The People – the most successful tyranny the world has ever known.

Secularists have successfully equated the thought of a Christian society with oppression. Yet in the Western struggle against tyranny, it was belief in the authority of Christ’s word over all of life that effectively undermined the tyranny of kings, popes, and parliaments. Ironically, it was secularism with its claim that all power originated in man that always trended toward tyranny. The divine right of kings became the divine right of the People. Two and a half centuries of experience reveal that the people themselves never govern, only some tyrant, be it an individual or an assembly, in the name of the People.

The genius of locating all power in the People is that it flatters the tyrannized while exalting the tyrant. Even after 100 million plus have died in the name of the People, secularism remains fixed in the Western mind as the wellspring of freedom. But the data paint a very different picture. The ascendency of man qua man has subjugated more people than all the kings, popes, and parliaments in history. It is undoubtedly the most successful form of tyranny the world has ever known.