How Social Atheism Dethroned Christianity and Seized Power in the West, and the Caustic Effects of Darwinian Theory in the World: Observational Commentaries on Social Atheism

By Erik Angus MacRae

This book, the first of the three volume series "Observational commentaries on Social Atheism" features a description of the history of how Christianity arose to popularity to the West, and a description of how modern Social Atheism arose: that is, how following the "age of enlightenment" numerous elements gave way for the rise of Atheism generally recognized in two organized forms, Darwinism and Marxism. This documentary work describes these two as one united system of atheism, often going so far to call them "Darwino-Marxism" and explains the direct relationship between the two forms, and finally describes the matters of history that immediately followed mass implementation of Darwinian theory into the various educational institutions and places of oral dictation in the West. The author of this book concludes, just as many prominent writers have, that the phenomenon of "Social Darwinism" is directly traceable to its written works and foremost originator, and not to be discerned as a seperate entity for educational Darwinism in the sense of "Origin of Species". It rather views the philosophical implications that lead to Social Darwinism as a direct fruit of Darwin and his famed literary works, "Descent of Man" included. The commentary is written from the perspective of a trained Christian of a decent level of study.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Erik Angus MacRae
• Release date: Sep 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393928973

Erik Angus MacRae

Born Erik MacRae to Richard Warren and Valerie MacRae, the author has spent his whole life in the region of Ontario, Canada and grew up in Scarborough. Growing with a troubled childhood, and uncertain of what to make of his future Erik would face numerous bouts of depression, anxiety and escapism in his life until becoming a Christian and gaining a more thorough understanding of the literature of the Holy Bible of Christianity which gave him a sense of meaning and purpose and ultimate destiny. Erik has been through multiple denominations of the Christian faith with exceedingly different doctrinal stances, first beginning his journey in a Baptist-Calvinist Church, where he learned the basics of Christ for about seven years. After this he would become involved on studies in the Hebrew Roots movement, but later defected to a more biblically-oriented messianic congregation. Finally, he would identify as non-denominational and serve in discussions with numerous Christians of all denominations. He is very zealous for defending the authority and legitimacy of the biblical text and its core dictates.   Throughout his informational journeys he has studied the work of the Minnesota pastor Daniel Joseph of Corner fringe Ministries closely for over 3 years and numerous topics pertaining to apologetics. Fancying himself an apologist at heart, Erik carries a great passion for “equipping the sheep” of the Christian faith through education to defend their Faith, and for aiding the non-Christian in understanding the complex and numerous evidences that point to the reality of God and His Person in the Father, Son, Holy Spirit and His Word as the Scripture of the Holy Bible. He has a deep interest in Christian philosophy, Biblical archaeology, and comparative studies, and for bridging denominational gaps through discussions of differences.

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FOREWORD

I was very concerned in writing and publishing this book. This topic is very vast, my own tendency toward aggression stemming from personal bias still very flagrant, and I was hoping to reach an atheistic community steeped in presuppositions of Darwinism and Marxism and in many cases (not all) carrying their own biases and at times innate distrust and unwillingness to hear unfavorable reviews of atheistic history. On the other hand, there are times that I must absolutely be harsh in my wordings, as a rebuke of love given to someone I care about. Communication between people with information gaps and individuals of differing personal conviction is a massive challenge, it becomes so very easy for my intent and goal to be misconstrued if it is read as a personal attack. It requires one to think about every word they write and say, and slow down life to gain control over their mouth... that is a very hard thing to do when you are working in a warehouse with very strict picking and packing quotas for most of your time in the day when you want to be doing other things, then coming home to write a book about a topic that is merely one of, probably, several hundred that are near to your heart and of grave concern, and also battling your own tendencies towards depression, despair, anger, and addictive behaviors. The stress is massive, and that pressure makes it hard to ensure that the first books I write will be of the ideal character- what I would have them be. I can only hope that somehow in my proofreading I will be able to catch all the needless aggression and skim it out, but also to include firm and harsh statements when it is needed and called for, timing and placement is everything... and also to provide more in-depth explanation where understanding is lacking in a spirit of patience, respect and empathy for the reader and general audience. With proofreading beginning with a mere 3-4 days of my deadlines coming up for publishing, may God help me to do the very best I can to reach the most possible.

One clear fact stands out: Darwinian evolution is an exhausting discussion to partake of. The sheer number of items the Darwinist cites as evidence for the theory is staggering, and there is probably no way for someone to go through all of them, or even 5% of them without a dedicated career to dealing with the topic such as that of Creation Ministries. The best someone of my caliber can do is find a few Goliath arguments, champions among the many thousands of others, and to take them down with the assistance of Yehovah the Almighty God of Abraham through Jesus the Great High Priest and Son of God and also with wonderful people like that of Creation Ministries International – strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered, this case ideologies and doctrines and arguments of some so-called evidence pictured as a shepherd. Find some of the best arguments, quote authorities with counterpoints, bring down the argument, and let the rest of the thousands of arguments of a lesser level fall to the wayside when the confidence in the champions are hurt. As mentioned earlier, I confess my own bias- I do not like atheism- I do not like Darwinism. However, I cannot put the evidence against it into the ground. When numbers[1] or informational presentations are not favorable to that narrative, that is not some fiction I am personally inventing to deceive anyone. That is the consequence of reality. There are numerous facts working against Darwinism, and all of societal atheism at this point[2]. It is my duty to point them out. It is a work of maturity if I can do it in a humble, non-self-exalting kind of way. May Yehovah, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob see this book to the right hands through Jesus the Son of God Most High.

My first set of books: the observational commentaries series:

Naturally, as my first works to be generally published, there will be some formatting inconsistencies here and there. I am not excessively trained yet in the ways of ensuring spaces between dividers, etc. are perfectly consistent in a uniform rule. Also, I could not afford a full-time proofreader at the time for the totality of the documents, so I had to rely on having a single sample proofread by full-time proofreaders[3] to get a general sense of how to improve my formatting. This led to conversion from the Arial font to the Times New Roman, a 2.0 spacing, in attempt to become more consistent with the MLA format. It also led to having a higher view to critique of my own books- I have scanned them each over about 2-3 times not only for spelling errors, but for needless repetitions, which is in fact my worst habit as a writer, and I am actively working always to curb it. There are two types of repetition that can occur in non-fiction writing: The first is the detrimental kind that I have sought to delete in every place, which is rambling. The second is the methodology of the paraphrase.

A statement may be repeated with slightly different wording, or in a more idiomatic form, or expounded upon. Where this occurs, it is always the intent of the author to make sure their words were not misconstrued or falling short of a critical concept they wished to convey. Most of the repetitions I have left which are hopefully not many are of a rewording/paraphrase nature. I make them when I feel a sort of state of panic in a hunch that an urgent concept will be overlooked by the reader in a very in one end the ear and out of the other kind of way.

The most important point is the goal and the mind behind the sequential presentation of quotations and documents of history and the like. We live in a society in the West that tends to receive only one narrative. The goal of these books is to counter-balance that narrative with the elements our public educators neglected to inform us of. These books are written very much in a sense of urgency as a response to the lack of education of our times in the history and recent developments of social atheism.

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Recent changes:

Unfortunately, when I first made the manuscript, it so happened that I was not at all familiar with the formatting rules of various vendors, and I had to change the name of the series due to the capitalization standards. For reference, anywhere in the text An observational commentary appears, if I have failed to edit it, is in reference to the exact same series. In the process I changed much of the naming in the title which was partly for the same reason, but also to give a clearer sense of both the subject matter and the tone of it.

GOD’S HEART FOR THE ATHEIST

As I was writing this book and drew increasingly near the publishing phase I became increasingly concerned that the atheist reader would feel targeted, in particular villainized, or even demonized. By in particular, I mean singled out. I wish to inform the reader coming from either an atheist or agnostic background that the purpose of this document was never to single you out. For sure there will be points in the three volume where my personal frustrations and anger comes out, on account of the one-sided narrative of our time and total suppression of some of the bloodiest parts of atheist history. I realized I was in danger of unintentionally pushing the atheist or agnostic far, far away from us, almost as if caricaturing them into this people group that was innately more evil and more sinful than any other human being. If I gave that sense I apologize, and let me be very clear in my words here: To me, social atheism is a very real problem, a very dangerous force and a very real evil, and for sure that is an opinion formed by an objective look at some very real evidence and occurrences of history. It is not simply an opinion of what I want to be true where a historical discourse with documented events that have really occurred are brought to the table. Also, since that history does exist and is recorded, it enables us somewhat, alongside atheistic tropes[i] viewed in the present represented in science fiction and the like to predict the future of organized atheism, a very bleak future indeed[ii].  [iii]However, the individual atheist or agnostic also remains to me, a human being made in the image of God, of intrinsic value and worth, a person who like me has a mind, a heart, a history and a future that is worthy of striving for.

Though the greater part of debate between the two may be prone to a level of personal hatred on account of forbearances and tolerances that we often grow weary of, the Word of Christ has declared all human-beings to be sub-par in our morality. For it is the confession of the Christian that there is not one normal human being on earth who is good of himself, and we were taught to follow that thinking by words Christ said for our example, No one is good, but God. – it seems to me the moment I take my eyes off my own inclination to evil and hatred and assume myself good, I would quickly prove the very opposite- I have desperate need of the forgiveness of my savior every single day.

In describing the relationship of the God of the Christian Bible and the atheist or agnostic those terms, atheist, agnostic become deceptive or redundant. It is not The relationship of the God of the Christian Bible and the atheist and agnostic but rather The relationship of the God of the Bible and the man or woman caught in sin. For actually, the self-professed Christian indulging himself in pornography in secret, for instance, or the Christian who seeks to daily sit in the seat of God in the hidden realm of his heart to fantasize about being the one who determines by the power of sword and bullet who lives and who dies, and the Christian who pretends they have no sin, no lawlessness or transgression- these are in the exact same boat as the self-professed atheist or agnostic, and no better[4]. Many of us have these problems. And every other human who broke a law of God, or denied His Will! The Bible therefore tells us we are all equally guilty before God, equally human, and in equal need of both saving and exposure to information that will aid that salvific process. The general root of all sin and alienation from God is defined in the Bible not as even all these, but hardness of heart- a calloused emotional disposition[5]. All humans are vulnerable to that.

I fundamentally disagree that the conclusions of creedal atheistic documents, and creedal Christian documents[6] are the same when followed through properly however. I do profess a belief that the Christians who do evil things, myself included when I do evil things, misrepresent Christ and the Bible and cause Him to be blasphemed to our own condemnation[7]. But the atheist who follows through with heinous acts- does he truly misrepresent the Communist Manifesto and Origin of Species and their conclusions[8]? I would say, there is a difference here, when it comes to the creedal documents and ideology. I would not say the painful events, spoken about in these three volumes in many places, the dark and bloody ones of history represent a misrepresentation of the Manifesto and Darwin’s Origins in any way- but rather a fulfillment of them. That then, is a critical difference.

Nevertheless, God’s heart towards the self-professed atheist or agnostic would be the exact same towards me if today I chose to indulge my own sinful nature. The picture of God in the Bible is like a man with a precious, beloved son or daughter – and that son or daughter has wandered off, and become lost in dark places. Or in another sense, the child was kidnapped and held at ransom and subjected to horrors by a most sinister band of men which band is a picture of the spirit of the world and of our modern age. The complicated part of the picture is that many years pass, and with enough abuse and seduction that sinister band is able to formulate God’s children into full-grown members of that band of kidnappers who do the exact same works. Thus, the identity of God’s children is stolen away, and buried under a bunch of foreign protocols and relationships with the captors.

God faces then the challenge- His child whom He loves has become both a victim and abuser, simultaneously. His heart is on one side torn into pieces – He has been in agony from the separation from his beloved children, His creations whom He deeply loves. On another side, His own children have been working on account of deception to advance some of the most heinous acts and systems that causes them to endlessly abuse and degrade one another and to