Modern democratic societies are essentially governed by a managerial class. This managerial class has formed somewhat organically as a response to mass society itself... industrialization and urbanization, and the need for more and more mass organization and planning. In the past, this managerial elite were focused more on the economic and mechanistic aspects of social planning but over the course of the 20th century they have come to be managers of culture and ideology and have disciplined society into the managerial ideology through mass media and mass communications. This ruling managerial ideology, popularly understood as "political correctness", is self-evident today in virtually all major institutions. Managerial class ideology has given birth to the "religion of Woke" that we see permeating every facet of public life today. This is not a culture that was assumed democratically. Society did not vote for a world where their children have instant access to pornography, but that world was created for them. People didn't vote for the domestic culture war imposed upon their society any more than they voted on engaging in foreign wars and military interventions. Actual democracy is only permitted within the bounds set by the managerial elite. (Though truthfully, we all share responsibility in allowing this managerial system to establish itself because of the comfort and convenience it provided us. Smartphone culture and social media were just too great a thing to pass up, regardless of what it has done to the minds of children)
Anyways, with that said.... Christians are familiar with the instruction of Romans 13, to obey governments and authorities, even when they are actively persecuting the church. But obedience to state law, and participation in state-sponsored ideology are very different things, are they not? In my view, this is the fundamental problem of the modern church. We pretend we are just obeying the government, when in reality we are obeying a system of social-engineering and ideological discipline that usually has zero force of law, but definitely has social consequences.
It would be like the early disciples of Jesus, instead of only obeying the laws of the Roman government, they became intimately involved with all aspects of Roman civic culture and educating their children in Roman civic religion, educated by Rome's high priests and councils of pagan philosophers. And even surrendering to all of that, the cult of Rome would probably have far less influence over their minds than the modern managerial class does over the minds of our communities today. Our entire worldview has been completely invaded and permeated by 'postmodern thinking', and is continually managed through such mass media and communications networks.
We are in effect, willing participants in a highly organized permanent cultural revolution that is totalitarian in scope, attempting to redefine humanity itself. The church accepts and surrenders its young children to be fully disciplined by the managerial priest-class. We celebrate how great it is that our children have access to such wonderful education.
We either do not see it or we pretend not to see this managerial elite, which is in effect an entire Priest-class of Woke religion that is directing the social-planning of our society and the values our children will be discipline in as they move through different spheres of education. This ideological priesthood has no governmental authority, and yet Christians submit to them voluntarily, at most offering only private resistance, but rarely if ever as a unified church body do we even recognize the organized institutional forces arrayed against us, with the minds of our children as primary targets.
The modern church hides from it all with the cowardly pretense of "not getting involved in politics"... and this again plays back into the illusion of democracy, where we pretend not to see the managerial class doing the social engineering. We've allowed idols to fill our backyard because it made life easier. New gadgets, cheaper goods, streaming video, and our ideological priesthood was there with tickling words to assure us how much more free and liberated society was becoming as long as we just sat back and let them steer the ship into the future.
The new world order looked pretty good in the 1990s... you just had to stop being so bigoted and accept homosexuality, that's all... and today we have Drag-queen story hour for kids. And still the church refuses to organize against the wolves.
Anyways, with that said.... Christians are familiar with the instruction of Romans 13, to obey governments and authorities, even when they are actively persecuting the church. But obedience to state law, and participation in state-sponsored ideology are very different things, are they not? In my view, this is the fundamental problem of the modern church. We pretend we are just obeying the government, when in reality we are obeying a system of social-engineering and ideological discipline that usually has zero force of law, but definitely has social consequences.
It would be like the early disciples of Jesus, instead of only obeying the laws of the Roman government, they became intimately involved with all aspects of Roman civic culture and educating their children in Roman civic religion, educated by Rome's high priests and councils of pagan philosophers. And even surrendering to all of that, the cult of Rome would probably have far less influence over their minds than the modern managerial class does over the minds of our communities today. Our entire worldview has been completely invaded and permeated by 'postmodern thinking', and is continually managed through such mass media and communications networks.
We are in effect, willing participants in a highly organized permanent cultural revolution that is totalitarian in scope, attempting to redefine humanity itself. The church accepts and surrenders its young children to be fully disciplined by the managerial priest-class. We celebrate how great it is that our children have access to such wonderful education.
We either do not see it or we pretend not to see this managerial elite, which is in effect an entire Priest-class of Woke religion that is directing the social-planning of our society and the values our children will be discipline in as they move through different spheres of education. This ideological priesthood has no governmental authority, and yet Christians submit to them voluntarily, at most offering only private resistance, but rarely if ever as a unified church body do we even recognize the organized institutional forces arrayed against us, with the minds of our children as primary targets.
The modern church hides from it all with the cowardly pretense of "not getting involved in politics"... and this again plays back into the illusion of democracy, where we pretend not to see the managerial class doing the social engineering. We've allowed idols to fill our backyard because it made life easier. New gadgets, cheaper goods, streaming video, and our ideological priesthood was there with tickling words to assure us how much more free and liberated society was becoming as long as we just sat back and let them steer the ship into the future.
The new world order looked pretty good in the 1990s... you just had to stop being so bigoted and accept homosexuality, that's all... and today we have Drag-queen story hour for kids. And still the church refuses to organize against the wolves.
