The CTMU As the "Anointed Philosophy;" not ‘Gnosticism’ or ‘Syncretism’—It is A Media in the ‘War for the Mind’ and extension of the arms (read implement/) of the Lord into 21st Century..
All the more so the CTMU in a Post-Enlightenment, post WWII, verging WWIII; in the heat of the Information War and Wars for the Mind. The CTMU is a Third Millennium Philosophy to reunite...
That the CTMU As the Anointed Philosophy; not ‘Gnosticism’ or ‘Syncretism’—It is A Media in the ‘War for the Mind’ and extension of the arms (read implement/weaponry) of the Lord into the Information Age of the 21st Century.
In the Post-Enlightenment, Post WW2, verging WW3 Era; there exists the dire necessity of conducting a War for the Mind (hearts and minds), in the informational-war battlefield and to rekindle faith in the Heart of Sciences.
We are Rebels, yet Christian Rebels Who fight with holy writ. A Crusade West which will develop over the scenes of Western Civilization if it is to survive the next 30-50 years.
The Tech Singularity Would like You to believe that computers and robots will replace You, a Mass dehumanization of the economy and functions in society and perhaps politics. What they don’t tell You is that what is most deadly in the Information Age is not a Super Computer or Super AI, but rather the Concentration of Human Intelligence paired with a Computer, AI tools, and technetronic equipment. Just as a Computer terminal is dead without an operator, the AI will not supplant Humans but rather augment them. We are not here advocating for cyborgs [such as the neuralink implants], but just as Your Smartphone is and extension of Your Person and connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) and virtual communities, the most likely advancements in computing and AI will come to supplement people accessorily not bodily. In fact Yuval Noah Harrari expresses this fact to some degree (when He is not trying to develop the Cult of an AI God). As His book was called Homo Deus which means ‘Man as God’ and in which He is claiming that Men will become gods through their Cyber counterparts or augments. We can believe, without apostasy, that technology will be a supplement and even augment whilst not transferring the Idol of Worship over to Technology Itself or to Cyborg Men; such heresy is actual easily avoided with a Pure Heart.
The CTMU’s role in All of this I will delve into as both the CTMU Writings in themselves as a foundational language or blueprint or model of reality and as a Movement positively drafting in You the Compatriots as brave souls and sound minds…
Getting back to the title of the article, there are certain heresies against the Christian Faith which include Gnosticism and Other Syncretisms (that is the merger of a philosophy with the faith). And as I will argue the CTMU is much more akin to Aristotelian philosophy buttressing St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica rather than a Hersey or apostasy seeking to replace or infuse the Faith of the Gospel.
In the Case of Gnosticism and Syncretism in general, there is a drive to undo/challenge the teachings of sound Christian Doctrines (challenging the deity of Christ, denying the resurrection, calling matter inherently corrupt and evil, declaiming special categories of knowledge to lead to salvation and enlightenment); whereas in scholasticism with the Faithful Philosophy of Aquinas using Aristotle the philosophy is merely a mental extension to further the reaches of the faith with knowledge and intellect and reason. As Aquinas would tell You (and Langan as well), Faith without Reason is not true faith.
And in the Encyclical Letter by Pope Leo XIII in 1879 to the copies of the Summa, the faith leader writes that Philosophy performs and acts as bulwark and mote to the Faith:
“it pertains to philosophical discipline to guard with religious care all truths that come to us by Divine tradition, and to resist those who dare to attack them. Now, as regards this point, the praise of philosophy is great, in that it is reckoned a bulwark of the faith, and as a strong defence of religion. 'The doctrine of our Saviour,' as Clement of Alexandria bears witness, 'is indeed perfect in itself, and has need of nothing, forasmuch as it is the power and the wisdom of God. But Greek philosophy, though it does not by its approach make the truth more powerful, has yet been called a fit hedge and ditch for the vineyard, because it weakens the arguments of sophists against the truth, and wards off the crafty tricks of those by whom the truth is attacked.'”
All the more so the CTMU in a Post-Enlightenment, post WWII, verging WWIII; in the heat of the Information War and Wars for the Mind. The CTMU is a Third Millennium Philosophy to reunite enlightenment with faith. Doing today what Pope Leo XIII applauded the ‘Greek Philosophy’ to do 150 years ago…
You see, because after the Enlightenment of the 17th Century, adjoining Atheist-Materialism found in the Communist International of the 19th Century Marxism—And leading to the Death Cults of the 20th Century (Hitlerian Nazism and Stalinist Communism) and in Our Own time to the Changing Images of Man, Technocracy Elites, and Neo-Marxism of the cybernetics age. With all of this Ungodly and Demonic raging hedonism and the Death Drive of these totalitarianism, there is the Case for a Restoration of Tradition and the Natural Order and Natural Law to remain and return. This first is the Gospel, but then the Western Mind(s) still have to grapple with the advancements in knowledge made by the abutting centuries in naturalist sciences-physics, maths, biology and social sciences.
As Pastor Mark Driscoll expounds, whatever God Creates, Satan counterfeits. Communism’s Dialectical Materialism and Historical Necessity are currents of forces which Satan unleashed into the World to commit torment, death and destruction. Just as Aquinas rebuffs the heresies of the past millennium with Aristotelian Thought as a media, Chris Langan rebuffs the greater Satanic-technocratic and materialist lines driving ungodly and demonic forces today. The CTMU is that media, that extension of the arms (read implement or weaponry) of the Lord into the Information Age, and it is a Philosophy which does not impute new or counterfeiting lines into Revealed Truth of Scripture but rather acts to embolden Thinkers and Scientists today to act in Sound Mind and in Knowledge and in Reason to defend the Faith. Not a merger with Faith but I believe a God anointed Metaphysical Language to Act in the World and Do Good and the Will of the Lord. Amen – Gregory M. Wilford
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