In 1651, Oliver Cromwell defeated the king of Scotland and imposed his rulership on the Scottish people by force, the Catholic Church, as it was, no longer was the flagship religion of the Scottish people.
So, why is this important?
If we look at the inner theology of the religion in which Oliver Cromwell imposed on the fine folks of Scotland in the early Enlightenment period, we can safely assume there was quite a bit of difference between it and the Catholic religion which reigned in the area since the days of early Europe. One of the key components in the metaphysical realm between Catholicism and Calvinism was the position of the human will and where it directed its impulse towards, towards what, that’s what I will begin to explain here. For all intents and purposes, most philosophers up until the days of Baruch Spinoza felt that the human will more or less at least had some semblance of freedom towards what could be accomplished by its existence. Around the beginning of the Age Of Reason, as we shall call it, many a intellectual mind felt that the human will was more or less tempered by nature herself and that nothing outside of nature could (as in Spinoza’s words) affect it. Spinoza posited that since there was nothing outside nature, and everything was within nature’s grasp, there could not be something that could direct the will towards anything, by inference of the “I” towards “God”, since “God” was existence itself, and everything eventually came to a point where there was “one” ideal existence, “one” ideal essence, nothing beside it, nothing outside it, it was pretty much “this is it” “this is everything”. Now you might be asking what this has to do with Calvinism, well, John Calvin essentially agreed with him minus his proposition that there was no “God” outside nature.
You see, John Calvin saw that because humans were born with original sin, and that there was nothing that could usurp this taint on humanity, that some people were meant to descend to hell and some to ascend to heaven. Why? because, unlike Catholics who believed in good works, nothing that mankind could do within his realm of action could ascertain he would end up on the right hand of God. No, according to John Calvin, sin is unshakeable and there is nothing can be done except hope and pray that God doesn’t consider you one of the “condemned” and maybe, just maybe he might reconsider. now, Spinoza, not only believed that God and nature were one “thing” but agreed that everything will end up more or less where is destined to go, Calvin was much more evil in the sense that not only he believed God was outside nature but humans could do nothing to prevent themselves from ending up wherever they were “destined” to be. Imagine if you worship a god and all he does is laugh at your misfortunes while you pray your life away hoping to be saved. At least Baruch Spinoza did the right thing and merged God with nature. Calvin did no such thing and its terrifying to see such beliefs became more or less part and parcel with native Scottish culture. Since Scots are the founding stock of America, this kind of thinking has bled into the fabric of American thinking and has set us on a course of ruin. If you, like me, are of this founding stock, you should take a long look at yourself and ponder whether this is a healthy mindset for you to follow.
Now, I take Jean-Paul Sartre with a grain of salt but he had a point where he stated in Existentialism Is a Humanism that if a man makes a decision for himself, he decides for all his people, and even those outside that particular conclave. Not to mention that when Oliver Cromwell took over England he infested the state with Jews, and one only needs to take a short reading of Mikhail Bakunin to figure out where we end up after that. As such, the spirit of America must be one of absolute freedom, and if that means dissolving the state as it stands, shall be it. We need to start over, and in the process rediscover the beauty of freedom of will that stood at the heart of the original Scottish ideology, since we are the baseline founding stock of this country, if we do, we will set the example for all men, and not just our in-group but all of America. Any other route, whether its kowtowing to rabid feminists (side note: women overwhelmingly support censorship over men, this has been reiterated in several writings of mine), or falling back on the evils of Calvinism, is a pathway to totalitarianism.
