Bannon: Always the Rebel by Keith Koffler

Author:Keith Koffler [Koffler, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: politics, biography
ISBN: 9781621577379
Google: gF8qDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B073K8RSJ5
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2017-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Torchbearer , Bannon’s 2016 documentary featuring Duck Dynasty ’s Phil Robertson, highlights the current weakness of the West by describing the danger that presents itself when societies turn from God. Not only do they become weak when confronted with peril from without, but they face degradation from within. Without religion, the film asserts, man’s law reigns, not God’s, and while God’s values are both good and eternal, man on his own will make it up as he goes along, with potentially grave consequences.

“Divorced from God the city of man devolves into strife, war, and the will to power over others,” Robertson says. “Which eventually ends in ruin.” Robertson notes that America’s Founding Fathers assumed man’s rights were “endowed by their Creator.” Therefore, they cannot be taken away by the government or other men. “What anchor do you have for human dignity and rights once you forget where your rights come from? When men begin to determine what’s right and what’s wrong?” Robertson asks. “Oh my goodness,” he answers, and the documentary then turns to the bloody, atheistic French Revolution. It moves on to the twentieth century and the atheist Nazis and takes the viewer to both the Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps.

The film condemns as false gods “hyper-rationalism,” the “worship of science,” and subjective morality, all of which lead to the death camps or to revolutionary terror. Robertson asks: “If you live by the utilitarian belief in the greatest good for the greatest number of people, what happens when the majority decides it’s in your own good to kill all the Jews?”

The film continues with footage of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, an obvious example of a minority with God’s moral law on their side fighting the oppression of the majority. Ironically, for someone who routinely gets accused by the most strident voices of being a Nazi, two of the most significant segments in this, Bannon’s most recent film, concern the civil rights movement as a moral cause and the Holocaust as the result of an immoral ideology.

The documentary describes the moral degradation within our own society driven by a rejection of God. “We’ll all be dead soon so who cares? Live for yourself. You decide right and wrong,” is the thinking, Robertson says. “We are no longer image bearers” of God, “we are crotch-driven animals following our instincts,” he intones, as we are shown scenes from debauched popular entertainment.

The film then contrasts graphic scenes of Islamist terrorists killing people, with Robertson baptizing people, a not so subtle reminder that while Islamists love death, conservative Christians like Robertson love life. Bannon believes the West needs to revive the Judeo-Christian belief and traditions that made it great and that will defend it during its current struggle against radical Islam.

But that struggle, he is quick to point out, does not mean endless war for the United States against extremists from a global religion. Prudence needs to be as much a part of American strategy as will and military

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