Social Activism and the Social Gospel

Social Activism and the Social GospelBy Thomas E. BrewtonThe road to hell is paved with good intentions, and social activism,  when the aim is to enlarge government control, is inescapably  traveling the road to political tyranny.In The Social Gospel Has Found its Savior
 www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/ the_social_gospel_has_found_its_savior/ ) I wrote:"Regrettably, well meaning Christian ministers like Rick Warren are  supporting  Mr. Gore's junk scientism and the power of man over the earth, rather  than sticking to faith in the one True God as Creator and Regulator of the cosmos."Rick Warren emailed me a nice message saying that he does not agree  with the social gospel, acknowledging that it is simply atheistic  socialism mimicking Christianity.Nonetheless, mixing religion with purely secular and highly  speculative activism like Al Gore's campaign is hard to distinguish  from the early 20th century's social gospel.While we must strive to be a Christian nation, ministers should  scrupulously stay out of politics and confine themselves to saving  individual souls.  Jesus commanded us to go out and preach the  gospel, not go out and organize political action committees.What Al Gore, along with Rick Warren and his fellow preachers,  propose is collectivism on a grand scale.  No sane political society  is willingly going to bomb itself economically back into the stone  age to "save" the planet.  Intellectual cadres will have to be  empowered, with their armies of bureaucrats, to produce millions of  regulations implementing Kyoto, and they must have means of enforcing  those regulations, hence the origin of Gestapos and KGBs.In a sketch that fits Al Gore remarkably well, Anarchist Mikhail  Bakunin, opposing Marxian collectivism in 1872, described what life  has to be under such collectivism:"The government will not content itself with administering and  governing the masses politically, as all governments do today.  It  will administer the masses economically, concentrating in the hands  of the State the production and division of wealth, the cultivation  of land.All that will demand the reign of scientific intelligence, the most  aristocratic, despotic, arrogant, and elitist of all regimes.  There  will be a new class, a new hierarchy.the world will be divided into a  minority ruling in the name of knowledge, and an immense ignorant  majority.  And then, woe unto the mass of ignorant ones!"Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.  The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of  writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776http://www.thomasbrewton.com/Email comments to viewfrom1776@thomasbrewton.com

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