Marxism, Alcohol, and God

Humans have abandoned the idea of God and deified themselves in his place – but ‘The Science’ cannot defeat the truth

Opponents of the faith-based approach to life argue that the concept of God is irrational and superstitious, and that we can understand all we need to about the world and the people in it through science. Until recently I was such a person, and then I witnessed the way in which ‘science’ was used as a cudgel of violent authoritarianism to bully and bamboozle humanity with fabricated data and spurious claims of safety and effectiveness, and I became a ‘believer’.  

Let me say at the outset that I have yet to understand exactly who or what God is, and indeed if there even is such an entity. But I have come to regard the question of the actual existence of God as largely irrelevant.  

How then can I be a believer? 

My belief is based not necessarily on the existence of an omnipotent being but on the certainty that there are eternal truths which cannot be diluted, refuted, or bent according to the will of any human.  

Truths such as: 

• No person should be forced to put anything into their body against their will 

• No young, healthy person should have their livelihood destroyed in the name of protecting the elderly and infirm 

• No person should be prevented from sitting with a dying loved one 

• No government has the right to mortgage the future of its constituents in order to bankroll a pharmaceutical company to produce a highly questionable medication for an illness that is harmless to the vast majority of people 

Such truths and hundreds more are self-evident and above the tinkering of politicians, technocrats and billionaires. Such truths are immutable and immune to the machinations of Man. As such, God is truth.  

The journey toward truth can track many courses, some of which intersect and run in parallel, but all leading to the same terminus: Reality.  

The denial of reality is central to suffering and misery. It is the basis for evil. I have not only witnessed this in the gross abuses of human rights throughout the ‘pandemic’ but experienced it in a deeply personal manner via the affliction of drug and alcohol addiction.  

Central to any addiction is a denial of reality. You’ve heard it said, I’m sure, that the first (and hardest) part of overcoming or managing an addiction is admitting there is a problem.  

I know from experience that this is true. And let’s be clear – admitting there is a problem is not the grudging acknowledgement that one drinks too much; the half-hearted attempts at cutting down; the duplicitous interactions with counsellors or support groups… Admission is coming face to face with the reality of the problem in a stark and often terrifying moment of clarity – popularly known as ‘rock bottom’.  

Reality.  

For me this involved the destruction of my marriage, the death of two close friends (unrelated to my actions, but both as a result of their own addictions), a feeble flirtation with suicide, and ultimately my arrest and embroilment in the justice system at a cost of many thousands of dollars not to mention my long-bloated pride. 

I’m not here to recount the sordid tales of my road to recovery, these are stand-alone topics for future pieces of writing. What I wish to illustrate through the example of addiction is that the evil does not come into play by way of the vice itself. The human’s own frailty creates the evil.  

There is nothing wrong with alcohol, or drugs, or gambling, or sugar, or any pleasurable pursuit in moderation. It only becomes evil when one indulges compulsively and repeatedly, and this is only possible when one is engaged in the common self-deception that they do not have a problem which is causing harm to themselves and others – the denial of reality.  

Serendipitously for me, at the same time I began seriously confronting my addiction problem, the world was plunged into the great falsehood of the Covid narrative, a lie so preposterous that it accelerated a parallel journey of awakening which I had been on for a few years – politics. 

As the enormity of the Covid lie dawned on me, the two paths converged and here is where I found God. 

Suddenly I saw the self-deceit that had allowed me to drink and use drugs problematically for over a decade mirrored in the mass abdication of rationality that allowed our societies to embrace the madness of the lockdowns, mask-wearing, and vaccine mandates.  

Suddenly it became clear to me that it is the machinations of humans which are irrational and superstitious, and that to follow God is in fact the rational course – to follow truth is the antidote to superstition and hysteria.  

That is why I named this blog Anxiety, Addiction and Ascension – because I realised that the journey toward personal wellbeing and growth tracks exactly the same path as the political awakening, and that to ascend into the realm of truth, one need only recognise the duplicitous nature of Man. 

It is Man’s duplicitous nature that enables the addict – Man’s ability to deceive himself; and it is this same nature that enables the monstrous acts of evil we have seen perpetrated across the globe since 2020, but which are of course as old as humankind itself – Man’s ability to deceive his fellow men, and in turn, their willingness to be deceived. 

Sad as it may be, we cannot trust in the words of humans. Humans are frail, selfish, and craven. That is why we have God. We either invented him in response to our own frailty as an enteral and inviolable avenue to the truth; or indeed he does exist, and all truth flows from him. 

Either way, the reality remains that humans have always and will always seek to manipulate and dominate one another. For this reason, human power structures cannot be trusted; human endeavour must always be questioned, regardless of how it is presented to the subject; and human science, while essential, must never be deified.  

Science is not God. God is truth, and there is a world of difference between science and truth.  

As such we must be instantly suspicious of any person or organisation that chants the mantra ‘Trust The Science’. This insidious maxim lays bare the intention of its proponents – that we should not trust what we see, what we feel, and what we know to be morally right, we should instead trust The Science. 

It is important here to understand what is meant by The Science. It does not refer to the scientific method which is the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation – but rather, it is an appeal to authority. Trust The Science means – abandon critical thought and believe what that person over there in the white coat is saying.  

For the purposes of the Covid paradigm, it means of course – trust the pharmaceutical industry. But The Science is a versatile tool: The Science shows that carbon dioxide is destroying the planet; The Science shows that veganism is the ideal human diet; The Science shows that gender transitioning children at an early age reduces the risk of suicide… The Science can show anything if you are selective with the data – as the saying goes: Lies, lies and damned statistics.  

The Science is Man’s attempt to make himself into God. The Science is the obfuscation of, and sometimes the outright denial of reality.  

Those who wish to destroy God are not at war with superstition and irrationality, it is quite the opposite. Those who wish to destroy God and would have us Trust The Science desire only the destruction of truth. 

That’s all God is, as far as I have been able to determine so far. God is reality. God is what we know to be true, and thus, what we know to be right. 

If you strike or cruelly chastise someone and they recoil in fear and pain, you see the suffering you have caused. The suffering is real. It is true. What then is that feeling of guilt? From whence derives the voice in your head which says you’ve done something wrong?  

To me, that is God. 

Morality, as described in the teachings of Christ, is as close as I’ve been able to get to a conception of eternal, universal truth. This accounts for the great impact of Christianity upon the world – for all the many failings of its human institutions.  

Humanity has been moving away from God for many decades now, and in his place we have erected the deity of The Science – the deity of Man. 

To this deity there is no truth, only power. The power to change one’s gender at will; the power to make all people equal; the power to remake the world as one sees fit – in short, Marxism. 

What is the central truth of life? We all die. And the inevitability of death is the starkest manifestation of a broader truth; Life is not fair. 

Marxism at its core seeks to mitigate this facet of reality. As such, Marxism and all its offshoots – from communism to Agenda 2030 – fundamentally seek to deny reality. 

This scourge has plagued humanity in its current form for nearly two hundred years and despite what the official history of the Twentieth Century tells us, it never went away. It has in fact metastasised and gone global, forming the backbone of our new corporate international order via ESG (corporate Environment Social and Governance scores) and DEI (Diversity Equity and Inclusion).  

We can tie ourselves in knots discussing Marxism, Neo Marxism, and its contemporary permutation – what James Lindsay calls ‘Identity Marxism’, (discussed in this brilliant series of lectures – 1, 2, 3) but it all becomes very simple when we understand what lies at its heart: The denial of reality, and the destruction of truth. 

There is a simplicity and beauty about truth which anyone who seeks to abuse people hates by dint of its very real power – the power to discern evil. 

This power which enabled me to discern that I was destroying my life with alcohol, also made it clear to me early in the Covid saga that we were being lied to and abused. It was not difficult, I simply observed that people were not dropping like flies and juxtaposed this fact with the establishment messaging, and there lay the truth. 

And that is the most powerful thing about the truth – its simplicity. 

The Marxists who seek to remake the world as they see fit know this, and they fear it, which is why the messaging is so persistent, so incongruent, and so frenetic. It is why leftism has always been so acerbically hostile toward religion.  

When we orientate ourselves solely toward the truth, everything else falls away. It becomes background noise, static. Indeed, this is articulated in scripture: Be still and know that I am God.  

This is the thing they fear most – that the truth lives in all of us. 

It’s just there. It just is. And it is indeed what will set us free.  

Whether we are endowed with it at birth or learn it along the way is a question for another day; what matters is that we have it, each one of us, within us – and we can choose whether or not to embrace it.  

Now I don’t know exactly what that is. But I’m happy enough to call it God.