By Paul Collier, Editor
“The gods did not enrich man with a knowledge of all things from the beginning of life. Yet man seeks, and in time invents what might be better.” – Anakreon, Greek poet, 5th Century B.C.
INTRODUCTION
Throughout documented history, mankind has long sought to make the world in his image. It is as natural an impulse to humanity as breathing. One of these natural impulses, breathing, is required for life, but the other impulse, making the world in man’s image, inevitably leads to death. The adult seeking to make himself or his collective a god here on earth requires the assurance that his ideational or ideological DNA be transferred from one generation to the next, lest he be a mere mortal.
The child is a threat to the man-god so long as that child can become a steward of its own preferences and beliefs. Man must make the child in his corrupt image in order to assure the transference of his DNA to the next generation.
What follows is a brief outline of the development of methodologies to control the emergence of adulthood in children in an effort to serve the self-centered desires of the man-god-wannabes throughout human history.
This writer calls this the spirit of pedophilia, fully crystalized in Michael Foucault, the post-structuralist philosopher most influential on the current ideology now laying siege to America, thanks to the Democratic Party and its market vassals.
Foucault serves as the face of the attempt by the Left to undo the progress made thanks to Christianity to protect children from the ravages of the pedophilic spirit, the man-god impulse within fallen man that caused him to attempt to build a Tower of Babel to reach the throne room of God so he could overthrow God and replace Him with man’s own image.
Part One of the report lays the groundwork for what fueled the father of the modern pedophilic spirit. Part Two of the report documents Marxism’s assault on children leading up to Foucault and the unholy children that came after him.
The purpose of this report (both parts one and two) is to convince you, the reader, that the current prevailing political ideology in America is formed by a spirit of pedophilia that continues to be an existential threat to the health and well-being of the most innocent of Americans, our children, starting from the unborn and continuing through to adulthood (if the children are allowed to be born).
If you are already convinced of this fact, then this report seeks to give you the resources to make an informed case against the rise of the pedophilic spirit in America by the party of pedophilia, the Democratic Party, or the DNC, and its market vassals, Foucault’s children.
This part of the report gives you the ancient and historical development of the pedophilic spirit. The second part gives you the spirit made flesh (Marxism) and America’s current-year assault by this same pedophilic spirit on the American Republic and, more significantly, on the innocent children now being brutalized by this unholy attempt to make man a god, collectively, beholden to the experts given authority by the elites of the Democratic Party, the party of pedophilia.
ED.NOTE: You can read part two of this report here.
THE SPIRIT OF PEDOPHILIA
“They served their idols, which became a snare to them. They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.” – Psalm 106:36-39
1. THE SPIRIT OF UNEARNED SALVATION – In the orthodox interpretation of scripture, man is born fallen as the seed of Adam, in need of a redeemer. He is destined to sin and thus is in need of salvation, deliverance from sin, though nothing he can do can earn such salvation. He is given unearned grace if he would but bend his knee in fear of the Lord and walk in the love of God, as demonstrated and witnessed by the son of God, the Christ, who is God over all.
That same Christ descended from heaven, taking the form of man, the Word made flesh, the first fruit of the dead, the second Adam who, by his nature, could pay for the sins of man, being a man himself. Because of His perfection, being God as well, his blood alone could atone for our sins. He became the final sacrifice of the Old Covenant that ripped the veil in the temple, ushering in the New Covenant where God’s law is written on our hearts.
Christ shed His blood on the cross so that fallen man’s sins will be forgiven if he worshipped the Christ, taking up His cross and following Him and forgiving one another as Christ forgave them. He conquered death and Satan, the father of lies and pedophilia, ushering in the spiritual Kingdom of God.
This worldview was, and is, unlike any other worldview in human history. It is a worldview that binds the human’s ambitions to become a god himself, compelling him to forgive as he has been forgiven and to leave vengeance for the Lord. It is a worldview that compels us to recognize that by the grace of God alone we are saved, not through works, lest we should boast, and thus, even as we are being perfected, we are yet compelled not to view ourselves as better than anyone else, even the wicked, who can be forgiven even as we have been forgiven.
If lived out, the spirit of unearned salvation conquers tribalism, racism, bigotry, and hate, in humility, not pride.
The innocent Christ sacrificed Himself, becoming like sin, our sins, with full volition and consensuality. He did so to free us from the wages of sin, which is death, leading us through sanctification to reject sin and live righteously according to God’s laws, through the Holy Spirit within us.
This spirit, the spirit of unearned salvation, is imperfectly reflected in the founding of the American nation, whose constitution created a state that was not given the power to make man in its image, but rather to allow man, and thus children, to steward their preferences, to steward their beliefs, to define their own happiness and be free to seek it.
The spirit of unearned salvation is born from an innocent sacrificing himself of His own free will to redeem the fallen so they can escape the slavery of sin.
2. THE ANTITHESIS OF THE SPIRIT OF UNEARNED SALVATION – There is an anti-Christ spirit, the spirit of pedophilia, which takes on many forms throughout human history. It is a spirit that demands the innocent among us, the child, sacrifice himself (or be sacrificed) to empower man to continue to live in sin. It is not only antithetical to the Christian spirit, but also to the American spirit. It requires the violation of individual liberty, both of children and their parents, and the re-creation of a priest-king class of elites who dictate to the masses the terms of their conditions, conditions designed to empower the elites and preserve their god-like advantages over the many.
At the heart of the spirit of pedophilia is the notion that children are not created by God to be stewarded by adults but are impersonal objects, disposable if they fail to meet the needs of the collective god, the social man (as defined by the appointed priest-kings of the god-state). It is reflected not only by sexualizing children but by murdering them in the womb should their lives be inconvenient for adults.
THE CARROT AND THE STICK
Adults throughout the ages have used two methods to prevent the deviation from social man’s imposed image on individuals by the generation of humans emerging, the children. One method is the carrot, to offer the child indulgence in sin that leads to bondage to a system that sacrifices the child in the end for the good of the whole, whether literally through murder or spiritually by crushing the child’s sense of self-stewardship, a spiritual murder. The other method is the stick, to control through force the potential for stewarded action, not just of the child but of the parent.
In America, both the carrot and the stick are being deployed by the party of pedophilia. Nothing new is under the sun, and the current iteration of the spirit of pedophilia is no exception. Its examples go back generations and can be reflected both in history and in the arts.
1. PLEASURE ISLAND – “And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one of his fellow and every one of his neighbor: the youth be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable.” – Isaiah 3:4-5
In the story of Pinocchio, the wooden boy seeking to become a real boy is led astray by the Coachman, who promises him a life of indulgence and ease on the island that, in the novel, is called the Land of Toys. In the 1940 Disney classic, the island is called Pleasure Island.
On this island, children can indulge in adult vices like gambling, drinking, and smoking cigars. Pinocchio enters the Land of Toys with his friend Lucignolo. Behind him, the Coachman’s henchmen, in looming silhouettes, lock the doors behind them. As Pinocchio and Lucignolo indulge their fantasies, acting like adults in all the vice-like ways, they are slowly being turned into donkeys, which was a symbol of ignorance in 19th-century Italian culture, where the book that became the movie was originally created (1883).
The Coachman and his henchmen can later be seen capturing the now-converted donkeys of other children and sending them off to a life of slavery. Pinocchio would ultimately escape and face more challenges in learning how to be human by becoming a stewarded self, an individual aware of the consequences of his actions and the need for some form of salvation outside the self. However, most of the children in this story did not escape, as most, this writer fears, of the children in this land and this time will not escape the Land of the Toys trap being set for them.
In the current year, the Democratic Party and its market vassals are offering children a Pleasure Island that gives them the “freedom” to be sexual, the “freedom” to define their genders as they please, and an escape from accountability based on the lie that their parents invented evil or were helpless to stop them, and so now they are the heads and their parents are the tail.
2. THE SPARTAN WAY – The Spartans may have been the first people to aggressively adopt some form of the spirit of pedophilia in a systematic way rivaled only by the Democratic Party of today. The goal of the engineered work was to glorify the collective god of the state, which for the Democrats is the party itself.
It started at birth, when the child was scrutinized to determine if he was a useable form. Any deformities in the child would lead to that child being dashed on the rocks or exposed to the elements, a practice that was widespread in the ancient world before the rise of Christianity but which was perhaps never more zealously executed by anyone else other than the Spartans until current year with the legalization of abortion, thanks primarily to efforts by the Democratic Party.
After that, the Spartan child would be given to the family to be raised by a nurse until he was 7 years old. Then he was shipped off to state school where he would live and study, being groomed to be an instrument of the state, which would be to become a warrior for boys and a matron for girls. Any deviation from the social orthodoxy imposed on the child by the few elites would be met with physical punishment, ostracism, or death. The Spartans were the masters of the stick method of the pedophilic spirit.
In Sparta we see the seeds of fascism and socialism that have reared their violent ugly heads again and again throughout human history, causing death and trauma wherever they go. It appears the Democratic Party would like America to follow a similar path. They use the stick as well as the carrot, with the stick being social ostracism and removal from paths that lead to good standing in the “social man,” which is being imposed on them by the few elites dictating to the many through violence.
LEFTISM RESTORES THE SPIRIT OF PEDOPHILIA
Politics as a justification of authority alone is relatively new to most of human history. Previously, the primary foundation of authority was divine authority, claiming in some form to have divine authority, be it Christ in the West or the Mandate of Heaven of the Chinese. This was often coupled with genetic legitimization in the form of royalty, a family deemed to be the heirs of divine authority exclusively.
2. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION – The birth of the modern nation-state is often cited to have begun with the French Revolution and the subsequent reign of Napoleon Bonaparte. What distinguishes the nation-state from past states is the emergence of a bureaucracy whose authority is derived from some form of contract, such as a Constitution, which was legitimized by claims of moral and/or philosophical correctness that could be reliably used as tools of accountability which restrained the power of the state over the citizens. It is the structure of rational language alone that the political uses to justify its claims.
It is as the French were doing away with their divinely appointed King and seeking to justify authority based on “ideals” that the terminology of the primary divide in the political arena took place. That terminology classified those who favored a preservation of tradition in the form of Kingship as being “the right” while those who favored the creation of a republic based on the ideals of liberty, fraternity, and equality came to be called “the left.”
The terminology emerged from the Tennis Court Oath on June 20th, 1789 in Paris, France during a meeting of the Estates General when members of the Third Estate, comprised of non-royals and non-elites, held a meeting at a nearby tennis court in defiance of the first two estates they feared would block their efforts to reform the French government.
They took an oath not to disband until the French government was bound by a constitution. The members who sat on the right happened to support a constitutional monarchy while the ones who sat on the left happened to support a republic.
Thus we inherit this terminology to describe the fundamental divide in the game of politics, between those who seek to use government to make man anew and those who seek to use government to mitigate conflict. Of course, it’s more complicated than that, but this writer asserts that this is the essential divide in the justification of authority using ideas, or ideology, alone.
With this, the birth of the modern political state began, and thus leftism began, and thus the systemic spirit of pedophilia began to spread across the earth, leaving millions dead and wounded behind it.
But even before the Tennis Court oaths, the ideas that formulated these divides were emerging in the immediate centuries leading up to this moment. One such precursor was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose ideas would codify the notion that humans are born innocent and become evil through oppression, a core assumption for those who seek to use the state to make man in their image rather than allow for the stewardship of the self discovering the true sovereign, God alone.
3. THE BORN-FREE CHILD OF ROUSSEAU – “And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, ‘Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me’.” – Matthew 18:2-6
Jean Jacque Rousseau is considered by many to be the father of the French Revolution and the creator of childhood, with the former claim having far more credibility than the latter. The fact that he himself forced the mother of his five children to give them away to a Paris hospital is an irony not lost on the claim that Rousseau invented childhood. Rather, he “invented” (really, gave sophistic justification of ideas as old as civilization itself, that children are instruments of the state) the justification for using the state to mold the child in a new image that must, by necessity, break with the traditions from which evil was invented, mainly, the creation of the notion of private property.
From Hub Pages:
“Rousseau is the first one to write about childhood as a distinct period in the life of a person, as opposed to what was the norm in time that regarded children as miniature adults which were expected to act and think like adults. It is said that he created the childhood theory.”
4. THE BIBLICAL REBUTTAL – Scripture makes a distinction between adults and children, creating different standards in how God judges one versus the other. After the Israelites gave a bad scouting report on the promised land God told them He would conquer for them, God punished the Israelites by consigning them to forty years in the wilderness to assure that those then alive would never enter the promised land.
“Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and all of your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me.” – Numbers 14:29
Those under the age of twenty were spared this fate, for reasons that are explained in Deuteronomy 1:39 when God tells Moses, “And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it and they shall possess it.”
The Christian notion of childhood existed long before Rousseau, though not in the same “ward of the state” way that would emerge from Rousseau. We see it in the verse from Matthew 18, where Christ describes very different attributes to children than He does for adults, though, unlike Rousseau, the assumption is not that children are born innocent. We are all born under the sin of Adam, as Paul spells out in Romans 5, where he says, “Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned – for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law.”
5. ROUSSEAU’S JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PEDOPHILIC SPIRIT – For Rousseau, then, the human is inherently good, able to engineer the good through the state. The only savior needed is the state, who will know more about how to raise the child in the good than his own parents would.
The author of the pedophilic spirit in the political game, Rousseau, demonstrates the true nature of such a spirit in how he treated his own children, who were all rejected due to their potential inconvenience to his libertine lifestyle. That tendency in those who follow such spirits has not disappeared. If anything, in America, it has only increased.
Rousseau gives sophistic justification for unbinding the state to not be constrained by self-stewardship and seek to use its monopoly on violence to force people to be free. He is famous for writing “man is born free and everywhere he is in chains” as a condemnation of individual property standards that recognize the stewardship rights of self.
The notion that the self is “born free” gives sophistic justification for the state to claim it can know the true social self and can thus use tyranny and oppression to FORCE people to be “free” as defined by the same oppressing state.
Rousseau might blush at just how far his pedophilic spirit might go if he were to witness the policies of the Democratic Party today. Nonetheless, he is the left-identified father of the political pedophilic spirit who will lead to the father of current year’s version of this pedophilic spirit, Michel Foucault.
SUMMARY
Leftism takes on many forms in the centuries that followed Rousseau, but they all have a few things in common, such as the assumption that the individual is born free, that experts can define what the ideal self should be, that the self is only fulfilled when it conforms to the centrally planned and designed social man, and that children must be conditioned by the state, not the parents.
In part two of this report you will see the depraved outcomes of the potential patterns of governance in this political game that Rousseau gave voice to, Marx gave structure to, and Foucault gave spirit to, the spirit of pedophilia that emerges from the political left over and over and over again whenever they put their thoughts to innocent flesh, the children of whatever land these wannabe man-gods happen to hold.
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