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A Thousand Years of Self-Delusion

Alexander Nevsky

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[FONT="]Introduction: The Founding Myth of Western Self-Delusion [/FONT]
[FONT="]The greatest Western myth, indeed the very basis of ‘the West’, is the self-delusion that man can live without God. [/FONT][FONT="]This is the ideology of rationalist humanism. This developed in the eleventh century with the concept that the human reason is greater than God. This is based on the anti-Christian heresy of the filioque, the concept that the Power of God can proceed from human nature, which then takes the place of God on earth. [/FONT]

[FONT="]From this founding ideology of man-worship came a thousand years of error and delusion. This separated the Western world from the Church and authentic Christianity. Ultimately it led to modern secular, narcissistic ‘civilisation’, which does not believe in God, but believes only in itself. Thus, the secular West was founded on an anti-Christian heresy, that of man as god. This reflects, though with opposite consequences, the Muslim East, which was also founded on an anti-Christian heresy, that of god as hatred. [/FONT]

[FONT="]The Darwinist Ideology [/FONT]
[FONT="]In its long history of gradual decline, 150 years ago Western ideology took another turn for the worse with its new theory of evolution. This anti-spiritual, typically nineteenth-century materialist theory claimed that man had evolved from animals. This led directly to the concept that man had no Creator-God and therefore had no eternal and immortal soul. From the observation of the fallen animal world, there ‘evolved’ the later slogan of ‘the survival of the fittest’. Thus, the old pagan ideology of ‘Might is Right’ was reborn. [/FONT]

[FONT="]Darwinist ideology was based on a ‘missing link’ and the dating of the petrification of rock which contained fossil remains. Of course, no missing link was ever found and the dates of rocks containing fossils is now being put back by many sedimentarists from millions of years to thousands of years. And yet Darwinist theory is taught in schools as ‘fact’ and textbooks still show the infamous mythical series of figures progressing from a squatting ape to bent and hairy apemen and so to modern man. (Curiously, there are no illustrations of women). [/FONT]

[FONT="]Thanks to this self-delusion, the Western world justifies its divorce from God, flattering itself for its irresponsible sloth in not worshipping its Maker and not repenting for its sins. For if there is no God, there is no eternal and immortal soul. If there is no God, there is no afterlife and no justice at the end of time. If there is no God, there is no need for or possibility of self-improvement. Everything is justified, as the writer Dostoyevsky prophesied nearly 140 years ago in his aptly-named novel, ‘The Devils’. [/FONT]

[FONT="]From here came the twentieth century with its First World War. No Christian civilisation could have started such a War. It involved mutilating and poisoning the bodies and minds of tens of millions of young men in rat-infested mud with high explosives and gas, so that the exploded body parts of many of them could not even be found. Only a secular, rationalist and humanist society, one which did not believe in the love of God and the love of our neighbour, could have done that. [/FONT]
[FONT="]From here ‘evolved’ the humanist ideologies of both Communism and Fascism and from them the Second World War. Believing in ‘paradise on earth’, Communism claimed that it had the right to slaughter Non-Communists as ‘parasitic’ vermin and that thanks to this belief it could create a perfect society. Believing in a Western master-race, Fascism claimed that it had the right to slaughter ‘Non-Aryans’ as ‘subhuman’ vermin and that thanks to this belief it could create a perfect society. We know how both ideologies ended: Lenin screaming from syphilitic insanity, Hitler putting a bullet through his head, a hundred million dead and a billion lives defigured. [/FONT]

[FONT="]The Twenty-First Century Ideology [/FONT]

[FONT="]The humanist attack against humanity had begun by depriving it of spiritual reality. Thus, the nineteenth-century witch-hunt began as part of this and it continues against those who believe that man, unlike animals, has an immortal and eternal soul. It also began and continues against those who did not believe in late twentieth-century ideologies. These were, and are, feminism, egalitarianism and globalism, which are all ever more active in this century too. [/FONT]
[FONT="]These ideologies are aimed respectively at debasing, manipulating and enslaving the human personality. This is in order to zombify humanity according to the same Godless pattern, in the quest for world unification under a single ruler. This means making everyone the same, uniformity, known by the propaganda code-word ‘harmonisation’. Thus, men and women are levelled through feminism, rich and poor and intelligent and stupid through egalitarianism and all races through globalism. Only homogeneity resulting from such levelling down will make it possible to impose world rule. [/FONT]

[FONT="]However, the most active extension of the ideology of globalism in the early twenty-first century is that of climate change. Let us look at some facts and ask some questions about this ideology, which every day is rammed down our throats like some new puritanical medicine by this world’s ministries of media propaganda. [/FONT]
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This is based on the anti-Christian heresy of the filioque, the concept that the Power of God can proceed from human nature, which then takes the place of God on earth.

1. Augustine and the Latin Fathers seem to be clear that the Father is the true and original source of the Spirit, being the fons divinitas.

2. Even if one does accept the double procession, is must be eternal, and therefore through the divine nature of Christ. How could there be an eternal procession from His human nature before the Incarnation?
 
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Indeed, the filioque says nothing about Divine power flowing from a human nature UNLESS you are a modalist and arguing that the filioque supports that theological stance. Otherwise you cant get there from here.
 
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