If you lean to the right as a conservative of faith, and are shocked and chagrined thinking how so many talking heads of the left seem like ignorant liars, you are not alone. Your observation is that of an intellectual or what is termed today a “critical thinker”. Interestingly, the true intellectuals of the left are coming to this same conclusion. They are starting to disassociate with the liberal left and thus the Democrats. They are discerning the sins of fascism and tyranny.
One such progressive liberal of the left who has had one of these, “Ah ha!” moments is author and podcaster Dr. Naomi Wolf. Like so many other noted public intellectuals of late, she seems to be on a spiritual journey worth notice. Intellectuals like Jordan Peterson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Tom Holland, and Douglas Murray, seem to be heading in the direction of New Testament Christianity. Dr. Wolf is one of those who offer some new thoughts and perspectives to life-long Christ followers.
Just as these times are a changing, so too has Dr. Wolf. In her past she was always been a bit of a rebel and outsider even for a lefty as can be seen in her past writings on topics such as abortion. But when she witnessed the horrific tyranny we all went through during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how all the world leaders suddenly willingly marched in lockstep to a narrative that seemingly had to have been preconceived, as a Jew, she was reminded of the Holocaust of World War II Germany.
She pondered and reasoned and came to the conclusion that as lockdowns prohibited all that is good with the world such as faith, hope, and love, while allowing evils such as tyranny, strip club operations and rioting in the streets, she reasoned such a focused evil must have an equal and opposite in the goodness of a higher power.
Her revelation and reversal of her prior thought process resulted in her new book, “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age” (Chelsea Green, 2023).
For this highly intellectual secular Jew to start thinking and talking a whole new way is quite a turnaround. To Dr. Wolf there is no other way to explain the horrific and really satanic things we all went through in this supposed global pandemic. She reasoned there must be something more to this world than this sudden seemingly orchestrated sinister side of life. She began to do two things she had never really engaged in before, reading the Bible and prayer.
In the Bible she noticed recurring themes such as every time mankind has turned their backs on God, He would do likewise. She realized the importance of this “social construct” between God and mankind and how we are so much like Him. To lifelong Christians the term is known as “corporate sin”. The concept holds that when most of society is accepting of bad, God, who is good, is not accepting of society. The good must always outnumber and hold the bad in check for mankind to be in balance with God.
In one chapter of her book “The Last Taboo” she speaks of this metaphysical battle we are in related to in this battle.
“The world-spirit now is overtaken by the struggle between good and evil. Nothing stands in between. Everything else now on the planet is secondary to this battle; everything else is a symptom, a byproduct and manifestation, of this metaphysical world-conflict.” (p. 184)
CONCLUSION:
I watched Dr. Naomi Wolf being interviewed by Tucker Carlson and became aware of her and her new mindset and found her most interesting and logical. You can watch a clip of this interview at top of this article and the full video on the Tucker Carlson Network here)
One of the most fascinating portions of her interview was talking about our “divine mission” with God.
Carlson Question: “What changed in you that you are comfortable using that (Walk with God term.)?”
Dr. Wolf Answer: “Well, and this is something I write about in ‘Facing the Beast’, when I considered what I was seeing with all the heads of state of countries around the world walking in lockstep in an anti-human assault against citizens, right? And the lockdowns targeted, everything that is best about us as human beings; prayer, singing, family, intimacy, physical touch, physical contact, community, right? All of that was targeted. When I saw that happening around the world in identical language, all at the same time, I realized that from my study of history that was not possible by just human history. Human history doesn’t work that way. There are always dissidents inside, right? Or there are always factions, or rich people who can’t be bribed, or, you know, martyrs, it always way messier than that. You know, Hitler’s situation was messier; Stalin was very messy, right? You don’t get lockstep evil all over the world in concert with merely human efforts. And I also just felt that the world had something new let loose on it. It just felt like these dark forces had been let loose that had not been on the planet.”
She concluded that the good of God must exist for such a targeted evil to be unleashed on the world or there would be no such reason for this orchestrated effort of evil.
Getting to listen to Dr. Wolf was both amazing and refreshing. One could say somebody coming over from the dark side of the left to the light side of the right can teach us all something in both perspective and journey.
Dr. Wolf was a beloved fixture of the left and mainstream media for thirty years. That changed when she began to question the COVID-19 vaccines disrupting women’s menstrual cycles. For daring to question the safety and efficacy of the mRNA experimental drugs, she was attacked, smeared, and de-platformed 8 times. She lost both family and friends as the left, once again, proved themselves hypocrites when it comes to “tolerance”.
You can learn more about Dr. Naomi Wolf and her thoughts on her Substack account here: https://substack.com/@naomiwolf
“If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.”— Rush Limbaugh
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