Have you watched Paul Ramsey’s YouTube speech on The Dark Enlightenment and if so what do you think of the neoreactionary movement? I am not necessarily on board but it is eye-opening and intriguing as hell. Particularly where he points out that despite our ragings against Marxism and the Soviets, etc., we conservatives share the same essential Enlightenment philosophy as them.
The bit about Luther being the first all Christians are a priesthood of believers-- in fact, the Apostle Peter first wrote that (1 Peter 2:9).
He's right that Protestant Progressivism became evil once it was divorced from God, and that is what led to the French Revolution, the guillotines, Reign of Terror, the Goddess of Reason, and all that. And it led to a dictator (Napoleon). And he's right that Progs have perverted the doctrines of Christianity into such idiocy as global warming and "white privilege."
He's right about Communism coming to America after WWII. And after the fall of the SovUnion, Progressivism kicked into high gear in the US and Europe.
I think he's right about Progs supporting democracy, and democracy being evil, but I know a lot of people in the Tea Party movement, that despite his claims, think that pure democracy necessarily leads to despotism and the tyranny of the majority, and think (as the Founders did) that democracy has to be restrained (which is what the Constitution was supposed to do, but didn't).
He's right about not everyone being equal, but this is not what Jefferson meant when he wrote, "all men are created equal." However, the Progs mean equality in the same way that the French Revolutionaries mean it.
More when I watch the rest.
RamZPaul seems to be a monarchist. Umm, no. My only king is Jesus, who really is divine, unlike human kings. There has to be a better way. Monarchism is just another path to tyranny. Anarchism doesn't work, either. The government that governs best governs closest to the people. Local and regional councils, like the Indians had, for example.
He's really got a thing against Jefferson. The Declaration was "poorly written? Don't think so. He forgets that King George did not want the colonists armed.
He's right that hierarchies were instituted by God, in the Garden of Eden: man is to be subject to God, and the wife to the husband. Those two things are despised by the Progs.
I was kind of sickened by the first questioner, but RamZPaul handled him well: "religion has a place in hierarchies."
The 2nd questioner had a good point, which RamZPaul spoke to by talking about a "reboot" of America.