Just bopping around EvC I ran across this post and was appallled at your lack of knowledge of the Communist and Marxist influence in this country. You should read David Horowitz's autobiography Radical Son to find out about a man whose parents were active American Communists in the thirties who went out every day distributing their propaganda. You wouldn't like him, he's now a conservative, but his story makes it clear there definitely has been a real Marxist influence in this country. You're one of its products.
Horowitz was just one of thousands of what were called "red diaper babies" born in that generation who grew up to become the core of the Sixties' political radicals who led the Marxist Revolution of that time. Where do you think the loud anti-McCarthy stuff came from? McCarthy may not have gone about it right, I don't think he did, but he was right about the Communist influence. That's my generation and I knew a lot of them.
You could also read the writings of the Cultural Marxists or Freudian Marxists who were very big on the campuses in those days, basically all about taking down the Christian traditions of the West in favor of Marxist ideas. They sent out a whole generation of Marxists to teach in the schools and we now have two or three generations raised on their propaganda instead of the principles of the American founding. I wasn't a Christian in those days and had mostly liberal friends, but I could see that the radical movement was anti-American in some fundamental way even then. Or at least feel it. It was prone to violence and scorn of simple people.
Otherwise I may agree with some of your opinions in your post more or less. I don't think government should take care of people -- their job is to keep things running for all of us, not take taxes from some of us to support others of us. But I also think conservatives think too highly of their work ethic and personal success -- yes they earned it the hard way and they should have a right to do with it as they please in my opinion -- but they also often have a self-congratulatory attitude which leads them to sneer at the unfortunate. I don't believe in government welfare but I do believe in what the Bible teaches about earning money if you can to help others who can't. It should all be voluntary. I'm sure if conservatives followed that teaching we would never have had a movement for the government to steal their hard earned money from them against their will.
As for the 2nd Amendment, it's necessary for freedom in this fallen world, it really is. As a Christian I don't think Christians should use violence of any sort for any reason though.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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