Offering worship to demons...

In the last post, I suggested that I might give details of my own experience of offering worship to demons via pseudo-religion; via personal-preference religion; via my own privatized religion. This modern phenomena of privatized religion, of course, is a result of the Protestant narrative, of which I am firmly rooted in.

Nonetheless, I am probably going to hold off on my own living of the existentialist narrative until the Spirit strengthens me. For now, I have not the courage nor humility to bring my crimes to the light; to bring my slavery to the light. I also find it a waste of time until people are actually reading my blog.

So, today, I offer an anecdote on our modern skeptical culture offering worship to demons through ignorance of God. We are nihilists because of our anti-religion -- the fate of all idolatrous ignorers of God.

I was recently reading here about modern physicists attempting to locate consciousness both within the brain and exterior to it. There hope is to prove the material instantiation of concsiousness, in case the possibility exists of "non-local" consciousness. The language in such documents is technical and one may need a PhD, or at least seminal knowledge of physical terminology as it exists on the quantum level in order to understand this article, and others like it. Indeed, I am no physicist and had my own difficulty deciphering the lingo. In reading it, though, I was struck by the predetermined materialism; by the deafness to Spirit.

So far, the blind materialists have been unable to discover energy consciousness. I cannot say for certain, but I would be willing to guess that they will never "locate" it, and that they are stuck in a vicious circle of "Soctratic optimism". The simpleton nun, or the pious, uneducated farmer, through a humble act of faith, has more knowledge than these PhD's because their humility opens them to the transcendent. They accept the Christian claim on faith!

However, the Christian claim -- indeed the Hellenic western claim -- of the immateriality of the soul is not some simplistic fideism. The Dumb Ox of those stupid "dark ages" (what a noble lie our Enlightenment philosophers taught us) offers a number of logical critiques of the idea that immaterial beings must have material or "energy" components. (I will spare you the arguments here, but check out Caput 49).

Quite simply, what has happened in our skeptical age; in our intellectually defeated age, is that we have let our predetermined outlook on the world determine our scientific inquiry. In some sense, this is unavoidable as we all relate to our world according to our own narratives. Nonetheless, the demons are all too happy when we become ignorers of God because when we do that we become blind followers of them. We turn into animals, which is right where they want us -- the devil would not worship God as man, so he seeks to animalize us. These physicists have reached the limits of their science, and so they posit "conciousness in dark matter," a philosophical speculation indeed, but an illogical one.

I once heard a scientist say, "If we cannot test something, then it is philosophy, not science," What hubris! He said it in a tone insulting of philosophy. It's amazing, though, how these scientists quickly become philosophers when they cannot test their conclusions. Furthermore, they insult philosophy while using it!

Long story short, our skepticism of immateriality has blinded us to our own ignorance. In seeking knowledge without God we become ignorant and in our ignorance we offer worship to demons. The less intelligible the world is, the less intelligence there is to be recognized within it. Without God we become beasts. The devil is wise; but vanquished. We need merely open our eyes.