The Deep Christian State

under 700 words, May 2022

Many of those joining us in the struggle against transhumanism, deep corruption and the destruction of liberty make appeal to what they call Christian values. This applies in particular to voices from North America. In the face of great evil — whether this term be understood metaphysically or metaphorically — they are our allies. This said, much of the rot can be attributed to the incoherence of Christianity. Neither Scripture nor the tradition of thought called Christian provides much of a moral compass. Scripture fails because any quote can be interpreted variously, or else in its vastness is contradicted elsewhere. This also applies if Scripture is held to cover only the New Testament, not the Old. The tradition fails because it has been through so many metamorphoses, from early century radicalism through the oppression constituted by monastic life and into Puritanism, with their different conceptions of salvation and sacrifice.

Christian churches are largely compromised, having complied with confinement and its accompanying measures, even having been eager to suppress common liberties and community. Closer to Evil than to Good.

The values we are trying to rescue are those of the Enlightenment, which cannot be reduced to a set of doctrines. The Enlightenment draws on a commitment to the search for truth and to the force of reason, while accepting that our faculty of reason runs up against limits, not least because we have different ways of thinking about different things. It is set against megalomania and hubris. It is opposed to the concentration of power and therefore upholds systems of checks & balances.

One question to be addressed is how so many in key positions have chosen falsehood over truth and indulged in absurdities. We are not talking about legitimate differences of opinion.

How do these people live with themselves? But they are clearly devoid of conscience. Conscience involves a sense of self and consistency, with a direction of travel towards greater maturity, and honesty. (None of these concepts can be understood individually, by analytic means alone. They must be understood as interconnected, i.e. synthetically.)

One answer to that question (i.e. the origins of so much falsehood) is that the much-vaunted Christian tradition has always failed to be coherent. Despite Jesus, it falls back on convention. The recourse to rules and codes, which has become dominant in public life, has actually weakened moral fibre because it absolves people of individual responsibility for the rules they live by and does nothing to strengthen the faculty of judgement. As faith in any ultimate (metaphysical) authority has waned, it has been replaced by a crude conformism and by materialism. (Most of those claiming to be Christians have betrayed the saying of Jesus that the Law was made for Man, not Man for the Law.)

In certain circles, convention has come to tolerate (even welcome) the acceptance of bribes, or else has come to leave people vulnerable to intimidation. But this is only part of the explanation. It would seem that persons of weak character and compromised persons (i.e. subject to blackmail) have been placed in positions of power and have been obeying instructions. How else is the absurdity of their pronouncements and conduct to be explained? It can only be down to conspiracy, or conspiracies.

In a better world, people would only accede to positions of power gradually, having matured, which will mean after being tested over many years for both their character and judgement. An important principle here is that no profession can police itself, each profession must be policed by members of different professions. What we now witness, however, is that the procedures have long filtered out the best and the bravest. Something which has continued at pace since early 2020.

It is vain to imagine that bad people can be eliminated. But what can be done is to have procedures in place which prevent them from taking the high ground, which is what has happened. Any such procedures will need review and possibly regeneration with each new generation.