“What do you get when you combine a Unitarian and a Jehovah’s Witness?”

“Someone who wanders around the neighborhood ringing door bells for no reason.”

That reminds me: Islam says “There is no god but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” The Unitarians say “There is no god and Karl Marx is his prophet.”

For authoritarian think Pinochet who was a brutal dictator but in nearly all areas of life left people alone (particular the free-market economy which would have been destroyed if Allende had been able to carry out his radical socialist agenda) versus Castro or worse Mao, who sought to control everything that people did and said and thought. Or consider Mussolini, who was not nearly as brutal as Hitler (beatings and occasional murders but no network of death camps) but nonetheless was just as much a totalitarian because he sought to create a system in which the state controlled everything. (”Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”)

Progressivism is totalitarian even when it disavows state terrorism because no matter how smiley-faced it is, it remains a prescription for state control of everything and does not recognize any practical limits on what areas of life are legitimate targets for control. Benevolent maybe, but nonetheless totalitarian.

Totalitarianism, I get. “Do as I say or I’ll throw you into jail (take all your possessions, put you in a re-education camp along with your entire family)”

I do think someone has to have their hand on the helm – otherwise we have anarchy.

If we eliminate authoritarianism, totalitarianism and anarchy, I assume we’d have what Oz wants, but I don’t know what that is.

You will find authoritarians on the right, but leftism is not authoritarian but totalitarian. There are vast areas of my life that Jerry Falwell has no interest in controlling, but the left aspires to control every aspect of society and manage our lives in the greatest detail.

I wonder if there’s another blog Oz comments on where she takes equally denigrating potshots at libs…!

Somehow I doubt it. So…why is she here?

No…never heard of it. Should I?

Brian, Oz has no problems with what the government is doing, regardless of who is in control of it. Oz just likes to take pot shots at people like Sarah palin because those kinds of people can actually solve the problems in government. Solutions to problems are not nearly as entertaining and interesting to Oz as the problems themselves.

Sitting on a fence allows you to shoot either side. Oz is going to do whatever makes her feel better.

Ok…so don’t quote me, but it’s my recollection that the Book of Revelation was written in an exceedingly obscure manner due to repression and persecution during the period, and that had you lived in the time, that the more bizarre verses would have made sense. A bit like the Mother Goose nursery rhymes actually were political verses or stories at the time, but those of us in this time no longer have the connections to correctly interpret them. True or not, I can’t say.

In a sense, it doesn’t matter. If the end times are upon us, does our knowledge of that fact make any difference? We should be living our lives as if we _are_ in the end times, but if the end times are a million years away, should we be living our lives any differently?

Same thing with evolution. What difference does it make how we got here? would our knowledge change anything? If we were created in an instant by the hand of God, or if we developed from the slime of the earth in a literal sense, we’re here. The evolutionists goal is to “scientlifically” destroy the belief in God. Whether they’re right or wrong, evolution is and will remain a theory, not a fact. Evolutionists are just another branch of Marxists who wish to destroy religion. Nothing else.