The Post-War Consensus as Religion

We Were All Indoctrinated

Something about a smartphone in cleavage at an international sporting event seemed pretty appropriate for an article about our culture’s unofficial religion.

Japan, as a nation, had never been defeated going into WWII. That’s saying something, considering the Mongols had staged two invasion attempts during the peak of their power (the largest contiguous land empire in world history) and Japan had also fought the largest country on the planet in modern times (which had consumed the Grand Armee of Bonaparte a century before).

Partway around the world, Hitler and other founders of the National Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party practiced a religion handed down via the Thule Society. They believed the Germanic peoples descended from the Aryans—a “master race” from Atlantis, bred from gods and human women: heroes of old or demigods like Hercules and Achilles, or Gilgamesh, or the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis 6.

The Japanese practiced Kokka Shinto at the time of their membership in the Axis. Among the associated beliefs they held to was that Japan was “Land of the Gods” (Shinkoku) and its people inherently superior to other races. Hirohito was their God-Emperor—supposedly a direct descendant of the Sun Goddess.

At the time of America’s last Crisis/4th Turning, the Japanese Hakkō Ichiu (”Eight Corners of the World Under One Roof”) doctrine served as their own “Manifest Destiny”: Japan had a divine mission to unify the world under the Emperor’s benevolent rule. It was actually their sacred duty to expand and conquer the inferior races not just in their “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere,” but eventually beyond that. Australia looked like a potential nexus of what their strongest Axis partners called lebensraum, from which one day Japan might sail forth to conquer all the continents. It was the will of the kami (gods) that they do so.

Every religion has its A) true believers, B) opportunistic poseurs who don’t personally believe in it but exploit it and its faithful for their own ends, and C) those who go along with it mostly out of conformity. Nevertheless, these were some tenets of Japan’s official religion of the time.

Then, over the course of three and a half years, with an exclamation point composed of atomic fire, an “inferior” nation of round-eyed Gaijin kicked the ever-loving snot out of Japan and subjected them to a humiliating unconditional surrender, followed by a long-term occupation.

Their belief system was effectively nuked along with Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

At the time, the USA was still predominantly Christian (though our government was already controlled mostly by Categories B) and C) above). There was a tremendous opportunity to introduce the bewildered Japanese to the God who had proven Himself above all their gods (as some likely would have interpreted the conflict). But rather than introduce the Japanese to Jesus, the US Government sent in bureaucrats, financiers, accountants and businessmen to train those broken, humbled people how to serve Mammon.

Even as the USA was betrayed into surrendering its own industrial manufacturing (which had overwhelmed the Axis), the Japanese dedicated themselves to learning and implementing what we had mastered better than anyone else. And they learned it well. Whatever their collective zealotry had been for Kokka Shinto, they now channeled into finance and industry. Corporatism, in effect, became their new religion.

Not just Japan, but the whole world, had their religion overhauled. Throughout the West in general, and the USA in particular, a new worldview began to gradually supplant Christianity on a massive scale. Ostensibly the worldview is secular, but without any overt public proclamation, it became the de facto religion of our civilization.

This won’t be an exhaustive examination, but let’s ponder some common aspects of religion and see how our Postwar Consensus fits:

SACRED NARRATIVES AND ORIGIN STORIES:

Religions tend to have, if not a creation story, some kind of narrative about how order came out of chaos. I believe the account in Genesis is the accurate one and the others are corruptions of it passed down via a generational “telephone game” with plenty of oral storytellers taking creative license, putting their own “stamp” on it, and “updating for a modern audience.”

In Greco-Roman mythology, Gaia and Tartarus emerged from the gaping void (chaos), then Titans struggled with Olympians for dominance. In Norse mythology the Ginnungagap was a bifurcated primordial chaos of fire and ice. Their interaction produced the giant Ymir; the gods then killed Ymir and fashioned the ordered world (Midgaard, Asgaard, etc.) from his body. In Taoism it’s not fire and ice but Yin and Yang. In Hinduism it’s Vishnu/Brahman who establishes order. In Darwinism, first there was nothing, then it exploded. Natural Selection hovered over the primordial soup to make a fish grow feet and climb up on the beach.

In the Postwar Consensus, chaos is represented by “isolationism” and “laissez-faire economics.” The gods who emerged to establish order have gone by many different names. Recent names include “Global Governance,” “International Law,” “Free Trade,” “Liberalism,” “Social Justice,” and “Democracy.” They are gods of many misnomers and oxymorons.

The globalists outed themselves by forming this statue to resemble a hybrid of the Beast(s) described in Daniel 7.

SACRED SCRIPTURES:

The Bible is the Holy Book of Christianity and its Old Testament that of (Mosaic) Judaism. Islam has the Koran; Hindus have the Vedas and Bhagavad Gita. Darwinists have textbooks which must be revised every few years as scientific discoveries disprove their contrived assumptions.

In the Postwar Consensus, the sacred texts are also constantly revised—often to the point that contradictions prove hard to keep up with. The safe posture for true believers is to accept whatever the latest Narrative from the legacy media purports as The Truth, regardless of their previous Narratives. Of course history books from the same pool of infallible scribes are included in canon.

SYMBOLS:

The Cross, the Fish, the Star of David, the Crescent Moon; the Amphibian. I’m guessing you’re familiar with most or all of these.

The Postwar Consensus has probably as many or more symbols as the rest of the world’s religions combined: the dove; the wreath; the rainbow, the circle of stars, the revolver with its barrel tied in a knot; building architecture designed to resemble a partly-finished Tower of Babel. You’ve likely seen some of those, too.

AFTERLIFE:

Many religions have their own reward/punishment dichotomy based on how you live this present life: Heaven or Hell; Sheol or Abraham’s Bosom; Hades, Purgatory; or, for Muslims: Paradise, with a harem of 72 busty virgins. Hindus are reincarnated into a higher life form or something. Darwinists have The Singularity/Technocracy and, for those on Santa’s naughty list, Planet of the Apes, The Handmaid’s Tale or some similar Luddite dystopia.

In the Postwar Consensus, the reward/punishment dichotomy is a bit fuzzy because it varies between believers. But they all look forward to a Utopia. John Lennon sang about it in “Imagine.” You’ve seen different interpretations of it in Ferngully or Avatar, or the party at the end of Return of the Jedi and/or Star Trek IV: Save the Whales. Basically any movie you’ve ever seen depicting life before the colonizers/fascists/Bible-thumpers arrived, or after they’ve been defeated once and for all.

MORALITY/ETHICAL CODE:

Most religions teach that to achieve reward in the afterlife, you basically have to earn it. By adhering to standards of the respective faith, you prove you’re a “good person” and get to party with the cool kids. This is one of the aspects that makes Christianity unique because it is foundational to the faith that human beings can never earn their way to eternal life because we have all sinned. The Christian must exercise faith to access the everlasting grace that was paid for at the Cross. Their faith should also lead them to perform good works, as a sign to unbelievers that it’s real—but notice the location of the cart (good works) and the horse (faith).

Typically, a religion has some sort of legal system that involves good deeds and penance to score you, but Islam has an interesting clause which has made the 21st Century so…exciting: a Muslim can get his busty harem by following all the rules of Islam during his life (not easy to do), or an acceptable shortcut is to die while killing infidels.

The Postwar Consensus is not significantly different from other religions, in that it has its statutes as well. You earn your way to Utopia by embracing the correct precepts, by believing the Official Narrative, by virtue-signaling, by denouncing hate crime and microaggressions, by “owning” the infidels, “debunking conspiracy theories” and “taking Nazi scalps,” etc. Which brings up the concept of…

SIN:

There’s a lot here in the respective religions—eating pork for one, eating beef for another, eating any meat for another. They have different statutes regarding theft, worship, and who you can sleep with. One of the best qualities about Islam IMO is how sacred hospitality is to the devout. But for them, lying/deception is fine as long as it’s an enemy you’re deceiving. Islam is far from the only religion which sanctions dishonesty, BTW.

In certain sects of Darwinism like Communism/Socialism the very definitions of true and false have been subverted so that whatever advances their agenda is accepted as true and whatever doesn’t is regarded as false. This is one reason why it is absolutely futile to debate with them in everyday life and they are not even embarrassed when caught in a lie or exposed for their blatant hypocrisy. This applies to all the offshoots of those sects as well: Feminists, Environmentalists, the Rainbow Mafia and all other Cultural Marxists. It’s also why they try to deceive us about what they actually are—claiming to be “liberals,” “agrarian reformers,” “the People’s Liberation Army,” “anti-fascists,” “_________ rights activists,” “the People’s Democratic Republic” of whatever.

Other sins in Darwinism include contradicting “The Science” which is a nebulous term for what is actually just their belief system. A huge sin is allowing children in schools to learn about creationism so they can decide for themselves what to believe.

In the Postwar Consensus, here are some of the worst sins ranked from minor to cardinal (according to the Current Year Official Doctrine):

1. pedophobia (disgust/outrage toward child molesters)

2. isolationism (neutrality)

3. true free market (“laissez faire”) capitalism

4. patriotism

5. conspiracy theory

6. nationalism

7. xenophobia

8. homophobia

9. sexism

10. racism

11. anti-Semitism

Toward the bottom of the list, they are pretty much unforgivable, at least if the sinner is white and male. In fact, as noted before, “whiteness” is dangerously close to racism and anti-Semitism right out of the womb, like unto how being born male is pretty much synonymous with sexism.

What is absolutely an unforgivable sin is blasphemy of the religion’s prophets and saints, so-to-speak. Also unforgivable is blasphemy against most aspects of the sacred narrative/origin story. In recent years you may have seen the wrath directed at high-profile blasphemers (like Daryl Cooper, for instance). That wrath has been turned on me as well.

Some might assume this is counter-intuitive, but plenty of people identified as “conservative” by themselves and others are just as devout as the most outspoken D-voters, within this worldview.

PROPHETS AND SAINTS:

Buddha, Confucius, Joseph Smith, Popes, Bishops, any numbers of saints recognized by Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, etc. Some were persecuted. Some were martyred. Some were scoundrels. Many of my readers could no doubt recite a longer list than I can bring to mind. Whatever your religion, there are figures that demand your respect, whether divine or purely human. All but a couple of the Biblical prophets recognized by Christians were also venerated by the Israelites. In Islam, Allah is the One True God, and Mohammed is his prophet. In Evolution, “Science” is god and Darwin is its prophet. Then Goodall, Dawkins, Huxley, Attenborough, etc.

Let’s start with the Postwar Consensus’ Holy Trinity: Churchill, FDR and Stalin. Though the false prophets of the Swamp Media successfully whitewashed Stalin initially, the clergy hasn’t been completely able to keep the coverup going, so he is a minor embarrassment to the faithful.

FDR saved us from the Great Depression! His heart ached for the poor oppressed people of Europe but was dedicated to keeping the USA neutral! But after the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor (which took him completely by surprise!) he had no choice but to bring America into its second European war and unleash the Arsenal of Democracy to defeat evil! You are not allowed to disagree. These presuppositions are foundational to the faith, and therefore unquestionable. Any data that indicates otherwise is conspiracy theory!

Churchill, that stalwart British Bulldog of Democracy, held the line for the Free World against the Nazis until those selfish, isolationist Americans were knocked to their senses by the Japs! He bravely refused to surrender! The Force was strong in him. His enlightened altruism may very well have brought about the Miracle at Dunkirk. He saved Democracy! He saved Europe!

Of course there have been other prophets and saints for the Postwar Consensus (whether they thought of themselves as such or not): Albert Einstein; Anne Frank (martyr); Harry Truman; JFK (martyr); Walter Cronkite; Bobby Kennedy (martyr); Martin Luther King (martyr), John Lennon (martyr), Gene Roddenberry, Steven Spielberg…criticize them at your own peril.

Of course in addition to Creators, Messiahs, Prophets, Saints and Martyrs, religions often have an adversary…

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