By Rollin Grams, Bible and Mission.
An insanity has fallen upon the West, like a witch’s spell. We have lived with it long enough to know it, understand it, but not long enough to resist it, to undo it. The very stewards of the truth that would remove it have left their posts. They have succumbed to its whispers, become its servants. It has infected the very air and crept along the ground like a mist until it is within us and all about us. We utter its precepts like schoolchildren taught their lines.
Its power lies in being virtues, distorted goodness. If they were vices, they would be rejected. These virtues are proclaimed from the pulpits. They are established in our seminaries. They are the hallucinogen making our own cultural suicide bearable, even desirable. They are virtues, but disordered. They have floated to the surface of a culture once otherwise arranged. They are not alien but new in their order and new in their definitions. They are familiar, like cousins come to claim our inheritance.
Freedom has been with us for some time. It stepped forward a mighty warrior in oppressive times. Yet it is twisted backwards on itself, a freedom from, an independence, a self-rule, suited to fight tyranny. It falters as our leader, though, unable to direct us in a freedom to, a responsibility. It knows no company with love.
Freedom’s companion is equality, a noble virtue that restrains its selfish desires. Equality stretches its arms out wide to the ends of the earth. It smiles upon the poor seeking equality before the Law. It teaches that each individual has intrinsic worth. Yet this equality before blind justice has become an equity seized by ruthless warriors. Its appearance is altered. It is now a new virtue, equity, given a new definition. Equity once meant raising up the oppressed to give them equal justice. It has become the banditry of Robin Hood, taking from one to give preferential treatment to others. It cloaks itself in pious clothing, ‘God is on the side of the poor—but in demanding preferential treatment rather than equal justice. The blind judge is led away; social justice warriors gain the high ground of virtue.
How sinister it its companion, diversity, a virtue for the undoing of a whole civilization. There is no progression, no building, only cancellation. There is no valuation of good, only affirming everything as good. Yet for any who held the keys to the halls of civilization, there is no forgiveness. Repentance before execution is demanded, but no forgiveness, no grace, no mercy, and certainly no appreciation. Multiculturalism, multi-faith, ecumenism, co-existence, no citizenship, no borders, no boundaries, no laws, no punishment—the policies of diversity.