Thinking Out Loud About Christianity

"Political Correctness" and "Cultural Marxism" are one and the same.

From its inception, PC was designed to silence (censor) political voices of dissent. The current "Fake News" craze is one and the same as Communist style censorship of dissenting opinions. PC is an attack on the First Amendment. How did this become so common in America? It has been a generational plan by adherents of two Marxists socialists…

Two Marxists theorists, Antonio Gramsci in Italy and Gerog Lukacs in Hungary independently came up with an answer to why the working class, after WWI, did not embrace Marxism: the influence of traditional cultural Christian Religion. Lukacs was a major influence in the Frankfurt University, Institute for Social Research aka the Frankfort School. This school translated Marxist economic values into cultural values. The Frankfurt School’s key to success was crossing Marx with Freud.  They argued that under Western culture people lived under psychological repression. From psychology they also drew the technique of psychological conditioning. The method is to vilify every one  who defends traditional culture by labeling them as a "Racists," "Facists" and/or "Tyrant." All such opponents must submit to "sensitivity training" aka, brainwashing in the "new normal."

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About five years ago, a faith leader offered me some political advice that I have greatly valued this year as this election cycle has hit new lows for mud slinging and propaganda. People are becoming divided as the propaganda quotient increases daily.

This faith leader's experience was confined to a single denomination, but in several locations representing divergent cultural demographics and varied ethnic compliments. These people all agreed on doctrine, but disagreed on politics by region. He warned me that immature Christians tend try to make their own political choices and opinions seem like the only morally correct opinions and choices … for all other Christians. In his experience, people of faith, with impeccable and unassailable family values and moral attributes and doctrinal agreement could take totally opposing positions on social issues and political candidates. How could he be minister to all without risking alienating half of his congregation? His answer was that political choices were not dictated by faith or morals. They were dictated by culture,  influenced by habits, traditions, or propaganda. Now that's a bit of wise insight, but not the whole story.

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“Name Calling,” as a propaganda device is intended to make us form a judgment without examining the evidence on which it should be based. It appeals to our hate and fear by giving “bad names” to those individuals, groups, nations, races, policies, practices, beliefs, and ideals that the propagandist would have us condemn and reject. It is used prolifically in politics but also in the religious realm as well. Biblical scholars say this is also common in the Hebrew scriptures, especially in reference to the ancient near eastern pagan gods. However, these word plays do not translate into English so modern readers nearly always miss these derogatory remarks in their Bibles.

During this current election year (2016), we have seen a lot of this technique. The Republican candidate rose to the nominationof his party, partly over his use of "Lying Ted," "Low Energy Jeb" and so on. He embraced "Crooked Hillary" early on and has stuck to that name. Of course, once the contest was reduced to only two candidates for the Oval Office, the voters have been subjected to name callng from both candidates, but largely leveled at each other until one crossed a political line establishing a new low for mud slinging by brandishing name calling against a quarter of the voting population.

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