"If all cultures are equal, then cannibalism is just a matter of culinary taste." — Léo Strauss
If there is no Hell below and above us, only sky, then craving eating your neighbor is just a matter of taste. If diversity is our strength, some people's stem cell sweet tooth is an asset to the worldwide community. Multiculturalism as a value means embracing the basest behaviors imaginable. It never means a rise of all cultures to the high water mark of secular civility, whatever that it supposed to be. It always devolves to the lower common denominator.
Galatians 5:15-17
If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
It is a dogma eat dogma world and there is only one dogma that doesn't end with people being devoured.
"The special mark of the modern world is not that it is sceptical, but that it is dogmatic without knowing it. It says, in mockery of the old devotees,that they believed without knowing why they believed. But the moderns believe without knowing what they believe- and without even knowing that they do believe it. Their freedom consists in first freely assuming a creed, and then freely forgetting that they are assuming it. In short, they always have an unconscious dogma; and an unconscious dogma is the definition of a prejudice. They are the dullest and deadest of ritualists who merely recite their creed in their subconsciousness, as if they repeated their creed in their sleep. A man who is awake should know what he is saying, and why he is saying it — that is, he should have a fixed creed and relate it to a first principle. This is what most moderns will never consent to do. Their thoughts will work out to most interesting conclusions; but they can never tell you anything about their beginnings. They have always taken away the number they first thought of. They have always forgotten the very fact or fancy on which their whole theory depends."
— G.K. Chesterton (1919)
No social contract has ever been signed by anyone and even those who pretend that some have signed it must agree that not everyone seems to be on board with it based on the behaviors of some back wood, low-rent cultures. The supposed social contract of norms and customs is not universally agreed upon. Some cultures encouragement men to marry children while others allow men to rape little boys, but enough about Islam. Some cultures don't even pretend to curtsy to these so called common sense conventions. The secular doctrine of the noble savage however prevails among those who would never personally consider eating their neighbor. Their presuppositions permit other cultures to do what they would want punished if it happened to them or one of their loved ones. While they wouldn't dream of doing such a thing themselves, they find it equally as appalling to imagine telling someone else that they should not do it, or even worse in their opinion that they could not do it without negative consequences.
“There are only two ‘ways,’ two fundamental religions in the world. One of them feeds people, and the other one eats people.” — Douglas Wilson, Virgins and Volcanoes
Those who personally oppose cannibalism, but do not seek to institutionally oppose it, are just hoping to appease the man-eaters long enough to be the last thing on the menu. They would rather be dessert than a main course.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." — Winston Churchill
If you are personally opposed to crocodiles eating your neighbors, but take no measures stop them from doing so and furthermore actually get in the way and interfere with those who are trying to stop them, you are only ensuring that more of your neighbors will be eaten by crocodiles and guaranteeing that you will someday, too, be in one of their stomachs.
"The justice of Hell is purely realistic, and concerned only with results. Bring us back food, or be food yourself." ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Hell is where everything is on the menu. It is the strong preying upon the weak until one stronger comes along to devour them. It is the snake eating its own tail. It cannot go on forever... and it won't. But until then, the world will continue to feed the weak to it rather than fight it. They will nourish the dragon with their newborn neighbors and forget that once Moloch has polished off the premature, he will work his way down the rest of the menu.
"It is common enough to blame Rome for not making peace. But it was a true popular instinct that there could be no peace with that sort of people. It is common enough to blame the Roman for his Delenda est Carthago; Carthage must be destroyed... but Carthage fell because she was faithful to her own philosophy and had followed out to its logical conclusion her own vision of the universe. Moloch had eaten his children." ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Cannibalism is unsustainable. You cannot live off of your legacy without cutting yourself off. Not only should things like that not be done, but they cannot be done indefinitely. They bite the hand that feeds, even when it is their very own. But Christendom is not like that. It resists the dragon. Not by trying to eat it before it can eat them, but by defying it and refusing to eat bitterness and call it sweet. (Pr. 27:7)
"There were many other differences between a saint and a dragon. But the essential difference was simply this: that the Dragon did want to eat St. George; whereas St. George would have felt a strong distaste for eating the Dragon. In most of the stories he killed the Dragon. In many of the stories he not only spared, but baptised it. But in neither case did the Christian have any appetite for cold dragon. The Dragon, however, really has an appetite for cold Christian—and especially for cold Christianity. This blind intention to absorb, to change the shape of everything and digest it in the darkness of a dragon's stomach; this is what is really meant by the Pantheism and Cosmic Unity of the East. The Cosmos as such is cannibal; as old Time ate his children. The Eastern saints were saints because they wanted to be swallowed up. The Western saint, like St. George, was sainted by the Western Church precisely because he refused to be swallowed." — G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
We must, like good ol' St. George, refused to be swallowed which amounts to not buying the lie that all cultures, including cannibalistic ones, are equal. If you swallow that lie, you will someday be devoured by it. For Hell has no brakes. It cannot stop itself. It insists on being fed and it will continue to devour until there is nothing left.
“We want cattle who can finally become food; He wants servants who can finally become sons. We want to suck in, He wants to give out. We are empty and would be filled; He is full and flows over. Our war aim is a world in which Our Father Below has drawn all other beings into himself: the Enemy wants a world full of beings united to Him but still distinct.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
The consummation of Christendom is not consumption, but liberation. It is all things united in Christ, yet distinct from Him and each other. In fact, the only way to retain any distinction is to yield it to one, true God. In Him all things move, breath, and have their being respective of each other. Individuality is only received in personality. It is like sand. It cannot be kept by grabbing harder. Doing that only causes you to lose yourself just like devouring others or permitting another to devour someone else eventually leads to everyone being in the belly of a serpent nibbling on its own tail.
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