Sunday, January 5, 2014

Leftism: A Radical Faith

In his introduction to Eric Voegelin's The New Science of Politics (1), Dante Germino neatly captured Voegelin's thesis of the left as an atheistic "religion":
[M[odern Gnosticism has been dedicated to the hubristic attempt to overcome the anxieties and uncertainties of human life by building a terrestrial paradise. However well-intentioned, even the 'moderate proponents of the 'progressive' program bear a heavy responsibility for the disasters of humanity.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/leftism_a_radical_faith.html#ixzz2pX85N6UL
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