Lucid Brevity Touching Egalitarianism

“The desire for equality is rooted in the hatred of God and in the resentment of our subordinate status as creatures. Unregenerate man desires to be god, and the superiority of others only serves to remind him of the impossibility of his own apotheosis. Every excellence at which he is inferior must be devalued to protect his ego. Misery and mediocrity are the practical results of belief in equality.”

Mickey Henry

“And the self-deification inherent in the idea of equality also winds up a hostile witness against equality itself. This by way of the fact that all pretenses of equality among men merely erect alternative hierarchies under capos, commissars, administrators, and media moguls. And inside the egalitarian ethos, everyone either covets or holds in contempt all others relative to themselves. In fact, no Christian aristocrat ever held his servants in greater contempt than does the equality-monger embarrassed by his constituents.”

Dan Brannan

Keep in mind that the egalitarian impulse once given its head always leads to the least common denominator social order. In egalitarian cultures whoever is the lowest, most base, least intelligent, most morally bankrupt, and the greatest cultural troglodyte will be the norm by which all norms are normed. Egalitarianism, being the attack on God that Mr. Henry and Mr. Brannan note above, always leads to the men embracing the absence of God and the absence of God is both the guarantee that of social order disintegrating downward into the void and the very definition of Hell. Egalitarian man, always creates social-order Hell.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

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