“The plan was this: ‘Let us make a name’ (Gen. 11:4), or, a ‘shem’ meaning let us define ourselves, fix and establish our authority so that we are what we declare ourselves to be. Instead of being defined by the image of God (Gen. 1:26-28), man now held that he would be his own creature and creation and would define himself. If man becomes a self-definer, he, then, like a god, names or defines himself. If man becomes a self-definer, he, then, like a god, names or defines everything else. He can then define God, or define Him out of existence, supposedly.
The reason for this resolve was, ‘lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth’ (Gen. 11:4). A basic doctrine of theology is the unity of the Godhead. No god can be truly a god if he is divided within himself. Every humanistic attempt to replace God with a one-world humanistic order leads to efforts to bring all mankind under a common civil government. This is a theological necessity: the ultimate power cannot be a divided power. Every effort is made to compel human unity in the name of the new faith.”
R. J. Rushdoony
Genesis — p. 110
1.) When man redefine God or defines him out of existence the inevitable result is the maxim, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Man apart from God will always build community-order systems that will be define as tyrannical. Men apart from the God of the Bible — whether husbands tyrannizing wives, parents tyrannizing children, teachers tyrannizing students, magistrates tyrannizing citizenry — will always exercise their non God ordained power as usurper and tyrants. Always. It may take time to go from bad to worse but it is inevitable.
2.) The humanistic attempt to replace God with a one-world order leads not only to the efforts we are now seeing to bring all mankind under a common civil government. Such humanistic attempts also seek to bring all mankind under a commonality that includes a universal shared faith, a universal shared race/ethnicity, and a universal shared culture. A unipolar world with a unipolar government (common civil government) cannot successfully exist apart from a unipolar faith, unipolar race/ethnicity and unipolar culture. Even our “new” multiplicity of gender is in service of creating a unipolar gender where the former hard bipolar distinctions of male and female disappear.
3.) Man without God thus seeks a uniformitarian existence where all distinctions are bled out of life. Man becomes Borg. He is a cog in the humanistic globalist machine. He is a worker bee in a hive. Humanist NWO learns that resistance is futile. He will be assimilated.
4.) Since the Endarkenment we have seen this attempt at the commodification of men into a uniform product. During the French Revolution all titles distinguishing rank were lost and everybody addressed one another as “Citoyen.” The Phrygian cap worn by all Revolutionaries — male or female — was the fashion expression that communicated the uniformitarian oneness. In the Revolution of 1918 in Russia it was the universal address of “comrade” that bespoke fallen man’s self-understanding that he shared in the oneness of the humanistic godhood. In 1949 forward in the Chinese Revolution it was the Mao suit that was the fashion statement that communicated that ultimate power cannot be a divided power.
Man without God creates a social-order monism that is an attempt to create a immanent uniformitarian and humanist godhood. We are seeing it everywhere around us.
Great article.
The One and the Many is the most insightful book I have read. Gets more at this idea of how we inescapably image God in our societies, whether in rebellion, leading to nihilism and death, or in submission to His created order.