Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

CONCLUSIONignored and suppressed evidence concerning conspiracies. To someextent, this has been the fault of amateur conspiracy theorists, whohave endeavored to prove their case by seeing all of history as aproduct of clever machinations by a single, unified, undividedconspiracy. These well-meaning people have adopted personalism,but not cosmic personalism. They have ignored God as the controllingfactor in history. In some cases, they have begun to believe the far-outravings of the occult fringe.I think of one conspiracy theorist who has fortunately disappearedfrom view, and who never wrote a book, preferring to spread the wordby means of seminars and audiocassette tapes. He was articulate, butat the end of his semi-public career (mid-1970's), he actually taughtthat the events of this world are controlled by about half a dozen"Tibetan masters" in the Himalayas. He took seriously the mostnonsensical ravings of the New Age mystics. As Rushdoony oncecommented, such conspiracy theorists have believed in witchcraft tosuch a degree that they think the witches are in control. In the name offighting Satan, they have adopted his own bragging lies about himself.They have retreated from the fight.What happens when a dedicated conspiracy-fighter begins tocomprehend the power of the enemy? In a few cases, they may adoptthe religion of the conspirators, the power religion. They switch sides.In most cases that I am familiar with, however, they merely havebelieved in the power religion's own propaganda, and they havegrown fearful and despondent. They have dropped out of the fight.Perhaps they just stop reading about the Conspiracy, or politics ingeneral. In one case that I am familiar with, the person adopted somesort of Eastern mystical religion and started having an annual sexualaffair each summer vacation. In desperation, many have retreated intothe escapist religion — a retreatist, pietistic, "God will Rapture me outof all this" religion. They have abandoned orthodox Christianity, theethics religion, which is the dominion religion. 2Humble Before God, Fearless Before MenThe best defense is a good offense. We must take the offensive. Andwe must be governed by this vision: they are evil and will eventuallylose; we are righteous and will eventually win. God is on our side. Weare stronger than our enemies because we are right. Even if wehttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/conclusion.htm (3 of 7) [5/26/2000 1:48:26 PM]