It has been declared recently, I don’t recall exactly wherein, that we should submit to Twain’s phrase, “The
Angels of our Better Nature,” in response to the amassing of human tragedies
and the triumph of the self-will. Twain’s
axiom is repeated ad nauseam by optimistic humanists; that man is essentially good—yet failing to
have any basis for the word or concept,” Good.”
It seems we have lost the very apple of God’s nature that we stole millennia
ago; the knowledge of good and evil. In
order to escape the last shred of accountability before God, we shed even the
little bit of prerogative that brought
us inexorably to the spiritual cliff now before us.
As I just mentioned in the previous post, I am more amazed
than confounded at this latter point in my life, at man’s intransigence. It matters less and less to me, being both inevitable and accurately predicted
by all the prophets and Christ Himself; but man being overbuilt by his own hand
continues to stir me; not as much as any kind of personal threat but more as a kind of
compassion-compass that I believe God has, and wants His children to have. But to get there many painful truths must be
unfolded with due deliberation and justice.
Let us look in one decidedly crucial way at the history of
civilizations, particularly those who practice child and other human sacrifice,
as ours does, and showing no hope of stopping or even slowing:
It is the nature of such mannish authorities and their structures
and cultures…TO OVEREXTEND.
This is what they do.
They in fact tacitly by means of utter
blind ambition--see it as their mission. And in truth, that becomes their only
mission, and their chiefest of failures, in the end. The ideal is to eliminate all possible
competition or contradiction or opposition—so it comes to one type or another
of genocide, even if only in the mind.
(There are millions of people who believe they can’t be
happy so long as there is even one person who follows Christ, left on
earth. Of course they wouldn’t be happy
then either…probably a great deal less so than now, in fact.)
When man tries his hand, over and over, to be a God
stand-in; there is only one course possible; which is to overextend himself; paradoxically, unreasonably, and asymptotically. One must attempt to be God if only because we
are made in God’s image, and there is still enough residual of that giftedness to
cause us to be able to deceive ourselves that a few godlike capacities can
project themselves under their own independent power, indefinitely; in time and space, socially and
politically; since we cannot stand to admit that our Creator has powers far
beyond what He has loaned to us.
If that isn’t an overextension ladder to nowhere, leaning on
nothing, I can’t imagine what is.
(Let me be quick to add that this does not apply just to
leaders and overwhelming political juggernaughts --yes I meant to spell it like that--; it applies to the
little de facto libertarians who believe that by merely being left alone in
their private workshops or garage industries that they serve anyone besides
their overwhelming thirst for personal power/absolutist and uncontradictable
autonomy, or that their pet project is any less of an attempt to pretend that
they are in the place of God; or any less a gambit to become Supreme Judges
over the entire race of homo ---not so sapient as he thinks—erectus.)
(Nor do I excuse myself from this cottage industry
mentality. That is however the key to
understanding it and its terminal liabilities and fatal tragic flaws. “Private Practice” has a nice ring to it, to
the male ear in particular—but there is actually nothing private about it.
Think about it…)
We prefer our angle iron wills to any other—there are no angels, good or bad, you know…
“Nihilism is the air we breathe.” -Flannery O’Connor. Where is that more conveniently and comfortably
true than In our own private mini-forges?
Oxygen wanted!!!
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