Playlist: Mightier Than the Sword (commentary series)
John W. Ritenbaugh
Mightier Than the Sword (Part One)
Apostasy in nominal Christianity has come from major philosophers, serving as 'educators' within the worldly churches, causing great damage with their pens.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Two)
Apostate philosophers such as Thomas Aquinas sought to elevate human reason above the knowledge of God, compartmentalizing secular from sacred knowledge.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Three)
Jesuit-educated Rene Descartes never embraced religion, but instead apostatized by setting his own experience as his parameters of creation.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Four)
John Locke rejected all contact with any influence of the will of God, promoting secular liberty and human reason as the final arbiter of all truth.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Five)
John Locke and Rene Descartes were not anti-religion or anti-God per se, but they were able to galvanize the popular disenchantment with organized religion.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Six)
Rousseau's malignant ideas have metastasized into a virulent cancer of collectivism, socialism and Communism, the centralization of power.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Seven)
Rousseau's modern disciples, gaining ascendancy in today's political climate, have plans to dismantle the family, replacing it with the State.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eight)
Rousseau crafted the blueprint followed by proponents of socialist/communistic governments, disparaging private property, free enterprise, and the family.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Nine)
Rousseau's and Robespierre's philosophies encouraged abortion, the destruction of the family, and the ascendancy of the state.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Ten)
Three English humanistic philosophers were closely related in ideas and outlook, namely Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eleven)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was America's foremost practitioner of Transcendentalism and Pantheism, which equate the creation and the Creator, ignoring Him.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twelve)
In one of his writings, Emerson reacts with anger, adamantly rejecting any force, custom, or tradition which threatened to put his intellect in chains.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Thirteen)
Although Transcendentalism as a movement never had an abundance of adherents, Emerson's teachings did permeate the schools of philosophy of the Ivy League.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fourteen)
Ralph Waldo Emerson's insistence that every person is free to be his own god served as the underpinnings of the ascendant, emergent religion of humanism.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fifteen)
Karl Marx was an angry, rage-filled, madman from Trier, whose philosophy is responsible for the mass murder of upwards to 200 million people.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Sixteen)
The last resistance to Marxist Communism is the family and the church, institutions under continuous attack by humanist, 'progressive' liberalism.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Seventeen)
Legions of 'progressive' humanist academics of American and European universities have proclaimed Marx the most influential voice of the last millennium.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eighteen)
In Darwin's teenage years, his mind became twisted, leading him to commit sadistic acts of cruelty against animals and killing them for pleasure.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Nineteen)
Without the acknowledgement of God, epistemology has no authority to set humanistic standards in place of the Creator.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twenty)
Although Charles Darwin was a racist and a mentally-ill sadist, nevertheless his influence is titanic, outstripping the influence of every other philosopher.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twenty-One)
In 1888, Nietzsche identified himself as the anti-Christ, about a month before he became clinically insane, never to recover his lucidity.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Twenty-Two)
Every one of the philosophers who have wreaked havoc upon greater Israel were themselves Israelite and Semitic, bringing curses on their fellow Semites.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Twenty-Three)
Advancing secularism has been the result of Satan's work through human henchmen over the last 600 years, bringing the world back to the time of the Nephilim.
Mightier Than the Sword (Part Twenty-Four)
John Dewey immersed himself in the works of Rousseau, Darwin, and Marx, applying their doctrines to his Humanist Manifesto.