Is it any coincidence that the two entities American liberals
probably hate most are organized religion and our military? Liberal
groups like Moveon.org run ads disparaging military men of honor
like General David Petraeus while folks like the ACLU and the
“Reverend” Barry Lynn have made the elimination of God in public
their life’s work.
But what do these groups have in common? While they all preach a
gospel of socialism, secularism and sexual worship, the main
driving force behind those who denigrate our military and religious
practices is egotism. They just can’t wrap their minds around the
concept that there is something bigger than themselves.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen voluntarily risking their lives for
others and, even worse, Catholic nuns and priests throwing away
their lives by consecrating them to God and their fellow men — to
the extent that they are willing to forgo the one, true purpose of
life: sex — must seem the acme of insanity to leftist naval
gazers.
To them and their way of thinking, the notion that “greater love
hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,”
is an incomprehensibility. Religious and military vocations have
discipline and obedience at their core; an odious combination for
those of the Me Generation of the 1960s. It’s not difficult to see
why the “never trust anyone over thirty” crowd has always been
scandalized by this.
Having spurned the authority of their parents and responsibility
for their country’s defense, the next steps on the road to Utopia
were a snap. For them, police officers were “pigs,” God was dead
and our armed personnel were reduced to being merely the murderous
arm of the shadowy, “military-industrial complex.”
And they oddly felt that this was for the good of the country.
Much of this continues today. Indeed, their current attitude is
reflected in a saying of their idol, Ho Chi Minh: “It was
patriotism, not Communism, that inspired me.”
Whether or not they truly believed all of this or if their
conceit made it so, is known only to them. But what is known is
that their embrace of Communism, at a time when the proponents of
this benign system were the greatest threats to our nation’s
security simply sealed the deal. For them, the belief that God
watched over a country that deserved defending was and continues to
be passe.
All of this can be summed up by the vacuous and insipid lyrics
of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the opening notes of which still send
graying hippies and their progeny into ecstasy. So popular is its
socialistic, yet sugar-coated message, that fellow traveler Jimmy
Carter has said, “In many countries around the world
you hear [it] used almost equally with national anthems.”
This dreaming of a dreary existence without heaven, hell,
religion, countries and especially “nothing to kill or die for”
sums it all up nicely. The fact Lennon himself admitted that it was “virtually the Communist
Manifesto” has not diminished its continuing influence on
modern-day America .
Yet we can see the similarities between Lennon — a millionaire
“tax exile” from the UK who asked us to “imagine no possessions” —
and certain current lefties who hector us on the evils of energy
consumption while jetting around the world in the process of doing
so.
Summing up the Utopian ideal, Mahatma Gandhi once said, “What difference does it make to the dead, the
orphans, and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought
under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and
democracy?” Fortunately for us, the majority in this country
recognize the difference and thankfully still outnumber those who
most certainly do not.
But modern leftists carry on the egoistic mantra of Lennon and
friends. And their disdain for out military and religion might be
explained in the lyric from another song from the dreadful
“Imagine” album:
Well, I don’t wanna be a churchman mama, I don’t
wanna cry;
Well, I don’t wanna be a soldier mama, I don’t wanna
die.
Lisa Fabrizio is a columnist who hails from
Connecticut. You may write her at mailbox@lisafab.com.
