When will the ungodly leftists start construct their own gulags and concentration camps in Europe and America?

Question

Or have they already done that?

The oh so tolerant aren't that tolerant at all when you disagree

Answer 1

Guantanamo?

Answer 2

Your question is deceptively simple. I assume you credit genocidal tyranny in the 20th century to modernist Enlightenment thinking and a rejection of mythical religious thinking.

Why are we so shocked by the gulags and the concentration camps? Because they are an outrage against human rights.

And who developed this concept of human rights, which has been proclaimed again and again to the great benefit of mankind, whether by the American founding fathers or Amnesty International?

Were these principles were not developed by the `godly` members of the Christian Church? No.

The authors were the 18th century Enlightenment philosophers, men such as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson.

Yet today we are seeing a retreat from these principles primarily led by religious groups who want to retreat from the demythologising spirit of modernity. Chief amongst these groups are born again christians and reactionary moslems.

They say that by replacing religious myth with science and treating the natural world as an object to be dominated and exploited, modernist thinkers created a repressive new system of power relations, uninhabited by any external morality, in which man himself aquired the characteristics of God. They cite the Maquis de Sade as a typical specimen, revelling in barbarism and cruelty, and reached its logical culmination in Adolf Hitler.

This dialectic is obviously flawed.

Hitler, who created many concentration camps, was a fanatic nationalist, a man of blood and soil - whereas the Enlightenment philosophers strove for a cosmopolitan word free of borders and police. Voltaire or Diderot opposed despotism and argued passionately for justice, liberty and respect for the individual.

Empirical analysis has always been opposed by those who fear that the stripping away of illusions can only end in miserable disillusion.

Answer 3

The Conservatives already beat the leftists to it. Bush has "secret" prisons stashed all over the place. Don't you people watch the news?

Answer 4

LOL. That's a REAL hoot.

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion." ~ Steven Weinberg, Freethought Today, April, 2000

Christian 'Dominionists' (Reconstructionalists, Theonomists) have largely usurped the local level political apparatus of the Republican Party, and are engaged in a sub rosa process to politically motivate moderate Christians under the false cover of religious issues such as morality and family values, under cover of front organizations like the Christian Coalition, the American Family Association and the Promise Keepers. The goal is nothing less than the takeover of all elective offices in the USA.

Their doctrine comes from the Bible, starting with the term 'dominion' at Genesis 1:28... “And God said unto them, [Adam and Eve] Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have DOMINION… over every living thing.” They interpret DOMINION as: “... a supremacy in determining and directing the actions of others or in governing politically, socially, or personally.”

They want to remake the USA as a theocracy... and they are succeeding.

Its most common form, Dominionism, represents one of the most extreme forms of Fundamentalist Christianity thought. Its followers, called Dominionists, are attempting to convert the laws of United States so that they match those of the Hebrew Scriptures. They intend to achieve this by using the freedom of religion in the US to train a generation of children via home-schooling and in private Christian religious schools. Later, their graduates will be charged with the responsibility of creating a new Bible-based political, religious and social order. One of the first tasks of this order will be to eliminate religious choice and freedom. Their eventual goal is to achieve the "Kingdom of God" in which much of the world is converted to Christianity. They feel that the power of God's word will bring about this conversion. No armed force or insurrection will be needed; in fact, they believe that there will be little opposition to their plan. People will willingly accept it. All that needs to be done is to properly explain it to them.

All religious organizations, congregations etc. other than strictly Fundamentalist Christianity would be suppressed. Nonconforming Evangelical, main line and liberal Christian religious institutions would no longer be allowed to hold services, organize, proselytize, etc. Society would revert to the laws and punishments of the Hebrew Scriptures. Any person who advocated or practiced other religious beliefs outside of their home would be tried for idolatry and executed. Blasphemy, adultery and homosexual behavior would be criminalized; those found guilty would also be executed. There are two conservative Christian pastors in Texas who have advocated the execution of all Wiccans. Ralph Reed, the executive director of the conservative public policy group the Christian Coalition has criticized Reconstructionism as "an authoritarian ideology that threatens the most basic civil liberties of a free and democratic society."

By failing to openly confront this insidious agenda, we have sown the seeds of our own destruction, while these religious wing-nuts are paving the way to Armageddon with gleeful anticipation.

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder." ~ Arnold Toynbee

http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/HistoryOfReconstructionMovement.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/Clarkson_RiseOfDomionism.html

Answer 5

This is one of the funniest questions I've ever seen.

Not the concentration camp part, but just the sheer stupidity of it.

Answer 6

Only something like blind faith could cause man to do such horrible acts.

If people could listen and learn in stead of guess and extrapolate.

Answer 7

This is the most idiotic question ever posted on Answers. Congratulations.

Answer 8

I love the smell of neocon sheep bahhing in the morning.

Answer 9

americans have already Quantanamo, camps in Jordan, Romania and Egypt.... do you think location is important?

or who is the owner?

Answer 10

Um, no, I respect all religions. All I ask is the same in return.