you.........To Read More.....