The Word God and Its Absence.
This is for the conservative and the bourgeois reader.
I ask you to think further than tomorrow. Further than the next election. Further than your own lifetime. If you mean anything by your standpoint, that is. Put on the big helmet. Then we'll go together into something that is rarely said particularly loud - but which you must understand to the bottom. So. Try.
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Language is not neutral. It is not merely a collection of signs we use to exchange thoughts. Language is the structure within which man thinks, feels, understands and acts.
When a word disappears, an entire world disappears with it.
Such is the case with the word God.
To remove this word is like tearing a colour out of the painter's palette. Imagine, for instance, that blue disappears. The sky, the sea, the contrasts, the twilight depth of shadows - everything disappears. What remains are flatter pictures, where something essential is always missing.
Or think of the musician who is deprived of a note or an entire key. The symphony can still be played, but the melody loses its wingspan, the harmony becomes false, and the music is reduced to a mechanical exercise.
Or the architect who is forced to build without foundation. The house can still be raised, but everyone knows it will collapse. Perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow - but it has no duration, no strength.
Such is language without God - and what the word God covers.
One can still paint, compose, build - one can still speak. But one can no longer create works that bear the mark of eternity. The words "freedom," "love," "truth" can still be uttered, but they become empty. They lose resonance.
God is language's colour. God is music's tone. God is architecture's foundation.
What is remarkable is that without it, everything is still possible - but everything becomes far less real. Has less weight and relevance.
God is not merely a title for a belief in a being. God is the largest word in language, because it does not point to something within the world, but to that which the world itself rests upon. It is the anchor for meaning, values and order. To remove the word "God" is to remove the connection to everything that makes human life possible to hold up as anything other than raw biology.
When man loses God, it therefore also loses language's deepest layer.
The words "truth," "justice," "beauty," "freedom" become reduced to opinions. They lose their ontological weight. They hang in the air, easy to rewrite. Thus they become subject to the will of power.
And that is probably a somewhat difficult word for most, so let me just sidestep and explain it.
Ontology is 'the doctrine of being' - that is, about 'what is'.
When I say that freedom loses its "ontological weight," it means that freedom is no longer experienced as something that exists in reality in itself, but merely as an idea we play with.
Like truth - "Your truth, my truth, our different truths" - has become.
When words lose their ontological ground, they become balloons. And then anyone - powerholders - can puncture them, deform them or turn them against us. At will or if they don't quite fit the spirit of the age.
Or... the poverty of spirit in the age.
That is what has happened with the word Truth in our time. Our common truth has been replaced with "my truth" - which is thereby reduced to being "anything at all". Or what most of us often recognise as life-lies, where many imagine the most mystical things, in order to hold on to their self-image, life choices and ways of arranging themselves.
We see it everywhere -
When sex is dissolved into a fantasy, where man and woman no longer exist, but are merely "identities" one can change like clothes.
When climate is used as a cultic control mechanism, where collective responsibility is replaced by individual shame and an eternal demand for submission.
When freedom is distorted to mean liberation from any obligation, so that in practice it becomes another word for egoism and dissolution.
And one must realise that this has not happened by chance.
It is the result of decades where the left's academic world has worked purposefully to dissolve language. They have known that if words first lose their ontological ground, then we also lose the connection to that which is. To the real. To God.
For without God - the ground in everything, the term, the symbol it covers - everything can be made into constructions, narratives, discourses. And then they themselves hold the power of definition.
That is why they have been able to get us to accept the absurd as normal and the sick as healthy.
Read that sentence again.
The left's university system is not a place where truth is sought. It is a factory that spews out words without weight, theories without reality, and people who believe they think freely, while in reality they merely recite new doctrines. And all who contradict their "new diversity" - must be shamed, diminished, cancelled and character assassinated.
Therefore the struggle over the word God is not a sidetrack.
It is the front line.
The very foremost and most essential bastion to secure, protect and preserve.
For it is precisely here the modern ideologies found their opening. Marxism and its successors can only exist in a space where everything is dissolved into power games and constructions. As long as God stood as the unshakeable foundation, their project was impossible. Therefore the word had to come out of language, therefore it had to be ridiculed, repressed, caricatured.
As has happened consistently since the '60s - springing from communism's entry into the university, onwards into institutions, politics and business life.
The revolution does not work if God - Truth - Logos - is real!
The consequence is that man is left behind in a flat reality.
Look at architecture - without God, infantile soulless lego-brick concrete.
Look at art - without God, infantile provocation without beauty.
Look at society - without God, mechanics, systems and rules and control without soul.
EVERYTHING becomes functional.
But NOTHING bears life.
Here also lies the right's tragedy.
For when conservative and bourgeois voices try to argue without the word God, they move in precisely the same terrain as the left. They can speak of tradition, freedom, the value of the individual - but without the connection to God their arguments hang in the air. They are reduced to taste and preference, to "that's what I think," - nice round men with round positions who smile nervously, flutter a bit in the wind without anchoring - reduced to opinions in a market of opinions.
And in that terrain the left ALWAYS wins.
For that is where it masters the game - where everything is relative, where nothing has absolute value, and where truth can be exchanged like a shirt.
It simply cannot be otherwise. For that form has been refined and reinforced over the last 50 years - not least through the media and entertainment industry. Partly because these two systems have the greatest power to colour the population's imaginings, partly because they naturally attract people with a certain biological and mental profile - people with high creativity, great curiosity, urge for synthesis and a drive toward dissolution of boundaries. In short - people with a left-oriented brain.
I know it.
For it was me.
And there is nothing wrong with that type in itself - we need them. But when their perspective becomes the only message, the only frequency that is spread out over an entire population, then it transforms from a strength to a poison.
For the result is confusion. Entire populations lose their grip on reality. They lose faith in something solid, something eternal, something unshakeable. Everything becomes fluid, everything becomes impressions, trends, feelings, moods, identity - without anchor.
And the ordinary person cannot bear that.
It cannot navigate in a world where everything constantly dissolves. It needs something solid, something absolute, something true to hold on to.
Without it, man loses footing - and culture follows after.
So. Friends.
If the right wants strength, it must rediscover its foundation. It must dare to speak of God again - as all thinkers the right incidentally supports itself on throughout all written history - not as a caricature, not as an imposed religion, but as the reality-bearing structure that makes freedom, love and truth into more than inventions.
For remember one thing.
All those thinkers the right itself calls forth as authorities - from Plato and Aristotle, to Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Kierkegaard, Burke, Tocqueville - not one of them was afraid of the word God.
On the contrary. For them, God was the very precondition for truth, freedom, order and morality to have any weight.
When the right today tries to speak without God, it therefore saws off the branch it sits on itself. It builds on heritage, tradition and thoughts which all were rooted in that word. The foundation it itself points to in order to fetch ballast was permeated by God.
So when today's conservatives try to be "rational," "modern" or "secular" - and simultaneously draw on Burke, Tocqueville or Kierkegaard - without mentioning God, they make themselves, involuntarily I assume, into hypocrites. They want the fruits of the conservative forest, but they won't stand by the tree's root.
WITHOUT THIS the right is doomed to become a caricature of itself - modern, but empty.
And then we come to the deepest point and recognition.
God is not merely a word in language.
God is language's possibility.
Remove it, and language collapses into a system of sounds without depth. One can still speak, but one can no longer say anything true.
And therefore the same applies to civilisation. One can still build, produce, administer. But one can no longer create meaning. One can no longer bear man.
God is the foundation.
Without it both right and left lose footing.
But without it the right has nothing at all to stand on.
That is so essential to understand, if you stand on traditionalism, conservatism and its funny little cousin - liberalism.
You stand on a foundation you must connect yourself to again. If you want the weight to create the change you wish to see.
Good Thursday.
❤️🔥🪽
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And no. This post is not about you having to go to church every Sunday. Not about blind religiosity. Not about a man on a cloud. Not about an angry judging force. Not about us having to be screwed back to 1950. And certainly not about Denmark having to resemble a Morten Korch film.
What I am writing about is an inter-human need - a need that is universal. Which all people, across cultures, times and continents, have described and related to.
Only the Western, self-satisfied and spiritually corrupted world - poisoned by class-, sex- and identity-confused nitwits - has been so blind that it could think of discarding symbol, concept, word and understanding. And in that we lost the most valuable thing we have - the connection to the foundation.
The post's core is therefore simple -
Rediscover. Reinvent. Connect yourself. Bind yourself. Give it a body. And a voice. Forward.
That is how you win.
Until you are tired of winning.
As a friend once said it. ☺️
