Dennis Prager: Behind The Bias: A Drive For 'Social Justice'

There was the pseudo-threat of heterosexual AIDS in America — science manipulated in order to de-stigmatize AIDS as primarily a gay man's disease and to increase funding for AIDS research. There are the exaggerated secondhand smoke data popularized so as to decrease smoking and fight "Big Tobacco."

And now we have the scientifically questionable belief in man-made carbon emissions causing global warming leading to natural catastrophe — and recommended "solutions" many of which, if adopted, will serve the goal of undermining corporate capitalism.

The best analogy of the directing of all human endeavors toward a left-wing purpose would be those early medieval centuries of European life when just about everything man-made was supposed to reflect a religious consciousness.

Virtually nothing stood apart from the Church. The arts were religious, the sciences were handmaidens of theology, and schools were religious in nature.

Most moderns look upon that period as a dark age — perhaps a bit unfairly at times. But the people who most scorn what they deem the religious "Dark Ages" are trying to build a secular-left dark age in our time. Because the left is a religion, a substitute for the Christianity it seeks to displace.