10/22/2019

I listened to Eric Metaxas briefly this morning on the way to work. He interviewed a Christian evangelist, a Chinese man, I presume. This modern apostle had written a book about the 100 million Christian living and worshiping in China, Asia and in Africa. He regarded them as the real, Christian traditionalist of today.

He offered that the modern apostle has two aims: to save souls and to transform the worldly culture, so that it resembles or becomes heaven on earth.

With some provisos, I approve of their aims. First, saving souls is a loving goal, whether people are called to worship Jesus or any other good deity. As long as conversion is voluntary, no problem, since involuntary and mandatory conversion always conveys to the target person that the coercive proselytizer worships and serves Satan and Lera, whether he is conscious of doing so or even denies this horrible reality. Bad means (forced conversion) for the sake of a good end--extending by force, fear and violence, real or implicit, the reach and depth the worship of a good deity is to, in actuality, spread the cause and worship of the Dark Couple.

Conversion or the refusal to convert cannot be mandated socially by threats of shaming, mocking, ostracism or excommunication from the community that the dissident is a member of. The sheer wickedness inherent too and growing under such mandating is an abomination and affront to the Light Couple, the Mother and the Father.

To seek to construct and create heaven on earth is a noble and worthy pursuit, but is a dangerous enterprise fraught with peril. Too often utopians and idealist have made things far worse than they were, because as true believers pushing their holy cause, they used genocide and totalitarian government and communist economic structures, to bring about their utopias, that were soon revealed as monstrous dystopias of murder, poverty, terror, government sanctioned violence against its people, poverty, starvation and suffering.

Idealists are too often fanatics, willing to sacrifice all and set up a "temporary" dictatorship over the proletariat, and what the peoples of Russia, Germany, China, Cambodia, Cuba and Iraq ended up with was bloody hellholes on earth where the suffering was incalculable.

Pursuing the perfect at the expense of the good always leads to terror, tyranny, mass suffering and the expanded power of the Dark Couple. To bring about heaven on earth, we must use gentle means and settle for coming close to being like heaven (we can continue to tweak and improve what we have wrought at a polity). A great but imperfect example would be a political system of constitutional republicanism like America is, with some Mavellonialist influences added in.