I guess the Dalai Lama felt compelled to remind us once again that he’s a Marxist.
In speaking to a group of students in Minnesota last week, the Dalai Lama cleared up any uncertainty regarding his political views. “…As far as socio-political beliefs are concerned, I consider myself a Marxist,” he told the audience.
Yes, Marxism, that warped ideology that has killed untold millions and continues to repress millions more. That bankrupt philosophy that encourages a ruthless elite class to trample the rest of humanity into submission. My, what an enlightened fellow. And how easy it must be for him to toss off pretentious pronouncements from his lofty perch. Safe on the isolated heights afforded by his exalted position, he remains untouched by the misery and poverty inflicted on lesser unenlightened people.
As Selwyn Duke at RenewAmerica puts it:
A man of authentic faith seeks Truth and doesn’t deny reality, either the moral variety or the physical (“Am I a man who dreamt he was a worm or a worm dreaming he is a man?!”). The reality here, though, is that the Dalai Lama is, like Gandhi, just another overrated Eastern spiritual leader whom elites glom onto because he is quite liberal and not Western.
For Mr. Lama the Buddhist philosophy apparently integrates nicely with Marxism. Christianity (and Judaism) does NOT:
