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'''Nimrodian aspirations''' is the term used to denote an endeavor of [[materialistic]] [[philosophy|philosophies]] to unite all society, nations, and/or humankind under one universal power in order to rebel against God and escape His just judgements. Nimrodian aspirations are characterized by efforts for unification, formalism, and regimental restriction and sacrificing of personal freedom of individuals in the name of common [[public interest]] and [[welfare]]. Nimrodian aspirations take place in the societies governed by partisans of [[totalitarian]] [[ideology|ideologies]]. They were i.a. discernable in the [[Nazi Germany]] where in the interest of future and unity of the so called [[Third Reich]] state authorities deprived individuals of their fundamental rights and were trampling even on the most sacred [[human]] values.<ref name="Prorok Daniel">{{cite book |title=Prorok Daniel |author=Jozef Ondrej Markuš |publisher=Matica slovenská |year=2001  |place=Martin, Slovakia |pages=39-48 |isbn=80-7090-600-6 |url=http://vydavatel.sk/produkt-detail/10383 |quote= |language=Slovak}}</ref>  

'''Nimrodian aspirations''' is the term used to denote an endeavor of [[materialistic]] [[philosophy|philosophies]] to unite all society, nations, and/or humankind under one universal power in order to rebel against God and escape His just judgements. Nimrodian aspirations are characterized by efforts for unification, formalism, and regimental restriction and sacrificing of personal freedom of individuals in the name of common [[public interest]] and [[welfare]]. Nimrodian aspirations take place in the societies governed by partisans of [[totalitarian]] [[ideology|ideologies]]. They were i.a. discernable in the [[Nazi Germany]] where in the interest of future and unity of the so called [[Third Reich]] state authorities deprived individuals of their fundamental rights and were trampling even on the most sacred [[human]] values.<ref name="Prorok Daniel">{{cite book |title=Prorok Daniel |author=Jozef Ondrej Markuš |publisher=Matica slovenská |year=2001  |place=Martin, Slovakia |pages=39–48 |isbn=80-7090-600-6 |url=http://vydavatel.sk/produkt-detail/10383 |quote= |language=Slovak}}</ref>  

    

    

==Historical background==

==Historical background==

== The Symbolic Significance==

== The Symbolic Significance==

Building the Tower of Babel had also a deeper meaning: [[Man]] living in a state of estrangement from God  feels anxious and insecure, and looks for security. By means of erecting huge tower he aims to secure his future, escape and prevent God’s judgement, and accomplish his own fame (cf. ''“so that we may make a name for ourselves”''). Because he fell off from his natural place in God’s presence and emancipated himself from God, he strives for some replacement, the new focus of his attention. And Babylonian managed to find it: It is the man himself. Symbolically, people of [[Babylonia]] get trapped by self-adoration, self-deification and [[idolatry|idolatrous]] [[worship]] of [[creation]] instead of [[Creator]]. Egocentric “Babylonians” attempt to save themselves by own effort and to ensure their future with regard to their enemies by their own power, that’s why they constantly have to rely on their own weaponry and are condemned to engage in permanent [[arms race]].     

Building the Tower of Babel had also a deeper meaning: [[Man]] living in a state of estrangement from God  feels anxious and insecure, and looks for security. By means of erecting huge tower he aims to secure his future, escape and prevent God’s judgement, and accomplish his own fame (cf. ''“so that we may make a name for ourselves”''). Because he fell off from his natural place in God’s presence and emancipated himself from God, he strives for some replacement, the new focus of his attention. And Babylonian managed to find it: It is the man himself. Symbolically, people of [[Babylonia]] get trapped by self-adoration, self-deification and [[idolatry|idolatrous]] [[worship]] of [[creation]] instead of [[Creator]]. Egocentric “Babylonians” attempt to save themselves by own effort and to ensure their future with regard to their enemies by their own power, that’s why they constantly have to rely on their own weaponry and are condemned to engage in permanent [[arms race]].     

In the last resort, their ultimate goal is the denial of God, getting rid of Him including His values and guidelines for [[created]] [[order]], and the proclamation of self-sovereignty based on new set of values incompatible with [[creation]] thus necessarily leading over and over to [[Gleichschaltung#The_consequences_of_applauding_falsehood|catastrophic failures]]. In the history of [[humankind]], the “Tower of Babel,” symbolically representing the [[utopian]] efforts to establish a permanent [[society]] without God, has never been completed.

In the last resort, their ultimate goal is the denial of God, getting rid of Him including His values and guidelines for [[created]] [[order]], and the proclamation of self-sovereignty based on new set of values incompatible with [[creation]] thus necessarily leading over and over to [[Gleichschaltung#The consequences of applauding falsehood|catastrophic failures]]. In the history of [[humankind]], the “Tower of Babel,” symbolically representing the [[utopian]] efforts to establish a permanent [[society]] without God, has never been completed.

    

    

==The basic characteristics of Nimrodian aspirations==

==The basic characteristics of Nimrodian aspirations==

• Subject to principle in which one predator (totalitarian ruler, [[interest group]] or society) is to be knocked down by another   

• Subject to principle in which one predator (totalitarian ruler, [[interest group]] or society) is to be knocked down by another   

=== Active rebellion against biblical God ===

=== Active rebellion against biblical God ===

The biblical God is a chief rival of modern-day nimrodians. Christian belief, by subjecting all men to [[divine]] authority and by asserting in the words "My Kingdom is not of this world" that the ideal [[society]] does not exist in this life, is the most coherent and potent obstacle to [[secular]] [[utopianism]]. The [[Bible]] angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power. The safguards against the worship of human power, and the ultimate defence against the utopian's belief that ends justify means and that [[moral relativism|morality is relative]], are the concepts of sin, of authority, of conscience, of [[eternal life]] and [[divine]] [[justice]] under an unalterable [[law]]. The alliance between political utopianism and the new cult of the unrestrained self, unleashed into the [[Western world]] by [[Freud]] and Reich, [[Kinsey]] and [[Cultural Marxism|Marcuse]], is promoted by the self-pitying anthems of [[rock music]] and encouraged by the enormous power of 'progressive' education in which so many [[social]], [[sexual]], and [[cultural]] revolutionaries work.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rage Against God |author=[[Peter Hitchens]] |publisher=www.continuumbooks.com |place=London, New York |year=2010 |chapter=9.|page=98-9 |isbn=978-1441-10572-1 |url=https://book.google.com/books?id=y3fOBAAAQBAJ }}</ref>

The biblical God is a chief rival of modern-day nimrodians. Christian belief, by subjecting all men to [[divine]] authority and by asserting in the words "My Kingdom is not of this world" that the ideal [[society]] does not exist in this life, is the most coherent and potent obstacle to [[secular]] [[utopianism]]. The [[Bible]] angers and frustrates those who believe that the pursuit of a perfect society justifies the quest for absolute power. The safguards against the worship of human power, and the ultimate defence against the utopian's belief that ends justify means and that [[moral relativism|morality is relative]], are the concepts of sin, of authority, of conscience, of [[eternal life]] and [[divine]] [[justice]] under an unalterable [[law]]. The alliance between political utopianism and the new cult of the unrestrained self, unleashed into the [[Western world]] by [[Freud]] and Reich, [[Kinsey]] and [[Cultural Marxism|Marcuse]], is promoted by the self-pitying anthems of [[rock music]] and encouraged by the enormous power of 'progressive' education in which so many [[social]], [[sexual]], and [[cultural]] revolutionaries work.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Rage Against God |author=[[Peter Hitchens]] |publisher=www.continuumbooks.com |place=London, New York |year=2010 |chapter=9.|pages=98–9 |isbn=978-1441-10572-1 |url=https://book.google.com/books?id=y3fOBAAAQBAJ }}</ref>

==Nimrodian Consequences==

==Nimrodian Consequences==

The sheer ruthlessness of post-Christian social [[idealism]] arises from the very same concept of [[freedom]] that we are at liberty to make ourselves, without [[divine]] standard to which the uses of freedom are bound, what we wish to be. The ambition to refashion [[humanity]] in its very essence — social, political, economic, moral, psychological — was inconceivable when human beings were regarded as creatures of God. But with disappearance of God's authority, it becomes possible to will a human future conformed to whatever ideals we choose to embrace. All the grand [[utopia]]n projects of the modern age that have directly or indirectly spilled oceans of human blood — the savagery of triumphant [[Jacobins|Jacobinism]], the clinical heartlessness of [[socialist]] [[eugenics]], the [[Nazi]] movement, [[Stalinism]] — were results of nimrodian "[[Enlightenment]]" myth of liberation leading also to the vulgarity of late capitalist consumerism and the pettiness of bourgeois [[individualism]]. The most pitilessly and self-righteously violent regimes of modern [[history]] have been those that have most explicitly cast off the [[Christian]] vision of [[reality]] and sought to replace it with a more "[[humanism|human]]" set of values.<ref>{{cite book |title=Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies |author=David Bentley Hart |publsiher=Yale University Press |place=New Haven and London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-16429-9 |pages=107 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UK5PsFYBXFUC |quote=}}</ref>

The sheer ruthlessness of post-Christian social [[idealism]] arises from the very same concept of [[freedom]] that we are at liberty to make ourselves, without [[divine]] standard to which the uses of freedom are bound, what we wish to be. The ambition to refashion [[humanity]] in its very essence — social, political, economic, moral, psychological — was inconceivable when human beings were regarded as creatures of God. But with disappearance of God's authority, it becomes possible to will a human future conformed to whatever ideals we choose to embrace. All the grand [[utopia]]n projects of the modern age that have directly or indirectly spilled oceans of human blood — the savagery of triumphant [[Jacobins|Jacobinism]], the clinical heartlessness of [[socialist]] [[eugenics]], the [[Nazi]] movement, [[Stalinism]] — were results of nimrodian "[[Enlightenment]]" myth of liberation leading also to the vulgarity of late capitalist consumerism and the pettiness of bourgeois [[individualism]]. The most pitilessly and self-righteously violent regimes of modern [[history]] have been those that have most explicitly cast off the [[Christian]] vision of [[reality]] and sought to replace it with a more "[[humanism|human]]" set of values.<ref>{{cite book |title=Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies |author=David Bentley Hart |publsiher=Yale University Press |place=New Haven and London |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-300-16429-9 |pages=107 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UK5PsFYBXFUC |quote=}}</ref>

== See Also ==

== See also ==

*[[Anthropological Revolution]]

*[[Anthropological Revolution]]

*[[Business ethics]]

*[[Business ethics]]