Marx saw man's primary drive as economic,
and Freud saw it as sex.
But OTHERS believed — correctly, in the view of many — that the greatest drive of man is meaning.
SO The answer to the great dearth of meaning left by the death of biblical religion in the West was secular religion.
The first two great secular substitutes were communism and Nazism.
The answer to the great dearth of meaning left by the death of biblical religion in the West is secular religion. The first two great secular substitutes were communism and Nazism. The first provided hundreds of millions of people with meaning; the latter provided most Germans and Austrians with meaning.
With the fall of communism and the awareness of the extent of the communist mass murder (about 100 million noncombatants) and mass enslavement (virtually all individuals in communist countries — except for Communist Party leaders — are essentially enslaved), communism, or at least the word "communism," fell into disrepute.
So, what were secular intellectuals to do once communism became "the god that failed"?
The answer was to create other another left-wing religion - secular religion. And that is what leftism is: a secular meaning-giver to supplant Christianity.
Left-wing religious expressions include Marxism, communism, socialism, et al
(etc) That is why leftists find America so contemptible. They do not compare it to other nations but to a utopian ideal — a society with no inequality, no racism, no differences between the sexes (indeed, no sexes) and no greed in which everything important is obtained free.
Judaism and Christianity believe God and the Bible are to instruct us on how to live a good life and how the heart is the last place to look for moral guidance. Leftists have contempt for anyone who is guided by the Bible and its God, and substitute the heart and feelings for divine instruction.
There may be a clash of civilizations between the West and Islam, but the biggest clash of civilizations is between the West and the left
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