The Social Gospel: The Influence of Marxism
The Scopes Trial: Modernism versus Traditionalism
Required Reading…sort of
Apocalypse Never: How Environmental Alarmism Hurts us All
by Michael Shellenberger
https://environmentalprogress.org/about-the-book
By far the best and most important text ever scribed concerning environmentalism. If you want a direct and well, sourced book that explains the fraud and deceit of environmental alarmism, look no further. Shellenberger, as a world renown environmental activist, has opened the Pandora’s Box of environmentalism in a succinct and easy to read book, that will also satisfy the more academically inclined. Global warming isn’t cooking the earth, the oceans are not engulfing the continents and plastic is progress are all topics Shellenberger eloquently tackles with precision and science. The author’s departure from Marxist environmentalism reminds one of Reagan’s departure from the far left, who once remarked, “I believe the best social program is a job.” Indeed, as Shellenberger crystalizes in his book, the best form of environmental sustainability is wealth creation and cheap, clean, reliable energy, in tandem with representative government.
Was Jesus a Socialist?
by Lawrence W. Reed
https://store.fee.org/products/was-jesus-a-socialist
This short book is a timely piece and directly answers the question, was Jesus a socialist? Of course he wasn’t and Reed tears down this argument with precision, limb by limb. While this false narrative of the social gospel has been around for over a century, it has gained steam and recognition within the last few years. From academics to ministers, the Marxist ideology of the social gospel has infiltrated the mainstream dialectic. Lawrence promptly dismantles the heresies within and this book should be required reading for all Christians.
The Tragedy of Islam: Admissions of a Muslim Imam
by Imam Mohammad Tawhidi
https://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Islam-Admissions-Muslim-Imam/dp/1925880206
Tawhidi making his way from a muslim fundamentalist to the Imam of Peace lay forth the most revealing insights into Islam from an actual muslim in current history. His humor and intellect bring together a book that kicks the door wide open, as to Islamic extremism. He unveils texts and sources that have never been available in English and only taught in Arabic amongst high ranking clergy. As an Islamic reformist he is definitely in the minority, yet his mission is and his life are righteous and worthy. This is a must read if one is to understand Islam in general, and towards an in depth comprehension of Islamic fundamentalism.
We hear much about the greater good in contemporary speech, writing and culture. Who defines this greater good and why is it even necessary to discuss the topic at all? Furthermore, to what lengths are we to go to attain this high ideal. According to Marxist theory the only true greater good is that of the masses, the proletariat in their quest for fairness and cultural equality. In practice the greater good of the Marxist has more assuredly, always been an abysmal failure with some future utopia just over the horizon. While an inordinate amount of breath and ink has been spilled in justifying the atrocities committed by this ideology and condemning all else, no persuasive evidence exists to give any rational human being the motivation to venture upon such a fruitless task. Indeed, to any reasonable entity, the greater good of Marxist thought is a campaign in mass suicide, ending in self annihilation. Yet, even today, it persists in leading astray entire populations. It does not do so through veritas or by way of some organic modality. No, the greater good of the Marxist survives through deceit and by force. While, it is understandable, that a person may be so moved by an idea that they are willing to lie, cheat and steal to see it succeed, the idea much first be honorable, righteous and generous. For if not, it is no more than another wicked path towards mass death, destruction and peril. This charter of course is unnatural, as self preservation is embedded in the human condition, but the conundrum is revealed. Self preservation, in and of itself, is not a worthy cause to base a society upon, as history has proven out through every monarch, Czar, tyrant and dictator. Each of these abhorrent rulerships, throughout human history have swayed the masses through the promise of safety, security and thus, more equality for all. We know that this is nothing more than an age old ruse. So again, the idea must first be rooted in truth, love and liberty.
Deceit utilized for ones cause is not a new occurrence. In fact, the Hebrews after gaining their independence from Egypt embarked upon finding the Promised Land the God had, well, promised them. Upon coming to the boundary of this new land, God himself tells the Moses to send out spies to survey the land, the opposing military and the economic status of the area. This would not be the last time that this craft of gathering intelligence by way of deceit, in an effort to secure the greater good, would be implemented by the Hebrews. These tellings in scripture would, a few thousand years later, be implemented by nearly every preceding civilization, yet it seems the underlying ideal normally dictated success. The American colonists, astute in scripture, would use the Hebrews and their intelligence gathering in much the same way, of course using the technology and tactics of the current day. The British had all but perfected this deceitful practice, yet their imperial cause, in the end, made for frequently mailable spies, as the trickle down effect does not work so well under monarchy. Americans would take this spying event to a whole new level, through ingenuity in technology, mixed with the elder ages’ craft of intelligence gathering through deceit, misinformation and misdirection. The primary difference was the cause, as loyalty by American colonists was very solid and rarely done exclusively for pay, as Congress was bankrupt until well after Independence was gained. The greater good was contrived of an ideal that was far superior to those we now hear rambling nightly about social justice and cultural equality. For these deceive and battle on through blood lust and power hungers, all based upon jealousy and complacency. Whereas, the former offered nothing more than individual liberty and the ability to chart ones own course, without the invention of blood lust and authoritarian boot stompers.
Deceit towards the liberty of self is by its very nature, the attempt to attain such for all around you. This is an ideal that has brevity and solidarity, that evokes loyalty and perseverance. While deceit upon your own family, countrymen and population is never warranted when it is towards greed, control or avarice. Yet, historical characters such as Hebrew or Israelite spies infiltrating enemy territory, Robert Townsend as a devout Quaker taking his secret to his grave or Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a German minister going deep undercover in a plot to assassinate Hitler, all show us what a greater good truly means. Their deceit was to serve the greater good, not to take away, oppress nor towards self gain. Indeed, these individuals employed deceit towards downing evil despots and dictators, all in an effort to help their neighbor. Marxist deceit on the other hand, utilizes these modalities in an effort to create more evil, oppression and unjust environments, all in an effort to destroy their neighbor. Deceit becomes a necessary tool when the cause is proper and a devilish arrow when aimed for an unrighteous cause. Choose ye this day your motives and that which impels your mind to act and do not waver, fight for what is right and not what is popular. Liberty and freedom are the greater good, all else pales in comparison.
Academics agree: 1776 not 1619
America became a nation in 1787 at the signing and ratification of the United States Constitution. In fact, before the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the United States of America did not exist, To date the British Empire has been to largest and most powerful empire in human history and is where the ideals of globalism truly stem from. Those that profess that America began in 1619 have no founding nor source material to prove or even support these wild claims. Indeed, Marxist revisionists have been attempting to rewrite the known and well, sourced history of America since the 1990s and possibly since the 1960s. Through bogus ideals such as, critical race theory, continued colonialism, twentieth century Western imperialism, class structure theory and a variety of other intellectually dishonest theories, Marxist historical revisionists have attempted to defraud not just the extensively documented history of the United States of America, but history itself. The oxymoronic relativism of utilizing individual historical stories, with little to no primary sources, to explain entire eras and movements, rather than the actual shakers and movers, while at the same time infusing group theories and class structure to stitch together the belief in the inevitable class struggle that has been taking place since the inception of civilization, is illogical, unproven, without primary source materials and in short is utter hog wash. Of course, Marxist revisions have transitioned, as they have alway historically, from competing in the marketplace of ideas, straight to coercion, violence and bullying to get this idiocy before our children, into the schools and parroted by bureaucrats and celebrities. The idea that European settlers came to the shores of North America in 1619 to promulgate slavery, slaughter Native Americans and conquer the land is a total falsehood. Furthermore, the popular narrative that America, which did not become a nation until 1787, began as an imperialistic entity that brought slavery to the New World is another fabrication of revisionists. None of these claims and arguments hold up under scrutiny, nor are they based on primary sources, which is of course, how we investigate, write and argue history. Indeed, the American colonists inherited slavery from the British, Portuguese, Spaniards and the French. The argument that Great Britain first abolished slavery is nonsense. In 1833 the British Empire finally passed the Slavery Abolition Act, after twenty-six years of debating it in Parliament. The British in no way passed this Act in a humanitarian effort to right a wrong, but rather as an economic move and a military strategy to avoid losing colonies in the Caribbean, West Indies and else where due to slave uprisings, mimicking the American Revolution. British slavery continued in portions of India, China and elsewhere until it became a burden in keeping these land holdings under British rule. In other words, the British did not free the slaves, they traded the enslaved people’s free labor for indentured servitude and remained the colonial master of these areas. While it is true that after America became a nation, slavery continued, it only remained so as an American institution for 78 years and was abolished materially, physically and lawfully in one lifetime. The American Civil War ended slavery in 1865, encoded in law and came into being through the bloodshed of over 600,00 Americans and is, still to date, one of the largest and bloodiest civil wars in human history, one of very few fought on an ideal. This is not to say, nor condone or even trivialize the Atlantic Slave trade, that is most definitely a part of America’s historical narrative. It is to state, that not only was America the first civilization to legally and lawfully end human slavery, it was the first to do so through a complete restructuring of its own society and in turn, societies throughout the world. History is rarely a simplistic story of oppressors and the oppressed and is in fact messy, complicated and has many facets. What is clear is that the American Revolution thoroughly changed the way humans construct a civil society, one that has yet to be fully realized anywhere outside of America. All stories and histories involve tyrants, the impoverished, the enslaved, and quite frequently utter collapse and failure. America is unique in this sense, and regardless of the mistakes committed during this experiment over the last two and a half centuries, no other culture is more diverse, economically stable nor more fair and just than the United States of America. This journey that has lifted more ships to level than any other system throughout the story of human civilization, began in 1776 as a radical ideal based upon enjoying the fruit of ones labor, the ability to chart your own course and placed the power structures at the heal of the people. It most certainly did not begin at Plymouth Rock as a racist endeavor of white colonialism in 1619, as some class struggle. The pilgrims and the Puritans owned no slaves, drove no Natives from their lands and relocated to avoid oppression, not as a journey to institute it elsewhere. America’s beginnings are traced to 1776 in a movement to topple colonialism, not as some oblique continuation thereof.
