George Christensen has a great piece which addresses a theme which Christian conservatives are often a bit shy to openly discuss: the influence of Satan, prince of darkness upon the world. The liberal Christians today go so far as the reject the existence of Satan, even though the Bible is clear that this being exists, and acts to cause evil. "Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." 1 John 3:8. And, Matthew 4:1-11 ESV:
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...”
There are dozens of Biblical passages like this. But philosophically, if light exists, then so would darkness. The real question is to what extend does the devil grip the modern world? George is quite right to see a Satanic grip upon the whole of Western civilisation, destroying us from within. There are too many evil agendas to just believe what Eric Butler called the “idiot theory’ of history, that it is all just happening. I would go further, and see many of the elites as not “lizard people,” as one famous critic who is anti-Royal family proclaims, but as with Mike Adams, seeing demonic possession. Not so much in the Hollywood style of some evil spirit taking over the body, but rather the person becoming corrupted by accepting evil, and fully knowing what they are doing.