Darrell Castle talks about how 21st century America has replaced God with a new globalist collective.

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THE GLOBAL COLLECTIVE—OUR NEW GOD

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report.  Today is Friday, May 4, 2018, and on today’s Report I will be talking about or at least asking the question, “has the globalist collective state” replaced God in the lives of 21st century Americans and Europeans?

In a recent lecture at the University of Toronto, Professor Jordan Peterson reflected on the statement by Friedrich Nietzsche that “God is dead.”  Nietzsche’s exact words were “God is dead.  God remains dead.  And we have killed him.  How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?  What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?  What water is there for us to clean ourselves?  What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent?  Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us?  Must we ourselves not become gods to appear worthy of it?”

Professor Peterson explains that rather than a triumphal statement, as is usually presumed, Nietzsche is really saying with his “God is dead” statement, which he made in about 1870, that we in the West no longer believe in God.  Upon the belief in God, the belief in divinity, the belief in the Divine hangs all Western morality and the entire basis for Western order in society.  His statement then was a lament rather than triumphal.

He thought that all hell would soon break loose without a belief in the Divine to give order and meaning to society.  How right he turned out to be about the 20th century.  Divinity was the total moral compass upon which society rested and the scientists, university professors, intellectuals and politicians of the day destroyed it.  Professor Peterson pointed out that Nietzsche saw the entire paradigm of morality on the chopping block and the result was hundreds of millions of deaths that almost destroyed the world.

Don’t worry though we have found a replacement for what Karl Marx called “the opiate of the masses.”  We here in the West have made an exchange since the intellectuals convinced us that we simply had to abandon, to give up God.  Oh, they knew that power abhors a vacuum so they had a quick replacement all ready for us.

We have not only accepted the government in exchange for God, we have allowed and even demanded that the government take God’s rightful place in the control of traditional families and community institutions.  For centuries the church was one of the most important safety nets for communities but no more.  Warm personal institutions and people are replaced by the cold government bureaucracies.  I spend a lot of time with clients explaining to them that the system is cold and impersonal, and that it is impersonal because the system doesn’t even know who you are.  To the system, people who were formerly viewed as created in the image of God are now just numbers, not neighbors and friends.  To find someone who cares, the person at the mercy of the system must rely on his law firm and pray - no excuse me, hope, that at least his lawyer cares.

The more people get what they need from government, in the way of health care, education, a job, income, a home, the less likely they are to rely on religion or God for their sustenance.  So in this model people are provided help not from the charity of neighbors and friends but from the forced redistribution of the fruits of the collective’s labor.  The church was also the anchor for strong neighborhoods and strong social ties and now that is gone as well as it all is absorbed into our new globalist multicultural world.  Millions of strangers living together in the loneliest places on earth, our cities; this is the new model that has been created for us.  The God of community and neighbor is replaced by the God of “everything should be fre...