Herald the Apostates, by Jeff Einstein

You don’t have to buy into the Truth as told to us by those who have anointed themselves keepers of it. From Jeff Einstein at qolrm.substack.com:

[Author’s note: Herald the Apostates was first published a little more than a year ago, back when Tucker Carlson was still on FOX News. With the exception of Tucker’s exit from corporate media and newfound home on X, not much has changed…]

I’ve always admired and always been drawn to apostates — religious or otherwise — for much the same reason, I think, that I’ve always admired and always been drawn to art, cats, birds, nature, kids, baseball, and the great American experiment at large: I see in all of them the breathtaking expression and indomitable spirit of freedom…

Not long after the printing press destroyed Western theocracies, not long after the Enlightenment and Age of Reason gave birth to the scientific method and the American, French, and Industrial revolutions, Friedrich Nietzsche declared God dead. The very next day we looked up to the heavens and said, in so many words, “Thanks, but no thanks. We’ll take it from here.” In the absence of the sacred, the 20th century that followed was murderous beyond comprehension.

It was also revelatory and liberating. The Liberal World Order that rose like a phoenix from the ash and charnel houses of World War II was, in many ways, the real-world manifestation of a bright and blinding utopian vision. It described a new world order wherein democracy, free trade, universal human rights, collective security, and respect for the environment would ascend in the penumbra of secular institutions grounded not in religious superstition but in the unassailable foundations of science and technology. It worked wonders: for a while at least, democracy flourished and billions were lifted from the misery of crippling poverty.

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