Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” he believed that when people follow God (i.e., are members of the “moral universe”) justice will eventually triumph.
Barack Obama bastardized King’s words by frequently referring to the “arc of history” bending towards justice – but without any mention of morality. When the Lightbringer used those words, he was implying that social justice – as radicals like himself define it – is inevitable. The notion that a godless socialist paradise is inevitable, is so attractive to the radical left that they toss around “arc of history” as if it’s a debate winning trump card every time anyone resists their “fundamentally transform America” agenda.
The term has reached such universal use on the left that Google AI even has a definition for it.
The phrase “the arc of history” refers to the long-term trend of human history, particularly the belief that it moves in a specific, progressive direction.
Karl Marx couldn’t have said it better himself. His followers think it is their fate to triumph over Judeo/Christian values and American founding principles.
But what Obama and his radical cult never acknowledge is that fate and morality cannot coexist.
Fate is defined as:
A predetermined course of events, a universal force believed to control and determine the outcomes of life, or a final, inevitable outcome.
If that “inevitable outcome” is progressivism, fate and “arc of history” are the same concept.
If fate – or the “arc of history” – truly guides the world, then we are all just actors in a grand production written by some celestial master screenwriter. But if every decision we make, word we speak, or action we take merely take us to a predetermined ending, then we have no self-determination. Such a world can have no judgements; no consequences for acts of evil; no rewards for service to God; only outcomes preordained before our birth.
Therefore, morality is irrelevant in a world operating to a fixed plan – just as moral relativists would like us to believe. That’s how they arrive at the claim that violence against the innocent is neither good nor evil, but must be contextualized.
But in Genesis 1:26 God commanded humans to establish dominion over the Earth and its creatures. “Establish dominion” doesn’t read like the work of biological animatrons running a master program called “fate.” Genesis reads like God expects us to take responsibility for our lives and make something of ourselves. It reads like we have self-determination – sent on a mission rather than operating to a script. God’s plan is limited to providing us with a purpose, resources to use, and rules to operate under (i.e. The Ten Commandments). The outcome of our mission is not preordained. It is up to us and we will be judged by how we perform (Matthew 25:14-30).
The notion of “fate” depends on the existence of a higher power to create the master script – whether that be God, Gaia, or the Great Pumpkin. But contrary to our God given mission, belief in fate becomes a refusal to accept personal responsibility. Fatalism is an excuse for the dereliction of “whatever will be, will be.” Fatalists see no need for the effort of proactivity, improvement, industry, or even devotion. When the ending has already been written, everything becomes pointless. Fatalism incentivizes passivity, even as God commands energetic action. Hence, one can’t serve God and simultaneously believe that morality is an illusion, and the screenplay of our ending has already been written.
One can believe in fate (the “arc of history”) or Judeo/Christian beliefs, but not both. If Satan truly exists, surely promoting the myth of “fate” – or the “arc of history” – is one of his most powerful instruments of seduction.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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