My exposure to the Leftwing blogosphere is purposely self-limited – usually just consisting of quotes or clips cited for reference on non-left sites. Firsthand visits typically require a steely resolve – and fire-proof clothing. The “heated” discussions have been known to make computer screens steam, and the language – well, let’s just say the f-bomb usage can get really creative.
 
But when I came across this headline at LifeSiteNews, I felt obligated to pull on my protective gear and pursue things a bit further:
Daily Kos writer: We could use ‘global superplague’ to stop overpopulation
 
Turns out the writer in question is Jon Stafford, and this particular post, titled “It Feels Bitter Here”, is mostly a rambling “Poor me – why doesn’t everyone here agree with me? I don’t’ care anyway, cause I’m smarter that everyone else – so forget you guys!”

Mixed up in all of that, his “plague” comment was just sort of tossed out in mid-rant:

“…There are too many goddam people already.” And while this is meant to be facetious, nevertheless there is a seed of truth in it, because I believe that the world is wildly overpopulated and that we must take steps as a society to reduce it. (“It”? the world?) This will undoubtedly be met with accusations of callousness, but we would could really use is a global superplague. The Black Death may have been horrible, but without it there would never have been a Renaissance.

Charming huh?
Later in the piece he feels compelled to state: “ I am an atheist.” Ya think?
 
Anyway, seeing that “global superplague” headline, I was prepared to get seriously upset while reading Stafford’s entire piece. I mean, first the Left thinks we need an alien invasion, and now – the Plague.
 
But instead, I actually found myself… feeling sorry for him. He seems to be floundering in a sea of progressive despair. He’s perplexed and angry with his fellow Lefties (they all seem to be angry at something – or everything – most of the time) because they don’t all agree with him. How could they possibly disagree since, as Stafford says, “I thought we came to our support of progressive beliefs after a rational examination of the facts” ?
 
The problem, Jon, is that your progressive belief system prevents you from rationally examining the facts. Because you explicitly exclude God from your world view you’ll never discover real Truth. Because you don’t believe in a Creator, you’ll never really understand the nature of created human beings, including your Kos comrades.
 
Stafford is an atheist, a socialist and I believe, a humanist. That is, since God doesn’t exist for him, Man is at the center of all things and the measure of all things. And since there isn’t a Creator, the final reality is impersonal matter or energy shaped into its present form by impersonal chance.
So any values or beliefs that a humanist subscribes to are essentially baseless.
 
This view of the world always leads to floundering, frustration and chaos – as Francis Schaeffer explains in “A Christian Manifesto”:

The humanists push for “freedom,” but having no Christian consensus to contain it, that “freedom” leads to chaos or to slavery under the state (or under an elite). Humanism, with its lack of any final base for values or law, always leads to chaos. It then naturally leads to some form of authoritarianism to control the chaos. Having produced the sickness, humanism gives more of the same medicine for a cure. With its mistaken concept of final reality, it has no intrinsic reason to be interested in the individual, the human being (“Plague” anyone??). Its natural interest is the two collectives: the state and society.

 
Rejecting God’s Truth, every human society, past or present eventually conforms to the pattern of downfall that Schaeffer describes.
 
And that is what makes me so sad for Stafford and his fellow atheist-progressive-humanists. Their perplexed view of the world and reality never leads to anywhere good. For them – or the rest of us.