Faith, Family & Freedom: Part 5‏ of 21

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Our worldview is the lens - the glasses - through which we view the world. It's the foundation of our values, and our values determine how we act and how we live our life. Whether conscious of it or not, every person has a worldview. We are surrounded by people who have their own way of looking at things, and many of them hold views that oppose ours.

The battle that rages in America today between radical liberals and traditional conservatives is a battle between two opposing religious worldviews - Secular Humanism and its Marxist progeny, and Christian theism. Sadly, most Americans believe only what they've been programmed to think: that humanism is a "neutral" position and belief in God is somehow a skewed perspective. This nonreligious mask of humanism is why it is the only religion funded and promoted in America's public schools. Teaching "non-God" is OK; teaching "God" is not.

In this segment we will investigate our last inductee of the second human institution: The apostate/false-dominate church. This man is known as the co-founder of postmodern thought and self-proclaimed enemy of God. In fact, he was so evil and demented, he thought he could actually evict God from of Heaven!...

"Faith, Family & Freedom: Our American Values Under Fire"  

Friedrich Nietzsche

(1844-1900)

Friedrich Nietzsche, along with Michael Foucault, is one of the founders of postmodern thought.  Postmodernism says that truth and reality are created by man and not by God- something is true if it works for you. Postmodernism declares that truth is not absolute and binding over the entire globe, but situational and subjective. Postmodernism is a dominate worldview in America today, and Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most widely read authors on college campuses. So, just who is Nietzsche, what is his connection to Hitler, and why should Americans be concerned that his worldview is so popular in America? Let’s take a look…

Nietzsche is best known for declaring “God is dead,” but few know that he went on to say that not only is God dead but that “we have killed him.” Nietzsche hated Christians, which may be the reason Hitler loved Nietzsche. Nietzsche declared, “Christianity has been the most calamitous kind of arrogance yet.” He also wrote, “I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost perversion, the one moral blemish of mankind… I regard Christianity as the most seductive lie that has yet existed.” Nietzsche believed that Christianity made Germans weak. He described himself as “The Anti-Christian Friedrich Nietzsche” and sometimes just as “The Antichrist.” He also wrote a book titled, Antichrist.

Hitler was so impressed with Nietzsche that he would visit Nietzsche’s museum and have his picture taken while staring at a bust of Nietzsche. Hitler enjoyed Nietzsche’s writings so much that he passed them along to Benito Mussolini, the dictator of Italy. Hitler combined the worldview of Darwinian evolution with the “superman” of Friedrich Nietzsche and developed eugenics, or the systematic elimination of individuals the state deemed to be the weakest link, the racially defective, and sub-human. Both Hitler and Nietzsche proclaimed the need to end the guilt of the human conscience. Nietzsche took Darwin’s survival of the fittest or the will to survive to the next level and proclaimed that “Life simply is will to power.” Whatever it takes, one should purpose to be a ruler, a master over the less desirable. Thus, in promoting his master-and-slave morality, Nietzsche, in his book Beyond Good and Evil, proclaimed the need to look beyond Christian definitions of good and evil to whatever it took to gain power, including the need for cruelty. Nietzsche wrote, “We should reconsider cruelty and open our eyes… Almost everything we call ‘higher culture’ is based on the spiritualization of cruelty, on its becoming more profound: this is my proposition.”

“Master morality” meant the strong rule over the weak. And by weak he would also mean Christians with their compassion for the sick, aged, and vulnerable. Anyone who held to fixed morality would make themselves slaves, and deservedly so. Nietzsche had no need for the Christian worldview and its absolute truth, standards of justice and injustice, righteous and unrighteous. For Nietzsche, the standard was only what put and kept on in power. Nietzsche wrote, “…that the demand of one morality for all is detrimental for the higher men…” Note that this is exactly why today’s cultural elite have one standard for the masses and a completely different standard for themselves.

Why do Christians have such a strong commitment to the life of the unborn, the sick, the disabled, and the elderly? Because we understand, as did America’s Founding Fathers, that man is created in the image of God, and thus every person has a right to life, liberty, and property. With the loss of the Christian worldview and the ever-increasing acceptance of Nietzsche’s postmodernism by American society, Christians and conservatives are at risk of being portrayed as the enemies of the state, intolerant, out of touch, bigoted, extremist, or even domestic terrorists- all because our Biblical worldview is in direct contrast to that of “the higher man,” the cultural elite, or the master morality.

America’s sick, handicapped, and elderly will also be at risk as man’s intrinsic, God-given value is replaced by a value that is measured only by what a person can do for the state. Are they productive human resources? Once national health care is a reality and Americans see it as a right, only the threat of its removal will be needed to convince the younger, postmodern generations that the lifeboat is too full, and it is time to toss the weak overboard.

In a sad irony, many teachers who have long since retired will experience first-hand the brutal, inhumane consequences of the worldview they inculcated into their pupils through situational ethics courses. America’s citizens will not likely escape the consequences of their duplicity or apathy. Whether parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, elected officials, pastors, Sunday school teachers, journalists, butchers, bakers or candlestick makers, they will find that Aristotle was correct when he said, “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

Just a few months after writing his book The Antichrist, Nietzsche went in sane and spent the next ten years out of his mind. It cannot be stated too emphatically that the godless worldview of Friedrich Nietzsche will lead individuals into self-inflicted insanity and despair and will cause a nation to be ruled by madmen. Ideas do have consequences...

Sources:

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (New York: Vintage, 1966)

Gerald Suster, Hitler: The Occult Messiah (New York: St. Martin’s, 1981)

Robert G. Waite, Adolf Hitler: The Psychopathic God (New York: Basic Books, 1977)

Brannon Howse, Grave Influence (Worldview Publishing, 2009)

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