Primary and Proximate Causation … and the Myth of Scientism

“In former times, Aristotle’s distinction was normally granted, that science consisted in the knowledge of the thing through the proximate cause, while wisdom, on the other hand, stretched toward ‘the knowledge of the thing through the primary cause.'”

Herman Bavinck
Christian Worldview — 48

Bavinck goes on to say that because of the aprioristic speculation found in the philosophy of Hegel there was a counter-reaction that found primary causation being given the heave ho in favor of the proximate cause as the basis of all knowledge.

Behold the entry of Scientism.

However the problem with depending on the proximate cause alone for true truth is that all proximate causes are, by necessity, dependent on some primary cause for their being and definition. One can not have a proximate cause that exists without first finding its meaning in some primary cause.

And so Scientism must always fail because Science is a proximate cause that is only as good as the primary cause that produces the Science it produces.

Science that doesn’t presuppose the God of the Bible is a science that can justify Ilya Ivanov, String theory, and punctuated equilibrium found in modern Evolutionary theory. Science cut loose from its proper primary cause will be a science that isn’t very scientific.

Reno & McAtee on the Return of the Strong Gods


“We continue to define ourselves as ‘anti-totalitarian,’ ‘anti-fascist,’ ‘anti-racist,’ and ‘anti-nationalist.’ I call the atmosphere of opinion that sustains these ‘anti’ imperatives the ‘post-war consensus.'”

R. R. Reno
Return of the Strong Gods; Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West — p. xi


I don’t agree with Reno that the post-war consensus was EVER anti-totalitarian. We have lived, in this country, with creeping Totalitarianism ever since 1916. If there was anti-totalitarianism it was only anti-totalitarian against any whiff of Fascist Totalitarianism. Communist totalitarianism has been perfectly acceptable. We don’t recognize what we have lived under as creeping Communist totalitarianism since we have ourselves become increasingly Communist with each passing generation.

On the rest of these I do agree that the post wars powers did identify as anti-fascist, anti-racist, and anti-nationalist but only as those words were defined in a Communist Internationalist Cosmopolitanistic paradigm. This definitional stranglehold has insured that we would become increasing totalitarian in our politics and culture.

And now as some of us seek to loosen the grip of the post-war consensus those who have regulated themselves to the post-war anti-Christ consensus delight in labeling us as “Anti-Christ.”

However, as sure as water runs downhill the post-war consensus cannot last. What is labeled as fascist will be set free again to be seen as the patriotism it always was. What is labeled as “racist” will be set free again to be seen as the love of kith and kin it always was. What is labeled as “Nationalist” will be set free again to be seen as the love of place that it always was.

The post-war consensus is dying and if it will not die peacefully it will die with all the violence it was birthed with.

Recurring Themes in Spiderman and Shazam; Committing the Sin of Noticing

Recently released Shazam film.

1.) White Mothers abandon their toddlers leaving them homeless.

2.) Homeless toddlers find the real meaning of family by being adopted into a mixed race family by mixed race adoptive parents where real family love is found, unlike the cruel mean white mother who abandoned him and the cruel mean father who was a jailbird.

3.) Shazam’s adopted siblings are black, Asian, white crippled, south sea pacific, white female

4.) The chief wise man who gives Billy his Shazam powers is black.

5.) The chief villain who absorbs the seven deadly sin demons is white

6.) The wise social worker who puts Billy into a loving home is black.

7.) Shazam as a white kid cannot defeat the villain until he turns all his mixed race and crippled siblings into super-heroes like himself. Once he turns them all into super-heroes the villain white guy is defeated.

8.) The villain’s father and big brother twisted the villain when he was a child by being mean to them. This again shows how dysfunction white families are.

9.) The bullies in school who pick on and abuse the crippled adopted brother are both white.

Not to worry though … I am sure this is all just cohencidence.




Above I did something similar with the Film, “Shazam.” I have also done this same thing with the Films, “Yesterday,” “The Magnificent Seven” (2016) and the “Color of Water.” These are all the same movies. The distinct plot in each of them is irrelevant. The differing genres are irrelevant. Below is the meaning the film-goer is supposed to take away from each of these films.

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Recently released Spider-man movie, “Far From Home.”

1.) Peter Parker’s love interest (MJ) is now black.

2.) Peter Parker’s best friend is a rotund Filipino

3.) Peter Parker’s rotund Filipino best friend takes to himself as his girlfriend the white over achiever female.

4.) The villain (Mysterio) is white

5.) Nick Fury, Peter Parker’s boss is Black

6.) There are two school teachers who are the Chaperones for the High School trip to Europe. The White teacher is a total doofus while the Black teacher while a little goofy is overall Mr. Cool when compared to his White counterpart.

7,) Peter Parker’s high school nemesis who is a fanboy of Spider-Man is an Indian for India.

8.) Peter Parker’s High-school classmates look like they attend “United Nations High School” (UNHS).

9.) The soundtrack consists of musical numbers of distinct ethnic numbers which likely match the countries they are traveling through on their high school trip to Europe.

10.) Twice in the film traditional male to female compliments are stood on their head.

a.) “Happy” tells Peter’s Aunt May that she looks lovely and May immediately responds with, “You do too.”

b.) Peter tells M. J. that “she looks pretty,” whereupon M. J. responds by bitterly asking, “therefore I have value?” She tells Peter she was “messing with him,” and immediately tells him “you look pretty too.”

Only a feminist or a SJW could’ve come up with this dialogue.

11.) Spider-Man’s initial fight with the villain Mysterio takes place in a pentagram.

12.) This movie is a HUGE revelation of the method. It’s main thrust is that perception trumps reality every time. It is communicating that reality doesn’t matter as long as you can create whatever perception you desire.

13.) The eye of Horus is prominently displayed in the initial fight scene with Mysterio as connecting Mysterio’s cape to his uniform.

14.) In the final fight scene we see that Mysterio’s costume is covered with Triangles.

15.) Movie theme is in the dying line from the villain Mysterio,

“People need to believe and now days they will believe in anything.”

Point being made is that people are suckers and want to believe in illusions and by extension that we are believing in illusions.

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Meaning of all of these films,

1.) White people are either Stupid, Evil, or only have value if they are intimately connected to minorities.

2.) Occult sub-themes
3.) Multiculturalism is the only way to go
4.) Minorities are always the good guys
5.) Females are as strong as men
6.) Patriarchy is evil
7.) White people can only be delivered and rescued by minorities

Faye on the Return of Kalergi

“Many have heard of the ‘Kalergi plan’ without understanding exactly what it means. In his book ‘Practical Idealism,’ cosmopolitan thinker Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (who was himself of Austrian and Japanese parentage) declares that the inhabitants of the future ‘United States of Europe’ will no longer be the original peoples of the old continent but instead a new humanity of racial intermixing. He says it was necessary to ‘cross-breed’ the peoples of Europe with Asian and Black peoples so as to create a multi-ethnic herd lacking any and all specific qualities and easily dominated by elites. This seemed to far fetched to be true, and yet this is the actual thought that was formulated by Kalergi; and there are many men who have listened to it most attentively and abided by it…

For years, the tragic importance of the Kalergi plan and the possibility that the elites may actually be following a timetable corresponding to this very project were meticulously ignored. One avoided talking about Kalergi and never mentioned his name, putting Kalergi’s theory into practice without ever referring to it clearly.

(French President) Emmanuel Macron, who seems to want to skip a few steps in order to assert himself the most anti-French president in our country’s entire history, ultimately shattered this tattoo… During a speech delivered 10 May 2018, in Aachen, Macron spoke of Kalergi in these terms,

‘Time and again Europe finds itself traversed by history and the latter’s tragic aspects. To this, one cannot oppose the routine management but, instead, a will that remains always in motion, one that requires each new generation to invest all its strength and reinvent hope.’

He then goes on to add:

‘Richard von COUDENHOVER-KALERGI once gave this hope a name. Referring to the work of Charlemagne [Oh, is that so?], he described Europe as the return to the Carolingian dream. This dream is that of desired unity, of concord conquered over the field of differences, and of a vast community advancing in the same direction; that of a Europe, my dear Angela, my dear Xavier, united within its own beating heart, which this region already represented back then. Today, however, this dream is being gnawed at by doubt. And it is up to us to decide whether we wish to let it live or allow it to perish.’

It’s important to realize what Europe Macron is referring to. In no way is it the Europe of Caucasian cosmopolitanism that Voltaire dreamt of and that has been the source North American success in recent centuries. Neither is it a European empire, as established by famous men such as Julius Caesar or Charlemagne (to whom our president is deceptively referring). It Kalergi’s Europe, a diversified Europe that is meant to be both multi-ethnic and mult-racial to the very extreme. It is to be understood as a mixed race Europe, one that is neither European nor Asian/black. Worse still, it would be a bit of everything at once.

When hailing Kalergi’s work in front of his fellow heads of government, most of whom are, to a similar extent, following their own path of demographic replacement, Emmanuel Macron divulged the secret of the Western elites — the concrete, observable, and terrifying project of progressive ethnocide targeting European peoples on their own continent. It is as clear as it is obvious.”

Guillaume Faye
Ethnic Apocalypse — p. 71-73

And behind Faye’s accurate analysis stands the even greater objective of the Kalergi plan and that is the destruction of Biblical Christianity in favor of a mixed religion that is envisioned as every bit as mixed as the races that Kalergi envisioned.

It is paramount for us to understand that the intentional pursuit of the thorough mixing of all races is pursuant to a even higher goal and that is the mixing, and so diluting, of Biblical Christianity. This is a Babel project for which the International elite are contending. The ultimate goal is to pull down Christ from His throne and the methodology they are using to that end is the mixture of all races and cultures into one. To not oppose all of this is to support that stripping Christ of His Kingship.

Cana of Galilee; The Unveiling

Amos 9:13 -“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord,

“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;

The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,

And all the hills shall flow with it.

14 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;

They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;

They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;

They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

When Jesus performs His first miracle at Cana by turning water into wine (John 2:1-11) the passage above connects the presence of the Messiah with the abundance of wine. By turning all that water into wine (appx. 150 gallons) Jesus is announcing that the Messiah with the long anticipated Kingdom has arrived. The water pots for ritual cleaning is replaced by the wine of Joy found in the arrival of the only one wherein eternal cleansing is found.

The fact that the the water pots used were connected with the Jewish purification rites suggests that they would automatically become unclean if filled with any old water. However, by filling those ceremonial water pots with the best of wine the declaration is that the Old Testament ceremonial law has been fulfilled by the one who those ceremonies anticipated. Jesus is putting new wine into old water-skins.

Then when the Master of the feast declares the superiority of this Wine that Jesus had created — even to the point of ‘saving the best for last,’ the Miracle proclaims that the Old Covenant was water as compared to the New Covenant as wine. The book of Hebrews says the same thing more directly,

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son…

Of course this all makes sense in light of the fact that this Miracle kicked off Jesus public ministry. The opening sign of the public ministry of Jesus is the production of wine that proclaimed that the Messiah was present and ready to establish the long expected kingdom.

Jesus begins this Miracle with informing His mother that “my time has not yet come.” This idea of a coming hour is a sub-theme of the book of John (cmp. 7:6, 8, 30; 8:20; 13:1; 17:1) and is a declaration that the time of the Cross is not yet present. The usage of this literary trope informs us that John’s Gospel is moving towards a destination, indicating that all that preludes that appointed hour is but prelude until the arrival of that hour. Like a novel that builds to a climax, the book of John is building to a climax (Cross and Resurrection) and by the usage of the “hour” language we are being told the climax to the story is yet to come.

We should not miss that the beginning of Jesus ministry begins with a Miracle that is associated with feasting and merriment. This provides the first bookend to Jesus ministry with the latter bookend again in the context of feasting and merriment that will occur in the newness of the Father’s Kingdom. This is suggestive that Christianity and Christians should be characterized by laughter, merriment, joy, and feasting. The Kingdom has come.

Finally, we have the way Jesus addresses His mother. First, here, referring to His mother as “woman” was a common way of addressing women in this 1st century Palestine culture. We see Jesus use it again in regards to His mother when He is on the cross. (John 19:26 – “Woman, behold thy Son.”) Clearly, Jesus is not being insulting to His mother when He tenderly provides her with a home by commissioning her to John’s care.

Jesus address to His mother also includes the rebuff of “What does your concern have to do with me.” First, we need to note that Mary’s concern of providing wine for her guests was indeed no concern of Jesus. This miracle of Jesus when accomplished was not accomplished in order to satisfy Mary’s concern, though the satisfying of Mary’s concern coincided with Jesus’ concern to declare His Messianic bonafides for those with eyes to see.

Summarizing, Jesus first Miracle is a declaration that the Old Covenant has served its purposes and now the purpose that it served in heralding the coming Messiah is past as the coming Messiah has arrived raining down the fruit of the vine upon the people of God.