Human Rights and National Trashcans

Timothy Birdnow

I heartily agree with this essay. Rights that do not come from God are no rights at all.

Our modern era pretty much accepts the idea of Rousseau, who wrote in The Social Compact that rights were essentially the collective will of the People (Rousseau was the father of socialism). That view is essentially what is taught in our universities these days. And it is entirely anti-Christian as it presupposes God does not exist and thus should have no role in our society.

But even if God doesn't exist (and there are so very many reasons to believe He does) we are at least appealing to an absolute and thus cannot renege on rights. Community-granted "rights" are mere privileges, to be revoked when society deems they should.

And it is this basic belief in the Divine nature of rights that is the cornerstone of all of our success. Economics and politics are all downstream from Faith. We've been systematically kicking God out of society and at the same time have witnessed the economic and civil decline of America. That is no coincidence. When people stop believing in absolutes they then believe in their own will and in power alone. Power can control, force people, but it cannot get people to act decently because that's the right thing to do. And in a power-structure state the corruption and depravity all around the citizenry leads them to try to grab what they can. Crime is a logical act in a Godless society. In a moral society it's absolutely inexcusable.

The article agrees. It states:

I don't know if I would say we PREFER a Godless universe, but probably a majority agree with the arguments made by the Godless, as they have never heard good arguments from the remnant of the Faithful. Too few Christians bother to educate themselves on the philosophy and the science behind God. Regular readers of this blog know I've given a great many arguments rooted in science that strongly suggest there is a God. (One simple example; why do people believe in a God or gods at all? We seem hard-wired to do so and isolated peoples quickly devolve into mysticism. But there is no society on Earth, and never has been, that is formally atheistic except the old Eastern Block, which was horribly repressive and collapsed within decades of it's triumph over religion. If there was no God most of us wouldn't feel there is one.) The Anthropic Principle is another example. So is abiogenesis, a reversal of entropy.I could go on but that is for another essay.

At any rate most people sense there is some sort of God but the people running our educational system and the media have labored long and hard to destroy the "superstition" of faith and nobody wants to seem a fool. "Smart people" embrace atheism, they believe. And so too most people can't square the problem of suffering with an all-loving God so they simply pretend God isn't there, rather than admit there may be good reasons for all of the pain of life.

At any rate the author of this piece is spot-on; all of the freedoms we have come from our acknowledgement that God exists and is the author of human freedom. The U.N. pretends God is just a concensus.

Where did it get that idea from? Well, Rousseau, of course, and it was Rousseau's philosophy that was adopted both by Karl Marx and Giovanni Gentile, father of Fascism. Mussolini was attracted to Fascism because it was socialism with a spiritual component. Mussolini rightly understood that Marxism failed to take root in the public precisely because of it's materialism, it's view that all things in life were rooted in economics. Fascism was very materialistic, but it advocated the substitution of a new,strange religion over Christianity, and that came from Rousseau, who suggested making the People's collective will into God and the state being it's unholy church. Fascism, with it's religious emphasis on the glory of the state, was just socialism with a mystical quality. The Nazis took that a step further, making the German race God. It is no coincidence the Nazis were ferociously superstitious and always looking for religious and ancient artifacts. In fact, the top brass (except maybe Hitler himself, who seemed more interested in self-worship) of the Nazis were Theosophists, members of the Thule Society. Theosoophy was created in New York City by Helena Blavatsky,a Russian mystic. She taught all religions were partly true. Theosophism is basically cafeteria religion. It's primarily pagan and pantheistic and monistic. All of the Nazi insignia - the lightning bolt SS, the swastika, came from their association with the Thule Society. THAT was the religion which leavened their socialism.

At an rate the core problem with socialism and with fascism is that they fundamentally disdain the Judeo-Christian God in favor of a man-centered system, one gleaned from Rousseau and the other late 18th century philosophes.

As was attributed to Chesterton, when you stop believing in God you will believe in anything. Naziism was proof of that. So is Marxism.

I would modify that and say when you stop believing in CHRIST and Yahweh you will believe in anything. Look at the Islamic world for proof thereof.

America was greatly blessed because our ancestors came here seeking religious freedom. They were "bible thumpers" as we would say today. Of course there has been a ruthless war on such folks, painting them as evil (look at some of the crap we've been treated to, like "The Handmaiden's tale" or whatnot.) The war has been relentless and it has gone on since the 19th century. The atheists have nearly won.

But the more success they have had the worse things have become in America and in Europe. Europe is almost dead now - being overrun by aliens who still have a sort of moral core. We were almost overrun ourselves.

We lie at a decision point; return to our beliefs or adopt the hip new swinger's Godlessness. If we choose the latter will will lose our country. But hey! We can have some fun times until then! That's what the Democrats believe and that's what so many seem to want.

That belief is trash and America will wind up in the trashbin of history.

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