Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
The Bible is the most elaborate "conspiracy theory" ever written.
It is the history of the most elaborate conspiracy ever contrived.
The word "conspiracy" comes from two Latin words, con + spire: "with + breathe." "Breathe together."
Satan invited Adam and Eve to join him in a conspiracy against God; a conspiracy to overthrow His government. A conspiracy to "be as gods" (Genesis 3:5).
This is not a "secret" conspiracy. (Unless you are an anarcho-creationist and your babysitter is a part of this conspiracy and conceals this fact from you when you leave the kids with her for the evening.)
In fact, this conspiracy is public and out in the open.
In fact, this conspiracy demands sole possession of the public.
This is a conspiracy to remove God from public and render Him "private."
Although this conspiracy sometimes identifies as "secular," it is in fact deeply religious. There are many "denominations of this religion, and some look more "religious" than others, but it is a rival religion to God's religion.
You've been trained to reject anything the government calls a "conspiracy theory." But the government admits that conspiracies are real. Every one of the fifty states -- and virtually every nation on earth -- has laws against criminal "conspiracy." If two or more people talk about robbing a bank, and one of them commits an "overt act" (e.g., buys a bag to carry the loot, or rents a "getaway car,"), all participants can be convicted of "conspiracy" even if they never get around to actually robbing the bank. When charged and brought to trial, the government prosecutor will present a "conspiracy theory" to the jury. The jury may reject the "conspiracy theory" and acquit the defendant(s), or may agree with the "conspiracy theory" and vote to convict. Legal systems discourage conspiracies, because when two or more people conspire to commit a crime, it makes it more likely that the crime will actually be committed than when one lone individual "conspires" to commit a crime.
In popular conversation, the phrase "conspiracy theory" usually refers to a conspiracy of government agents to commit some nefarious act, or to cover up government wrongdoing or inefficiency, or to keep you from knowing something you should know, or persuade you to believe something that's false.
A 1967 CIA document known as Dispatch #1035-960 expressed increasing concern that many Americans were questioning the government's "lone-gunman" conspiracy theory concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The CIA wanted to discredit rival "conspiracy theories" that impugned the competence or integrity of the government. The CIA had "assets" in mainstream media which could be used to cast aspersions on "conspiracy theorists." Those efforts have been largely successful, and most Americans will not listen to any research if the government and its media label the research as a "conspiracy theory."
The purpose of this website is to set forth the evidence of one of these "conspiracies." You be the jury.
If you didn't come here from our home page, you may not understand what's going on.
My argument is very simple, and you'll UNDERSTAND it in less than 60 seconds.
But in order for you to be PERSUADED by the argument, an investment of TIME is required. Like "cult de-programming." You've undergone thousands of hours of schooling and media exposure to the claim that anarcho-creationism is nuts, unscientific, and unBiblical. But it will take a lot less time to un-brainwash you than it took to brainwash you.
The Bible makes two commands -- which the vast majority of "Bible-believing Christians" do not obey.
Are these actually commands from God in the Bible? I'm confident I can prove they are.
It won't be easy to convince you that the Bible requires us to be anarcho-creationists. It won't be easy to convince you there's a great conspiracy against the Bible. You're a victim of 13,000 classroom hours of brainwashing in schools run by people who are on a religious mission to eradicate the truth of anarcho-creationism. I call them "archist-evolutionists." I'll explain that term in just a moment.
As an anarchist and pacifist, I believe I incurred moral guilt for voting for politicians who promised to kill people and steal from people.
If the legal system addressed the crimes of politicians and voters they way it deals with government-defined "criminals," I would be a "co-conspirator" in a conspiracy to commit many crimes.
But I was just a typical young voter. It seems somewhat "extreme" to label me a criminal. Or the politicians I voted for.
I think "the Supreme Judge of the World" (to use the words of the Declaration of Independence) takes a stricter view than most Americans.
Within the evolution conspiracy, some people are hard-core anti-Christian liars, some people might admit they're not Christians, but they're not hostile toward Christianity, some people believe in evolution because they were told it's a "fact" and no longer even a "theory," and others don't think at all. All of these people contribute to the character of America and the direction of "science."
The evolution conspiracy is not a secret cabal. It's the air we breathe. If you are not part of this conspiracy, your neighbor probably is.
The evolution conspiracy began in the Garden of Eden.
Genesis 3:1-5 (KJV)
1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”
2 And the woman said unto the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, ‘Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’”
4 And the serpent said unto the woman, “Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
The word "knowing" has the force of "determining," as in "determine for yourself what constitutes good and evil."
Stealing and murdering are perhaps the chief marks of someone who wants to "be as gods." In the ancient world emperors were "gods." It was legal for them to steal, kidnap, and kill. It was legal for them to have hundreds of wives. It was legal for them to make slaves do the work for them.
God wants no competitors. No false gods. Anyone who says "We must obey God rather than man" (Acts 5:29) is branded as an "anarchist" by this grand conspiracy. The word "anarchist" comes from two Greek words meaning "not an archist." An "archist" is someone who believes he can be his own god, and impose his own will on others by force or threats of violence. The Conspiracy sets up kingdoms to rival the Kingdom of God. Every conspiratorial kingdom claims to possess a morally-legitimate "monopoly on violence." You know you have a moral duty not to Hurt People and Take Their Stuff. You know you're not allowed to kidnap people or take vengeance on your enemies. Every government in the history of man and the Bible claims a right to sin like this. Every government denies its duty to our Creator. Maybe not initially, when the government needs to secure the support of church-goers in ersatz "Christian" denominations for a new government, but eventually, the Creator is removed from the public square.
Jesus prohibits His followers from being "archists." See here:
You are a victim of 13,000 hours of classroom indoctrination by anti-creationist "archists."
I now realize that the evidence for "anarcho-creationism" is abundant, but has been suppressed, especially by those who hold government offices or receive government grants. The argument for a violence-freed stateless society is quickly smothered by bumper-stickers, slogans, sound-bites, and emotion.
There has been a conspiracy to prevent parents from using public schools created with their tax-dollars to teach the Bible to their children.
The first public (tax-funded) schools were created by Calvinist Puritans to make sure everyone in town could read and understand the Bible. This is because the Bible was the blueprint for civil laws. One of the first public school laws in America is known today as
But progressive scientific experts think they know better than parents, and better than America's Founding Fathers. The Scopes Trial is the tip of a vast iceberg-conspiracy to change America's system of government, by replacing Democracy with Elitism, also called "Technocracy," and replace the three branches of government in the Constitution with "The Administrative State."
In education, progressive Darwinist archism is seen in
The Messianic Character of American Education.
Today's public schools are acknowledged even by liberals to be the established church. "Sidney E. Mead, in his important book, The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America (1963), has argued perceptively that the public school system is America’s only established church." Scientific secular education is utterly religious. It was messianic. This secular religion, inculcated in the youth, would save "progressive" civilization. Educators were our Saviors. At least they thought so.
The Bible alleges that the human race is in a conspiracy against God. The "conspiracy" began in the Garden of Eden, when Satan said man should conspire to be his own god (Genesis 3:5).
The Bible is full of smaller "conspiracy theories" which are part of this broader global "conspiracy."
The Bible says our Creator is our King (Isaiah 33:22), but there are numerous conspiracies throughout history to replace the Creator-King with a creature-king. Substituting any creature for the Creator is the essence of "idolatry."
The Psalmist describes this vast political conspiracy:
Psalm 2
1 Why do the nations conspire
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the Lord and against His Christ, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.”
"The Bible is a shackle; we must free ourselves from it."
This vast conspiracy continues today, and consists of a number of smaller conspiracies.
The Scopes Trial of 1925 was not a particularly important conspiracy. It had no legal effect. Some writers have suggested that it was a "turning point," before which Christians were culturally dominant, after which Christians went into cultural retreat. Actually, this "turning point" was more gradual, and Christians had been retreating for many decades before the Scopes Trial. Evolution was already very popular before the Scopes Trial. So was the idea of "Favoured Races" having the power to rule over the rest of us. "The Progressive Era" marked the upswing in government control of the masses.
This website is not just about a courtroom trial in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925. It is about a vast centuries-long conspiracy to "be as gods."
The conspiracy began in the Garden of Eden.
A total and complete limitation on the ability of any men to rule over others is, technically "anarchy," but, as Adams could have said, "Anarchy is made only for a Theocracy." In principle, everyone agrees with this; Madison said "If men were angels, we would not need a government." Anarchists reply, "If men are devils, we dare not have one." Sinners should not have a monopoly of violence over others.
Gavin Ortlund, pastor, scholar, YouTuber, is a nice guy. Not a "great" guy like J. Gresham Machen or B. B. Warfield, but a competent scholar and certainly a Bible-believing Christian. All three of those guys are "theistic evolutionists." I'd like to think that if I could travel back in time to Machen's and Warfield's day, I could have persuaded them to abandon "theistic evolution" for six-day creationism. Or better, if they could travel through time to our day (in 2026), they most certainly would be horrified to see what evolution has wrought. Those of us living in this day are like the frog in the boiling water. We're used to it. Warfield and Machen would have instantly jumped out of the pot with all their might if they were dropped into our day.
Ortlund says that the idea that all the scientists, all the professors, not just in biology but in every academic discipline which, as Henry Morris reminds us, are based in some degree on old-earth evolutionism, are all wrong, or even worse, are all trying to mislead Christians, "feels too conspiratorial to be plausible."
I totally understand that feeling. I grew up believing (because I was taught to believe) that six-day creationists were a tiny fringe minority of anti-science bigots. All the progressive, intelligent, broad-minded scientists reject Biblical literalism. It's very difficult to stand against such an august consensus.
Maybe there's something in me that is willing to stand against the consensus. Maybe my willingness to be a Biblical literalist also makes me willing to believe in all kinds of crazy "conspiracy theories." But I think there must also be some kind of psychological theory or label for those who so quickly embrace the consensus, and fear stepping out of bounds.
The "conspiracy" mindset says "The Truth is Out There," and "they" are trying to keep us from the truth.
I feel as though we're being taught that there is no truth "out there." Nothing worth a serious intellectual pursuit. Just be satisfied with entertainment and amusement, we're told. Don't think too much. Don't ask questions. Don't do "research" for yourself. "Listen to 'the Science.'"
I suspect that people who take Genesis literally also embrace a number of other "conspiracy theories."
"They" are lying to us.
On the other hand, there are some wackos who feel there is "truth" out there -- aliens, flat earth, shape-shifting reptiles -- but they are way "out there" and I ignore them as distractions or "controlled opposition."
We've all been taught to reject "conspiracy theories" like these, but some "conspiracy theories" turn out to be true, like Project MKUltra, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and the FBI's COINTELPRO. In some polls, 81% of Americans believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK, and believe the government's "Warren Commission" was lying by saying Oswald was the "long gun." I admit, I'm a critic of government, and I may be too open-minded when I hear a "conspiracy theory" about government misdeeds. But I wait for the evidence before signing up. The evidence against "archists" and evolutionists is too overwhelming.
On the other hand (is that three hands?) there are some crazy-sounding "conspiracy theories" that have turned out to be true:
Despite the government's best efforts, most Americans in 2025 believe there was a "conspiracy" to assassinate John F. Kennedy, and was not the result of a "lone gunman."
This website is full of "conspiracy theories."
The evidence is clear that there was a "conspiracy" to overturn the Tennessee anti-evolution law, and also to destroy William Jennings Bryan.
There was a "conspiracy" to create a movie about the Scopes Trial which would make creationists look silly, or even repugnant.
This website is about the most vast, elaborate, powerful, globe-stretching conspiracy theory in history.
There are lots of conspiracy theories making up this vast multi-headed conspiracy hydra.
As we argue elsewhere on this site, evolution is a religion. It is a religion invented to justify some people being gods over other people.
It is also a conspiracy to get other people to join the religion.
It is a conspiracy to have non-evolutionist religions banned from the public square, either by law and coercion, or propaganda and peer pressure.
History books are often written by the architects of successful conspiracies. History is the conspiratorial outworking of presuppositions which are fundamentally religious. This is the insight of Christian philosopher Cornelius Van Til. He pointed out that the entire history of human thought in philosophy, theology, and science, is summed up in this classic formulation:
There is no alternative but Theonomy and Autonomy.
"Theonomy" (from two Greek words meaning "God's Law") means being governed by the Bible in every area of life: theology, philosophy, science, economics, law, and government.
"Autonomy" (from two Greek words meaning "self law") means inventing your own religion. It means inventing your own political system, your own church, your own gender. It means undoing the Garden of Eden. Adam had a choice in the Garden: obey the commandment of God, or listen to the temptation of the serpent: "Ye shall be as gods" (Genesis 3:5). You can decide for yourself what constitutes "good" and "evil." Evolution into godhead.
You're either working to obey God's Law (Theonomy) or your own law (Autonomy).
The idea of "evolution" used on this website is the idea of a God-free origin of the universe. It is the idea of
As we point out on our home page, there are three books which show the development of this conspiratorial religion and are helpful in getting a handle on the archist-evolutionist conspiracy:
1. Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) was a fervent promoter of evolutionism. In 1894 he wrote a work on the history of evolutionary thought, From the Greeks to Darwin | An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea. "The Evolution Idea" was always a religion. In the 1800's it was re-branded as "science." It was dressed up with scientific "factoids" and made autonomy respectable. It was not "facts" that drove people to market "The Evolution Idea" as "science." They wanted a way to make the religion of autonomy culturally acceptable. This re-branding was successful before Darwin wrote his book in 1859. Charles Lyell made a creature-centered "uniformitarianism" a mandatory methodology without proving that the Bible was not factual. Too many Christians today believe they must be accredited by this false religion.
2. John M. Frame: History of Philosophy and Theology
Frame studied philosophy at Yale and also studied under Van Til at Westminster Seminary. His book covers the same time frame as Osborn.
3. R. J. Rushdoony has written a book from a libertarian anti-statist perspective which gets us started: Amazon - The One and the Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy - Amazon
I think it's helpful to visualize the progression of this vast conspiracy by skimming over the table of contents of these three books. It's an education in itself. Frame and Rushdoony support "Theonomy," Osborn promotes secular "Autonomy." In other words, Osborn praises the evolution religion/conspiracy, while Frame and Rushdoony critique it.
1. Osborn
Osborn's book covers the intersection of philosophers and "scientists." This is from his Table of Contents.
- From the Greeks to Darwin | An Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea.
- 1. THE ANTICIPATION AND INTERPRETATION OF NATURE
- Preliminary Survey.
- Environment of the Evolution idea.
- Periods of its development.
- Nature of the idea.
- The scientific method of thought.
- The Advance of Philosophy.
- Advance of Zoology and Botany.
- Embryology.
- II. AMONG THE GREEKS
- Conditions of Greek thought.
- The Greek Periods.
- lonians and Eleatics : Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Xenophanes.
- The Physicists: Heraclitus, Empedocles, Democritus, Anaxagoras.
- Aristotle and his followers. Pliny, Epicurus, Lucretius.
- The legacy of the Greeks to later Evolution.
- III. THE THEOLOGIANS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
- Transition from Greek Philosophy to Christian Theology.
- The Fathers and Schoolmen : Gregory, Augustine, Erigena, Aquinas.
- Arabic Science and Philosophy: Avicenna, Avempace, Abubacer.
- Bruno and Suarez.
- The awakening of Science.
- Characteristics of Evolution in Philosophy.
- The Natural Philosophers : Bacon, Descartes, Leibnitz, Kant, Lessing, Herder, Schelling.
- IV. THE EVOLUTIONISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- The two series of Evolutionists.
- The speculative Evolutionists : Duret, Kircher, Maupertuis, Diderot, Bonnet, De Maillet, Robinet, Oken.
- The Naturalists : Linnaeus, Buffon, E. Darwin.
- V. FROM LAMARCK TO ST. HILAIRE
- Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck.
- Lamarck.
- Goethe.
- Treviranus.
- Cuvier.
- Geoffrey St. Hilaire.
- Discussion between Cuvier and St. Hilaire.
- Bory de St. Vincent.
- Isidore St. Hilaire.
- Decline of the Evolution idea.
- VI. DARWIN
- The first half-century.
- Miscellaneous writers.
- The Embryologists: Meckel, Baer, Serres.
- The followers of Buffon : Herbert, Buch, Haldeman, Spencer.
- The Progressions: Chambers, Owen.
- The Selections: Wells, Matthew, St. Hilaire, Naudin, Wallace.
- Darwin.
- Darwin and Wallace in 1858.
- Retrospect.
2. Frame
Frame is a theologian, and his book covers the intersection of philosophers and theologians leading us up to Charles Darwin. Here is an excerpt from Frame's Table of Contents:
- 2. Greek Philosophy
- c. Philosophy, the New Religion
- d. A Survey of Greek Philosophy
- The Milesians
- Heraclitus
- Parmenides
- The Atomists
- Pythagoras
- The Sophists
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Stoicism
- Plotinus
- 3. Early Christian Philosophy
- a. The Apostolic Fathers
- b. The Apologists
- c. Justin Martyr
- d. Irenaeus
- e. Tertullian
- f. Clement of Alexandria
- g. Origen
- h. Athanasius
- i. Augustine
- 4. Medieval Philosophy
- a. Boethius
- b. Pseudo-Dionysius
- c. John Scotus Erigena
- d. Anselm of Canterbury
- e. Toward Scholasticism
- f. Thomas Aquinas
- g. John Duns Scotus
- h. William of Occam
- i. Eckhart von Hochheim
- 5. Early Modern Thought
- a. The Renaissance
- b. The Reformation
- i. Martin Luther
- ii. John Calvin
- d. Rebirth of Secular Philosophy
- e. Continental Rationalism
- i. Rationalism and Empiricism
- ii. René Descartes
- iii. Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
- iv. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- f. British Empiricism
- i. Thomas Hobbes
- ii. John Locke
- iii. George Berkeley
- iv. David Hume
- 6. Theology in the Enlightenment
- a. The Birth of Liberal Theology
- i. Deism
- ii. Gotthold E. Lessing
- b. Biblical Christianity in the Enlightenment
- i. Blaise Pascal
- ii. Joseph Butler
- iii. Jonathan Edwards
- iv. William Paley
- v. Thomas Reid
- 7. Kant and His Successors
- a. Immanuel Kant
- b. Georg W. F. Hegel
- c. Arthur Schopenhauer
- d. Ludwig Feuerbach
- e. Karl Marx
- 9. Nietzsche, Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Existentialism
- a. Friedrich W. Nietzsche
Frame points out how many of the theologians in history have compromised Theonomy with Autonomy. The principles of Autonomy which were brought into the church have been principles articulated by philosophers in the "classical" (Greco-Roman) tradition. In 1923, J. Gresham Machen wrote a book called Christianity and Liberalism in which he argued that the principle of "naturalism" in philosophy, when applied to Christian theology, produced a hybrid called "liberalism" or "modernism." Machen said this was not Christianity, but a completely different religion. Frame would agree.
You may have noticed that several names appear on both Frame's list and Osborn's list: philosophers who wrote on theology, and philosophers who also wrote on "natural philosophy," today called "science." Names such as
In addition to pure philosophy, Kant also wrote on science. He proposed a "Nebular Hypothesis" in his 1755 Universal Natural History.
Evolution is a religion which justifies the use of force and threats of violence against others.
3. Rushdoony
Rushdoony gets more political than Frame or Osborn.
Don't be misled by the title. This book is about way more than the concept of "The One and the Many." This is a wide-ranging survey of human thought and action. It covers many ideas or themes. I would like to see a book like this which focuses more exclusively on the idea of evolution vs. creation and the connection between that ideological conflict and the conflict between liberty and tyranny, or "archism" and "non-archism." As is evident from the table of contents, Rushdoony's book spends a good deal of time discussing the "Chain of Being" as well as the dialectical conflict between order and chaos, which is related to the concept of the "one and many": the powerful "one" brings order out of the chaos caused by the anarchic "many." Rushdoony shows (without using our term) that the "archist" claims to enjoy a higher place on the "chain of being" and thus has the right to use political "archist" power to bring order out of chaos.
What's important for our purposes is that Rushdoony is a creationist and highlights how the evolution idea extends throughout non-Christian human thought, throughout history -- going back to ancient Egypt and other ancient empires.
Notice that Rushdoony covers many of the same figures as Frame and Osborn. Rushdoony highlights their political thinking, but doesn't skip past their "philosophical" or evolutionary thought.
- R.J. Rushdoony
- The One and the Many
- Table of Contents
- I — The One and the Many
- 1. The Nature of the Problem
- 2. Attempts at a Solution
- 3. The Trinitarian Answer
- 4. The Unitarian Failure
- 5. Faith and Science
- 6. Political Perspectives
- 7. Implications for Education and Freedom
- 8. The Question of Authority
- II — The Ground of Liberty
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Liberty and Dialectics
- 3. The Enlightenment
- 4. The Crisis
- 5. The Libertarian Failure
- 6. The Christian Answer
- 7. Law and Liberty
- III — The Continuity of Being
- 1. Egypt
- 2. Mesopotamia
- 3. Persia
- 4. The Chain of Being
- 5. The Bible and the Concept of Being
- 6. Being and Society
- IV — The Unity of the Polis
- 1. Greece: The Humanist’s Homeland
- 2. Greek Science and Philosophy
- 3. The Chaos-Order Dialectic
- 4. The Esoteric State
- 5. The Polis as Cosmos
- 6. The One and the Many
- 7. Socrates and Plato
- 8. Aristotle
- V — Rome: The City of Man
- 1. The Priority of the State
- 2. Cicero and the Rule of Reason
- 3. Julius Caesar
- 4. Chaos Cults
- 5. Cicero and Revolution
- 6. Cicero and the State
- 7. Caesar and the New State
- 8. The New Perversity
- 9. Marcus Aurelius
- 10. Commodus
- 11. Last Hopes in Chaos
- VI — Christ: The World De-divinized
- 1. War Against the Gods
- 2. Mysticism
- 3. Gnosticism
- 4. Christianity and the Family
- 5. Abortion
- 6. Emperor Worship
- 7. Creation and History
- 8. History and God
- 9. Constantine the Great
- 10. Arianism
- 11. Nicaea
- 12. Constantinople I
- 13. The Orthodox Faith vs. Heresies
- 14. Ephesus
- 15. Chalcedon
- 16. Pelagianism and Asceticism
- 17. Deprecation of Matter and History
- 18. Augustine on the Pelagians
- 19. The Church as New Rome
- 20. Later Councils
- 21. The One and the Many
- VII — The Return of Dialectic Thought
- 1. Boethius
- 2. Scholasticism
- 3. Aquinas’ Task
- 4. Thomistic Dialecticism
- 5. Noetics and Ethics
- 6. Common Ground in Being
- 7. The One and the Many in Aquinas
- 8. The State
- VIII — Frederick II and Dante: The World Re-divinized
- 1. Medieval Civilization
- 2. Frederick II
- 3. Dante
- 4. Dante’s View of the State
- 5. The Witness of The Divine Comedy
- 6. Pope John XXIII
- 7. Pope Paul VI
- IX — The Immanent One as the Power State
- 1. Castiglione
- 2. Machiavelli
- X — The Reformation: The Problem Redefined
- 1. Luther
- 2. Against Erasmus
- 3. Luther and the One and Many
- 4. Calvin
- 5. Calvin on Law and Love
- 6. Richard Hooker
- XI — Utopia: The New City of Man
- 1. Humanism and Utopia
- 2. Thomas More
- 3. Francis Bacon
- 4. Campanella
- 5. Hobbes, Locke, Harrington
- XII — Autonomous Man and the New Order
- 1. Descartes
- 2. John Locke
- 3. Berkeley
- 4. Alexander Pope
- 5. La Mettrie
- 6. Hume
- 7. Rousseau
- 8. Immanuel Kant
- XIII — War Against the Beyond
- 1. Hegel
- 2. Feuerbach
- 3. Max Stirner
- 4. Karl Marx
- 5. Nietzsche
- 6. Sartre
- 7. Wittgenstein
- 8. Marcuse
- 9. Hammarskjold
- XIV — The Christian Perspective
- 1. Modernism
- 2. Van Til
- 3. At the End of an Age
- APPENDIX — Observations on the End of an Age
- 1. The End of an Age
- 2. The Religious Foundations of Culture
Rushdoony is aware of the conflict between creationism and evolutionism, and like Frame, Rushdoony covers abstract "philosophy," but the central object of his book is the State.
In Rushdoony's book, the idea of evolution is as important as the concept of the one and the many; both are like a pair of glasses through which one may examine the State.
Rushdoony shows us that non-Christian thought on history (evolution), philosophy (being and meaning) and politics (order and control) has a basic continuity extending back to the most ancient human empires. Henry Morris also reviews non-Christian evolutionary thought before the Greeks. The basic conflict of human thought throughout history is the conflict between archist-evolutionism and anarcho-creationism.
At the risk of over-simplifying, all ancient empires claimed to be religious -- truly religious. Emperors were divine. Israel recognized that all surrounding empires were false religions, not just false political systems. After Christ inaugurated a "new creation," all empires claim to be non-religious, or "secular." Modern "secular" scholars like to point to "classical" Greece as the inauguration of secular/autonomous/non-religious thinking, but any perfectly non-religious thinker was the exception that proved the rule: "classical" Greece was thoroughly religious. As was Rome, where the divine emperor religion was strong. It was only after Jesus declared "all power in heaven and earth has been granted to Me" (Matthew 28:18-20) and conquered all the "powers" that controlled the ancient empires, ending the reign of the empires symbolized by the statue in Daniel 2, that we truly saw the end of imperial substitutes for "religion." Secularism is now the chief opponent of Christ.
Nebuchadnezzar's statue (Daniel 2) represents the world before Christ. Before the Prince of Peace was born, the world was dominated by Satan and his minions. Life was violent. The "Preterist" believes that the Messiah bound the Strong Man at the beginning of the Messianic Reign. The Biblical "anarchist" believes that "civil government" has a demonic origin. Our job as Christians is to continue the task of putting to death the old man
Most church-goers believe that empires are good; that they are God-approved, morally legitimate, and socially necessary. You might think that many in Daniel's day and in Christ's day were doubtless confused by the prophecy of the destruction of the greatest empires in the world: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. After all, didn't these great empires provide social order? Wouldn't their destruction lead to "anarchy?" On the other hand, maybe Daniel's readers were smarter than we are. Maybe they suffered under conquest, tribute, forced labor, confiscation of children, random conscription, and other horrors of depraved, child-sacrificing homosexual would-be gods that they rejoiced at the thought. If they read the Bible, they knew that empires were a punishment "ordained" by God against a people who rebelled against God's Commandments. God ordained evils like "the sword." The Bible says all empires are evil. Their history is demonic. Their demonic character was clearly seen at the time of Christ. The Empire represents a refusal to allow God to be Lawgiver, Judge and King.
The claim that the binding of the demonic Strong Man occurred in the past, and the call to abolish archism in the present, are not refuted by a common misunderstanding of Romans 13. That passage is about the demonic "powers." God sovereignly controls all things, but that does not mean that God gives all things His moral seal-of-approval. The State has God's Seal-of-DISapproval. Evil emperors are God's "servants" or "ministers" because they unwittingly serve God's purposes. Our website on Romans 13 covers these issues in more detail: www.Romans13.com Evolutionists believe the State is the pinnacle of human evolution. It is actually the archaic dregs. Its mythology is collapsing before our eyes.
Archists often lie; lemmings are often willing to be "ambassadors for truth" (i.e., repeat the government-scripted lies). Most people involved in this conspiracy are more passive than active, in that they don't think of themselves as promoting a religion or conspiracy, they just "do as they're told." "Just following orders." "Just fitting in."