RadioBanter - Independence from the King and from God

"running dogg" wrote in message
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Tai Ping Yang wrote:

"Real scientists hold a very broad outlook of the universe, and will not
deny the unlimited 'unknown' with an individual's limited notions. As a
blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner that
which
an all-wise God perceives and understands all things."
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http://www.infidels.org "Metaphysical Naturalism"

The Communist Party is atheist. It "believes" that "It" and only "It"
is
supreme. The Communist Party "believes" "It" and only "It" has the
authority to control and manipulate the Universe, I.E. "Metaphysical
Naturalism"

Not quite. Marx believed that religion artificially kept people from
rebelling against capitalism by promising them paradise in the life to
come. In Marx's view, people were promised a beautiful eternity in
exchange for enduring wretchedness in their physical existences. Thus
the famous statement that "religion is the opiate of the people".
Certainly, in the real world application of Marxism (something Marx
always had a shaky grasp of) the Party set itself up as God's
replacement. But I don't think that was Marx's original intention.

If you had been born in China you would understand that the Chinese
Communist Party
has long discarded any adherence to Marxist ideology. The CCP writes the
rules
to suit itself and nothing more. Your argument carries no analogy.

The human "belief" that there is no greater "Being" than himself is an
affirmation of the "belief" that humans are "The" supreme Universal
being.
This "belief" in and of itself is a pseudo-religion without supreme
guidance. Without belief in a superior being it constructs and
manipulates
socially acceptable human behavior which ultimately decends into
dictatorial
rule without moral and ethical guidance and without threat or fear.

Huh? Do you know how many times the Bible has been altered? How many
times the Levitical Laws were changed? Have you ever heard of the divine
right of kings, where the king claimed that he was responsible only to
God, thus giving him free rein to do as he liked, since God was
conveniently absent? Do you know that for a thousand years Christians
were prohibited from reading the Bible, thus keeping them ignorant about
what it really said, allowing the Church to claim anything it wanted
about what was in there? Absolute moral law is whatever the leaders say
it is, except in Communism the absolute authority is Marx or Lenin or
Mao instead of God. Li, you're still the starry eyed idealist that you
were as a youth, only now the object of your idealism is religion and
the US Constitution rather than Marx. Wake up and live in the real world
for once in your life.

You need to fast forward to 2005.

This Metaphysical Naturalism belief is incorporated within Communist
Party doctrine.

Woman Raped on Street While People Pass By

Have you ever heard of Kitty Genovese?
(snip)

Have you heard of CCP morality and ethics? I thought not.