Liberating Planet Earth

The Inevitability of Liberation 133
working out of the implications of thn”r own consisten~. Believers in randomness,
chaos, and meaningless, the power-seekers nevertheless
choose structure, discipline, and the rhetoric of ultimate victory.
If a modern investigator would like to see as fully consistent a
pagan culture as one might imagine, he could visit the African
tribe, the Ik (“eek”). Colin Turnbull did, and his book, The Mountain
People (1973), is a classic. He found almost total rebellion
against law– family law, civic law, all law. Yet he also found a
totally impotent, beaten tribal people who were rapidly becoming
extinct. They were harmless to the West because they were more
self-consistent that the West’s Satanists.
The difference between the humanist power-seekers and the
more fully consistent but suicidal tribal pagans is the difference
between the Communists and the Ik. It is the difference between
power religion and escape religion. Some Eastern mystic who
seeks escape through ascetic techniques of withdrawal, or some
Western imitator with an alpha-wave machine and earphones
(“Become an instant electronic yogi!”), is acting far more consistently
with the anti-Christian philosophy of ultimate meaninglessness
than a Communist revolutionary is. The yogi is not fully
consistent: he still needs discipline techniques, and discipline implies
an orderly universe. But he is more consistent than the Communist.
He is not seeking the salvation of a world of complete illusion
(maya) through the exercise of power.
Satan5 Incon.sisteny
Satan needs a chain of command in order to exercise power.
Thus, in order to create the greatest havoc for the church, Satan
and his followers need to imitate the church. Like the child who
needs to sit on his father’s lap in order to slap him, so does the
God-hating rebel need a crude imitation of Gocl’s dominion theology
in order to exercise power. A child who rejects the idea of his
father’s lap cannot seriously hope to slap him. The anti-Christian
has officially adopted an “anti-lap” theory of existence. He admits
no cause-and-effect relationship between lap and slap. To the extent
that he acts consistently with this view, he becomes impotent
to attack God’s people.