“It should not surprise the person alerted to spiritual realities that in an age of atheism diverse forms of the religion of Satanism have sprung up all over the world and are gaining followers at a rapid rate.” So wrote the late Catholic priest Vincent P. Miceli in his 1981 book, The Antichrist: The Final Campaign Against the Savior, recently republished by Sophia Institute Press, with observations about secularism’s evils highly pertinent forty years later.
Miceli noted that the “decline of Christian Faith has led to the decline of man’s confidence in the powers of human reason to attain reality and truth. Man has concluded today that all truth is relative.” “In rejecting the permanent authority of truth as founded by God in reality, reason, and revelation, man set himself up as the autonomous source of truth,” Miceli added. “Yet man is to himself an insoluble dilemma” and “must admit that there remain many phenomena that his autonomous intellect cannot explain.”
Ironically, Miceli perceived, secularism and the satanic therefore went hand in hand. A “religion of modern secular humanism is powerless intellectually to stem the rush to the coves of occultism. Indeed, secular humanism is one of the primary causes of the revival of the religion of Satanism,” he wrote. As he explained:
Despairing of his reason or of revelation to make this realm intelligible to him, man has convinced himself that he can get in contact with the mysterious, with the unknown, by means of his emotions and his will. To aid himself in making this contact man has consulted the seer, the fortune teller, the prophet, the sorcerer, the medium. Hence man is no longer a philosopher nor a believer; he has become the atheistic scientist who has gone on a ghost hunt. For without the God of reason and of revelation, man is condemned to dabble at diabolism. Thus to explain the many phenomena that escape rational laws, man has recourse to table tapping, to spiritualists, witches, seance people, yoga people, the Mystical Church of Cosmic Vibrations people.
This turn to the dark side also has political consequences, Miceli warned, for
when the true God is banished from man’s society, new gods rush in to replace Him. But perhaps what has not been clearly seen today is that when man accepts new gods in his practice of the occult, he also necessarily brings about a revival of the politics of ancient paganism. A normal development of the worship of pagan gods was the creation of a divine state that rested on a theology of continuity, that is, on the denial of the Creator-creature distinction. The pagan theocratic state could take the lives of its children, or any members, as a sacrifice to the god of the state. The worshippers of Moloch ordered their sons and daughters to pass through fire as a form of sacrifice and testing. Thus God’s prohibitions to the Chosen People against occult worship were not only a means of protecting people’s lives morally from perverse practices, but also a means of restricting the power of the omnipotent political rulers who were theoretically unbounded by the restraint of limited, reasonable men and could take human life indiscriminately in the name of the god Moloch.
Belief in any version of Moloch “begets” a “man-centered, oppressive, demonic order,” Miceli wrote, namely the
totalitarian state. The modern world everywhere is succumbing to the power of such a Moloch state. For secular, rational, and occult humanism denies that there is any really transcendent, higher-than-human voice or authority that cares. Secular and occult humanists are at one in denying the true God. They are at one in divinizing man, the secularist through science, the occultist through demonic powers. Both seek power. The secularist seeks political power in the name of humanity; the occultist seeks the power of the underworld in the name of humanity…And both eventually come together to create the super-instrument of power, the modern omnicompetent state that claims absolute authority over the life and death of each citizen.
“The somber lesson to be learned is that a religion that promises progress in liberty, science, education, economic, and social welfare, without belief in a transcendent God, cannot produce a secular utopia,” Miceli rightly warned:
The starry-eyed men of the Enlightenment produced a Moloch state that ruled with a Reign of Terror and plunged Europe into nationalist wars that led to the apotheosis of the emperor-god, Napoleon. The incurable optimist-rationalists of the nineteenth century produced the secular gods and architects of totalitarian Molochs—Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao—the imperialistic tyrannies of Communist Russia and China. The Moloch states of race and blood were engendered by the Nazi-Fascist tyrants, Hitler and Mussolini.
“Moloch states” have also formed in Western countries, Miceli noted, through policies promoting mass abortion, which reveals a
nation that has usurped the power of God over life and death. In the name of its new secular gods, Progress and Liberty, titles that are false fronts for Rebellion and Licentiousness, many formerly Christian nations are driving their sons and daughters through the demonic fires of sacrificial murder.
As Micelli discussed, “Christ or chaos,” as preached by both Catholics and Protestants, is no mere pious platitude. The American-Israeli political theorist Yoram Hazony has likewise documented how a free Western civilization has its basis in the “Hebrew Bible,” as received by Christians through belief in a Jewish messiah. Life without a loving God, whether expressed in satanic or secular terms, ultimately serves the “father of lies.”
somehistory says
Thank you, Mr. Harrod, for sharing parts of this book. It certainly does say what is happening today. There will be those who still deny that there is a God, and deny that not believing in One is the cause behind so much of what is happening, but the Truth is there for all who wish to see it.
I read that a Catholic has told biden that he is ‘headed for death and destruction’ because of his many efforts to keep the baby-killing going strong. And I agree. Death and destruction follow when the world has reached such demonic levels.
I will look for this book so I can read its entirety. Thanks for the review.
joanofark06 says
Archive dot org has it, if your registered with them. If you are, they will let you borrow it at an hour at a time. It explains it there.
somehistory says
I’m not registered. but I can look into it. thank you. the company I usually use for books only has it for backorder, but a lower price than other vendors.
gravenimage says
It is also here on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Antichrist-Final-Campaign-Against-Savior/dp/1644136449
somehistory says
I saw that, g. thank you.
gravenimage says
Thanks.
Walter Sieruk says
Two of the very wicked fruits of what had just been called “Satanic Secularism” is Politically Correct idea’s which is tragically alive and well in both America and Europe the philosophy of multiculturalism which many Westerners are infected by the worthless, sick and unrealistic philosophy also part of the Satanic secularism is what is called “Cultural Relativity.”
Which is the concept that all culture are equal because this C.R concept teaches the foolishness that all values derive their meaning within the specific social content. This folly of thinking leads, or misleads, many people to view every position as only “opinion” and that truth is only relevant to the person or society holding that view. In other words, discovering actual truth in impossible.
Such C.R is absurd, nonsensical and contradictory. For example, to say “finding the truth is impossible” Is a statement of contradiction. For in making that statement that is saying, in essence, “I have found the truth which is finding the truth is not possible.” It should be obvious that this “Cultural War’ needs to and should have a solidly based in and on truth and not by a worthless “war of opinions”
With the Left Wing, with PC mindset of CR everything those of the Right says is just “opinion.” on a subject. Of course, that’s not so with the left in which everything they claim is true is “true.” What a flip –flop!
Two other examples of the falseness of C.R. with its teaching that everything is only “opinion.” First is in the elate 1970’s two guys said “There are so many different religions that no one can ever know the truth about religion.” They were really saying that statement so dogmatically that they were self-contradicting. For they were saying that they know the truth about religion that is not one can know the truth about religion.
Second, a shallow man in the 1980’s said when asked the question “Why do you always small talk ? You don’t ever talk about a topic that might have some value, as politics? After all, all things are related “That shallow C.R man replied,”There are so many different political ideas that finding the true one is unattainable, and all things are not related.” That wisdom-less man was saying that he obtained the truth which is he can’t obtain the truth and who does can is really truthfully say that all things are not related in he can’t find the truth. How foolish, an obvious contradiction.
What is needed to counter this nonsense C.R. /M.C. is the concept of “Absolutism.” Which a definition of this, with the scope of the topic, is “An absolute standard or principle.” In this cultural war it’s the Bible with its absolute standards and principles to stand firm against the extreme folly and foolishness of the CR and PC concepts.
In conclusion, in this War of Ideas a firm foundation for truth may be found in the Bible and not the weak folly of CR. in which everything is “opinion.”
Don McKellar says
“…decline of Christian Faith has led to the decline of man’s confidence in the powers of human reason to attain reality and truth.”
This is a preposterous statement. It is exactly the opposite. It is because of the use of reason and the scientific method and logical deduction, that we become confident that the Christian faith is irrational. Think about it just for a few seconds. To have religious faith demands that you must have faith that something is true which you cannot test, verify, or prove in any way. And even more troublesome is that you must ignore that most all of what is in the Bible can be DISPROVED using multiple independent scientific methods and logic and reason based on facts.
What is a problem with SOME modern secularists is that they get trapped in a philosophical mind game. This is promoted by left-fascists who want everything to be “relative” so that nothing can ever be pinned down as true or false. That is what gives them power. This whole RIDICULOUS gender bender game is a perfect example. A modern secularist who is not a left-fascist will not accept any of it. A man and a woman are defined by the scientific truth exposed by genetics. It is very clear and there is nothing relative about it. This is an absolute truth. That’s just one of many examples.
To try and paint a modern secularist as a Satanist is childish. For satanists are childish. They are children rebelling and trying to upset the Christian background they are rebelling against and to draw other childish people to them. Anton Levay is the classic example.
A truly advanced, truly modern secularist dismisses Christianity for themselves and rejects it or any religion in their government or laws. But they are all for the liberty for people to practice their faith. And they find the idea of satan or satanism ludicrous. You have to believe in Christianity to believe in a devil. One is defined by the other.
CogitoErgoSum says
When you say most of what is in the Bible can be disproved are you talking about the historical parts or the philosophical parts? Personally, I think most of what is in the Bible is philosophical and how has any of it been disproven? How has the idea that you should do unto others as you would have others do unto you been disproven?
somehistory says
The archeological evidence is there to prove what the Bible says about the land, the building, and even names of the rulers…such as Pilate, who was considered a *figment* and not ever having existed…have been found on coins, rings, and other artifacts.
Evidence from other nations prove much of what the Bible says about the people of Israel.
If the Bible had not been a book to teach people about God and to get them to do right by each other, but had just been about the culture…food, dress, transportation, etc. and had not included any miracles, secularists would not dispute any of it, but would use it as a large piece of history.
raja says
Somehistory,
Exactly my thoughts too. Thank you for the contribution.
somehistory says
raja, I’m not surprised that you also thought of it. Thank you
Hoi Polloi says
“the use of reason and the scientific method and logical deduction, that we become confident that the Christian faith is irrational..….. even more troublesome is that you must ignore that most all of what is in the Bible can be DISPROVED using multiple independent scientific methods and logic and reason based on facts.”
I’ve seen this argument many times. Science is the examination of the natural and cannot and has not disproved “most all of what is in the Bible.”
As to “you must have faith that something is true which you cannot test, verify, or prove in any way,” this is what is required of every functional human being on a rational course through an ordinary day.
overman says
Religion and Spirituality are two very different entities.
Religion is based on faith and speculation. Spirituality is based on direct experience or perception of spiritual realities. Most atheists [like dawkins] are too closed-minded to even admit the possibility of invisible realities and Higher Truths.
This is a quote by a famous Yogi-Philosopher [what this catholic bigot along with many orthodox christian bigots likes to to call ‘yoga-people’ pr ‘devil worshipers’]:
“The religious life may be the first approach to the spiritual, but very often it is only a turning about in a round of rites, ceremonies and practices or set ideas and forms without any issue. The spiritual life, on the contrary, proceeds directly by a change of consciousness, a change from the ordinary consciousness, ignorant and separated from its true self and from God, to a greater consciousness in which one finds one’s true being and comes first into direct and living contact and then into union with the Divine. For the spiritual seeker this change of consciousness is the one thing he seeks and nothing else matters”.
Fundamentalist fanatics like this priest spread a lot of misinformation and they’re obssessed with the idea that Jesus is/was the only ‘lncarnation of God’ – just because someone apparently said it over 2000 yr’s ago [there’s only speculative evidence]. There have been many imo..
The ‘occult’ is always diabolical to these people because they have no real experience of it – except the bad side. Occultism is simply the use of hidden forces for good or bad. To call it the ‘work of the devil’ is pure nonsense based on ignorance. He was probably indoctrinated by the incredible amount of misinformed hollywood horror crap produced in the last 50+ years..
Probably the greatest christian of the last hundred years was a man called Daskalos [who had many psychic abilities from an early age]. A famous christian/mystic healer who lived in cyprus. His life-story is described in the book – ‘the magus of strovolos’. Well worth a read.
Graeme Howarth says
That was excellent. Very helpful, thank you.
Devasur says
“Thus to explain the many phenomena that escape rational laws, man has recourse to table tapping, to spiritualists, witches, seance people, yoga people, the Mystical Church of Cosmic Vibrations people”
Anything non-Christian is evil, isn’t this similar to Islamists going crazy over anything non-Islamic. You wonder why leftists are winning and conservatives are losing it is thanks to such people. Who are supported by christians?
Don McKellar says
Christians should support anybody who demonstrates commitment to personal liberty and their right to their faith. By doing that, they align themselves with everybody else who is against the current wave of left-fascism, globalists, and Islamists – the enemies of personal liberty.
somehistory says
Another question: Who supports Christians? Christians are hated by everyone everywhere, but everyone expects Christians to support them and help them and then take whatever blame comes from the others not being supported at some particular time.
Right now, Christians are being targeted by those who want to kill the unborn, blaming Christians for what the court decided. The Justices used the Constitution to make their decision.
Th Constitution was written by men who believed in a Divine Creator, but atheists deny that this was the case, and say nothing should be decided on Christian values. So, the Court used the Constitution, and still the ghouls are putting the blame on Christians.
Jesus said Christians would be hated by the world, and He was right. And, it has been proven that Jesus lived in Israel when the Bible said He did.
Again the question: Who supports Christians?
Devasur says
Let’s see who supported the dismantling of Hindutva program. Hindutva which is fighting Islamists none other than Christian organization’s along with Islamists and leftists. You hate everything non Christian and cry that Christians are hated by everyone. The irony, you can’t ask for support from others while demonizing others can you?.
Christians would be hated by world if they try to shove their religion on others like Islamists.
Who supports Islamists non other than Christian org’s. Which are funded and aided by Christians.
somehistory says
You don’t know me. You know nothing about me except that I believe in Christ.
You don’t have a clue about what I hate or who I hate or any other thing.. Or even if I hate. I’ll tell you what I hate: a lying tongue, hands shedding innocent blood, a heart fabricating hurtful schemes, feet in a hurry to run to do evil things, lips bearing false witness, haughty eyes, and a person who stirs up trouble.
I can think of a group of people that fit all of those things.
for you information, if you cared to know, which I doubt after reading your many posts slamming Christians, is when I read of some Hindu boy being murdered, or a young girl being forced into a rape-relationship with a mozlum, I feel very bad for the poor victims of the murderous demonic mozlums.
and I don’t “fund” anyone. I give no money to any “org” because I want to know where my money goes and what is done with it.
so, go whine to someone else.
gravenimage says
Actually, Robert Spencer is a devout Christian and Jihad Watch regularly supports Hindus and other non-Christians threatened by Jihad. Devasur, how can you have missed this?
Then, Christians make up just a little over 2% of the population in India. The implication that they are dictating policy there, for good or ill, is just silly. Meanwhile, aggressive and violent Muslims make up about eight times that number there.
Further, the idea that all Christians in India support Jihad terror and oppose any attempts to defend against it is mistaken at best.
Devasur says
I do know you support the above radical thought of anything non-Christian is evil.
If you didn’t you would have opposed it instead of supporting it.
For your information i have never supported muslims attack on christians. As slammed not just christians but hindu/buddhists to being dhimmi against muslims. Unlike you I never supported the idea of anything non hindu/buddhist is evil.
Christian orgs are funded by christians which is a simple fact doesnt mean every christians fund it. So go lie to someone else.
somehistory says
You are hopelessly stupid and willfully blind. I told you the things that to me are *evil*.. using what you said about my “hatred”.
If you ‘lie with your tongue, if you give false witness, if you shed innocent blood, if you run to take part in or commit evil things, if your eyes are haughty, if your heart makes up hurtful schemes, if you stir up contention’….hmmm…then you put yourself in the category; not me, but you.
I have not said that “anything non-Christian is evil.” I said that I agreed that for atheists to get rid of God is satanic. to deny that God exists, is satanic and behind the trouble today. Are you an atheist?
You decide on those things for yourself. Since I didn’t lie, am not now, and oppose lying and don’t care for people calling me a liar, this is the end of my side of this conversation.
gravenimage says
Devasur, not only do few people (including Christians themselves) say that anything non-Christian is evil, but your claim that this is the same as pious Muslims slaughtering infidels is absurd.
But you have said similar things before–very troubling.
Devasur says
You supporting everything non Christian as evil and hindus/buddhists as evil. While shamelessly expecting hindus/buddhists to accept this.
You denying Christian history of persecuting others for their belief is appalling.
What’s troubling is you supporting Christian extremists.
As you said similar things earlier. So I can’t expect anything more.
Kepha says
I do not know if you are a Hindu or Buddhist. But, perhaps, you have had the sort of Western education that praises these Dharmic religions as “tolerant”.
Yet, in Taiwan, I have had communion alongside heirs of Chinese martyred by the Boxers in the name of the Mahayana tradition. Look at what the Theravadins of Myanmar do to Muslims, Christians, and animists. Look at how the Theravadins of Sri Lanka have treated Hindus. Look at the Hindutva and Shiv Sena movements in India.
I cannot speak for Gravenimage. As for me, I freely recognize a Christian history of persecution. We are taught by Christ that we are evil people in need of redemption, and having it, we see ourselves as forgiven sinners rather than finished saints. I raise the issue of Buddhist and Hindu intolerance only because I recognize a common humanity–about which I see my religious doctrine as far more realistic. And I could speak as well about how Evolutionary Materialists, in the names of Progress and Social Justice, had governments killing, imprisoning, exiling, and otherwise ruining more people in the 20th century alone than suffered for heresy in 15 centuries between the conversion of Constantine and Ruggles v. New York (decided by disciples and associates of our own John Jay, if you are an American).
Human evil is real. The question is, does you doctrine accommodate or fight it? Is your doctrine realistic or avoidant towards the topic?
gravenimage says
Devasur wrote:
You supporting everything non Christian as evil and hindus/buddhists as evil. While shamelessly expecting hindus/buddhists to accept this.
……………………………………………..
I have *never* said any such things. Citations, please. This is utter calumny.
In fact, I regularly support Hindus and Buddhists against Jihad, and have here for years.
More:
You denying Christian history of persecuting others for their belief is appalling.
……………………………………………..
I have never denied that there are troubling aspects of Christian history, including mistreating those of other faiths. Again, please produce any comments of mine where I say this–they *simply do not exist*.
More:
What’s troubling is you supporting Christian extremists.
As you said similar things earlier. So I can’t expect anything more.
……………………………………………..
Where am I supporting “Christian extremists”, and what does that even mean?
As for my original comment above on July 12, 2022 at 8:06 pm:
Devasur, not only do few people (including Christians themselves) say that anything non-Christian is evil, but your claim that this is the same as pious Muslims slaughtering infidels is absurd.
But you have said similar things before–very troubling.
…
I can indeed back this up. You wrote:
Devasur says
May 15, 2022 at 9:41 am
Correct, along with Christian organizations who ally with Muslim orgs to demonize hindus.
They are just helping Muslims to create another Pakistan. With the support of western Christians this has been going on for years. To hindus/buddhists Christians and Muslims are the same.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/05/india-catholic-churches-host-ramadan-meals-and-prayers-ring-bells-to-herald-breaking-of-the-fast#comment-2421084
The claim that Christians are just like Muslims, threatening Hindus and Buddhists with Jihad terror is *quite false*.
somehistory says
g,
Hindus oppose the main theme of Christianity…”Go preach the good news, make disciples, teaching them all the things I have told you.”
They evidently see this as calling them evil and oppose the very idea that Christians would dare tell people of another religion about Christ and what He said. was “good news.”
And, as far as ones such as the poster devausr is concerned, India belongs to Hindus and Christians should not even be allowed to live there. Of course, he probably sees no contradiction in Hindus coming to live in the U.S.
Kepha says
Miceli also wrote a book _The Gods of Atheism_, which I found very perceptive (FTR, I am not Roman Catholic).
But here’s this:
I have seen the old gods go,
And the new gods come.
Day by day,
And year by year,
The idols rise,
The idols fall.
Today, I worship the hammer.
That was by Carl Sandberg, himself an “atheist” and socialist, yet it represents a very clear moment of self-awareness and honesty. I first read it as a kid surrounded by a host of secular liberal pieties, so Sandberg’s poem hit me like a slap on the face. But it was once of the means by which, I believe, God awakened me from my dogmatic slumbers.
somehistory says
Thank you much, Kepha.
gravenimage says
Carl Sandburg has used tools as metaphors in his poetry elsewhere as well, including in “Prayers of Steel”:
LAY me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.
Drive me into the girders that hold a skyscraper together.
Take red-hot rivets and fasten me into the central girders.
Let me be the great nail holding a skyscraper through blue nights into white stars.
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks to both for reminding me to read my father’s bio of Lincoln by Sandburg.