Morris book old Long War Against God

Morris, Henry M. The Long War Against God, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI 1989. In the forward by Dr. Jeremiah, he notes the negative pervasive influence the philosophy of evolution and atheism has had in the world. It also affects  Pantheism.  Chap. 1 Evolutionary Basis of Modern Thought. P.17 Evolution has permeated much of modern thought and science, including astrophysics, physics, biology geology, psychology , sociology, Humanities, and law.  S. Weinberg comments that the structures of the universe including star clusters, spiral and other galaxies do not make sense form a big bang. P. 26; Mystery of the heavier elements from hydrogen. P.29; 2nd law of thermodynamics indicates universe is moving to increased entropy. P.31. Dept. of philosophy and religion in secular universities are humanistic, atheistic or pantheistic. Christian college and seminaries teach theistic evolution and the early chapters of Gen. are treated as allegory and fables. p.44. Some teach the day-age theory or the gap theory. This is largely because they accept evolution as a fact from science. P.45 Humanism is a philosophy or religion (Amer. Humin. Assn.) that does not include the idea of God. P.50. Law has also turned to humanist side as Oliver Wendell Homes and Brennan and other voted to favor an evolved view of the constitution rather than a founding fathers view.  This pervading evolutionary view has affected politics, social life and morals in a negative way. P.52

Chap. 2 Social Darwinism  Darwin theory fit right in with the new capitalism in Britain and America- survival of the fittest and laissez-faire. Ref.: J. Rifkin Algeny .86 Darwin borrowed from the popular economic thinking- Malthus economic writings and those of Adam Smith. The phrase struggle for existence was used by Malthus. The concepts were further spread by Spencer, Hofstadter, and John D. Rockefeller. Social Darwinism was promoted as racism, militarism and imperialism. A subtitle for Darwin’s book was “The Preservation of the favored Races in the Struggle for life. P. 60 There is a long list of main line evolutionists who were racists: Osborn, Hooton, Hrdlicka, Huxley, Darwin, and Haeckel; they believed blacks and Australian natives were inferior races.  Haeckel taught the false recapitulation theory: that higher animals pass through in their embryonic phases the adult forms of lower ancestral creatures. Gill slits and tails in humans. P.62  Other false missing links- Piltdown Man, Nebraska Man. F. Nietzsche was a follower of Darwin and extended his racial theory to include God is Dead and the promotion of a super race. P.72.  Nietzsche’s philosophy was followed by Hitler.  E. Haeckel also built on Darwin’s theory and influnced Hitler in racism and imperialism. P.73 In Hitler evolutionary philosophy reached its full power in action.  His writing repeated phrases of the theory “He who does not wish to fight in the world where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist”  Mussolini also repeated such phrases in Fascism. p.79  Dr. Edward Simon, professor of biology at Perdue Univ., an evolutionist, stated “I don’t claim that Darwin and his theory brought on the holocaust,; but I can’t deny that the theory of evolution, and the atheism it engendered, led to the moral climate that made a holocaust possible” p. 78.  Hitler was not a Christian; he was a pantheist, dabbling in spirtism and astrology. p.80  The philosophies of socialism and communism are also based on evolution.  Marxism in its imperial form, as Russian Communism, was every bit as militaristic, totalitarian, and xenophobic as Hitler with Class substituted for Race. The competing units are social classes. K. Marx and his associate F. Engels were evolutionists and atheists. Marxism includes environmental influences in addition to inherited traits. P.84 Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin were all atheistic evolutionists. The following is quoted from the communist party journal:  “The explanation of the origins of the humankind and of mind by purely natural forces was, and remains, as welcome to Marxists as to any other secularists.  The sources of value and responsibility are not to be found I a separate mental realm or in an immortal soul, much less in the inspired words of the Bible”  The Russian Orthodox Church was made the official church of the Soviet Union in 1918. It is also called The Science of Marxism or Dialectical Marxism. In 1954 it was called the CPSU and purports scientific Atheism. S.J. Gould, a Prof. Harvard Univ. and N. Eldredge of the Amer. Museum of Nat. History wrote: “Hegel’s dialectical laws, translated into a materialistic context, have become the official state philosophy of many socialist nations. These laws of change are explicitly punctuational, as befits a theory of revolutionary transformation in human society…It may also not be irrelevant to our personal preferences that one of us learned his Marxism, literally at his fathers knee.” Gould and R. Lewontin both favor Marxism. P.88  E.O. Wilson, a Harvard Prof. of Sociobiology, disagrees with Gould and has accused him of sacrificing Darwin, a symbol of scientific knowledge, at the altar of Marx, a symbol of politics.  M. Ruse also agrees with Wilson, and stated of Gould: “Gould admits to his Marxism, and lauds the way in which his science is informed by his beliefs,…We are offered a fossil record as seen through the lens of Marxism.” Ruse defends neo-Darwinism and the value of knowledge in the educated class. P.89 So here we have a Univ. Prof injecting his religious-political beliefs into science, which is “OK” as long as it is not Christian. Lewontin and Levins have coauthored a book on Marxist biology(The Dialectical Biologist). Here the data are selected and interpreted in accord with one’s preconceived beliefs.  The communist philosophy is tied to a religion(church) in the USSR and is taught as true due to the theory of evolution.  We are seeing a close tie of evolution to a religion of atheism- strongly opposed to God. Evolution influenced both WW 1 and 2.

Chap.3.  Religion and Morals p.93  The acceptance of evolution is the first step of the church into a descent into liberalism, or Pantheism or even atheism. Darwin was a ministerial student who gave up the ministry and his Christian beliefs. He began as a creationist changed to favoring progressive creation, then theistic evolution and then to atheistic materialism. Morris states that if the Christian church had not taken various stances favoring molecules to man evolution, and discounting Genesis, evolution would have had a much more difficult time.  Now evolutionists can claim that you can be a Christian or of various religious beliefs and believe in evolution, when the heart of evolution is really atheistic materialism or naturalism. P.96 The Christian chruch was all to wiling to accommodate evolution and most of the objections to evolution have occurred in the scientific community.  One trend of the church, accommodating evolution, is called religious liberalism or modernism and another is new-orthodoxy which includes biblical criticism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity

Liberal Christianity, sometimes called liberal theology, is an umbrella term covering diverse, philosophically informed religious movements and ideas within Christianity from the late 18th century and onwards. The word “liberal” in liberal Christianity does not refer to a progressive political agenda or set of beliefs, but rather to the manner of thought and belief associated with the philosophical and religious paradigms developed during the Age of Enlightenment. The theology of liberal Christianity was prominent in the biblical criticism of the 19th and 20th centuries. The style of scriptural hermeneutics within liberal theology is often characterized as non-propositional. This means that the Bible is not considered a collection of factual statements but instead documents the human authors’ beliefs and feelings about God at the time of its writing—within a historic/cultural context. Thus, liberal Christian theologians do not claim to discover truth propositions but rather create religious models and concepts that reflect the class, gender, social, and political contexts from which they emerge. Liberal Christianity looks upon the Bible as a collection of narratives that explain, epitomize, or symbolize the essence and significance of Christian understanding.[1]

Liberal Christianity, broadly speaking, is a method of biblical hermeneutics, an individualistic method of understanding God through the use of scripture by applying the same modern hermeneutics used to understand any ancient writings. Liberal Christianity does not claim to be a belief structure, and as such is not dependent upon any Church dogma or creedal statements. Unlike conservative varieties of Christianity, it has no unified set of propositional beliefs. The word liberal in liberal Christianity denotes a characteristic willingness to interpret scripture without any preconceived notion of inerrancy of scripture or the correctness of Church dogma.[2] A liberal Christian, however, may hold certain beliefs in common with traditional, orthodox, or even conservative Christianity. In the 19th century, self-identified liberal Christians sought to elevate Jesus’ humane teachings as a standard for a world civilization freed from cultic traditions and traces of “pagan” belief in the supernatural.[3] As a result, liberal Christians placed less emphasis on miraculous events associated with the life of Jesus than on his teachings. The effort to remove “superstitious” elements from Christian faith dates to intellectual reformist Christians such as Erasmus and the Deists in the 15th–17th centuries.[4] The debate over whether a belief in miracles was mere superstition or essential to accepting the divinity of Christ constituted a crisis within the 19th-century church, for which theological compromises were sought.[5]

Liberal Christian theologians and authors: Anglican and Protestant

Morris notes that the great universities that started to promote biblical Christianity have changed to promote humanism.  Some are sympathetic to social activism and Marxism.  C. Lyell was a wealthy lawyer who became a geologist and argued for uniformtarianism.  He built n the teaching of James Hutton. Their theory of uniform long ages geology, which when combined with Darwin’s teachings, made a strong counter argument to biblical creation and a world wide flood.  Morris, who taught at several universities, claims that universities with Christian affiliation more and more adopted liberal theology and humanistic orientation.  Wheaton College is noted for its leading the Progressive Creation movement by Dr. Pun.(p.1-3)  Similarly, Calvin College and Dr. D. Young has taken a stand against a global flood, although he acknowledges it is the common teaching of the bible. P.104  A 1973 survey of evangelical colleges revealed that most taught theistic evolution, progressive creation or the gap theory and a local flood. Another survey of evangelical and fundamentalist colleges in 1980 revealed that less than half said they interpreted Genesis literally.  An association of religious colleges and seminaries favoring strict creationism called TRACS in 1989 has only 15 members. Some Baptists (Southern Baptists) and Lutherans (Missouri Synod Lutherns) and some Presbyterians (America) and some independent bible based church favor literal creation. P.105-6  An organization called the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) has been promoting theistic evolution and progressive creation.  Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship has close ties with ASA. The ASA tries to appease secular evolutionists with their booklet “Teaching Science in a Climate of Controversy” Morris asserts that they were not very successful as many evolutionists disagree with it. Many evolutionists believe that evolution explains all, and no religion is needed and it is anti-science. Chance and design are viewed as antithetical concepts.p.108-9  The ASA publishes a journal, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, and  had 1500 members according to Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Scientific_Affiliation;    http://www.asa3.org/

Morris states that “not all evolutionists are atheists but evolution itself is athiesitic.” P.110 J. Huxley mead the clear in his quote at a Darwin Centennial: “Darwin pointed out that no supernatural designer was needed; since natural selection could account for any known form of life, there was no room for a supernatural agency in its evolution.”  Morris also noted that the National Academy of Sciences stated that “ Science and Religion are separate and mutually exclusive realms of thought” p.111  Darwin’s theory has been summarized as “ by struggle, suffering and death, came man.”  But 1 Cor. 15:21 says “by man came death.”  Evolution also leads to Humanism which can be considered a philosophy or religion.  Morain is quoted from the Humanists:  “Humanism does not include the idea of a God and as such is considered a philosophy rather than a religion. In a way, it is an alternate to all religions…a way of life.” This is often repeated in humanist literature. P.113  D. R. Oldroyd stated about humanism and evolution: “So a metaphysical system, although naturalistic and secular, has been built up by modern humanists around the nucleus of biological evolutionism… Thus, man’s destiny has become that of realizing his evolutionary potentialities, and furthering the evolutionary process, which for Huxley is a notion that may be.. a kind of religious enthusiasm” p 115  Some say humanism is mild form of atheism. A noted scholar, Dr. Isaac Asimov is quoted as saying he was an atheist but called himself a humanist because it was more pleasant sounding and less offensive to others. He also said atheists are often more emotional against God. P.114  Huxley defined humanism as: “I use the word Humanist to mean someone who believes that man is just as much a natural phenomenon as an animal or plant: that his body, mind and soul were not supernaturally created but are products of evolution, and that he is not under the control or guidance of any supernatural being or beings, but has to rely on himself and his own powers.” The beliefs of Humanists and atheists appear similar and based on evolution. P.116  True theism -centered in the concept of a loving, merciful, omniscient, omnipotent, personal God- directly contradicts the whole evolutionary system, with its inordinately cruel and wasteful process of death over ages, producing mankind p.117.  Another tenant of the Humanist Manifesto II is –“As non-theists, we begin with humans, not God; nature, not duty.. But we can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species…No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.” Other tenants of the manifesto include- The goal of a world community, a system of world law, and world order.-  also birth control, abortion, easy divorce, sex between any consenting adults, homosexuality, premarital sex, euthanasia, and the right to suicide. P. 120 The humanism that is so prominent in our universities does not fit with God.  Its agenda is also growing in every day practice in society.

Pantheism and the New Age some off shoots include: Divine Science, Christian Science, Unity, Science of the Mind,  Unification church, Scientology, Inner Light, New Thought Buddhism off shoots include- Theosophy, Hinduism, Taoism.  The Gaia principle(Gaia was the name of an ancient earth goddess) is associated with Pantheism as is the anthropic principle(the universe is conscious).  P.122-4 Some scientists recognize the universe was made to be observed and show great order. Chardin, a paleontologist and Catholic priest strongly influenced the Catholic Church in evolution. P.127 Marilyn Ferguson who wrote the Aquarian Conspiracy repeated some Pantheistic and evolutionary principles in her writings.P.130 Gould and Eldridge promoted punctuated equilibrium, the idea that macroevolution occurs in sudden jumps due to the lack of transitional forms. P.129  F. Capra stated “The idea of fluctuation as the basis of order, which Nobel laureate Prigogine introduced into modern science, is one of the major themes of Taoist texts.” P.130

The Demise of Christian Morality p. 132  Prostitution has grown due to more acceptance or unrestrained sex promoted by forgoing Genesis and Exodus.  TV and movies promote it, as does humanist beliefs. The 10 commandments state: no adultery, looking on or coveting another’s wife, honoring parents, no stealing, lying, murder. The 1st 2 commands prohibit idols and Pantheism/polytheism.  Evolution is full of domination by the strongest.  Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny is now consider false by modern biologist and J. Gould. P.139  However, it was long used to argue that the fetus was not human until late term, since it is first a protozoan, a fish, a reptile and a bird, and primate. Deformed baby killing can also be justified by evolution, as can the mentally ill.

Drugs, Crime and Evolution  Drugs were promoted by Timothy Leary,  Harvard Prof. of Psychology and an evolutionary Pantheist.  He sought union with the infinite by use of psychedelic drugs.  A. Huxley also promoted this. The use of drugs leads to addictions and crime to pay for the drugs. There is also the idea of living for the moment’s pleasure as opposed to seeking true pleasure and joy from following God.  Prior experience and heredity can influence our lives negatively.  Union with Christ can help us change, but not if it is denied.

Chap. 5 Conflict of the Ages– Some possible influences leading to evolution and Pantheism: Free Masons, Illuminati, Jesuits. Darwin’s father was a free Mason. A. Koeslter gave the idea of emanations,  this was drawn from the Greeks, Plato and Aristotle, and was downward progress of de-evolution of species and pantheistic P.200 St. Augustine and Aquinas who followed, built off early Greek philosophy and had some elements of  evolution in them.  There were also stories of elves, fairies, witchcraft, magic, and alchemy.  The Greek philosophies were pagan and polytheistic. P.207 Paul warned in Col. 2:8 not to be spoiled by the philosophy after the traditions of men or of the world and not after Christ. Plato and Aristotle philosophy was founded somewhat on evolutionary cosmology that had some pantheistic leanings.  Plotinus (AD 205-270) built on neo-Platonism and the universal soul from which all things are created.  This included reincarnation.  Gnosticism was also popular and included some Christian concepts and some platonic and pantheistic. The Stoics were pantheists, while the Epicureans were 210 more atheistic materialists. Both were monists believing in only physical matter with no nonmaterial entities. Paul answered them in Acts 17: by going back to God as the creator of all things concluding with the resurrection of Christ. The dual message of the creation and resurrection go together as Christ is the solution for our sin. A prominent Epicurean was Lucretius Carus (98-55BC)who believed in randomly moving elementary particles. P 212  Plato (422-347BC) described the universe as an all inclusive Living Creature whose soul animates the whole world. For him evolution was a process of degeneration and reincarnation. p.214 Earlier philosophers were of the city of Miletus in Ionia- Thales (640-546BC) the father of Greek philosophy and Democritus (460-362BC)– random atoms as the source of all. Many of the world religions have a evolutionary or Pantheistic base: Confucius(551-479BC), Lao-Tse and Taoism(604-517 BC), Buddha(563-480BC), Janism(599-527BC), and Zoroaster(600BC).p.219  Hinduism has many sects in India and is both Pantheistic and evolutionistic. P.224 There is a Vedic cosmology dated about 1200BC began with water and an emanation of gods.(p237)  Animism had a belief in sprits in nature and persons and was found in remote tribes. P.225 Some of Islam follow the original creation story. They also recognize Jesus as a prophet. p.230  Some of orthodox Judaism follows the creation story but most current Jews follow evolution and have a messiah of principle in evolution or nation development. P.232  Hesiod’s Greek Theogony: a mythological cosmology may have been repeated from  older myths.(p.235) Egyptian cosmology from the book of Knowing the Evolutions of Ra..:The sun god Ra was formed out of water. Babylonian cosmology: Enuma Elish: God Marduk among other gods. Beings evolved out of water.(p.242) Some of the oldest writings are the Sumerian clay tablets at Sumer, says W. Albright.(P.245), and show polytheism, and mythological Gods. They also believed in astrology and cosmology with an early sea. Ancient writings show belief in astrology and signs of Zodiac and astronomy.(p.247)  Some think Shinar in Gen. 10:8-12 is Sumer. W. Albright maintains that the Table of nation in Gen. is a very accurate document. P.250 Nimrod was evidently the founder and King of Babylon. Although some historians scoff at Gen 10-11, linguists use the names for Semitic, Japethic, and Hamitic languages types. P.251 “Herodotus, the Greek historian, visited Babylon during the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, and described the Tower as consisting then of 8 stages, totaling over 300 ft in height, with a spiraling ascent on the outside. There was a shrine at the apex, dedicated to the worship of the sun God.” (P.254)  Morris theorizes that the false pantheistic and evolutionary creations stories stated at the tower of Babel in Babylon and spread as influenced by Satan. P. 256 to discredit God, as he is the father of lies (John 8:44).

 In Chap. 6 Morris notes that Rev. 13 gives evidence of Satan-the dragon of 10 horns and 7 heads, leading a one world government against God, whom people worshiped for 3.5 yrs.  People must take the mark of the beast to buy or sell.  Rom. 1:21-25 also summarizes this deception about not glorifying God for the creation. Morris asserts that the New Testament refers to Gen. 1-11 history about 300 times.  In Jude 14-15 Enoch is quoted as warping against those who have spoken hash things against God. Verse 16 says These people are discontented grumblers, walking according to their desires, their mouths utter arrogant words.. Verse 11 says: Woe to them for they have traveled the way of Cain, have abandoned themselves to the error of Balaam for profit.  The story of  Balaam, the prophet is in Num.Chap. 22-24. Balak was the King of Moab who worshiped Ball and propositioned the prophet to curse Israel. The third prophecy occurs at Peor. The final judgment occurs in Num Chap.25 where God is mad about Men of Israel having sex with the women of Moab and the worshiping their Gods.(possibly the sun God) The meaning of Baal of Peor cited in Wikipedia is Lord of the opening. This is probably a sexual opening, possibly the anus, possibly anal sex. The men of Israel who had sex with these women are killed by Moses orders.  Morris also theorized that Satan out of pride may have thought he was another God created out of the waters in Gen. 1:1-2 and thus propagated the God out of waters myth.(p.258) (The spirit of God moved upon the waters.)  He also asserts angles were created on day one as in Ps.104:1-5  Some new testament references to the flood include: Luke 17:26-27 , Mat. 24:39 and 2 Peter. 3:6  Morris also states that Zodiacs sign were know by Seth as noted in Josephus writings and may have been signs by God for Gospel history.p.266-7 See Job 38:31-33  They were corrupted by Nimrod in the tower top at Babylon. EW Maunder in Astronomy of the Bible noted that many star pictures reflect crushing of the serpents head and wounding of the redeemers heel. He says 1/3 of the constellations show events of Genesis Chap. 1-10.p.267. Other authors agreed: EW Bullinger in The Witness of the Stars and JA Seiss in The Gospel in the Stars. The story in the stars was also known by Noah. P.268  Rev. 14:6 mentions creation.

Bab edh-Dhra (bāb al-dhrā’ ) is the site of an Early Bronze Age city, located near the Dead Sea, in Wadi Araba, forwarded as a candidate for the location of Biblical Sodom.

Bitumen and petroleum deposits have been found in the area, which contain sulfur and natural gas (as such deposits normally do), and one theory suggests that a pocket of natural gas led to the incineration of the city. Artifacts from Bab edh-Dhra are on display at Karak Archaeological Museum in Jordan

Numeira is an archaeological site near the Dead Sea. The site has substantial Early Bronze Age remains.

Numeira is also the name given to the river and valley (wadi) adjacent to the archaeological site. The river is significantly eroding the archaeological site.

Numeira has been proposed as a candidate for the Biblical city of Gomorrah.

The Lord led me to Amos 6 and 7. I am raising up a nation against you. They will oppress you.

The Witness of Seth’s line and of nature: Job followed the Lord’s words Job 23:12 as did Jonah in witnessing to Nineveh, the Assyrian capital.p.270 The events in Job in Uz may have occurred in 2000-1500 BC and the book written in 950 BC. The events in Jonah occurred in 793-753BC and ware written about 780BC. Ref. Holman Bible. Abraham, Jacob and Moses.

Many native tribes have some religion and prayer note some higher power said SM Zwemer in The Origin of Religion. p. 271 EO James in Origions of Sacrifice said substitutionary sacrifice  was also a very common ancient practice. P.272  During WW@ a common cliché was “that the are no atheists in  foxholes.” Also in profanity God or Christ is mention in rebellion but not other gods.  We have a sense of right and wrong, even remote tribes: Rom 2:13-16 Morris affirms the trinity of Father, Son and Spirit and Space, Matter and Time; Space is 3 dimensional, time has past, present and future, matter has 3 forms. p  275  Ps. 33, 104 on creation. The downfall of man: Rom. 1:18-32 the spread of wars, immorality.

Into the world: Dispersion form Babel: J. Bailey noted in The God Kings and the Titans that after the time of Babel societies advance again in separate locations –stone age.p.286 Ley lines stone marker of spread. P.287   The repetition of names of places cities, and objects. JP Cohane The Key Crown 1969 p.289 Mythologies and Astrology common over different cultures. P290

Ancient civilization also had some belief in immortality. P.291  Ancient religions had polytheism and pantheism. However the most ancient records show a prior monotheism P.292  This was true in India. Ref. M. Muller, History of Sanskrit Literature, London 1859; It was noted in Egypt. Ref. F. Petrie, The Religion of Ancient Egypt, London 1908  Also in Sumaria: Ref. S. Langdon Semitic Mythology vol. 5 in Mythology of all Races Arch. Institute of Amer. 1931. Also the Chinese; Ref. J. Legge, ‘The Religions of China” in C. Gaebelein Christianity or Religion, NY Hope Pub. 1927. p.293  Those religions that teach special Creation: orthodox Judaism and Christianity, and Islam also teach of future resurrection. Many other teach of soul immortality.  Only Christianity teaches the death and resurrection of the creator. It also teaches a transcendent personal creator God. P.300

Scroll to Top