Liberal dogma

Dianne Feinstein used an interesting phrase when questioning one of Donald Trump's judicial nominees, Amy Coney Barrett, a professor at Notre Dame with seven children (!). Concerning Barrett’s writings regarding the professional obligations of Catholic practitioners, Feinstein said of Barrett: “When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you.”

Lives loudly in you.

Definition of dogma: a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true. The original meaning comes, of course, from Church doctrine, but Catholic dogma has now been replace by liberal dogma. The views of liberals have become so naturalized that they take for granted that their views are the default setting. And liberals are in lock-step as much as people were in lock-step in the Middle Ages.

One of my favorite instances of this lock-step concerns the role of humans in climate warming. It is always contended that 97 percent of scientists believe that climate warming is caused by humans. My response: 97 percent of theologians once believed that Galileo was wrong when he contended that the earth revolves around the sun. When 97 percent of people agree on something, I am always suspicious.

Liberalism is a religion, and like the Catholic Church in an earlier age, liberals want to erect great monuments to their religion: thus, the huge government expenditures in the last half-century to implement the world's salvation.

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