Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

THE CONSPIRACY'S THEOLOGYdoctrine of salvation by law, especially statist law. Whenever andwherever the doctrine of salvation by civil law has been preached,then and there we have found a conspiracy against WesternCivilization.The motivation of conspiracies is simple: to be as God. Theconspiracies of the West, being Western, have also adopted the notionof the unity of the godhead. But who is this god? It is man himself. Toachieve (evolve to) this position of divinity, men therefore need to beunified — not just unified through voluntary co-operation (such as ina free market transaction), but unified ethically.It would be futile to attempt to list all the statements by humanistscholars that proclaim the need for the unification of man. Arepresentative example is an interview with Carl Sagan, the popularastronomer (I am tempted to write "pop astronomer") whosemultimillion dollar 1980 Public Broadcasting System show,"Cosmos," was a 12-week propaganda blast for evolution. Saganwrites:I'd say that our strengths are a kind of intelligence andadaptability. In the last few thousand years, we've madeastonishing cultural and technical advances. In otherareas, we've not made so much progress. For example,we are still bound up in sectarian and national rivalries."Intelligence and adaptability" are code words for evolution, meaningman-directed social, political, and economic evolution. "Sectarian andnational rivalries" are code words for religious differences andnationalism. But Sagan is optimistic. He sees a new world a-comin'.Some people might even call it the New World Order.It's clear that sometime relatively soon in terms of thelifetime of the human species people will identify withthe entire planet and the species, provided we don'tdestroy ourselves first. That's the race I see us engaged in— a contest between unifying the planet and destroyingourselves." 12Back in the 1950's, the slogan was: "Peace in the world, or the worldin pieces." It is the same religious pitch: the unification of mankindethically and politically — the one-world or-der-is necessary ifhttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/3.htm (9 of 11) [5/26/2000 1:48:07 PM]