Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "The cult many are in but don’t realize" video.

  1. "That God is non-material" <- "Material" is a magic word on the left. It's the spell which takes other mysticisms (dialectic, gnosticism, speculation, pomo, sustainability, alt history [ e.g. women's class, racial oppression, Foucault's histories, ... ] ..., whatever ) and fits that magic into Leftism for leftists. There may be anti-Marxist Leftists but they are still spellbound by ideas claiming to be "materialist". But materialism is NOT a rigorous system of thought. Materialism ends up being a way of telling other people what one wants to believe. A person who wants to take material evidence seriously calls themself "empiricist" not materialist. Empiricism is rigorously defined and used by science. In contrast, those who wish to gloss over evidence dis empiricism as "crude science" but eulogise over "materialism" - with ever looking into it deeply - nor trying to justify it. I've found labelling oneself materialist often means one is Marxist - but not always. It basically gives one crude pretexts for believing the "material evidence" one wants to believe - if one bothers to try to justify one's ideas at all. Materialists mostly justify their ideas to themselves - with this spell : "I'm a materialist" - yet spend all their time attacking everyone else.
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