The great French people aside, who are suffering daily, my question to French ‘intellectuals’ is: “Howz dat (sic…and morally sick) great little Enlightenment thing goin’, and how are other things goin’ after you mocked the Last Supper?”

For any reader uninformed about the chaos in Europe, especially France, welcome back from Pluto. Decadence, Woke virus, multiculturalism, and open borders have caused turmoil in the once great Christian country called France.

The ‘great moral’ changes of the West had their origins in the Reformation, but it wasn’t till the French Revolution and Enlightenment that many morally bad ideas were turbocharged like a spreading cancer.

Such vile ideas, bring us today in many European cities burning down as one of the main problems facing humanity. And ultimately, such problems are from the minds of rebels with dysfunctional minds.

Ironically, a watershed moment during the ‘Summer of Love [Sex]’ in 1967 was when The Beatles (a manufactured band? https://youtu.be/rFDsDidQbvQ) appeared on TV, via satellite to the world, on June 25 of that year.

The ‘Fab Four’ were asked to provide a song with a simple message in English for viewers in an era when TVs in the West and beyond were mainstream in almost every household. In The Devil’s Notebook (1992), the founder of the Church of Satan, Anton LaVey, said:

The birth of TV was a magical event foreshadowing its Satanic significance . . . Since [April 30, 1939] TV’s infiltration has been so gradual, so complete, that no one even noticed. [LaVey referred to a TV as a Satanic altar in a room]

But back to The Beatles: In true Enlightenment fanfare, the intro to “All You Need is Love” starts with the French National Anthem, “The Marseillaise,” and playing live on a programme called “Our World”. A world where recreational sex with strangers was looked upon as “making love”, and “that’s all one needed.”

As for the results of the Enlightenment, Hegel would call the burning of Paris and chaos in Europe as ‘the cunning of reason’: The unintentional consequences that belched out such a worldly vomit as the ‘great intellectuals’ turn their backs on God. Eastern religions would call it Bad Karma, while the Bible would call it ‘Reaping the whirlwind’.

This brings us back to the wonders and dangers of the human mind. Think about the scourge of pornography. It was in France where it was born out of the idea of one man’s mind: Marquis de Sade, the grandfather of porn and perverted sexuality.

His sordid writings were viewed by Enlightenment ‘intellectuals’ as progressive, probably because his ideas endorsed their own perverted orientations and kept their dark souls unconscious. But the Id never sleeps and can manifest bent ideas in the external world.

In the once Catholic Ireland, ‘the land of saints of scholars’, the legacy of de Sade lives on, as schoolbooks for young children give instructions on the joys of ‘fisting’ and sodomy, as well as abortion being viewed as a woman’s healthcare issue.

When the Woke Irish partied the night away in Dublin Castle when killing one’s own child became legal, and decent Irish folk mourned as they viewed their ‘goggle boxes’ in disbelief, De Sade must’ve been celebrating in Hell, as he and the devil watched, on a giant TV screen, the Emerald Isle burning.

And it’s not just sex that the dark side of the Enlightenment is responsible for. Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, said:

The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in which there was only scientific and rational thinking, but there was also a significant number of people contributing to the enlightenment who were absorbed in dubious scholarly pursuits like alchemy, mythology, astrology and secret societies: Dark Side of the Enlightenment | Stanford Humanities Center

The Woke mind virus, identity politics, political correctness, and Post-Modernism (same as Modernism) are also the demonic concepts born out of the Enlightenment. The 17th-and 18th-century intellectual movement has its roots today in many writers, both conservative and leftist (Steven Pinker, some of Jordan Peterson’s views, Noam Chomsky, et al).

They view the Enlightenment ideals as scientific, humanistic, rational. For them, atheism is the rational world view. But how can a grown-up worm be rational? According to Richard sometimes-a-broken-clock-is-right Dawkins, ‘we’ are nothing more than atoms bumping into one another. On atheism, he rightly said in his book River Out of Eden:

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Although there were some Christians who held, and still do, Enlightenment ‘values’, the crux of the movement’s ideas challenged divine revelation. Ironically, all the debates that I’ve seen debunking atheism, were won by the apologetics’ debater who used science, as well as the moral question, to win the argument, using science to be compatible with theism.

According to the writer G. Connor Slater:

It’s not until we go back to original sources, considering what people said and why they said it, that we really gain the information we need to fully challenge ideas. This is especially important with the Enlightenment, where we have some thinkers who were anti-Christian and others who had more nuanced views. We need to read about the Enlightenment before we can understand its mistakes and its benefits. How Did the Enlightenment Impact the Church? | Christianity.com

Meanwhile, pray this weekend for the decent people of that once-proud French nation, pre-Revolution/Enlightenment, because as I write now, some 70,000 police officers, equipped with water cannons, are in battle with the rioters. But it’s not all bad news: There has been a massive surge in baptisms among the French Gen-Z. The Economist magazine, which is no great friend of Christianity, last year wrote:

At Easter 10,384 adults were baptised, a jump of 46% on last year and nearly double the number in 2023. This was the highest since France’s Conference of Bishops began such records 20 years ago. At 7,404, the number of teenagers baptised this Easter was more than double the figure in 2023, and ten times the one in 2019. France is not the only European country to report an upsurge in adult baptisms. Austria and Belgium this year also reported a big rise, but to a tiny total of 240 and 536 respectively. It is the scale and context that make the trend in France so arresting. France’s improbable adult baptism boom

Finally, the sceptic inside me wonders if the film footage, from the corrupt mainstream media, of the French riots could be deepfake generated by AI. If true, the reason might be: Problem. Reaction. Solution. More surveillance and police brutality? And could most of those involved be rent-a-mob thugs working with the police operating as agents provocateurs to justify more lockdowns in France?

It’s worth pondering on this in a world where so many things look staged. But for now, as a kind of Instrumentalist, for mental pragmatic reasons, I’ll go with the current narrative because being 100% sceptical on everything in this crazy world is unliveable.