betty: But if I understand it correctly, this article is not “about religion.” It’s about the degradation of human culture and civilization ever since the Enlightenment, and its impact on the American order of liberty and equal justice.
Spirited: Thank-you betty.
With respect to our Constitutional Republic, belief in the Biblical Creator, Jesus Christ, His crucifixion and resurrection, Original Sin, the creator-creature distinction, man as the Triune God’s spiritual image-bearer endowed with spiritual property, Moral Law, and other Biblical institutions and principles are the “glue” that has held America together — religiously, morally, authoritatively, nationally, culturally, and economically — since this nation’s founding.
From the dawn of history, when a people have lost faith in or otherwise willfully rejected their deity, the fate of that society has been dissolution and death, generally at the hands of invading barbarians. In America’s case, the invading barbarians are the product of our own corrupt education establishment.
Speaking through his character the Madman, the dark prophet Nietzsche announced the “death of God.” Dubbing himself the Antichrist, Nietzsche proclaimed:
“The greatest recent event — that ‘God is dead,’ that the belief in the Christian God has ceased to be believable — is even now beginning to cast its first shadows over Europe; however, few really understood “ what has really happened here, “and what must collapse now that this belief has been undermined — all that was built upon it, leaned on it, grew into it; for example, our whole European morality.” (False Dawn, Lee Penn, p. 433)
Like a vast ebon wing, the “death of God” overshadows America with an impenetrable shroud of practical atheism, moral imbecility and sophistry, increasing lawlessness and barbarism.
The death of the Christian God demands erasure of the Creator-creature distinction; rejection of the miraculous, literal and historical elements of Scripture with a priori rejection of the Genesis account ex nihilo together with hostility toward and outright hatred of orthodox (non-liberal) Christians, Christian symbols, traditions, and holidays, as well as the America of the Founders, for in the words of Nietzsche, all of this “must collapse now that this belief has been undermined.”
The rejection of the Christian God means that increasing numbers of Americans have themselves become in essence little gods. In practical terms, this means America is no longer a monotheistic society but a polytheistic one in much the same way that India is with its’ millions of gods and goddesses. Each little god and his cult followers (special rights groups) demand their “rights” according to what they most covet. Will-to-power, or might-makes-right has become the way of life here.
America will eventually collapse, and out of its ashes will arise a Caesar more terrible than any of his predecessors and a global occult pantheist Moloch state; Hunger Games writ large:
“While relatively little is known of Moloch, much more is known of the concept of divine kingship, the king as god, and the god as king, as the divine-human link between heaven and earth. The god-king represented man on a higher (evolved) scale, man ascended, and the worship of such a god, i.e., of such a Baal, was the assertion of the continuity of heaven and earth. It was the belief that all being was one being (pantheist monism), and the god therefore was an ascended man on that scale of being. The power manifested in the political order was thus a manifestation or apprehension and seizure of divine power. It represented the triumph of a man (i.e., Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Obama) and of his people (i.e., Marxist Communists, National Socialists, progressive liberals). Moloch worship was thus a political religion (i.e., Marxism, Progressivism, Fascism, occult New Age)....Moloch worship was thus state worship. The state was the true and ultimate order, and religion was a department of the state. The state claimed total jurisdiction over man (necessitating mind-control, propaganda, re-education, sex education, concentration camps); it was therefore entitled to total sacrifice.” (Rousas Rushdoony cited in “The Antichrist,” by Vincent P. Miceli, S.J., pp. 246, 247; emphasis added)
The pagan theocratic state freely took the lives of its children — and adults for that matter — as necessary sacrifices to the god of the state. The Soviet Union was a secularized-pantheist Moloch state. Its so-called “scientific socialism” was a Gnostic pagan religion of state worship grounded in evolutionary dialectical materialism—revamped and revised animism updated for modern Western tastes. The Soviet Moloch State brutally murdered over 60,000,000 men, women, and children in pursuit of an ideal society.
When the true God is banished from man’s society, into the resulting vacuum rush new gods, madness, the dehumanization of mankind, staggering cruelty and occultism.
Even now, contemporary Americans are rushing headlong into the occult: Wicca, Satanism, goddess worship, shamanism, pyramid building, UFO obsession and interaction, necromancy, channeling, spirit guides, Transcended Masters and ghost-hunting for example.
These spiritist activities bring about a revival of the politics of ancient paganism resulting in the development of a divine state based on a Hermetic-theology of “as above, so below,” that is, on the denial of the Creator-creature distinction:
“The Moloch state simply represents the supreme effort of man to command the future, to predestine the world, and to be as God (by way of) divination, spirit-questing, magic and witchcraft (all of these spiritist efforts) represent efforts to have the future on other than God’s terms, to have a future apart from and in defiance of God. They are assertions that the world is not of God but of brute factuality, and that man can somehow master the world and the future by going directly to the raw materials thereof.” (ibid, The Antichrist)
Moloch worship was thus a political religion
Moloch worship was based in abortion... after the child was born..
The first child in a marriage was sacrificed to Molock...
by putting the child live in a pot of boiling oil.. held by the idol god.. with a fire underneath of it..
Remind you of anything, anywhere, it does me...
Obama is PUNISHMENT for 75,000,000+ aborted babies.. in terrible ways...
Moloch worship was thus a political religion
Moloch worship was based in abortion... after the child was born..
The first child in a marriage was sacrificed to Molock...
by putting the child live in a pot of boiling oil.. held by the idol god.. with a fire underneath of it..
Remind you of anything, anywhere, it does me...
Obama is PUNISHMENT for 75,000,000+ aborted babies.. in terrible ways...
In fact, as we have already discussed, most of our Founders were Christians and more-or-less deistic.
Many were Free-masons and did not subscribe to traditional Christian creeds.
They were also very friendly to Jews.
Indeed, we might even argue that the Great Religious Awakenings of the early 1800s, by "raising the bar" on ethical standards, especially including abolitionism, were so far from being a "glue" that they lead directly to secession and Civil War in 1861.
So: our more deistic-Christian Founders achieved unity through moral compromises, while their more evangelistic-Christian successors eventually forced disunity and civil war in order to end moral compromise with slavery.