The truth is hard to accept, but somehow we have to stop the never ending cycle of empire and progressive liberal ideology that follows it
2025/8/28
Written by: Jay Kay
Mankind with all of its faults, is full of potential having the world literally at its feet. Nobody knows why we are the dominate species, with the only answer to the question coming from the Christian bible’s Old Testament, Genesis 1:28, which states:
"And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth"
Throughout human history we see the “progression” of society, with the rise and fall of empires and cultures. Empire is an interesting, and to some, controversial concept; reminding them of such things as “oppression”, “war”, “slavery” and so on.
But isn’t that the nature of the beast? From an abstract level, we can see that humans are, complex entities created using flesh, blood and bone, like any other complex animal on the planet. We have programmed instincts to protect our family, at the cost of others.
This is evident in any tribal society you meet today, be it in remote parts of the Africa’s, middle East, or the latin America’s. If a foreigner offends a member of that tribe, be prepared to have a tribal response. It is also evident in the animal kingdom itself, you attack a baby elephant for example, expect the elephant pack to protect its interest!
When a tribe grows, it inevitably needs to control more territory. Eventually when a tribe becomes big enough, it turns into a nation. When two nations meet, things start to get interesting (always for the worse), thus we have the winners who take control of new territory, and the losers who, at best lose their land and some of their people, and at worse might become slaves of the victor. We don’t have to like it, but this is how the human heart works.
Thinking closer to home, who wouldn’t defend their siblings over a stranger in a heart beat?
As I write this, there is a “progressive” ideology movement where by we can be whatever we want to be, and take action based on that thought. For example, we can be a man, a woman, or whatever we decide to “identify” as, and literally change our bodies to confirm this. The ideology also promotes “tolerance” for all cultures as well, meaning that we should put aside our differences and learn to accept one another.
At face value, it truly seems like a revolutionary, radical, new, exciting yet liberating ideology, which maybe the answer to all of our problems. If a society is depressed, because the people within that society cannot truly express themselves, or live as their hearts truly desire, then how can there ever be peace, either personally or globally?
At the same time, Mankind has proven that it is the centre of the universe, where we are the top of the food chain in all fields. What other animal on Earth, or in the whole universe generally, does, can do, or did what we do/could/did? The answer is none.
The evidence is everywhere to support this, for example I write this article on a Apple MacBook Air, which has more horse power than all of my previous laptops combined, while offering over 10 hours battery life to boot. Look at the Apple iPhone too, with it you can transfer huge sums of cash from a Bank in London to a Bank in Bangkok within hours.
Then there is AI; I am a full stack developer, and in all my days I have never created a quite complex application such as this blog, in such a short space of time, and it is all thanks to the help of my google AI assistant. I’d say it helped out at least 40%, and saved me weeks of research, trial and error.
The testimony of our “brilliance” then, is there for all to see, and so perhaps it is justified and even fitting that the progressive way of thinking seems to be the way society should go, that maybe we should grab the bull by the horns and proclaim ourselves kings of the universe, and try to change said universe more to our own image… but as I said this should only be taken at face value, and I am going to explain why.
Technology and science have given us the ability to choose this path, and at face value it does seem like a totally new idea, one which is going to solve all of our problems. Why not try something new, that has never been done before, to try and break the cycle of empire and war.
However there is overwhelming evidence that the so called progressive ideology, is a result of a society which classes itself as highly sophisticated. Such a society is classed as being “Cosmopolitan”, and is recorded throughout all modern human history during the peak of empires.
I can think of two examples of empire which, at its peak were possibly even more progressive than todays:
The Roman empire - at its peak, conquered most of the globe for most of known recorded modern human history. Had advanced cities where all manner of sexual activities took place, especially with young, underage boys
The Greek Empire - at its peak, conquered a large part of the world, and again was incredibly liberal with sex, gender and the arts, with male to male relationships between older and younger males being accepted as normal.
Of course we all know how those stories end: both empires eventually collapsed, and disappeared. From a scientific point of view, there is no real agreed universal consensus on why such great empires just disappeared, there is only the evidence of repeated societal patterns.
This is where the solution to our problem can now be introduced, because it flourished during those periods to become the most wide spread religion on earth: Christianity.
As old as the Christian bible is, it gives pretty detailed accounts of cities which were progressive and liberal in nature. Who can forget the names Gomorrah and Sodom, the first two uber liberal cities, where rape was considered part and parcel of daily dealings. One story in the old testament even details that two Angels of the Lord (men), were threatened with rape from the local men, and that the host of the Angels offered his daughter in return for the Angles’ safety!
Then there is the New Testament, where Paul details the shocking culture he witnessed in the city of Corinth - a prosperous roman port city that was again cosmopolitan, sophisticated etc etc.
Given that the old testament dates back to the days of Moses (some 1600 years before Jesus Christ of Nazareth walked the earth), and given that the Apostle Paul wrote about this, some 16 years after Lord Jesus Christ ascended, is proof in itself that maybe the LGBTQ+ movement isn’t as new and revolutionary as we are lead to believe.
The cycle is clear: when there is an empire, it is always lead by a sophisticated, educated, cosmopolitan society. The society always has its own strange religion too, the greeks had the pantheon of Zeus, the Romans had their Pantheon of Jupiter.
So if past empires had liberal, progressive, tolerant, highly educated culture, full of freedoms of expression, then why did they fail? As mentioned above, there is no agreed scientific consensus on this, but as food for thought, I will mention that the Christian Bible does explain how Gomorrah and Sodom disappeared!
Jesus Christ of Nazareth is an interesting man. There is no doubt he existed, because with both biblical, and none biblical accounts of such a man on record existing, it’s impossible to dismiss the character. He was loved and hated at the time of his life, for one simple reason: He was a religious revolutionary with frightening ideas, and I’ll give two examples of why.
Taken from the Judaic point of view, we can see that Jesus was classed as a man who saw the law of Sabbath as being a joke. There are several accounts of Jesus not only allegedly breaking Sabbath laws, but doing so in front of powerful, renowned Jewish leaders at the time, whose duty was to not only protect the law, but enforce it as per the instructions of Moses.
Of course, Jesus never broke any Sabbath laws, he simply ignored the man made doctrine which had become entwined in the actual laws proposed by Moses. He further tried to demonstrate to the masses of this fact.
Another example, Jesus taught that the word of God was for ALL NATIONS, not just the literal descendants of Abraham. This again, ruffled the feathers of many hardcore Jews, because they believed that God, and the salvation he promised, was for the Jews alone. This begs the question -and Lord Jesus several times posed the question to the Jewish lawyers at the time - did they even bother reading scripture?
These are just two examples of how revolutionary, thus scary Jesus was during his day, but what is the solution I speak of, what has it got to do with a man named Jesus of Nazareth, and why is it hard to accept?
During his time on earth, it is documented that Jesus was not only preaching the word of God the Father, but was acting it by showing love and compassion to the masses around him. He never denied anybody a cure, a kind word, or a meal. Even when he was condemned to be crucified, he was praying for the masses, and even asked God the Father to forgive them.
On the night of the famous last supper, knowing every detail of what was about to happen to him with the coming crucifixion, he fell to his knees and washed the feet of his disciples, as a lesson of how he wanted them to treat everyone else.
The reason Jesus did all of this, was because of one word: LOVE. Tolerance can only go so far, you can only tolerate your neighbour stealing your parking spot outside your house for so long, you can only tolerate your boss making you work overtime without pay for so long.
What if a LGBTQ+ teacher were secretly teaching your young children about their beliefs, would tolerance hold you back from acting in an unlawful way? And by the way, this is not as crazy a scenario as you might think, for I bore witness to western teachers pushing LGBTQ+ agendas to children as young as 6, at the school I worked at for a while in Thailand back in 2023.
Eventually that “tolerance” builds up inside and always manifests itself. With the parking example it usually manifests with nasty parking notes, violence, or with one person selling the home and moving on. With the overtime example it’s the same, usually leading to the employee finding a new job. In both cases there is no peace. As for the school example, you’ll find plenty of youtube videos on how parents respond to that!
What if instead of tolerating one another, we saw eachother as literal kin? Imagine confronting your neighbour over the parking spot with a smile, a hug and saying to them “God bless you brother, lets talk about this situation and resolve over a meal”.
Imagine doing the same to your boss who makes you work overtime without pay, you could even lovingly speak to him along the lines of “Now brother, you know you’re making me work too much for no pay, is it not time for a pay rise?”. It is not easy to do, in fact it is seemingly impossible for a normal person to do, but at the same time have we ever tried to do this? I know I haven’t.
We can see tolerance fail on a daily basis, because the very people who flaunt it as the only way to move forward, basically use violence (or chaos) to back up their arguments. There are countless examples of liberal protestors using violence to win an argument, just take a look on youtube.
An obvious recent, famous example is the “just stop oil” protestors who threw paint on art work within museums… that is vandalism which is an act of violence. The same group have sat in the middle of public highways, blocking traffic, with deaths being reported because an ambulance couldn’t take an emergency situation to hospital.
Then there are the LGBTQ+ pride events, where if they see christians preaching the gospel, they use violence and intimidation against them. Where is the tolerance in that situation?
So if tolerance isn’t cutting it, how would love fare better? To answer this question, we have to delve into the very definition of love, as the Lord Jesus meant it, and God the Father who gave Moses the ten commandments in the first place.
When asked which of the ten commandments were most important, Jesus’ response was:
Love the Lord God with all your heart, mind and soul
Love your neighbour as you love yourself
Logically, if you were to fulfil these two commandments, you would satisfy the other eight, but what does love really mean? Jesus gave deep examples during his sermon on the mount (which makes for tough reading), as well as during his daily life, but it can be summarised as “always putting others before yourself, and no matter how bad someone treats you, respond with kindness, patience, mercy and forgiveness”.
Forgiveness cures resentment, because it means that you can truly walk away from the problem and it not bother you subconsciously, it wont be playing on your mind.
If everybody at least lived by the second commandment, and put others before themselves, then the world would fall into place, and that place would be total peace and harmony, something we all long for yet have been unable to achieve with our own superiority.
I mentioned earlier that this solution is hard, but it gets even harder because of money. The reason for this is because money too easily seduces us into a life of materialism, self dependence, and competition. Why do I need God when I can provide everything I could possibly want myself? It also pits brother against brother, where we try to outcompete each other for that promotion, or buying the latest nicest car which has to be better than theirs.
Lord Jesus famously said “it would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven”. This famous quote was in response to a rich young man, quizzing the Lord on what it would take for him to enter Heaven, and lord Jesus told him: “get rid of all your assets, give it to the poor and follow me”. Of course the rich man balked at that and walked away.
The solution is made harder to achieve, because the world we have created is materialistic, and becomes harder to live in due to rising prices. This in turn puts our focus back on ourselves and our immediate families, which in turn takes us back to being tribal. To make things even harder, we have built in instincts which puts us first.
This is where turning to the Father, Son and Holy spirit in prayer (for spiritual support), study of the Christian bible, and meeting others to praise God is paramount in achieving love of heart, then by default you obtain all the attributes I mentioned earlier which form the basis of love: kindness, mercy, patience, and forgiveness. Love can change the world and give everyone peace, but we need to have God in our heart to keep us on the right track.