Right now, it feels as though the world is in a state of constant revolution. The reason for this is because our political movements, particularly on the Left, have decided to worship the revolutionaries.
Example A: Greta Thunberg. 
Greta Thunberg, 21-years-old, is not an important person. There&#8217;s nothing about Greta Thunberg that suggests she knows anything about absolutely anything. She&#8217;s not an environmentalist expert and she is not an expert on foreign policy. Yet she has been held up as a model for our times, a person we all ought to follow, a sort of Joan of Arc when it comes to the moral conscience of the West.
Why? Because she&#8217;s a revolutionary and the West now worships revolutionaries. 
Over the weekend, she was arrested not once, but twice on the same day for blocking traffic at a climate protest to shout about a climate emergency. She explained, “We are in a planetary emergency.”
Thunberg is worshiped by the Left for this sort of nonsense.
But — she&#8217;s not the only one. There is a worship for the revolution when it comes to the Left. The revolutionaries must always be treated with extraordinary deference.
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When it was Black Lives Matter, rioters were burning down cities, doing $2 billion in damages — the single most damaging spate of riots in American history. The entire legacy media treated this not as though it was something deeply wrong and actually evil — it&#8217;s evil to burn down somebody else&#8217;s shop in the name of racial justice — but rather, as a group of people who are just a little bit too passionate. It was just that they were too committed to the cause.
You can see this now in the treatment of the pro-Hamas protesters who are showing up at Democratic events. The pro-Hamas protesters are, in fact, emissaries of an evil ideology. If you are standing for an actual genocidal terror group who wishes to impose Sharia law on its own citizens and to murder everyone else, you&#8217;re the bad guy.
But the Left has treated them with extraordinary deference. The New York Times published an entire piece titled “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza-protesters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How Gaza Protesters Are Challenging Democratic Leaders</a>.”
The normal way a decent civilization would treat these people would be as moral outcasts. It would shun them. It would say, “You don&#8217;t know what the hell you&#8217;re talking about. You&#8217;re moral idiots, and you are standing for a group of people who are legitimately the worst people on planet Earth. You&#8217;re trying to preserve a terrorist group to continue running the Gaza Strip after subjecting that entire area to their own predations.”
But the New York Times reported: 
<blockquote>In Detroit, a congressman’s holiday party devolved into chaos and a broken nose after demonstrators protesting the war in Gaza appeared with bullhorns. In Fort Collins, Colo., the mayor abruptly ended a meeting during which protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza glued their hands to a wall.
And in places as disparate as a historic church in South Carolina and Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, President Biden has been heckled and drowned out by demonstrators objecting to his support for Israel. Protests over the Biden administration’s handling of the war are disrupting the activities of Democratic officials from city halls to Congress to the White House, complicating their ability to campaign — and, at times, govern — during a pivotal election year.</blockquote>
The New York Times is not saying these protesters are wrong or bad, which they are. They&#8217;re both wrong and bad. Instead, the Times are saying Biden should take more stock of these protesters.
Who are these protesters? They&#8217;re the kinds of people who chanted “Death to America” in Michigan.
These are the protesters who the legacy media and the Biden administration are suggesting ought to dictate foreign policy in Gaza. The Biden administration is catering to those protesters and their friends.
Why? Why are they catering to the radicals in their own party? It turns out the vast majority of Americans don&#8217;t like any of this. So why exactly are they catering to them?
To understand that, you have to understand the theory of continuous revolution.
Effectively speaking, the Democratic Party, which now represents the Left in the United States, has adopted Chairman Mao’s theory of continuous revolution. That theory is rooted originally in a Marxist revision of Hegelian dialectic.
To really simplify the broad perception of the philosopher Hegel, it’s the basic idea that history progresses through contradiction; you have a thesis and an antithesis (a response to the thesis), and then a synthesis of the two ideas.
That synthesis starts to fall apart and turns into a thesis, an antithesis, and then a synthesis again. So history progresses through contradiction. Hegel meant this descriptively. He would say one country would represent one idea and a second country would represent a second idea. They would go to war and then they would make peace, and out of that would come a new synthesis. For example, out of a 30-Years-War between Catholic countries and Protestant countries would come the Peace of Westphalia.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels extended that theory into the realm of economics. They suggested that capitalism carried the seeds of its own destruction because capitalism was exploitative of the poor — which is false.
Their theory was that capitalism would impoverish the poor, and then the poor would rise up against capitalism. Capitalism was the thesis, the labor movement was the antithesis, and the synthesis would be socialism and eventually communism. That was the basic idea Marx and Engels put forward.
There&#8217;s one problem: What happens when you&#8217;ve reached the synthesis the Left actually likes? The Hegelian theory would suggest there will be an antithesis that rises and goes to war with the thesis. But if you’re the Left and you’ve won, what do you do now? You&#8217;re stuck.
That was the problem Chairman Mao discovered. He had fostered a communist revolution in China, and then became the boss. He ran the entire country with an iron fist. But according to Hegelian dialectics, there should be a movement that could theoretically threaten him, and from that threat would emerge a new movement.
So what did he do? He posited the theory of continuous revolution. That theory was that the party itself could embody all forms of revolution. There would be new revolutions — thesis, antithesis, and synthesis — but all would happen within the communist party structure. So <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he said</a>, “Opposition and struggle between ideas of different kinds constantly occur within the Party; this is a reflection within the Party of contradictions between classes and between the new and the old in society. If there were no contradictions in the Party and no ideological struggles to resolve them, the Party&#8217;s life would come to an end.”
In other words, the only way to retain absolute power was to encompass everything. The thesis and the antithesis? The party was bigger than both. All of this would happen inside the party, and this is why he encouraged younger members of the party to actually beat older members of the party to death. This is why he encouraged some good communists to kill other good communists during the Cultural Revolution.
What does this mean now? It means that if you are the Left and you wish to retain power, you have to pay continuous homage to the revolutionaries in your own party.
The thesis is Joe Biden. The antithesis is the pro-Hamas protesters, and the synthesis is a policy that effectively hands more power to Hamas.
The thesis is law and order. The antithesis is riots in the major cities. The synthesis is worship of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The thesis is normal environmentalists. The antithesis is Greta Thunberg sitting at a traffic stop and blocking traffic. And the synthesis is going to be a Green New Deal.
That&#8217;s the idea of the Democratic Party. The revolution will constantly be encompassed inside the party, inside the Left-wing movement.
All that is needed to make this happen is a little bit of celebrity cover for the revolution. You just need major politicians or major celebrities to repeat the nostrums of the revolutionaries every so often.
And then you will reach synthesis.

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The Left’s Continuous Revolution And The Worship Of Revolutionaries

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If you’ve been paying attention over the last couple of years, you’ve seen how woke ideologies are ripping through all aspects of society from the K-12 education system to colleges, the military, and our local, state, and federal governments.
If you haven’t been paying attention, Harvard-educated House GOP Chair, Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) thrust this into the spotlight and is finally taking some action. Her brave questioning of several U.S. college presidents in Washington, D.C., exposed the rot that has formed at many of America’s most respected education institutions.
And now this is extending beyond the GOP. Bill Ackman, billionaire and longtime Democrat donor, <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/bill-ackman-war-harvard-mit-dei-claudine-gay.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently told the New York Magazine</a> that his daughter was indoctrinated at Harvard University saying in part &#8220;She became, like, an anti-capitalist. Like practically a Marxist.”
Bill’s comments reflect the pain that many parents from around the nation are feeling who have watched their sons and daughters return home from college not smarter, more cultured, or more business savvy, but brainwashed on many issues that go against the values in which they were raised as children.
What should terrify all parents, is that this is not an uncommon scenario in today’s world where a young man or woman goes off to college with a deep love for America only to come home on spring break with a new mindset: burn America to the ground.
U.C. Berkeley&#8217;s School of Law <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/09/30/uc-berkeley-blasted-for-creating-jewish-free-zones-with-pro-israel-speaker-ban/">allegedly</a> created a “<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/uc-berkeley-law-schools-jew-free-zones-latest-progressive-trend-opinion-1748218">Zionist-free zone</a>&#8221; where anyone who supports Israel is not allowed to enter. On another side of the same campus, Jewish students were recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-uc-berkeley-jewish-students-forced-to-evacuate-after-mob-storms-event-with-idf-soldier" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced to to barricade</a> themselves inside because of a angry mobs trying to attack them. 
Through a strategic plan to completely infiltrate our education systems, we have seen innocent children grow up to become unrecognizable anarchists on campuses across our nation. What should scare us even more — today’s protesters will become tomorrow’s prosecutors.
And it doesn’t stop there. Innocent, moldable minds that have been hijacked by woke ideology are the future of our healthcare system, government, judicial system, and yes, those in charge of educating generations to come.
President Donald J. Trump has always said, “They aren&#8217;t after me, they are after you.” But it doesn’t stop there — they are after an entire generation.
As a former intelligence officer and prosecutor, this problem is much deeper than meets the eye.
For years, this has been quietly driven by weak college presidents who can’t find the moral courage to unequivocally condemn Anti-Semitism and tenured professors turned political activists with a single mission — to brainwash the minds of our nation’s future.
This hate-filled culture is not enriching life on college campuses. Why are the leaders of higher education allowing this to take root and more importantly, who is funding it?
And it’s not just in higher education where the destructive woke ideologies have taken root. We now see them on full display in the U.S. military where recently, radical U.S. airman, Aaron Bushnell, quite literally<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hamas-praises-far-left-extremist-who-torched-himself-while-screaming-free-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> set himself on fire</a> outside of the Israeli Embassy in the United States to protest the American government’s support for Israel.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices have transformed into a Marxist value system and the consequences are detrimental and our recruitment is suffering immensely.
Traditionally, the U.S. military has been revered for its focus on meritocracy and unity of purpose. Recruitment was based on the principles of honor, duty, and patriotism, with individuals from diverse backgrounds coming together under the shared goal of defending their country. However, the rise of Marxist initiatives has shifted the focus away from these core principles, prioritizing identity politics over the fundamental qualities necessary for military service.
DEI initiatives have fostered a toxic environment within the military, where divisive identity politics take precedence over unity and cohesion. Rather than fostering a sense of camaraderie and shared purpose, these initiatives have sown discord and resentment among service members, undermining morale and eroding the bonds of trust that are essential for effective teamwork in combat situations.
It is imperative that we recognize the dangers posed by Marxist initiatives all throughout our society and take decisive action to reverse this damaging trend. Instead of focusing on divisive identity politics, we must reaffirm our commitment to meritocracy, unity, and shared purpose.
From all aspects of our education systems to our military to our government leaders, one thing is for sure; woke ideologies are destroying the fabric of our great nation and they must come to an end once and for all.
And in Congress, I will fight to save our children and our national security. I will use all means possible to form a task force to investigate this problem, find out who is funding it and make sure that our youth once again believes in one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/AbrahamHamadeh?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Abe Hamadeh</a> is a Trump-endorsed Republican Candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District and former U.S. Army Intelligence Officer.
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A lot of states are now starting to cut ties with the American Library Association, which is utterly appropriate considering that the ALA is now a Left-wing interest group like so many of our public institutions.
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is going after the ALA. Lee said their goal is to sexualize children and minors with sexually explicit material and then hide this content from parents.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/15/american-library-association-book-bans/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>:
<blockquote>When it was his turn to question witnesses, he called up a video of Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. In a Zoom call, Caldwell-Stone had been recorded arguing that book advocates should “reframe” the book challenges. This debate should not center on whether titles are sexually inappropriate for minors, Caldwell-Stone said. It should be about “diverse materials … that are about … everybody’s right to see themselves and their families reflected” on bookshelves. … The American Library Association is facing a partisan firefight unlike anything in its almost 150-year history.</blockquote>
The Left does something unbelievably terrible and provocative. But if you notice, you’re the one starting a “firefight.”
The Post continued:
<blockquote>The once-uncontroversial organization, which says it is the world’s largest and oldest library association and which provides funding, training and tools to most of the country’s 123,000 libraries, has become entangled in the education culture wars — the raging debates over what and how to teach about race, sex and gender — culminating in Tuesday’s senatorial name-check.
Like Lee, politicians and parents on the right increasingly paint the association, known as the ALA, as a defender of pornographic literature for children — tying their allegations into a broader conservative movement that asserts school libraries are filled with sexually explicit, inappropriate texts. (A 2022 tweet in which the organization’s president called herself “a Marxist lesbian” added to concerns.)</blockquote>
Hmm. So the problem is not that the ALA’s president calls herself a Marxist lesbian; the problem is that anyone noticed she tweeted that out publicly over the summer.
State libraries in Montana, Missouri, and Texas announced they were severing ties with the ALA, which is good. They should.
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Meanwhile, librarians and those on the political Left are defending the ALA as a key provider of money and skills for librarians. In particular, they are citing <a href="https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/book-ban-data#:~:text=OIF%20documented%201%2C269%20demands%20to,book%20challenges%20reported%20in%202021." target="_blank" rel="noopener">an ALA report</a> tracking 1,269 attempts to remove library books in 2022, the highest number of challenges to books since the ALA began compiling stats on the issue.
Good for parents for finally waking up and taking notice.
And the fact that parents fighting back against the indoctrination of their kids is considered Right-wing radicalism is an indication of how far the Left will go to vilify them.
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Thousands of parents in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mexico</a> took to the streets last week to burn education materials that featured “Marxist-communist” indoctrination from the country&#8217;s department of education.
The Financial Times <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/69bf7312-c593-4b76-8b62-a29fd2c5346b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that one of the officials behind the push to indoctrinate children in Mexico was &#8220;a former Venezuelan government official.&#8221;
The books were woke, filled with &#8220;hard-to-follow material full of errors, a lack of basic language and mathematical exercises and irrelevant or highly age-inappropriate content.&#8221;
The books were so controversial that some governors in the country have refused to distribute them as they demonize capitalism and neoliberalism.
Fox News <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/09/03/mexican-parents-burn-textbooks-infected-with-virus-of-communism-in-fiery-protest-against-gender-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that at least 12,000 parents in southern Mexico attended the protest where the Marxist books were burned.
So far, more than 112,000 parent signatures have been submitted demanding that the government stop distributing the books.
The material has faced backlash even in Mexican news media.
“Mexico is at risk from a virus that people thought was eradicated — the communist virus,” Mexican news anchor Javier Alatorre said in front of a backdrop of a hammer and sickle with the country&#8217;s education officials. “They want to condemn Mexico to poverty, mediocrity, and hatred.”
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Democrats in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colorado">Colorado</a> chose a Marxist teacher who has called for a “FORCEFUL Cultural revolution” to fill an open seat in the state’s House of Representatives. 
Tim Hernández was selected by a committee of Democrats Saturday to represent the Denver area after state Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez was elected to the Denver city council, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/marxist-who-called-for-forceful-cultural-revolution-lands-seat-on-state-legislature" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The teacher, who worked at Aurora West Preparatory Academy last year, openly advocated for Marxism while calling for “White systems” to be dismantled. 
&#8220;Your [communist] theory will not save you. The revolution… will happen in the hood. It will not be led by who understand Lenin best, it will not be led by the deepest Marxists,” Hernández said while speaking at a union protest. “The revolution will be led by the people…. And I say all of this because I&#8217;m a teacher.&#8221; 
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Hernández joined the staff at Aurora West Preparatory Academy after he said he was fired from another Denver public school for being “aggressive, divisive, and attacking,” according to an administrator. The teacher’s contract was not renewed by Denver Public Schools following the spring semester, sparking a walkout from students demanding his reinstatement, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/former-denver-teacher-tim-hernandez-colorado-house-representatives/?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
&#8220;The people of Denver&#8217;s Northside and Westside deserve a representative who has lived experiences with our community&#8217;s struggles. I am happy to say today that the people of HD4 elected a teacher, a Chicano and a Northsider,&#8221; said Hernández after being chosen to fill the seat. &#8220;I am hopeful and excited that we will work to dismantle oppressive policies in Colorado and in the communities I have the privilege of representing.&#8221; 
The teacher’s social media revealed that he regularly shared communist talking points and displayed flags supporting leftist causes in his classroom, such as Black Lives Matter and Palestine. 
&#8220;Am I denying the freedom to uphold White supremacy? If so, I am in favor of that denial. And, White supremacy is CURRENTLY upheld by force. So yes, I&#8217;m advocating a FORCEFUL cultural revolution wherein we assert the dignity of life for all at the expense of White supremacy,” Hernández wrote on Twitter in 2021. 
&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about Whiteness and White supremacy. And I&#8217;m willing to advocate for any form of disruption to it and every manifestation it has,&#8221; he added. 
The communist teacher also wants young children to be exposed to Marxist thought by showing them the movie “A Bug’s Life” and then teaching them about the “proletariat revolution,” Fox News reported. 
&#8220;A lot of people call me a &#8216;unicorn.&#8217; I am not an anomaly,” Hernández said, according to notes for a rally in Memphis in 2021. “I am a testament to the work we still have to do; this is sacred; this is powerful; this is necessary. I tell my students the truth.”
Both the Colorado House of Representatives and the state Senate are controlled by Democrats. In 2022, the party’s majority increased by eight seats in the state <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_House_of_Representatives">House</a> and four seats in the state <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Colorado_State_Senate">Senate</a>.

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The president of the American Library Association (ALA) is standing by her “Marxist” views as a backlash grows against the association among <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> lawmakers.
Emily Drabinski, a self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian,” took over as president of the ALA in July. The ALA is the largest nonprofit trade organization for libraries, recent wielding its influence against efforts to <a href="https://news.wttw.com/2022/04/18/american-library-association-director-says-book-bans-aim-suppress-social-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban</a> sexually explicit content from school libraries and to <a href="https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommend</a> dozens of LGBT books for minors.
The backlash against Drabinski began over a post she made to social media before taking her spot at the head of the ALA.
“I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect of @ALALibrary,” Drabinski wrote in an April 2022 post. “I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity! And my mom is SO PROUD. I love you mom.”
Despite the backlash, she doubled-down in an interview with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-library-association-president-marxist-lesbian-rcna98254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a> published on Monday.
“I was excited to highlight and celebrate two aspects of my identity that are really important to me, and are often under a lot of scrutiny,” Drabinski said, adding that she wanted to be an example for other library employees who shared her identities. “I didn’t anticipate these kinds of targeted attacks being used as a bludgeon against library workers across the country. I really think that is regrettable, and I wish that wasn’t happening right now.”
The Montana State Library Commission became the first state commission to leave the ALA over Drabinski’s comments in July. Montana State Library Commissioner Tamara Hall <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/montana-library-commissioner-praises-move-leave-american-library-association-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">praised</a> the decision, calling it a “statement” about “what’s right for Montana.”
“We’re pulling out based on the fact that our oath of office for Montana and for the federal government is in direct violation of [Drabinski’s] Marxist opinion,” Hall said at the time.
In addition to Montana, lawmakers in other states – including Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Wyoming – have led calls to separate off from the ALA over concerns about Drabinski’s Marxism and the political agenda of the ALA.

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The following is a transcript excerpt from one of Dr. Jordan Peterson’s lectures during the 12 Rules for Life Tour. You can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/who-dares-say-he-believes-in-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listen to</a> or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/who-dares-say-he-believes-in-god" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch</a> the full podcast on DailyWire+.
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There are only a couple of ways you can be a Christian and a Marxist. One is that you just want to be all things that are good at once regardless of their internal contradictions. So, that would be one reason. Another reason would be that you do not know anything about Christianity or Marxism. The next would be that you are just compartmentalized.
There is this idea that people cannot hold two contradictory thoughts in their mind at the same time. That idea was formulated by someone who has never met a human being because you can hold about 50 contradictory thoughts in your head at the same time, as you know whenever you argue with someone that you love. You love them, and maybe you even like them, but you also hate them and you wish that you could just crush them right then and there. That is a lot of contradictory ideas, and that is probably only half the contradictory ideas that are running through your mind at the moment. You are so full of contradictions that it is just beyond belief. 
I know this because I read undergraduate essays. The undergraduate will make a claim in paragraph one and then in paragraph seven will make the opposite claim. And they will not notice that they are intellectually incommensurate. That might happen 30 times in the essay. The reason that works is because they have not been called on the paradoxes, but also because they have not had to live the paradoxes through. Because you really only straighten out your thoughts when you have Impulse A and Impulse B, and they conflict at the same time, and you can either do one or the other but not both. If it is A today and B tomorrow, then you can hold those ideas simultaneously. But if it is A or B right now, then you have to decide: Is A more important or is B more important? You have to put them in a hierarchy. Then you have to act them out, and you have to see what happens. Then you find out if you are full of contradictions.
Part of the way that you iron out your contradictions, which is very hard to do, is that you go out and you do a whole bunch of things in the world, like Socrates did. You have your adventure in the world, and you put your ideas to the test. Those that work out in a paradoxical or counterproductive manner you dispense with, or put lower on the priority list, or something like that. That is how you discover that you cannot hold incommensurate views simultaneously. Carl Jung said that paradoxical views that are not made conscious will be played out in the world as fate. That is really worth thinking about too. So, if you have your typical negative experience — this thing that seems to just keep happening to you, bad luck, let’s call it — it is highly probable that there is a set of ideas that is occupying you, preoccupying you, possessing you, that is driving you in this direction continually. And you cannot or will not work out the contradiction. Maybe you think every woman is your mother, and you have not noticed that you think that. It is something that people think because mothers are women, and it is not a bad initial template, but you have to modify it to some degree. If that is an unconscious idea that you have, and you continue to play it out, you may run into your continual, habitual, negative experience with women, and you will wonder what the hell is wrong with women. But it is not the women who have the problem; it is you. If you run into problems with women all the time, then it is highly probable that the problem is you — not always, but generally. 
To discuss this Marxist and Christian idea, we will start with some of the ideas of Marx. Marx believed that people were basically socially constructed, so that we were blank slates and our nature was given to us, essentially, by our surroundings, but even more importantly by our social class. Marx was a theorist of social class and believed that the primary motivator of human history — the primary driver of human history — was the rich versus the poor or the bourgeoisie versus the proletariat. That was a consequence of your social upbringing and your group identity was paramount. There is nothing about that that is vaguely Christian. That is not how the Christian worldview works. That is not how the Judeo-Christian worldview works because in that worldview, you are fundamentally an individual. Your nature is fundamentally attributable to you by God. You are fundamentally responsible to God. And history itself is something like the playing out of your relationship to the transcendent. So those are not the same. They are not commensurate. You cannot believe both of them at the same time. 
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Marxism is a materialistic philosophy. It is predicated on an idea that [Fyodor] Dostoevsky criticized in great depth — that if you just made people rich enough, if you deprive them of their privation, if you equalize their economic status, then the utopia would come to light upon earth. I have a certain amount of sympathy for a viewpoint like that because who likes starvation and misery? There is nothing positive to be said about that. But I think Dostoevsky was right too in his criticism of Marxism. He was not directly aiming this at Marx in “Notes from Underground,” but he noted that if you gave people what they wanted in terms of bread and circuses, and they had nothing to do but eat cakes and busy themselves with a continuation of the species, which is kind of a nice phrase, the first thing they would do is take a hammer and smash things just so that something improbable and strange would happen, just so that we could have our way. 
It is kind of a recapitulation of the idea of original sin in Dostoevsky’s subtle manner. He said we are the sorts of creatures that are ungrateful. That is the thing that primarily distinguishes us from animals is that we are ungrateful and we can curse. That was what he thought made us different than animals. And that even if we got what we wanted materially, that would not satisfy us because we are not the sorts of creatures that can be satisfied with material possessions or material comfort because it is not even obvious that we are after comfort. What do you want? Do you want to just lay in a feather bed and eat peeled grapes all day? Maybe for an hour or so that might not be a bad idea, but it is going to get dull pretty quick. You are going to go out looking for trouble. It is certainly possible that the more material resources — and the easier they are to get — that you have at your disposal, the more creative ways you are going to find to cause yourself trouble when you go out and look for trouble. That is a testament to the human spirit, and Dostoevsky knew this. Whatever we are here for, it is not the utopia of equal material distribution. We are not looking to be fed and asleep. I do not know what it is that we are looking for. God only knows. Maybe what we are looking for is to continually keep looking. That is the sort of creatures we are. But the materialist philosophy is, if you just provided for people economically the problem is over. No. Wrong. 
Given that you are going to be ill in one way or another and that you are still subject to mortality and all of the terrible natural limitations that human beings are characterized by, you are about as well off as you are going to get. The economic data already showed that once you have enough money so that bill collectors are not chasing you (which basically puts you in the upper reaches of the working class or maybe the lower end of the middle class) additional money has absolutely no effect whatsoever on your self-reported well-being, which is something like a combination of positive emotion and absence of negative emotion. You might like to think that if you were rich, your life would be better. And maybe it would be somewhat better, but it would not be as much better as you might hope. That is because you would still have most of the problems that people have. You would still not get along with your sister, and you would still get divorced. Maybe you would even be more likely to. There would still be illnesses that would beset you. You would be able to deal with them perhaps with some degree of more urgency. But you still have the problem with what the hell your life is for and what you are doing on the planet and how to conduct yourself in the proper way. So we do not want to be too naive about materialism, even though we do not want to be ungrateful for its advantages. 
Marx also believed that history was basically characterized by the war of socioeconomic groups. That has been transformed more recently into the war of identity groups, which is the same damn thing. It is the same old wolf in new sheep’s clothing: The best way to conceptualize human beings is whatever your damn identity is. Maybe it is sex for you, and it is ethnicity for you, and it is gender for you, and God only knows what it is for you. And that is who you identify with and all there is in the world. And this is the postmodernist view: Hierarchies of people in these identity groups struggling for dominion. That is a quasi-Marxist viewpoint. It is just a variant of the bourgeoisie versus proletariat theory of history, which is a foolish theory as far as I am concerned and certainly not one that we need to take forward into the 21st century, although we seem destined to insist that we do so. He believed that the revolutionary overthrow of the oppressor class was necessary and morally demanded. That turns out to be a little bloodier than I would say the typical Judeo-Christian ethic might require because it does not require you to take up arms against your evil overlords and put them in gulags and kill them by the millions, for example. That, to me, seems to be an important difference. 
In the Judeo-Christian tradition, there is no group guilt. You are guilty and you are guilty of different things. And that is your problem. But maybe you are also innocent. Who knows? But, it is on you. It is not a consequence of your racial heritage or your ethnicity or your gender or any of those things. It is between you and God, or it is between you and the state even. But at least it is between you and the state or God. It is not as though your father or grandfather was a factory owner. It was perfectly reasonable during the Russian Revolution and the Red Terror to vacuum you up along with your whole family and do away with you because you would had been irredeemably tainted by your bourgeoisie past. That is another place where Marxism and Judeo Christianity are not just different; they are opposite. It is not just Variant One and Variant Two. These are seriously different ideas. So there is another reason you cannot be a Marxist and a Christian. 
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Why You Cannot Be A Christian And A Marxist

Christianity

Jordan Peterson

Former NFL quarterback <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernick-accuses-his-white-adoptive-parents-of-perpetuating-racism-while-they-raised-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colin Kaepernick</a> joined “prominent black Marxists” on a book project that aims to defend race-centered curriculum in American schools — and slammed capitalism in the process.
In an <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/173662/black-history-absolute-necessity-colin-kaepernick-book-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New Republic, Kaepernick defended his decision to partner with Marxist academics Robin D.G. Kelley and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor to edit the anthology “Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies.” The book was born out of a battle over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/revised-version-of-ap-african-american-studies-course-tones-down-wokeness-desantis-admin-reviewing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AP African American Studies courses</a>, which were largely based on elements of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and included radical gender theories until the College Board revised the curriculum following pushback from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. 
“I’ve long admired Keeanga and Robin’s work as well as their uncompromising political analysis and understanding that Black liberation simply isn’t possible under capitalism,” the millionaire quarterback-turned-racial-activist said. “I think the anthology makes this argument quite well, and I hope it challenges readers to see that racism is not white supremacy’s only ingredient. White supremacy persists in part because of its relationship with capitalism, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and so on.”
According to Kaepernick, attacking “black studies” is “core” to the “white supremacist political project” of Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who blocked CRT-based curricula from being taught in schools.
“Black Studies and, more generally, a critical engagement with U.S. history, threatens the white supremacist status quo,” Kaepernick said.
Along with editing, Kaepernick, Kelley, and Taylor also wrote essays that made it into the anthology. Essay&#8217;s by W.E.B. Du Bois and Angela Davis condemning capitalism also appear in the book, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12211641/Colin-Kaepernick-slams-CAPITALISM-promotes-new-black-studies-book-wrote-Marxists.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The capitalism-bashing book is available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-History-Always-Been-Contraband/dp/B0BYDCQ3XQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon</a> for $52 for a hardcover and $19.95 for a paperback.
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The racial activist now runs a non-profit <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colin-kaepernick-new-book-change-the-game-activism-nfl/">focused</a> on “black and brown youth” and lives in a $5.4 million mansion in Las Vegas. Kaepernick said his political thinking has evolved “by reading the works of Black radical thinkers and being in conversation with Black radical organizers.”

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Colin Kaepernick Defends Book Partnership With Marxists, Says ‘Black Liberation’ Not ‘Possible Under Capitalism’

Colin Kaepernick Defends Book Partnership With Marxists, Says 'Black Liberation' Not 'Possible Under Capitalism'

Critical Race Theory

Ron DeSantis

Social Issues

U.S.

An academic critic admitted that he was wrong about the influence leftist scholars would have in mainstream culture.
Russell Jacoby, author and professor emeritus of history at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), wrote a book in 1987 dismissing conservatives’ fears that students of postmodernism and critical pedagogy would wreak havoc on American culture. Now, 35 years later in an <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/takeover-russell-jacoby" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> for Tablet, he admits that conservatives were right.
“In 1987 I published &#8216;The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe&#8217; which elicited heated responses,” said Jacoby. “Only now do I see I got something wrong — as did my critics.”
Jacoby said he wrote the book in response to a number of bestselling books in the eighties that speculated that various offshoots of Marxist-derived Critical Theories taught in universities would produce leftist activists that would bring chaos to Western civilization.
“I argued that the conservatives should awake from their nightmare of radical scholars destroying America and relax; academic revolutionaries preoccupied themselves with their careers and perks,” said Jacoby. “If they made waves, they were confined to the campus pool.”
At the time Jacoby believed that these academics were too consumed with advancing their careers within the campus walls to concern themselves with public discourse. 
“They penned unreadable articles and books for colleagues,” said Jacoby. “They were less subversive than submissive.”
Now Jacoby realizes he “missed something” that was not obvious to him at the time he wrote the book: “the dawning takeover of the public sphere by campus denizens and lingo.”
As a historian of intellectuals and education, Jacoby attributes this to the changing university landscape over the decades. There were only a small number of public leftists teaching in American universities in the 1950s. By the 1980s, their numbers had rapidly expanded, but in the 1990s the proliferation of universities across the nation halted, especially for the Humanities. The jobs they would have assumed as university faculty were no longer available in many fields.
“In my own department in 10 years we went from accepting over a hundred students for graduate study to under 20 for a simple reason,” said Jacoby. “We could not place our students.” 
“The hordes who took courses in critical pedagogy, insurgent sociology, gender studies, radical anthropology, Marxist cinema theory, and postmodernism could no longer hope for university careers,” he added. 
As a result, the leftists who would have become university professors had to join the workforce, bringing with them the “sensibilities and jargon they learned on campus.”
“It is the exodus from the universities that explains what is happening in the larger culture,” said Jacoby. “The leftists who would have vanished as assistant professors in conferences on narratology and gender fluidity or disappeared as law professors with unreadable essays on misogynist hegemony and intersectionality have been pushed out into the larger culture.”
“They staff the ballooning diversity and inclusion commissariats that assault us with vapid statements and inane programs couched in the language they learned in school,” Jacoby continued. “We are witnessing the invasion of the public square by the campus, an intrusion of academic terms and sensibilities that has leaped the ivy-covered walls aided by social media.”
“The buzz words of the campus — diversity, inclusion, microaggression, power differential, white privilege, group safety — have become the buzz words in public life. Already confusing on campus, they become noxious off campus,” he added.
Jacoby went on to describe the various manifestations of activist-capture in our trusted institutions in recent years, including when the New York Times published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">op-ed</a> by Republican Senator Tom Cotton advocating for military intervention during the George Floyd riots in 2020, and the paper’s staffers said they felt that the piece put them “in danger.” The article caused such public outrage that the op-ed editor, James Bennett, was forced to apologize and resign.
“When employees protest that they feel unsafe because their company is publishing an offensive article or book, we know what university courses they have taken,” said Jacoby. 
“When the ACLU drops any mention of the First Amendment from its annual reports; when one of its directors declares, ‘First Amendment protections are disproportionately enjoyed by people of power and privilege’; and when its [sic] counsels its own lawyers to balance free speech and &#8216;offense to marginalized groups,&#8217; we know they studied critical race theory,” he continued.
The article is a marked departure from Jacoby’s previously held views, as he now recognizes that opposition to freedom of speech comes almost exclusively from the Left. 
“The self-righteous professors have spawned self-righteous students who filter into the public square,” Jacoby said. “The former prospered in their campus enclaves by plumping each other’s brilliance, but they left the rest of us alone.” 
“The latter, their students, however, constitute an unmitigated disaster, intellectually and politically, as they enter the workforce,” he concluded.
<a href="https://twitter.com/Evolutionistrue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jerry Coyne</a>, a prolific evolutionary biologist and author of the bestselling book, “Why Evolution Is True,” hosts a website by the same name where he <a href="https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022/12/23/progressive-professors-the-root-of-all-evil/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> about Jacoby’s article.
“There’s no solution offered by Jacoby, just a big kvetch about how things are,” said Coyne. “And, indeed, given that the ‘studies mills’ are still grinding out students who can’t get academic jobs and will thus infest university administrations and the media for years to come, I’ll have been long underground when and if this movement dies out.” 
The world-famous biologist Richard Dawkins <a href="https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1606379832455188482?s=20&amp;t=QBDDrRYx7ijvy5es3cvCSg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared</a> Coyne’s review, “Progressive professors: the root of all evil,” to his Twitter followers on Friday. Elon Musk even chimed in on Dawkins’ post and <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1606547770541838337?s=20&amp;t=QBDDrRYx7ijvy5es3cvCSg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “True, ‘progressive’ professors are the root of this evil.”

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UCLA Professor Admits Conservatives’ Fears Were Justified About Leftist Academics In The Workforce

'I Was Wrong': UCLA Professor Admits Conservatives' Fears Were Justified About Leftist Academics In The Workforce

Academia

The following book excerpt is from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Changes-Everything-Perspectives-Ministries/dp/1540900371/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1667505905&amp;sr=1-1">Truth Changes Everything</a> by Dr. Jeff Myers.
In the past, the truths viewpoint led to a soft tolerance that said that individual truth claims must be accepted unless they directly harm others. This has changed in the last half century with the teachings of scholars like Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979), a Marxist professor and the popularizer of critical theory. To Marcuse, intolerance is a virtue and tolerance is a vice. Tolerance legitimizes viewpoints that should not be tolerated. Tolerance is “serving the cause of oppression,” he says.
As more people embrace the truths viewpoint, traditional protections of tolerance, such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, are coming under attack. Fifty-one percent of Americans now say that the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, is outdated and should be rewritten to prevent hate speech and better reflect the cultural mores of the times. In the truths viewpoint, psychology replaces logic. Carl R. Trueman says, “Once harm and oppression are regarded as being primarily psychological categories, freedom of speech then becomes part of the problem, not the solution, because words become potential weapons.”
Many worldviews do, by their nature and the example of their leaders, weaponize language to demean others. Take, for example, the Marxist worldview and one of its heroes, Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924). Biographer Victor Sebestyen notes that Lenin carefully crafted a harsh and abusive way of making his arguments and as a result “almost single-handedly &#8230; changed the language on the revolutionary Left.” His opponents weren’t just wrong. They were “scoundrels,” “philistines,” “cretins,” “filthy scum,” or other names that are too profane to mention here. One of Lenin’s close associates, Moishe Olgin, remarked, “He does not reply to an opponent. He vivisects him. &#8230; He ridicules his opponent. He castigates him. He makes you feel that his victim is an ignoramus, a fool, a presumptuous nonentity.”
Even after the fall of the Soviet Union, Sebestyen says, Communists everywhere “learned that it made sense to play the man, not the ball — and how to do it with ruthless efficiency.” It became “settled Bolshevik practice.”
Saul Alinsky’s bestselling book, Rules for Radicals, carried Lenin’s death-dealing rhetoric into American life. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon,” he gloats. “There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
Christians often feel especially targeted. Social commentator Rod Dreher says that “a progressive — and profoundly anti-Christian militancy — is steadily overtaking society &#8230; empowered by unprecedented technological capabilities to surveil private life. There is virtually nowhere left to hide.”
Some Christians I have talked to believe the only way Truth can “win” is to fight fire with fire. In the Summit Ministries program, we’ve tried to teach and model a different way: telling the Truth while being gracious.
Admittedly, the fight fire with fire strategy draws more attention. “Watch person X humiliate person Y in three sentences” is a social media link that will get more traction than “Watch person X respond to person Y with Truth and grace.” Yet the Jesus follower should have more than an immediate victory in mind. We may find those we disagree with irritating (they may feel the same way about us), but they still have dignity as image bearers of God with eternal souls. Here are four steps I hope and pray are making a difference in my own life and in the lives of those I communicate with.
First, speak up. If the Truth is true at every moment, then at every moment we must proclaim it. The antidote to culture-depleting indoctrination is to tell the Truth, expose people to the lies that would deceive them, show them how to refute those lies, and prepare them with the thinking skills necessary to resist falsehood.
Second, be personal. People most clearly see the Truth found in the person of Jesus when we respect their personhood and interact in a personal way. Truth rarely hits people over the head. More often, it dawns on them. “A soft answer turns away wrath” (Prov. 15:1). How do we communicate softly? At Summit Ministries, we teach students to engage in conversation and ask good questions. As Emily Dickinson says, “The truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.”
Third, build trust. People have lost trust in one another. That’s the conclusion of a recent study by the Pew Research Center. Seventy percent think there is less confidence in one another than twenty years ago. Much of the distrust is based on fear of harm. Three-quarters of conservatives and half of liberals say they hold opinions they are afraid to share because they might face public shame or even lose their jobs. Many lay the blame for today’s distrust at the feet of social media. If social media is often a barrier to trust, personal interaction is a bridge to it.
Fourth, practice. We rarely get to choose the timing of our opportunities to speak Truth. We must be ready when the moment arises. This means we need to have a few basic habits of conversation in mind, such as how to ask good questions, how to affirm others’ search for Truth, and what to do if the conversation becomes hostile.
The good news is that most people want to get along and build trusting relationships.
We cannot let the worst among us dictate how we seek the best between us. It’s time to talk.
Dr. Jeff Myers is president of Summit Ministries, a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that equips and supports the rising generation to embrace God’s Truth and champion a biblical worldview.
This book excerpt is from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Truth-Changes-Everything-Perspectives-Ministries/dp/1540900371/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1667505905&amp;sr=1-1">Truth Changes Everything: How People Of Faith Can Transform The World In Times Of Crisis</a>, by Dr. Jeff Myer, (October 18, 2022, Baker Books), @ 2022 Summit Ministries, Inc., used by permission from Baker Books, a division of <a href="http://www.bakerpublishinggroup.com">Baker Publishing Group</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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How To Tell The Truth And Be Nice At The Same Time

Books

Free Speech

Religion

Thirteen centuries ago, an Anglo-Saxon missionary named Boniface destroyed an oak tree in Germania considered sacred to Thor, leading many locals to redirect their worship toward the Triune God. Today, pastors from around the world are likewise converging upon Germany to do battle with the idols of our age.
Last week, the <a href="https://frankfurtdeclaration.com/">Frankfurt Declaration of Christian and Civil Liberties</a> was published in response to the authoritarian spirit gripping many Western governments. In a series of interviews with The Daily Wire, several of the signatories — many of whom have already gained international attention for their righteous resistance to unlawful totalitarianism — explained how Christianity is the only basis by which mankind may reject the abuse of power.
<h3>God The Creator</h3>
In the Western world, materialism — the argument that matter and motion are the full extent of reality — has led to a denial of God as sovereign Creator. The Frankfurt Declaration affirms the role of God as the ultimate source of truth and ethics.
<blockquote>We believe that He has revealed in the Holy Scriptures and the conscience of men an unchangeable morality which is rooted in His own character, and which defines the nature of good and evil conduct for all people at all times. As the Lawgiver, God has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by a man, the risen Lord Jesus Christ. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.</blockquote>
The statement therefore denies the notion that any earthly authority is able to define morality or mandate disobedience to what God has prescribed — especially as many governments embrace postmodernism, which is incapable of providing a coherent basis for morality.
Dr. Joe Boot — founder of the Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity in Ontario, Canada — told The Daily Wire that the Christian notion of a “cosmos that is distinct from, yet governed by an infinite personal God who is always true and faithful” marked a radical departure from previous paganism.
“Western civilization became prosperous, wealthy, advanced, and globally dominant with a worldview that allowed for the development of science and technology because of belief in an ordered cosmos of law-spheres, and similarly governed by deep moral conviction about objective standards of right and wrong,” he remarked. “This led to learning, literacy, social stability, and civilization-building on a scale never seen before in the history of mankind.”
However, the fruit of the West rejecting Christianity in favor of various ideologies — including secular humanism and Marxism — has been progressive cultural decay.
“When as a culture we no longer believe in creation and judgment in terms of the laws of God for His universe, we are steadily deconstructed downward into a void of meaninglessness,” Boot added. “The Christian idea of a universe — unity in diversity — becomes a pagan pluralistic multiverse without ultimate order, structure, or design, and a growing nihilism is the result. In reaction, the modern State will try to invent pseudo-religious beliefs for the masses to keep people under control. Hence the new religion of climate, planetary salvation, and impending doom unless we are saved by the central planning and control of the new god of State.”
<h3>God And Science</h3>
As secular governments struggle to remain coherent on the most basic tenets of human life — such as the definition of man and woman — the Frankfurt Declaration affirms that creation is ordered by objective truth, which mankind can learn through scientific observation. 
<blockquote>We endorse science which seeks to discover, through the scientific method and debate, the truths that God has built into the natural world. We also affirm the limitations of science, including its inability to speak authoritatively on areas outside its purview and its propensity to err when data is lacking. Since man has fallen into sin, we further affirm that all his thoughts, deductions, and institutions contain degrees of corruption which tend to distort, manipulate, or suppress the truth.</blockquote>
The statement, however, rejects the weaponization of science for fearmongering or propaganda, notes that science is not sufficient to answer questions of ethics, and refutes the notion that man can be ideologically neutral.
Dr. James White — a pastor at Apologia Church in Mesa, Arizona — told The Daily Wire that “the myth of neutrality” has hobbled Western evangelicalism and allowed for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-federal-government-used-evangelical-leaders-to-spread-covid-propaganda-to-churches">cooperation of faith-based institutions</a> with the lockdown regime.
“A consistent Christian understanding of the world begins with a recognition of God’s creatorship and the fact that all of existence, universally, is defined by His purposes, His law, His final glory,” White noted. “There is no neutral fact, for if it is a fact, God made it to be such.”
White added that removing God from the picture leads to men filling the vacuum where only God should be.
“This likewise means that all of human inquiry, including scientific investigation, is an inquiry into the works of God, first and foremost, and hence cannot pretend neutrality,” he continued. “If God has defined all things in creation, we will most certainly miss the true importance of creation if we pretend God can be made a side-issue rather than the central, defining reality.”
<h3>Mankind As The Image Of God</h3>
The tradition of individual rights, equal justice under the law, and limited government in the Western world is rooted in the recognition of men as image-bearers of God. The Frankfurt Declaration affirms that such inalienable rights prevent the State from dehumanizing its people.
<blockquote>These rights and liberties include the right to corporate worship, personal and in-person relationships, vocational employments, and participation in the important events of human life such as the right to comfort the sick and the dying… to attend funerals, to witness the birth of one’s child, to marry in a public gathering, to fellowship and eat together with others, and to engage in honorable work. We also affirm that governments should recognize that each individual is responsible for their own bodily well-being and should protect the right to personal medical self-determination.</blockquote>
The statement notes that lockdowns and mandates usurp the innate value of mankind by subjecting them to manipulation, enforced segregation, and other unjust deprivations of liberty.
Tobias Riemenschneider — the pastor of Evangelical Reformed Baptist Church in Frankfurt, Germany — told The Daily Wire that the modern Darwinian conception of mankind offers “no protection against the abuse of power by the stronger.”
“We believe that we are now seeing the effects of the view of human beings that the States of the Western world have been promoting for many decades — namely, that human beings are nothing more than the product of an impersonal and ultimately purposeless evolutionary process without any transcendental meaning or value,” Riemenschneider said. “According to the biblical worldview, on the other hand, God created man in His image and likeness, whereby all human beings have an inherent dignity and worth from which derive God-given, inalienable rights and liberties, that the State must respect and protect.”
“When the State deprives a person of these rights and liberties or makes them contingent on the compliance with certain mandates, it dehumanizes them and makes them a mere object of State tyranny,” he added. “For a lasting safeguard of our liberties, it is therefore necessary for the State to return to the Judeo-Christian view of God as the Creator of man, since only this provides the basis for the inalienable worth of each individual human being.”
<h3>Limits Of Authority</h3>
Legitimate earthly powers draw their authority — their right to be obeyed — from the God to whom all must give an account. Accordingly, the Frankfurt Declaration notes that the Church and the State are granted limited authority only over their respective spheres.
<blockquote>God has delegated authority to civil governments for the purpose of rewarding good and punishing evil, and to protect the God-given rights and freedoms granted to all people. He has also delegated authority to the Church in its various expressions, particularly to make disciples of all nations by preaching the Word of God, and to establish and administer redeemed communities of faith living under the authority of Christ.</blockquote>
The statement therefore rejects the tendency of governments to centralize beliefs or attempt to redefine good and evil — power grabs that disallow diversity of thought and conviction while conforming all citizens, particularly children, to approved State viewpoints.
Tim Stephens — the pastor of Fairview Baptist Church in Alberta, Canada — told The Daily Wire that secular governments view their decrees as “encompassing all of life.”
“Worse than usurping their authority to carry out justice under the Lordship of Christ, they assume the place of God as Lawgiver, provider, and savior,” he explained. “Trouble is, the government is a lousy savior with its interventions taking both responsibility and freedom from households and businesses to the detriment of all.”
Stephens, who was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jailed-canadian-pastor-tim-stephens-released-after-international-attention">jailed in a maximum-security facility</a> last summer for resisting a lockdown order and opening his church, added that civil governments attract men who desire to use power for their own advantage.
“Without a knowledge of God, men seek to bring healing to the world apart from God&#8217;s Savior, Jesus Christ. Today, men seek to control the climate, change human identity, and bring global peace through the power of human governments,” Stephens observed. “However, these initiatives are leading to economic ruin, mutilated children, and increasing tyranny, along with conflict and division. The city of men failed at Babel, and it will fail again today.”
<h3>Christ As The Head Of The Church</h3>
Christians recognize that Jesus Christ purchased His Church and saved them from their sins through His substitutionary atonement on the cross. The Frankfurt Declaration therefore affirms that the Church has the right — as defined by Jesus Himself — to worship in Spirit and Truth without unnecessary interference from the State.
<blockquote>We believe that Christ, who is Lord over all, calls all without distinction of any kind to freely and regularly gather together in His Name in local congregations to seek and serve Him in truth and love. We further affirm that the activities of the local church insofar as they are essential acts of worship are to be regulated by Christ alone.</blockquote>
The statement thus denies that secular governments are able to regulate the affairs of the Church in matters of faith and practice.
Dr. John MacArthur — the senior pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California — told The Daily Wire that earthly authorities have “always tended to view Christ as an adversary and an inconvenience.”
“From Herod and Pontius Pilate until today, earthly governments have always sought to exert control over Christ and His kingdom,” MacArthur explained. “Caesar is not content with the things that are Caesar’s; he also wants control over the things that belong to God. So earthly rulers invariably try to seize as much dominance over the Church as they can possibly appropriate.”
MacArthur, whose church <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/l-a-county-to-pay-400000-to-john-macarthurs-grace-community-church">won a legal battle</a> against California after officials attempted to mandate the cancellation of services, noted that unjust edicts — including those which support abortion, same-sex marriage, and the “barbaric, pagan mutilation of children” —  represent a “formal, parliamentary declaration of war against God.”
“The Church’s mission is not a partisan political one. There is no political solution to what ails our culture. The Church’s mission is to preach the gospel, recover souls from the domain of darkness, and train them to be Christ’s disciples,” MacArthur continued. “On the other hand, the more Caesar intrudes into matters that belong to Christ, the more the Church must speak out on eternal and spiritual matters.”
“We will continue to speak on such issues, and when government tries to silence the message or punish the messenger, we will not bow.”

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Corporate America — despite the billions of dollars its leadership pours into diversity efforts — is among the most intolerant and illiberal institutions in the nation toward those with Christian beliefs and conservative political leanings.
The events of the past two years have provided woke corporations ample opportunities to silence and purge those guilty of wrongthink. Through mandatory vaccines and compulsory racial equity struggle sessions, executives are signaling to conservative Christians that their viewpoints are not welcome.
In a series of interviews with The Daily Wire, three such individuals detailed life as a “sheep in wolves’ clothing” in corporate America.
‘A Second-Class Human’
One information technology professional who recently left asset management behemoth Vanguard told The Daily Wire that the company’s culture has “changed dramatically” over the past few years.
“Whereas the previous culture had fairly normal workplace boundaries of avoiding politics and religion in the office, the new leadership became outspoken about social issues and began to increase pressure on management to encourage conversations with their crew about politics, race, and social events,” he explained. During the protests that arose after the death of George Floyd, managers were “encouraged to hold meetings with their teams to talk through the issues openly” — although “in almost all cases the conversations and invited speakers were aligned directly to the political left.”
Meanwhile, vaccine mandates provided Vanguard with the opportunity to treat anyone pursuing a religious or medical exemption as “a second-class human.”
“At one point, the company began to make subtle changes to specific employee benefits that bound the benefit to the person&#8217;s vaccination status,” the employee claimed. “Once complaints were raised, these requirements were quietly removed. Unvaccinated employees were at one point also told they were not allowed to see other employees of the company in person even if they were not on company property.”
According to the employee, disdain toward conservatism and Christianity “began and is still fueled by management, but as a result it has trickled down over the years.” Through executives’ endorsement of diversity events — including a <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/exclusive-vanguard-holds-family-friendly-drag-queen-show-with-kids-funds-abortions-and-dei-initiatives">family-friendly drag show</a> and a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/diversity-training-at-vanguard-tells-white-men-to-accept-uncomfortable-criticism-floats-holding-them-accountable">training for white male managers</a> — Vanguard managers are pressured into compliance.
“Employees in favor of these things feel empowered to speak loudly about their beliefs now, while conservatives and Christians within the company feel they can&#8217;t speak out without repercussions,” he continued. “There are internal ‘specialty groups’ for almost every racial minority, veterans, and the LGBT community.”
The employee does not believe that change will occur unless Vanguard CEO Tim Buckley — who sat in the front row during the white male diversity training — is replaced. “There have been so many internal campaigns to ‘bring your whole self to work,’ but over the past few years it&#8217;s become clear what that really means — embrace the culture.”
‘The Odd Man Out’
A staff consultant at professional services firm Ernst &amp; Young explained to The Daily Wire that any play at diversity is merely restricted to “surface-level” factors.
“When it comes to cultural issues, only mainstream beliefs are allowed. And by mainstream, I mean left-of-center,” he recounted. “There are all kinds of leftist talking points everywhere you look — it&#8217;s laced into the fabric of our culture.”
Among other examples, the employee referenced announcements made on “Trans Visibility Day,” an internal anti-racism website to which staffers are repeatedly pointed, and multiple events for “Pride Month” each June, as well as new benefits for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-woke-businesses-vowing-to-cover-travel-costs-for-employees-abortion-tourism">abortion tourism</a> and “gender affirmation” care.
“If you hold a conservative or biblical view on anything, you are the odd man out, and you will constantly have opposing views thrust upon you,” the employee said. “And if you were to voice that opinion, you would be opening yourself up to criticism and possibly worse.”
During an internship at a separate company in the summer before his senior year of college, the employee had faced pressure from management after he liked posts on LinkedIn critical of Black Lives Matter.
“I ended up in a very awkward one-on-one call with one of the top executives from the company,” the employee said. “He lectured me on how certain viewpoints can make other people uncomfortable, but he never told me to unlike the posts or not to engage with cultural issues at all. Indeed, many other people at that company posted about cultural issues — the difference is that they were left-of-center. I never got a return offer from the internship. I&#8217;m not sure if my worldview was the reason why, but it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me at all.”
The employee said that derision toward conservatism stems from Ernst &amp; Young management — “especially the executives.” Although it is “possible to find individual employees that are more conservative,” doing so can be “difficult, because no one broadcasts their beliefs if they&#8217;re anything but left-of-center.”
‘Heavily Influenced By Marxist Thought’
An account manager at IBM software subsidiary Red Hat told The Daily Wire that the company culture has degraded over the past five years.
“You tend to not discuss religion or politics openly at work unless it&#8217;s with people you know you can really trust,” he commented. “The changes within the company that negatively affected the culture have to do with management saying yes to any subgroup of people who fit the modern definition of a marginalized group.”
The employee had previously helped with events for a group within Red Hat that seeks to foster community among black employees, yet decided to stop in order to avoid conflict after he realized the group’s “core beliefs” differed from his own. A lesbian coworker likewise ended her involvement with Red Hat Pride because she is “not a radical leftist” and therefore no longer aligned with their mission.
“It seems like most, if not all, are heavily influenced by Marxist thought,” the employee said of his colleagues. Because many fulfilling technical roles are self-described atheists and agnostics, much of the scorn toward opposing viewpoints originates from employees rather than managers.
The employee only sees a future in which his industry supports ideological diversity if “enough people are brave enough to stand up and say something about it.”

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