What I didn't like about leftism back when I was an atheist

[Roman57]

I became Christian at the age of 22, in 2002. Before that time, I used to be an atheist. However, back in 1994, when I was 14, I remember disliking at least "some" of left's agenda. In particular, back when I was 14, I learned of taxes for the very first time, and I didn't like the concept. First of all, its not fair that people have to lose money that they worked very hard to make. But, more importantly, how does the government knows people won't lie on their tax return? If the "private" transaction is, indeed, "private", why wouldn't people be able to hide it? So, logic says, that the government has to track down everything. Since people won't be able to hide in the forest to make their private transaction, the government needs to track down what is in the forest, too. But now lets take me: I didn't want to make any transactions, I just wanted to take a walk and enjoy my privacy. But since government tracks down everything in the forest, it means that I won't be able to fully enjoy my walk.

It is ironic that I thought of all that in 1994, while this whole tracking business started only after 911. I thought that I was just missing something but actually I was right.

On a side note, this is exactly what I disliked about God too. If there is omnipresent God, then I can't enjoy my privacy. But, I guess, we have no say over this. God exists whether we like it or not so we better accept it. We should just not accept anybody else "playing God" (and this gets to Biblical theme of false prophets who want to usurp God's power). So back in 1994, I wanted there to be "no" God so I can have my full privacy -- which means I didn't want Biblical God and I didn't want the government playing god. But nowdays as a Christian, I embrace Biblical God and, as part of that, I oppose any other god, including the government. Which is an interesting parallel/contrast between the two mindsets.

Its interesting though how other atheists also oppose Biblical God, in the name of freedom (like I was) yet gladly embrace government-god, even though it takes away said freedom. I am a Protestant so I normally don't read Church Fathers. But I remember I accidentally stumbled over the internet how one of the Church Fathers said that the reason antichrist will claim to be God is to leave Jews without excuse. Because Jews' excuse of not following Jesus is that they don't believe God can take human form and, accordingly, they don't believe their messiah would be God. But, despite that belief, they will end up worshipping antichrist as god. And then, at the day of Judgement, the True God will point out to them "look, you said you rejected Jesus because you don't believe God can take a human form; why then did you embrace antichrist who made that exact claim of taking a human form?" Now, what I am thinking is that with liberals supporting the idea of the goverment playing god's role is similar: in the Day of Judgement God will tell liberals "look, you said you opposed Biblical morality in the name of freedom, then why did you embrace the government policies that rejected said freedom?"

 

[rocknanchor]

", ,the Day of Judgement God will tell liberals "look, you said you opposed Biblical morality in the name of freedom, then why did you embrace the government policies that rejected said freedom?"

You underestimate their (Matthew 15:14) confusion. When they lose ground to lawful conservatism, "they squeal like pigs and lie to scare the public into voting for them."

 

[AlexB23]

I became Christian at the age of 22, in 2002. Before that time, I used to be an atheist. However, back in 1994, when I was 14, I remember disliking at least "some" of left's agenda. In particular, back when I was 14, I learned of taxes for the very first time, and I didn't like the concept. First of all, its not fair that people have to lose money that they worked very hard to make. But, more importantly, how does the government knows people won't lie on their tax return? If the "private" transaction is, indeed, "private", why wouldn't people be able to hide it? So, logic says, that the government has to track down everything. Since people won't be able to hide in the forest to make their private transaction, the government needs to track down what is in the forest, too. But now lets take me: I didn't want to make any transactions, I just wanted to take a walk and enjoy my privacy. But since government tracks down everything in the forest, it means that I won't be able to fully enjoy my walk.

It is ironic that I thought of all that in 1994, while this whole tracking business started only after 911. I thought that I was just missing something but actually I was right.

On a side note, this is exactly what I disliked about God too. If there is omnipresent God, then I can't enjoy my privacy. But, I guess, we have no say over this. God exists whether we like it or not so we better accept it. We should just not accept anybody else "playing God" (and this gets to Biblical theme of false prophets who want to usurp God's power). So back in 1994, I wanted there to be "no" God so I can have my full privacy -- which means I didn't want Biblical God and I didn't want the government playing god. But nowdays as a Christian, I embrace Biblical God and, as part of that, I oppose any other god, including the government. Which is an interesting parallel/contrast between the two mindsets.

Its interesting though how other atheists also oppose Biblical God, in the name of freedom (like I was) yet gladly embrace government-god, even though it takes away said freedom. I am a Protestant so I normally don't read Church Fathers. But I remember I accidentally stumbled over the internet how one of the Church Fathers said that the reason antichrist will claim to be God is to leave Jews without excuse. Because Jews' excuse of not following Jesus is that they don't believe God can take human form and, accordingly, they don't believe their messiah would be God. But, despite that belief, they will end up worshipping antichrist as god. And then, at the day of Judgement, the True God will point out to them "look, you said you rejected Jesus because you don't believe God can take a human form; why then did you embrace antichrist who made that exact claim of taking a human form?" Now, what I am thinking is that with liberals supporting the idea of the goverment playing god's role is similar: in the Day of Judgement God will tell liberals "look, you said you opposed Biblical morality in the name of freedom, then why did you embrace the government policies that rejected said freedom?"

Congrats for joining the faith a while ago. I an not a fan of either party. The liberals focus on woke LGBT junk too much, while the Republicans focus too much on Trump, when there are plenty of better Republican candidates. So yeah, God will judge everyone.