Epistemological impudence and the post-war consensus.

January 27, 2025.

Introduction. In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War,

the flesh of that spectacular victory provided an opportunity for the secularists to make their move, and make

it they most certainly did. With the American industrial machinery, untouched by the war,

with a massive number of soldiers coming home from the war, eager to get to work, the juggernaut

of the American economy began to move in truly impressive ways. And also remember that the war

ended with those two atomic

exclamation points in Japan, a fact that produced a certain amount of awe around the world.

Even when men don't worship power or like it, they do have to take it into account.

So the stage was set for a massive revisionist move. That revisionism rejected the God of our fathers

and set up the pretense

that we were a secular nation and always had been. But we were in fact a Christian nation,

and always had been, but now we were on the brink of a massive backsliding into apostasy

and epistemological impudence. Epistemology is that branch of philosophy that asks how do we

know that we know anything. And once we answer the question, it. It asks how do we know that we know anything?

And once we answer the question, it asks us, how do we know that?

Epistemological impudence is when rebels against God like to pretend that they don't already know things that Scripture says that they do know.

They knew God, but they glorified him not as God. Neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Romans 1, 19, and 21. And what came to be known as the

post-war consensus? That charade was directly connected to the impudence. But there was some post-war

dissensus. After the trauma of the Second World War, in which even the victors were scared sideways,

a soft relativism descended upon the elite eggheads. It was decided, among them it was decided,

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