The Different Levels of Thinking & Thinkers

In Undergrad, we learned there were 4 levels of worldview thinking and thinkers.

1.) Original Thinkers — These types show up once every two or three generations. Though honestly, Solomon said a millennium ago that there was nothing new under the sun. Examples might be Newton, Ptolemy, Calvin, Augustine, J. Edwards, etc.

2.) Sociological Applicators — These are the synthesizers and they likewise are geniuses. These chaps take from the geniuses and synthesize so that new plausible worldview paradigms arise.

Men like Erasmus, Herbert Spencer, Neil Postmen, Kuyper, Bavinck, Karl Popper, M. Polyani, R. L. Dabney, R. J. Rushdoony etc. You and I probably won’t meet one of these in our lifetime.

3.) Eclectic — These are those who randomly take from different thought systems as your lunch diner takes from the noon buffet. Often they have deep contradictions embedded in their thinking. These are most college professors, shrinks, social workers, lawyers, bureaucrats, politicians etc. They make up the professional white-collar class. These are dull people. This doesn’t mean all in these white-collar categories are Eclectic but many are.  Think Barak Obama, George Bush, Donald Trump, Fauci, Gates, Sean Michael Lucas, J. Ligon Duncan, Kevin DeYoung, Joel McDurmon, Greg Johnson, etc.

4.) Conglomerate — They catch their worldview like you catch a common cold. They are just mouthpieces for the floating zeitgeist as found in media and pop culture. This represents 90% plus of the world we live in today. This is your cousins, your co-workers, your average pew sitter, and the average minister standing up in front of the average pew sitter.

After I first wrote this a friend from Australia offered a slight correction that I thought was quite good.

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The 2  you have is a rare genius while the 3 you have is a dullard. We

need something between 2 and 3.
 
 
 
Suggested – 3. Deep Reader. Produces nothing new, nor a master of synthesis, but strives for consistency and relentlessly follows – learns without new production nor synthesis. Guards and transmits systems that others have invented and refined. Examples are Gary North, N. T. Wright,  Daniel Ritchie,  Joel Beeke,  Shelby Foote, Winston Churchill, Thomas Paine, etc.
 
 
1. totally new worldview generator
2. refines and systematizes worldview
3. comprehends and reiterates worldview
4. a mess of different world views and contradictions often loudly proclaimed
5. Hoi Polloi Eloi… Rank & File 
 
 

Book Review — Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communist”

Completed Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust The Communists to be Communists.” You can tell I think this is an important book because I only occasionally re-read a book. This is the third time I’ve read Schwarz’s book.

Its chapter on the Materialistic dialectic probably should be read every year.

The book is dated having been written in 1958 but the material remains important in understanding the basics of Communism. Now, people will ask; “Why read a book like this when Communism fell in 1989?”

The answer to that is three-fold,

1.) I’m not convinced that Communism really fell in 1989

2.) Even if the Easter Bloc did fall, China remains
3.) Communism thrives here in the West

As such, there is a need to stay up with what Communism is, how it functions, how it moves forward, how it recruits, and what its purpose is.
Schwarz gives us all that and more.

This book is needed for Biblical Christians because it helps us to understand our own faith. I remain convinced (though legion are the people who disagree with me) that is not enough to know what we believe and why we believe it but that we must also know what we do not believe and why we do not believe it. Knowing the inner-working of other Christ denying faith systems makes us more able to instantly locate the fault in any system anywhere we encounter it.

Of course, this means that Communism is a faith system and so a religion. That it is a faith system and religion the Communists would never agree because a “faith-system” is not a corporeal or material something and so cannot be true. The Commies insist that their Communism is Scientific and so indisputable. However, that is just Marxist bovine scat. Communism is a full-blown religion that requires of its adherents faith in the unseen.
Schwarz gives us a chapter on how Communists organize (we saw that come to the fore especially in Obama’s campaigns for President) with the creation of a multitude of false fronts that can easily dissipate with the wind only to be re-created somewhere else as needs be. Schwarz gives us a chapter on how Communists recruit, noting that intellectuals find Communism appealing because it provides a purpose in life and a reason for existence — something nothing else yields except a muscular Biblical Christianity. In the chapter on Communist organization, Schwarz gives us the five circles of communist commitment and how they interlock.

Schwarz gives a chapter on the Communist necessity of violence and terrorism as their technique for seizing and maintaining power. We see this technique being used today in our streets and in the demand to mask and social distance. All of these are just contemporary versions of the Communist philosophy of violence as to the seizing and maintaining of power here in the States. A key thing to remember is that there cannot be Communism without constant terror and violence. Communism thrives on the conflict of interest and so can not allow harmony of interest.

Schwarz gives us insight into how the Communist model works in a top-down fashion and so explains why Communist states so easily crush any opposition that arises (think Hong Kong). Communism thrives on the strong man model as the system requires everyone to reflect the decisions of the Strong man at the top.

There is a good deal more, but if you read this book and understand it you will have a better grip on knowing the times we are in right now and what should be done.

In the end Communism can only be defeated by a Muscular Christianity. R2K and Federal Vision and Keller Christianity need not apply.

The Bible Characters Who Nobly Lied

19 Elisha told them, “This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for.” And he led them to Samaria.

  II Kings 6:19

Here Elisha lies to his enemies who have been struck blind after his prayer to that end. Elisha tells the blind Syrian company that he will lead them to Elisha but instead leads them into entrapment and surrender.

Elisha lied.

RJR offers,

“Like Rahab in Jericho and the Hebrew midwives to Pharaoh, Elisha saw no morality in telling the truth to men determined to do evil and murder…. God does not condemn Elisha. Truth must serve God and His justice. Not evil.”

The Pietism of modern-day Christianity insists that when Abraham lied twice about Sarah being his sister and not his wife that Abraham sinned even though the Scripture never declares that. As Rushdoony says above we do not owe the truth to those who will use the truth to persecute God’s people, or who will use the truth to kill the judicially innocent.

250 Words on God’s Sovereignty

God’s name and God’s glory are so tightly wound up with God’s sovereignty that an attack on God’s sovereignty is an attack on God’s name and glory. The theme of Scripture is the pursuit of God for the glory of His name as demonstrated by His absolute sovereignty. Even in the complex of Redemptive events fully flowered in the death, resurrection, ascension, and session of our Lord Christ what is front and center is the pursuit of God in glorifying His name as demonstrated by His absolute sovereignty. Even in the salvation and judgment of man and men the center is not man but God pursuing the glorification of His name via the demonstration of His Sovereignty. The Justification of man thus is not the teleological end of God’s doing. No, the teleological end of our Justification is our entering into God’s pursuit to glorify God’s name by living and defending the Sovereignty of God in all He does.

As this is true the Biblical Christian is the most formidable of all opponents because when he arises to speak, he arises at that same time to promote the name and glory of the Sovereign God he is bound to by the strongest cords of tender gratitude. Cords of tender gratitude because being convinced of his own sin his heart is full of gratitude towards the God who promoted His glory and name by sovereignly saving him despite who he knows himself to be.

The Sovereignty of God … no hope without it.

The FEDS Continued Work to Make Us Exiles in Our own Land

In ancient warfare, the victor would often deport populations to other locations. This was for the purpose of making sure there would be no strength left in order to rise up again by the conquered peoples. At the same time, the victor would move in aliens and foreigners into the land conquered so as to ensure a diversity that could not come to an agreement to make war. In all this, there was also the punitive side of losing a war. Most people don’t know this but this was true of the American War of Northern Aggression.  The women and children of Rowsell, GA were forcibly deported by train to the north for the crime of making cloth for the Confederate government. They seem to have been lost to history. Elsewhere, nearly 30,000 families were driven out of their homes in western Missouri and made refugees under Order No. 11 issued by the Lincoln government. All of this action was perfectly consistent with deporting a native population while importing an alien population.  Similarly, the Irish were deported under Cromwell to quell unrest and then Scots Covenanters likewise under James II. Josef Stalin also did this kind of thing after WW II in order to pacify insurgent populations — especially the Balkans. This is a tried and true technique for controlling restive populations.

The point here is that we in the States are undergoing 1/2 of this same ancient technique right now in the States. We, evidently being a conquered people, are now being salted with aliens and foreigners to the end of creating in us such diversity that we will never again be able to rise up to throw off the chains of our captors. Government-sponsored immigration — legal and illegal — is the movement of the Conqueror upon a defeated people and is perhaps the clearest indicator that the Federal Government is now ruling against the will of the people to the end of conquering the people the FEDS are supposed to be serving.

The poet Bertolt Brecht captured this idea in this poem, “The Solution.”

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

By its policy on immigration, bogus refugee status, and the asylee program, as well as proposed legislation on how voting is conducted that if passed will allow for cheating on a routine and unprecedented scale the Federal Government is seeking to dissolve the people so that another can be elected. Our own government is waging a hot war against traditional Americans and so far the response of historic Americans has been nugatory.