Windows Into Worldviews – Page 12

Compartmentalized Modern Man

In a return to sanity the home and family would once again become the center around which all other reality would orbit, simply because in a sane world home and family would once again be the reality that matters most. Because of the triumph of modernity, man has counted politics and macro-economics as the things that matter most — the things that are normal. However, in a sane world it would be the home and family that would be the things that matter most. Certainly politics and macro-economics have their place but their current import reveals how abnormal we have become.

And why have Christians fallen into this trap of modernity? Well, one reason is, is that as modernity has used politics and macro-economics to destroy the family as the center of lived out reality, Christians have believed that they are compelled to fight back with politics and macro-economics. Having been defeated by the techniques of collectivist ideology they have had little choice but to defend themselves by means of a similar ideology in the name of home and family. They have had marginal success in the contest.

A healthy culture would return to the family and home as the center serving as the integration point that puts an end to our current compartmentalization that makes home and family largely irrelevant. Modernity has modern man compartmentalizing everything from everything else so that everything stands un-connected to everything else, and this process has started largely because we have compartmentalized what should have been the integration point — home and family — from everything else. Because of feminism women have been compartmentalized from their place and role in the home and family. Because of evolutionary capitalism men have been compartmentalized from their place and role in the home and family. Because of the industrial revolution the craftsmanship found in home economics has been compartmentalized from the home and family. Because of instant entertainment, infotainment, and edutainment that has been compartmentalized in their own bailiwicks away from home and family, home and family no longer are a place to find creativity, or the fellowship that results from such creativity. Even the Church has been compartmentalized away from the home as the denial of covenant theology as found in revivalism and anabaptist “theology” has atomized faith from home and family. The home and family, which used to serve as the integration point for all these functions and roles, is a useless unit and as a result compartmentalized modern man now finds himself a passive and malleable consumer of all that which he used to actively produce or be produced in him in the context of a healthy home and family. Now however, with the success of modernity and the compartmentalization project, home and family has been reduced to a mere bed and breakfast weigh station for a handful of individuals who mindlessly gather there for a snatched meal and a night’s sleep.

However, this compartmentalization project has not stopped with compartmentalizing man away from home and family. Successful in abstracting man away from home and family, the compartmentalization project has successfully turned modern man’s thinking into a morass of compartmentalization so that truth is no longer seen as holistic and integrated but is seen as a undifferentiated cascade of unrelated facts. Modern man is walking and talking unit containing universes of contradictions made possible because of the ascent of the compartmentalized mind. Modern man believes one thing in the realm of history which is contradicted by what he believes in the realm of philosophy which is contradicted by what he believes about current events, which is contradicted by what he believes about his Christianity. But none of these contradictions matter because the mind has been compartmentalized so that nothing that modern man thinks about in one area comes into contact with anything he thinks about in another area.

All this compartmentalization also explains the rise of the “specialist.” Because of the rise of the specialist we know more and more about less and less. This wouldn’t be so bad if we had some generalists among us who could take what the specialists are learning in their tight little compartmentalized worlds and provide a integration point that would help make sense of all this data. This used to be the job of the Theologian but today the Theologian has likewise become a specialist so that much of his “knowledge” is just so much abstract compartmentalized theorizing that comes into very little contact with the rest of our disciplines. Some “Theologians” are even insisting that theology shouldn’t exceed its boundaries of specialization insisting that each specialization should have its own autonomy. Theology seldom provides integration any longer.

So, this compartmentalization, as it has become the prevailing motif in the West has finally changed our University system into a Multiversity system. The whole idea of University originally was to find unity (hence the “Uni”) in the diversity of disciplines. The University proclaimed that there was a integration point. However, today the University has not integration point unless one counts integrating into the void as a integration point. What we have today is Multiversities where students go and learn that all that exists is the compartmentalized. There are particulars galore but no universals to hold the particulars together. (Though how you can know what the particulars are apart from a Universal to define them is anybody’s guess, but that is just another contradiction that we have to live with in our gloriously compartmentalized world.)

The reality of compartmentalization goes on and on. Existentialism compartmentalizes man from man’s nature. Postmodernism compartmentalizes Truth from truth, Radical Two Kingdom theology compartmentalizes the redemptive realm from the creational realm. Very little is integrated and as a result modern mind, being multi-minded, is unstable in all his ways.

Talmudic Judaism, Stalin’s Communism, Ben-Gurion’s Zionism

“Words have no relation to action. Otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing. Action is another. Words are a mask of concealment for bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.”

Joseph Stalin

Lying permeates the rabbinic mentality. It is part of the culture and heritage of Orthodox Judaism, not just the theology. In the letters section of the London Review of Books, this writer came across the deception technique of David Ben-Gurion and we recognized as 100 proof rabbinic:

“Ben Gurion was a consummate strategist and he understood that it would be unwise for the Zionists to talk openly about the need for brutal compulsion. We quote a memorandum Ben-Gurion wrote prior to the Extraordinary Zionist Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New York in May 1942. He wrote that ‘it is impossible to imagine a general evacuation of the Arab population of Palestine without compulsion, and brutal compulsion. Dershowitz claims Ben-Gurion’s subsequent statement — ‘we should in no way make it part of our program’ — shows that he opposed the transfer of Arab population and the ‘brutal compulsion’ it would entail. But Ben-Gurion was not rejecting this policy: he was simply noting that the Zionists should not openly proclaim it. Indeed, he said that they should not “discourage other people, British or American, who favor transfer from advocating this course, but we should in no way make it part of our program.”

Michael Hoffman
Judaism’s Strange Gods — pg. 162

Stalin’s quote supports the idea that Bolshevism – Communism was a movement inspired by and supported by a worldview informed by Talmudic Judaism. Stalin and Ben-Gurion both were practicing the deception that Hoffman documents as a identifiable marker of Othodox Judaism. Whether Stalin (Dzhugashvili) was Jewish is debated. That he was married to at least one Jewess is not. That he was surrounded by high profile leadership which was Jewish is also not debatable. Finally, what is not debatable is that the quote from Stalin could have been informed by the Jewish thinking just as Ben-Gurion’s actions were informed by Judaism.

All of this is consistent with what Dr. Fred Schwarz wrote over 40 years ago in his little book, “You Can Trust The Communist To Be Communists.” Schwarz’s labor in that book was to communicate that the Communists, consistent with their Hegelian Dialectic, will practice any deception, and tell any lie, in order to advance their “proletariat morality.” The Hegelian Dialectic is just a 19th incarnation of Talmudic Judaisms long standing Hermeneutic of deception. Zionists like Ben-Gurion, and Communists like Stalin all share the same commitment to Talmudic subterfuge in order to advance their agenda.

Linkage In The Theologies of Cultural Marxism & R2K?

The cultural Marxists are forever shrilling over the separation of Church and State. This is because they want to make sure that the public square is kept sanitized of any Christian influence. Meanwhile R2K is also forever shrilling about the separation of common realm from the redemptive realm — two realms that are largely analogous to the Church and State of the Cultural Marxists. The reason why R2K wants the common realm to be recognized as compartmentalized from the redemptive realm is the mirror reason of the Cultural Marxists. As noted above, the cultural Marxists want Church and State separate so Christianity can’t effect and so despoil culture. R2K wants common realm and redemptive realm compartmentalized so none of the common realm leaks into the redemptive realm so despoiling the redemptive realm. Both Cultural Marxism and R2K want to make sure that the realms that they are concerned about stay sanitized from unhealthy influence from the other realm. Both R2K and Cultural Marxism clears the common realm / civil realm from any interference from conservative Christianity and so allows so form of collectivism to rule. Both R2K and Cultural Marxism both believe that the other realm they are not primarily concerned about is not where the real action takes place. (Hence R2K refers to the common realm as “Kingdom of God’s left hand” and Cultural Marxists refer to the Church with any number of epitaphs.) Both R2K and Cultural Marxists are led in their respective attempts to compartmentalize their respective realms by their wise men. Both R2k and Cultural Marxist push their compartmentalization as a non-negotiable item of faith. Both R2K and Cultural Marxism work to silence the voice of Biblical Christianity in the public square. R2K wants it silenced in the name of Christian love for neighbor. Cultural Marxists wants it silenced in the name of Cultural Marxist love for neighbor.

The symbiotic relationship of R2K and Cultural Marxism is so convenient that I can easily see Marxist organizations funding R2K Institutions through popular front movements. In point of fact so symbiotic is the relationship between the two that one wonders if R2K, at it hits the street, is in point of fact a baptized version of Cultural Marxism.

Now, of course it must be realized and admitted that there are differences between Cultural Marxism and R2K as well. Cultural Marxism practices philosophical materialism while R2K leans more towards a Gnostic dualism. Cultural Marxism doesn’t really believe that some realm belongs uniquely to the Church though it is willing to posit that irrelevant realm as long as the Church can stay fenced behind it. R2K isn’t atheistic though it has spiritualized Christianity to the point that atheism must look awfully inviting to the serious minded person. Eschatologically speaking both miss the mark, though they miss the mark in different directions. Cultural Marxism is teleologically optimistic and humanistic Utopian while R2K is teleologically pessimistic and Christian Dystopian. However — and this is important — at the very moment when the Cultural Marxists arrive at their Utopian state the R2K Jesus returns in order to crush this present wicked age as successfully built by the Cultural Marxists. What was Utopian to the Cultural Marxists was Dystopian to the R2K and Jesus breaks in to bring all things to an end.

One can see that there are similarities and differences but where these similarities converge there is a great opportunity for each to work alongside the other in order to achieve their parallel goals.

Transcendentalism & The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Transcendentalist Man of Letters
Essay– The Oversoul

“We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds…A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Transcendentalist Man of Letters
1837 Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Address

When Ralph Waldo Emerson advocated this pantheistic ideology and so thought that all men were part of the Divine, he opened the way for human events to become Divine Events, and thus every man could become an avenging god destroying a sinful world with fire. This is precisely what happened as the US Government was captured by this ideology that taught that as all was a part of god therefore no part of god should be subservient to any other part of god. This Transcendental Jacobinism that animated the Radical Republicans (abolitionists) was set ablaze with the intent of making the world anew in the image of Emersonian Transcendentalism (i.e. — Jacobinism).

Another Transcendentalist of the time, Julia Ward Howe, gives us the proof of how Transcendental ideology, clothed in Christian language, captured the imagination of the Northern public and is found in the Yankee Battle Song that Howe inked.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

The Transcendental nature of this stanza is found in the fact that the coming of the Lord is seen in the eyes of Howe as the marching of the Union Armies. Her eyes have seen God’s judgment glory in the marching Union Armies. The Union Armies, as truth marching on, are the glory of the coming of the Lord. This coming that is being referred to here is a judgment coming as seen in the fact that the transcendentalist god is trampling his grapes of wrath and hath loosed its terrible swift sword.

In the second and third lines of the first stanza that coming of the Lord in the Union Armies is seen by the fact that those Armies are trampling out vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. Now, the place where the Union Armies were trampling was the South, and so the grapes of wrath that the transcendentalist god (Union Army) is trampling and out of which the vintage is coming are Southerners. Let us not miss the poetic imagery. The Union Army, as the Transcendentalist god, are trampling vintage out of gods wrath grapes, which is just another way of saying that the Union Army is trampling vintage blood out of those, for whom, god has stored up His wrath.

Union Armies = god // Trampling Southern blood = good

The third line finds the Transcendentalist god (Union Army) loosing the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, once again communicating that the Union Army, as the Transcendentalist god, is visiting god’s judgment on the South.

Finally, all of this is bound up with Truth marching on and “Hallelujah,” literally means “Praise God.” Praise god that he is killing and maiming, raping and ruining, pillaging and destroying Southerners.

Howe the Transcendentalist goes on and the North sang along with her,

I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His day is marching on.

The idea that god equals the union Armies is clearly given us in the first line, or alternately she sees god in the actions of the Union Armies, which is much the same thing.

The idea of building an alter is interesting since most commonly what happens on altars is some kind of blood sacrifice. Are the alters which they (Howe slips into a distinction here between god and those who are doing god’s bidding) “builded” a reference to the work of blood sacrifice that the North is offering of the South?

Since all of this is in the context of blood and judgment one wonders if “The righteous sentence” of which Howe speaks as to do with something like, “the soul that sinneth shall surely die?” If that is the case White Southerners are souls that must die and the Transcendentalist god army is that which executes God’s judgment. The fact that we are still in judgment mode here is seen in the line, “His day is marching on.” This “day,” is a reference to the “Day of the Lord.” A Biblical idea that is commonly associated with God’s judgment visitation upon those who are His enemies.

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on.”
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.

Note

1.) The fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel are the Yankee Bayonets and war machine.

2.) Second line — Gospel defined as grace extended to those who crush God’s contemners (scorners). The scorners of God are the Southerners. Yankee’s are earning God’s grace by crushing the South.

3.) Hero born of woman is Jesus as incarnated in the Union army and the serpent being crushed with the Yankee heel is the South. Another Biblical reference.

4.) God marching on = Yankee Armies marching on. As Sherman and his Bummers burned Atlanta and raped Columbia god was marching on. As Sheridan torched the Shenandoah valley so that a crow flying over would need to carry its own provisions god was marching on. When Grant starved out Vicksburg and used his men as canon fodder god was marching on. When Gen. “Beast” Butler was insulting Southern women god was marching on.

5.) Hallelujah = Praise god all this is happening.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.

Sounding forth Trumpet = Judgment language.

The second coming (characterized as a judgment coming) in the bible is a coming of judgment against God’s enemies and in the Bible this coming is introduced by the sounding of a Trumpet. The “Day of the Lord”, in which He judges mankind was prophesied by the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah to be “A day of trumpet and battle cry. The idea of the Union Army being equivalent to God’s judgment is laced all the way through this song.

Sifting out the hearts = In the bible, judgment includes sifting out wheat (good) mixed in with the chaff (bad). God, as incarnated in the Union Armies, is sifting out hearts before Him. Obviously the enemies of the Jacobins are chaff that needs to be sifted from the wheat.

Please understand that in all this the Devil is being painted as god and so though the language of “god” is used what all this is actually describing is the judgment of the devil against his enemies.

Oh, be swift, my soul… = The idea of calling people to rally to god’s side.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free;
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.

Here the fact that the War Against the Constitution was a Holy War is clearly set forth. As Christ died to make men Holy, the members of the Union Army were called to die to make men free.

So the next time your Church heats up the organ to belt this song out just remember what it is that you are signing.

Dostoevsky & McAtee On Christianity & Collectivism

The radical declares,

“Everyone belongs to all, and all belongs to everyone. All are slaves and equal in their slavery… Slaves are bound to be equal. Without despotism there has never been either freedom or equality, but in the herd there is bound to be equality…. The moment you have family ties or love you get the desire for property. We will destroy that desire; we’ll make use of drunkenness, slander, spying; we’ll make use of incredible corruption; we’ll stifle every genius in its infancy. We’ll reduce all to a common denominator! Complete equality!”

The Possessed
Fydor Dostoevsky

Dostoevsky was a 19th century Russian writer who explored the human psyche, particularly as that psyche was conditioned by ideology and religion. In the quote above we find that Dostoevsky understood the nascent proto-Marxist type ideology which he believed were Demon like ideas from Western Europe that was possessing Russia.

It is interesting that even in 1873 Russia, Dostoevsky could identify the heart of collectivism that remains with us yet today. Dostoevsky understood that the end of equality, absolutized, is slavery.

The thing I really want to tease out from this quote is Dostoevsky’s connection between collectivism and the destruction of family ties. The collectivist attack on property requires an attack on family love. If various forms of Marxist collectivism is to be successful in its desire to extinguish private property it must, at the same time, extinguish Biblical notions of family. The simple idea that a man and a woman come together and form a new, yet extended social unit that is itself strengthened with the blessed arrival of covenant seed is an idea that arises not from Natural law but from Scripture. So, when the collectivist wars against property, he must do so, if he wishes to be consistent by attacking the family structure, which is itself an attack on Scripture. This reality puts those “Christians” who insist that the Bible has nothing to say about social order issues on the horns of a dilemma. Either they concede that the Scripture does speak a word about the nature of the family or they are left with pulpits that are silent on these issues preaching to atomized individuals that Jesus died to redeem as isolated from any previous, current, or future familial identities. A very odd way of preaching for those who subscribe to covenant theology where “the promise is to you and your household” is a key cornerstone of Reformed Federal theology.

I submit Christians must enter into this great war that has been being waged since the garden. It was in the garden where the first successful salvo against Biblical Christianity was fired against the family as the Serpent attacked family ties, bypassing Adam’s authority to beguile Eve, in a successful attempt to sell the poison of man’s equality with God, which resulted in a collectivism against God. In point of fact the greatest need in the Church today is to realize the threat that egalitarianism is to Biblical Christianity. The drive to fuzz and deny all distinctions, to erase all notions of biblical hierarchies (Husbands w/ headship over wives, Parents w/ headship over children, women the weaker vessel compared to men, Employers w/ headship over employees,) and to flatten out all God ordained differences is the worldview that currently is the greatest threat to Biblical Christianity in the West.

Without Biblical distinctions regarding gender, roles, ethnic groups, and authority structure, we will be amalgamated into the herd reality that Dostoevsky warns about. It will be a herd reality where a few elite are, in essence, the Farmers over the undistinguished and undifferentiated mass herd. Those who advocate complete equality in terms of “equality of identity” are the enemy and they are the enemy because Scripture identifies them as such. They are the enemy who overthrow the 5th commandment where a distinction and hierarchy of parents is required before they can be honored. They are the enemy who overthrow the great commission where a distinction of nations is required before those nations can be baptized, discipled and taught to observe all things taught by Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow Galatians 3:28 where a existing distinction between Jews and Gentiles, Slave and Free, Men and Women, must exist before there can be comfort that all can be justified in Christ. They are the enemy who overthrow the 8th commandment where a distinction must exist between what is my property and what is not my property before any forbidding of theft can make sense. Egalitarianism is the enemy and egalitarians are the enemy precisely because their egalitarianism strikes at the heart of God’s revelation. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal of the Father of egalitarianism is to erase the distinction and hierarchy between the Creator and the creature. They desire to make God and man a common denominator. That is the ultimate distinction that is under attack in all of these penultimate battles.