Why Equality Is a False God

Reject Egalitarian Thinking

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If there is one concept that has most commanded how we are expected to think and act in modernity, it is “equality.” Such a term is so vague as to be almost, though not quite, meaningless. In that, it is especially toxic because it allows those who use it to use rhetorical tricks to support whatever they want and frame their demented demands in terms of morality.

This is why every attempt at totalizing and violent revolution that has been foisted on us by the left has been done so in the name of equality.

The French Revolution’s byword was “égalité,” which translates as “equality” and was the bludgeon used by the spiteful mutants in charge to justify murdering thousands upon thousands of innocents: those who rose above their fellows had to die so that all might be equal.

Similarly, as the Soviets tortured and murdered their way across Russia in the years after the Revolution, they did so in the name of equality. The former Guards officers had the skin peeled off their hands as a way of mocking the white gloves that they had once worn to show their dignity and honor; such dignity was seen as deserving of a painful death. Similarly, the kulaks across Russia and the Ukraine were defined as a class only by their being a step above the lowliest peasant; ownership of a tractor, a dairy cow, a slightly more prosperous farm than those of one’s neighbors could mark one out as a “kulak” and lead to a horrific, excruciating death at the hands of equality’s agents.

In Rhodesia, a system of government that had created immense prosperity was deemed evil because it recognized differences in human capability, and the whole world ganged up on and destroyed the Rhodesians as a result. In the Belgian Congo, a jewel of the colonial order was destroyed so that the natives could experience equality: what followed was a parade of horrors that has continued nearly unimpeded since the 60s. Such occurred as well in Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, and South Africa.

And we in the Anglosphere have not been spared. The quest for economic equality in the early 20th century turned into the 90% death and income taxes that destroyed any concept of dynasty or its benefits in America and turned Britain into a stagnant backwater characterized mainly by decay and socialism’s rotten fruits. At the same time as economic equality destroyed the great families and fortunes, racial equality meant cities were turned into war zones (literally) and outright terror groups like the Black Liberation Army left mostly unpunished.

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All of that gets back to the matter of “equality”: if taken seriously, it is a totalizing force, demanding the destruction of everything and everyone that is noble, excellent, or even just a bit better than the rest. It brooks no opposition, demands immense sacrifices, and is a mind virus that justifies any evil so long as the end thus achieved slakes its thirst for more equality, for less distinction. As Pope Pius XII put it:¹

Equality degenerates to a mechanical leveling, a colorless uniformity; the sense of true honor, of personal activity, of respect for tradition and dignity—in a word all that gives life its worth—gradually fades away and disappears.

In this, it is a false god, the priests of which claim that not only are we all equal in every respect, but that any deviation from such belief is the height of evil.

The greatest of false gods in the Bible, other than perhaps the ever-lurking spectre of informal Mammon worship,² is that of Moloch³: the demon god of the old Levant, the cruel and savage god whose adherrents were ordered to sacrifice their first born, their original hope in perpetuating themselves and that which cost them so much in toil and pain, to its red-hot arms.

“They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” -Jeremiah 32:35

An eldritch idol with the head of a bull and body of a man, perhaps a remnant of the old, pre-Indo-European chimeras that were worshiped before the coming of the Greeks, its metal arms outstretched over a roaring fire and into which the greatest sacrifices—the firstborn babes—were offered. Such was the false god, the idolatrous abomination which demanded a dire sacrifice.

Such is what equality has become. It is a worshipped idol, a cruel and demanding false god to which we have sacrificed much, even as it demands greater and greater burdens, and despite the fact that merely leaving it behind would leave it to rot and crumble in its falseness.

Equality Is In Opposition to Christianity

First, it is important to note that though the entirety of our society is saturated with a deep and abiding belief in equality as the ultimate good, including what remains of the Church, that modern trend stands in conflict with traditional church doctrine, as my friend Johann Kurtz has described well.

As de Oliveira notes in his terrific Nobility and Analogous Traditional Elites, a book about church teachings regarding nobility and how such nobility has acted in the Americas: