Historical Revisionism and the Humanist Hope

The Puritans had an interesting eschatology, what scholars have labeled the “Puritan Hope.” The idea was that the conversion of the Jews would result in a great pouring out of favor and blessing upon the whole church (Jew and Gentile).

Humanists have their own unique eschatology, what I describe as the “Humanist Hope.” Their dream is that something “big” will happen to turn the whole human race into secular humanists, naturalists, atheists, etc. This universal turn to secularism will then bring about a paradise on earth (since of course religious thinking is the root of all evil).

Humanists speculate as to how this purely secular future will be realized. Science fiction is a primary vehicle for presenting these theories. Perhaps a grand evolutionary event will occur (a sudden leap forward), thereby convincing everyone of the “fact” of evolution. Maybe aliens will appear and explain to the clueless humans (the unenlightened ones, that is) that there is, of course, no God or supernatural realm. A method of faster-than-light travel (FTL) could be invented, and then only humanists be allowed to use it. As the centuries go by, the total human populations on other worlds would come to dwarf the population on earth. The humanist worlds could then annihilate earth’s inhabitants, instantly eliminating all the religious people in the galaxy.

A common thread among all versions of the Humanist Hope is radical use of historical revisionism. Historical records are to be thoroughly altered, such that all reference to Christianity is deleted. There will be no risk of future generations going back to Christ, because no one will even know that Christ existed. Utopia through ignorance, that is the idea. Future humans must be denied the freedom of knowing what we know, of choosing for themselves whether to embrace or reject Christ. On the contrary, the humanists of today can (and must) make these decisions on behalf of future man. Only when all freedom of knowledge, choice, and religion is eliminated (and eliminated so completely that future man does not even realize that freedoms have been taken away from him) – only then can utopia be realized.

Humanists have learned that the best way to control how people think in the present is to control their knowledge of the past. They have also discovered that this is not hard to accomplish, at least in an anti-intellectual culture. The main purpose of history class in public schools is to prevent students from learning the past events and trends that will enable them to become genuinely educated. The irony, of course, is that accurate historical information is freely available online and at the bookstore. But educators know that not one child in a thousand will seek out this information on his own.

Yet from the humanist perspective, the risk is always there that a child will do some independent investigating and discover the truth. All that hard work at revisionism, lost because the impudent child had the gall to take advantage of the information so freely available! The humanist seeks, therefore, to eliminate this possibility. There should be no access to accurate historical information. The child should have no opportunity to research what really happened. The official account must become the only account.

To achieve this, humanists must establish new colonies on other planets. The colonists will be given only revised histories. Even if someone growing up on these worlds suspects that “the books have been cooked,” there will be nothing that he or she can do about it. The truth will be forever beyond his reach. This is the humanist dream.

Founded by a group of 56 radical homosexuals, the planet Mytra has eliminated all historical information, not only about Christianity, but about earth. The population does not even know it is a colony, so absolute is this altering of their knowledge of the past.

The “Founding Fathers” of such a society have a huge problem: how to maintain the revisionism after they are dead. They cannot tell their descendents that their planet was established to guard a revised history; admitting this goal would destroy it! And there is the risk of descendents interacting with people from other worlds. If people on a closed planet come into contact with mankind at large, they will learn the core historical fact: Jesus died as a substitute for sinners, and was raised bodily from the dead in the spring of AD 30.

Thus the world built upon historical revisionism must be completely isolated from other worlds, and this isolation must be rigidly enforced. How, then, would a thoroughly despotic, technologically advanced government make sure that its population remained cut off from the rest of the human race? And how could Christians on the outside overcome this government’s desire to keep its people in the dark? Such questions provide the intellectual setting for The Discipling of Mytra.

Historical revisionism will be defeated. Humanists have no hope. Christianity is going to win!

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