Libya is no longer in the headlines. It's all over, bar the torture, the killing, the destruction of human life. C'est la vie. Where is the clamour for helping Libyans that once stridently and passionately circled the globe? Where are Hillary Clinton or John McCain or President Obama when you need them? Actually we don't need them--and we never have.
What lies before us is another testimony to the folly and stupidity and hubris and idolatry of the West. Libya is yet another piece of damning evidence indicting the craven humanism of the West and its perverted notion of secular human rights.
When the West takes upon itself the arrogation of rights to intervene and go to war to oust dictators, what arises from the rubble and detritus of war is often ten times worse.
We are seeing reports start to trickle through on what is presently "going down" in Libya.
According to Western utopianism, when dictator Ghadaffi was overthrown the "free people" of Libya were going to transform that country into a Western-style democracy, wherein all their women would suddenly deck out in mini-skirts and abortifacient drugs would be feely available, funded by the state's oil revenues. Arabia was in the season of spring. Wasn't it exciting! It was unbelievable what was happening in the Arab world. First Morocco, then Egypt, now Libya, soon to come would be Syria. Democracies sprouting up everywhere. The chattering classes chattered. The Commentariat commented.
Welcome to the new, democratic republic of Libya.
Western elites have no concept of limited, restrained civil government. They have no idea of civil government under the dominion of the Lord Jesus Christ. The notion that the state must first of all be subject to Christ, before the people is abhorrent to them. Secular civil governments answer only to themselves and their own secular notions of justice, liberty, and human rights. But their beliefs are utterly foreign to most other human beings on the planet.Libyan militias 'out of control,' Amnesty International says
February 16, 2012 -- Updated 0228 GMT (1028 HKT)Libyan militia members man a checkpoint in the capital, Tripoli, in December.
(CNN) -- Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday. Militias have tortured detainees, targeted migrants and displaced entire communities in revenge attacks, according to a report the organization released a year after the start of popular uprisings that eventually ended Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year rule.
"Hundreds of armed militias, widely hailed in Libya as heroes for their role in toppling the former regime, are largely out of control," the report says. Detainees at 10 facilities used by militia in central and western Libya told representatives from Amnesty International this year that they had been tortured or abused. Several detainees said they confessed to crimes they had not committed in order to stop the torture, Amnesty International said.
At least 12 detainees held by militias have died after being tortured since September, the human rights organization said, adding that authorities have not effectively investigated the torture allegations.
Governments throughout the West believe in the universal intrinsic moral goodness of all humanity. Evil is extrinsic and circumstantial. Change the circumstances, breaking the power of (the current) evil and voila, human goodness will break out like--well, Spring. In this deeply anti-Christian theology, the West's military forces become false messianic deliverers and saviours. Their military forces everywhere around the globe, blowing up the extrinsic evil-du-jour, then, lo and behold, sweet purity will burst forth from the pores of downtrodden people.
The reality is far different. Because evil is intrinsic to the heart of every human being ("I am evil, born in sin", lamented King David--speaking not just for himself, but for every human being) breaking down oppressive governments allows lawlessness to spew forth. It is exactly as our Lord warned: cast out the demon, leaving the house vacant and multitudes of demons will return to take up residence.
When will they ever learn--those secular, effete, Unbelieving elites of the post-Christian West? Never--until we--the people--turn to the Lord Jesus Christ and bow our knees to Him. Then, having submitted ourselves to Him, we can rise up and cast out the secular humanist demons, replacing them with wise and godly rulers who believe with deep conviction that the government which governs least--out of fear of Christ the Lord-- governs best
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