The Left’s War on Human Nature & Reality

If you believe the world wasn’t just happenstance and was instead designed by God, it’s quite understandable that you might be inclined to disagree with some of the calls He made. For example, why couldn’t the best-tasting, most addictive food also be the healthiest food for us? Wouldn’t you like to be able to just regrow an arm the way a salamander can regrow his tail? Also, what if kids couldn’t get deadly diseases? Sure, if an adult gets them, fair play, but why couldn’t kids have some kind of special gene that makes it impossible for them to get really sick because it just feels wrong when something like that happens to kids? Speaking of living, Greenland sharks can live for 500 years. That’d be cool to do right? If we really wanted to nitpick, we could come up with an almost unlimited number of things we might do differently than God did.

However, as a Christian conservative, whenever something like this comes into my head, two things come to mind.

First of all, compared to God, who is all-seeing, all-knowing, and omnipotent, we human beings just don’t know very much about anything. A human trying to second guess anything God chose to do would be like a dog trying to second guess Warren Buffet’s investment decisions. It’s so far out of Lassie’s pay grade it becomes laughable.

The second thing that comes to mind is that classic line from Watchmen:

“God doesn’t make the world this way. We do.”

So many of the problems we human beings have in life either come from other people’s bad behavior, our own bad behavior, or our refusal to acknowledge and accept reality. God didn’t make that mugger kill Bruce Wayne’s parents. He didn’t make the leader of some Third World hellhole starve his people to death by stealing the money meant to buy them food. He didn’t create the tangled geopolitical briar patch that led to Russia and Ukraine going to war. We humans did that.

All that being said, sure we should try to better our own lives and do our part to make the world a better place, but we should also be extremely humble. We don’t know much. We’re not so important. The world is so much bigger than any one of us.

In a sense, we spend our lives like a swarm of ants trying to move an elephant. Yes, once in a while, we might manage to bite him enough on the feet to move him a step or two in the direction we want, but chances are, that’s as good as we can do. We’re not going to reorder reality and change the world just because we want to do it. Having a happy life and getting things to move a few steps in a positive direction over the course of a lifetime? That’s a pretty doggone good life’s work for the 99.9999999% of humanity not named Alexander, George Washington, or Einstein.

On the other hand, liberals tend not to view things this way. They consider God an afterthought if they think of Him at all. They look at life like they’re the main character in a video game and things need to be shaped around their wants and desires. Hey, we need to stick 50 exploding barrels I can shoot at over there by the area I need to get into and then let me pick up a super weapon on the way in so I can defeat the bad guys inside. This is too hard! Set it to super easy and give me more character customization options! Because human nature and reality tend to get in the way of so many things they believe and want to do, they’re like someone forever in an airport, desperately trying to walk up the down escalator.

To them, communism sounds like a great idea. All we’d need to do to make it work is get the average person to be just as content to work for some person they’ve never met who does slam poetry in Oregon as their own children. That makes as much sense as thinking that people can change sexes just because they decide to do it or that men and women are completely different or exactly the same, dependent on whatever is most convenient to liberals at the moment.

Also, why can’t kids make permanent, dramatically life-changing decisions at 10 years old… you know, about their gender? Certainly, they shouldn’t be able to decide to get a tattoo or join the military. Why those things could have real, permanent ramifications, you know, unlike surgically mutilating yourself or skipping puberty! Similarly, why can’t everyone just make up their own personalized pronouns and expect every other person in the world to learn them, then get offended if they don’t? That seems reasonable, right? You’re Xe/Xir, I’m frog/frog-self, while that person is wolf/coco-person, and… let’s see, only 8 billion more to memorize.

Just because someone is a violent, mentally ill career criminal doesn’t mean they shouldn’t get a break or, if they live in New York City, maybe 30-40 breaks. Heck, let’s take it up another notch and defund the police. Maybe we should go further and even abolish them altogether. After all, look how often they end up being on the scene when something goes wrong with a violent criminal – where there’s smoke, there’s fire, right? In any case, what possible consequences could there be to just allowing people to shoplift or cross the border illegally at will? After all, they WANT TO break the law, so why not just let them? What could go wrong?

Along the same lines, why can’t the government spend as much as it wants, all the time, forever? There’s no such thing as giving away too much taxpayer money. People want things. Why not just give it to them? Where’s the harm in that? Why not waste billions on a high-speed rail system in California that is never going to actually be built? Why not starve California of water and refuse to do basic forest management? If there’s a fire and LA burns down, the federal government will just pay for it, right? If we’re choosing immigrants, what’s the difference between a Christian rocket scientist from Britain and an illiterate, radical Muslim from Afghanistan who signs his name with an X? One is as good as the other, right? Why not just censor everything except the RIGHT opinions? We all know what those are, right? If not, we can just ask Nancy Pelosi and Whoopi Goldberg, and they’ll tell us. If anybody disagrees, even your parents, just assume they’re Nazis and cut them off. Certainly, that’s a recipe for holding the whole country together long-term, isn’t it?

We could go on and on with this and it has gotten to the point where it feels like the rest of us live with deranged children who are forever trying to burn the house down or knock holes in the wall while we try to stop them… and it has become such an ever-present problem, I don’t think most people even really think about how bizarre it is anymore.

For example, if you had someone who was 70 years old and had never used a computer before, you’d expect them to have a lot of trouble with the basics of using a computer. They might need a lot of help learning to double-click and understanding the difference between files stored on their computer and files stored on an online drive. That would be a natural, normal thing. However, the weird thing about liberals is you can take someone with a genius IQ who goes to an Ivy League school and becomes liberal, then suddenly they struggle with things illiterate peasants understood almost instinctively 1,000 years ago. How did expecting liberals to have even the most basic understanding of human nature and reality become too much to ask?

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