Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Strong delusion

From Antiwar.com:

Our [America's] yearning for democracy, that’s about on the level of Joseph Stalin talking about the Russian commitment to freedom, democracy, and liberty for the world. It’s the kind of statement you laugh about when you hear it from commissars or Iranian clerics, but you nod politely and maybe even with awe when you hear it from their Western counterparts.


To criticize our transcendent purpose “is to fall into the error of atheism, which denies the validity of religion on similar grounds” — which is a good comparison. It’s a deeply entrenched religious belief. It’s so deep that it’s going to be hard to disentangle it. And if anyone questions that, it leads to near hysteria and often to charges of anti-Americanism or “hating America” — interesting concepts that don’t exist in democratic societies, only in totalitarian societies and here, where they’re just taken for granted.
-Noam Chomsky

You can read the rest @
http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/02/03/why-its-legal-when-the-us-does-it/

Our misguided belief in our own righteousness can also be explained by the following scripture:

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 KJV

"Strong delusion" - That's America in a nutshell.

No comments:

Post a Comment