I want to make myself abundantly clear, we are not merely
in a culture war, we are at its tail end. If the powers of social collectivism
have their way every underpinning principle upon which limited constitutional
government under the Rule of Law depends will have been done away with in
favour of an imposed world view which seeks to control the hearts and minds of
mankind. These idea pathogens are manifestations of a pernicious ungodly ideology
that is anti-Christian and anti-democratic to its core. It has come after our
faith, our families, and our property to fulfill the warning from the Book of
Revelation 13:17 KJV: “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the
mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” If you as a
Christian think that it is possible to be found sitting on the fence in the
midst of this totalizing enterprise which is a Satanic battle for the souls of
men, you are sadly deluded and perhaps infected by this ideological pathogen
yourself. Truth be known, I find it impossible to believe that you possess the
New Birth if you have not taken up the fight on behalf of Christ to defend the
faith and the Godly values it imparts to a sin sick world in desperate need of
Christ and the Godly order that just government influenced by Christianity
provides.
Merely preaching repentance without equipping the Church with
the tools it needs to put on the full armour of God is insufficient to wage war
against these demonic lies which, if possible, might even deceive the elect. God
has not saved us from sin and united us with Christ in death and resurrection
to be seated in Christ at the right hand of God the Father to fall victim to a
cult of social collectivists who have made the idolatrous State their idol. But
first we must understand the nature of the ideological deception we face and
its origins to understand how it operates so that we may attack it both at its head
and its roots. We live in an age where access to information is at our fingertips,
literally, your smart phone and laptop have access to the world wide web where
there is unlimited information on how these idea pathogens operate and their
consequences on society here in the West. It is fascinating to note that the
third world, the Muslim world, the Communist Chinese, and the Russians are
almost totally unaffected by the species of idea pathogens that have completely
taken over our universities and everything downstream of them. This is why
these ideas are the concepts which are driving the totalizing enterprise of
globalist control. Obscenely wealthy and powerful Besserwissers who are infected
by a unique blend of Cultural Marxism and Fascism are demanding that we will
own nothing and be happy. They are currently meeting in Davos as I am typing
this. So, Pastors, teachers, deacons and elders, you are without excuse if you
are not equipping the Church that God has entrusted in your care!
Yet there was one at Davos who was having none of it, the
President of Argentina. From the Toronto Sun published January 17th by
WARMINGTON: “Argentina's president unleashes anti-woke storm at WEF. One
thing for sure, it won’t be easy for Klaus Schwab to “penetrate” Argentine
President Javier Milei’s cabinet.
And, he sure as heck will not be influencing it
in any way, either. The World Economic Forum’s founder, or anybody else, didn’t
need a translator to understand what Milei was saying Wednesday. Whether in
Spanish or English, it was loud and clear: Socialism is bringing the world to
its knees, and it has got to stop.
“ The solution to be proposed by collectivists
is not greater freedom but rather greater regulation which creates a downward
(spiral) of regulations until we are all poorer and life for all of us depends
on a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office,” said Milei. Ouch. Talk about a
skunk at garden party.
He spoke from experience since his own country had been
utterly undone by socialism. Please listen to his remarks at the following
link; https://www.youtube.com/live/-VwtRYZkYjU?si=na6nueEXTlIP_W0H
Then consider the following from Dr. A. James Gregor regarding
the blending of the two major forms of social collectivism and his warnings
regarding what he predicts would be their impact on the 21st Century.
A. James Gregor, a professor of political science at the University of
California, Berkeley, wrote a book titled "The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism
and Fascism in the Twentieth Century" in 2000¹. He argues that fascism
emerged from a revision of Marxism that incorporated nationalism, racism, and
totalitarianism. He also traces the influence of Marxist ideas on various
fascist movements and regimes, such as Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and
Mao's China.
The preface from his book:
The turn of the century is as convenient an
occasion as any to take stock of our time. It has been a time of trouble. Two
world wars grew out of the “belle epoque”—and by the end of the century, more
human beings would be killed by their own governments than would die in those
wars. In attempting to understand something of that doleful reality, many have
had recourse to the existence, in our century, of “fascism.” “Fascism,” we are
told, was “one of the most glaring examples of political evil in modern
history.”! Fascism, we have been told, was uniquely inhumane. We have been told
that “anyone with any concern for human dignity can see the destructive effects
of the fascist denigration of human life.”’ The implication of judgments of
these kinds is that fascism, however that term is understood, is largely
responsible for much of the devastation of the twentieth century. More than
that, an effort has been made recently to identify “fascism” with “right-wing
extremism,” and thereby credit the Right with virtually all the infamies of our
time.’ Somehow or other, only the Right figures in the catalog of horrors that
make up contemporary history. Yet almost everyone now acknowledges that the
regimes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were stained with the blood of millions of
innocent victims—more than those of the extreme right. We are left perplexed.
Even the most generous estimate would make the
Left at least partially responsible for the mayhem that distinguishes our
century. The political Right and the political Left seem to share something of
a common malevolence. All that notwithstanding, some Western scholars continue
to treat the political universe as though it were divided between the evil
Right and the benign Left.
The thesis of the present work is that much of
the literature of the twentieth century devoted to the analysis of violent
revolution has failed to appreciate the central issues around which the
insurrectionary violence of our time has turned. The failure of that literature
is manifest in its treatment of the revolutions that followed the First World
War—and which continue to the present—as being either of the Right or of the
Left. Fascism is of the Right and Marxist-Leninist regimes are of the Left.
I will argue that the major systemic
revolutions of our time have been of neither the Right nor the Left. Our error
has been to attempt to force each revolutionary instance into a procrustean bed
of preconceptions. To this day, some in the West remain convinced that while
the revolutions of the Right have been unqualifiedly “pathological” and
“homicidal,” those of the Left have been compassionate and benevolent—and that
only extraneous circumstances produced the horrors of the Great Purge, the
Great Proletarian Revolution, and the massacre of innocents by the Khmer Rouge.
There are others who, for at least two
generations, have argued that the political universe we have known since the
Bolshevik and Fascist revolutions has not been divided, primarily, by conflicts
between the Right and Left, but between representative democracies and
anti-democratic “ideocracies.” The contest has been between systems that base
legitimacy on electoral results and those whose legitimacy and authority rest
on appeal to an ideology considered inerrant, the guidance of a “charismatic
leader,” and the armed persuasion of a hegemonic party. Among the latter
movements and regimes there is no Right or Left. There are only anti-democratic
systems.
However convenient and informative the
distinction between Right and Left may be in local politics, it is largely
irrelevant in dealing with the revolutionary movements that have shaped the
international environment during the last hundred years. There have been many
who have recognized as much.
This work is an effort to restate the case for
the latter view. It attempts to supplement the argument advanced a quarter of a
century ago that there is more “fascism” in the Left than most Western scholars
have been prepared to recognize.” Recent developments in post-Soviet Russia and
post-Maoist China eloquently make the case. I attempt to trace the decay of
Marxist theory among left-wing intellectuals. Bereft of much of its mummery,
Marxist theory reveals itself as a variant of generic fascism, The contest of
the twentieth century, which has cost so much in human lives, was not between
the Right and the Left. It was between representative democracies and their
anti-democratic opponents. It has been an arduous struggle.
The anti-democratic temptation continues to
have appeal to those who feel themselves to be oppressed and humiliated. One of
the implications of the discussion in what follows is that, at the end of the
century, there really is very little convincing evidence that the democracies
have won the contest. That does not bode well for the twenty-first century.
Not bode well? Indeed not! As I mentioned in my last
blog/vodcast, we have a Prime Minister who is walking manifestation of every
idea pathogen inherent to this perverse blend of Cultural Marxism and Fascism.
These idea pathogens include radical feminism, social constructivism, cultural
relativism, postmodernism, political correctness, and identity politics, yet Trudeau
believes that he and his friends at Davos must be granted total control over our
energy sector and therefore the economy. Justin Trudeau has advanced an agenda
that has been ruinous to the freedoms and prosperity of the land God has
married us to. Moreover, he is a classic example of what he decries in others as
“white privilege”. He is seemingly unaware of his own addled ideological contradictions
because he is a unique mix of profound imbecility, incredible narcissism, and a
completely parasitized mind.
You cannot fight an ideology that you do not understand. Worse
you will not fight if you refuse to identify the threat and press on as
Christian soldiers. It is up to you to be instant in season and out to know how
to answer everyone with the word of truth which will be useful to counter the
false ideology of our day. Every generation of believer were convinced that
they lived in the end times. I hear too many who are convinced that they know
Christ’s return is eminent. It may well be but when He comes it will be as a
thief in the night. The reformers were convinced that the Pope was the
anti-Christ since he claimed to have the keys to heaven, earth, and hell and
have the power to absolve sin to an apostate church. If you doubt me read the
dedicatory letter to the King James Bible which makes that point abundantly
clear. They believed this because the Pope was manifesting the spirit of the
anti-Christ. A spirit which will always be with us until the Lord returns. He
is coming for a victorious church as spoken of in Ephesians 5: 27 “That
he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle,
or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Not for a
weak, ineffectual, sectarian, and divided body rife with conflicting doctrines
that bring no glory to Christ. Educate yourself that you may do as admonished in
2 Timothy 4: 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort
with all long suffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will
not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
I find it appalling that some of the most useful voices denouncing
the ideological possession of the social collectivists are not believers. This is
to the shame of those who ought to be at the forefront of this battle against
false doctrine. Jordan B Peterson, Gad Saad, Stephen Hicks, James Lindsay just
to name a few have done more to warn us of the dangers of this perverse ideology
than any leading Christian voices have other than perhaps historian Dr. Victor
Davis Hanson and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John
Anderson. Why is that? I have repeatedly offered my help to pastors to help
develop speaking series on the leading false doctrine of our age and have been
completely ignored or dismissed. That is not just a shame, it is a remarkable acknowledgement
that those whose very sacred duty it is to shepherd the flock away from ravenous
wolves would rather see them devoured than upset the applecart of their little fiefdom.
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