Holy WarsThe Noble SavageTags: Church Growth, Church Growth Movement, liberalism, Christian Traditions, Voltaire, Francis Schaeffer, How Should We Then Live?, The Enlightenment, American Revolution, French Revolution, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bohemian, Richard Hofstadter, Peter Jones, Spirit Wars, R C Zaehner, Hinduism, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence
Though they were witnesses to the
triumphant demonstration of God’s grace working among His people during the American
Revolution, the French turned to rationalism rather than God. So as they revolted against
their aristocracy, the French simultaneously rebelled against God. It was Voltaire’s
humanistic Enlightenment proposition that lead the charge in the French Revolution. And it
led to their demise. “The utopian dream of the
Enlightenment,” wrote Francis Schaeffer in How Should We Then Live? “can be
summed up by five words; reason, nature, happiness, progress and liberty. . .To the
Enlightenment thinkers, man and society were perfectible.” In spite of this optimism,
the French Revolution did not have the same happy ending that occurred in
As a result Rousseau saw the restraints of
civilization as evils: ”Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!” According to Francis Schaeffer in How
Should We Then Live? “We must understand that the freedom he advocated was not just
freedom from God or the Bible but freedom from any kind of restraint – freedom from
culture, freedom from any authority, and absolute freedom of the individual – a
freedom in which the individual is the center of the universe.” Rousseau’s whole philosophy built
around autonomous freedom led to the Bohemian ideal. This is the “hero who fights
against all of society’s standards, values and restraints.” The hippies picked
up on Rousseau’s noble savage while taking on all of his anti-civilization attitudes.
For this reason the revolution that they led is called the counterculture movement. I “The twentieth century American
Revolution,” wrote Peter Jones in Spirit Wars, “promises a society without
patriarchy, that is, without the traditional family structure, and, in the long run,
without God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth.” Therefore, while under these
influences, counterculturalists were not content to simply tear society apart. They also
sought to rebel against the religion that had made the country what it was. The movement
therefore focused its attention on replacing Christianity with a religious system that was
very foreign to As countercultural eastern religious
themes have been applied in our society with the promise of autonomous freedom, the actual
result has been the slow erosion of our civil liberties. There is no mystery why this is
so. “According to the ancient Hindu dharma,” wrote R.C. Zaehner in Hinduism,
“men are not born equal; they are born into that station of life for which their past
karma has fitted them.” The Hindu religion that the counterculturalists flocked to
supports a rigid caste system by declaring just the opposite of Thomas Jefferson's words
in the Declaration of Independence. There are no inalienable rights in this system.
There’s no freedom here. This religion of the East that the hippies adopted is all
about bondage. Since it was based upon Rousseau’s
destructive countercultural philosophy and the mystic religions of the East, the ‘60s
revolution was as all about tearing everything apart without any plan to replace it with
anything other than “sex, drugs, rock and roll” and a whole lot of government
control. And now we see that modern political liberalism has completely given itself over
to this Bohemian strategy along with its Eastern mystic themes. That is why contemporary
liberalism is so bent on undermining liberty by destroying everything that has to do with
our Judeo-Christian historical traditions even as it advances Marxian socialism.
“This revolution,” Peter Jones concluded, “penetrates every home and soul,
redefining sexuality, spirituality, God, religion and revelation. The new world order
turns everything we know on its head – good becomes evil, homosexuality the preferred
sexual expression, and the traditional family a minority structure.” The goal is the
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addition, these young ‘60s idealists had to deal with the historical revisionism as
advanced by historians such as Richard Hofstadter. While under the umbrella of taking an
honest look at our nation’s past, revisionist historians took on the attitude of
newsstand tabloids. These changers of history sought to dig up every little piece of smut
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