My Journey
I’ve always had a vague sense that there was something fundamentally wrong with religion in the modern world. As a child this was limited to boredom with ceremonies and a general sense of obsolescence since all major religions predate the upheaval of the industrial revolution. This distaste was sharpened by the censorious pushes of the early 2000’s which I found frustrating and deeply offensive. Since religion wasn’t a pressing concern as a teenager, I simply didn’t worry about it at the time.
That was where things stayed for about a decade as school, entering the terrible economy, and fixing my finances ate most of my time. When I came out of this period of upheaval, the left, which had claimed to oppose censorship, was deep into its own much more egregious campaign of censorship. While I initially wrote this off as corruption since the same neo-feudal Globalists were still clearly running the government, the half-formed argument that wokeness was an atheistic religion got me to dig deeper.
What I found is that Marxism, the more accurate name for wokeness, is actually a family of new atheistic religions. Because deception is one of its core principles, it goes by many names with the most prominent being Communism, Fascism, and Socialism. The details change, but the fervor with which its adherents attach themselves to this envious abomination is universal, and why they refuse to accept its evil for what it is.
However, even with President Trump’s weakness, demonstrated through failures like refusing to crack down on social media censorship, Marxism and Globalism seemed to be on the retreat and America was slowly recovering.
Then the coup happened.
The 2020 election was blatantly stolen in front of our eyes, and I snapped into action. Thanks to my mobile lifestyle doing short-term contract work, I was able to move back to Kansas between January 6th and the inauguration on the 20th to better position myself for the civil war that would have immediately kicked off if Trump didn’t fold like a cheap suit. While I did get my panoply so I would be able to answer the call if needed, as an engineer supporting the DOD I knew my best skills lay elsewhere.
Since I already cared deeply about the Constitution, I focused on developing the amendments needed to end a civil war. I dove into historical research on the founding of the United States, reading Maddison’s notes on how the Constitution was written as well as the arguments for and against its adoption. While I did develop a very robust set of amendments, the lack of a civil war meant I had more time to keep reading.
Ultimately, I decided to trace the Constitution’s theological roots by reading Saint Augustine’s seminal work, The City of God. I went in expecting to see much of the framework for the United States as we know it, but what I found was Marxism, and especially wokeness, which is anathema to my own deeply held moral convictions. Saint Augustine thought censorship was a good thing and dedicated an entire chapter to arguing that only God has the right to judge people so we shouldn’t punish criminals.
This made me rethink everything since it clashed strongly with my understanding of Christianity at the time and started me thinking about my own religious views in a way I hadn’t before. I naturally dove into the Bible to see what Jesus said, and I found that while Saint Augustine was correct that Marxism is the inevitable result of scaling up Christianity into a government, Jesus told us not to do that. That was when it clicked.
The Founding Fathers brought us God’s next lesson. Through them, He taught us how to build a good government on earth. American is my religion. I had work to do.