God made every snowflake, every leaf on every tree, and even every person unique. So, where does the human pressure to conform come from? One thing we can be sure of is that this pressure does not come from the Spirit of the Lord, so we must reject it.
Our present education system feeds the pressure to conform by rewarding it and its compliance while punishing individuality, innovation, and creativity. The result is that those who conform to the system are the most conditioned to be overly fearful of and threatened by any who do not comply with the conformist mentality.
As far back as thirty years ago, some corporate leaders were saying they would no longer hire college graduates because they could not think “outside of the box,” which is required in a fast-changing world. This should have been a loud wake-up call that our education system was already obsolete. This has only gotten worse. There is a saying that, “If you don’t change your direction, you will end up where you’re headed.” This is leading us as a nation to a place where we will not be able to survive long amidst the challenges of this fast-moving world.
We need a revolution in education. When they were created, the universities provided an advancement in civilization because they were what their name implied. “University” came from the phrase “unity in diversity.” Universities were collections of different schools with different focuses that would work together to benefit from the interchange. This is how creation works; all the unique plants and animals have parts to play which support the whole environment. This unity of diversity is required for life to exist, which is exactly contrary to the Marxist philosophy of unity by conformity.
When I was young, I was drawn into a Marxist group for a time. This lasted until I read Karl Marx’s works. Even as a 19-year-old, I could perceive that the Marxist philosophy was not only contrary to human nature, but all of nature. President Ronald Reagan was right when he said, “A Marxist is someone who follows Marx. An anti-Marxist is someone who has actually read Marx.”
We must also understand that true Marxism is actually the opposite of what our schools teach that it is, or what their propaganda says it is. That’s why Marxist leaders do not want their followers to read Marx, and most of the leaders have not read it either. This is why Marxist workers are called “useful idiots.” Marxism is so bizarre and so contrary to reason that you have to be an idiot to believe it. This is why our Marxist-dominated education system does not educate but indoctrinates, conditioning students to comply, not think.
Here’s a radical question: is the church any different? I have spent over fifty years studying Marxism and the church. In general, in much of what is taught and practiced, there is not much difference. In fact, the institutional church is a very socialist organization, and its goals promote conformity more than providing a liberty where we can find the Spirit of the Lord (see 2 Corinthians 3:17).
The Apostle Paul rebuked the early church’s attempts to unify around a single teacher, rather than receiving the diverse teachings of all the teachers God was sending them. He also rebuked them for failing to recognize how unique all the different members of the body of Christ were, and how they were all essential to the body. There is a great diversity of gifts and ministries of the Spirit, but we are all one body in Christ (see Romans 12:4-5 and 1 Corinthians 12:12-16).
Marxism is like the beast that “comes up out of the earth” in Revelation 13. This chapter speaks of the beast’s nature being of the earth—earthly-minded. Marxism seems to be to what this metaphor is referring. The true church in Revelation comes down from above and is a “heavenly city,” populated by the heavenly-minded. A basic message of the book of Revelation is this contrast between man’s church and God’s church which He is building.
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