Day By Day December 3, 2009 – Professionalism

The LEFT and political elites often ridicule organized religion unless it suits their own political agenda. This is the Saul Alinsky way. Remember Karl Marx? “Religion is the Opiate of the Masses.”

Another example of this sort of analysis is Marx’s understanding of religion, summed up in a passage from the preface^[29] to his 1843 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right:

“	Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.	”
	— (Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right)

As a line of attack against Sarah Palin, I remember a video made public during the 2008 Presidential campaign of her attending a fuindamentalist Assembly of God service and the pundits comparing her to a snake charmer or something of that sort. Of course, if such a comment had been made against fundamental Islam, Judaism or atheists, all hell would have broken loose.

But, attacking Sarah Palin’s religious beliefs is OK because it is only Christianity.

A double or triple standard you say?

You betcha……