Evolutionary Worldview Makes for Relative Morality and Relative Everything, All a Function of Whatever You Happen to Think Important

There is no such thing as absolute moral standards from an evolutionary perspective. There is no such thing as cultural institutions that are right or wrong, only adaptive practices that confer some benefit on the cultural or not, according to whatever speculative standard the analyst adopts.

While they may apply some pretty sound moral thinking to particular social issues, as I think Bret and Heather do, their evolutionary perspective undoes any claim to their soundness. It all depends on how you understand benefit, and since that is open to speculation from a variety of points of view you aren't going to get anything like a solid system for understanding much of anything in the sphere of human life.

Just a thought. No pithy critique yet.

Maybe I should try to spell out the Christian worldview. Just for contrast, or frame of rerference.

Hm.

Clashing Worldviews, Two of Them for Now

For a few weeks now Bret and Heather of Dark Horse Podcast have been reading excerpts from their forthcoming book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the Twenty-First Century, and I've listened to some of it, but not all, because I'm appalled at the evolutionary perspective they inhabit. I wish I had a really pithy way of critiquing it but my reaction is too visceral at the moment -- a species of despair that intelligent people actually think along these lines. I'm pretty sure they'd say the same thing about my way of analyzing human history. I could spell it out, which would serve as an alternative model at least but not do much to prove anything.

The evolutionary perspective analyzes everything in terms of its adaptive benefit to the "species" or perhaps even to the culture in the case of humanity. Cultural practices are there because in one way or another, at least when they first appeared, they conferred some important benefit. Marriage, sexual norms and practices, religion of course, name it they have a speculative framework in which to account for it in terms of how it furthered either the survival of the species or the social welfare of the species, human species mostly -- until it seems no longer to have such a benefit and then they speculate about how to go about changing it in the most beneficial way..

Worldviews do have consequences, maybe I could start there. If it's all a matter of trying to shape the society we live in through our knowledge of evolutionary principles, then it's going to depend completely on how well we understand the social forces that impact us that we might want to change. Even the thought that we know that much gives me the willies, but of course that's compunded by my biblical perspective that understands events in relation to spiritual laws outside the purview of a biological framework.

If you're talking about Mayan civiization, for instance, and see the building of temples less in terms of their religious function than their possible creation of social spaces for the people, the fact that they practiced an idolatrous religion that made human sacrifices to feed high quality blood to their gods won't be a big part of your analysis of the rise and fall of the fortunes of the Mayan if they could find a social consequence of the prctice that would count but the idea of an overarching spiritual law isn't going to enter into it.

So when the Antichrist comes to power on the global stage he'll be assessed in terms of whatever social policies seem to facilitate human wellbeing on the planet, at least until his murderous intentions become too obvious to be ignored. The Two Witnesses of Revelation who preach the biblical God may just be annoying, as scripture says they will be to the majority of humanity.

It makes me tired. If I come up with that pithy critique I'll certainly let you know.

Why We Are Never Going to Get Back to Normal. God is Against Us.

CHristians should know the US is under God's judgment, and that this is the explanation for our political disaster that has been escalating faster than usual over the last year and a half. I keep coming back to this like a broken record, sorry about that, but if this isn't understood, all the hopes and efforts to reclaim the nation are futile. Even if it is understood they are likely futile.

I'm not giving up on those effortts and not saying I want them given up. We still have to do what we can, but it is depressing to see the usual explanations that leave out this one essential fact. We can certainly point to the Left as the wrecking ball, we can identify the anti-American ideology of Marxism, we can also discern the diaboligical Jesuits at work in the fake news about America, or so I think thanks to Chris Pinto in particular. But all those are "proximate" causes. They couldn't succeed if there weren't moral and spiritual reasons for the nation's destruction propelling it all.


Mark Levin's radio show is getting heavy with patriotic music and themes these days, and I'm afraid it just makes me cringe. This isn't the America those songs celebrate, we are no longer that America. God can't bless THIS America.

I cringed in the same way twenty years ago when "God Bless America" was sung in response to -- and defiance of -- the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pengagon, twenty years ago tomorrow. The response of many Christians made me cringe: "God had nothing to do with it" Ghey said, God doesn't do such things." Whatever happened to Christians' identity as "people of the Book?"

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. [note: "evil" means disaster or destruction}

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Mark Levin's latest book, "American Marxism" is full of good analyses of what we are up against and no doubt excellent recommendations for what we are to do about it. I'm sure they are excellent although I haven't been able to get very far reading the book yet. I hope to eventually, but I'm sure he isn't taking God's judgment against the nation into account and as long as that is ignored not much we can do is going to save America. Cewrtainly in opposing Marxism we'll be at least tacitly supporting elements of God's Law but that isn't the same thing as actively opposing and dismantling what has already been put into law and THAT's the only thing that might get us somewhere.

As usual I'll modify my idea of the finality of our calamity enough to say I don't know that we are actually at the point of maximum offense against God and therefore maximum judmment is all we have to look forward to. I still hope. Of course I don't have a "Word from the Lord" on this, I'm deriving it from the scriptural portrait of the way God works in the world and from our own history, what smatterings of thta history that are all I can claim to have. Just enough to know that we've been violating God's Law with amazing alacrity over the last few decades, and even with an amazing righteous indignation. Yeah the usual case in point abortion. The righteous indignation that wants to kill babies is astonishing when you see it in its proper light. If you understand God's purpose in ordaining marriage the righteous indignation in favor of destroying it to make homosexuals feel normal is also pretty astonishing. There are hundreds of such violations of God's Law in our "justice" system by now, that I just haven't been following enough to describe. But what little of it I do grasp is enough to explain that the reason we are having the problems we're having is that as a nation we've turned against God, -- not just "away from " God but actually against God -- which means He is turning against us. Political mismanagement, economic disaster, tolerated rioting and looting and burning in our cities, extreme weather, and as usual I'm coming short of anything like an adequate list. But you can fill in the blanks.

So how do we turn back God's judgments? Attempts to restore American institutions seem like a good idea if they could succeed, but as long as we've given rights and freedoms to violations of God's Law there's no point in restoring the institutions that uphold rights and freedoms.

In Chris Pinto's latest documentary, The True Christian History of America, he gives prominence to Samuel Adams' remark on signing the Declaration of Independnece, that "Now commences the reign of political Protestantism."

There is good reason to think that is really what the Founding of America was supposed to be, even more teelingly than Franklin's famous "A Republic if you can keep it," but the Protestant vision never caught hold as it should have done, and was soon undermined by hostile forces, so two and a half centuries later here we are with a govvernment that is anything but a reign of political Protestantism. What with the malevolence of the jesuits who worked tirelessly since the Reformation to destroy Protestant nations, and the malevolence of atheists who resent everything of God, and perhaps confusion about exactly what sort of republic we were supposed to be -- Protestant? Shouild have been, not based on the Enlightenment as is usually thougyht -- so keeping it was out of the question from the beginning. Certainly it was biblical Protestantism that made the nation great and prosperous. But restoring it now? Can't do it unless we roll back our national offenses against God's Law. And oh how they scream at the idea we might decide not to kill babies any more.

Weep for America, pray for America. But any real hope of restoring America seems futile.

Israel, "God's Clock," in Biblical Prophecy, From Desolation to Prosperity

Jan Markell's Understanding the Times radio show this week is given over to a presentation by Pastor David Reagan that outlines the history of the nation of Israel from God's founding through its abandonment of God and consequent punishments, to its reestablishment in the Promised Land.

He shows how it all fulfills biblical prophecy and is now the main sign that we are in the very last days of the planet. It's a dramatic story of unbelievable desolation of the land, not a tree left standing for almost two millennia, followed by the rebuilding and the greening of the land that has made it a prosperous modern state.

No Back to Normal Ever Again

This fallen world is a scary place, and getting scarier. We had some protection at least in America for a long time but that has been undermined to the point that some third world countries actually seem safer. it's all about the power of lies. I keep coming back to that. It seems to be the bottom line. I just posted on the Black Lives Matter lie and the Ivermectin lie. Both are life-or-death matters, both have murder in their heart.

I get asked why I'm so "negative," why I can't just be positive and enjoy life, smell the roses and so on. I think I may spend too much time smelling the roses if you want to know, since the world seems to me to be disintegrating before our eyes. I think of a story that was told on the Dark Horse podcast an episode or two ago now, or I think that's where I heard it, oh yes it was. Elie Wiesel wrote about a town in Poland where the Jews were denying the danger from Nazism even after they had rolled into town and been lodged in local homes. They kept smelling the roses as it were, telling themselves how nice the Germans were really, not like the rumors about their cruel intentions, how a nice German officer even bought his hostess a box of chocolates. Before they were all herded off to concentration camps.

That's how things feel to me now. Fueled by lying propaganda. Which of us will be the first to be herded off we can guess about, but it's not going to be just one category. "Quarantine" camps for some for starters perhaps. That seems to be the agenda of the CDC anyway, according to a document at their site. Forget history and it repeats itself, right? New category of victims, new cover story.

And we don't have an America to escape to, as Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector put it in the eighties or nineties. He came to the West, many Jews came to the West. There is no longer a West to escape to.

This time around it is bigger than Hitler, it has a global source. That's why the End Times prophecies are so prominent right now. Not prominent enough perhaps since even many churches are ignoring the signs, but the signs are surely there and hard to avoid if you're paying attention instead of burying your face in roses.

The prophet Jeremiah spent a lot of time weeping over the destruction of his nation. When you know your nation is't going to come back to God but keep on coming under more and more destructive judgments you spend a lot of time weeping as it is battered into oblivion. It doesn't help that although unbelievers see it all coming down they have only their physicalistic evolutionistic explanations that accomplish nothing. Golly gosh, religion is just a cultural adaptation don't you know. We just need a rational answer to wrongheaded adaptations or something like that? Whatever, the real answer is never going to occur to them and they'd scoff at it anyway.

I may never again see some people I love because they are planning to leave the country. They don't see a way to fix it. I can't blame them but I worry that they're jumping from frying pan into fire.

I have God though. I have prayer. I'm extremely blessed. Even if they kill me I'm blessed.

Highly Credentialed Doctor ITells the Truth About the Suppression of Ivermectin

Dr. Paul Marik, who has a long list of medical and scientific credentials to his name, is interviewed in this video about the suppression of Ivermectin as a prevention and treatment for COVID. He is the founder of the FLCCC, one member of which is Dr. Pierre Kory who has also spoken out about Ivermectin -- and of course been banned from social media, as very likely can happen to this video as well. Maybe it will show up on Rumble or some other alternative platform.

Anyway, Marik gives the history of the discovery of Ivermectin's efficacy for COVID over the last year, how it has been used effectively for decades for parasitic diseases in 3.7 BILLION patients, which ought to make it quite clear that it is completely safe. Even if it didn't work for COVID, its safety record makes it reasonable to try it, but instead it is getting nothing but bad press and doctors are even persuaded against it although the literature supports it.

The question is why, and Dr. Marik gives the "Follow the money" answer since ivermectin is cheap and available while other therapeutics that are recommended instead are extremely expensive. I'm never completely happy with this sort of explanation, it seems some deeper forces must be at work to account for the aggressive globally successful campaign against it, but it is probably true enough as far as it goes.

Sheriff Tells the Truth About Black Lives Matter

A "hateful ideology" based on the lie that the police are systemically racist, that is provoking the murders of police all over the country.

Not that truth matters any more of course.