"All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.  Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.  There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow."

Has there always been basically the same variety of philosophies, theologies and worldviews in human imagination through history?  Four thousand years ago were there atheists, moral relativists, multiculturalists, and secularists, at least in heart, alongside moral absolutists, theists, and cultural supremacists?  If we concede that there has been a diversity of opinions in all ages, what we find as the defining factor in the shaping of history is which camp receives authoritative establishment and which is suppressed by the power of authority.  There are various methods of this ascendancy to supremacy manifested through time, but military force lies at the heart of them all.  Avoiding establishmentarianism is impossible.  An authority establishes some philosophy, worldview, or religion de facto, by the power of the "sword".  What the writers referenced in this section were intent on accomplishing was the disestablishment of the Church or Christian religion and either replacing it with their own machinations or leaving it to someone else to fill the void.  However, established or not, the one true Faith must prevail by the Sovereign Hand of the Almighty.

Enlightenment Voices

Mislead Theologians

Wayward Shepherds