Creationism Versus Post-Fascism: How the Divine Institutions Model Could Inform Us in Current Geopolitical Issues

Creationism Versus Post-Fascism: How the Divine Institutions Model Could Inform Us In Current Geopolitical Issues Divine institutions are absolute social structures that God announced to all of humanity at their founding and which He designed for the benefit of mankind, both believers and unbelievers alike. The divine institutions are the individual, the family, and the country. The individual was established on Day 6 of creation. When God created Adam, He assigned him personal responsibility and accountability with the caveat that he would suffer the consequences of his own decisions. After the fall, labor became difficult and man faced eventual death, but both labor and life are sacred because of their origins. The family was also established on Day 6 with the marriage of Adam and Eve. The Bible describes marriage as a particular union between one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others. Marriage is the proper context for procreation, and children are to leave their parental family units to establish their own family units through new marriages. Marriage was marred at the Fall, and children were not born until after the Fall. The first two divine institutions—the individual and the family—were established on Day 6 of creation, which God declared as “good.” These institutions have productive facets inherent in their design and protective facets that are relevant after the Fall. The third divine institution is the country. This institution came after the Flood and is for protection from the sort of evil that was prevalent before the Flood. The Noahic Covenant positions man as accountable to his fellow man, thus laying the groundwork for civil government, and the Tower of Babel featured a dispersion of man along with the establishment of geological boundaries for separating them (cf. Deut. 32:8). A country is a geographically-bound territory with a civil government that protects the inhabitants of that territory. The terms “fascist” and “nazi” are thrown around haphazardly today, but ideologies responsible for millions of murders need to be taken seriously. Two strands of fascism emerged in the 20th century (Italian classical fascism, which emphasized the state, and German National Socialism, which emphasized race) and should be understood through their roots in Karl Marx and through certain key developments in the Weimar Republic, most notably the critical theory of the Frankfurt School. After the collapse of the fascist powers in World War II, several former fascist philosophers continued to develop fascist ideology into post-fascist forms that are diametrically opposed to the divine institutions of Genesis and have gained international followings. Two currents in post-fascist political ideology that are relevant today are Leftism and Ruscism. Leftism is a post-fascist iteration of neo-Marxism that develops critical theory by formulating new critical groups onto intersectionality frameworks. Ruscism is a post-fascist theory that seeks multipolarity through expanding borders. These two ideologies have many similarities in their developments and each undermines the divine institutions. Both post-fascist ideologies dissolve the individual into the collective. Leftism does so through group identity politics and Ruscism does so through Aleksandr Dugin’s development of Heideggerian Dasein into a unique geopolitical theory. Both post-fascist ideologies undermine the family by pushing collectivism and by allowing cultures to redefine marriage outside of the biblical definition. Both post-fascist ideologies oppose the biblical prescription of multiple countries in hopes of attaining a multipolar utopia. By maintaining the literal creationist view of Genesis 1–11 that affirms the historicity of Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden, the Fall, the Flood, the Noahic Covenant, and the Tower of Babel, we can identify these three divine institutions of the individual, family, and the country, and this may serve as a starting point for identifying political ideologies that are contrary to God’s design for the world. In a world where political discussions have dwindled into name-calling and conspiracy theories, creationists may rise above by getting to the heart of the Genesis prescription for divine institutions. Bibliography: Dugin, Aleksandr. Четвертая политическая теория: Россия в политические идеи XXI века [The Fourth Political Theory: Russia and Political Ideas of the 21st Century]. St. Petersburg: Amfora, 2009. Dugin, Aleksandr. Мартин Хайдеггер: Последний Бог [Martin Heidegger: The Last God]. Moscow: Akademicheskiĭ Proekt, 2014. Mussolini, Benito. “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism,” translated by Jane Soames. In Benito Mussolini, My Autobiography: With “The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism.” EBSCOhost ebook version. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2006.