Matt Walsh - The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Lefts Assault on Life, Marriage, and Gender

The first liberal was named Lucifer. He was an angel. He lived in Heaven millennia ago, before modern times, before ancient times, before time itself. He could still be there today if thats what hed chosen, but in his absurd and insatiable pride he would not bend his knee to the supreme will of God.

Non serviam. I will not serve, he said, wanting to love only himself.

Just like that, he and those who followed him were cast out of Paradise, down into the hideous depths of Hell, where he could reign over his pitiful kingdom of darkness. It was there, in the fires of damnation, that the philosophy of liberalism was born, although it wouldnt be known by that name for many years. Im telling a somewhat abbreviated version of the story, I realize.

It was this philosophy that led to the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve succumbed to the temptations of the serpent and attempted to make themselves equal to God.

It was the philosophy behind every act of human evil throughout history, at the bottom of every atrocity. Its the philosophy you would have found incubating in Sodom and Gomorrah amid the orgy of heathens, or in the Temple of Baal, where the pagans made human sacrifices as part of their barbaric fertility rituals, and to ensure for themselves wealth and prosperity.

This philosophy has propelled all the great villains throughout history. It is the philosophy of Judas, of Nero, of Genghis Khan, of Adolf Hitler, of Hillary Clinton. The specifics of what these people all believed, and how they framed it around the political circumstances of the day, isnt terribly relevant, for they desired the same thing and worshipped the same god: the self.

What we call liberalism in public discourse today is really just the worship of self. It is the categorical belief in the supremacy of the individual. The particulars of modern American liberalism, or progressivism if you like, were certainly informed by the social, political, religious, and sexual philosophies of Machiavelli, Kant, Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Sartrethe pillars of unbelief, as Peter Kreeft calls themas well as guys like Kinsey and Singer, but underpinning everything is a studied and intentional selfishness.

Of course, we all lapse into selfishness at timesI often provide proof of thatbut those who affirm the ultimate primacy of the self all share the same ideology. Their worship might manifest itself in different ways, but theyre all cut from the same cloth woven by the Devil himself eons ago.

You can find this philosophy anywhere, and not just coming out of the mouths of people who identify as liberals. You can find it in our churches, in our schools, in our homes, on TV. You can find it tucked away under sloganstolerance, acceptance, etc.that sound quite noble at first blush.