Sin Darkens The Mind – Modern Post-Christian Destructive Hysterias
– The Protestant Hysteria.
Ostensible merits: Freedom from the tyranny of Rome. Less clerical corruption. More fidelity to Scripture.
Actual demerits: State theft of property. Divorce. Factionalism. Schism. European religious wars. Civil war. Moral destruction. The damnation of unconfessed souls.
– The Revolution Hysteria.
Ostensible merits: Liberty, Equality & Fraternity.
Actual demerits: Civil war, inflation, economic destruction, iconoclasm, terror, moral destruction, the damnation of unconfessed souls.
– The Communist Hysteria.
Ostensible merits: Liberty, Equality & Fraternity, part II.
Actual demerits: Civil war, inflation, economic destruction, iconoclasm, terror, genocide, moral destruction, the damnation of unconfessed souls.
– The EU Hysteria.
Ostensible merits: Free movement of persons and goods, the end of nationalism, end of European wars, international community, social-justice-and-peace-and-tolerance.
Actual demerits: Increased tyranny, increased immigration of alien cultures, greater social fracture, greater public spending, increased strain on social services, greater national debt.
– The Covid Hysteria.
Ostensible merits: protect the population from a manufactured disease.
Actual demerits: Destruction of businesses and persons. Inserting a pseudo-vaccine time-bomb into the bodies of the populace. Economic decline. Increased appetite for tyranny in the ruling elite. Inflation. The damnation of unconfessed souls.
– The Ukraine Hysteria.
Ostensible merit: supporting a smaller nobler country against a warlike ignoble larger one.
Actual demerits: Depletion of materiel in the supplier countries. Increase in corruption in the smaller country. Inflation in the supplier countries. The damnation of unconfessed souls.
– The Green Hysteria.
Ostensible merit: Restore climate to normality. Decrease atmospheric pollution.
Actual demerits: Increased energy prices, greater taxation (‘green levies’), inflation.