Category Archives: Atheism

Gnosticism: The Enduring Heresy and Menace to Western Civilization

Article by Charles Burris.

Excerpts:

When people discuss the core foundations of Western Civilization they usually point to two primary contributions which are labeled Athens (Greek philosophy and the idea of cognition and rationality) and Jerusalem (Judeo-Christianity and the monotheistic faith in a transcendent creator God as opposed to pagan pantheism).

With this Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian intellectual inheritance (in addition to the various elements offered by the barbarian Germanic tribes and the Muslim world) Western civilization has developed as “logocentric” or reasoned speech-centered.

From the time of the Protestant Reformation, particular emphasis has been placed upon the written word as a means of transmitting and recording knowledge, away from the earlier “art of memory” or oral tradition of classic Greek and Roman antiquity.

But there has been a third constant element, sometimes hidden or underground and considered “heretical” or unorthodox, that has existed as a component of Western Civilization which we may label as Egypt (in reference to the Nag Hammadi Gnostic manuscripts found there in 1945).

Leftists, ultimately can be traced back to ancient pagans, particularly the Gnostics, who did not believe the Universe was created by a transcendent Other (which we call God). They are in total revolt and total denial of the very facts of Creatology and Cosmology. Like their Gnostic forebears, they hate the material creation of the Universe by this false “God” (whom the Gnostics called the Demiurge.)

This is most profoundly found in the writing of Karl Marx, who was a militant atheist who hated and was envious of “God” for creating the Universe. Marx, in his unfathomable, maniacal megalomania, wanted to destroy “God” and the world in which he lived and recreate a new world in his image.

From the seductive serpent in the Biblical Garden of Eden to Marx and his delusional followers, the essential message of the Left to humanity is believe in and follow us in our path of destruction and “You shall be as gods,” and create an athesied paradise of a Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. This is the goal of the neopagan pantheist Left and its syncretistic, egalitarian vision of a Sophianic Millennium — the deification of humanity.

Murray Rothbard’s Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, recognizes all this and is therefore the most definitive analysis and destructive weapon against the ideas of Marx and the Left. Rothbard traces the malevolent historic legacy of the Left as no one before. Particular note his brilliant discussion of Reabsorption Theology.

Christianity and the West have been at war for hundreds of years with a succession of gnostic political religions and mass movements seeking to impose brutal elite rule and mastery of their subject peoples. These sinister efforts have been responsible for untold death, destruction, and misery. Over one hundred million persons alone perished in the 20th Century as a result of these murderous totalitarian gnostic regimes.

The study of the construction of pseudo-secular gnostic religions has been one of the principal obsessions of my life since I heard Gerhart Niemeyer of Notre Dame lecture on it in 1975 at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s Western Summer School at Thomas Aquinas College. Niemeyer was a keen student of Eric Voegelin on these matters, as was Murray Rothbard. Today the leading popularized scholar in this area is the great James Lindsey.

I believe understanding this 2000 year battle between orthodox Roman Catholic Christianity and Gnosticism is the ultimate key to unlocking the history of the previous two millennia.

This is the penultimate menace that Western Civilization, and especially the United States, faces today. This is what has motivated the destructive riotous mobs of thugs and looters in the streets, the craven willfully ignorant “cancel culture” corporatists, the seditious professoriat in court academia, and the prestitutes in the establishment regime media.

Academia Embarrasses Itself…Again

Article by J.B. Shurk.

Extract:

It is such an odd time to be alive. In the halls of government and academia, nonsensical beliefs masquerading as “truth” run rampant. Within these wonderlands of delirium, two ideas are so sacrosanct that they cannot be questioned: (1) using any kind of energy other than those available during the Middle Ages causes catastrophic “climate change”; and (2) mass immigration and “multiculturalism” strengthen a society. Consequently, university professors and government ministers expect us to believe two preposterous things. First, unless we pay carbon taxes and allow bureaucrats to centrally manage the economy, we will all die. Second, unless we replace Western civilization with other civilizations, we are all bigots.

The Dark, Logical Conclusion of Atheism That Elites Won’t Admit

What happens when the foundational ideas of modern society are proven to be completely fraudulent? Eric Metaxas exposes how highly influential figures like Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, and Alfred Kinsey pumped fundamentally flawed and harmful ideas about human nature into the mainstream. Even though their research has been thoroughly discredited by subsequent scholarship, the corporate media and modern textbook publishers actively protect their legacy because the narrative aligns with what secular culture wants to believe.

10-minute video here.

Is the Soul Real? Neuroscience’s Surprising Answer

Half-hour video.

A leading neurosurgeon breaks down one of humanity’s biggest questions: Does the soul exist separate from the brain? Using real brain-surgery cases, split-brain research, free-will experiments, and near-death studies, he examines whether modern neuroscience points to a mind beyond matter, and whether the soul might actually be immortal.

Speaker: Michael Egnor.

Reclaiming a Better Future: A Christian Vision for True Environmental Stewardship

Book review by Sebastian Wang.

Reclaiming a Better Future: A Christian Vision for True Environmental Stewardship
Robert G. Patridge, 2026

In an age when environmental alarmism often serves as the thin end of a wedge for ever-greater centralisation of power, this book arrives as a refreshing, rigorously argued and profoundly hopeful counter-blast. Written by Robert G. Partridge, an economist who clearly loves both creation and the Creator, Reclaiming a Better Future is no mere polemic against “climate policies.” It is a sustained, biblically saturated call to recover the ancient mandate of Genesis 2:15 – to “cultivate and keep” the earth – without surrendering sovereignty to the state, the UN, the IPCC or any other modern Tower of Babel.

The author’s central thesis is as simple as it is radical: the real conflict is not between “stewardship” and “exploitation”. The real conflict is between those who believe in  creation, or a part of it, as sovereign, and those who believe this sovereignty belongs exclusively to the Creator. Once that question is settled, everything else follows. Chapter 1 lays the theological groundwork with admirable clarity, showing how both extreme environmentalism (nature as sovereign) and unbridled exploitation (man as sovereign) ultimately rest on the same godless foundation. The third option – God as sovereign – liberates humanity to exercise dominion responsibly, without the need for global commissars.

What follows is a searching yet constructive critique of current climate orthodoxy. The author is willing, for the sake of argument, to grant the mainstream narrative in Chapter 2, only to demonstrate that even if the alarmists are right, the top-down, coercive remedies being proposed are morally, economically and spiritually disastrous. He draws on economists such as George Reisman and Walter Block to argue for adaptation over mitigation, private-property rights over regulation, and market-tested innovation (including nuclear power) over government fiat. The moral heart of the chapter – that no individual’s supposedly climate-relevant emissions can be traced to measurable harm, and therefore taxing or regulating them constitutes theft – is devastatingly persuasive.

Subsequent chapters broaden the canvas. Chapter 3 exposes the “curse of the greater good,” using the Joseph story and the history of environmental policy to show how well-intentioned central planning repeatedly produces worse outcomes than the problems it claims to solve. Chapter 4 turns a prophetic eye on the spiritual and monetary roots of environmental degradation: the “legalised forgery” of fractional-reserve banking and the “magic money tree” that funds both ecological folly and the growth of Leviathan. The diagrams on the spiritual consequences of excessive government are particularly striking.

The book’s literary and cultural range is impressive. The extended meditation on Watership Down in Chapter 5 – especially the allegory of Cowslip’s warren as the welfare-state snare – is one of the most memorable passages I have read in years. It perfectly illustrates how a culture that forgets its old stories and linear worldview ends up accepting death as final while desperately clinging to the state for salvation. Chapter 6 returns to the Tower of Babel motif, tracing the failure of globalisation and the Covid-era attempt to resurrect it. The author’s eschatology of dominion – the confident expectation that the gospel will be victorious before Christ’s return – is presented not as utopian fantasy but as the historic Christian default, recovered from the defeatism that has gripped much of the Church since the late nineteenth century.

The tone throughout is irenic yet unflinching. The author is no angry culture-warrior; he is a friend of truth who repeatedly urges Christians to be “shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.” He criticises fellow believers (including respected figures such as astrophysicist Hugh Ross) where necessary, but always with respect and a clear desire for constructive dialogue. Even his engagement with atheist economists such as Block and Reisman is generous: their policy prescriptions are welcomed precisely because they do not violate biblical commandments, in marked contrast to the ruling economic orthodoxy of Keynesianism.

A few minor quibbles do not detract from the book’s power. Some readers may wish for more engagement with recent empirical climate data, though the author’s decision to grant the narrative for argument’s sake actually strengthens his case. Others might question whether a strict 10 per cent-of-GDP ceiling on government is politically achievable without a prior spiritual revival; the author would doubtless reply that the revival must come first. These are not weaknesses so much as invitations to further thought.

Reclaiming a Better Future is a book for our time. It will comfort the many Christians who have felt uneasy about the statist turn of much environmental rhetoric without quite knowing why. It will challenge those who have unconsciously baptised the IPCC’s agenda. And it will equip a new generation to speak truth to power – not with fear, but with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing the Sovereign Lord of creation. If enough believers take its message to heart, we may yet see swords beaten into ploughshares, not by UN fiat, but by the slow, faithful work of the Kingdom of God in the here and now. Highly recommended.