day no. 16,537: more than kings, less than men

"We have a conceited generation, filled with narcissistic helium, who feel themselves to be, in de Tocqueville’s apt phrase, 'More than kings, and less than men.'" — Douglas Wilson, Blog & Mablog

Demos imagines itself the greatest of men while descending to the lowest of means. It casts itself in the role of royalty while decking itself out in the attire of depravity. It wears error like a badge of honor and crowns itself enlightened for being benighted.

Vox populi, vox Dei is the vain, optimistic mantra of mankind. The voice of the people is not the voice of God. People come together only by discord. They may call it music and even train themselves to hear their noise as music to their ears, but it is simply calling evil "good" and good "evil." Sinful people do not become divine by their agreement. They can only become divine by Christ's atonement. They cannot create harmony. They either submit to harmony or indulge their gruntings.

Demos leads to men who imagine themselves more noble than they are by indulging the basest human appetites they possess.

Where consensus has become the standard, Christ is considered a nuisance. He divides where they want unity and commands unity where they desire division.

Mark 10:9

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Sin is separating what God has joined together and joining what God has separated. In the beginning, God separated certain things: day from night, dark from light, land from water, etc... God also united certain things: man and woman, Heaven and earth. Evil desires disorder. It is always Christ or chaos.

Matthew 10:34

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

If Christ is not the arche, the only unity among men is their wickedness. Babel can bring men together against Christ, but it cannot hold men together. Men can unite against Christ, but fail to divide Him from His people.

Romans 8:37-39

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.