Category: Theology

As the West continues to attempt to murder God thus scrubbing Him from its thinking, the consequence is that it likewise murders anything and everything that would stand in as a Representational figure of God. As such the murder of God in the West is the death of all authority which would be suggestive of God. This observation is as old as the French Revolution. In a 1819 Caricature by English caricaturist George Cruikshank. Titled “The Radical’s Arms”, we find depicted the infamous French Revolution guillotine with the phrase in the Republican Banner, “No God! No Religion! No King! No Constitution!”. You see the elimination of God is the elimination of all that approximates a Fatherly authoritative figure in the social order that is attempting to negate God.

So, when a culture attempts to delete the God of the Bible from its thinking it will inevitably turn to integration downward into the void as all horizontal social order structures that mime the reality of God are given the same heave ho as God is given. The result of this attempted escape from divine patrimony is an escape from all authority bearing structures in favor of man’s sovereign autonomous self as shaped by his uncontrolled lusts.

A further consequence of the West insisting that they will not have God rule over them is the loss of a ruling standard. With no transcendent reference point by which to adjudicate the value of all things human the only thing left is to do, by those still suffering with the residual effects of a long spent Christianity — a Christianity which still recalls some quaint notion that all things must be “fair,” — is to insist that all things human are of equal value. As such the absence of a God transcendent is to make all things transcendent, which is to make no thing transcendent. All must be equal in value. Because of this we find the obnoxious idea that all cultures are equally valuable and equally good. Because of this absenting of God transcendent there are no disabilities, no perversions, and nothing or anybody superior to anything or anybody else. Behold the egalitarian cult wherein because all are equal, and a elimination of all things unequal, becomes the Holy grail to be pursued by all “right-minded people.”

A third consequence of the of God whacked is the necessity to find another transcendent point to take his place. Since God lies bleeding the only candidate left is man. Man said loudly becomes God and this loudly spoken man is most often the God-State. Man can not live without a point of transcendence that can be used for a canon of standardization for social order norms and ethics. Whether one desires to consider the Pharaoh gods of the ancient Egyptians or the modern Hegelian divine Spirit-Mind that incarnates itself into the State men who refuse to have the God of the Bible rule over them will always hoist a immanent god into the vacated place of transcendence.

Now, this has an implication that needs to be teased out. As the God of the Bible is always one and is a unity, what happens when man makes a immanent to be transcendent is that man insists that his immanent transcendent God be one. A god who does not have the attribute of oneness is no god at all. This means that the immanent transcendent God-State must now work to make sure that, as God walking on the earth, all those who have given it life, must be one since the immanent transcendent godhead is a projection of one people. What this means is that the God State will demand conformity to its image. This means that diversity must be eliminated and all must become Borg unto the God-State. Cultures that overthrow God in their thinking become cultures of the anthill and the beehive.

Yet another implication for men who seek to eliminate God from their thinking will be the continued need for a sense of and attraction for “that which is Other.” Rudolf Otto was the author of a book titled “Knowledge of the Holy,” and in it he argues that man is drawn to this numinous sense of the Other. For Western man, God has been He who is wholly Other. This desire for Transcendent otherness if it is not to be found in the God of the Bible will have to be found some place else. The argument could be made then that the West’s current preoccupation with third world and alien cultures is how it is satisfying the lost sense of “Otherness” that was eclipsed when the West abandoned the God of the Bible. As such, those things that are most strange, most different, and most unfamiliar are now those numinous things which the West is pursuing, precisely because the West has overthrown He who alone can answer to man’s need for “Otherness.” This may answer the West’s growing ethnocidal embrace of the macabre body modification cult, third world immigration policy, and sodomite marriage. Having thrown off God as “Other,” only sinful “Otherness” remains and it is pursued with all the zeal of new found love. When you combine this observation with the one from the previous paragraph it is easy to envision that the Oneness that we will finally come to is the Oneness of the Other teased out in this paragraph. This represents a complete integration downward into the void.

Of course the flip side of this observation that because we have committed deicide, thus eliminating the numinous Other, and as a consequence have embraced an immanent other, the results have meant the hatred of the familiar, the known, and the normative. This is seen in the West by the knee-jerk hate impulse against all things Christian and as seen in the destruction of the family. That which is “other” is glorified and pursued, while that is kith and kin to us is abominated. Naturally this means that eventually with the killing of God we will kill ourselves as we worship as “other” that which is most contrary to who the West has historically been.

Finally, for our purpose here, when God is rolled off His throne the Creator Creature distinction evaporates. The meaning of this is that man, no longer having an ontological distinction between God and Man, pursues with rabid fervency, the egalitarian impulse mentioned earlier. When the Creator Creature (God – Man) distinction fails then all other distinctions have no anchor by which to be kept in place. The creeping disintegration and even erasure of horizontal distinctions such as between Male vs. Female, such as between the different races, such as between cultures, such as between Employer vs. Employee can all be attributed to the erasure of the Creator Creature distinction. The scrubbing of the Creator Creature distinction that comes with the scrubbing of God from the consciousness of man means the simultaneous scrubbing of all temporal and horizontal distinctions in favor of a social order reality where distinctions are seen as a social construct to be eliminated in favor of the god uniformity mentioned earlier.

All of these consequences of eliminating God, as recited in this essay, serve to reinforce one another. The consequences are distinct yet complimentary. When man reaches out to strike and eliminate God the result is always that man loses his own mannishness.