Does the alt-right hate the light?

I have some fresh heresy for you. It will probably upset Tommy Robinson, so you know it is going to be good.

We will start with a well-known passage:

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed. But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

I’m going to ignore the bit where it links up with a passage about how you must be saved and look at the surface truth. Specifically, Strong says of the word translated as “light” here that it “is used to denote truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity congruous with it”.

Thank you for bearing with me in the setup. Now we can read this as “everyone who does evil deeds hates the light of truth”. Does that remind you of anyone or any group of anyone in the current culture and political climate?

For me, this describes the pathological way some folks cling to destructive and disproven things, such as those in the Flat Earth movement, the AntiVaxxers, the alt-right, those who insist wokism is what is wrong with the country, and those who teach empathy is evil. Don’t even get me started on how some seem to think that Trump is akin to the second coming, with all the evidence to the contrary. The weird, obsessive belief that Antifa is a terrorist organisation rather than a movement against fascism is another one that flees from the light of truth.

So here’s my heresy for today. Those groups that hide from the light of truth prefer darkness (to be hidden) because their deeds are (or contribute overall to) evil. (No duh!). Therefore, the deeds of the (mostly) far right cannot be deeds that have “been done in God”.

Not that most people who’d be willing to read a blog called Heresy is Brill should need to be told that.

To sum up, we should shine the light of truth in all directions to repel the schemes of those who love to remain hidden in darkness.

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