I have no doubt about that, dear wagglebee!
It seems to me the culture of death has long realized that, before man can be attacked directly, God must first be removed. (E.g., killed; the death of God movement, etc.)
With God "gone," man is defenseless against the onslaught of his would-be destroyers — which in our current cultural circumstances would seem to be ideological elites who falsely propose themselves as "saviors" of mankind, who propose themselves as the harbingers and soon-to-be deliverers of a perfect world to come, if we would just do what they tell us, the "hoi polloi," to do. Those who don't do as they are told are deeply suspect.
These world-beaters use the same old tired arguments and methods that have always failed in human history. But they don't let that discourage them. All they care about is "rhetorical plausibility" in the face of what they consider to be "dimwits," for so long as it takes to secure "unchallengeable" power for themselves and their cohorts. They know that, once securely in power, they can quell "dissent" in many, many highly effective ways....
If history is any guide; that is, if past tells us anything about future, many of those who are presently "most certainly alive" perish under such regimes.
Which takes elite contempt for the sanctity of Life — and "ordinary" human beings in general — to the next level of sheer evil, presaging horrors to come....
We live in interesting times, dear brother in Christ! Thank you so very much for your outstanding essay/post!
If history is any guide; that is, if past tells us anything about future, many of those who are presently "most certainly alive" perish under such regimes.
Maranatha, Jesus!!!