The Current State of the World

On the Pure Religion and How the Perverted Culture Goes Against It

In the name of Holy Divinity. It is inevitable for anyone who is treading the path of righteousness not to ignore unrighteousness, and not to be silent on the alarms of disaster, as the poet says: "As you see the blind walking towards a bore; sin it is to ignore." In this regard, even if nothing can be done to stop the errors, a mere mention of them is still useful. For it, at a bare minimum, lays down a plan and a direction for future generations. And if the situation does not allow us to correct all such errors today, then at some point in the future the situation might change, and what we write today will be an agenda for action at that time. Indeed, all the movements and changes in the world have their roots in books, and all great works began with words.

And this is the mood in which this article is written, and it is to explain severe errors taking place in the current world, the demise of spirituality, and the rise of greed and enmity everywhere. This is not written for personal profit or a case of mere intellectual curiosity, but as a warning to the world and a blueprint for our mission.

Various spiritual paths have spread on the face of the earth like wings of a golden dragon, or like rivers flowing into the same sea (of Truth). The goal of all these religions is to give an experience of Divinity to their followers. They achieve this goal in different ways, yet they all share three principles corresponding to three aspects: 1) on the esoteric aspect, they teach methods of connection and meditation on the Divine; 2) on the personal aspect, they teach virtues and character building; and 3) on the social aspect, they teach service to others and upholding justice and social equality.

These three principles form what we call "pure religion" or "Divine path." It is the base of every religion, and every religion becomes like this in its purest and most sublime form. It has been discovered and rediscovered by great men and saints of every age that the pure religion is all that is needed for man's salvation and is the ultimate healing. It is that "water of life" in search of which Alexander journeyed to the edges of the earth. All religions were instances of the pure religion in their time and solved the problems of different ages with the same method.

But the current perverted culture, which started in the modern West and spread all over the globe, goes against every tenet and teaching of this pure religion, and thus created havoc on a global scale.

As for the first principle, the principle of Divine connection and meditation, the perverted culture rejects all forms of Divinity and spirituality. Instead, it teaches nihilism and never-ending doubt, which cripples man's spirit and his inner powers. In place of meditation on God, it teaches meditation on Instagram, on TV series, and other meaningless content, which fills the mind with delusion and depression.

As for the second principle, the principle of virtue and character building, the perverted culture teaches the exact opposite of every virtue we knew before. It teaches stupidism, superficial pleasures, greed, and a self-centered mentality. In regard to character building, we all witness that the current culture is more of a character destroyer in the young generation and has turned them into virtual world zombies.

As for the third principle, the principle of service to others and upholding equality, the perverted culture instead promotes competition, rivalry, racism, and other Darwinist values, which are exact opposites to these and lead to tyranny and unequal privileges.

And such an antithesis of the pure religion and human values has spread everywhere and made everything upside down: good became bad, days became nights, and everything turned into its opposition. The result of all these is a generation of doomers and depressed, with high suicide rates and low spirits.

How the perverted culture claims to be the climax of civilization and a continuation of the European Renaissance

The real problem is not that this current culture and its ideologies are perverted, for there have always been perverted ideas in the world since the beginning of time, and for every thesis there was an antithesis, and for every Moses there were Pharaohs. But the real problem is that the perverted culture successfully promoted itself as "progress," as "enlightenment," as "civilization," and in short as "the truth" all over the globe. Everybody these days considers this culture and its lifestyle as "the only way" to human happiness and "the only way" of fulfilling life. It is this totalitarian and absolutist aspect of the current culture that caused all the problems we mentioned above. This is the aspect we are mainly concerned about, and this article is dedicated to probing into such claims. For it is one thing to be perverted and another thing to convince the whole world that you are not.

These claims of the perverted culture to superiority and absolutism are rested on several arguments, or better to say "myths," that its proponents spread all over the world. One such argument—and a prominent one—is a historic narration which depicts the current culture and its ideologies, such as nihilism and hedonism, as the outcome of a long human search after the truth, as an outcome of human "progress" and "evolution" throughout the bygone ages. It is "the state of the art" of what truth is and how life should be lived.

In particular, the history and story of the Renaissance in medieval Western Europe is leveraged for this purpose. The European Renaissance and its subsequent movements are pictured as a war between "religion and reason," in which reason turned out to be the winner. Consequently, religion—and in fact any form of spirituality and metaphysics—is an outdated presupposition belonging to the dark ages of barbarism. They were but "fears of unknowns," as they label it.

Such a narration of the Renaissance and its alleged "war of science and religion" became so prevalent and widely accepted across the globe; it even penetrated into Eastern countries, which are the sources of religion and spirituality themselves. And these countries and nations put down their own culture and religio-spiritual heritages and took up materialism as a superior way of life and the de facto truth. These days, in every country, if you talk about spirituality or religion with others, you will face conservative and sarcastic faces, and someone says, "Dear sir, science has proved that there is no God," or "Neurology explains everything!"

How the European Renaissance Was Not About Materialism and Other Tenets of the Perverted Culture

But a study into the history of the European Renaissance and the writings of its fathers and proponents, even at a superficial level, effectively refutes such historic narration. Renaissance fathers were deep thinkers, and whatever philosophies they preached—with all their varieties and occasional disagreements—were authentic inquiries into the nature of life and existence. They were far from the current culture's materialism and hedonism.

Most of the Renaissance fathers were spiritual people, and very holy and righteous. And if they wrote one treatise in mathematics or physics, they wrote ten in ethics, theology, and other spiritual topics. Many of them promoted something similar to the pure religion and spirituality that we are preaching today.

They did not criticize religion, but the church—the medieval church—and its dogmas and rituals. Such criticisms were fair and just. We also did and do the same thing, and wrote extensively against Christianity in both its medieval and modern forms. Both Renaissance fathers and we found that they distanced themselves from the original teachings of Jesus. In that respect, we are aligned with the Renaissance fathers. Both of us are after the truth and true God, and not after atheism and nihilism. If we can be called atheists, then so are the Renaissance fathers.

But the perverted culture and its propaganda pictured this opposition of the Renaissance fathers to the medieval church as if it were an opposition to "any" form of religion and spirituality, and an open war between two distinct poles of science and religion. But this is an unfair generalization. For that which the Renaissance fathers opposed was not spirituality, but the medieval church's way of spirituality, and what they proposed in its place was not nihilism but a more pure form of Christianity, a more meaningful, and even a more arduous form of spirituality. Their problem with the medieval church was not that it believed in God, but that it did not believe in God seriously enough.

Renaissance fathers desired the abolishment of church rituals and dogmas, and replacing them with "core spirituality," which they perceived to be a sincere devotion to Divinity and developing virtue and wisdom. An example of such doctrine was the "Deism" religion, which was developed in the 17th century and remained widespread among many Renaissance fathers and intellectuals of the time for several centuries. It has striking similarities with what we preach as pure religion and the Divine path, and indeed is a form and instance of it.

For the pure religion is written into man's soul since the beginning of time. All saints and true prophets—in all times and places—preached this very same thing. From the Tao of Taoists to the Krishna of Bhagavad Gita, and to the Thoreau of the transcendentalists, at all times and places, they all preached the same path, which consists of 1) one Divine being; the source of light, knowledge, and happiness, and 2) goodness as the path to this Divine being, where goodness consists of virtue, good deeds, wisdom, and other noble qualities.

We also stated the same things in our exposition of the pure religion, just as Renaissance fathers did for Deism and other spiritual currents of the time. In contrast to what the current culture presents, they were not just genius physicists and engineers who discovered formulas, but in fact they were true saints and prophets of medieval Western Europe who preached the pure religion as we do today. Their scientific breakthroughs were also part of their spiritual quest to know and serve the Divinity better. The so-called "Humanism" of the 14th-15th century was indeed the glow of this pure religion in Western Europe.

And so we are left with the question that if today's materialism and hedonism were not promulgated by the Renaissance fathers, and not a consequence of their teachings, then what produced them, and what propagated them through the entire globe? This requires a new and fresh inquiry into the history of medieval Western Europe, and a revisionist one.

The current culture and its staunch materialism emerged as a movement separate from the Renaissance, and as late as the 19th or even early 20th century in certain circles in Western Europe. It could be, and indeed it was, a byproduct of the Renaissance but not its continuation, and it is related to the Renaissance but not in a direct way. Attempts to show that the two are identical or aligned, and that some Renaissance fathers—such as Hume or Bacon—are the precedents of current materialism and its nihilistic lifestyle have been and are being rejected by recent scholarship.

As a matter of fact, in the search for the roots of current culture and the source of our problems, we find but little clues in the history of the Renaissance or the writings of the scholars of that time. From da Vinci to Newton, from Descartes to Hegel, from the 12th century to the 18th or even 19th century, from England to Germany, one finds barely a finger pointing in the direction we are going today.

True, one finds elements of skepticism and at times anti-religious arguments in some of the Renaissance fathers' writings, such as Hume and Kant. But those were in tandem with a new understanding of the universe and its spiritual dimensions and should not be taken out of their contexts. They were mainly attacking the particular religion of medieval Christianity and not all religions, and they were challenging certain aspects of religion, not the whole religion.

We are aware that a few scholars of later centuries—the 18th and 19th centuries in particular—wrote and promoted what could be interpreted as explicit materialism (though still subject to debate). D'Holbach's "The System of Nature" and La Mettrie's "Man a Machine" are such examples. But even these writings had ethics and morality as their base, and mainly argued that religion—mainly the medieval Christianity of the time—is an impediment to it, and in that sense, they were still in the sphere of spirituality and the pure religion. Nevertheless, such scholars and their writings were surrounded by a larger majority of scholars who refuted them and proposed an opposite philosophy along the lines of spirituality and Divinity. For every d'Holbach, there was a Voltaire who wrote rebuttals to him, and even more.

In general, there was no notable trend in those days to conceive a materialistic and hedonistic philosophy as we hold today. Our current ideology and lifestyle must be rooted somewhere else and in something else...

On the Priesthood Phenomenon

Since ancient times, religion and spirituality have been used, or better to say "abused," in many ways for selfish and profitable ends. One variety of such abuse is the phenomenon called "priesthood," where a group of people called priests—or by other titles such as Pharisee, Brahmin, etc.—placed themselves as a medium between man and God. For example, they would claim that God requires certain rituals and they are the ones "authorized" by God to perform them, or they would claim that God ordered certain laws—such as cleansing before eating food—and they are the only ones who have knowledge of such laws. And many other similar methods they would employ to create importance and a monopoly for themselves in the realm of Divinity, to the extent that all rituals, prayers, and other religious activities had to be done in their presence and under their supervision in order to be acceptable to Divinity.

This way, they were able to open a lofty position for themselves in society. For without them, there could be no connection to God, no prayer, no Divine favor and help, and there could even be an imminent danger of Divine wrath and revenge. So the priests became an important group, both politically and financially, and enjoyed an easy life of doing some rituals in a day and receiving the respect of God from the people; may God forgive them. Even the kings would seek their service and protection. Indeed, they became powerful next to the kings and nobles, and even beyond them.

There is no doubt as to the motivation of this group to do what they were (and are) doing, and also no doubt in regard to their uselessness and parasitic lifestyle. For in reality, every person can go to God directly and pray without any need for a priest and specific ritual and law. And this was the teaching of all the true prophets throughout the ages. But the priests distorted such teachings for their own gains, and closed the doors of heaven to people so that they could open the doors of earth and its riches to themselves. They are the worst of people, and Jesus himself also testified to that: "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to" (Matthew 23:13).

In spite of such explicit declarations by Jesus, Christianity itself became dominated by a priesthood within a few centuries of his death. By the medieval period, all the churches in Europe were controlled by priests and popes who monetized the spirituality and teachings of Jesus for their own profit and turned them all upside down. For while Jesus taught that "Love for God and neighbors" is the path (Matthew 22:37), they taught that the Mass and church rituals are the path and made themselves the only ones authorized to perform them. And many other strange doctrines and irreverent arguments they injected into the religion. What was called "Christianity" in medieval Europe had very little to do with Jesus and his strict moralism and sincerity towards God; it was more a kingdom of priests than a kingdom of God.

How the Christian Priesthood Was Challenged in Medieval Europe

Christian priests enjoyed unrivaled power and privileges in medieval Europe, and everything was in their favor, like one riding a camel in the cool of spring, until some challenges eventually came their way beginning in the 11th and 12th centuries. The first challenge was that the Renaissance fathers realized the reality of the priesthood, just as we realized and explained above, and began to expose and oppose it. From the early Renaissance manifesto, "The Oration on the Dignity of Man" by Mirandola, to all other subsequent writings such as Newton's "A Short Scheme of the True Religion," all pointed to the fact that the Divine path is inherent in every man without any need for a priest or external agency, and the path is in the form of virtue and knowledge. They rejected the church's dogma and sacraments as having any effect or value.

The second challenge was the Protestant movement, which began around the same period. Protestantism is not an instance of the pure religion, for it still retains many dogmas and impure elements of medieval Christianity; yet, it opposes the church establishment of the time and some of their dogmas. In particular, Protestantism dismissed the priesthood, and in that respect, it was in line with the Renaissance fathers in challenging the church. Other events such as the Black Death, the invention of the printing press, etc., each struck the ancient tree of the medieval church in different ways and directions, and made it like a bowed tree just before the last blow of the lumberman.

On Capitalism and How It Came to the Help of the Priesthood

And while the storm of these challenges was thundering, an opportunity began to loom in from its horizon; and that was the Industrial Revolution and its subsequent system of capitalism. The explanation thereof is, advancements in science and technology, which began alongside the Renaissance movement, eventually reached a point where mass production became a possibility for the first time in human history, starting in the mid-eighteenth century. The owners of these means of mass production—the factory owners—began to grow powerful, for they could increasingly control the markets and, eventually, society itself. They were called capitalists.

Capitalism provided a power base unlike anything before. For in older days, due to manual production, the supply was limited, and businessmen of the time could not become so rich to dominate and affect politics in major ways. They could enjoy a luxurious life along with some limited influence and favors from society, but power was still in the hands of kings and their inner circle of nobles. But with the Industrial Revolution and the automation of production, the supply grew a hundredfold or even a thousandfold, and so did the power and influence of their producers (capitalists). By the late nineteenth century, for the first time in history, capitalists could become as rich as kings and as powerful as kings. These days, current capitalists have more money than several countries combined, and global affairs are dictated and directed by them in practice.

The church priests, whose market and business were taking a downturn due to the Renaissance movement and other factors, found a saving hand in capitalism. Just as Jesus came walking on water and saved the drowning Peter, so capitalism came and provided them with a power base better and safer than the already unpopular and under-attack Christian priesthood. Priests and other power elites of the time gradually started to switch to the boat of capitalism from the Titanic of the church, and a new establishment and milk cow was formed.

How Capitalism Became the Basis of a New Bible That Promotes Hedonism and Vulgarity

But for the new establishment to be successful, a new set of doctrines and practices was needed. For in medieval times, there was no mass production, and as a result, there was a scarcity of materials. Most people possessed only the bare necessities of life; some could not even do this. It was quite common to have no shoes or to wear a ragged tunic all the time. The wealth accumulation of nobility and elites—priests included—also exacerbated the situation and further impoverished common people.

As a result, for the medieval church to keep people from revolting against this poverty, it was necessary to normalize the situation by promoting poverty as a "virtue" and as a trait and commandment of Jesus. Other related virtues such as patience and submission to fate were also actively promoted and spread by the church as part of its coping mechanism for the masses. Based on these values, an ideal man was one who had only one shirt throughout his entire life and relied on praying and submission for every incident and disaster.

But with capitalism and its mass production, such an ideal was no longer desirable. Now the ideal man is not one who buys one shirt for his entire life, but a man who buys a shirt every week, or even every day, so that capitalism—and its Neo-priests, also known as capitalists—can make a profit and remain in power. Similarly, an ideal man is no longer one who relies on Jesus and prayer for incidents, but one who relies on insurance and buying other financial products for every occasion. In short, what the new system wanted was no longer a traditional Christian who waits and waits and prays and prays, but a hedonistic and cowardly creature who buys and buys and consumes and consumes.

In order to make this happen, many ideals and virtues of the medieval church had to be reversed and replaced: greed in the place of poverty and contentment, fear in the place of faith, going to a casino in the place of going to church, watching movies and ads in the place of prayer and contemplation, rivalry in the place of fellowship, "beat your neighbor" in the place of "love your neighbor," and so on. As a result, a new doctrine and a new bible were formed by the new establishment which, instead of morality and contentment, promoted hedonism, cowardice, stupidism, shallow-ism, and other degrading traits that make people buy more products and services and help consumerism to propel.

Instead of Jesus, this new bible and doctrine placed "science" and its new discoveries as its base and justification. By doing so, they did a very crafty trick: for on one hand, they dodged the criticisms of the Renaissance fathers, and on the other hand, they used the credit and popularity of the same Renaissance fathers and the new sciences they were producing to build themselves up. They used the power of the enemy to defeat the enemy. They indeed exemplified the Gospel's verse that: "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves" (Matthew 7:15). For they used to come to people in the clothes of priests, and now in the clothes of the "enlightened" scientists and liberals, and in either case, they were that "ravenous wolf."

How the New Establishment Used the Same Methods as the Medieval Church to Sustain Itself

This new bible was opposite to the Christian bible in content but same in its goal, which was the domination and ruling over the masses. It was also similar in terms of the methods and approaches used to spread it in society. For the directors and captains of the new establishment were the former priests of the medieval church, and they brought the same mentality and tools into the new establishment. It is important to note that the goal of the medieval church was not real devotion to Jesus and his teachings, but the power and credit they could earn from Jesus. The tools and tactics used in the medieval church were designed to subdue and rule over the crowd, and now they could be equally applied to capitalism and its agendas. Now we explain these tools:

The first of these tools is "fundamentalism," meaning the claim that one's ideology and philosophy is the "only truth," and rejecting all other alternatives. The medieval church considered itself the sole possessor of the truth. They banned all other religions and ideologies and tagged them as "heresy," which was punishable under their laws. Similarly, in the new establishment, any ideology or statement outside of material sciences is derided and tagged as non-scientific, superstition, pseudo-science, etc., and any practice in regard to ethics is tagged as backwardness and close-mindedness. In the current culture, it is impossible to bring up any discussion about metaphysics or spirituality when in a group; only discussions about weather, gas prices, and other material trivialities are allowed.

The second tool is "appeal to human values," meaning the claim that one's ideology represents and guarantees the highest and most noble human values. The medieval church, by its claim to represent the will and favor of God, considered itself as containing all the valuable and lofty things in human life. Similarly, the new establishment claims to be the upholder of "freedom," "dignity," "equality," "justice," and other values that are important to us. But in truth, both of these establishments were doing the exact opposite.

The third tool is "appeal to celebrity," meaning the claim that one's ideology is a "continuation" and following of popular and famous people of the past, and this way legitimizes the ideology using the credit and fame of these people. The medieval church claimed to be following Jesus and used his weight and popularity to sustain itself. Similarly, the new establishment used prominent Western figures, such as Galilei, Newton, Hume, Bacon, Descartes, and other brilliant personalities, and claims itself to be following and proceeding on the path and philosophy they preached. But the truth is those very same figures would repeat their anti-church writings against this new establishment as well.

On the Second Medieval Church and Second Dark Age That We Are Living In

Thus, the medieval church was not destroyed but transformed into a new church, a second medieval church, with a different doctrine but the same dogmatism and priestly structure. If we are to grant that there was indeed a "war" between science and religion in the medieval or modern centuries, the winner was not science but religion, by metamorphosing itself into another religion (the religion of science and materialism). The enlightenment and the spiritual system started by Dante, Mirandola, Newton, Leibniz, and a myriad of other European sages lasted but a few centuries before falling into another dark age created by these Neo-priests, and it continues until this very day.

So we are living in the second dark age, and under the second medieval church, which is headquartered in the Western world, whose capital shifted from Rome further to the west and into the New World. The first and second medieval churches both had the same goal and purpose, which is to provide power and privilege for a few at the expense and detriment of many. One was doing it through faith and virtue, and the other through fear and vice.

How Today's Materialism and Demoralization Are Due to the Second Medieval Church's Operations and Not the European Renaissance or Human Progress

Thus, today's dominant materialism, nihilism, hedonism, and demoralization are "not" the result of European Renaissance enlightenment, nor the result of progress and civilization, nor deliberate choices of humanity as commonly perceived these days, but the result of the activities of this second medieval church, which purposefully tries to create a stupid and immoral society so that it can rule over them through the bible of capitalism and consumerism.

For example, all the movies produced in recent years were centered around mischief, violence, sexual scenes, and stigmatized behaviors. But movies can also be about spirituality, morality, and high values. Using the current state-of-the-art and advanced visual effects technology, they can effectively and artistically picture the spiritual journey of a truth seeker, or inner visions of a monk, or the ails of a yogi. Movies can be about these topics as well. But we see all movies are about negativity and vices.

This cannot be excused by blaming it on the people and saying, "This is what people want to see." For what we call the rule of 50-50 is in place in the universe, which states that half is good and half is evil. In the particular case of people, it means half of people have a tendency toward noble and meaningful things and half toward gross and negative things. The exact proportion of good and evil people can vary in a society and over time, but on average, a half-and-half ratio holds. For in the beginning of creation, two principles of Goodness and Evil separated from each other like two twins and found enmity with each other, and the current universe was born as a battlefield between these two primordial twins. Given the equality of their powers and the fairness of the battle, one may contend that half of creation is on the good side and half on the evil side.

This granted, we would expect half of the movies, or at least a noticeable percentage of them, to be about noble values and spirituality to appeal to the good half of the population. But the fact that 100% of the movies hinge on evil and lasciviousness shows that deliberate and planned forces are behind the scenes, which are indeed the ministry of the second medieval church's priests, whose goal is to lower the morality and intelligence of the community. What we see every day on TV or billboards is a testimony to this truth.

This is not to promote conspiracy theories and the existence of a centralized agency of power. Whether there is such a thing or not is a separate topic, and we will not discuss it here. But regardless of that, one thing is clear, and that every capitalist and center of power knows this simple fact that a stupid and hedonistic society fits their purpose of gaining profit and power much better. Due to this common understanding, all these powerful and influential people will move in the same direction of promoting such a condition in society, even in the absence of a centralized conspiracy committee.

For in a moral and virtuous society, there would be no place and profit for them: if people develop the virtue of contentment and stop going to shopping malls every other day; if youths turn to studying philosophy, poems, and other noble pursuits instead of watching Instagram all the time; if nobody subscribes to Netflix and Roblox; if nobody pays for ads, then a lot of money and market will be lost, most businesses (who make money by people's idiocy) will go bankrupt, and Neo-priests will lose their profit and power base.

As a result, the second medieval church—in contrast to the first church—can only thrive in a hedonistic and nihilistic society where people go after any ad and follow any fad, and buy every garbage. People should be greedy so that new brands of cellphones can sell millions on day one of release; people should be hedonistic so that thousands of harmful and poisonous "entertainments" (movies, games, concerts, etc.) can attract thousands of customers; people should be negligent and unempathetic so that the wastefulness, destruction of the environment, rivalry, inequality, colonization, wars, and other branches of work necessary for the operation of capitalism can continue without any serious challenge.

Thus, hedonism, nihilism, and other vices are the "rock" on which the second medieval church is built. The goal of the second medieval church is to create and engineer a weak and immoral society and to keep the intelligence and spiritual level of people at the lowest possible point, only enough to prevent chaos and barbaric insurrections.

On the Missionary Operations of the Second Medieval Church and How It Deliberately and Effectively Spreads Anti-Values in Society

Just as the first medieval church would send missionaries everywhere to convince and convert the crowd, the second medieval church also has missionaries, though not so much in human form but more in electronic forms, namely the media and internet. In fact, today's media is the greatest church missionary operation in human history, whose goal is to induce immorality, hedonism, nihilism, and other traits necessary for the success and prosperity of the second medieval church.

The media and other missionary forces of the second medieval church achieve this goal through various agendas and programs such as:

1. Marginalizing religion and spirituality by labeling them as backwardness, superstition, pseudo-science, abuse, etc.

2. Discrediting religious and spiritual figures by spreading rumors of financial corruption, pedophilia, and other vices against them. There is not a spiritual teacher these days who is not accused of illicit affairs with women.

3. Promoting nihilism, that life is meaningless, there is nothing out there, and one should only go after base pleasures. In movies, they often depict a religious figure, such as a Catholic priest, as the bad guy and his church as a location of smuggling or kidnapping, to further bolster the idea that everyone is after their own gain and religion is just a business.

4. Hooking people to meaningless and spirit-killing clips through mobile phones and social media; and watching these videos for a large portion of the day, which results in debasing the mind, brain rot, and lowering intelligence and attention span. This has produced a degraded and degenerated generation.

5. Promoting violence, rape, treason, and other vices through movies and video games to further demolish the moral base of society.

6. Wasting people's time and mental energy through complex bureaucracy, form filing, online account creation, verification loops, legal traps, etc.

7. Destroying all social structures: neighborhood, families, friendships, etc., through various means and philosophies such as individualism, feminism, racism, and mobile-phonism. This makes everyone lonely, and loneliness leads to weakness, and weakness further facilitates exploitation and enslavement by the system (the second medieval church).

8. Supporting and propelling "influencers," a group of very ignorant and characterless young people who become role models for other youth, and "blind leads the blind and both fall into the ditch" (Matthew 15:14). Thus, the spiritual and moral lives of youth are negatively influenced by these influencers, and stupidism becomes prevalent.

9. Canceling all those who promote real spirituality and solutions to current problems, and instead promoting and fabricating fake religions and forms of spirituality which are based on non-action, passivity, and neutral viewpoints—such as modern yoga, mindfulness, and monastic sects. These religions do not address the real roots of our problems and are truly "opium of the masses."

10. Creating rivalry and competition among mankind, and spreading the myth of competition, meaning competition results in progress, but in reality, competition only creates progress in pain, enmity, and loneliness.

And many other similar methods and tactics they employ both in the media and in other modern institutions such as schools and public offices. The result of all of these is the destruction of morality, of wisdom, of humanity, and the creation of a state of doom and depression, of ignorance and idiocy, as we all witness today.

It is in such a condition that meaningless movies can sell millions, overtly violent video games are played by all ages, and ads for useless products find large converts. It is in such a situation that capitalism and the new church can grow and flourish, and not in a spiritual society in which virtues and character building are the focus and goal of citizens. In such a society, people would not follow ads, would not buy excessively, and consequently, capitalism would not succeed.

The Illegitimacy of the Current System

Thus, today's fall of morality and rise in materialism and selfishness is not an accident, nor a result of Renaissance enlightenment, nor "human evolution," nor an organic choice of human society as they claim, but that the current system is manipulating and pushing people in this direction, and that the system wants people to be ignorant and non-spiritual, for otherwise it cannot exist and its activities cannot be justified.

As a result, the system tries to purposefully prevent people from gaining wisdom, from attaining enlightenment, and from developing virtues. It destroys morality, destroys self-sense, and all human values, and by doing so, it trashes the achievements of thousands of years of civilization among all nations, including Western Europe itself. And these things happen so that the Neo-priests of the second medieval church can rule and enjoy, just as their ancestor priests did during the first medieval church.

Based on this, the current system is a criminal and illegitimate establishment. It has victimized and enslaved the new generation—and in fact, the whole globe—by depriving them of spiritual growth and God realization, which is the birthright of every human. They claim to be proponents of human rights, yet they violate the most basic and most important such right; indeed, they are a wrong and misguided group. And all these victims, lost lives, depressions, and doom among the young generation exist so that their markets remain revolving and indices go up. All the money and assets in the markets are indeed the price of the souls of our children, which are lost forever.

On the Need for a Second Renaissance and How It Could Be a Replica of the Medieval Renaissance in Europe

Thus, action is needed to redress the situation. Just as the first medieval church kept Europe in darkness for over a thousand years, this second medieval church will also do the same if no action is taken. To stop the second medieval church, a second renaissance is needed.

The Renaissance fathers did a brilliant and brave job in fighting the first medieval church, and for a short span of several centuries—mainly from the 15th to 18th centuries—a great light of wisdom and Divinity shone in Western Europe. And all the great discoveries and advances in science, which benefit us today and formed the foundation of our modern leisure, were founded or at least initiated during that period.

And not just science, but in fact, spirituality and art all progressed hand in hand during the medieval renaissance, as they are all aspects of Divinity in this world. Formidable scientists, engineers, and poets emerged; it was the time of magnificent paintings by da Vinci, the revolutionary findings of Newton, high philosophies of Descartes, magical poems of Shakespeare, and many other great and authentic works.

But soon the medieval church priests counter-attacked and re-emerged with a new face and brand. They nullified the efforts of Renaissance fathers and ushered in a second dark age and a second medieval church. They falsely labeled this second dark age as the Age of Enlightenment, while in fact, the Age of Enlightenment was the period preceding it.

Now it is our turn to fight this new dark age, just as the Renaissance fathers did with the previous one. And our fight will be more or less along the same lines and concepts as they laid out. Just as the previous renaissance began by looking into classic Greek and Roman literature, and in particular the writings of Cicero, we also begin with Cicero and look into his famous work "De Officiis" (On Duties) and the quote "Non nobis solum nati sumus" ("we are not born for ourselves alone"), and by this we reject the current selfishness and individualistic attitudes that the system tries to induce in us.

Next, we turn to Mirandola's "Oration on the Dignity of Man" to recall man's potential and duty to become wise and virtuous and how he will outrank angels if he becomes so, and by this, we reject today's nihilism and stupidism. Next, we focus on Newton's "A Short Scheme of the True Religion" and similar texts to establish a foundation for a true religion and spirituality that can uplift man and answer life's questions.

Next, we go to Descartes, Hume, and others who marked the beginning of skepticism toward the medieval church, and we also take up this weapon of skepticism toward the second medieval church and its dogma of science fundamentalism; we become skeptical of skeptics. And similarly, we follow other writings and ideas of Renaissance fathers to debunk the ideologies of the perverted culture and trigger a second renaissance to emancipate mankind from the emptiness and immoralities of today's world.

A Blueprint for the Second Renaissance and Areas of Contention

The second renaissance should oppose all aspects of the current perverted culture, including:

1. Opposing nihilism and instead promoting adherence to spirituality and faith in God.

2. Discouraging the virtual world and instead encouraging a culture of living in the real world, in-person visits, and connection to nature.

3. Replacing social media doom scrolling with book reading, spiritual circles, and other forms of what can be called "spiritual media."

4. Opposing science totalitarianism and fundamentalism (aka scientism), particularly dismissing scientific claims in regard to the origin of creation and events of the far past or far future, as these are beyond the scope of scientific methods. Limiting the scope of science to everyday technological needs and avoiding presumptuous claims based on limited information; introducing the phrases "I don't know" or "we don't know" into scientific communities.

5. Opposing the global spread and takeover of the perverted culture (aka Westernization), for it is entirely made of elements and symbols of nihilism, hedonism, hate, and selfishness. Each country has to follow and promote its own culture, music, clothing, etc., and should revive its own ancient wisdom and spirituality.

6. Opposing individualism by forming groups, colonies, and other sorts of communities where members are loyal to each other with a spiritual bond between them. This is essential for the spiritual growth of humanity, empowering individuals, and taking away stresses and loneliness.

7. Rejecting the myth that competition leads to progress. Competition leads to no progress other than progress toward a jungle. In commerce, trade, sport, and any other area, everything should be cooperative, and the experienced old-timers should help and train the newcomers, and all take a share from this table of God. Nobody should crush others. Thus, all forms of competition should be banned and replaced with friendship and cooperation. In particular, today's sports industry should be banned as it is nothing but a remnant of Roman amphitheater games where men and animals tore each other apart for others' amusement and money hoarding.

8. Discouraging sedentary and cloistered forms of religion, for true spirituality is all about fighting with oppressors and solving society's problems. By means of this, man becomes holy, as determined by Divinity in the beginning of creation.

This way, we may finish the task that Renaissance fathers started and offer our duty to the Divinity.

Conclusion

Thus, we have explained parts of what was revealed to our heart in regard to this world and its current state, and may God bless us and accept this little service from us.