“the term “child abuse” has no meaning to the people who run Balenciaga, just as it has no meaning to the people who provide “gender-affirming care” at Boston Children’s Hospital, one of many hospitals where minors are routinely castrated, mutilated, and given powerful puberty-blocking drugs that cause irreversible damage. Same goes for those who put on all-ages drag shows targeting children, or push for pornographic material to be available in public school libraries. For these people, “child abuse” is a phrase without content, a holdover from a moral universe they believe they have transcended, or perhaps destroyed.” (John Daniel Davidson, The Balenciagas of an Anti-Christian World ‘Condemn’ Child Abuse While Castrating, Traumatizing, and Exploiting Kids, The Federalist, 11/30/22)
From Global ‘elites’ currently destroying Western civilization and committing crimes against humanity on a worldwide scale to ‘elite’ Balenciaga child tormenters, castraters, pushers of pornography for children, and others of that evil ilk, all are new pagan gnostic nihilists. For them, God the Word (Gen. 1; John 1) is dead, the supernatural dimension was just a bad dream, and now all that exists is utopia–void, energy, and matter.
In “The Gnostic Religion,” Hans Jonas provides a full-scale study of the heretical world of pre-Christian and Christian era pagan Gnostic nihilism together with its modern variants: materialist and pantheist naturalism.
Jonas writes that while ancient Gnostic pagan man was thrown,
“…into an antagonistic, anti-divine, and therefore anti-human nature, modern man(is thrown) into an indifferent one.” (p. 338)
The ancient gnostic conception was still anthropomorphic despite the nihilism, hostility and demonic. But its’ modern counterpart with its’ indifferent nature, its’ completely godless, soulless, anti-human, demonic nature, represents the “absolute vacuum, the really bottomless pit.”
At least the ancient Gnostic dualism, as fantastic as it was, was at least self-consistent, as there was the illusion of a source for ‘self’ (being). Not so for its’ modern counterpart:
“So radically has anthropomorphism been banned from…nature that even man must cease to be conceived anthropomorphically if he is just an accident of nature. As the product of the indifferent, his being, too, must be indifferent. Then the facing of his mortality would simply warrant the reaction, ‘Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.” (p. 339)
In conclusion:
“…modern nihilism (is) infinitely more radical and more desperate than gnostic nihilism ever could be for all its panic terror of the world and its defiant contempt of its laws. That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with…the objective meaninglessness of his projected meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.” (Jonas, p. 339)
In other words, the death of the living God of Revelation in the minds of demonic nihilist Western ‘elites’ logically means that without the image of God in them, they are no longer human but rather beasts. Similar to demons, beast-mans cognitive thought processes are unhinged and his conscience dead to sin. Like the demons, beast-man is a death-lover who celebrates Lucifer (the devil), and actively seeks the way of Luciferian initiation. Together with demons, beast-men flee from the cross of Jesus but exalt the devil as the first free thinker, the liberator and genetic creator of man, the seething energy and angel of evolution.
Beast-men exist within a Satanic projection of a dark alternative dimension of meaninglessness, a satanic inversion of reality where their madness is evidence of intellectual brilliance, truth is the lie, and evil is good, thus committing crimes against humanity is for the good of the planet, and killing babies and physically, psychologically, and spiritually tormenting children is pleasure. Linda
In my view, they’re lower than beasts. Just as men and women have been known to have characters so holy and so imbued with grace that they resembled angels, these men and women are so unholy and bereft of grace that their characters resemble demons.
In my view, beasts just act naturally and in accord with their natures, without knowing good or evil though they can be fierce. But men do have the knowledge of good and evil and form their characters to pursue one or the other.
The good ones laud Nature and nature’s Creator God, but the evil ones mock them and seek to pervert them for their evil use.
Again, that’s my view.
You said: “beasts just act naturally and in accord with their natures, without knowing good or evil though they can be fierce”
I specifically used the word ‘beast’ in lieu of animal because animals are everything you said. The beast-man is not an animal because he has a will, mind, and conscience and it was through abuse of will that he devolved into a beast.
Sorry, I failed to see that distinction.
I’m trying to clear this up. So acting ‘beastly” is acting with malice aforethought, which of course denotes an evil intent which is quite different from animal nature?
I think that would stand up in court.
Beast-man is animalistic in that he acts on his instincts. But he is a beast because through abuse of will, meaning a will turned toward evil, he is something much worse than an animal, so the word beast is applied.
Ah yes, “instincts”, I’d forgotten those. That ties up a loose end I was trying to find.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comes to mind.
In the 2nd book of CS Lewis’ space trilogy ending with That Hideous Strength (the 3rd and final book), Lewis refers to beast-man as the Un-Man.