The Secular Religion's Response to Tragedy

When a massive natural disaster hits, people of faith tend to view it as God’s will. Pat Robertson, back in the day, would claim a hurricane hit or an earthquake hit because God had gotten angry or people had failed to repent.

The secular religion, as it shapes its orthodoxy, is doing the same thing.

Instead of viewing events through the lens of God, they view the lens through policy events.

The hurricane hit Florida because Floridians do not believe in climate change. Ron DeSantis did not vote for a massive spending spree that nominally funded Hurricane Sandy relief (DeSantis objected because the money would be spent over a ten to fifteen year period, clearly not emergency relief), so he should be smited.

Or, when Republican members of Congress were nearly assassinated, it was because they didn’t vote for gun control. Wisconsin Senate candidate Mandela Barnes, back after the James Hodgkinson attack, accused Steve Scalise of voting against his self-interest for opposing a gun control measure. Others lamented the GOP got what they deserved for opposing gun control.

The blackouts in Texas last winter? The GOP had opposed climate change so those bastards got what they deserved. The hurricane now? Same thing. “But we believe in science,” they profession. “It’s different than faith.” Then you ask them if men can become pregnant and watch out.

There is no difference between people of traditional faiths tying events to the divine and the secular left tying events to public policy. Both are by faith. Secularism now has its own orthodoxy, dogma, ecclesiology, priestly orders, hymns and anthem, praxis related to orthodoxy, heresies, etc. The left has developed a new database of idiomatic expressions based on their religious identity and new word choices flowing from the same. “Choice” is abortion, and “denier” is anyone who may believe in an issue, but not in the same way or to the same extent as the orthodox.

The only difference between the Christians who do it and the secular left who do it is that the Christians also have a concept of grace. The secular left has no grace, only condemnation.

Take a listen.