Apostate: the Men who Destroyed the Christian West—Book
Summary
By Ryan Marks
Apostate by
Kevin Swanson is a book that I would recommend to every Christian. This book
helps you understand a lot of things that we are not taught. Charles Darwin,
Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of The
Scarlet Letter), Mark Twain, John Dewey, and many more have influenced
Western Culture and even the entire world. In this book you uncover the side of
people’s lives that you usually would never learn in a reading of these
individuals. Was Shakespeare a homosexual and were his works written by Marlow,
his “murdered” homosexual friend? Nathaniel Hawthorne was obsessed with demons
and went to mediums. Melville, a friend of Hawthorne’s, which was written
“under compulsion” upon reading The
Scarlet Letter said that he had written a wicked book himself and perhaps
the same “rushing demon” had affected Hawthorn.
You wouldn’t think of some of the men that
Swanson presents as being all that bad, much less Apostates of the Christian
Faith….at first glance. Take Mark Twain for example—an American humorist right?
Well….there was more. Twain said, “The Bible is a compendium of blood-drenched
history…and a wealth of obscenity; and upward of a thousand lies.” Sound like a
Christian or a harmless humorist? No. In addition, Mark Twain wrote letters
that he claimed were from Demons, perhaps even Satan himself. He told no one to
publish them, however after his daughter died, his horrific Letters From The Earth was discovered.
Sartre claimed to have thrown the Holy Ghost
out, John Dewey (the “father of modern education”) said that God was “outdated
metaphysical goods,” Karl Marx wanted to kill God or at least spite him (sadly,
Marx is responsible for the blood of millions), Rousseau (the praised
“educator” in colleges) abandoned his five children on the steps of an
orphanage after they were born with “the woman he used for mere pleasure and
never loved” and wrote works that today are being implemented—give your
children to the state to be educated…and there are many more.
Many of the idols and shapers of modern education claimed to
be demon possessed!
It is eye opening to understand more of
history—how everything ties together and builds upon itself. Many of these
Apostates regarded previous Apostates as their heroes. The results are around
us today. America and Europe did not get the way they are today. Parents,
please read this book and have your young adults study it as well. This is
important stuff to know.
