Cultural Marxism & The NY Times

“Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/opinion/27blow.html

This NY Times opinion article is interesting because it insists that the direction that this country is taking is unchangeable. People who don’t like Marxism are told in this article that they just need to get used to being obsolescent, and that the country that they love will never come back.

Now, all that may be true. I am yet undecided whether or not the hour is to late in this country for it to return to the religious and theological roots that contributed significantly to what it once was. However that turns out I find it interesting that the people this African-American writers cites in the quote above are all representatives of the people groups that cultural Marxism have employed as their cultural neo-proletariat shock troops to tear up the theological and religious roots that once supported what this country leaned towards. Remember, that in the Cultural Marxism of Gramsci, Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno and others of the Frankfurt school, those employed to overturn the old “oppressive Christian social order” are those who believe that they have grievance against that old system. Women (Pelosi) have grievance against its patriarchal nature. The Sexually deviant (Barney Frank) have grievance against its heterosexual monogamous nature. The pagan Secularist Jews (Anthony Weiner) have grievance against its Christian nature, and the Blacks (Barack Obama) have grievance against its White nature. All of these groups, as embodied by the above representatives, also have in common allegiance to a religious theological and ideological system that overthrows both the Christian faith and the culture that it creates. To these groups anybody who supports the previous order is a racist, xenophobe, homophobe, sexist, anti-semite.

This is why the writer of the NY Times piece so easily implies that those who don’t support the ideological tending of the country are racists, uneducated, irrationally enraged, rednecks. In his cultural Marxist multi-cultural world anybody who isn’t Marxist and who doesn’t agree w/ political correctness or multi-culturalism is, by definition, a nekulturny troglodyte.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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