We have
benefited from the articles of Mike Adams and his fellow-workers at the Natural
News web site. And he seems like a
nice enough man when hosting various shows and podcasts. He is even a farmer here in occupied
Dixieland. So when he posted a podcast about the
crucifixion of the world (alluding to the present COVID trauma) and its
resurrection,
we were intrigued. But it did not turn
out well; there were a number of troublesome ideas expressed in it.
We will begin
with his main point, that mankind is being crucified like Christ, except that
spike proteins and vaccine needles are piercing our flesh instead of nails and
a virus corona tears at our head instead of a crown of thorns. Because the divine Christ died and rose
again, Mr Adams said, mankind too, being divine, will rise from the metaphorical
grave of our suffering and experience ‘resurrection’, that is, a higher state
of enlightenment or being, an awakening.
The problem
with this is that mankind is not automatically resurrected from sufferings and
death because he is not divine. The
innate divinity of man is the teaching of the heresy of Gnosticism. Man can become divine, is in fact called by
the Holy Trinity to become a god by Grace, but this only happens through the
sacramental and ascetical life of the Orthodox Church, through baptism, through
sacrificial self-emptying and love for the sake of others and the creation,
etc. Through these means, we are united
to Christ the God-man, through Whom we receive new life and true
resurrection.
Furthermore,
there have been many other events in which mankind suffered far worse than the
COVID illness, yet after them he did not receive brilliant new
enlightenments: the devastating plague
in the 6th century A.D. was followed up by the advent of Islam. The West has seen a continual train of
devastating wars from the French Revolution, to the War between the States,
WWI, WWII, the Cold War, and the War on Terror with no ‘mass awakening’
following any of them. China has
received no blessings of resurrection following Mao’s revolution. Why will this lesser suffering be so
different from those greater sufferings in its effect upon mankind?
We will only
receive blessings from sufferings if we accept the latter gladly from God as
something we deserve for our sinfulness, as an opportunity for repentance, as a
means by which we can draw closer to God and one another. They do not flow automatically from
sufferings like some sort of unalterable mathematical formula.
Mr Adams
also made the assertion that God creates because He is bored, and that it is
necessary for Him to create an infinite number of universes to alleviate fully
that boredom.
But God
could never be bored; if He is not completely self-sufficient in the infinite
depths of His own Being, then He isn’t God.
The notion of infinite universes is a form of pantheism, endowing the
creation with the attribute of divinity (i.e., infinity) they have stripped
from their idea of God. God creates the
universe and mankind out of the overflowing of His Love (St Gregory the
Theologian speaks of this), which He desires to share with other creatures made
in His image who will love Him in return of their own free will.
Also
mentioned approvingly by Mr Adams is the idea that life is a simulation. But if life is a simulation, an illusion,
then nothing has any meaning or value – neither suffering, nor resurrection,
nor advances in scientific or spiritual enlightenment. If the cosmos can be reshaped by one’s mental
powers, then nothing has any definitive, objective existence: Everything is relative; there can be no
agreement on what constitutes human advances or declines, virtues or vices, if
a dog is really dog, etc. (Thanks to Jay Dyer for this insight.)
Life is not
a simulation; every created thing has an unchanging ontological root in the
logos given to it by Christ the Logos, in Whom all the logoi are united and in
Whom they find their ultimate meaning and purpose for existing. St Maximus the Confessor is one to consult
more on this subject.
Finally, we
will mention Mr Adams’s friendly embrace of ETs with whom he believes mankind
will be united in friendship in the future age of enlightenment that is coming
after the COVID debacle. In short, space
aliens are demons in another guise. But
since this is something we have written about before, we will let those earlier
posts speak for themselves rather than repeating ourselves. Here are a couple of them:
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2021/03/modern-day-religions-part-iii-ufosaliens.html
https://confiterijournal.blogspot.com/2018/08/how-do-you-complete-globalist-plan-for.html
We do
appreciate Mr Adams’s good work in other fields, but we hope he and those who
heard the podcast referred to above will take the time to get grounded in the
teachings of the Holy Fathers of the Orthodox Church, whose views about God,
man, and the cosmos give us the clearest picture of, and the only sure path to
reach and experience, reality.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1982552.Orthodox_Spirituality
Orthodox
Spirituality,
by Fr Dumitru Staniloae
https://www.sainthermanmonastery.com/product-p/orf.htm
Orthodoxy
and the Religion of the Future, by St Seraphim of Platina
--
Holy Ælfred
the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to
the Union!
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