NH Rep Mike Belcher: Marxism-as-Religion

via Mike’s Substack

I write now answering to concerns on my Marxism-as-Religion Resolution that have been brought to me several times, by several people, including some that may influence the ultimate direction of things to come. I write to assuage those concerns, and to provide a peak behind the curtains into my thought process around the issue.

First, it is of little consequence that, correctly interpreted, Marxists may be afforded religious protections and tax-exempt status for their “Church.” Practically, Marxists are already afforded not merely proper religious protections under the first amendment, but the entire enforcement arm of the state in punishing blasphemy and rewarding faith, as well as a commissar system that sees only the pious employable across major corporations and government.

A proper first amendment protection of religious freedom would not allow Marxists to coerce their faith on others, and thereby it renders Marxism’s foremost means of replication nullified. Similar to other religions that receive protection – for instance Islam – there are limits to the degree of religious autonomy and tolerance afforded under the constitution. Honor killings, for instance, cannot be justified under Sharia law in America despite the reasonable argument that it is fundamental to a religion. Likewise, Marxism, properly placed in that same box, is rendered impotent in its capacity to injure, and effectively restrained from doing the harms that it is currently inflicting on us all.

Next, there’s nothing wrong with teaching about Marxism in schools – it’s quite sensible to learn about the enemy. This same goes for radical Islamism, occultism, and so on. In fact, Marxists who have the primary authors of history books for decades have made it a point to not teach about Marxism for this very reason.

Next, there is a very important distinction between teaching about something, and teaching that something. It is good to know about everything we can discern, but it is dangerously impossible to know that everything is, because if everything is then nothing is, and it is this “that is” that forms our basis for understanding everything.

Marxism is already taught in schools currently under names from Critical Race Theory to Gender Theory, and from Social Emotional Learning to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – except students aren’t learning about Marxist theory and history from the lens of Americanism. They are not learning about the millions of ugly deaths directly attributable to the anti-human ideology. Rather, they are being taught everything, from the humanities through physics, through the lens of Marxism, and thereby being indoctrinated into Marxist religious presuppositions, metaphysics, and “consciousness” in government schools and beyond.

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