I believe that the left and the right are both trying to make a better world, but we disagree on how to get there. It’s like we are both trying to build a house, but we can’t decide how to do it. One has to look no further than our differing definitions of truth to see this. The right believes there is one truth. There is one account of fact, and it cannot be changed, no matter the emotions or feelings it affects. The left, however, believes that there are multiple truths. You have your own truth, regardless of its literal validity. This difference in opinion, at its core, comes from the contradictory guiding doctrines of the right and the left.
Our country, though secular, exists with a Judeo-Christian foundation. God was written into our Declaration of Independence. Natural Law, the belief that we are given unalienable rights by God, assisted in creating this nation. The Bible swears in politicians. Our money contains the mantra, “In God we trust”- quite literally our country’s motto. And everyday that we recite the Pledge of Allegiance, we acknowledge that we remain “one nation, under God”.
Yet President Obama boldly declared during his term that the United States is not, and never has been a country built on Judeo-Christian values. But President Obama was wrong- our country is and has always been guided by the Bible. It is only the left that abandoned it. In essence, President Obama revealed this rejection from liberalism. I won’t give President Obama credit for tearing the left from the Bible, that happened long ago, but he called our attention to a change: the right remains guided by the Bible, but the left has no guiding doctrine, and is therefore subject to the will of the masses, as it has nothing to anchor its beliefs. Because of this, the left embraces more extreme views, easing them into general society as a frog is eased into increasingly warm water.
I know this sounds like I embrace Christianity for our nation, and in doing so, I would be undermining the First Amendment, right? No! I am merely arguing that the left needs a guiding doctrine, or they will forever push the boundaries of morality. And believe me, they’ve been pushed. One glaring example of this is Roe v. Wade. The newest trends of encouraging self-practiced segregation and increasing censorship also represent a search to right wrongs and create inclusive environments, but in terms of finding and accomplishing end goals, I don’t see where the left is going, and I’m not sure anyone does. I wake up every morning and I know what the conservative sector believes. It never really changes, the party of Lincoln remains consistent in its claims, beliefs, and practices. The left, however, does not.
This brings us full circle, back to the idea of truth. The right embraces one truth because at its core, the beliefs are based on the core values of Judaism and Christianity. The left embraces multiple truths because when you have no book, no principles, no guide of morality, you maintain no sense of truth. There is nothing to note right from wrong other than your own feelings, so everyone is right–because your feelings are all that matter. And feelings lie.
So, folks on the right, I know you’re not all Catholic or Jewish or Protestant or even religious, but we all share the common beliefs that life has meaning, individualism and capitalism breed success, and both right and wrong exist. And folks on the left, I know some of you are religious. I don’t mean to attack, but share perspective, because when people start to preach things without a foundation, they build a house, or in our case, a country, that collapses when the truths become too many for the walls to hold.
This is the same bullshit thats been peddled against atheists for centuries. I tell you what, when you guys pull one coherent set of rules out of your book, that all of you agree on. Then maybe you’ll have some standing, get your own house in order. But I don’t think its fine to just wipe of the serious disagreements between different sects of Christianity, let alone the differences between Christianity and Judaism like its all water under the bridge. Especially when most people on the left, and almost every single elected representative is religious. I think you’ll find that if you look at your own foundation, the cracks will become ever more apparent.
I don’t know if you would consider humility a core value of Christianity, but I think there would be a humility in accepting that there are lots of ways to see this Truth that you’re referencing, as 84 says.
That is, some people get that same feeling from a strong confidence in the scientific method alone, or a religion very foreign to yours, or the honest words of a friend. Or a poem.
I don’t think that a massively vague swath of people such the The Left are at a disadvantage for NOT having an unalterable guide to deep moral questions. Don’t you think there is at least a very human honesty in that?
since when is capitalism a Christian value?