What is a culture? A “key” part of what a culture is relates to having “shared values”. It’s true that there are what are known as “sub-cultures”. For example, there was the “flapper” culture of the 20’s, the “Dust Bowl” and “Tough Guys” culture of the 30’s, the “Wild One” culture of the 40’s, the “Beatnik” culture of the 50’s, the “Hippies” of the 60’s, the “Pink” culture of the 70’s and so on. Each of these subculture fell under the “American” culture. Although they had distinguishing characteristics within their cultures, they had some things in common – they all spoke English, they all identified as Americans, and they took for granted the liberties and guarantees that undergirded their freedom to be what they wanted to be, and go where they wanted to go as long as they didn’t infringe on anyone’s person or property.

Starting in the 1960’s the Federal government started to encourage more division within the main culture. Using the black people of America, they encouraged the rising up of the black man in the south. This was not a bad thing to do, although the way they did it was inflammatory and disingenuous. Among other things, the welfare state was initiated on the backs of the black population as a paean to their disadvantaged “cultural” status which included their economic disadvantages. Soon, of course, the temptation to get something for nothing spread to the white community, and the welfare state became well established. 

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson began the War on Poverty in 1964, and it is the longest running (59 years) “official” war in America! In the process, and it’s taken some time, it has developed a complete and permanent subculture of poverty, and given the politicians the ability to create a wedge in society between the haves and the have nots, and to shame the haves into giving up some or much of what they have. Of course, it has led to a myriad of tax advantages for the rich so that they do not have to subsidize the have nots. It has also led to a tremendous loss of privacy through the I.R.S.’s invasiveness.

All of this has led to more problems. John F. Kennedy was elected U.S. President, and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office. For the vast majority of people who don’t know (or maybe don’t care) about our Calvinist history, the significance of a Roman Catholic in the White House would have little meaning, although it had major cultural implications to those in the know. In the 1960’s, we had the Viet Nam War, and the Democrat youth of that day rioted in the streets to oppose it. In Berkeley, CA, the free speech movement arose in 1964, and in 1968, the Democratic National Convention took place in Chicago, where the rioting and arrests of the protesters was rampant and voluminious. This was a pivotal time which also included the Civil Rights movement led by Martin Luther King. 

A note regarding King that shows a serious devolution of the culture. King was known as “Dr. King” because he received a degree in Theology. The degree was conferred upon him by his father – not exactly an unbiased third party observer. A major article written in the Rocky Mountain News many years later (during the debate of the King holiday) revealed that King’s doctoral thesis was roughly 50% plagiarised. Ralph Abernathy (a black associate and civil rights advocate of King’s) wrote in a biographical book (And the Walls Came Tumbling Down) of King’s adulterous relationships. Subject to some scrutiny, the F.B.I., using a black under cover agent by the name of Julia Brown, determined that King attended several Communist Party Meetings. Upon learning of this, President John F. Kennedy and his Attorney General brother Robert F. Kennedy (both assassinated – as was King) called King into the Oval Office where they tried to dissuade King from associating with “Known Communists”. He declined to acquiesce. 

At the end of the decade June 28, 1969, the Stonewall riots took place. They, to the best of this writer’s knowledge, were the first protests (riots) in America that were based upon personal proclivities within a certain grouping of people. (May of 1970) the Kent State Ohio massacre took place in which 4 protesting students were shot dead by National Guard troops trying to suppress the rioting on campus. After that, Richard Nixon managed to get America extricated from Viet Nam, but not with any real dignity, although much classier than Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2023.

The point of all of this so far is to demonstrate the splintering of our “culture” into a “multicultural” society. As the 70’s began an effort to identify and distinguish people based upon something other than economics and race, we saw a steady progress of people splintering into more and more ideaological zones.

Today we live in a society (in America) where you can identify as anything you want – anything! Men identify as women, and women as men. Some people are identifying as animals. People are saying men can get pregnant! Although proof is elusive, it certainly appears that Satanic forces are gaining the upper hand on America and Americans. Rumors of Satanic rituals and sex trafficking of children have developed into tangible realities. (See other posts on this BLOG for further elaboration and illumination.)

Now, the basis of “shared values” to form a culture has become a clearly defining moment. You cannot have a culture that is so divided as to say God is, and God is not! All religions have equal value. There is no such thing as objective truth – only your truth and my truth. There is no such thing as objective reality – it’s your reality and my reality. Morality is merely subjective – your morality and my reality. There is no objective law – just survival of the fittest in the concrete jungle of big cities, and no mercy for fly over country. Private property is bad – especially if you have too much of it! Government is unlimited in its power. Man is inherently good. The list goes on.

All of these canards and many more are contrary to the American culture of just 25 years ago, and would have been considered totally out of hand by the most liberal of Americans 50 years ago. The idea of multicultualism was introduced in the 1970’s. In roughly 50 years, it has taken quite a toll. Now, we haven’t formally attained to child sacrifices (abortion as a sacrament), or paedophillia, or bestiality, or polygamy, but all of it appears to be discussed and on the table with little outcry from our leaders. Many of the illegal immigrants crossing our southern border are from cultures that readily accept some, if not all, of the above abberations (from an historical American perspective) of behavior. Already the talk is of dictatorship, and we know the politicians are almost all of them corrupt and on the take.

So what shall we do? If we are Christians, we should be promoting the Gospel and through doing that, sin will abate. Well, maybe, but doubtful wiithout some action as well. 2000 years ago, they put the Premier Christian to death on the cross because HE exposed (spoke truth publicly) the system’s corruption of the day. Soon after, they were feeding Christians to the lions and burning them as torches for light at night time gatherings for Nero and his companions.

About 300 years later, a funny thing happened. Nobody in power was untainted from corruption or trustworthy to hold office. The only people in Rome who could be relied upon for integrity and righteousness were the Christians. Sadly, Constantine made Christianity the religion of the state. It certainly eliminated the persecution of Christians, but it allied them with the state. The result was the Roman Catholic church which is incredibly corrupt today with all sorts of paedophillia, adultery, and support for the New World Order and their propaganda of global climate change and LGBTism.

Thankfully, on October 31, 1517 in Germany, a relative unknown named Martin Luther nailed his ’95 theses to the Wittenberg church door. The rest is history. The Protestant Reformation freed the people spiritually, and even forced some changes in the Roman Catholic church, although it is still very corrupt if you are looking for a church that conforms to God’s word instead of man’s reason.

So, what’s this got to do with multiculturalism? The above narration exposes many of the undermining divisions in America today. Although, America was by no means perfect, in the 1600’s and early 1700’s, America was a nation dependent upon God and His moral law system. All of that system was well explained in John Calvin’s Commentaries and Sytematic Theology. America, was a Calvinist culture back then. Even nominal believers like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were incuclated with Calvinist thinking. The American Society was, although not 100% on board, substantially on board, and so the society grew and prospered in an orderly and rapid fashion with a minimal amount of crime.

Think about this; from the ratifying of the Constitution and the formation of a Republic of America, in 1788, to 1913 – in just a measley 125 years, we developed electricity, the telephone, steam engine with cross country railroad, telegraph, internal combustion engine, motion pictures, airplanes, indoor plumbing, photography, typewriter (your current computer keyboard), machine gun, dynamite, cotton gin, the assembley line, and much more, and productivity in America went wild! Why did all of this happen in such a short time? Why did it take thousands of years to get to this point?

It happened because man was free to pursue his interests unencumbered by dictators, by the regulatory interests, the I.R.S. and vulture capitalist/bankers who wanted own and control everything. It also happened because man was able to keep the fruits of his labor so that if he was benefitting society, he was justly rewarded. Read the story of a black man, George Washington Carver, who distinguished himself by developing over 300 uses for the peanut! He gave all glory to God and credited God with his discoveries.

The above scenarios were an outcropping of a “culture” that had Biblically “shared values” – the shared value of a Creator GOD over all things and His only begotten Son JESUS CHRIST Who died on the cross for the sins of the world, the Biblically “shared value” of private property including patents and copyrights, the Biblically “shared value” of freedom to engage in inquiry, research and development of ideas, the Biblically “shared value” of living and working where you please, the Biblically “shared value” of speaking the truth publicly, the Biblically “shared value” of limited representative government.

We could go on for a long time, but this highlights some of the “key” “shared values” that make up a culture, or at least once made up the American culture. Can it be restored? Maybe? Will it be restored? Who knows – only God knows. The one thing we should all know, and God knows for sure is that multiculturalism as defined by man is an unworkable and disastrous ideaology.

Proverbs 14:34.

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