Evil, Wanting to Be Like God, Big Government and Totalitarianism

A fascinating article (see link below) that grimly illustrates what happens when humanity unwittingly cooperates with the demoniacs from Hell...

More specifically, these are the kinds of horrors that people ultimately do, when both the individual and society blatantly embrace a kind of Greek anthropocentrism I.e. man is the measure of all things..." Or sincere
Secular Humanism, Or even hyper-humanism I.e. Nietzscheanism.*

These kinds of things are always a possibility, and even probable, when we covet the same thing that Satan hungered for "...In the pride of your heart you say, “I am a god..." (Ezk 28:3); and what he tempted and convinced convinced Adam and Eve to covet as well... "...you will be like God..." (Gen3:5).

Human horrors are inexorably visited upon fellow humans, when the philosophical "starting points" are self-serving and self-aggrandizing... And that is exactly what Humanism does...

Worldview Starting points such as:

1. Who are we?
- An autonomous and highest material form of life...

3. What is wrong?
- (Exclusively) Lack of education, opportunity and equality...

4. How do we fix it?
A. Centralization of power through Big to Totalitarian forms of government, and B. Willing naïveté and acceptance of Humanist Pan-Unipolarism**

Different terms, same results from time in memorial... There is nothing new under the sun here...

Who among us handles power well, and virtual absolute power with integrity? And even if there is that rare person(s) who does, what guarantee is there, that their successor will be as careful, altruistic or benevolent?

Are there the seemingly sincere "Snowballs"***out there? Sure! But as the 20th Century has demonstrated so clearly, it was the "Napoleans,"*** who controlled their day, as evidenced by the mute testimony of 160 plus million civilians who horribly perished on behalf of their sincere ideology, replete with the raw power by which to institute it...

If you start with humanity as being the "highest good," then "you can only get what humanity has got..." When you start with God as the Highest Good," then you can get all that He wants to give ...

The only possibility, that we ultimately have at being good for ourselves, is when we utterly, desperately and lovingly, depend on God being good for us...

"You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.” Augustine - Confessions

* Nietzscheanism, as manifested in the Ubermenche (I.e. New Man - Superman).

** Institutional insistence that all people, at all times, and in all places - who must think, believe and act in the same macro-kinds of ways...

*** See George Orwell's "Animal Farm." An Allegory on Socialist Political Philosophy, particularly Communism in the former Soviet Union.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601131/The-man-stumbled-HELL-His-place-history-never-revealed-But-just-published-memoir-SAS-officer-recounts-uncovered-horrors-Belsen.html