www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/ the_social_gospel_has_found_its_savior/ ) I wrote:
"Regrettably, well meaning Christian ministers like Rick Warren are
supporting Mr. Gore's junk scientism and the power of man over the earth, rather
than sticking to faith in the one True God as Creator and Regulator of the cosmos."
Rick Warren emailed me a nice message saying that he does not agree
with the social gospel, acknowledging that it is simply atheistic
socialism mimicking Christianity.
Nonetheless, mixing religion with purely secular and highly
speculative activism like Al Gore's campaign is hard to distinguish
from the early 20th century's social gospel.
While we must strive to be a Christian nation, ministers should
scrupulously stay out of politics and confine themselves to saving
individual souls. Jesus commanded us to go out and preach the
gospel, not go out and organize political action committees.
What Al Gore, along with Rick Warren and his fellow preachers,
propose is collectivism on a grand scale. No sane political society
is willingly going to bomb itself economically back into the stone
age to "save" the planet. Intellectual cadres will have to be
empowered, with their armies of bureaucrats, to produce millions of
regulations implementing Kyoto, and they must have means of enforcing
those regulations, hence the origin of Gestapos and KGBs.
In a sketch that fits Al Gore remarkably well, Anarchist Mikhail
Bakunin, opposing Marxian collectivism in 1872, described what life
has to be under such collectivism:
"The government will not content itself with administering and
governing the masses politically, as all governments do today. It
will administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands
of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation
of land.
All that will demand the reign of scientific intelligence, the most
aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes. There
will be a new class, a new hierarchy.the world will be divided into a
minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant
majority. And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!"
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
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