This is why China will never be anything more than a cheap attempt at freedom. “The (Chinese) government says... that myth, superstitions and reincarnation are all questionable.”
I will not do what Marx does and point out every failure of the capitalistic system within the socialist system. Instead I will point out that socialism is the vehicle of the agnostic hatred of beauty and imagination. It is it self a failure of epic proportions.
Socialism, like it's cousin, psychoanalytic theory, is a practice based completely on the ability to control. In the case of psychoanalytic theory, it is meant to control an individual and in most cases, an individual sin or condition or phobia or what have you. Socialism is that theory taken to the masses. Socialism is a group of principles that are designed to control the masses. It approached social problem the same way Freud would approach a condition or neurosis. I have no major problem with the Freudian approach to psychoanalytic psychology as long as you call a sin a sin and not a condition. However, socialism generally uses the same principles to come to it's social conclusions.
One can approach a sin or condition or neuroses in their life from the psychoanalytic perspective and successfully identify it and fix it. Often, I feel like one could get the same result by being hoest with themselves. Another words, psychoanalytic psychology attempts to get you to drop your inhibitions so that you can get to the knot of repressed desires, thoughts, actions and so on. A Christian can then attribute the cause of the repressed desire to sin and deal with the sin.
The socialist system applies the same methods to social sins or conditions. They identify the problem of discontent and weed it out. However, a political party is not the same as an individual person. In fact, the church is not the same as an individual person. This is to say that you can approach sin in a church the same way you approach sin in yourself or in another individual. Socialist pagans like we find in power in China, attempt to use the psychoanalytic method to weed out conditions in society. Oddly enough, many christian today attempt to do the same thing in the church by making sweeping statement of condemnation on a certain topic. For example, it is popular in todays church to condemn lazy parents who never have a home cooked meal by attacking the very act of going to McDonalds. This is nothing less than socialism in the Church.
The principles of psychoanalytic psychology are meant to control behavior and in turn better ones life. This is think is a very Christian attitude. However, it is very clear that when individual use these tactics at the church level it infringes all forms of christian liberties just as socialism infringes all forms of social liberties. Instead good church leadership will identify large social sins and deal with them from the pulpit as sins and in faith that the word of God to man is sufficient to weed the sin instead of idealizing a sin as a condition and legalizing an act against the actions. This is the meaning of, "For God so love the world that he gave his only begoten Son".
Idealism was owned my the church until Marx came along and made is kosher pagan's. Before Marx pagan were really just allowed to be completely hedonistic. However, Socialism has the same idealistic draws that the Roman Catholic church has to some Protestant church members. However, this time they get to proclaim that the ideals are not Roman Catholic but merely plundering the tombs of the socialists.
Lastly, this post is not against idealism. It is against socialist method of idealism. Idealism that is based in the word of God is fine, as long as it is an idealism that is based on faith.
