“The idea of unity so possesses itself of man, and is sought for by him so universally, that if he thinks he has found it, he readily yields himself up to repose in that belief. Nor does he content himself with the discovery that nothing is in the world but a creation and a Creator; still embarrassed by this primary division of things, he seeks to expand and to simplify his conception by including God and the universe in one great whole.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy in America”
Fallen man is hopelessly Unitarian in his theology. He is forever looking for the unity of the godhead and having taken man as god, all individual men must submit to this denial of the Creator-creature distinction. All of this explains how it is that the State almost uniquely ends up being god walking on the earth. Fallen man, having denied the Creator-creation distinction looks to the state to provide the Unitarian God it requires and having found that God in the state all must be compelled to serve the state in order for the humanist godhead to have the requisite unity that divinity always requires. Thus slogans are born such as “All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.” When the Creator – creature distinction is denied the State, more often than not, is assigned the status of the imminent God (true transcendence having been lost) and having the status of the imminent God all the subjects (formerly citizens) must be as one with the Unitarian godhead of the State in order for the state to achieve apotheosis.
All of this follows like water running downhill. If a people eliminates the God of the Bible from their reckoning the inevitable eventual conclusion will be what is described above. However, all of this is not absent a spiritual reality. We are not talking about merely ideas here though obviously ideas enter into all this. We are also talking about principalities and powers. When the social order has evacuated the God of the Bible, embracing instead itself as its own unitarian God spiritual realities begin to exercise their muscle. Having locked God out of His rule — having made the heavens bronze and the earth iron — the power from below begins to reveal itself. Man’s evil thinking becomes consistent with the reasoning and work of the power from below. The social order is inverted and good becomes evil and evil becomes good. This was seen to have happened in the Weimar Republic. It was seen to have happened during the French Revolution as a brief familiarity with the Marquis de Sade’s work testifies. It is happening now in our social order. We have denied the Creator – creature distinction, we have joined the unitarian God-state in a creaturely oneness and the effect is now that we have let loose the demon horde upon ourselves as witnessed by our seeking to remake ourselves in the image of our creaturely demon god. Children are being sexually maimed via surgical techniques. Sodomy and Lesbianism is now mainstreamed and rampant (paging Rick Grenell) children are routinely sexually trafficked, the elite (as the Epstein files reveal) are Lizard people with no souls.
There is a danger of reading the times in a fashion that only traces out the ideas without realizing that behind the implications of bad ideas is a spiritual reality — principalities and powers — that rabidly hate those creatures who still retain the image of God that those spiritual powers likewise intensely hate. Hating God, they hate all creatures and so strive to pull down any social order that isn’t a reflection of the hell that they themselves occupy. Yes, ideas have consequences but both ideas and consequences are not spiritually neutered. There is a spiritual component to Worldview thinking that must be taken into account. It is not the case that we are only seeking to snuff out bad thinking. We have to realize behind that bad thinking is a Screwtape and a Uncle Wormwood that has an interest in breathing out bad thinking.
Yes, the denial of the Creator-creature distinction has great ramifications for a social order but those ramifications are being pursued by a malevolent consciousness to the end of destroying as many image bearers as possible.
It is the nature of all human knowledge to seek eventually to simplify the universe, even if this means to falsify it. Darwin’s idea of the descent of man from protozoan slime seems amazingly simple compared to the complex and subtle doctrines of Christian theology, so that many scholars tended to accept Darwin’s theory without really questioning whether or not it was actually true. p. 216.
David L. Hoggan, ‘The Myth of the New History: Techniques and Tactics of the Mythologists of American History’
I’d have to disagree w/ Mr. Hoggan here. It takes far more credulity to believe in Darwinism than it does take faith to believe in Creationism. Evolutionary theory introduces vast amounts of un-necessary complexity. It is a Talmudic explanation.
Where do you come up with all your quotes Ron? Are you a reader or do you have some kind of sourcing mechanism?
I’m a reader and I keep a database of excerpts that I find striking. I agree with you that evolutionary theory requires a lot of mental gymnastics to deal with serious objections, but I think it’s initial appeal to people is that it relieves them of accountability and anesthetizes their conscience.
People who oppose traditional gender roles and racial distinctions are opposing God’s created order. The Republican/moderate leftist reflexively does this, as his heart is turned against God, even if he sits in a pew every Sunday morning. The mad dog leftist does so vehemently, with a passion that is almost bizarre in its intensity.
“When the social order has evacuated the God of the Bible, embracing instead itself as its own unitarian God spiritual realities begin to exercise their muscle.”
Demons can easily exploit the pride of fallen human beings, telling them how smart they are. (That is why even the Protestant Reformation should be done in a properly humble God-fearing spirit, not with smug progressive pride that rejects old traditions just because they are old and traditional.)
As George Fitzhugh said about Lockean philosophy:
http://www.ditext.com/woodward/fitzhugh.html
“The trouble started with John Locke and the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. ‘The human mind became extremely presumptuous” in that era, he wrote, “and undertook to form governments on exact philosophical principles, just as men make clocks, watches or mills. They confounded the moral with the physical world, and this was not strange, because they had begun to doubt whether there was any other than a physical world.’
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The Revolution of 76 was, in its action, an exceedingly natural and conservative affair; it was only the false and unnecessary theories invoked to justify it that were radical, agrarian and anarchical.’ These were the theories of John Locke, ‘a presumptuous charlatan, who was as ignorant of the science or practice of government as any shoemaker or horse jockey.'”
Thomas Jefferson, an Unitarian infidel who was childishly proud of his intellect, thinking himself capable of cutting and pasting the Holy Bible into a better shape, and who passed on abstract but still subversive equality-doctrine to following generations, was as naive a worshipper of human reason as the French revolutionaries (whom he supported):
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/18.html
“I have duly received your favor of the 5th. inst. with respect to the busts & pictures I will put off till my return from America all of them except Bacon, Locke and Newton, whose pictures I will trouble you to have copied for me: and as I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception…”
Without ANY exception, so including Christ.