A Final Emergence from the Dark Ages?

The probability that America will fall like Rome and begin to drag the world back into the Dark Ages seems as likely as a final repudiation of the last vestiges of that time.

The first hint that the nation state smells its own decaying flesh comes from the Chinese legislature that reportedly heard a secret speech of the gloomy prospects of the Communist party.

Defense Minister Chi Haotian said, “They want to change China and use peaceful evolution to overturn the leadership of our Communist Party... We thought it over but did not come up with any good ideas. If we do not have good ideas China will inevitably change peacefully, and we will all become criminals in history."

Will the current "leaders" of politics, law, and religion become criminals subjected to punishment?

The dark ages were characterized by fanatical government having religious zeal to end whatever wrongs were decided to be illegal. How the churches and government consort together has not changed since the Dark Ages, and is the same method used by the Jewish leadership who used the state to execute an innocent man.

"As the church was required not to spill blood, the church usually turned those it found guilty over to the secular authorities for punishment."

By this method the pastors and priests can never be directly implicated, but of men claiming to see spiritual connections, it seems metaphysically clear who is responsible. The state derives it's legitimacy from the silence of the church.

Thus the cruelty of law is justified if it ends moral abuses. Their fascination with, and tolerance of tyranny has its roots in rejection of the law of their alleged god.

The legislature can increase laws and penalties until everyone is a criminal, and once arrested, are tortured either physically or by endless investigations, verifications, inspections, or other feedback and control.

In the Dark Ages, "In barbarous times the cruel and pitiless feeling which induced legislators to increase the horrors of tortures," was for the purposes of ending social injustice and moral excesses--or most highly, to save life.

Law was not used for justice but "to extract confessions, or obtain the names of accomplices or other information about the crime."

Even though the tyranny of government to "stamp out" grievous conduct is widely accepted today as it was during the Dark Ages, it is not conclusive that the nation state will survive.

In the mythologies of Christians comes an idea of what Chi Haotian dreads and also the dread of the church. That is that a Judge will show up in Jerusalem one day uninvited, and from him would come their version of political hell whereby he would eventually be called the Judge of Judges.

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