Darrell Castle talks about the West's destruction of Christianity and its continual slide into tyranny.

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TYRANNY AND HYPOCRISY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, April 5, 2019, and on today’s Report I will be talking about the West’s continual slide into tyranny and the continued destruction of Western Civilization, as well as offering some explanations for that slide. It seems obvious to me that Western governments are constantly reaching for more and more power and control over their nations, their citizens. They must have the power to rule and regulate every tiny aspect of their people’s lives in order to serve as a replacement for the God they think they have destroyed. Today, their dominion and power is almost absolute.

There are only two forms of repression. One form is internal and the other form is external; religious repression and political repression.  I was first exposed to this theory by an essay written around 1850 by a Spanish philosopher named Juan Donoso Cortes. He believed that when the religious thermometer is high, the thermometer of political repression is low, and when the religious thermometer is low, the political thermometer, or political repression is high.

The theory then is that the more people are internally repressed through religion the less necessary it is for government to use violent political power to control its people. A brief look at the history of Western Civilization will give credence to the truth of Mr. Cortes’ theory. If you accept that the West has its origin in the Roman Empire we can start there. The Emperor had virtually unlimited despotic power to coerce and control the Roman people until Christianity was introduced to the Empire.

Christianity has been accused of taking the warrior’s heart from the Romans and bringing a more peaceful empire, thus allowing it to be overrun and conquered by barbarians. It also resulted eventually in the coming of what is usually referred to as the Age of Faith. During that time in the West, faith ruled in the lives of people and most governments controlled their people through the requirements of the Christian religion. Government tyranny and repression actually declined in severity at least against those who practiced the Christian faith.

The Age of Faith was followed by the Protestant Reformation, and then the Enlightenment, when the pendulum started to swing back to reason and what passed for science and away from what had come to be thought of as superstition.  The Enlightenment broke the shackles holding people to religious belief. In France, it ushered in the French Revolution starting in 1789 followed by Napoleon Bonaparte and his secular empire. France has been a secular, state dominated, nation since then.  It seems that once the power of religion is broken it can never be restored, and the people turn to their new god, the state.

It seems like a very long time, but really it’s just a couple of centuries in which we have gone from feudalism, whereby people were bound to the land; to standing armies; to the division of societies into rulers and the ruled. Feudalism decentralized power, and the feudal landowners across the European Continent really existed as almost separate states. There was little reason to interfere in the day to day lives of people or attempt to micromanage their affairs.

Social cohesion is best achieved through religion, and once that restraint is removed, the entire system starts to fall apart. When this happens to a society, to a people with Western traditions, that Civilization is on the road to chaos and disintegration. Yet that seems to be exactly the road we are on here in the West.  In David Horowitz’s new book, “Dark Agenda”, he makes the following observation:

“The progressive assault on our country begins with the assault on religious liberty and the freedom of conscience,