Ancient Epicurean Atomism, Father of Modern Darwinian Materialism

Progressivism’s So-Called Scientific Worldview

Linda Kimball, Sunday, November 17, 2024
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The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific Darwinian materialism. The principal tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world.

The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated mystically animated physical matter pregnant with life from nothing. This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as the human soul, mind, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human consciousness an active principle of grey matter.

This ancient pagan way of thinking forms the basis of the materialist psychology of Sigmund Freud, Darwin’s evolutionary conception, modern evolutionary biology, secular humanism, secular trans-humanism, Marxist quasi-pantheist and animist dialectical materialism, and John Dewey, co-author of the 1933 Humanist Manifesto and father of progressive education.  Dewey was a leading figure in the ‘dumbing down’ of American schools and the transition of American society away from its founding Biblical heritage in favor of pagan Humanism and relativism:

Though modern materialism originated in the metaphysics of ancient Egyptians and then later Ionians and Stoics during the sixth century BC, it was the Atomists (Leucippus/Democritus, 460-357 BC; Epicurus, 342-270 BC; and Lucretius, 96-55 BC) who methodically developed Atomism, the root and source of modern scientific evolutionary materialism:

Modern materialists such as Julien de la Mettrie (1709-51), Paul Henri Thiery, and Baron D’Holbach (1723-89) all agreed that the human mind is the property of physical matter and man nothing but a bio-machine. La Mettrie speculated that machine-man’s rational life is entirely determined by physical causes running the gamut from raw meat, to climate, blood circulation, and gender. Genetic inheritance, said la Mettrie, causes machine-man to commit crime. This view casts parents into the role of “first cause” and would later manifest itself in the belief that State ‘experts,’ or Hillary’s “village” experts should have control of children. (pp. 16-18)

Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827) viewed scientific materialism, as not only the pursuit of God-like omniscience but of the Holy Grail itself – power to create a New Man. If an intelligence could grasp “at a given instant…all the forces by which nature is animated” proclaimed Laplace, it could devise a mathematical formula that would predict everything that would ever happen, and “nothing would be uncertain, and the future, like the past, would be open to its eyes.” Scientists should reduce everything in the universe to mechanical laws that could be expressed in terms of mathematics, advised Laplace, for the promise of such knowledge was incredible power…even over life and mind itself. (p. 20)

Herbert Spencer, Fechner, Lotze, Wundt, and the pantheist Ernst Haeckel, inventor of the fraudulent scientism dictum – ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny – all agreed that life and mind are properties of matter. Haeckel moreover imagined ether to be the primitive life-making substance, which like the primitive fire of the Stoics, changed one part of itself into inert mass while the other part became the active principle, spirit. Today, many scientists routinely resort to Haeckel’s postulate without ever inquiring into its pantheist implications.

Haeckel would later write,

During the century to follow, Charles Darwin (1809-82) helped spread mystical evolutionary materialism to the masses and eager seminarians and theologians.

As Stephen Jay Gould argues,

According to Darwin, natural selection (mystical deity) and the laws of heredity acting on matter produced mind, morality, and civilization. By describing how deified natural mechanisms caused the complexity of life to emerge from deified matter, Darwin helped transform monist materialism from a fantastically bizarre tale told by power-mad Prometheans on the fringe of society to a hallowed scientism principle enshrined and worshipped by modern scientism and ‘enlightened’ pagan Westerners.

Together, Darwinism and the Epicurean proposition that all that exists is matter in motion within the Void (monism) are the first principles of the naturalistic worldview proffered by atheists such as Richard Dawkins and other evolutionary materialists.

Do you wonder why corrupt Progressives and their ilk ignore the Constitution and invent laws agreeable to their agendas? The answer resides at the level of their materialist view of reality, explained throughout this article. If all that exists is matter in motion and the Void, then the Constitution is meaningless and so are our rights. There can be no truth, no justice, no meaning, and no purpose where there is only change due to matter in motion. Nor can there be only men and women but also 52 other genders if matter and the void are reality. And what about humans? What are they if all that exists is matter in motion? Obviously, we are nothing but aggregates of matter without humanity, freedom, and rights.

As early as 1926, President Calvin Coolidge was aware of and deeply concerned by the insidious spread of so-called ‘scientific’ materialism in America. As he knew, Americans are free only because of the Christian foundation laid by the country’s founders.

In a speech he delivered in Philadelphia, July 5, 1926 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Coolidge tried to call American’s back to their Christian heritage. He told Americans that the Declaration’s principles of liberty arise from man’s God-given inalienable rights. And these are found, said Coolidge, “in the texts, the sermons, and the writings of the early colonial clergy…” The clergy preached equality “because they believed in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Sanctity of life, the right to self-defense, and all the rest of our individual liberties were justified “by the text that we are all created in the divine image, all partakers of the divine spirit.” God’s children therefore, have no “superiors;” there are no modern-day “divine rights kings” who possess “any right to rule…over them.” Americans are free to choose their own leaders.

The Declaration, continued Coolidge, is “a great spiritual document.” Its principles are not material but spiritual. “Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man—these are not elements we can see and touch. They are ideals(whose) source and roots (are) in religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world.”

President Coolidge cautioned Americans that, “unless the faith of the Americans in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We cannot continue to enjoy the result if we abandon the cause.”

Coolidge ended his speech with a stark warning, “We must not sink into a pagan materialism…” (Back Fired, William Federer, pp. 269-271)

Ideas have consequences, but worldview ideas can have tremendous consequences for good—humanity, freedom, and rights—or for evil– aggregates of matter, slavery, and genocide.

This nation was founded on Christian presuppositions that allowed for the most enlightened, freest civilization in the history of the world. The usurpation of our founding worldview by Progressivism’s evil matter in motion worldview, the so-called scientific Darwinian materialist worldview, is sending our homeland over the edge of the abyss into hell.

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Date:  Mon Nov 18 04:02:30 2024
From:  Vic
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Linda:

Thank you; this explains so much. 

It is the real root of the hedonist "Playboy Philosophy" seeking pleasure for its own sake, avoiding pain and discomfort, and that's about it; that's all there is. There is nothing more important at all. 

The belief system that preceded the flood. That preceded the fall of Sodom and Gomorrah. The elimination of the very concept of right and wrong, and of evil, that preceded the holocaust, the folly and fall of Nazi Germany, Stalin's terror-famine program in Ukraine, and all the atrocities in all the wars. 

And Obamunism. And the new Sodomic America. 

Regards, 

Vic

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Date:  Tue Nov 19 12:27:52 2024
From:  Linda
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Vic,

Most likely the rudiments of materialism existed implicitly before the Flood, and would have leaned toward mystical pantheism.  After the Flood, and more precisely after the Tower of Babel where the Mother of all Mystery Religions arose plus all that had been implied before the Flood was joined together, fleshed out and systematized in the Upanishads.

Where I'm going with this is that a deeper analysis reveals that much of what we believe is natural science, biological evolution, laws of nature, natural selection, spiritual evolution, and New Age, for instance, derive from Hinduism.

From my research I've learned that very early Rabbis exiled to Babylon gained knowledge of some of what took place before the Flood.  Among their observations: the killing of babies through use of herbal abortifacients; men marrying men and multiples of men; women doing the same; and all of them marrying animals.   The Rabbis thought this behavior is what brought on the Flood.

We also need to factor in the descent of fallen Powers who came down Mt Hermon into the world of men.  After this, all hell broke loose.

Now we know that fallen Powers and demons are here.  The inversion of evil over good, death over life, lies over truth and the attacks upon the souls of mankind are evidence of their presence.

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Date:  Wed Nov 27 08:44:17 2024
From:  Pidlubniak
Email:   slavapidlubniak@yahoo.com.ua
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Linda,

You are completely right about a lot of modern evils finding their roots in Hinduism. After all, the chief gods of the Vedas are Shiva and Indra. The first one is also known as Vayu/Odin (Germanic peoples took his worship from the Scythians - who were kshatriyas that fled the Zoroastrian advances in places that are now known as Afghanistan and Kazakhstan) - or, more poignantly, as Angra Mainyu (destructive spirit). If you ever think about the idea of a vicious barbarian warband destroying an idyllic village and tormenting the people within (this was the Zoroastrian conception and metaphor of how and why evil invaded creation), you are thinking of Vayu (this god was also a god of a more occult-themed demonic "inspiration", hence the very word "inspiration" having connections to words that mean breathing - and even that Latin word "vates" (the root of "Vatican") meant "poet").

"Indra" is hardly better. He literally got his start as a constructed god, a mere tool with which the evil priests of the Vedic religion could retain the control over warriors/kshatriyas (as the worship of Angra Mainyu got so bad that even the warriors - much less ordinary people - were starting to get disgusted by it. That - and the modifications to the Indo-Iranian religion done in order to puff up Indra as a new addition to the pantheon - was a huge part that caused Zarathustra and his confidants to revolt againt the daevic religion). In Zoroastrianism, "Indra" is a daeva, a hostile supernatural giant that deceives men and freezes the minds of the righteous. The worst part is that Hinduism survived. The Brahmin snakes fled from the successors of Zarathustra and Vishtaspa into the southern lands; once they found royal patronage, they've merged their Vedic religion with the fertility cults of the Dravidian natives (and had to sacrifice some of that Vedic viciousness in the process - cows being sacred, for example, is also a Zoroastrian influence. Actual Vedic religion proponents wouldn't be caught dead believing in this; Indra and his warriors were butchering cows and bulls like no tomorrow in the Vedas).

Truly, there's nothing new under the sun. For example... Zoroastrian texts have a word, "vipra" (it's cognate to the Latin root "vibro") - it refers to what can now be called "shamanic ecstasy" (possession - in Zarathustra's day, the main adversaries were "berserkers", warriors that used such possession rituals to enhance ferocity in battle to the point that they knew neither friend nor foe. That's why the Germanic peoples had this practice, they took it from the Iranians that arrived to Ukraine - Scythian/Sarmatians. The others were "magicians" - again, Norse seidr was literally a set of practices ascribed to Turanian usijs/Scythian Enarei (the native form of the word is "Anarya" - meaning, "unmanly"/homosexual/transgender) in the Avesta). In modern day, vipra - a fundamentally homosexual practice (as Zarathustra observed, since the demon/daeva is an "active" partner in the act and the human is a "passive" one) - is revived in three forms.

Modern witchcraft - such as the Wicca - makes use of direct demonic "inspiration" for various occult purposes. Berserkers are now replaced by the mass shooters, serial killers, terroristic zealots, government-sanctioned murderers and so forth - in whom, bad ideologies amplify innate hatred and viciousness for the purposes of inflicting harm on perceived enemies (through, those rarely use actual occult rituals. Ideologies alone seem to be the vehicle for the practice - and didn't the news say that most of the mass shooters always have these long-winded manifestos? That's their "replacement" for the haoma (which is also replaced by modern drugs, no doubt) and the mantras of the old berserkers).

And the worship of homosexuality/transgenderism itself, in my opinion, is a cultural-wide operation to sanction these forms of vipra (this concept is precisely why these two evils are pretty much the same) - to prepare most people for a worldwide, vicious religion/society in which only vipra (and, thus, submission to demons) would be the means to get ahead (so that demons could skirt around God's free will by directly possessing - and trapping - people in their bodies, while using these bodies for evil purposes and pretending to be ordinary people through it all. If I were a demon, such a strategy would make sense - it would eliminate any possible rebellions from any figure that has any real authority). That's why so many of these celebrity, government and Hollywood types are into the occult.

The endgame of the demons, I suspect, is to make a society where every single person with any sort of authority whatsoever - be they a priest, a government worker, a warrior or a cop - would hate goodness and enforce evil in return for their life and livelyhood. And if the pre-Flood history is of any indication, the demons no doubt looked at the irredeemable world that God had to destroy with the Flood as their greatest success. That's why they recycle strategies - indeed, why change things up if they were successful before?

Of course, I also believe that it's not going to be that easy for them. Not this time. The battlefield for the souls of humanity has irreversably changed. There was no sacrifice on the cross before the Flood, no Gospels - no Christian religion. Mankind is fallen, but the very concepts of goodness and justice are so powerful that the demons HAVE to use deception and FRAME THESE EVIL THINGS AS GOOD in order for them to even be accepted in the first place (the practice of berserkers, after all, was a distorted ideal of knighthood - a replication of martial heroic greatness of old, just in a form of, well, barbarism) - because most people do want to believe in good. And God Himself will hardly stay idle - He does not permit any injustice to go unanswered forever and the greater it is, the greater and swifter is His retribution for it.

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