Unde est, quod non operatio propria propter essentiam sed haec propter illam habet ut sit.

The proper purpose is not in existence for the sake of being, but the being for the sake of the purpose.  -Dante, De Monarchia

There was always an old fear of men becoming slaves.  Slaves to this or that government be it his own or a neighboring tribe.  But there is a much more real thing happening these days, the sad fact that men are becoming machines.  And even less than machines because machines have a purpose, as do slaves.  But these modern rulers want to rob us of our purpose.  Instead, like the machine unaware of a creator, they think they exist to exist. This is not without cause.  They found this image, this idol, in their silly notions of ‘science’.  They worship a system which can only describe ‘how’ without the ‘why’.  The universe exists to exist, so they think, having rejected all explanations of ‘why’ because they reject the creator.  And as such they have become a people without why and they want to extend their mechanical tyranny to everyone.  At least Hitler had a why, he existed to fight it out for first place in the battle of natural selection.  Today people cringe at the results of that idea and back off a bit into notions of existing for the sake of existing.  Cold hard purposeless machines.

This week we see it as the Obama Regime touts the benefits of living off of what the government stole from other people.  Robbing us of our basic pride in our work and calling it freedom.  Now we are free to sit around and do nothing without fear that our potato chip clogged arteries will result in the confiscation of our partially paid for big screen.  This is something Theodore Dalrymple writes about excessively.  He has watched it happen in the English welfare state, but it is not much different here.  When everything is given to you for free, there is no pride in living.  There is no sense of accomplishment or having earned anything.  We all exist to exist, which leads to many not existing, by their own hand.  This is worse than slavery, at least the slave can take pride in his work.  He does not own the fruits of his labor but at least their are fruits of his labor.  And usually he enjoys some of them.  Society for sure enjoys them.  But now we have a society of machines, existing, and producing nothing.  From the giant bureaucracies, to the wealth squandered on taking out loans for everything, to the money we waste on entertainment.  We have nothing to show for our existence, this is no way to live.

From what I have heard, this is one of the main things missing from the Nye Ham debate.  Creationism is not a mere scientific theory on origins, it is a narrative for all of live.  It is a pattern by which we set the tone of our lives.  Not that science is without a narrative.  Agnostic scientists like to think that it’s all concrete rock solid scientific method.  But really it is a series of experiments covered over with a narrative. A narrative that sets the tone of their lives.  You can’t have science without the narrative, without metaphor, without poetry.  The alternative is nothing.  What good is an experiment that you can’t tell someone about?  What good are statistics without assigning meaning to them?  And so they go about making up meaning as they see fit and then sprinkling it with the holy water of ‘science’ as if their claims were undeniable.  Arthur Balfour saw through the false narrative of Darwin, when he wrote is book Theism and Humanism in 1915.  He concluded that Darwinian Humanism was no way to live, he predicted Hitler.  But Hitler thought he would test it out anyway.  His false narrative was so shockingly bad that fascism has become merely a buzzword for all that is evil.  Of course that does not stop millions from repeating the same mistakes under different names.  Anything will do, as long as we aren’t accountable to the God of the Bible.  And so they go on without a ‘why’.  Scientist want to set up outposts on other planets.  Why?  So we can further the species when this planet is destroyed of course?  Why?  Oh because we exist to exist.  Is it any surprise that so many people commit suicide these days?

But we were given a why in Genesis, the creation narrative of our Lord, brought to us through Moses and carried down by the children of Abraham.  We are here to rule and subdue the earth, filling it with off spring and glorifying our God in the process. Jesus added to it in Matthew 28:16-20 telling us to go into all the world and make disciples.  Oh what fun.  It was in this pursuit, that science was codified in the first place.  It was in this pursuit that Columbus set sail from Spain.  It is the colonial spirit encapsulated in Robison Crusoe.  Turn the wilderness into a garden and it’s savages into Christians.  What a beautiful vision, what beautiful work.  But the world want’s to destroy this.  They want to shut down all forms of human production including pipelines, mines, logging, and human civilization of all kinds.  Because unlike the rest of creation we can choose to not do what God made us for.  So they fight the mandate of our God.  They try to turn the converts back into savages.  They try to turn the land back into a wilderness, for the animals.  And in order to do that they have to create false narratives.  False narratives of history, they must destroy all those who built the world we enjoy, who followed the narrative spoken in Scripture and were blessed for it.  And they must create a false narrative masquerading as science.  As if the age of the stage was the most important aspect of the elaborate drama playing out in front of us all.

But hey they play a vital role.  They may think they only exist to exist.  But in reality they exist to be our foes.  They are the dragons we get to slay.  They are the armies we get to vanquish.  They are the fools we get to subdue with the rod.  They make the plot interesting, far more interesting than the lame stories they write.  This is why our country doesn’t win wars anymore, we have nothing to fight for.  Fighting to exist is a flaccid narrative when you come up against Mohammedans, who have been told by their warlord leader that their purpose is to conquer the tribes of all humanity.  But we Christians should know better.  These Mohammedan heretics and the modern humanists provide fodder for a life worth living.  And so we fight the rise of the machines for our King!