Sadly Perilous Days for USA: Safe to say US life has become a bizarre mirage compared to the more wholesome America of just a few decades ago, which may even be an understatement. So much so, that famed journalist Hunter S. Thompson’s famous quote must apply: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro". And leftists are pros at taking illogical and contrafactual positions on the most indefensible positions. And yes, in many ways, as the Left falls back into annoying and well trodden memes to brood and crab, profound change is afoot.

MAGA Maneuvers: Trump’s voracious MAGA legion now explores new territory to apply their fragile, yet sinewy majority for increasingly strategic, Star Trek 3-level chess moves. This unnerving pattern drives feeble minded foes to the very edge of insanity -- were they not encamped there already. Now consider some of the creative plays by Trump. His recent decisions to blow up Iran’s nuclear manufacturing which most declared successful; Trump’s strategy for seeking foreign investments, landing 20+ $Trillion into USA, so far, and his landing a cease-fire between Hamas & Israel, and luring Dems to demand an Epstein core-fact dump now entangling Democrats only, and his feigned fear of Epstein which now increasingly entangles the Clintons, etc -- all look genius, etc.

Why Marxists Hate Christianity?!! First, Marx stated God was a hoax. So, we are hated because the Christian West defaults towards faith, is highly successful, and fights to keep its own identity. Observe Rodney Stark’s analysis: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and the Success of the West --

“Christian faith in reason and in progress was the foundation on which Western success was achieved. As the distinguished philosopher Alfred North Whitehead said science arose only in Europe because only there did people think that science could be done and should be done, a faith “derivative from medieval theology.”

Moreover the medieval Christian faith in reason and progress was constantly reinforced by actual progress, by technical and organizational innovations, many of them fostered by Christianity. See Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World: Holland, Tom. Holland argues the miracle of Western Europe was a Christian accomplishment.

Political Religion: Discussing cultural implosions, consider Linda Raeder’s book, “Political Religion and the Death of God.” This book lays out the history, purpose and means of achieving the permanent power of progressivism over its political foes. Briefly: Within the history of the West is found the counter-development of philosophical ideals of astounding presumption which then are employed waging war against the Christian religion that founded the West. Be prepared for the weird! But fake Political Religion is the highest level of human deception.

‘GOD IS DEAD’ as Evolution: Sincere Marxists, as de facto atheists, feel justified employing any and all means to wrest control from an increasingly secular society. Their ghastly wars and government slaughter of hundreds of millions of innocents is de rigueur policy of Marxist icons Lenin, Stalin & Mao. Such current denizens are offered salvation by force. So, when Nietzsche states, “God is Dead,” this becomes, accordingly -- an opportunity for Mankind to embrace a new maturity, denying God’s sovereignty. Meanwhile, timorous humans are encouraged to drop their spiritual bias, and childish religions and embrace a hearty portion of secular humanistic materialism. See Marxism, law and evolution: Marxist law in both theory and practice.

POLITICAL RELIGION: It is enormously important to leftists that this new political religion, is embraced by elites and offers positive, manmade law -- as opposed to biblical natural law. Moreover it is very important to note that since biblical religions have the strongest metaphysical claims they must be most strongly denied. See, Recontesting the Sacred: political theology as ideological method.

DEATH OF GOD: So, assuming leftists want to eliminate God -- what problems does the Death of God address? First, it would evaporate all sin, and therefore no judgments would entail. Ergo -- no hell would exist. But the murder of God, aka Deicide, is an ostentatious act of Self deification. It’s the most basic act of human narcissism. And the act of self-deification is a trenchant aspect of the modern psychosis which leftists apply to themselves as a wanna-be deity, according to Linda Raeder. But the ultimate spiritual egotism claims if God is removed then humans can hijack divine decision making. If the Ubermensch ‘Superman’ is the most extensive ethical demand that can be conceived, certainly the demand itself has failed beyond measure.

Which Model of God? Given the vast number of so-called ‘gods’ in human history, it’s still a Christian model of the Man-Diety Christ Jesus as the target, albeit as a trifecta of personalities. There are theological, legal, philosophical and social reasons to destroy the Messiah. But suffice it to say that if Jesus is killed and his story blotted out, then the entire theory of western religion is removed as atheism reigns preeminent. See God Is Dead…But Which One?

Golden Bough, et al: Recall that Sir James Frazier wrote much on myth and religion in his unparalleled masterwork The Golden Bough. Frazier describes in Book 4, Chapter 24: “THE KILLING OF THE DIVINE KING. § 1. The Mortality of the Gods.— “Man has created gods in his own likeness and being himself mortal he has naturally supposed his creatures to be in the same sad predicament.” And here is description of the evocative fable out of Rome:

“The lynchpin of The Golden Bough is one unique, ancient Roman custom, observed at a single sacred grove at Nemi in the mountains near Rome. It was dedicated to the goddess Diana and served by a priest who took office only by killing the previous man to hold the job. Frazer claimed to have found the explanation for this bizarre tradition in a formerly universal human custom of being ruled by sacred kings representing the spirit of vegetation on which farming depended. These kings were, according to Frazer, ritually killed and replaced, either when their natural powers began to wane or after a fixed number of years, such as seven. It was pretty obvious from the start that one obscure Roman rite was not the real focus of Frazer’s interest. Instead, he was gunning for Christianity, by suggesting that Jesus Christ had been identified with one of these sacred kings, and that the whole story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection arose out of a misunderstanding of this bloodthirsty, ignorant, and pointless ancient pagan tradition.”

Frazier’s explanation for the death of the God-King is obviously insufficient for the topic at hand.

Nietzsche’s Imploding Morality: The demand by tragic philosopher Frederieck Nietzsche, who claimed that his “superman” -- a nihilist superstar -- must prove his worth by rejecting all previous morality and then inventing a new set of ethics. This is not just presumptuous but also born to fail, because it assumes individuals will create their own ad hoc morality, instead of the collective genius of the biblical model found in human legal history. But the death of law, aka nihilism, creates death of society, so cannot be seriously accepted, despite Nietzsche’s beliefs. See Nietzsche’s Nihilism and the Crisis of Values.

CARL SCHMITT’S ‘SOVEREIGN’: The largest issue for any state to solve is,‘Who has the right to create law?’ See ‘Political Theology’: How the State Plays God: For Schmitt, the answer:

“The sovereign thus stands outside of the legal order. He is endowed with extra-legal powers. Thus he is to the state what God is to the world: he is over and above it, and can act on it as required — or desired. Hence for Schmitt, the sovereign is the means by which the transcendent is returned to the ruling order. For politics, at its heart, reflects theology: ‘all significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularised theological concepts,’ he writes. Thomas Hobbes, in his Leviathan, conceptualises the sovereign as a terrifying sea-monster from the book of Job. Schmitt sees the sovereign as godlike. Hobbes is in a sense a proto-liberal, in that he grounds the state in the social contract to protect the life of the individual. Schmitt is not a liberal, and thinks the sovereign should be much more energetic and proactive.”

Double Insanity: Perhaps the most stunning aspect of modern atheist beliefs is the founders of these ideals, a new atheistic religion -- is both were insane. Consider that French philosopher August Comte was declared insane and institutionalized, before his biggest breakthroughs. Whereas, German philologist Frederick Nietzsche merely mentally collapsed and was brought by his sister to their Mother’s house to convalesce and die.

This helps explain why so much of modern leftism has a completely unhinged worldview. Maden writes of Nietzsche's permanent dementia: “Thus marks the beginning of 11 years of incoherent seclusion, during which the great philosopher-poet Friedrich Nietzsche — descended from dizzying intellectual heights to the depths of insanity — and never writes another publishable word…”

God is Dead as Political Activism: If one takes the God is Dead, aka Deicide movement as a political move, then certain attractive outcomes become possible, if not inevitable. Consider how the worst leaders, such as Joseph Stalin, desire the right and duty to kill his own, innocent people. Well, if religion is illegal because God was rejected, and even declared dead, then murder itself is removed as a sacred violation. Man cannot be made in the image of a non-entity, after all. See, “The political message of Nietzsche's 'God is dead'.

Biblical Religion is Verboten: Since the Bible is the Living Word of God, it is certainly the most menacing concept that leftists could ever encounter. Because this means there is a record of God's work, and a divine standard -- and so a foundation based on the Ten Commandments and all other passages. This fact towers above every other legal system in world history.

Postmodern Paradise: Postmodernism is the idea that “truth” is relic from our past religious world-view. And yet, this is exactly Nietzsche’s ideal -- that each person creates their own truth as an Ubermensche, aka moral Superman. This feral ideology infects every truth sacrificed on its altar. This comes to drain every important conviction and positive affection from our society, leaving afterwards the babble of inchoate nihilism.

SUMMARY: And so for a quick summary on this brief essay. First, the outline of modern society is wholly crafted from the slowly developing Christian society emerging from the Church. Second, that as the Church grew, philosophy was waging battle against this spiritualized state. Third, that a Death of God movement grew, driven by philosophical antagonisms, announced by Nietzsche, and used as a stalking-horse to further secular and atheist interests. Fourth, that the Death of God became a splendid vehicle to offer anti-Christian ideas and even self-aggrandizing forays into personal-deification. And finally, as leftism developed into a firm denier of the Christian godhead, the Death of God movement became a cultural icon where any speculative ideology could be launched, with impunity.

Overall -- We must defend the idea of truth as a bedrock for all of society's most important goals. For, as John Keats wrote in Ode to a Grecian Urn: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Christ himself offered: “I am the Way, the Truth & the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me.” -- John 14:6

Kelly O'Connell——Bio and Archives

Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.

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