Holy War! The Rise and Fall of the American Theocracy: 2039-2079 (Part 3)

By Nathaniel Lane Stewart, M. A.

The Unique Phenomenon of the American Theocratic Republic (Part 3)

(Note: This post marks Part 3 of a series on the history of the American Theocracy, a work supposedly published in A. D. 2195 narrating the establishment and reign of the American Theocratic Republic in the 2060’s and 2070’s.  Parts 1 and 2 can be found on this blog, and at least 4 more parts remain to come, God willing, including an outline of the book.)

The Unique World that created to the American Theocratic Republic

Part of the challenge in narrating the rise and fall of the American Theocracy is the necessity of understanding the unusual convergence of ideas that occurred in the early decades of the twenty-first century which gave birth to the American theocratic movement in the 2040’s. As noted previously, one of the common misunderstandings of the Theocratic movement is that while it was a twenty-first century phenomenon which tried to combat what it perceived as twenty-first century threats, its leaders did so with a very distinct twentieth century perspective. In fact, one of the great ironies of the movement is that while the Theocratic apologists possessed a highly refined sense of historical consciousness, their sense of history was rooted more in fiction than fact and myth than heritage (5). We will explore this strange paradox of their thought in greater detail below in our third observation regarding the character of the movement itself, but it is important to note its odd historical perspective as we seek to understand the world in which Theocratic movement came into existence.

What then was this convergence of ideas in the early part of the twenty-first century that gave birth to the American Theocratic movement? (6)

The simplest answer to that question is to note what caused this convergence, and that was two philosophical revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Those two revolutions could be characterized in this manner:

Mankind dethroned the one central authoritative principle that God ordained to govern all knowledge and all realms of life.

What is that one central principle?  Religion as mediated through the Catholic Christian Church is the only divinely ordained means by which all knowledge must be understood and all of life governed.

Any survey of the history of ideas from the nineteenth century through mid-twenty-first century will reveal this principle was rejected by two radical philosophical revolutions that in turn created the global desolation of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and would traumatize three or four generations of American Christians as they tried to reconcile those revolutions with their Christian faith.

What were these revolutions that appeared to shake the very foundations of Christendom, dethroning the governing principle of religion in all matters of faith and life?

They were 1. the Modern denial of religious reason, and 2. the post-modern affirmation of irrational thought as a viable alternative to philosophical reasoning.

We in the twenty-second century understand the complete absurdity of both statements of philosophy. We have seen how they have died and Christianity still remains fully intact, unharmed, unscathed and still dominating globe, despite the fact that both schools of thought claimed the church would die before the third millennium or shortly after its onset. (7). Interestingly enough an obscure historian of the early twenty-first century understood with a keen perception the fact that the modern and post-modern systems of thought could not survive beyond the twenty-first century, and wrote as much in one of his works, describing the modern and post-modern worlds as well as the age that would follow them in these terms:

“Once the momentary belch of Modern Secularism has been expelled,

and the ethereal effusion of post-Modern Fideism has passed, then

once again the old order of (religion) will be restored, and (the church)

will reign supreme over the souls of men as it did before. . .” (8)

 It was then this so-called ‘belch’ and ‘effusion’ (forgive the crassness of the cited author who was obviously a most primitive writer) that caused so much consternation among the Christians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries because most of them operated under the presupposition that these systems would completely erase Christendom off the face of the earth.  Of course, Christian theologians in our day have illustrated well from nature itself that God has appointed religion to be the queen among the sciences, and as the church must mediate all true religion unto mankind, we know that no philosophy of man can eradicate the church.  But most American Christians, still operating under the sad pale of sectarian, individualistic, and hybrid forms of a degenerate Protestantism, failed to the see the folly of such thinking.  And hence, by the time the traumatic events of the twenty-first century had reached their zenith in the mid-2050’s, the time was ripe for the Theocratic Party to claim that it fell to all Christians to once and for all eradicate all anti-Christian thinking from the world by use of the sword as was believed to be the only means by which godless notions could be expelled from the human race.(9)

To be continued. . .

 

Notes:

(5) See The Messianic Mission of the American Evangelical-Catholic Church (2010-2036) by J. Campbell Locke, M. A., published in 2091. Chapters 3 & 4 deal specifically with the historical revisionism practiced by Evangelical Christians from the 1970’s to 2030’s, and is a helpful study, even though Locke never gave up his ‘Semi-Protestant’ biases.

(6) See the essay, The Restoration of Religion: How Post-modernism ‘saved’ Christian Catholicity  by N. L. Stewart, M. A., for a conscience explanation of how Post-modernism killed Western Philosophy, allowing the Christian Faith as mediated through the church to once again gain intellectual dominion in the Western world.

(7) As one satirist wrote, ‘Though the Christian was traumatized in the twentieth century, the modern and postmodern should be apoplectic were they to travel forward into time and see not only that Christendom had survived their puerile attacks, but that their “infallible utopias” would not even be recognized by a young grammar school student.’ (see A Christian Antidote of Joy against the Dark Spirits of Unbelief and Folly.)

(8) The Third Codex of the Catholic Academic League (A. D. 2171) forbids the citation of writers from the so-called ‘Protestant Era’ (1517-2036), and that is why we, the author have not cited the name of the writer of this quote, This author’s works are banned from even the lower clerics as his heresies are regarded as so precise and hard to detect that only the most spiritually superior of experts can decode his sectarian language.  Such was the ‘prophetic’ nature of his writing in that he so accurately described the course of religion in the next century that churchmen of our time have deemed him inspired of the devil if not completely insane.  We the author do not think that he was moved of the devil in his writings for they are filled with too much Christian virtue to be of a hellish nature.  But his biography is clear: he suffered extensively from melancholy spirits that no doubt came from his refusal to abandon his misguided Protestantism even after most of his kind had rejected him. For further details on this writer, see Mr. Stewart’s article, ‘Heretics of the 21st century,’ in the Encyclopedia of Heresy of the Christian Church.

Since young students will be reading this work, it was necessary for the quote to be edited as it is plain his writings are far too crass for most pious Christians.  The full quote can be found in the same article.

(9).  It is worth noting that Post-modern Evangelicals, and later the Theocratic movement adopted the methodologies and practices of the Society of Jesus in enforcing religious rules upon society.  While the Order of the Society of Jesus practices such enforcement in a much more civilized manner than did the American Theocracy, the parallel attitudes are a fascinating study in comparison.

 

Personal Note from me the blogger:

Here is the full, unedited quote (SMC):

‘Once the momentary belch of Modern Secularism has been expelled, and the ethereal effusion of Post-modern Fideism has passed, then once again the old order of apostasy will be restored, and human religion in the form of Anti-Christ will reign supreme over the souls of men as it did before the fires of the Holy Spirit burned deep in the souls of God’s elect, igniting the flame of the Protestant Reformation.‘