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December 11, 2009
The Secular Religion of Hidden Shame
What a lot of people do is try to escape their sense of shame dishonestlyby constructing elaborate moral frameworks that allow them to parade their virtue and their lavish repentance without any real inconvenience to themselves while simultaneously indulging in self-righteousness by condemning others for their impenitent evil. Thatâs the bad version of religion â the sort of religion Jesus came to dismantle. And thatâs exactly the sort of religion leftism is: an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mask of virtue. Thatâs why they demonize any opposition. To them, weâre not just disagreeing with them, weâre threatening to tear off the mask of their virtue and reveal them to themselves. Which, without God or sufficient whiskey, would be unbearable. -- Andrew Klavan: My Way Into and Out of the Left â by Jamie Glazov | FrontPage Magazine
Posted by Vanderleun at December 11, 2009 10:15 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.