Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

THE CONSPIRACY'S THEOLOGYTHE CONSPIRACY'S THEOLOGYYe shall be as gods' (Genesis 3:5).What is the heart of the conspiracy's successful appeal, both to itsmembers and to its eventual victims? Not the goodies that it promises,"comes the revolution." There are lots of ways of getting goodies inlife. The real appeal is the appeal of a uniquely revolutionary idea. Itis the same idea that the serpent presented to Eve: "Ye shall be asgods" (Genesis 3:5).Men live by ideas, and no idea in man's history produced more evilthan this one. Man, the god. Man, the predestinator. Man, the centralplanner. Man, the director of the evolutionary process. Man, themaker and shaker of things on earth and in the heavens. As KarlMarx's collaborator and financier Frederick Engels put it over acentury ago, "man no longer merely proposes, but also disposes." 1The chief premise of the modern conspirator is this: Man, the saviorof Man.This vision is inescapably religious. The impulse lying behind it isreligious. Some have called it the religion of secular humanism.Others have called it the will to power (Nietzsche). But no one hasdescribed its implications better than C. S. Lewis:What we call man's power is, in reality, a powerpossessed by some men which they may, or may not,allow other men to profit by.... From this point of view,what we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be apower exercised by some men over other men withNature as its instrument .... Man's conquest of Nature, ifthe dreams of some scientific planners are realized,means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billionsupon billions of men. Each new power won by man is apower over man as well. Each advance leaves himweaker as well as stronger. In every victory, besidesbeing the general who triumphs, he is also the prisonerwho follows the triumphal car.... For the power of Man tohttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/3.htm (1 of 11) [5/26/2000 1:48:06 PM]