Words from the Rising Republics

September 03, 2018

 

WHAT WERE WE THINKING?

FIVE WHO SHAPED MAN’S THOUGHTS

For as he thinketh in his heart so is he: Proverbs 23:7 (KJV)

     The first was a man named George Frederick HEGEL. He was a philosopher who lived in the 1820s.

     Hegelianism is the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", which means that all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories. His goal was to reduce reality to a more synthetic unity within the system of absolute idealism.

     For over 1500 years people had accepted without question the fact of MORAL ABSOLUTES that right was right and wrong was wrong. The moral absolutes were universal everywhere, murder was thought to be wrong, everywhere adultery was thought to be wrong, and if it were not thought to be wrong, it was only an aberration, a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome.

     The consensus was that there is a fixed standard of right and wrong. Hegel rejected MORAL ABSOLUTES. Hegel had what he called a dialectic theory. A Dialectic System is just simply a system of argument. He had a reasoned argument, a dialectic theory. What was his dialectic theory?

     Briefly, Hegel’s view is that all of history comprises thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Thesis is an idea proposition that people believe to be true and they hold that idea until somebody comes along with an opposing idea, an anti-thesis. Thesis and antithesis begin to battle back and forth until both give a little and they meet somewhere in the middle agreeing to a synthesis, which is a thesis/antithesis coming together for the synthesis that becomes the new thesis.

     The synthesis then becomes the new accepted model for truth. Hegel said therefore there are no MORAL ABSOLUTES. Hegel was not talking about biological evolution, he was talking about philosophical and social evolution. Society is always in a flux, it's always moving and there is no fixed standard of right and wrong.

     Even today in our high schools, few students believe that there is a fixed standard of right and wrong?

     American college students might say, “What is right for you may not be right for me.”

     Hegel said that ideas come under the heading of the survival of the strongest or fittest. The strongest surviving idea makes for history being evolutionary. There can be no absolutes.

     In 1830 another German philosopher named Ludwig Feuerbach. Feuerbach also reasoned that if there are no absolutes, Hegel would be right. Then there can be no God because if there is a God and that God would have absolute truth.

Feuerbach said man creates the idea of God, that man is not made in the image of God, but God is in the imagination of man. All is a moral flux. The absence of an absolutes causes a deep insecurity in the heart and mind of man.

     So, if Feuerbach said that God is created in the imagination of man and that man just simply invents God. He pompously stated, “Christianity has in fact long vanished not only from reason but from the life of mankind. It is nothing more than a fixed idea.” His belief is called humanism. Humanism sounds much like humanitarianism but there is a vast difference between humanism and humanitarianism. Humanitarianism means we love one another, we care for one another and we love the human species and that God has made man. Humanism makes man the center, the circumference, the sum of everything, and man has no room for God.

     Though a fine sounding name, it is but atheism simply just wearing another attire. First came Hegel, the Hegelian philosophy and then right after that you have Feuerbach who builds upon Hegel.

So, the third person whose writings still impact us today is the writings of Karl Marx.

     Karl Marx built on the work of Hegel and Feuerbach. Marx said, “Now if this is true, if there are no absolutes, therefore, there is no God, then what is the future and the purpose of mankind?

     Where are we going because of that thinking? Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. He took the no God of Hegel's dialectic argument. He called it Dialectical Materialism, which is another word for Communism. He believed that capitalism, the right to own property and the right to be productive for yourself, was evil. He said those beliefs is the thesis. The antithesis is the desire for equity and fairness in the hearts and minds of the working people.

     He said if you take that thesis and that antithesis you will come to a synthesis which will be Socialism or Communism. That is Marxism. Hegelian philosophy and the ideas of Feuerbach put together because Communism.

     Communism is godless and is not just another form of an economy. Communism is unspeakably immoral. It does not recognize the worth, the dignity of the individual. The individual is nothing. So, Marx said that the way to set all this in motion is by a revolution. He said that it does not matter if there is suffering.

     He believed that there must be violent change, much like the mandatory removal of a foreign body within the existing system. The foreign body removal will accelerate its death.

     So, millions and millions and millions were put to death under godless communism executed because in the belief that there is no God.

     If there is no God, there is no fixed standard of right and wrong. We as human beings are left with materialism. What must then be done is to somehow bring in a humanist’s godless utopia.

     Revolution was necessary. Marx said that the suffering and the sacrifice of violent change constitutes the price that mankind must pay to have any essential progress at all.

     So, is communism itself dying? It is not dead in red China.

   Where is it found to be most vibrant? In the Universities of America today, should the Russians want to rid itself of the old textbooks, it is the University, we are of the opinion, would buy the is Marxism Leninism that is infecting and affecting the American’s life today. The main stream media spreads the propaganda.

     The fourth man that has skewed the worldview is Charles Darwin.

     Charles Darwin wrote the Origin of the Species in 1859 and The Dissent of man in 1871. He concluded that man is the product of evolution.

     If there is no God, there can be no fixed standard of right and wrong. If there is no God, then how do we get here? How do we explain our existence?

     Well, evolution is not a science. It is philosophy.

     It is the next best guess of the mind that cannot accept divine creation. So, wrote that we ourselves are the product of mere chance. We, as human beings cannot escape the evolutionary web another philosopher later described what Darwin taught to be “a single argument”. The mystery of the universe is explained, the deity is annulled, and a new era of infinite knowledge is ushered in. From that time on, man has been endeavoring to make a monkey of himself, thanks to Charles Darwin and those who believe him.

     Now the fifth of these five men that impact our thought today is a man named Sigmund Freud.

     Sigmund Freud lived from 1856 to 1939. He was the one who put the final bow on the whole thing, put the final touches to the evolutionary model.

     Now Feuerbach said that we created the idea of God because of the insecurities that Hegel brought about by saying there are no absolutes. Freud said when we get the idea of God, whatever kind of God conjured up are an idea of God that comes to us from our childhood father.

     We conceive of God like we would conceive of our childhood father, when we were children.

     Freud was the father of psychoanalysis. He taught that mankind is motivated chiefly by pleasure, specifically by sexual pleasure and eroticism. To Freud almost everything begins and ends with sex and so he felt that if mankind is repressed by society in his erotic or hurt erotic urges other erotic urges people up failed to be allowed to fulfill their sexual and erotic desires they may get a neurosis.

   Is the fruit of his thinking the reason there is such an increase in the perversion, the filth, and the debauchery commonplace society today?

     Could it be that the roots are the widespread extreme permissiveness that came out of Freudian psychology? and you see it in raising children. We are told today not to repress children. After all you don't want warp the little thing. My dad warped me. You don’t want to warp him. If an offspring wants to cut the leg off the dining room table, you keep the saw sharp, so it won't frustrate the Kid. That is the idea that we have today.

History has declared what happened when these five men brought forth these philosophies. It took less than a century for them to come into fruition.

     In 1924 a man who was a student of Hegel and Feuerbach and a student of Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler.

     He thought he developed a better idea than Marx's. His idea was Nazism.

     So, he wrote Mein Kampf. Here are some quotes.

     He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

     If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.

     He who wants to live should fight, therefore, and he who does not want to battle in this world of eternal struggle does not deserve to be alive.

     Blood mixture and the resultant drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is contained only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

     As with the survival of the fittest with Charles Darwin, there is no desire in nature for the mating of the weaker and stronger. Individuals even less, as nature does not favor the blending of a higher and lower races.

     Even if you consider his thought hard to imagine, these thoughts led to the gassed showers and gas ovens for cremation.

     What differs in the abortion business in America today? Is it not a grizzly business today of taking who are the weakest of all and because they are weak and because they cannot defend themselves, they can be liquidated. Hitler's argument for the extermination of Jews law, he reclassified them as nonpersons. Are we doing to the little babies today we are reclassifying them as nonpersons.

     Many claim to personally be against the cremation of human beings but what one does in his own personal gas chambers his business time. I believe in choice and the idea of survival of the strongest.

     These ideas have been around for a long time. Departure from MORAL ABSOLUTES is to “sow the wind” before the reaping of the whirlwind.

Ephesians in the Bible

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,

     The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down strongholds and God has given us teaching them authority Jesus said behold I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. The one thing that they do not have his truth point A the other thing they don't have they don't have the Holy Spirit to what we need to do is to take the word of truth and the spirit of truth and hold up the Christ of truth we need to get on the boat with both feet today is a sure we need to know who we are what we believe and why we believe and I tell you friend that we don't have to be ashamed of what we believe they are good answers to these things in the Bible says we're to be ready always to give an answer to those who ask us of these things and I am convinced is not a lot wrong in America that could not be changed radically and quickly if we have a generation of preachers across this land would stand in the pulpits of God anointed with the Holy Spirit and a heart full of love from a pure life who would preach and teach us saith the Lord let it start in my heart let it start in your heart let it start in church less than up and speak up while God gives us a voice a man)

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