The Falling Away of II Thessalonians 2: 3 and Psychologized Marxism

Posted : 29 Jan, 2012 08:00 AM

The Falling Away of II Thessalonians 2: 3 and Psychologized Marxism



"II Thessalonians 2: 3 says "Let no man deceive you by any means: for

that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and

that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;"



And Luke 13: 21 says "It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in

three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened."



The second beast described in Revelation 13: 11-18 - often called the

False Prophet - caused many Christians to accept false doctrines,

or other Gospels, especially starting in the 19th century. We could

say that the False prophet, who really is a number of false prophets,

also began in the 19th century to put out somewhat different English

Bible translations and to seek to overthrow the Greek New Testament in

use, the Textus Receptus - in order to cause confusion about what is

the authentic word of God.



But there is a third major cause of the great falling away in our

timeline. And this one is harder to understand. It is something that

has been called political correctness, cultural Marxism and

transformational Marxism. It is a Marxism that is non-violent as

compared to classical violent Marxism. It starts from atheism, that,

as Freud said and Marx agreed, since there is no God, everything is

permitted. This Marxism, like its violent counterpart, makes use of

the dialectic of Hegel. But the use of the dialectic since about 1950

in the US has been perfected and during the later 20th century was

applied in almost all areas of life, not just in philosophical

discourse or in politics, but also in the churches and in everyday

conversations - and now on Internet forums.



Political Correctness, Cultural Marxism and Transformational Marxism refer to almost the same movement derived from Hegel, especially Marx, Freud and American personality and social psychology. The Frankfurt School, and Theodor W. Adorno's 1950 book, The Authoritarian Personality, added Freud and then American personality and social psychology to ...Hegel and Marx in creating the highly influential transformational Marxist movement in the United States. Transformational Marxism has been taught in the public schools and in our universities for many decades. Almost everyone in the U.S. who went through the public schools during the last four decades of the 20th century was exposed to transformational Marxism in some form. As a result, almost all American Baby Boomers are under some influence from this psychologized form of Marxism. Baby Boomers are usually defined as those born from 1946 until 1964, the year the birth rate began to decline.



I talked on the phone a few days ago with William Caulson, who, with Carl Rogers, was one of the major founders of the encounter group movement, which made use of a form of the dialectic attitude change procedure. Caulson was on a fellowship in the Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and associated with Carl Rogers, when I worked on the Schizophrenic project of Rogers et al in 1963. One question I asked Caulson was what is the connection between Rogers and Maslow (A.H. Maslow) and the Frankfurt School of Adorno and others. Caulson said that Maslow worked on the Authoritarian Personality Project with Adorno and others.



The question is why was Carl Rogers so interested in ideas which fit in so well with the Adorno group's agenda? One possible answer is John Dewey, a significant figure in American education, who was a follower of the first experimental psychologist Wilhelm Maximilian (1832-1920) who ran the first experimental psychology lab at the University of Leipzig. Wundt was the founder of what is called the Leipzig School, which included John Dewey, a highly influential American educator, who was at Columbia University's Teachers College when Carl Rogers was a grad student there. The Leipzig School included Wilhelm Wundt, Granville Stanley Hall and John Dewey. At Columbia John Dewey's influence on American education became tremendous. We can see Dewey's possible influence on Carl Rogers who came to emphasize feelings

over cognitive abilities, as does Dewey's "Progressive Education.�

Rogers taught that desires and feelings are the most important

part of the human self. There is some influence of Dewey

upon the counterculture, which revolted against moral restraints and cognitive clarity and got into what George Orwell .called the denial of objective reality.



The aim of cultural Marxism, or Psychologized Marxism was to weaken and try to destroy Christian faith. The movement started from a position saying that there is no God. But psychologized Marxism also invaded the Christian seminaries and the churches. Within Christianity, psychologized Marxism did not openly advocate atheism. Instead, it strengthened false doctrines and the use of many different Bible versions to create confusion about the authentic word of God, and above all it, taught Christians to use what Dean Gotcher calls the Diaprax, or the practice of the dialectic. Remember that Marxism got the dialectic from the German philosopher Georg Hegel......See http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm .........."In 1847 the London Communist League (Karl Marx and Frederick Engels) used Hegel's theory of the dialectic to back up their economic theory of communism. Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure."



Psychologized Marxism led to greater acceptance by Christians of false doctrines and the use of the new Bible versions by the promotion of the dialectic procedure of discourse between Christians. The dialectic challenges a thesis, such as t...he one which holds that the word of God is inspired by the Holy Spirit. It challenges any fixed doctrine in Christianity, and offers opinions, feelings and group consensus in place of "it is written." The dialectic often side steps the thesis and comes against it from the side in a deceptive way. It may also lead people to misrepresent what the Bible position is in a conversation. So, the dialectic within Christianity has been used as a way of defending and promoting false doctrines.

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