Background: The ideology informing the irrational actions of Western Governments.
The Dutch farmers’ protests is the latest round of reactions against the ideology that is at present informing the actions of Western governments. This ideology is essentially the worship of the earth, and the hatred of mankind, and like all idolatrous beliefs, is doomed to destroy itself.
The increased level of CO2 in the atmosphere in the last 100 years, and particularly in the last 20 years or so, you see, has had an unexpectedly gracious unintended consequence: agriculture has increased - as a NASA satellite shows, desert areas have become green - consequently the human population is better able to feed itself. Yes there are many starving people in the world, but this is lack of distribution, not lack of resources.
And this ideology says that the population has to be capped at 500,000,000 people. This ideology says that we cannot eat meat, we must be vegetarians. This ideology says that human beings are a virus on the earth, a cancer of the ecosystem, and must be culled (of course these people never offer to be the ones to remove themselves. It is other people who must not have children, or be removed as they are the ones who are useless eaters.)
This ideology says that truth is a matter of opinion, there is no absolute truth, and that morality is a matter of individual choice.
This ideology claims to represent the environment. Yet one human motivation that has ensured that certain species will not go extinct is that animals have economic utility - they are useful to humans. Destroy the economic utility of animals and there is no reason to keep them. As usual, ideologues did not consider the unintended consequence of their actions: increasing vegetarian food production must inevitably end the economic utility of farm animals.
See, and now, in the name of the environment, they want to do just that in Holland; they want to destroy the farms, they want to cull the herds.
None of this is really about science or the environment.
It is about control.
It is about human beings believing they are clever enough to manage this world on their own; it is about some people who believe they have the right to tell the rest of us what to do because they are in the right.
As C.S. Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
The entire history of the world has been rewritten in the past 150 years so that we can fool ourselves into believing we are living in fantasy universe in which there is no God, a world in which humankind can rule over itself, and has its origins in a strangely fortuitous result of irrational processes. The lack of debate over books such as Steven Meyer’s Return of the God hypothesis, which outlines a plethora of evidence that evolution is no longer a viable hypothesis, shows that the knowledge of our true origins is actively being suppressed - there is so much evidence now available that we are created and not the products of chance, now that we have glimpsed the intricate and information rich workings of the cell. And there is so much evidence that the Bible is history (the Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology, who have formed their approach to archaeology on the premise that the Bible is historical, keeps on making major discoveries that prove this premise). Yet the discovery of a tablet on Mount Ebal in Israel confirming the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt does not even make the news in Australia.
And the further Westerners move away from faith in the one true God and his son Jesus Christ, the more irrational they become. People who are educated in history know where all this is headed. We have read about the millions killed in Russia under Stalinism. We have read about Mao’s atrocities in China.
If these ideologues can with a clear conscience ban us from working because we won’t take their experimental injection, they can do much worse things than that.
In the end, these people would destroy everything if they could; but Jesus is going to return one day and everyone’s motivations will come into the light, then, for every secret is going to be revealed.
Come Lord Jesus.