{"id":1722549,"date":"2022-11-03T07:18:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722549"},"modified":"2022-11-03T07:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T11:19:19","slug":"the-left-needs-a-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-needs-a-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Needs A Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-left-needs-a-jesus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If the coming election goes as predicted with a red wave, history will once again slap the left in the face. Remember how the left responded when Donald Trump won the presidency? It wasn\u2019t pretty. Proclamations of the end. Screaming at the sky. Weeping. Gnashing of teeth. It was religious fervor run amok.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because leftism is a religion with an eschatology just as real as John Hagee\u2019s. It\u2019s a religion of political salvation. As political philosopher Eric Voegelin argued, it\u2019s a strain of gnostic, millenarian Christianity that seeks to make the kingdom of God immanent through political movement. First, its enlightened prophets, such as Georg Hegel and Karl Marx, gain gnosis about the inner meaning of history and its progress. Then their anointed acolytes among the educated classes, the woke elect, lead a political movement that manifests this inner meaning in an era of peace, health, and abundance. The kingdom of God is inaugurated.<\/p>\n<p>This explains then-Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2007\/10\/08\/obamas-kingdom-of-heaven-on-ea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barack Obama\u2019s pitch to evangelicals<\/a>: \u201cI am confident that we can create a kingdom right here on Earth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s \u201cwe\u201d? \u201cWe\u201d in Obama\u2019s formulation is his messianic political movement. It\u2019s a perfect demonstration of Voegelin\u2019s argument.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, this theology fails over and over again, with devastating effects on leftists\u2019 mental health. When your God is \u201cwe,\u201d there\u2019s a tremendous burden placed on the human psyche, a burden to save the world. This is a cross no human can bear.<\/p>\n<p>The left needs a Jesus.<\/p>\n<p> What Does Jesus Mean for the Human Psyche? <\/p>\n<p>Consider what Jesus means for the human psyche. Jesus is the divine world Savior who indeed does bear the cross of the world\u2019s salvation. Psychologically, Jesus is the universal, transcendent archetype of salvation from the world\u2019s evils of war, poverty, famine, and death.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional Christian theology says this Savior was embodied in the historical Jesus, and the church is the institutional and corporal continuation of what He means for us. The church becomes a safety net for the despairing psyche through its teachings on faith and hope. The world\u2019s salvation is deferred to an end-time fulfillment, and faith latches onto that hope.<\/p>\n<p>Not so on the left. For them, they embrace the Jesus archetype but turn it inside out. It means human capacity for urgent world change. \u201cJesus\u201d is a disembodied mantle worn by anyone who engages in activist politics in an attempt to end the world\u2019s evils. And this can happen, as the classic leftist protest sign puts it, <em>now<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, when the world doesn\u2019t become a better place,<em> now<\/em> or ever, the left\u2019s Jesus fails them, <em>which is by definition no Jesus at all<\/em>. This puts them into epistemic crisis with those sad side effects on mental health. There\u2019s no safety net. There\u2019s no off-ramp on the highway to utopia when the gas tank light comes on. There is only a world that remains in poverty, war, famine, and death.<\/p>\n<p> How Traditional Theology Helps Mental Health <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives are far more able to handle political defeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left&#8217;s theology fails over and over again, with devastating effects on its followers\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1178,"featured_media":1722552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}