FOLKLORE FAITH AND SETTLED SCIENCE

       InsanityBytes has been doing a good series lately on Folklore Faith debunking some of the blasphemies common misconceptions held by postmodern Churchians. The second installment, All Gods Are Equal and Valid had an interesting meme which encapsulates much of the spiritual vacuity of the present age.

    A meme like this could only have produced by someone from the Millennial/ Zoomer Generation. It has all of the earmarks of what passes among them for deep and profound argumentation. Basically, one takes an aphorism, states it as though it were an indisputable fact, then punctuates it with a snarky, self-righteous statement which is presented as a self-evident conclusion. Such is the result of life in a Theatrocracy: a culture where comedians and influencers drive public discourse.  

   Plutarch, a Roman historian who's been relegated to Dead White Male status in our day, spoke of the downfall of Ancient Athens which began with this kind of contempt for actual wisdom following the passing of Pericles. "With public approbation, the statuesque oratory of Pericles gave way to Cleon's theatrical delivery. Girding up his himation, he strode up and down the bema haranguing in a loud voice and vilifying his opponents; thus he corrupted the people by his impulsive manners." 

 Plato, another Dead White Male, whose thought has today given way in favor of geniuses like Keith Olbermann and Stephan Colbert, who lived during this period wrote: "In this way, the theatres from being mute have become vocal, as though they had an understanding of good and bad...and instead of an aristocracy an evil sort of theatrocracy has grown up. Consequent to this has come disobedience to rulers, and then to escape the control of parents and elders; and when near the end, control also of the laws." It hardly needs explanation that then, as now, that "the people were enticed by demagogues from their ideals of philanthropy, conceived by Aeschylus and brought into public life by Pericles, to a policy of brute force in the government of allies and of narrow, material selfishness in the extension of their power."

   If most of these smart boys would actually go back and read some of these now-despised writers instead of popping off in Hookah Lounges and online chatrooms, they would make less fools of themselves. 

      In the first place, they would learn that haven't really been "3,000 gods so far," but only One. The learned among our pagan forefathers all agreed that the Divine Nature is indivisible; and that the names and rituals pertaining to ancient deities were merely localized cultural expressions of a belief in the same Supreme Being. What we would call today angels or saints were also venerated, as it was believed that these lesser 'gods' had particular provinces over which they assisted mankind. These ideals were often based on natural symbols such as Astronomy or animalistic totems. But over all of these was One Supreme God. 

   Contrary to what Postmodern Academia teaches, wars, persecutions, and conflicts fought on purely religious grounds are uncommon in human history. Governments rarely moved against religious sects unless they were seen as a threat to public order; and in more modern times religion has been used as cover for purely economic or political wars and persecutions. 

   Then, as now, a few cults and fanatics would appear and these were believed to motivated by false gods or evil spirits. The criterion for defining these false gods was later expressed by Jesus "By their fruits you shall know them." This involves discernment, since what we know of God's Perfect Goodness would certainly not be in anyway compatible with the theology of an organization like ISIS. 

  But in our supposedly enlightened era, discernment is a wholly lacking quality among society in general. Hence we've seen the simultaneous rise of both Satanic Cults and Materialistic Scientism: the motto of both of which should be "My ignorance is as valid as your knowledge." Their understanding of the Divine Nature is abysmally poor; to them it is only a set of arbitrary commandments which they simply can invalidate by wishing away.

  

     God is by definition, the Father of us all, and by the same definition, the Source of Absolute Perfection and Goodness. By belief in God, and love for Him and His Principles, we try to imitate His character. This is the source of moral absolutes. When we abandon the belief that human nature is essentially the same and that moral absolutes are fixed; what we are left with is what Erich Fromm described as "an attitude of indifference where everything is possible and nothing is certain. An increasing number of people," he continued, "are feeling confused about everything: work, politics, and morals; and what is worse, they believe this confusion to be a normal state of mind. They feel isolated, bewildered, and powerless: they do not experience life in terms of their own thoughts, emotions, and sense-perceptions but in terms of the experiences that they are supposed to have." Years after Fromm warned of this tendency, we've reached a nadir where no one can define something as simple as gender; and anyone who states the obvious is bludgeoned into silence. Most Americans are content to float off into drug-induced stupors and not think about it. 

   Authoritarian political and social leaders---backed heavily by financial interests---of course, naturally wish to step into the void and usurp the place of God. This, we're informed by Theology, was the sin of Lucifer, so it should come as no surprise that Satanic Cults are growing in power and influence. The Devil is the supernatural archetype of the types of megalomaniacs directing western society at the present time.

    If human nature has no fixed point and becomes infinitely malleable, then Social Engineers could in theory mold man to whatever system they pleased. Man would only be the product of artificial social constructs, as the Academic Mafia teaches now. No social order could, in theory, be judged as adverse to man's welfare since according to this doctrine, there is no human nature being violated. 

   History of course shows this type of very perverted Social Darwinism to be a complete lie; because human nature rising up against these planned systems and organized injustice is part of our heritage. The United States in particular began as an overthrow of a royal tyrant and his wicked schemes to make his subjects. George III tried to appeal to false religion too; styling himself His Divine Majesty; with toady bishops who preached his power "By the Grace of God." Our forefathers didn't fall for this nonsense, but established a self-governing Republic under the aegis that "All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights." Postmodern Academia has tried to cloud this with appeals to sophistry like Critical Race Theory, but facts are stubborn things. 

  We must be especially on guard today against the kinds of ignoramuses like the publisher of the anti-God meme. The real danger with such people is that they sound superficially smart, and they target their messages to those unaccustomed to critical thinking or too besotted with narcotics either to know or care what the truth is.