My reasoning is simple. Let us take as paradigmatic of the simultaneous rejection of God and moralities based upon either God’s commands, or conceptions of the good based upon conceptions of God, the famous phrase “If God is dead, then all is permitted”, which Dostoevsky seemingly had Dmitri Karamozov say in its purest form.
Islam says “if this person is not a Muslim, then all is permitted”. Leftists say “if this person has not conformed to our intolerant tribe, then all is permitted.”
The first case is obvious enough. Beginning with the example of Muhammad himself, permitted acts include murder, rape, sexual and other slavery, conquest, theft, desecration of the temples of other faiths, and pedophilia. Literally every major sin which any religion has come up with is explicitly permitted.
In the second case, and particularly in the modern world, these sins, too, are all permitted, but they are first put through a disguise of necessity, a disguise of “rescue” or benefice, or hidden entirely. The Left, as one example, has NOTHING to say about the pervasive use of rape and sexual slavery by ISIS, but somehow finds it useful and relevant to boycott States which have passed laws reiterating long standing and common sense standards, ones which prohibit men who look like men from indulging a variety of perversions by using the women’s rooms. In North Caroline, the main person who opposed the law was and is a registered sex offender. Nobody on the Left wants to know this.
In the 20th Century, and TODAY–in China, North Korea, Cuba and other Leftist hell-holes–murder is permitted. Rape is permitted. Slavery is the lot of most, whether it is called that or not. Empire is a goal, one which China achieved in its invasion and on-going violent suppression of Tibet. North Korea failed in its invasion of the South, but was only stopped by military means. Cuba, of course, tried to foment insurrections, and started many bloody and useless civil wars until the Russians stopped sending checks. Countries like Angola are still paying the price for their mercenary and utterly amoral actions.
Theft, of course, is the NATURE of Leftism, as is the suppression of alternative views, religious faith, and all idols but that of the Great Leader, and the violent sadistic joke of his regime.
Pedophilia, who knows? One reads about Soviet camps where many forms of abuse were seemingly endemic, but only Islam lists a founder who found it acceptable to marry a 5 year old, who he first fucked when she was still playing with dolls.
We live in aN Alice in Wonderland world, where the most basic conceptions of decency have become entirely dependent, for a great many people, upon their POPULARITY. If they have not seen something condemned, they are incapable of a visceral reaction. It is a matter of apparent empirical fact that one feature of the Left is that it has lost its capacity for disgust. Conversely, if they do see something condemned, they react with all the reflective thoughtfulness of dogs salivating for a steak. It does not matter if the propaganda target is innocent or guilty: they are guilty because they have been accused.
Thus: partial Atheism. Leftists, of course, reject God in the main to begin with, but their own self conception rests upon a sort of piety, itself dependent upon the idea that they wish humanity in the main well, that they have visions for a “better tomorrow”, and that compassion is their most important virtue. These are of course all lies, and blatant lies when we see people engaging in acts of violence in the ostensible name of compassion, as we did a day or two ago in Germany. Perhaps I should call it conditional amoralism.
The psychological root, of course, is sadism, the suppression of personal and other identity in group violence. I am here speaking mainly of the cognitive aspect of the whole thing.