Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

TWO KINDS OF CONSPIRACY, by Gary Northagain, He did this with Israel. When the kings conspired against God,they found themselves at the mercy of the really ruthless conspirators,the rival pagan empires. The rivals always possessed greater powerthan the halfhearted conspirators of Israel. The rulers of Israel dabbledin the occult, dabbled in the power religion, dabbled in rebellionagainst God, and dabbled in tyranny. They were no match for thefull-time conspirators, once God let them go.Unification: Two StrategiesThe average citizen knows about various conspiracies that proclaim"unification through execution." We have seen their work in history:the Jacobins in the French Revolution, the Bolshevik Party in theRussian Revolution, and Aryan masters of the Nazi revolution. Theyachieve "consensus by terror" — endless terror, Karl Marx's vision of"the revolution in permanence." 1 The old description is true: "TheRevolution eats its children." (I like the wit's addition: "But not soonenough. ")What the average citizen does not readily recognize is the existence ofthe other form of conspiratorial organization, the kind described inNone Dare Call It Conspiracy. This kind bases its strategy and tacticson the principle of "unification through manipulation." This form ofconspiracy operates under a very different set of presuppositions andassumptions about the way to achieve universal ethical unity. Itspre-eminent hypothesis is this: ideology is ultimately irrelevant.Ideological differences cannot possibly be ultimate, for we know thatall ultimate disagreements are ethical disagreements, and mankindcannot possibly be ethically divided. By definition, any perceivedethical disunity just has to be a temporary phenomenon. To admit thatsuch ethical disunity is fundamental and permanent is to admit thatmankind is not God, for God cannot be ethically divided againstHimself. Therefore, they reject the idea. They believe that there arealways ways to overcome ethical (ideological) disunity.The best way to overcome this temporary disunity, of course, is tomake a deal, preferably a business deal. Best of all, make a businessdeal at taxpayers' expense.Conspiratorial humanists all agree that mankind ought to be unifiedethically, where all men share the same cosmic vision. But theyhttp://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/4.htm (2 of 11) [5/26/2000 1:48:09 PM]