Lately I've been thinking a lot about the following two quotes:
"Socialists ignore the side of man of the Spirit ; they can provide shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans treat you when your ill. All the things that are guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave, they don’t understand that we also dream..."
and
"If you're not saved, you're not child of God, but merely one of His creations kind of like an apple, a bush or a skunk."
The first is from a story Ronald Reagan told back in the 60's (and which I posted a couple of days ago) and the second is from a radio add for a church somewhere here in Lexington. Taken separately, they're each interesting and maybe even a little insightful. However, when you pluck out the central idea of each and combine it with the fact that many of our current leaders are, at least at heart, secular humanists, you get at an incredibly interesting and enlightening idea.
You see, if you don't believe in God, then you don't think any of us are the children of God or that we have any sort of a Divine spark that sets us apart from the apples, the trees or the skunks. As a matter of fact, you might be prone to seeing humanity as just another group of animals sharing the planet. And like any other animals, you don't want them going hungry naked or homeless. However, in much the same way you wouldn't want your dog to go to college and become your boss, you wouldn't be overly inclined to encourage these animals to individual excellence.
Heck, some folks might even see humanity as more akin to locusts, red bugs or some other parasite beleaguering a host.
You may have noticed that a large group of very powerful and whiny folks are gathered in Copenhagen to discuss the future of our planet's environment. You may not have noticed that many of them espouse the above view, that humans are equivalent to a red-bug on the Mother Earth's Arse. (In all fairness, not all humans-just the unenlightened ones who weren't invited to Copenhagen). As a matter of fact, one delegate from Bolivia is pushing the idea of universal rights of Mother Earth which would trump the Universal Rights of Man or any other rights of people. Now, in truth, this hard-core socialist is probably much more concerned with shifting human rights down a notch than he is with championing planet's rights. However the fact that he's even taken seriously enough to get an invite to that shindig should be evidence that the folks in Copenhagen think a little differently than the rest of us. Make no mistake, there are quite a few attendees who see the human individual as more parasite than pinnacle of Divine Creation. The scary part is they're trying to shape laws and policies based entirely upon that premise. Scary, huh?
