The Dangerous Hypocrisy of ‘Luxury Beliefs’
by Campbell Campell-Jack:
What difference does it make to society if a people are Christian or not? Surely what a person believes is a purely personal matter which has no impact on others? As Nietzsche pointed out, when God dies so does morality. When individuals and then a people turn from Christianity, something is going to take its place, and it is never good.
Luxury Beliefs
Rob Henderson, an American scholar, has coined the term ‘luxury beliefs’ to describe those values promoted by Western elites which act as status symbols. In the past, the elites showed their wealth and status by displaying their luxury goods. However, today even hoi polloi have access to items such as cars, telephones and foreign holidays, so the elites now display their status by developing a set of ‘luxury beliefs’.
Western elites have replaced biblical Christianity with progressivism. Politicians, media, big business, academia, all sing from the same hymn sheet. Via deliberate social engineering, their beliefs have filtered down through all social levels and have become accepted as the new normal, with a consequent impact on the whole of society.
Whilst proclaiming their virtue through their luxury beliefs, the elites don’t actually practise them; it is those lower on the social scale who pay the price. For all their progressive politics, the elites are conservative in their behaviour.
Marriage
In the 1960s the elites began to view monogamy as outdated, yet they continue to marry while those who are poorer, less well educated and who have fewer connections to ease their way through life are giving up on marriage.
In Britain today we speak of seven social classes. Someone from the top social class (CEOs, lawyers, doctors etc) is 48 per cent more likely to be married than someone in the bottom social class (labourers, cleaners, supermarket cashiers). At the turn of this century, the difference was 22 per cent.
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