Progressing Toward Frankenstein or Hyde?
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Everett Piper Everett Piper's Blog
- Updated Jan 12, 2011
Progressives want progress, but toward what?
Progress as defined by MLK may be good. But what of the
"progress" defined by the KKK? Not so good.
If you take morally neutral progressivism to its logical end,
then progress can only be defined by power, which means that anyone—from Pelosi
to Pol Pot, Reid to Robespierre, Olbermann to Obama, or even Huxley to Hitler—can
claim to be the end-all and be-all of what it means to "progress."
Martin Luther King Jr. himself told us in his "Letter from
Birmingham Jail" that only the higher standard of objective Justice justifies
the pursuit of what is Just. He knew
that God's measuring rod of righteousness was the only winning argument against
man's self-righteous, self-referential, self-refuting, self-centered wrongs. He
understood that God was God and that Bull Connor was not, but he likewise knew
that neither was he nor was Malcolm X.
The Left thinks that when they look in the mirror they see a
kind and gentle face somewhat akin to Mary Shelley's innocent young
Frankenstein, a self-creation with all the sinless potential to
"progress" toward utopian "goodness." They fail to see that
what is really looking back at them is Robert Louis Stevenson's Mr. Hyde—someone
who is sinful and broken beyond control, someone who is selfish beyond the
reach of social engineering, someone we should fear, someone who cannot be
redeemed by self-defined and self-centered progress, but only by selfless
submission to the laws of nature and nature's God.