Men Make Pathetic Gods

Man, as God, is a debacle. That’s all I can conclude as I watch this wicked dance of fools vying for power. The war for the ultimate throne and the ultimate Kingdom has raged since recorded history. It is what it is. The war between God and Lucifer. Good and Evil. Light and Dark.The ideologies, political and cultural systems that have emerged over time have always reflected that battle. And a portion of that battle now rages center stage in America.

But, what I ponder a lot is this ‘man-as-God’ fallacy, the fatal flaw in all totalitarian systems it seems. For one thing, as Man-God goes about expanding the reach of his purloined divinity, he starts devouring his own. Because even though man has deemed himself to be superior to God and to be the only permitted authority on earth, he has simultaneously pronounced that his own species is earth’s most pernicious occupant; alternately brilliant enough to destroy the planet, but too stupid to stop himself.

Nihilism, this vicious disdain for one’s own humanity, resulting in a continual decimation and extirpation of the potency of the human creation,is salient in leftism and matches pretty much the disdain Lucifer reportedly held for human kind.

Lucifer’s contention has always been that God had no right to deem man higher than angels when man is such a flawed and fallible creature. Satan stomped his foot, or something like that and was promptly expelled from heaven, and all his rebels with him. But he has been going about proving his point ever since. And the ideology of the left is surely crafted to serve his mssion. As opposed to the Judeo-Christian’s contention that we are children of God, the left caricatures us as everything from apes to parasites. And certainly that is one way to abdicate all moral responsibility. Just claim you are creatures incapable of holding a course aimed at true north and thus grant yourself forgiveness. And then castigate all those who reflect your moral turpitude back to you as wayward troglodytes clinging to useless gods.

Yet, even though the left contends that humanity is beyond depraved and humans ought to be herded from cradle to grave, mysteriously, only this very same flawed human creature can fix it. I mean, really, if I had such a low opinion of human kind, I’d be looking for a savior superior to us, not one of us. However, as it always turns out, there exist certain men who consider themselves qualified to usurp god.  Unfortunately, they are the men currently in power in this much besieged nation.

To be continued…

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