THE LONG MARCH: THE LEFT, ATHEISM AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN HATRED...INTRODUCTION

This begins a multi-part examination of the realities and motivations of the Left's promotion of atheism and anti-Christian ideology.  If you haven't already done so, I invite you to read the quote from the late Left-wing philosophy professor Richard Rorty that I've permanently posted at the top of the blog.  In it he brags about his tactics of attacking the views and values of his students based on certain criteria. His fanaticism is extreme enough that he felt comfortable comparing his tactics favorably with the Nazis.  If I were to attempt to describe such a sentiment without providing the quote itself, it would be difficult for most people to believe.  Nevertheless, he said it and he meant every word of it.

So how did a professor (who wasn't a young man fresh out of school himself and therefore still somewhat naive about the world) come to his conclusions?  And more importantly, how on earth did he come to feel comfortable enough in his job that he assumed he could get away with that kind of hateful attitude towards the students he's supposed to be educating, not radicalizing?  The answers to those questions are directly related to the very ideologies that have corrupted both the thought processes of the so-called "educators" and the processes of the educational system itself.

Naturally, an intelligent man such as Richard Rorty isn't going to expose himself for the irrational hater that he is by nakedly stating his reasons for despising Christianity and feeling compelled to target certain students (some of whom, at least, went into debt for the "privilege" of being bullied and indoctrinated by the likes of Rorty).  No, he's going to construct an oppression scenario that allows him to portray himself as the defender of the persecuted rather than the aggressor.  He's going to manipulate reality in order to justify his bias and enable his discrimination, secure in the knowledge that the university will do nothing to restrain him and that, in fact, the university will support him.

How did it come to this?

The video by Bill Whittle concerning "The Narrative" (which is also permanently placed at the top of the blog) does a great job of giving a concise introduction to the Frankfurt School, its origins and motivations.  This blog is dedicated in large part to deconstructing (to borrow their terminology) the ideology of the New Left that was largely inspired by the Frankfurt School.  And one of the first things that must be understood is that none of what will be examined happened by accident.  This is not to say that it was all specifically planned to the last detail but rather was the inevitable result of a ripple effect. If a person drops a pebble into the water he or she is not required to plan out what will happen next. The dropping of the stone will automatically create a ripple effect that expands far beyond the initial point of contact.

The specifics of the Frankfurt School reach back to the early part of the 20th Century.  But the dropping of the proverbial pebble into the water approximately a century ago was inspired by ideology developed in the 19th Century which, in turn, was inspired by philosophers, writers and fanatics of the 18th Century.  And so another metaphor would be that of a stream, flowing in one direction from a source that must be sought by traveling in the opposite direction.  In other words, it's hard to determine the starting point of an ideology and the effort to do so requires a constant journey backwards into history.