Why you should become a Bible-believing anarchist
who also believes the universe was created around 4004 B.C.
Progressivism is a left-leaning political philosophy and reform movement that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform. Early 20th-century progressivism included support for American engagement in World War I and the creation of and participation in the League of Nations [read: one-world government -kc], compulsory sterilisation in Scandinavia, and eugenics in Great Britain, and the temperance movement.
In the United States, progressivism began as an intellectual rebellion against the political philosophy of Constitutionalism as expressed by John Locke and the Founding Fathers of the American Republic, whereby the authority of government depends on observing limitations on its just powers.
In other words, unlimited state power.
Not everything Progressives said was wrong. Sometimes they pointed to very real problems, which demand Biblical solutions. But their solution was always a strong centralized state. Wikipedia continues:
The problems society faced, such as class warfare, greed, poverty, racism and violence, could best be addressed by providing good education, a safe environment, and an efficient workplace. Progressives lived mainly in the cities, were college educated, and believed in a strong central government.
"The Progressive Era" is described by Wikipedia as follows:
The Progressive Era (1890s–1920s) was a period in the United States characterized by multiple social and political reform efforts. Reformers during this era, known as Progressives, sought to address issues they associated with rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption, as well as the loss of competition in the market due to trusts and monopolies, and the great concentration of wealth among a very few individuals. Reformers expressed concern about slums, poverty, and labor conditions. Multiple overlapping movements pursued social, political, and economic reforms by advocating changes in governance, scientific methods, and professionalism; regulating business; protecting the natural environment; and seeking to improve urban living and working conditions.
The Anarcho-Capitalist Murray N. Rothbard wrote an important book about the Progressive Era:
The Progressive Era | Mises Institute
Regardless of your age, here is one of the central propositions of this website:
Hollywood, your schools, your government, have all conspired to keep you ignorant and powerless (compared to powerful progressives).
The word "eugenics" comes from two Greek words meaning "good genes" or "good birth."
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" was not really about monkeys. There certainly is a conflict between evolution and the Bible, but Bryan didn't really understand how deep this conflict goes. He was not a six-day creationist. The Scopes Trial was about who gets to control public schools:
Progressives did not want creationist imbeciles to have control over what their children would be taught in public schools.
Progressives did not want creationist imbeciles to reproduce.
Two years after the Scopes trial in Dayton, the U.S. Supreme Court determined that the state of Virginia had the right to sterilize a mentally retarded woman, without her consent or knowledge that this was the operation being performed on her. While she had a daughter of normal intelligence, this had no bearing on the case in the joint opinion of eight of the nine members of the Court. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who wrote the Court’s opinion: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”
The Government has a right to prevent the births of imbeciles, according to the Supreme Court. This is because the goal of Progressive government is to create a master race. This idea, governing America in the 1920's, was adopted by Nazi Germany in the 1930's.
This point is confirmed with footnotes by Thomas F. Cargill:
This is an introduction to his longer article about "scientific racism" in public schools:
Cargill's article does two things:
Extra Credit Reading:
Public schools after 1925 did nothing if not create a nation of imbeciles.
So William Jennings Bryan was not a creationist. He was not a political conservative, though he was a moral conservative. His opposition to the teaching of Darwinism was based on his opposition to the teaching of racism and policies which gave the government power to discriminate against less-evolved races and individuals.
Nobody told me that in school.
I never learned that from Hollywood.
Here is the passage in the Tennessee textbook that William Jennings Bryan objected to:
“Although anatomically there is a greater difference between the lowest type of monkey and the highest type of ape than there is between the highest type of ape and the lowest savage, yet there is an immense mental gap between monkey and man. At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the others in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.” (pp. 195-196).“. . . if such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading. Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways of preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race. Remedies of this sort have been tried successfully in Europe and are now meeting with success in this country.” (pp. 263-265).
"Savage" means blacks. It means non-whites. If you're not a Caucasian, you're a member of a "a low and degenerate race." Darwin hoped these degenerate non-white races would someday be "exterminated." This was the wisdom of high school biology textbooks, circa 1925. The ACLU came to its defense. This information had to be brought to the children of Tennessee, the ACLU decided.
The Scopes "Monkey Trial" was not about monkeys, except those who graduate from public schools. The trial was about Democracy, Racism, Eugenics, and Nazism.
The Nazis won.
Gary North says,
The trial was a hoax. It was staged by the ACLU in order to bypass the voters of Tennessee and other states with similar laws, in order to have the laws overturned by the Supreme Court, which is the least democratic of the three branches of the U.S. government. The Progressives did not trust the voters.
"Progressives" in 1925 claimed to be defenders of "progress." Progressives believed progress is made by the strong, not the weak; the rich, not the poor; the civilized, not the savages. Progressives in 1925 wanted to get rid of the weak. Hitler showed the world where progressivism leads. Progressives in 2025 now claim to be champions of the weak ("marginalized"), but under their government, the weak get weaker and the strong get stronger. Progressives put most of their abortion clinics in neighborhoods of "savages." Progressives control the schools where "savages" are forced to attend, and their educational attainment goes down year after year. These ignorant savages are not smart enough to resist progressive government. They lack the self-discipline to organize resistance against progressive government.
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Protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery, 1965, looking like they're coming home from church. |
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Progressives today control America the way Calvinists controlled Puritan New England 400 years ago. In fact, the Jewish anarcho-capitalist writer Murray N. Rothbard shows how Calvinism devolved into Unitarianism and then Progressivism:
That devolution is central to the thesis of this website:
Calvinism --> unitarianism --> deism --> evolutionism --> progressivism --> racism --> eugenics --> Nazism --> World Struggle ("War")
This website is not about rocks or monkeys. It's not even about "savages" and "imbeciles."
It's about the fact that "scientific racism" led to "scientific socialism."
Darwinism says random forces created a world of imbeciles and "favoured races." It's all meaningless. But now we have evolved to the point where we can create massive governments to control the imbeciles. The master race can now direct evolution. We have evolved from cave-men to State-Men.
This is the article that really motivated the creation of this website. It's not about the Scopes Trial directly, but more about the impact of the theory of evolution in the 1920's. The impact was political.
- First we were told that there is no God, no Designer, no purpose. This was Darwin's job. North speaks of this as "Cosmic Purposelessness."
- Then we were told that Man has now evolved to the point where he can control evolution and design his own future according to his own purpose. Man brings his own purpose to a cosmos without purpose. Of course, in saying "Man can now control evolution," it is meant that some men can control other men. This is "Humanistic Sovereignty." Sovereignty = power. Power over others. Power over you.
Humanistic power is the central thrust of the "Progressive Era," which began around the 1880's and lasted through the 1930's.
"Science" meant "Technocracy." Scientific "experts" (technocrats) should govern the rest of us. Experts should tell us how to educate our kids. Experts should keep fundamentalist Christians from reproducing.
"The Administrative State" vs. Democracy
Gary North's free book:
But William Jennings Bryan's progressive defense of the little guy was out-gunned by archists who saw Progressivism as their archist religion.
Created: Thursday, November 12, 2020, 3:09:40 AM
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Appendix A of Gary North's commentary on Genesis, "From Cosmic Purposelessness to Humanistic Sovereignty," is a critique of the most important sleight-of-mind, bait-and-switch scam in modern thought: Darwinism's transformation of "man, the unplanned speck" into "man, the planning god." It lies at the heart of modernism. Humanists use a two-step argument to get to their fundamental principle: the sovereignty of archist man.
North's Appendix contains the names of Progressive Era scientific planners you've never heard of. They were famous and well-respected during The Progressive Era. Their progeny rule us today. North says this Appendix is
"the most important academic article of my career." It shows in great detail, with exhaustive footnotes, the real meaning of Darwinian Progressivism. Evolution is nothing less than the religion of archism. If you read nothing else in this "Reader's Guide," read that. If you lean "libertarian" and you're a "theistic evolutionist," this essay should "red pill" you.Progressivism gave rise to "The Administrative State." During the Progressive Era, which might be dated from 1887, when the Interstate Commerce Commission was formed, to 1930, liberal elites believed in "scientific socialism." The Administrative State
is best described in the 1983 book, Law and Revolution. The Introduction to that book is the most important single academic article I have ever read. In his Introduction, Harvard legal historian Harold Berman described the six revolutions in the history of Western legal theory: the Papal revolution of 1076, the English Puritan Revolution of 1643-58, the Glorious Revolution of 1688/89, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Russian Revolution. These six revolutions have shaped the West in ways that are barely understood by scholars or voters. They shaped the way in which the law applies to individuals.
Berman was convinced that a seventh revolution began in the early 20th century: administrative law. This revolution separates the courts from the executive and the legislative branch. It separates the idea of law as possessing a separate foundation and separate jurisdiction from the executive. This revolution centralizes power in the state, and crushes the earlier legal revolutions.
The legal revolution of administrative law is the greatest single threat to liberty in the world today, and it is firmly locked into the American social and legal order. People unthinkingly accept it. They are unaware of it. They do not understand the implications of the Federal Register, which now publishes 80,000 pages of fine print administrative law every year.
Politics is impotent to change this. Politics is unaware of it. Those few laws that get passed by Congress and signed into law by the President are then administered by the federal bureaucracy, and there is almost nothing that a President or Congress can do to stop it. Occasionally, the Supreme Court may hand down a ruling that will stop some minor aspect of the expansion of the federal bureaucracy, but this is rare. (Liberty's Greatest Enemy Today)
The French and Russian revolutions were explicitly religious revolutions. See the impressive work by the Librarian of Congress, James Billington, Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith (1980). See also Marx's Religion of Revolution. Billington begins with the French Revolution and ends with Lenin. It is by far the most detailed account of the conspiratorial and occult religious origins of revolution. The revolution of Administrative Law is the religion of science and rationalism, while violent revolution is the religion of chaos (irrationalism). Humanism/Autonomy is constantly fluctuating between rationalism and occult irrationalism. Cornelius Van Til spent his career exposing this humanist dialecticism. This is why the irrational occult chaos of BlackLivesMatter burning cities is supported by all the rational, Harvard-educated fancy-suit elites in the industrial "complexes" listed above.
The story is also told in North's book Crossed Fingers, the story of the Progressive take-over of the Presbyterian Church in Machen's day (Chapter 7, "Darwinism, Democracy, and the Public Schools"):
Conklin was a defender of what he called the religion of evolution.(97) As he said, "the greatest and most practical work of religion is to further the evolution of a better race."(98) "To a large extent mankind holds the power of controlling its destiny on this planet."(99) (Problem: when we say that man must control man's destiny, this means that some men must do the controlling, while others must be controlled.)
"Others must be controlled."
Evolution is the archist's religious wet dream.
"Listen to the Science," they tell you.
Don't believe the Bible.
Get a vax.
Wear a mask.