Sometimes it’s hardest to see when you are standing right on top of something. Some godly folk I know think things are presently a little strange but this is just a temporary phase.
Open your eyes. These are historic times. Our perils and opportunities are great. Some can’t see it, but hearts and minds maybe that we wouldn’t expect to, are waking up all around us.
Case in point, one Naomi Wolf. Wolf is a radical feminist author who has espoused many things with which you and I, reader, probably don’t agree. She favors special LGBTQ rights, abortion, and kindred ideas. I oppose all those. Enter CovidNarrative. Here is where it gets interesting.
In Wolf’s Own Words
“As the months passed, friends and colleagues of mine who were highly educated, and who had been lifelong critical thinkers, journalists, editors, researchers, doctors, philanthropists, teachers, psychologists — all began to repeat only talking points from MSNBC and CNN, and soon overtly refused to look at any sources -- even peer-reviewed sources in medical journals — even CDC data — that contradicted those talking points. These people literally said to me, ‘I don’t want to see that; don’t show it to me.’ It became clear soon enough that if they absorbed information contradictory to ‘the narrative’ that was consolidating, they risked losing social status, maybe even jobs; doors would close, opportunities would be lost. One well-educated woman told me she did not want to see any unsanctioned information because she was afraid of being disinvited from her bridge group.
Wolf’s just getting started. She excoriates liberal supreme court justices for their uninformed chatter in last week’s hearing. She continues, saying,
“The progressive, right-on part of the ideological world — my people, my tribe, my whole life — became more and more uncritical, less and less able to reason. Friends and colleagues who were wellness-oriented, and who their whole adult lives had known the dangers of Big Pharma — and who would only use Burt’s Bees on their babies’ bottoms and sunscreen with no PABAs on themselves— lined up to take an experimental gene therapy; why not? . . . Their critical thinking, but worse, their entire knowledge base about that industry, seemed to have evaporated magically into the ether.
Whole belief systems were abandoned overnight as if it these communities were in the grip of a collective hallucination, like the witch craze of the 15th to 17th centuries in Northern Europe. Intelligent, informed people suddenly saw things that were not there and were unable to see things that were incontrovertibly before their faces.
The above are excerpts from Wolf’s 3900 word article “Is it Time for Intellectuals to Talk about God?” on her substack. And here is where she is going: Wolf, a hard feminist and Jewish intellectual, is no longer welcome on most mainstream programs, but of all places has appeared repeatedly on Tucker Carlson Tonight. In her January 9, 2022 article she tells us that the CovidNarrative is a lie and that the world these past 24 months has been descending into something that radiates the stink of a very pure evil:
“In the policies unfolding around us I saw again and again anti-human outcomes being generated: policies aimed at killing children’s joy; at literally suffocating children, restricting their breath, speech and laughter; at killing school; at killing ties between families and extended families; at killing churches and synagogues and mosques; and, from the highest levels, from the President’s own bully pulpit, demands for people to collude in excluding, rejecting, dismissing, shunning, hating their neighbors and loved ones and friends.
I have seen bad politics all of my life and this drama unfolding around us goes beyond bad politics, which is silly and manageable and not that scary. This — this is scary, metaphysically scary. In contrast to hapless human mismanagement, this darkness has the tinge of pure, elemental evil that underlay and gave such hideous beauty to the theatrics of Nazism…
What is presently happening is so far beyond anything in her experience that Wolf believes it is rooted in personal supernatural forces, in the work of fallen angels. Although her whole professional career and persona have been anchored in the secular left intelligentsia mode, she believes that we are now in a space where the civilizational degeneration of this moment is only explicable in those terms.
When Naomi Wolf starts to talk about good and evil, we are in a very interesting place. Why can she see it, and many fellow Seventh-day Adventists cannot?
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Larry Kirkpatrick serves as pastor of the Muskegon and Fremont MI Seventh-day Adventist churches. His website is GreatControversy.org and YouTube channel is “Larry the guy from Michigan.” Every morning Larry publishes a new devotional video.