In our “come of age” period of post-enlightened history, secularists want to believe that we have “evolved” beyond the superstitious enchantments of our primitive ancestors, and allow scientism to become the new religion wherein a disenchanted world becomes normative.

In response to such rubbish, I wrote the following (short) Facebook post about two weeks ago. It isn’t an argument, per se; but instead, it is simply stating the facts coram Deo.

The Bible is way more factual, particularly as it portrays the supranatural realities of the world, than people want to think it is; even many Christians. Enlightenment thinking has seeped deep into the tissues of our culture, conditioning it into softening the supranatural events and scenarios referred to in Holy Scripture. Many Christians live as if the Bible, and the world it depicted, was under an enchantment of primitive superstitious beliefs. But that’s the enlightened and post-enlightened way of thinking. In point of fact, peoples’ hearts are just as wicked; and people in power and the “elite” are just as committed to ritualistic paganism as the kings referred to throughout the Old Testament.

What I’m really wanting to press with this is the exact opposite of what the secular world has come to believe of itself. The Word of God, Holy Scripture, is surely communicated in an ancient near eastern and second temple Judaic (Roman-Graeco) sitz im leben, but that’s of no bearing when it comes to peoples’ hearts. People are just as evil and wicked today as they were the second after Eve and Adam partook of the forbidden fruit. World leaders, and their pawns in the entertainment, political, scientific etc. communities, have a desire to construct a Babel-like city of man once again. They use occultic symbolism, and engage in pagan ritualistic practices right in front of our faces (in the name of art), in order to signal who their dark lordmasters in fact are. Christians know, or ought to be able to recognize the power that stands behind these “world leaders”; you know, Jesus refers to him as the “father of lies,” and Scripture in general, refers to him as the “god of this evil age,” or the “prince of the power of the air.”

Many Christians, let alone their secular counterparts, essentially scoff at such figments; as if humanity simpliciter has surpassed its primitive family of origin, and moved onto much more elevated ways of engaging with the natural order. Again, this is the result of people, of any pedigree, uncritically receiving the spiritual and intellectual categories they have been born into; as if said categories are the “just is” of reality. And yet the world and reality of Holy Scripture contradicts such categories, resoundingly! The world has a supranatural (Christological even) origination; the world has a supranatural continuing sustenance, that if that was removed it would evaporate into oblivion and nothingness. As such, the world is inherently supranatural precisely because it is ‘upheld by the Word of HIS power.’ Consequently, Christians, of all people, ought to be those who look out at the world and discern just how evil and rotten the infrastructure of said world is in fact. They ought to have the capacity, by the Spirit, in union with Jesus Christ, to recognize that the world leaders are under the spell of their father the devil.

If what I am writing causes you to squirm: I simply rest my case.