By Adi Schlebusch
In Psalm 2 we see that the sinfulness of mankind drives it towards conspiring against the Triune God. This is because sinners simply refuse to submit themselves to the Lordship of Christ. Hence, the conspiracies against God also entails making plans to overthrow Christ’s Kingdom. Whereas the believer prays with Christ for the coming of God’s Kingdom on earth (Matthew 6:10), the unregenerate dedicates himself to bring this Kingdom to a fall. Of course there are members of the army of Satan who are a little more passive than others, and of course more common sins such as coveting your neighbor’s house or disobeying your parents are less diabolical than murdering millions of Christians. But these generals in the army of Satan—those who actively dedicate themselves to attempt to eradicate Christ’s Kingdom—will also receive a heftier judgment and punishment from God (see Matthew 11:22-24 and Hebrews 10:29).
One of the primary strategies these conspirators against Christ use is to destroy the family as basic covenantal unit. In the 18th century one of the greatest of these conspirators who had focused his assault on the family in particular emerged in Germany. Adam Weishaupt was the founder of a secret organization known as the Bavarian Illuminati. The name Illuminati means “the Enlightened” and the organization’s express purpose was to “liberate” the world, in the name of equality, from what Weishaupt and his followers regarded as the shackles of religion which suppressed humanity. In other words, they openly rebelled against the Lordship of Christ. In alliance with another secret organization, the Freemasons, they ended up being instrumental in bringing about the French Revolution of 1789.[1]
One of the so-called “chains” which, according to the Illuminati in Germany and the Freemasons in France, religion had placed upon mankind, is the family itself. Weishaupt regarded the family, along with the nation, as social structures impeding human progress.[2]
It is noteworthy how desperately these conspirators wanted to overthrow the creational ordinances of Christ. We all know how desperately children need their parents. Studies have also shown time and again that the single most important factor in the lives of children which leads to them becoming responsible adults is the privilege of growing up in a household with both parents.[3] To attack the family, the most basic covenantal and social structure in society is nothing less than open rebellion against the Lordship of Christ and his all-wise design for humanity.
Since the French Revolution this conspiracy has continued unimpeded. One of the saddest events of the nineteenth century was that the responsibility for the education of children was taken out of the parents and the church and surrendered to the state. This has effectuated a situation where our enemies now have authority and control over our children. The irony of modernism is that leftists have so few children, while conservative Christians are the only ones in the West who actually reproduce. Yet sadly, the Left controls the public schools and universities. This means that believers knowingly send their children to their enemies to be indoctrinated in an anti-Christian worldview.
Furthermore, the assault upon the family can also be seen in the propaganda made by both the state and the media for various forms of licentiousness as “alternative lifestyles” to a monogamous marriage between a man and a woman, as ordained from God from the very beginning (Matthew 19:4).
The mainstream media, the entertainment industry in Hollywood as well as the state, by means of its schools and universities, all actively work together for this purpose: the complete eradication of the family. The Marxism in which their worldview is rooted does, after all, teach that the family will eventually disappear to make room for so-called “free love” in which all men, women and children belong to the population as a whole.[4]
As Christians it is therefore our duty to use all legitimate means to actively and vigorously oppose this ongoing conspiracy.
The author is a senior researcher at the Pactum Institute.
[1] Webster, N.H. 1923. World Revolution: The Plot against Civilization (Boston: Small & Maynard), 6, 8-9.
[2] Ibid., 10.
[3] Lerman, R.I., J. Price & B. Wilcox. 2017. “Family Structure and Economic Success Across the Life Course.” Marriage & Family Review 53(8):744-758.
[4] Weikart, R. 1994. “Marx, Engels and the Abolition of the Family.” History of European Ideas 18(5):657.