Leftists may claim that they work for the common good, but what really drives them is often nothing less than religious fanaticism.
Case in point: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new anti-Christian bill (C-9). Not content with the current hate speech laws in force in Canada, Carney is pushing stricter restrictions on speech with a new law that would prohibit using religious texts as a defense of speech the left deems offensive. According to a report in The Telegraph, “Bill C-9, the Act is a wide-ranging piece of legislation aimed at targeting what Carney’s government claims is ‘rising anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia.’”
Already, Canada punishes citizens like Derek Reimer, who called drag queen story hour events “pervert grooming sessions,” with fines and jail time while assigning mandatory training to public intellectuals like Jordan Peterson who refuse to use preferred pronouns. Presumably, they will apply these punishments to the more polite protesters who quote the Bible as their reason for disapproving of sexual fetishists and predators reading to young children. According to the minister of Canadian identity and culture, he just could not, as The Telegraph put it, “understand how the concept of good faith could be invoked in quoting such passages.”
It should go without saying that Bill C-9 will do absolutely nothing to help anyone feel safer. Although some Muslims have raised objections to the new bill, no one really believes that any Canadian resident will face legal punishment for referencing the Quran or Hadiths for rejecting transgenderism. Rather, as a protected class, Muslims will face no legal repercussions for their beliefs and can even legally charge any Christian daring to criticize the Muslim faith with Islamophobia.
Nor will Bill C-9 do anything to remedy Canada’s moribund economy, crumbling welfare state, or expanding culture of death. Bible-thumping Christians aren’t the ones facilitating mass migration from the Third World, nor are they the ones capping oil wells and giving away vast swathes of valuable land to the descendants of the country’s indigenous tribes, so punishing them won’t help. On the contrary, they represent what’s left of Canada’s dwindling middle class.
Perhaps Carney’s making a political move that will fetch him and his party more support. But while this might have made sense 10 years ago during the golden age of wokeness, such reasoning seems ridiculous now. True, many Canadians voted for Carney in the last election in order to spite Trump, but this lamentable inferiority complex held among these Canadians is not the same as full-throated support for heaping additional punishments and stigmas onto outspoken Christians.
No, the only way to understand the purpose of Bill C-9, as well as other instances of Christian persecution in the West, such as the conviction of Juhana Pohjola and Paivi Rasanen in Finland, is to frame it as a hostile pagan religion imposing its will. In their quest to realize heaven on earth and do penance for their sins against marginalized groups and mother nature, crazed zealots in the leftist elite have turned Christians into scapegoats. On a deep pre-conscious level, they sincerely believe that they can balance the cosmic scales of justice by punishing old church ladies and conducting systemic genocide against the sick, elderly, and unborn.
Far from heralding an enlightened age that brings the world together in harmony and a singular pursuit of progress, today’s leftist leaders are intent on ushering in an irrational and fractious society fixated on personal grievances and tribal identity. In their mind, this cacophonous, anarchic state will eventually bring about true equity, which will then result in peace and abundance. Once that happens, all divisions will disappear, and the nihilistic ideals of John Lennon’s pop song “Imagine” will manifest themselves all over the world.
Of course, none of this is ever clearly articulated or even consciously known, but rest assured, it is internalized. In ancient Greece, many such spiritual proclivities could only find expression in esoteric tragedies where characters represented universal types, ineffable divine forces determined the sequence of events, and certain primal longings and spiritual transformations made up the core of the whole performance. Those who understood the ideas behind these tragedies were initiates in mystery cults that extolled pagan myths as deeper truths about the universe, and those who did not understand these ideas nevertheless accepted them as authoritative.
In the modern West, leftism has become the new pagan mystery cult, transcending rational arguments and basic reality. Instead of celebrating the mysteries through tragic plays or ritual sacrifices, leftist leaders use propaganda and political oppression. Quite naturally, those who dissent or oppose the mysteries are sublimated into metaphysical concepts (that is, Christians are deplorables, Trump is an agent of chaos, the Western tradition is the destructive order of the Titans, and so forth), which thus renders the fight against them a fundamentally spiritual act.
Thus, to those outside the leftist mystery cult, so much seems contradictory, counterproductive, and often deranged. To the chosen ones inside the cult, it is necessary and just.
Unfortunately, once this brand of leftism comes to rule a country, as it has in Canada and Western Europe, civilizational ruin is sure to follow. It’s worth noting that for all the classic dramas that were composed in Athens during its golden age, the city still fell to the primitive Spartans hardly 50 years later. Moreover, its people converted to Christianity a few hundred years later when the mysteries celebrated by Aeschylus were made real in the God-man Jesus Christ. As G.K. Chesterton argues in Everlasting Man, not only was Christ a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies, but He was also a fulfillment of the pagan myths.
This is why today’s left continues to wage a war on Christians and all things deriving from Christianity, specifically natural law, human dignity, and basic sanity. In their view, the Christian gospel and those who live by it threaten their vision of an equitable utopia purged of all hate and hierarchy.
For this reason, Christians must prevail and save Canada and the rest of the leftist West. They must speak out, calling out the lies and distortions, even if it means suffering unfair persecution. Their fight is much more than a set of policies or the next election. It is a fight for the very soul of humanity, and failure is not an option.
