Category: Marxism/Cultural Marxism

MAPARC (Marxist American Presbyterian and Reformed Churches) are at it again. Recently the OPC, feeling left out for not being as Marxist left as the RPCNA, ARP, and PCA, had a Presbytery file an overture that said; “Racists bad… We Marxist clergy good.”

There was one Ruling Elder named Andrew Duggan who was having none of the Marxism of his OPC Presbytery.  Duggan filed this protest with the Presbytery. This will mean that the powers that be in the OPC will be going after RE Duggan.

“I the undersigned respectfully protest the action of the Philadelphia Presbytery of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church in approving the following overture:

‘condemn without distinction any theological or political teaching which posits a superiority of race or ethnic identity born of immutable human characteristics and…call to repentance any who would promote or associate themselves with such teaching, either by commission or omission.’

The Scriptures referenced in the grounds do not support or teach a doctrine of broad equality. Acts 17:26 can no more be teaching an equality of nations by virtue of being of one blood than the equality of men and women who are also of one blood, and in marriage are one flesh. Furthermore neither 1 Corinthians 12:13 or Galatians 3:28 by including “bond and free” a necessary unequal relation with other men and other Christians cannot support a universal relation of equals vis a vis the 5th Commandment. Furthermore Galatians 3:28’s inclusion of “male and female” cannot serve as the ground of equality, which are by creation not equal, as the Apostle Paul elsewhere uses the superiority of men based on the order of Creation, Adam being formed first to establish the reason why women are to remain silent in the church. The logic of these grounds are the same as the enemies of the Gospel use to ordain women in their “churches”. Furthermore this condemns our fathers in the Faith and of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church most notably J Gresham Machen who not only privately expressed his segregationist views in a letter to his mother, but expressed his view of White Supremacy in his article “Mountains and Why We Love Them” published on OPC dot org.

‘There, in that glorious round spread out before you, that land of Europe, humanity has put forth its best. There it has struggled; there it has fallen; there it has looked upward to God. The history of the race seems to pass before you in an instant of time, concentrated in that fairest of all the lands of the earth. You think of the great men whose memories you love, the men who have struggled there in those countries below you, who have struggled for light and freedom, struggled for beauty, struggled above all for God’s Word.’

The superlative of ‘humanity has put forth its best’ speaking of Europe can mean nothing other than White people. This overture goes beyond the teaching of the Scriptures and our secondary standards, and binds the consciences of our members officers and church courts contrary to the Liberty we confess in the 20th chapter of our Confession of Faith.”

Accordingly I respectfully but most forcefully protest the overture to our General Assembly.”

Andrew P. Duggan

Any engagement with someone on the Cultural Marxist Left (hereafter CML) becomes a revelation of why worldviews matter. Further, any engagement with the CML becomes testimony that arguments and reason are not received in good faith by the CML.

The CML own a worldview that has as it main presupposition that reality is fundamentally made up of a oppressor vs. oppressed dynamic. That is their imagined starting point. Having that as their fantasy starting point they further imagine their Utopian world where oppression (as they define it) no longer exists. They own this vision of an Utopian egalitarian world and then in all their “reasoning” they war against anyone who doesn’t share this primary presupposition and the subsequent implication that the world must be repaired (Tikkun olam) by putting down the oppressors and lifting up the oppressed.

Never mind that the oppressed might be oppressed because they need to be oppressed. If any oppression anywhere exists as experienced by anybody (sodomites, trannies, furries, feminists, Satanists, etc.) that oppression needs to be lifted and it is their mission in life to see that happen.

The CML reasoning matrix looks something like this;

1.) Imagine a egalitarian/Utopian world
2.) Create and name gaps between said Imagined world and the real world
3.) Insist that said gaps are examples of oppression that need to cease
4.) Tikkun Olam

So, when one encounters the CML one is encountering someone who has an alternate view of reality. They used to call that being insane. There is no common ground between someone whose main presupposition is anchored in the oppressed vs. oppressor egalitarian Utopian fantasy world and someone who believes that hierarchy is good, that some people need to be oppressed because they are wicked, that Christianity is superior to all other false religions, and that the CML smells of sulfur.

Let’s us speak here a moment about the vision of the CML. How exactly does the CML want to repair the world. Well, in the CML world the Trustee family (and even the nuclear family) must be destroyed. For CML the family introduces hierarchy into the world. Hierarchy is evil because hierarchy automatically means somebody is being oppressed. As such, the family has to be reimagined and redefined. This usually means the pursuit of tearing down patriarchy since family in the West, created and shaped by Christianity, was patriarchal. Patriarchy, like hierarchy, is oppressive and must be ended. This is turn means rabid support for Feminism since the way to tear down Patriarchy is by having Matriarchy.

Secondly on this score, education becomes a primary tool of the CML to repair the world. Schools have become and must continue to be centers of radicalization. Education as the responsibility of brainwashing children into seeing the wicked oppressive nature of their own culture. White children must be taught that they come from a inherently oppressive and wicked stock. Perversion must be taught as being praiseworthy because by perversion the oppression of the straight white males can be brought to a halt. Schools must teach and inculcate the oppressor vs. oppressed reality and enlist the kiddie to be part of the cadres who are resolved to repair the world by being part of the long march through the institutions.  Schools must become transmission belts that pass on the oppressed vs. oppressor world as well as hatred of Biblical Christianity.

Thirdly, Western culture being a primary carrier of oppression must be socially re-engineered. Culture is a means by which consent is arrived at and so culture must be commandeered by the CML to manufacture a oppressor vs. oppressed worldview. Culture is socially engineered by the media world producing film and television that mocks the “oppressors” and honors the oppressed. Culture is socially engineered by the State as it passes laws that countenance and approve of things like sodomy, abortion, and transexualism. Culture is socially engineered by the “Church” when it retreats in the face of the work of the CML to “repair the world,” and by becoming silent. Cultural is socially engineered by parents who refuse to say “no” to their children who have are and becoming socially engineered because the parents are too afraid of losing Johnny or Susie.

Fourthly, even something as benign as language must be weaponized to advance the cause of the CML. Language is thought to have encoded power dynamics and so it must be altered to serve the CML ends. Pronouns become person variable. Certain words are not allowed to be uttered. Orwellian doublethink must be learned and employed.

Consider also that the CML worldview is not falsifiable. This means that the oppressor vs. oppressed dynamic can never reach a point of resolution because there will always be a new oppressor and oppressed class. The CML requires oppression. It is the fuel by which it is propelled. This means that for every putative oppression that is ended in the pursuit to repair the world, there will be three more putative oppressions that will arise that need to warred against. The CML demands a lowest common denominator world as it always pursues ever more disintegration into the void of egalitarian Utopianism. There is always someone who is not equal and we all must be brought down to that lowest level. If you disagree at any point along the disintegration into the CML void you will be cast aside as a “bigot,” or as someone who wants to protect their privilege or as someone that is inflicting harm.

The CML is living in a different reality and their goal is reshape the world (Tikkun Olam) to fit their alternate delusional reality. Reasoning with these people is a waste of time. They are examples of those Jesus the Christ spoke of when he advised the necessity of shaking the dust off your feet. To reason with these people is to cast pearls before swine. Our prayers for them must be that the Holy Spirit would open their eyes to see the miserable end that their thinking will bring them that they might repent and trust Christ alone.

A nation as a nation cannot exist as nothing more than a marketplace bizarre of workplaces and stores in which tokens earned at the former are then spent at the latter. Mistaking the economic machinery for a nation is the fallacy of assuming that man is nothing more than the sum of his economic spending habits. This is what we might call “the Libertarian fallacy.” A nation is more than the sum of economic individual choices as existing in that nation. A nation is a nation where there is a shared genetic stock who have a shared religion/faith who together built a shared culture with a shared language, a shared history, and a shared sense of purpose all yielding shared memories.

What happens to a society whose people have no reason to go on beyond their set routines interspersed with bouts of hedonism? What happens to a nation that loses its soul? We are living the answers to those questions. Because Christendom has reduced itself to an economic zone no longer asking or answering the larger questions of life we have lost the ability of self-understanding …. of understanding who we are together as a unique people. Having jettisoned our Christianity in exchange for bouts of libertarian hedonism we have lost the ability to think corporately. We have lost the ability to think of ourselves in terms of community being connected not only to the living who share our familial lines but we have even lost the ability to see ourselves connected to both our Fathers and our descendants. Because we have abandoned the God of our Fathers all other roots have been lost to us as well.

And so we have no auto-immune ability to resist the alien and stranger in our midst. No auto-immune ability to identify the rancid theology that is coming to us from our pulpits that reinforce our alienation, even teaching that the alienation is a positive good that should be gleefully embraced.

The first thing to go then was our undoubted catholic Christian faith. With the dissipation of that Christian faith came the dissipation of corporate self-identity. There can be no sense of belonging to a particular nation apart from a shared faith that serves as the coagulating agent that clots a particular people together.

T. S. Eliot long ago warned us that what we are now experiencing would come to pass;

‎”If Christianity goes the whole of our culture goes. Then you must start painfully again, and you cannot put on a new culture ready made. You must wait for the grass to grow to feed the sheep to give the wool out of which your new coat will be made. You must pass through many centuries of barbarism. We should not live to see the new culture, nor would our great-great-great grandchildren; and if we did, not one of us would be happy in it.”

T. S. Elliot
Christianity and Culture; The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Toward the Definition of Culture — pg. 200

So, because our Christian faith declined the result of that was redefining and reducing a nation to be an economic zone where tokens earned at the workplace are exchanged for goods in the marketplace. What was lost was the ancient Christian teaching that a nation is composed of a particular people, descended from the same ancestors, as located in a particular place. Several generations later we stand on the ledge of a nation that no longer can be a nation because it is now filled with peoples who own contesting religions that work to alienate even people who share the same common Fathers from one another. Now add to this the stranger and alien who serve strange gods from foreign lands and the consequence is “things fall apart. The center cannot hold.”

As far as solutions go, the only one I have is a return to the faith of our Fathers but it strikes me that God may indeed be purging us for our rebellion against His kindness towards us. If you’re a parent with young children the best you can do right now is to pass on to them a Christian faith that is so totatlistic that it explains every aspect of their being and thinking. This must be done because the enemy will search high and low to continue to snuff out all competition to their retooling of the now declining Christendom, so as to refashion it into a haven of demons.