Last week, Everett Piper wrote a prophetic piece in the Washington Times on the current flood of sexual assault allegations making headlines daily. His comment about what’s behind this torrent hits the nail on the head. Ideas always have consequences and lecherous behavior will always be the inevitable consequence of
Almost everyone knows Karl Marx. Very few have heard of Antonio Gramsci—including me until about two years ago. Even as a student of intellectual history in college, I was unaware of Gramsci or his theories. Yet, even more than Marx, Gramsci’s ideas have shaped the West by laying the ideological
In the previous post I suggested that the most influential “prophets” whose creative thinking gave birth to the toxic new religion—were Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci. Both were products of Western culture, so to speak, but were solidly in the atheistic stream. Their ideological forebears included the continental philosophers Rene
Richard Weaver famously said, “Ideas have consequences.” They also have antecedents. In this post, we’ll look at the genesis of the ideas behind the toxic new religion (TNR hereafter) which is assaulting Western civilization. Who were its prophets, and what drove them? Arguably the most influential prophets—the great philosophers whose
The ministry of the Disciple Nations Alliance is based on the conviction that truth has the power to transform lives, communities and even nations. Broken, impoverished communities are transformed when the church confronts cultural lies, and embodies and proclaims the truth. Helping the church do this is the beating heart
The following article from Disciple Nations Alliance president Scott Allen, offered here in two parts, originally appeared at WORLD. We desperately need to speak transforming truth to the culture. In part 1 we treated transforming truth #1: All Lives Matter. Transforming Truth #2 – God cares for us (and judges us)
The following from Disciple Nations Alliance president Scott Allen, offered here in two parts, originally appeared at WORLD. There is a reason for the increasing division, hostility, and violence we are seeing in America. As a nation, we are abandoning biblical truth in favor of toxic ideologies that, if left
According to the tenets of the toxic new religion, victimization accrues power. Here’s how it works: First, the religion sees reality entirely within the Marxist framework of oppressor and oppressed. Further, the principal oppressors are white, Christian or Jewish heterosexual males. They are uniquely oppressive, “white supremacists” who have abused
As we’ve pointed out elsewhere, those who want to change society begin by changing its language. The new religion has employed this tactic from the beginning. The basic aim has been to vacate the most important words in the English language of any vestige of their original Judeo-Christian meaning. Words
In this series, we are exploring the cultural roots of the escalating campus rage in America. New York University professor Jonathan Haidt recently described it as “a new religion.” I find it extremely clarifying to recognize this rage as a religion. It isn’t simply “atheism” or “secularism,” but really a
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