Dear America, 

While I recognize that We the People are not all Christians, it is my firm belief that every American should understand these concepts regardless. 

In earlier letters, I mentioned that mankind has always been involved in a spiritual war between good and evil. I also posed a vital question: What is the value proposition of killing God? This is my attempt to answer and explain. 

On Equality and Equity: Life, Death, and Rebirth 

We are all born equal under God. And life in this corrupted reality culminates in the cold equity of a certain death. 

Yet we have hope in the oldest truth: If God said it, then it is so. Trust this and live with God eternally or reject it and live without God eternally. What could be more fair? 

We are all born equal under God. But death from this fallen realm and our inevitable rebirth will separate us. 

The poetry in God granting mankind equality and Satan forcing equity upon us seems relevant in our times, especially when we consider the endless dissatisfaction of those seeking to forcibly ensure we are all the same. 

We are born equal under God, but we are not identical. Under God, there is freedom as well as hierarchy and order. Heaven is equally available to all mankind, but our position within God’s kingdom will not be equitable. God does not demand uniformity—the Devil does that. 

In short, my argument is that part of the value proposition of killing God is control. Understanding and accepting this reality is key to everything, including restoring American Culture and improving the function of the American System. 

On the Natural Order: And God Said 

The natural order of creation in the physical realm is God > Mankind > Nature. God created mankind to hold dominion over nature and to steward it. The Heavenly Host (e.g., angels) are powerful spiritual beings who serve God as intercessors in the physical realm, but they were not given authority here. The war in Heaven—the great spiritual conflict of which mankind is in a way collateral damage—is the first instance of a created being asking the question: “Did God really say…?” 

In subverting God’s will and inserting himself between God and mankind in the intended hierarchy, Lucifer fashioned a false duality in which humans not only question and twist what God said but also doubt his existence in the first. We have all heard people ask, “Where is the evidence of this magic man? Do we need this fabled being in the sky? Reason (or science) alone can explain everything.” The mastery in Satan’s deception is that he has never directly revealed himself to us. In effect—by convincing us our destiny is to supplant God and manifest Utopia via our collective will, intellect, and evolution—he allows us to do his work for him. 

As a Christian in this Postmodern era, I have spent my life quietly believing but always asking the question: How can what God said fit within the constructs of modern science? 

This is a dangerous game that many Christians play, and I would urge them all to stop it. After roughly 35 years of attempting to bend what God said to fit “the science,” I have come to accept that it cannot be done. Further, it is my belief that “scientific disciplines” have been positioned since at least the 19th century to assassinate God by convincing us his words cannot be true. Through a twisted interpretation of facts, our modern-day priestly class (i.e., the intelligentsia) has created an illusory world in which God never existed. How can we view this as anything but Luciferian Will playing out in grand fashion on a global scale to great effect? 

Many readers will regard what I am saying as science denial, but I disagree. Science is not inherently adversarial to God—if anything, the opposite is true. Science is, in its broadest sense, the pursuit of knowledge. Consider this: How much further could science have advanced in the last two hundred years had we not wasted them trying to rethink the world’s knowledge into a Godless paradigm? 

And you might reply, “How can anyone believe this crap? How can anything your God said possibly be true?” 

Well, seeing the truth becomes much easier if you enter the mindset of a child. Try it out. Think like a gamer. 

You’re playing the most amazing game ever. A truly living, breathing experience. Your character stats and skills are perfectly balanced for the content. It’s literally the only game you’ll ever need, and you can play forever. There’s no fatigue, no hunger, no strife, no death, and even no potty breaks (“Mom, bathroom!” screamed Eric Cartman) in this perfectly tuned masterpiece. 

The catch? Someone built a mod. It’s illegal, but you’re curious even so. Shady yet enticing. 

You ask the Developer (hereafter, ironically, The Dev), and he says if you install the mod there’s no way back. You do it anyway. 

The game reboots and you load into the modded version. It sucks. It’s terrible. And you’re stuck here. 

The Dev says, “I found a way to get you out, but you’re not gonna like it. The mod cut this entire world off from the server, so you’ll have to play until you die to re-jigger things. Oh yeah… death is a thing now. That’s new. In fact, that’s what the mod’s creator wanted. He meant it as a slap in the face to me, but he’s an amateur. The core of this world is still the same. It’ll feel familiar to you even though the mod corrupted a lot of core systems. You’ll get hungry, tired, and feel pain now. Resources are scarce and the animals will try to eat you. I’m sorry, but I warned you. I promise not to leave you hanging though. Just trust me and follow my instructions the best you can. You’ve probably already started to forget some things, but I hard coded the most important rules into your character’s local data just in case. Hang in there.” 

In the context of this game world, does anything that God has said seem impossible? 

• Creation. God said he created everything in six days. God said the world is only a few thousand years old.
  
  The universe, rocks, and so on—physical objects and their behavior within the natural law that function as mankind’s primary point of reference for timescales (e.g., carbon dating)—could have easily been created in a single day by The Dev. But, to add depth and story to his world, he painstakingly tweaked configuration settings for (and applied attributes to) the stars, planets, Earth, etc., to give a certain “age” to them. After all, how boring would it have been for players if everything seemed shiny, new, and static? Without a dash of mystery and continuous change, no one would want to log in.
  
  Going further, The Dev then tuned natural law and the universe for life to thrive and his players to feel challenged but sufficiently capable. A masterclass in design.
  
  
• The Forbidden Fruit. God said not to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. He said eating it would bring death.
  
  In a sense, God warned Adam and Eve that eating the fruit would make Lucifer’s twisted wish known to them. And, by making it known, bring it into being. Like the installation of the illegal mod, their/our Fall was irrevocable. When we made the choice to question and test God, we truly did gain the knowledge of good and evil—bringing instant spiritual death and dooming our physical selves to expire. 
  
  
• The Flood, Noah’s Ark, and the Rainbow. Abraham and Isaac. Lot’s wife. Moses. The Prophets. Christ. All of it.
  
  In the context of our fictional videogame world, which part of Scripture seems impossible, infeasible, or even unlikely? To me, none. Like The Dev, God can do whatever he wants. If he wasn’t so fond of us, I imagine he’d probably just wipe out everything and start over.
  
  My point is (as someone who very much enjoys Answers in Genesis, John Lennox, and Stephen Mayer): When God speaks, I think the best course is to believe what he says and figure out how the facts fit. If the facts available and our ability to interpret them fail us in a moment or an era, we can always rely on faith. To do anything else is to disrupt the hierarchy of Creation and—with God removed—open ourselves to intellectual dishonesty and the alluring force of Neopagan ideologies. 

In summary, my argument is that part of the value proposition of killing God is to place ourselves (mankind/humanity) foremost in Creation. Why would we do this, you ask? To be free of him. Whether because we view him as an obstacle, as oppressive, as callous, or whatever, mankind has been duped by Satan into thinking that if we ignore God’s existence, we can be the masters of our own fate. In giving into that lie, we tragically allow Satan to win. 

On Neopagan Ideologies: Fear, Sacrifice, and Control 

What ideologies do I consider to be Neopagan? 

Uniformitarianism (i.e., geologic “long time”). Evolution (i.e., as the source of life and all genetic diversity). Climate change (i.e., as a doomsday event). Communism (i.e., government as the source of equality, human rights, charity, etc.). 

My belief is that paganism is the invariable consequence of forgetting about or “killing” God. When God is removed from the figurative equation—whether because we find his rules constraining or cannot abide all the suffering in the world—we are essentially left with a man versus nature paradigm. In this scenario, there are only two possible orderings: Mankind > Nature or Nature > Mankind. 

If nature is predominant, humanity always invents “lower-case gods” that explain natural phenomena and attribute mankind’s genesis to these gods. Perhaps it reveals something about the human intellect that pagan beliefs share so much in common throughout time and across cultures. Here are two easy examples: 

1. Evolution. The Babylonians, Polynesians, Evolutionists, and others share a perspective that humans “came about” from mud, sea foam, or pond scum—the Primordial Soup, as it were. In these cases, it is clear that nature itself has become a god that mankind must overcome. Nothing seems more farfetched to me than humanity as the source and sustainer of its own freedom, equality, and virtue. 
   
   
2. Climate Change. Mayan civilization was ravaged by drought. At first, they sacrificed vats of water to their gods to bring rain. As things worsened, they began sacrificing people. Over time, these human sacrifices progressed from the least valuable members of society to the most. I pose a question to you, the reader: How is this any different than we in the modern era who sacrifice our economic wellbeing, lifestyles, and social structures to the threat of a “global extinction event” driven by global warming? 

When humanity turns its massive intellect away from God, the result is always one group using their vast knowledge and “correct” interpretation of facts to control everyone else. Science is leveraged as a tool to enforce a biased agenda rather than a vehicle to explore Creation and search for truth. 

Hence, what supposedly started as a mission to “free humanity from the yoke of an oppressive and callous god” and to “uplift all mankind to a Utopian state through intellect” metastasizes into one powerful faction roleplaying as the false gods they concocted. Perceiving themselves as having moved beyond the ignorance of their forebears, they reach the conclusion that there are no gods other than themselves. 

But unlike the pagan gods, the Christian God is not a “god of the gaps.” The entire story is his. There is only one main character, and we are merely bit characters in the tale. Returning to an earlier point, if we view the world in a biblical timeframe, then there is no god of climate change that we must fear. The timescale of a biblical worldview makes climate shifts much less scary and, to my understanding, aligns more with the empirical evidence. In short, the world does not end the way we want. God decides. 

On Unity and Purpose: Healing the American Culture 

Throughout history, Lucifer’s war with God has racked humanity. In our time, the concepts of Christendom and the West have been all but erased. Instead of those things, we speak of the Free World—a much more arbitrary idea. Who is to say we are freer or, even if we are, that we have the right to thumb our collective noses at the rest of the world or force our sociopolitical model on everyone else? It is foolish and flimsy. A house of cards. 

What united Christendom and the West was our collective choice to believe what God said. So, I can only conclude that part of the value proposition of killing God is that the enemies of Christendom and the West desire disunity and discord among us. I do not think it requires a big brain to imagine why that might be so. 

Yet, while I believe God is a stabilizing force that reduces panic, fear, anger, and despondency—while I am fully convinced that (through faith, virtue, and love) a Godly society is one of heightened equality, freedom, and prosperity for all citizens—I am not saying that all Americans must or even should become Christians. 

What I am saying is: 

• For non-Christians and Postmodernists, soften your views that Christians are anti-science, superstitious, irrational, and bigoted idiots. The Church is full of sinners, as it should be. We are all fallen and imperfect. But the tendency in American Culture has long been to attack, belittle, and treat Christians as though we are stupid and obsolete. It would go a long way toward healing our society and restoring the function of the American System if non-Christians and Postmodernists approached discussions with us as though we are intellectual equals. Our beliefs are no less suited to the modern era and to scientific study than yours.
  
  
• For Christians, understand that we are no better than anyone else as a collective. That is not the point of our beliefs. The point is that we trust what God has said and behave in ways that show that trust. Educate yourselves, have tough discussions, and don’t be afraid to be confrontational. Turning the other cheek does not mean “always be as non-confrontational as possible to prove you are more moral.” Rather, I think it means in part that we must have the grace to see value in views we absolutely disagree with. For example, atheists inhabit a reality in which mankind overcomes subservience to natural law through intellect and might. I think Christians can agree with this to the extent that we believe mankind can and should lift itself up via the agency granted us by God.
  
  Let me put it this way: Would God have exposed believers to pagan ideologies in Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc., if there was no value in the beliefs and interpretations of those civilizations? I do not believe he would. There is value in diversity of ideas and thought patterns, and our Christian beliefs should be the great unifier of that diversity. Together, so long as we keep God in his proper place in Creation’s hierarchy, we can assimilate the world’s ideas into a grand tapestry of intellect and faith created by all of God’s children.
  
  
• For everyone, jumping to violence or vile rhetoric as a first response is shallow and damning, as is catty passive aggressiveness and conceit. There is value in most views, and the American System was built intentionally to draw out the most valuable elements from all of us and piece them together into a high functioning government and society. 

Simply, We the People must pull ourselves out of the trap we have fallen into of saying that everything “they” believe is quaint, obsolete, and wrong. Basically, we need to map things “they” say to things “we” believe in. Condescension in any direction—that is, riding a moral high horse and slashing blindly at everyone we consider “lesser than”—will only perpetuate the toxic culture war or, worse, fan the flames of civil war. 

To restore our culture, we all must be firm in rebuking, repudiating, and confronting each other when the inhabitants of one reality—CuRe/Christian or Postmodern/Non-Christian—cross the line and begin outright attacking the inhabitants of the other. To be blunt, everyone’s shit stinks, Christians and non-Christians/Postmodernists alike. We should stop pretending “theirs” does and “ours” doesn’t and instead work together to rediscover what we have in common. In so doing, we will refine the American Culture and allow it to once again fuel the American System. If we do not, all will be lost with or without war, cultural or kinetic. 

See you next time, America. 

Finch Fries