We stand at a turning point for our country, a turning point for humanity. Now is the time for Christians to think clearly about the crossroad at which we stand. The Adversary has created a nearly impenetrable fog of deception through angst, fear, and worry that is causing many Christians to lose sight of the battle and fixate on personalities and slogans.
To paraphrase Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, “this election is not about Trump’s tweets or Biden’s senility. This election is a choice between civilization and anarchy.”
Socialism is the Goal
Igor Shafarevich revealed in “The Socialist Phenomenon,” that the decay wrought by socialist thought runs back through time long before this present tumult. It is rooted in the ancient lie that the Adversary used, in opposition to God’s commands, to deceive the founders of the first culture. This is not a new idea for a new day. Socialism is presented as renewing, but as Shafarevich detailed, its goals lead to destruction.
The four basic principles have never failed to eventually emerge from every socialist endeavor. You can see them today in Leftist goals. First, the abolition of private-property which begins with governmental control of industry, your property, and homes through needless regulations.
Next, the abolition of the family is evident in entitlement programs that destroy the nuclear family; confusion and chaos surrounding gender roles; and the eroding of parental rights.
The abolition of religion starts with the restriction of free speech and the enforcement of proscribed speech. The wisdom of God, as revealed in His word, is now considered immoral hate-speech.
Finally, there is the use of equality—today’s “social justice”—as a mechanism to level society for all when in fact it is a disingenuous play for governmental control of speech, the economy, and your rights. It has been observed that "Social Justice isn’t a substitute for religion; it’s a roughly religious structure that services the same human needs that religions do from within a remarkably different paradigm."1 This is evidenced in the idea that we should allow free speech but not ‘hate speech,’ which is, in truth, ‘no speech’ for Christians.
Socialism holds beliefs sacrosanct that they will not abrogate, and these beliefs are in contradiction to the orthodox teachings of the Bible. Many Christians are being deceived and are aligning to the socialist Left, thinking them to be kind and caring. This lie is easily exposed by looking at the socialist record in just the last 100 years with 100 million dead. Do not be deceived. The components of the Adversary’s plan are clearly evident and purposeful in socialism.
Christians must support and vote for the side that opposes those plans. Now is not the time for protest votes or abstentions based on misguided piety or virtue signaling. Believers must be heard!
The Abolition of Private Property
This proposition is inherent in all socialist doctrines without exception and is the basic feature of all socialist states. The overwhelming majority of socialist doctrines proclaim the communality of property (implemented in more or less radical fashion).
The Abolition of the Family
The majority of socialist doctrines proclaim the abolition of the family. In certain socialist states, this proposition is not proclaimed in such radical form, but the principle appears as a de-emphasis of the role of the family, the weakening of family ties, the abolition of certain functions of the family.
The Abolition of Religion
It is especially easy for us to observe socialism’s hostility to religion, for this is inherent, with few exceptions, in all contemporary socialist states and doctrines. Only rarely is the abolition of religion legislated, as it was in Albania. But the actions of other socialist states leave no doubt that they are all governed by this very principle and that only external difficulties have prevented its complete implementation.
Communality of Equality
This demand is encountered in almost all socialist doctrines. Its negative form is seen in the striving to destroy the hierarchy of the surrounding society and in calls “to humble the proud, the rich and the powerful,” to abolish privilege. This tendency frequently gives rise to hostility toward culture as a factor contributing to spiritual and intellectual inequality and, as a result, leads to a call for the destruction of culture itself.2
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The 2020 election is an election to determine the dominant worldview in America.
Come November 3 we will know which worldview has won the hearts of Americans and will then determine the foundation for the nation’s values, lifestyles, and public policy for the near future. Dr. George Barna, A.C.U. 3
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In June 1978, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered the Commencement Address at Harvard University. This speach shocked the liberal elite, but what he said was prescient; correctly foreseeing our time.
“The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus, we may see terrorists described as heroes, or secret matters pertaining to one’s nation’s defense publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: 'Everyone is entitled to know everything.' But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era. Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic disease of the 20th century and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
"However, many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of not being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. A number of such critics turn to socialism, which is a false and dangerous current. Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.
"There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.
"But the fight for our planet, physical and spiritual, a fight of cosmic proportions, is not a vague matter of the future; it has already started. The forces of Evil have begun their offensive; you can feel their pressure, and yet your screens and publications are full of prescribed smiles and raised glasses. What is the joy about?
"In spite of the abundance of information, or maybe because of it, the West has difficulties in understanding reality such as it is.
"Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism.”4
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If I required real belief in a triune God for the president of a secular state, I would really be disenfranchised. I wouldn’t be able to vote, period. It is a rare thing to have an authentic Christian up for election for the secular state. … I look at whether the policies of the candidate are compatible, essentially, with the fundamental precepts of government as God ordained it.
I believe in the distinction between church and state, but that concept of separation of church and state has come to mean, in the secular world, the separation of the state from God.
When the government, particularly the Federal government, declared its independence from God, not just from the church, but from God. At that point it is a revolution against heaven, because it is God who ordains government. God not only institutes civil government whose principle task, under God, is to protect, maintain, and sustain the sanctity of human life.
Any candidate who supports abortion by law has completely abrogated (their) responsibility as (an elected official) by failing to protect and maintain the sanctity of human life. R.C. Sproul 5
References
- Lindsay, J., & Nayna, M. (2020, June 18). Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice. New Discources. Retrieved August 25, 2020, from https://newdiscourses.com/2020/06/postmodern-religion-faith-social-justice/
- Shafarevich, I. R. (1980). The Socialist Phenomenon. YMCA Press.
- Munsil, T. (2020, August 19). CRC Survey: Election 2020 Shaping Up as ‘War of Worldviews’. Arizona Christian University. Retrieved October 3, 2020, from https://www.arizonachristian.edu/blog/2020/08/19/crc-survey-election-2020-shaping-up-as-war-of-worldviews/
- Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart (Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978). (n.d.). OrtghodoxyToday. Retrieved October 10, 2020, from https://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/SolzhenitsynHarvard.php
- Ligonier Ministries. (2015, August 6). Lawson, MacArthur, and Sproul: Questions & Answers. [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85HV-VcvXQo [Approx 0:26:40]