The Rise of Secularism III

Part 3: The Integration of Destruction

As society has undoubtedly progressed over time, the lack of challenges that man faces on a consistent basis have declined—or at least transformed. This is not to say that modern life is without hardship, it is merely to point out that people are not starving, and tribes are not murdering one another. Many things that western society has achieved are destination points of a conscious decision to strive after virtuous pursuits. Western civilization has produced—unarguably—the most just, most safe, and most wealthy society in the history of mankind.

Yet, most of those achievements fade slowly out of appreciation as the task and memory of the sacrifices that made all of it possible fade further into our past. As time goes on, those battles become less and less real in the mind of man and are, therefore, wide open to scrutiny and misinterpretation. Accurate accounts of history have an innate ability to teach because the story itself reveals what is good and true to the student; the historical account, when told accurately, teaches the lesson.

An arising issue in educational institutions is the utilization of critical theory to view academia. Critical theory reshapes the framework of curriculum and forces students to view our past time through a lens of skepticism. The student will soon come to believe—as is the intention of critical theory—that the historical figures that were once revered as brave, revolutionary thinkers and doers are just power-hungry, toxic men. Men who risked their lives and revolted against a powerful, tyrannical monarchy to form a nation full of civilians who would possess inalienable rights granted by God and protected by a collectively constructed Constitution—the same Constitution which still stands strongly in the way of, yet another, tyrannical group of governing elites. Critical theory wants society to hate those men and hate everything they constructed.

When modern man has bought into this theory, he has no choice but to restructure the systems created by the “bad men” of the past to pay for their transgressions. The problem is, these structures have given the west the greatest society to ever exist and once the erosion begins, things get messy. Mankind will see the decline of the economy, corruption in the government, a breakdown of the family, attacks on the most innocent, the list goes on and on. Soon, basic truths will not only be ignored but civilians that dare spew it will be persecuted.

All this madness will drive the progressives to ask themselves what could have possibly laid the groundwork for the founders of the west to, so easily, perpetuate such evil pursuits like truth, faith, and family for so many years. When they come to their conclusion, they will blame it on the Christian church. After all, it was Judeo-Christian values that laid the sub-structure for the entire expansion of western civilization…a civilization that progressives have already deemed to be corrupt and evil—henceforth, with the implementation of critical theory, so begins the evaluation and breakdown of Judeo-Christian values.

And so, begins the attack on God from an institutional level, a poisonous strategy that has seeped through nearly every level of state-funded academia from college professors to elementary students—from Harvard to your local pre-school.

Individuals who practice religion are no longer viewed as “different,” they are now “dangerous.” The values put forth by God are viewed as discriminatory and offensive…the gravest of all societal sins. Just as man witnesses the rebuilding of other structures and systems, so will he also witness an attempt to rebuild God. This attempt will remain just that—an attempt.