The collectivist mentality began with the historical philosophy of Friedrich Hegel. It progressed to a solely economic and materialistic explanation of history through the philosophies of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin. It obtained its foundation from the supposed scientific theory of evolution avouched by Charles Darwin, who was an amateur scientist. This philosophy is completely atheistic and materialistic. Nazism and Fascism are also based on this philosophy. The collectivist mentality adheres to all forms of left-wing ideology from American liberalism to European socialism to Soviet and Chinese communism.
Hegel's philosophy proposed that history itself formed a powerful force that carried mankind along with it, similar to the way a raging river carries along people trapped in it. The raging river may drown some, may strand others on rocks in the river, and may deliver others safely to shore. But man has no power against the river. The river controls man's destinies.
Karl Marx, using the theory of evolution as the foundation for his philosophy, replaced Hegel's power of history with an economic power within history that would eventually deliver mankind to the shores of an economic utopia called communism. Marx thought that the moneyed classes, whom he thought oppresses the poorer classes, would all eventually be drowned by the power of his economic raging river if they fought against the current. Those who clung to the past would be stranded on rocks, but those who allowed themselves to be carried along by the current would eventually be swept to safety on the utopian shores of the communist society. Marx believed that the moneyed classes should be drowned by his raging economic river because they were the villains of history. Nazism simply replaced the the economic classes of Marx's theory with a racist theory which maintained that the superior race, the Aryans, should survive the raging river while all supposed inferior races should be drowned or stranded. In any case, all collectivist ideology is based on Darwin's supposed scientific theory of evolution which holds that in the course of history only those most fit will survive; that is, only those who cope with the raging river the best will survive. Marx believed that the raging economic river could never be stopped. No matter what each person may do, the entire human race will ineluctably be carried to the communist state. One suspects that Marx borrowed this idea from Christianity which teaches that Christ and His church will inevitably win over evil in the end.
All of this means that in the collectivist mentality, the whole human race included, the value of the individual cannot be considered important. Some are drowned and some are stranded, but those who have the good sense to allow themselves to be carried along by the raging river will eventually arrive safely to the utopian shore. The raging economic river itself remains completely indifferent as to who drowns and who survives.
Judaism and Christianity are directly opposed to this collectivist ideology. Christianity teaches that God controls the course of history, and that His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, came into the world to save every individual human who ever came into the world. Christianity teaches that the raging river is the evil, and its destruction of any individual is a tragedy. When Jesus walked the earth, He healed and saved people as individuals. When He died on the cross and rose from the dead, He did this to save every individual who ever lived from the destruction of the raging river. Christianity teaches that the raging river will eventually destroy all who refuse to call out to Christ for their salvation.
American liberals reveal their allegiance to the collectivist ideology when they assert that their supposed progressive ideas cannot be stopped and will eventually prevail in all future societies. The rights of women to have abortions and the rights of gays to marry are two such so-called progressive ideas that cannot be stopped. But the central theme of the collectivist ideology is that individual lives are not important. Unborn humans can be destroyed at will because the self-centered collectivist ideas about women is that which is most important, not the value of unborn individuals. The survival of the fittest is that which is important, and if any individual gets in the way of the collectivist mentality of progress, even if it is an innocent unborn baby, then that individual can be coldly dispatched and discarded. Because of the collectivist mentality, the communists shot millions of people in the backs of their heads, and subjected millions of others to slavery in gulags. The individual is simply not important to them.
The human race should thank God for Christianity. God loves every individual and every individual is important to Him. The Christian ideal of the great value of individual human life, and his freedom, created Western civilization. Christians should always stand for the great value of unborn humans, and against the collectivist mentality of the abortionist.
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