ROMANS 8:16 “The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.”
What did the socialists and the communists need?
They needed to upset the established order. They wanted to institute their social theories and their civil ideas. But in order for that to happen, they needed the current government system to collapse, first.
Taking down a government is no small thing, especially when you don’t have an army or guns, but the only thing you possess is learning, rhetoric, words, and the books and pamphlets and manifestos that you write.
What you really need, more than anything, is rage.
They needed to enrage the public.
So what you have to do is to create intractable problems; you need to create issues that can’t ever be solved. And this is a critical point: because if the problems run so deep, even to the dark heart of a man, then you can stake your claim on an inexhaustible amount of anger and rage.
You need to convince the public, or some segment of it, that the well of darkness is so deep that you yourself need an immense amount of reach to solve the problem and get to the root of it.
This is why democrats need more and more government, more and more control of the system, because they are trying to fill a hole in the human soul that extends on indefinitely. They are trying to solve the spiritual problem of evil with man-made solutions.
The idea is that the evil in the heart of man is endless, and so there must be an endless march of programs, laws, legislation, and guidelines to attack it. But most importantly, they must have full and complete control of the government, because, without that, they think, how can you fully fix the completely corrupted heart of man?
Their desire for power coincides exactly with the depth of evil inside of man. But the truth is that they can never have enough power, never fund enough programs, never pass enough legislation to even begin to heal the brokenness inside of men.
They are looking at a deep and endless hole of evil and thinking it is something else, something that can be mastered.
They are attacking a terminal disease with superficial dressings. They are painting the face of a dead man. Because all they can see is their own ideas, their own devices and solutions. They can’t see that the patient’s heart is dead, lifeless, rotting, with rigor mortis and bacteria setting in. They can’t see that the only way to resurrect the dead heart of a man is by a miracle, through a miraculous occurrence.
They never once thought to look inside themselves for the response to the problem. They are always looking at the other with searching eyes of judgment, seeking only to diagnose and frame the other as the problem. This is the fatal flaw in socialist ideologies, that the grounding element of humility that comes from religiousness is absent.
They have replaced evil with counterfeits. And so they no longer see the depthless evil in the heart of man. They have replaced evil with shallow counterfeits, presented these issues as solvable, if we just give them enough power to institute their programs.
But first they need violence, general disorder, rage, and chaos.
They need desperation.
They need the people to look upon evil and call it something else, to actually see something else. They need the people to forget about the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and instead identify a new tree of moral ideas, with its novel fruits being racism, privilege, Islamophobia, and so on.
In the face of this new confusion, the people will become desperate, and throw up their hands and relinquish their rights to these leaders.
It has happened over and over in history.
And we are seeing it again, right before our eyes.