Marx famously declared that “religion is the opiate of the masses” -- and as a proud dealer of the communist religion Marx would know. As the messiah of the left Marx created a new kind of religion that eliminated deities and replaced them with abstract ideas like utopia.
Later thinkers then amplified this approach by creating new religious ideals like equality, fairness, and the state. However because these ideals don’t feature a traditional deity the left has been able to con themselves into ignoring their fundamentally religious instincts.
Thus in reality liberals’ addiction to religion has never been more prevalent and progressives aren’t atheists.
Consider, for instance, what William James -- the founder of experimental psychology in the United States -- says religion is. James defines religion as “ the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.”
Alternatively James states that “religion … is a man’s total reaction to life.”
Undoubtedly equality, fairness, and the state are what the left considers divine and produce in the radical mind a total reaction to life.
Thus most liberals are, in fact, more religious and hence more zealous than Christian forefathers. And when anyone professes disbelief in the left wing religious ideals professors, teachers, or other diversity czars demand immediate retraction and a confession of guilt.
Other times when someone commits a sin against social justice the religious left immediately launches a property destroying crusade in the holy name of equality.
There is no other explanation for these irrational behaviors than religious zealotry.
And if the worst hasn’t come yet it will be the self righteous left that demands total submission to the gods of statism and equality. At that point things won’t be so democratic will they?
Zigmund Reichenbach holds a M.A. in Philosophy from West Chester University. You can find him commenting on news stories of national and state interest at his Facebook page Zigmund Reichenbach -- Commentator or you can follow him on Twitter @zreichenbach1. To support the creation of articles like these visit our Patreon here.