A couple of months ago, I listened to this really fascinating interview between Daily Wire host Michael Knowles and a former occultis/astrologer who gave all that up (including a profitable podcast on the subject) to convert to Christianity. It’s a super-long interview, so here’s the TL;DL: if you don’t worship God, you will ultimately end up worshipping yourself.
This brought to my mind something I heard from a former Hindu convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when I was a missionary in California back in 2004: that all of the major world religions, with their contradictory teachings and beliefs, ultimately look to the creator of the universe as the object of their worship. So no matter how many differences we may have, if we are trying to worship the creator of the universe according to the light and knowledge that we possess, we ultimately aren’t as strange or as different from each other as we think.
Of course, there are other religions that worship the creation instead of the creator. And there are religions that purport to worship the creator, but in reality they have turned their version of the creator into an idol, refusing to worship Him as He really is, but as they wish that he would be. To one degree or another, I think we all struggle with this idolization complex: if it’s not our God that we’re turning into an idol, it’s our treasure, or our social media image, or something else that’s purely worldly. “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
But ultimately, it comes down to this question: do you worship the creator of the universe according to the light and knowledge which you possess, or do you worship a mere creation? And this brings us back around to the Michael Knowles interview: because all worship of things that are merely created ultimately devolve into worship of the self.
You know what this looks like. We see examples of it everywhere: from social media narcissism to moral relativism to the modern emphasis on “finding your truth,” “giving yourself grace,” and on finding what works for you. It’s that ridiculous meme (probably wrongly attributed to Marilyn Monroe) that says “if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.” It’s been a plague on our culture since the “me” generation, and probably a long time before.
Scratch that probably: it’s certainly been a plague on our culture, because this selfishness lies at the heart of the mechanism of control that drives the grand conspiracy itself: our lusts.
Everyone who refuses to worship the Creator will come to worship the creation instead, which ultimately means that they will end up worshipping themselves. Therefore, the way to control these people is to manipulate them through their lusts. The only way to break out of this control is to renounce the self and turn everything over to God: “For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.”
It is impossible for us to worship nothing. As humans, we all have a driving need to make something the object of our worship. Indeed, this is an essential part of what it means to be human. The hardcore atheist who claims that he “doesn’t need God for a crutch” has, in fact, made some other idol the object of his worship, whether that’s his own dogmatic atheism, or the Nietzschean concept of the Übermensch (which is certainly a form of self-worship), or some other ideology or material object.
So if we, as humans, are going to worship something, and we refuse to worship the Creator, we will ultimately come to make ourselves the object of our worship, in some form or another. This makes us vulnerable to manipulation according to our lusts, which brings us under the control and influence of the Satanic forces that are working to destroy us. This is the mechanism of control behind what I am calling the Grand Conspiracy.
In the next post, we will see how the gradation of lusts creates a hierarchy, or pyramid scheme. Toward the top of this pyramid are the controllers, or those who fancy themselves to be controllers, while at the bottom we find all the useful idiots who are being manipulated, controlled, and abused.
But ultimately, everyone on this pyramid is a useful idiot, because once we give in to our lusts, we fall under the control of the Satanic forces (whether literal or metaphorical) that have orchestrated this entire scheme. Which goes back to what I said in part 1, that if you go up high enough, everyone is being controlled by an overarching malevolent force (whether literal or metaphorical).
And how does this force control us? By our lusts.
Part 3: A Satanic Pyramid Scheme
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