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THE ALTER OF MAN
By Rush Limbaugh
RUSHLIMBAUGH.COM, 16 Jan.
2001
This attorney
general confirmation hearing is not about whether Ashcroft is a racist, because
he's not. It's about the fact that, to the religious left, Ashcroft embodies all
that they consider evil. The opposition to John Ashcroft is pure religious
zealotry on the part of those who "worship at the Altar of Man". These religious
leftists have mounted a crusade against Bush's nominee for attorney general.
They see Ashcroft as a man who's as committed to his heretical religious beliefs
as they are in theirs - and this terrifies them.
To liberals,
politics is the means through which devotion to their religion is expressed and
"the word" of their creed is spread. It is they who impose their devout beliefs
on us when they get in power, so they naturally (and wrongly) assume Ashcroft
will do the same with his. Remember this when you hear a liberal say politics is
no place for a conservative's religion, or that Ashcroft will impose his beliefs
on us from his office, because it's they who use their offices to impose their
beliefs on us.
That's why the left has set out to destroy John Ashcroft.
They imagine how they would use the power of the Justice Department to spread
their creed, and can't imagine that Ashcroft won't do the same. The political
arena is church to the left, and the god of that church is man, the state, the
Washington bureaucracy. The left believes in the primacy of man above any
absolute law or higher power.
To the religious left, any view that is in contrast to this creed is
blasphemous, which is why many on the left who worship at the Altar of Man - the
environmentalist wackos, the radical feminists, other militant extreme leftwing
groups - oppose Ashcroft: he believes in just such a higher authority.
Liberals Think That [All] People Are The Way They Are
The left knows they're
corrupt, so they think everybody is corrupt. Imagine them applying this belief
system to those instances where they have shown no respect for the law, or used
the law as a tool to achieve an end. There are many examples of that kind of
behavior, and they probably stay awake at night imagining all the cases where
Ashcroft will similarly shred the rule of law.
For these religious
leftists, politics is simply the means through which their devotion to the Altar
of Man is expressed. Abortion, for instance, is the sacrament of the religion of
the pro-abortion crowd. It's the reason they exist - to ensure that their
religion spreads and is practiced by as many people as possible.
They are
the religious left, folks. They are as religious as anybody else - and they must
practice and impose their religion on everyone else. Because, as with other
religions, the Altar of Man charges its followers with spreading the word, and
bearing witness to the power of their god.
The Religious Left's Commandment: Our Way Or Else
This zealotry is why
the liberals are not interested in debate with people from other points of view.
After all, would you Christians give the Devil a seat at the table in the
interest of bipartisanship or getting along? No way! Evil, however you wish to
define it, is something that must be constantly fought, and something you must
be ever vigilant against. You don't extend the hand of friendship to it. In
fact, it's a sin to do so.
This is the way the extreme, radical religious
left looks at conservatives. We're evil. We're a threat. Therefore,
anything that they do to defeat evil is justified.
Therefore, when done to
defeat a conservative, lawlessness is not lawlessness. It's virtue.
To
understand how it is those on the left consider themselves the presumptive
authority over anybody else, put yourself in their place and look at politics as
your religion. As a liberal worshiping at the Altar of Man, you go to church
every day. You're much more devoted to those who only go to church on Sunday.
Yes, if you look at the religious left's objections to Ashcroft in this
context, you'll have a much better understanding of what motivates, energizes
and inspires them - and why they hate and fear John Ashcroft so much.
By Rush Limbaugh
RUSHLIMBAUGH.COM, 15 Jan.
2001
I received a note from a friend containing this amazing quote from a speech John Ashcroft gave to the Detroit Economic Club in November of 1998: "We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion."
Then, with incredible prescience, Ashcroft went on to share an observation from C. S. Lewis, the Christian apologist that defines perfectly the views of those who now oppose him. Said Ashcroft, "These are the observations of C. S. Lewis: 'the greatest danger for those who love God and politics was that they would come to see their faith as a means to their political ends.'"
For many on those on the left who worship at the altar of man, politics is the means through which devotion is expressed. The State is God and the religion is politics, and any views that are in contrast are heretical. This is their creed. Hence, they fear John Ashcroft, and fear what that would mean if he were confirmed as attorney general and acted as they would.
The liberals are fundamentally people who are lawless and think that everybody else is the way they are. If they are corrupt, everybody's corrupt. Because they have no respect for the law, except as a tool to achieve an end, they assume that he doesn't either. They don't believe in virtue. They're suspicious of virtue because they know they're not virtuous, in the traditional sense.
The Religious Left is Extreme
Many on the left who worship at the altar of man - the environmentalist wackos or any of these left-wing extremist groups - are opposed to God because He is an authority higher than man. To them, of course, there is no authority higher than man, and their politics is simply the means through which their devotion to the altar of man is expressed.
To liberals, religion is their life. For example, abortion is the sacrament to the pro-abortion crowd's religion. It is the reason they exist. They are the religious left, and they are as religious as anybody. It's just that their religion is one of man, and politics is the means of imposing it on everyone. They do attempt to impose their religion - liberalism - on all of us.
Like any religious zealots and extremists, the liberals find any views that are in contrast to theirs heretical - and that, again, is why they fear John Ashcroft. They assume he is as zealous and extreme in the pursuit of his passions as they are of their own, and what that would mean if he were confirmed as attorney general because they think he would then have the power to impose his religion upon theirs and obliterate it.
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