Luke 16:13 says, “No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon (money).”
The crusade against religion in America appears to be everything it is not. It comes from several angles – legal, cultural and philosophical – projecting an air of rationality, beneficence, and even Constitutionality. But when we look beneath the surface of the Anti-religion crusade, we find it is based on the demoralizing principles at the core of Collectivist doctrine.
Collectivism has many different names: Progressivism, Liberalism, Leftism, Socialism, Communism, Statism, Democracy, Fascism, Populism, etc. (They have to keep coming up with new names because their brothers in the crusade keep committing atrocities of “social justice” under the current popular label). But regardless of the name, Collectivists can always be identified by their desire to at least marginalize if not snuff out religion; and the personal sovereignty, prosperity and spontaneous social harmony it fosters.
Collectivists sometimes even act like believers; attending church, quoting the Bible and offering prayers at “acceptable” venues. But their sympathy for religion is defined by its usefulness to their goals. Collectivists are essentially “Neo-Feudalists.” They seek the invulnerable absolute power afforded feudal kings. And if promoting religion secures the church’s anointing “Divine Right of Kings,” they are willing to tolerate its existence.
As to their arguments for the preeminence of secular philosophies, their position is ludicrous. Although the history of organized religion is certainly tarnished, it pales by comparison to the record of government abominations. Where religious institutions have, and probably still do, harbor evil men in positions of power and influence, the state holds the undisputed title for corruption, oppression and atrocities. Ironically, those who condemn religion out of hand also most often embrace government as the panacea for almost every human foible, failure and malady. This paradox is worthy of examination, but first, let’s observe the ideals the Collectivists seek to eradicate in the original American Covenant.
The bedrock principles incorporated into the fledgling American Ideal melded the morals of God’s Law, Natural Law and Man’s law. There was no contradiction, no conflict and no incongruity. The Declaration of Independence is a statement of divine, natural and human accord. The Constitution is a set of laws based upon that declaration which defines the governmental powers and constraints necessary to allow rational, moral individuals to live in harmony and prosperity.
The explosion of public contentment, general affluence and productive innovation that the American Covenant unleashed upon the world set a new standard for the wealth of nations. It switched from the tradition of conquest, compulsion and theft to one of productivity, liberty, justice and mutually beneficial collaboration. At the core of this new paradigm was the essence of Christian belief – free will, brother-love, personal responsibility and each person’s ultimate accountability to a higher power. Add to that, the life-affirming teachings of Christ, and the individual attunement to divine guidance that results from spiritual discipline; and you have a formula for a kind of Sublime Anarchy.
Innocent, honest people; guided by just moral principles, and heeding the still small voice of God, need no rulers – and in fact cannot be ruled by brute compulsion. The tacit enemies of God and America sometimes argue that the early American acceptance of slavery proves some kind of inherent corruption in the new American state. But they are wrong. Slavery was introduced and soundly entrenched in colonial politics and economics by European colonial powers prior to the Revolution (not surprisingly, Europe is also the geographic and ideological source for the modern slavery of Collectivism). The new government had neither the political power, nor the economic strength to immediately abolish slavery. However, the Constitutional Convention did obtain unanimous affirmation of the inborn rights and equality of “all Men,” which was the basis for an ultimate end to African slavery.
The Collectivist strategy of conquest relies most on demoralization and corruption. To advance this strategy, they must drive a wedge between our virtues and our vices – starving the former and feeding the latter. They provoke envy, greed, pride and lust; while discouraging compassion, thrift and self-sufficiency, humility and brother-love. As this wedge works its degradation on the individual, they plot to divorce the marriage of objective justice from official force – leaving the state unencumbered by morality, free to repeat the same crimes and atrocities as every other government in history.
By exaggerating and distorting the benign doctrine separating church and state, they have instead legally eradicated all but the whispered mention of spiritual principles in public places. Meanwhile, their media smear campaign and cultural condescension of religion and religious expression has virtually silenced God in every corner of the nation. On His Throne, they have placed the politician – a creature subject to all the weaknesses, flaws and vulnerabilities they claim to despise in corrupt religious leaders, but without standards of religious morality to temper these faults.
So now, wheedled into the primal communion of God and Man (one which our original form of government supported without interference), the Collectivists have interjected the politician. As we have seen in agonizing and prolonged detail; politicians cannot serve two masters. Their love of money and power outweighs their love of and loyalty to their constituents and their oaths of office every single time. Our current predicament is the direct result of politicians serving “mammon” as their preferred master.
Thomas Jefferson obtained his primary and secondary education from a Minister. As with many students in 18th and 19th century America, young Tom was educated in Science, Mathematics and Language Arts by a man of the cloth. The benefit he received did not seem defiled by the “religious brainwashing,” we are conditioned to fear should a teacher mention the forbidden name of the Almighty Creator of the Universe.
Upon His educational Throne, the Collectivists have placed “Science;” bereft of philosophical context which amounts to the worship of chance and the compulsory quantification of coincidence. The dignity, integrity and understanding that once were the pinnacle of character development attained through education, have been usurped by the cult of expertise, superficial materialism, compulsive acquisitiveness and random self-indulgence. Then, once they succumb to the habits that morally sterile “education” imposes, we condemn modern youths for their lack of character!?
Finally, the Collectivists seek to impose the ultimate degradation to our humanity by mucking about in the private, hallowed relationship between the Doctor and patient. Once they complete this conquest, every human being in America, from the moment of conception to their last breath, will live at the whim of the government. At this point, our slavery will no longer be an abstract subject of debate – it will be absolute, undeniable and unrestrained.
In "Coup d’état: A Practical Handbook", military historian Edward Luttwak says: “A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder." This describes the Collectivist strategy for the conquest of America – destroy religious morality and impose the Secular religion of subjective relativism; destroy education by stripping it of its moral context; corrupt the legislature by replacing the master of Moral Statecraft with the blind, blundering pursuit of money and power. The Health Care coup is only the latest assault on the core of the American Covenant between God and Man.
When the Health Care coup succeeds, Collectivists will hold the power of life or death over every single person. They will have conquered God, replacing Him with a politician. They will have eradicated the teacher, replacing him or her with a “behavioral conditioning” specialist. They will have replaced the Doctor, supplanting him or her with the bureaucrat. All will serve Mammon. Washington will exist for the single purpose of amassing, manipulating and rationing power. That power will neither rely upon nor be constrained by morality or reason; but only by expediency. And humanity will cease to exist in name or form – replaced by bipedal commodities.
Good Lord!! HealthCare & now attacking militia groups. Maybe now everyone will finally read that new book on the 2nd American Revolution when a small town in America does take a stand.
ReplyDeleteIt's a must read cause it's so perspective & even mentions the militia in Michigan. I recommend it.