Power and Immorality are now Noble: The Worship of Dead Statist Saints

If it weren't for the mainstream media and statist academia, the death of Ted Kennedy would not have become the worship of Ted Kennedy. Only in the twisted worldview of those state-worshipping entities, would power be noble and immorality be over-looked.

After all, what makes this man's life so honorable? Why the constant media coverage about his supposed "greatness"? I respect and love that he bore the image of God, and I always mourn death as a result of the fall and sin, but beyond that, I see zero reason for Christians or regular Americans to admire this man--a drunkard, a womanizer, and even a murderer. Worse yet, he devoted his life to the violent seizure of property from Americans for the benefit of the state and its allied criminal associates. As Lew Rockwell has pointed out, "Already, of course, Kennedy is being hailed as a man who always put the state and its interests first, and I am sure he did. 'He reached across the aisle' to expand the state. Yep."

Bill Anderson adds the following to the discussion:

I am reading commentary about Ted Kennedy that he was a “true believer,” including this fawning piece from CNN. Yet, what was it that he believed? Ted Kennedy believed that the state should confiscate most of your income, and should give you second-rate “benefits” in return. He believed that you as an individual had no right to resist attacks from criminal or the state (Is there a difference?), and that everyone should be forced to pay taxes for abortions and other things with which they disagree. In other words, Ted Kennedy believed that the state should be considered omniscient and omnipotent, and anyone who resisted should be crushed. And he is being lionized for those views. How sick. How evil.

People of conscience ought to ponder and meditate on the pure, noble, right, admirable, excellent and praiseworthy. These are the attributes that we should aspire toward. But the talking heads on the mind-control device that we all subject ourselves to are telling us to admire the evil of government power.

Perhaps worst of all, one of the most prominent Christians in American politics is participating in the whole media-driven hype about this man, Ted Kennedy. Bill Anderson reports:

Almost on cue, Jim Wallis of Sojourners demands that we “honor” Ted Kennedy by having the state direct all (as opposed to most) medical care in this country. Writes Wallis:

"On the occasion of his death, I pray that God may now move us as a nation to address the greatest commitment of Sen. Kennedy’s life — the need for a comprehensive reform of the health-care system in America — as a deeply moral issue and one that calls forth the very best that is within us. May we honor the life and death of Sen. Edward Kennedy by laying aside the rancor, lies, fear, and even hate that has come to dominate the health-care debate in America this summer, and regain our moral compass by recovering the moral core of this debate: that too many Americans are hurting and suffering in a broken and highly inequitable health-care system, and that it is our moral obligation to repair and reform it — now."

Wallis writes of the “deep Catholic faith” of Kennedy, as though this hedonist who spent most of his adult life making a mockery of the Church and its moral directives actually cared about anything other than where he would have his next sexual conquest.

The religious right says Bush and the Republicans are true Christian crusaders for the cause of Jesus. The religious left says men like Ted Kennedy were true Christian crusaders for the cause of Jesus. Since when is the cause of Jesus a political one involving the kingdoms of this world using the power of the sword?