I was going to point to Dennis Prager’s latest in his series on Judeo-Christian values because I missed his last one while I was vacationing (I’ve made a commitment to read and point to this important series this year), but I noticed he snuck an off-topic goodie in today too, over at Townhall.
“Just one question for opponents of the war” he calls it—and it’s today’s must-read. It begins:
All those who support the American war in Iraq should make a deal with anyone opposed to the war. Offer to answer any 20 questions the opponents wish to ask if they will answer just one:
Do you believe we are fighting evil people in Iraq?
He does us the extra service of answering that question (“yes”, duh), but presupposes the bogus non-answers that the liberal moonbats typically give to us smartfolk all the time. And he says:
Anyone who remains unable to morally judge people who slit the throats of innocent people, who place bombs in the middle of markets, and who murder anyone attempting to help women achieve basic human rights is a moral imbecile.
As for the Bush administration being equally evil, this, too, reveals the responder’s values. It is one thing to believe the war was a mistake; it is quite another to regard it as a function of the administration’s desire to enrich Halliburton or expand the “American empire,” or because Jewish neo-conservatives pushed docile Gentiles—Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld—into waging it “for Israel.” Such views are held by people who are so angry and so brainwashed about conservatives that they have lost the elementary ability to identify real evil, which is what Islamic and Baathist terrorists and “insurgents” are.
This is a keeper. Read it!
But also, meanwhile, back to his Judeo-Christian series. He’s on Part XX1 (liberals: that’s 21) – and it’s called “The rejection of materialism”. Smart people are reading Dennis Prager’s column. Liberals largely reject it.
Here’s a snippet:
The primary reason Karl Marx hated religion—specifically Judaism and Christianity—was that he regarded it as the “opiate of the masses.”
This attitude has permeated all leftist views of religion since Marx: Religion keeps people from making revolutions to materially better their lives. This is the source of the animosity toward religion on the Left (including the “religious Left”—leftists who change Judaism or Christianity to fit their values).
To understand this, one must understand the essence of Marxism and its offshoots.
The Marxist worldview is based on a materialist understanding of life. In popular jargon, “materialism” means an excessive love of material things. But philosophically, “materialism” means that the only reality is matter, that there is no reality beyond the material world. […]
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