Nihilism: No truth, No Meaning, No Purpose, No Worldview

The postmodern mindset is: there is no truth, no meaning, no purpose, and no worldview. Post modernity is a massive reaction of nihilism (the idea that life has no meaning, and is utterly empty) to the Enlightenment. It is conveyed by the music of our time, the consumerism, the clothing, by the street. It has penetrated everywhere.

Nihilism Denies Objective Bases to Truth and Morality

Nietzsche declared regarding nihilism’s denial of objective bases to both truth and morality, “One interpretation of existence (religion) has been overthrown, but since it was held the interpretation, it seems no meaning is left in existence.” (Nietzsche quoted in the article “Nihilism” in The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, second ed., edited by Walter A. Elwell. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001.)

Enlightenment Has Kept the Papacy At Bay

The Enlightenment ruled for four hundred years, and is represented in the Bible prophecy as the King of the South at the end time that keeps the papacy (the King of the North) at bay until the papacy overwhelms it in a massive final resurgence of papal power. (Daniel 11: 40-45).

In Forty Years the Aftermath of the Jesuit Hippie Revolution Has Brought Down the Enlightenment

Born in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment sought to develop a worldview based on reason.  For four hundred years, Christianity battled the Enlightenment and could not bring it down. However, in forty years, postmodernism, springing from the Jesuit hippie/pantheistic/communist movement of the late 1960s has utterly brought down the Enlightenment.

Rome Has Sought for 400 Hundred Years to Extinguish the Enlightenment in Order to Resurrect Tyranny

It has been Rome’s goal to extinguish the Enlightenment, though for other reasons than that of true Christianity. Rome has sought to extinguish the Enlightenment because its reason-based worldview has no place for the papacy and its tyranny.

Both Protestantism and the Enlightenment opposed the tyranny of Rome. However, while Protestantism opposed the Enlightenment because it exalted reason above faith in the Word, Romanism opposed the enlightenment because its worldview opposed Rome’s power, hierarchy, and tyranny.

The Door Is Now wide Open For Papal Resurgence

The Enlightenment is another term for the King of the South in Daniel 11:45, the elevation of human reason that warred against the papacy in the form of the aftermath of the French Revolution in the form of Napoleon’s General Berthier taking the pope captive and thus delivering the deadly wound to the papacy. Ever since the forces of the Enlightenment have kept the papacy at bay. However, now with postmodernism bringing down “modernism” or the Enlightenment, the door is wide open for papal resurgence.

Postmodernism Wars Against the US Constitution, Because It Sees Law As Simply the Will of Those in Power

This is true not only in the field of religion, but also in the field of politics, law, and constitutional law. “In law, it (postmodernism) takes the form of denying that what the United States Constitution, for example, declares as fixed and binding is the case because the law is simply the will of those in power.” –Wells, Above All Earthy Pow’rs, 86.   

This is because there is absolutely no certainty about anything in postmodernism. Everything is fluid and amorphous.

Nihilism Gripped Nazi Germany

The nihilism of Postmodernism that now grips America has been witnessed before… in Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany is a foretaste of what is now coming down on America and the world. Europe has been forty to sixty years ahead of America philosophically.

Irrationalism in Europe Resulted in Nazism, Fascism and Holocaust

Carroll Quigley, famous author of Tragedy and Hope, who has exposed the inner workings of the world’s elite in history and through today, writes of the process of total irrationalism in Europe that culminated in Nazism. It is extremely important to understand the philosophical phases that Europe went through and produced Nazism and Fascism and the holocaust, in order to comprehend where America is right now.

The Very Philosophies the Jesuits Used to Wreck Horror in Europe are Now Unleashed in America

America, because of its Protestant religious orientation, has been spared Europe’s travails in the past, but now a gathering storm is threatening to burst on both Europe and America. Europe is much more philosophically oriented than America.  America is much more pragmatic. However, when German professors, steeped in European philosophy, fled Hitler’s Germany, and came to America in the 1930s and 1940s, a powerful change took place in America. A seedbed of European philosophy-Nietzsche, Marx, Hegel, the works, was introduced into American education, which bore fruit in the first radical wave of philosophical, pantheistic, monistic, Marxist revolution in the late 1960s as the Jesuits unleashed the Hippie Revolution. The very philosophies that enabled the Jesuits to take over Russia with Jesuitical communism in 1917, and Germany with Nazism in the 1930s, and Italy with fascism in the 1930s, those very philosophies of nihilism, pantheism, and Marxism, were massively infused into America in the hippie revolution.   

At the time just before the hippie revolution, America was predominantly nominally Protestant, but the hippie revolution, along with multiculturalism, and a massive influx of Roman Catholicism from Mexico and Latin America with the passage of the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, radically transformed America.

The forces of the Enlightenment, which held the papacy in check, have now been swept away by the postmodern nihilism that had rejected the absolute truth of the Bible once believed by Protestantism, and the rationalists of the Enlightenment. America in one bound has jumped into the very nihilism abroad in Germany in the Nazi years. Even the churches in the church growth, Willow Creek, Saddleback, Purpose-driven New Age movement, have adapted themselves to the postmodern nihilism to increase their numbers.

Quigley’s analysis of Europe’s philosophic journey is very instructive for those concerned about the formation of the Image of the Beast and the imposition of the Mark of the Beast. The very thing that the servant of the Lord warned about-that the day of great intellectual enlightenment would prove to be equally advantageous for the papacy to assert its power, is now coming to fruition.

America Jumps in 40 Years what Took Europe 200 years

Quigley recounts Europe’s history. Remember that America has jumped right over several of these phases and bounded from the Enlightenment directly into nihilism, the idea that there is no absolute truth, no meaning, and no worldview.

Europe went through several philosophical phases before Nazism. The Age of Enlightenment (1730-1790) followed the Age of Newton (which had discovered a rational and mechanical explanation of the material universe). The Enlightenment sought to apply the same physical techniques to man and society, coming up with a static, mechanical, and rationalist conception of both. In Europe, the inadequacy of this view, already rejected by poets and literary figures in the mid-eighteenth century, led to its general rejection following the excesses of the French Revolution.

Romanticism (1790-1850) Culminates With Marxism

A Romantic period followed from about 1790 to 1850, marked by points of ‘storm and stress,’ the Gothic revival, and growing emphasis on history as the key to understanding man and society. Hegel, Hugo, and Heine, were the philosophers of the era, culminating with Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto in 1848, which sought to find the key to man’s social position in past struggles.  

Age of Scientific Materialism (1850-1895) Ends With Man Disillusioned, Turning to Nonrational Methods and Contending Forces

The third generation of the nineteenth century was an age of science and rationalism-the age of Darwin and Bismarck, seeking to apply the empirical and rational aspect of science to biology and history in terms of a scientific materialism. By the end of the century, man was frustrated and disillusioned with scientific method and materialism, and turned to nonrational methods and the clash of contending forces, for the problems themselves seemed to complex, too dynamic, too irrational to be settled by science and human thought.

Age of Irrational Activism (1895-1945), the Age of Nazism, Fascism, and Socialism

This resulted in the Age of Irrational Activism. This was the age of Sigmund Freud. This period felt that man; nature and human society were irrational. Darwin’s doctrines of struggle and survival were quickly shifted from nonhuman nature to human society. Rationalism was rejected as slow, superficial, and an inhibition on both action and survival.

Reason Considered to Be Inadequate to Plumb Man’s Problems

Reason was considered to be inadequate to plumb the real nature of man’s problems, and was regarded as an inhibitor on the full intensity of his actions, an “obstacle to the survival of himself as an individual and of his group (the nation). Any effort to apply reason or science, based on rational analysis and evaluation, would be slow and frustrating effort: slow because the process of human rationality is always slow, frustrating because it cannot plumb into the real depths and nature of man’s experience, and because it can always turn up as many and as good reasons for any course of action as it can for the opposite course of action. The effort to do this was dangerous, because as the thinker poised in indecision, the man of action struck, eliminated the thinker from the scene, and survived to determine the future on the basis of continued action.  To the theorist of these views, the thinker would always be divided, hesitant, and weak, while the man of action would be unified, decisive, and strong.

Cult of Irrational Activism Justified Class Conflicts, National Warfare, and Imperialism

“This point of view, nourished on Marx and Heinrich von Treitschke justified class conflicts and national warfare, and formed the background for the cult of violence that was reflected in the political assassinations of 1898-1914 that began with Japan, Italy, and Britain in China, Ethiopia, and South Africa in 1894-1899. The explicit justification of this view could be found in George Sorel Reflexions sur la Violence (1908) or in the political events of 1914.” Quigley, 1224.

Jesuits Plot to Eliminate the Protestant Kaiser

The Jesuits Count Ledochowski sowed all Europe with treaties to prepare the way for World War I beginning in 1914, which would be the Jesuits’ effort to eliminate the protestant Kaiser from Germany and ultimately replace him with a Roman Catholic dictator. The Jesuit effort worked like clockwork. By 1917, the age-old enemy of the papacy in the East, the Russian Tsar, was assassinated and Jesuitical communism took control. By 1922, after over 100 years of expulsion (the Jesuits were expelled from Russia by Alexander I in 1820), the Jesuits were readmitted to Russia.  

Germany Repeals Anti-Jesuit Laws April 19, 1917

In Germany, the Jesuits had been expelled in 1872 by Bismarck. On April 19, 1917, the anti-Jesuit laws of 1872 were repealed. [John Cornwell, Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII. New York: Viking, 1999, p. 81.]

Hitler Receives Funding for Nazi Party From Cardinal Pacelli

Roman Catholicism financed Irrational Activism and the Cult of Violence in the form of Nazism. In the winter of 1919, one snowy night Adolf Hitler made his way to 15 Brienner Strasse in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, to papal nuncio Pacelli’s residence to receive funding to start the Nazi party from Pacelli himself. Sister Pascalina received Hitler at the door and ushered him into the setting room, and then went to awaken Archbishop Pacelli. “The meeting went fast. The soldier vowed to check the spread of atheistic communism in Munich and elsewhere. Pascalina heard Pacelli say, ‘Munich has been good to me, so has Germany. I pray Almighty God that this land remain a holy land, in the hands of Our Lord, and free of communism.’

Cardinal Pacelli Gives Hitler the Large Cache of Church Money

“She then saw Pacelli give the soldier ‘a large cache of Church money to aid the rising revolutionary and his small, struggling band of anticommunists.’

“ ‘Go quell the devil’s works,’ the archbishop told him. ‘Help spread the love of Almighty God.’

“Sister pascalina never forgot the young soldier’s face or his name – Adolf Hitler.” F. Tupper Saussy, “15 Brienner Strasse,” Media Bypass magazine, July 2001, p. 54.

This is the philosophical position that produced Nazism and Fascism, supported by Rome-the very philosophic position that undergirds postmodernism now in America.

The Premise of Nazism, “The Revolution of Nihilism,’ With Its Total Irrational and Total Violence, Grips Today’s Culture

“The culmination of the process in total irrationalism and total violence was Nazism, ‘The Revolution of Nihilism.’” – Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope, 1225. This evaluation is extremely important for America as it is marching steadily downward to the same pit or horror. Quigley explains:

Cult of Irrational Activism Based on Hegelian Dialectic of Relativism Gives Birth to the Cult of Violence

“Expressed explicitly this cult of Irrational Activism was based on the belief that the universe was dynamic and largely nonrational.  As such, any effort to deal with it by rational means will be futile and superficial. Moreover, rationalism, by paralyzing man’s ability to act decisively, will expose him to destruction in a world whose chief features include struggle and conflict. Men came to believe that only violence had survival value. The resulting cult of violence permeated all human life. By mid-century, the popular press, literature, the cinema, sports, and all major human concerns had embraced this cult of violence….

“On a somewhat more profound level, the Nazi Party mobilized popular support with a program of ‘Blood and Soil’ (Blut and Boden), while the Fascists in Italy covered every wall with their slogan, ‘Believe! Obey! Fight! In neither was there any expectation that men should think or analyze.

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