Political Philosophy


The Global Nature of the Islamic Threat 

 

 

 

 

 

1-                  The Global Problem- In the morning of September 11, 2001, America was abruptly awakened to the reality of the Islamic terrorist threat to our homeland. This was one of those watershed moments in history that causes a paradigm shift in our culture. America would never be the same. Who can forget the gruesome scene, as the

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Towers collapsed killing thousands inside and injuring many others? Most of us watched in utter dismay, wondering how someone could be so cruel as to sacrifice their own lives, in order to kill so many innocent civilians. Who would do such a thing? What could cause someone to sacrifice his life to kill so many others?

In the aftermath of the 9-11 tragedy in

New York , western academia myopically blamed Islamic aggression on western colonialist policies. To believe this is to deny the entire history of Islam’s imperialistic aggression on all other religions and nations. The reason for the destruction of the

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Towers in our age is in fact the very same reason that Islam has attacked each of the countless nations of the world in their past history. It is simply part of their deeply ingrained theological construct derived from the Koran and the Hadith.

 

 

 

 

Some have charged that our nation’s relationship with Israel is to blame. No doubt the Jews have faced the brunt of their violence in our generation. However, the western nations must understand that the Jews are not the only victims of Islam. Islamic aggression is not just a problem for the Jews. It is a problem for the entire Free World. Their hatred for Jews is undeniable. But, the violence toward those they deem to be “infidels” has historically been waged on all other religions and peoples, including non-Muslim Arabs. Violent aggression toward unbelievers is condoned and even commanded by the Koran.

 

 

 

 

There are some moderate Muslims, which intuitively understand the error of this terrorist agenda fostered by the Koran, and have attempted to reform the aggressive, militaristic Jihadist movement by declaring these verses in the Koran to be irrelevant to our present age. They have through different hermeneutical tactics claimed that these verses only applied to early Islam. Unfortunately, their theological construct is little accepted amongst most other Muslims.

Nietzsche and the Superman

 

“In 1914, at the beginning of our ill-fated twentieth century, a storm broke out over this civilization, a storm the size and range of which no one at that time could grasp. For four years Europe destroyed herself as never before, and in 1917 a crevasse opened up on the very edge of Europe, a yawning gap enticing the world into an abyss.
The causes of the crevasse are not hard to find: it was the logical result of doctrines that had been bandied about in Europe for ages and had enjoyed considerable success. But this crevasse has something cosmic about it, too, in its unplumbed, unsuspected depths, in its unimaginable capacity for growing wider and wider, and swallowing up more and more people.” (Warning to the West, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ferrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976, pg.128)

 

What is the Matrix of Reality?

 

If we are simply evolved animals, then what is morally wrong with killing other animals? Without a Supreme arbitrator of morality, then the survival of the fittest is the inescapable and logical conclusion of this naturalistic worldview.  When an animal of prey in the wilderness hunts and kills another animal, one doesn’t arrest and prosecute the animal. Nor do we condemn the animal as immoral and evil, because that animal is simply exercising his animal instinct.  If man is a product of evolution, then one must conclude that violence or cruelty is just an inherited animal instinct and the rule of the day is "the survival of the fittest". Simply put, the guy with the biggest stick is right.
This is precisely the philosophy that Freidrich Nietzsche expounded and which so heavily influenced Hitler’s thinking in his sociopolitical policies. And, alarmingly, it is the same reprehensible philosophy, which is presently being accepted by our post-modern culture naively and uncritically. How can we be so naïve, as to blindly fall into the same dark abyss? As I read the memoirs of these prisoners and consider the stories I have heard my father tell of his prison experience, as a political prisoner for Castro, I cannot help but to be incensed at the utter apathy, which permeates my culture in this regard. We have uncritically accepted the liberal humanistic philosophy that will eventually lead to another inhumane tyrannical system. Our culture has built an illusory moral structure on the firm foundation of a helium balloon that is bound to eventually explode and bring everything crashing down upon itself.
Nietzsche properly rejected as hypocritical the liberal humanistic philosophy, which, after abandoning the concept of God, tried to build a system based on at least the memory of Judeo-Christian morals. He was, without question, completely right in rejecting this hypocritical attempt to remain, where there was no rational basis to support it. These, “liberal humanist idealists” have proposed that faith is what matters and that the object of our faith is inconsequential. They have attempted to establish a belief system, without God as a basis for morality, yet with the purpose of providing some positive moral crutch upon which to lean their lives on. Nietzsche, however correctly rejected this illusory framework for “morality”, pointing out that it was built on a vacuum. If there is no God, there is absolutely no foundation from which any semblance of a moral construct can spring forth. If there is no God, then only cruel violence is the matrix of reality! But, how is it that it came to this? How is it that the Hegelian, naturalistic paradigm has been allowed to become the matrix of the post-modern civilization?

Supercapitalism and Socialism

 

Socialism, Communism and Justice

 

Sadly, I cannot say with confidence that those who died in our War of Independence and in the Civil War that followed have shed their blood for a cause that has completely triumphed. The American experiment, our American Republic, still hangs in the balance. The Revolutionary War may be over but the revolution is not. Abraham Lincoln was murdered in order that his dream could not be completely fulfilled. Today, we can no longer afford to think provincially. Our human civilization has advanced in technology to such an extent that the oceans that once kept us away from the turmoil of others is no longer adequate to isolate and protect us. But, here we must walk circumspect and not allow the globalists to undermine our national distinctives. We must not allow our sacred revolution to be sacrificed to the promoters of the globalization of our planet. In either extremes- supernationalism or collectivism- we will be unjustly exploited.

 

Supernationalism and Collectivism

 

“Modern man has fallen prey to the same temptation that Eve succumbed to in the Garden of Eden. It is the desire to ‘be like God’, having the capacity to determine the difference between good and evil (genesis 3:5). Once man accepts the philosophy that he can determine for himself, without utilizing God’s revelation, the difference between good and evil, he starts believing he is autonomous from God. Man now, like a god, is separate and can work on his own to effectuate his purposes. Man can now proclaim with Nietzsche, ‘Dead are all Gods; now we desire the superman to live.’ The Christian religion is thus suspect, for it allows no supermen within its doctrines. It is a stranger in a world with human gods.” (John Whitehead, The Separation Illusion, Mott Media, Milford Michigan, 1977, pg. 26)

 

The great deception of humanity, spawned at the very beginning of our race of beings, has become firmly imbedded into the very matrix of human culture. This is “The Lie” that permeates society and deeply influences our thinking from childhood till death and ever perverts our perception of true reality. It is our most destructive inclination and it evidences the very thing that we most try to ignore; our fallen state. It blinds us to “The Enemy Within”, as Dr. Paul Rodriguez so eloquently elucidates.
Only the Judeo-Christian concept of reality is able to provide a lucid continuity between unity and diversity. The universe is one, because it is created by a Personal God and all of reality- the visible and invisible- is therefore under His sovereignty. Yet, we have each been created in His image and therefore possess unique qualities that provide for diversity. The choices that we make therefore are significant because we can choose, as beings, to follow His precepts or rebel against them. Consequently, when we choose to become our own god, then our choices have real consequences.
But, without God’s revealed propositional truth we would be incapable of knowing good and evil, for all human choices would then be on equal footing. The idea that our faith should be removed and separated completely from our legal concepts, which are supposed to be designed in order to ensure justice, is therefore completely irrational and absurd. All legislation naturally presupposes a moral foundation, from which it emanates.
There are some who surreptitiously propagate the misconception that one cannot legislate morality, and they have elevated this ideal into the dark echelons of political correctness within our society. But, we must understand that this is simply an excuse to keep Christians and Jews from promoting their moral principles derived from the absolute standards, within the Holy Scriptures, through legislation. The fact is, that contrary to their claims, all legislation is in its very essence the enforcement of a moral view. This politically correct ideology is but another smokescreen, for it is impossible to create a law without some moral or ethical foundation that necessitates its existence. If the authors of that particular piece of legislation do not reflect the moral principles of the Judeo-Christian community, then they will reflect whatever foundational  “world–view” the legislators happen to hold, whether it is atheistic or pantheistic.

 

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