Conspiracy: A Biblical View, by Gary North - EntreWave

TWO KINDS OF CONSPIRACY, by Gary NorthI'll bet you don't believe that a bomb would have stopped it. Shoot oneenemy, and another one appears, on either side of the conflict. Why?Because it is the struggle—a religious struggle over the acceptableworld-and-life view, the first principles of society-which is central,not the specific conspirators. It is the script, not the players, which iscentral.Yes, there are important participants. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., wasone. J. Pierpont Morgan was one. "Col." E. M. House was one. But ifall three had died at age ten, would the fight over the right to interpretthe U.S. Constitution not have taken place? Would it have been a"slam dunk" (to use a basketball analogy) for the good guys? Ofcourse not.So, what does this say about conspiracies? Like weeds, they need afield to grow in. The field is a climate of opinion—the same field usedby the rulers of any society. Change the ideas, and you change thesocial order. The real conflict is not over money, or military hardware,or votes. The real conflict is over ideas.One more question. How widespread does the dominant climate ofopinion have to be in order for a ruling elite — and all rulers are partof an elite — to maintain control? Does almost everyone in a societyneed to share the basic presuppositions of the leaders, or only theliterate minority which writes and speaks "in the name of" the people,or the Party, or the Volk, or the evolutionary forces of history, or GodHimself?. In other words, if a conspiracy gains control of theprestigious outlets for ideas, can its members continue to control thelives of the masses? If not, why not?We might put it this way: Ira conspiracy persuades the vast majorityof a society to change their opinions and agree with the conspirators,can we legitimately cry "foul"? Wouldn't public debate reallyeliminate the conspiratorial aspect of the articulate minority? If weanswer, "yes, it was all done in the open according to the rules," thenwhen we talk about a conspiracy, we must be talking about a groupthat doesn't do it by the rules. What, then, are the rules — the goodand righteous rules — of political competition? And have today'sleaders played by these rules? (Hint: when you think of rules of thegame, think "Constitution." Furthermore, think "law of God, asrevealed in the Bible.")http://freebooks.commentary.net/freebooks/docs/html/gnco/html/4.htm (9 of 11) [5/26/2000 1:48:10 PM]