Whenever Men Set Out To Create Heaven On Earth, They Invariably End Up Creating Hell Instead.

Music to read by:

They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell, oh well

And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's Heaven and Hell, oh no!

"Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny."

- Senator Barry Goldwater, (R-AZ)

"What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven."

- Friedrich Hoelderlin

In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated. . . . Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil.”

Obama couldn't disagree more with Pope John Paul II:

“Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics.  Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for power’s sake instead of because you want to do service to God.  I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God.

We’re going to keep on praising together. 

I AM CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN CREATE A KINGDOM RIGHT HERE ON EARTH."

- Senator Barack Obama, 8 October 2007

"My individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country. Unfortunately, I think that recognition requires that we make sacrifices and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices to bring about a new day and a new age." 

- Barack Obama, 1995

"... my individual salvation is not going to come about without a collective salvation for the country. Um, unfortunately I think that recognition requires that we make sacrifices and this country has not always been willing to make the sacrifices necessary to bring about a new day and a new age."

 - Barack Obama, 1998

"My individual salvation depends on our collective salvation."

- Barack Obama, Dreams of My Father, 2004

"I ask you to take it because you have an obligation to yourself. Because our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation."

- Barack Obama, Xavier commencement address, 2006

 

"Because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. Because thinking only about yourself, fulfilling your immediate wants and needs, betrays a poverty of ambition."

- Barack Obama, Wesleyan commencement address, 2008

Progressives believe the Hegelian concept of ‘The God State.’ In other words, they believe that what they believe should be done is what God would do, if God existed.  Since God doesn't exist, it is for government to do what he would have done.  That's the delusion under which they suffer and inflict same upon others.  The idea of 'The God State' is the impetus for their quest to create 'Heaven on Earth.'

As I always say, Whenever men set out to create 'Heaven on Earth' or a 'Kingdom on Earth,' they invariably end up creating Hell instead. For what Progressives fail to comprehend is that God would be perfect, man is not nor is he 'perfectable.'  The statists' notion of a 'perfectable' man has resulted in Homo Perfectus (Nazi Germany), Homo Sovieticus (the Soviet Union and its satellites) and the corresponding hundred-plus million corpses.

Heaven & Hell by Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio

Sing me a song, you're a singer
Do me a wrong, you're a bringer of evil
The Devil is never a maker
The less that you give, you're a taker
So it's on and on and on, it's Heaven and Hell, oh well

The lover of life's not a sinner
The ending is just a beginner
The closer you get to the meaning
the sooner you'll know that you're dreaming
So it's on and on and on, oh it's on and on and on
It goes on and on and on, Heaven and Hell
I can tell, fool, fool!

Well if it seems to be real, it's illusion
For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
And it's on and on, on and on and on....

They say that life's a carousel
Spinning fast, you've got to ride it well
The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams
It's Heaven and Hell, oh well

And they'll tell you black is really white
The moon is just the sun at night
And when you walk in golden halls
You get to keep the gold that falls
It's Heaven and Hell, oh no!

Fool, fool!
You've got to bleed for the dancer!
Fool, fool!
Look for the answer!
Fool, fool, fool!