On the Glorification of Nelson Mandela
I am conflicted when I think of Nelson Mandela and the
honors now bestowed upon him. On the one
hand I see he is worthy of much honor.
There is much to be admired in Nelson Mandela. The apartheid system laid on the necks of the
native Africans by the British was wrong, unjust and evil. The native Africans were treated as sub-human
to be used as objects to increase the riches of the wealthy and the
powerful. Nelson Mandela did much to
bring that evil system to an end and for that he is honored and admired. After serving his prison sentence he seemed
to come out as a very compassionate man fighting for justice and human
dignity. From what I have seen and read,
it appears he worked not only to free the Africans but also to build a system
of harmony with the British. From
prison to the first black president of South Africa! There is much here to be admired.
Yet, in the midst of all of this I have always had an uneasy
feeling in my bones that I couldn’t quite understand or put my finger on. What bothered me most is that he was most
honored and praised by communist dictators around the world, the
anti-establishment rock music groups, the Underground Weathermen, the Black
Panthers, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Saul Alinksy, the Angela Davis’ and
Jane Fonda’s of the world, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid, the anti-Americans in Hollywood and by the liberal democrats in
America who often are working to dismantle traditional Judea-Christian values
and the American constitution. Why, I
asked myself, were his greatest supporters composed of communists and those who
denounce or seek to overthrow the traditional values of America?
Gradually, as I thought about it, I began to see a
pattern. You see, the fact of the matter
is that Nelson Mandela was, in his political philosophy, a Marxist/Socialist,
as is President Obama and all of those named above that were/are the most
ardent supporters of Mr. Mandela. To say
that isn’t to diminish the good he accomplished but simply to state the
facts. Now, we can understand why
Marxist/Socialists would want to overthrow apartheid but why are these same
people so opposed to traditional American values?
Before we can draw further conclusions we have to understand
some basics about Marxist/Socialism.
1) Marxist/Socialists see every other form of government as
evil. Marxist/Socialism is not just a
political system but a religious system as well that seeks to eliminate all
other religions. It sees itself as the
only and ultimate Good.
2) Their goal is to overthrow every other form of government
in order to achieve the redistribution of wealth from those who have earned it
to those who haven’t. Many professing
Christians are drawn to this because it sounds Christian on the surface. “Isn’t that what Jesus taught”, people ask,
“to help the poor”? Isn’t that what the
early Church tried to do when they all came together and had all things in
common as we read in the early chapters of the Book of Acts? Not exactly. Jesus taught a voluntary and individual
charity out of love, not a wholesale forced stealing and confiscation of
private property by the government.
There is a world of difference.
One is individual love and compassion; the other is the government
taking collectively what does not belong to it – stealing by force.
3) The playbook for Marxist/Socialists is the same wherever
it is found and in whatever country.
Create unrest, turmoil, crisis, conflict, protests, class and race
warfare, a tax burden, financial crisis, more and more central power to control
all the problems that the government creates and control of speech and religion
to gradually, over time, dismantle and destroy the old order. This is necessary before a new order of
socialism can arise to save the day. It
happened this way in Russia, Korea, Vietnam, South America, Cuba, etc.
So now we can begin to see the connection between Nelson
Mandela the Marxist/Socialist, liberal democrats, radical Hollywood and rock
bands, the liberal news media and all the other strange bed-fellows. To the Marxist/Socialist American democracy
and capitalism is just as evil as apartheid.
It is seen in the same way. The
rich and powerful are sitting on the necks of the poor and less
privileged. This, and all other
systems, must be dismantled and replaced by Socialism – either a liberal
socialist government or a dictatorship.
The fallacy of Marist/Socialism is that those who come to
power under the new order quickly become the same rich and corrupt leaders at
the top sitting on the necks of everyone else.
This is true because of the fallen corruption of human nature and
because no form of human government can be the savior of mankind. This is a cardinal error of Marxist/Socialism. Socialism is viewed as the savior of mankind
that will usher in peace and justice for all.
But it never does for the reasons already stated. It simply steals from some and persecutes
others to make the new rulers rich and powerful while keeping the populace under thumb and
in poverty. Just look at the
Marxist/Socialist countries of the world.
To speak any criticism of Nelson Mandela is seen and portrayed
as being in favor of apartheid but this is a straw man and simply not
true. The glorification of Nelson
Mandela cannot be separated from the glorification of Marxist/Socialism, which
in turn gives power and credibility to his greatest supporters in America who
seek to overthrow Judea-Christian values and the American constitution. Herein is the source of my conflicted feelings
about the glorification of Nelson Mandela and those who are glorifying the
loudest. The end of apartheid is a good
thing. The rise and glorification of
Marxist/Socialism is not, especially when it is seen as the savior of mankind
and the basis for peace and justice. It
is another imperfect human system that will always fail in the end because of
human greed and corruption. All forms
of human government are human attempts to create what can only be found in the
regeneration of human hearts in the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven to
come.
