Ye Shall Be As God

“When God and tradition and ancient norms are said to no longer exist, anything and everything is permissible.” – The Devil and Karl Marx.

When Eve was tempted by the serpent in the Garden of Eden, who encouraged her to eat from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, life on Earth was changed forever.  Convinced that her eyes would be opened to hidden knowledge and that she would become as God, led instead to the fall of man.  Rather than human eyes being opened to God, their eyes were exposed to evil, as God cursed in perpetuity not only men but animals for their disobedience.  Thus was the hubris of man in paradise. 

Eve’s foolish quest for divine wisdom resulted in knowledge of evil through sin, rather than through God’s truth.  This step away from the divine guidance of God would release evil into the world in all forms and in all manners.  Rather than a life of enlightenment, the world would experience moral degradation through the decline in moral standards and an upsurge in unethical behavior.

In the formation of society, a new wickedness would arrive in the form of Karl Marx.  Karl Marx, the Father of Communism, looked to transform society by changing human nature itself, by rejecting both natural law and the moral codes that accompanied it.  Not only by advancing the material world over the spiritual, but by removing God altogether from the center of the universe and replacing it with man. 

As an atheist, Marx believed that religion was a construct of social oppression that reinforced the current power structure, thus justifying inequalities.  As “the opium of the people”, any disparities in outcomes were accepted by the religious who felt they would receive their ultimate reward in the afterlife.  With God as a competitor for the hearts and minds of men, Marxism sought to destroy it. 

But Marx understood the pull of religion and therefore used religious language to fool the people.  His manifesto was his Bible, while man himself became as God.   Communism, too, sought to abolish eternal truths and universal principles, making Marxism a form of theology.  Morality became a social construct rather than norms that were universally accepted.

In Paul Kengor’s 2020 book, “The Devil and Karl Marx”, Grove City College professor Kengor reveals the personal writing of Marx that reflects his love of the dark side, even employing Satanic themes.  What has been mostly known as a political and economic theory, Marxism, would be revealed as largely anti-religious, as Marx regularly attacked religious institutions, the family, and cultural norms.  Marx roundly rejected all religion as he sought to disrupt the ethical and religious foundation of Western society.

Marxist theory became the seed that grew modern communism through its core ideas focused on materialism, class struggle, and disdain for capitalism.  Marx believed the material conditions of society were the primary drivers of social change.  As such, he established a theoretical framework and a call to action to transform both the world and human consciousness.   

To broaden their coalition, Marxists established an alliance-building plan to infiltrate churches and schools by using a common enemy approach.  From fighting capitalism, fascism, and inequality to defending democracy, they aligned with ministers and seminary students to push their agenda.  Using an outstretched hand policy, they built relationships on the inside.  Other organizations with common causes served as fronts to mask their communist involvement.   To further hide their real agenda, Marxists used friendly terms such as progressive, social justice, and democratic socialism.    

Social justice initially arrived through a Protestant movement, called the Social Gospel, and then further with Liberation Theology, a revolutionary tool used in South America, to destroy the Catholic Church from the inside out.  Both applied Christian ethics to social problems for the betterment of society.   

With capitalism too powerful and effective to overcome, a shift was made in the early 20^th century from economic Marxism to cultural Marxism using critical theory, a brainchild of the Frankfurt School in Germany.  Believing that the white power structure was oppressing particular groups, its theory would be made manifest in social justice issues like feminism, racial justice, and queer equity.  Ridding themselves of their earlier revolutionary practice of radical and disruptive change, a new steady, gradual, and continuous practice was employed to evolve less noticeably, to destroy the patriarchy, marriage, and the family. 

Pope St. Paul VI spoke of how the smoke of Satan had entered the temple of God, leading to spiritual confusion and moral compromise.  Smoke, once inhaled, reaches the brain within 10 seconds, harming every organ and damaging DNA.  It irritates and inflames, and often leads to cancer and the end of life on Earth by suffocating the masses. 

Just as men trusted their own reasoning and lost their innocence with God in the Garden, so did the Marxists willfully reject God’s authority and guidance as a foundation of society, leading to the death of hundreds of millions, as each sought to “be as gods”.