The Great Dethroning
Why Leftism Ultimately Seeks to Replace God
Every ideology carries a hidden center of gravity — a single idea around which all its claims orbit. For leftism, that center is not equality, compassion, or justice as it often advertises. The beating heart of leftist ideology is something far more ancient and far more dangerous: the dethroning of God and the enthronement of humanity in His place.
This may sound dramatic, but history bears witness. Philosophy confirms it. Policy reveals it. And the cultural chaos around us testifies to it daily. Leftism is not primarily a political project; it is a theological one. It seeks to erase the Creator so that human beings may become creators of a new moral order, a new human nature, and ultimately a new society molded in their own image.
And anytime human beings try to play God, coercion always follows.
Truth vs. The Grand Reimagining
Throughout Scripture and throughout America’s founding, we are told a simple truth: humans are made in the image of God, endowed with agency, accountable to divine law, and designed with inherent limits. These truths restrain tyranny because they declare that every human soul belongs to God, not to the state or to the powerful.
Leftism rejects this. It must reject this.
Why? Because if God exists, then human nature is fixed — and utopian social engineering becomes impossible. If we are created beings with inherent worth and genuine agency, then no government has the right to override our conscience, reprogram our values, or force social “equity” at the barrel of a bureaucratic pen.
So leftism attempts a great reimagining: change the nature of the human person by first denying the Author who wrote that nature.
Humans as Widgets: The Left’s Great Mistake
Once God is dethroned, humans no longer appear as sacred image-bearers. Instead, they look like malleable widgets — raw material to be shaped, engineered, and optimized by enlightened policymakers.
And if humans are just widgets, then coercion makes perfect sense.
This belief underlies nearly every leftist project:
Socialism sees humans as economic units that must be compelled into collective equality.
Gender ideology views humanity as blank slates whose identities can be rewritten by willpower or ideology rather than acknowledged as God-given realities.
Radical egalitarianism treats human differences — even those rooted in nature — as injustices to be engineered out of existence.
Technocratic progressivism assumes experts can design a better society if only people would behave according to their models.
Leftist ideology denies the stubbornness of human nature, the reality of individual agency, and the moral limits established by God. It refuses to acknowledge that human beings are not clay in the hands of central planners, but souls in the hands of a Creator.
The Writer and the Pen
Imagine a writer holding a pen. The writer expects the pen to obey — to move where he moves, to write what he commands. If the pen refuses, he forces it, presses harder, tightens his grip. Why? Because the writer sees himself as the pen’s god — its maker, its master.
This is how leftist ideology views humanity.
The people are the pen. The ideology is the writer. The state is the hand squeezing the pen tighter and tighter until the ink spills in the right direction.
But here is the fatal flaw: the pen analogy only makes sense if humans are mere objects, lifeless instruments without moral will or divine purpose. And that assumption collapses the moment we recognize the truth:
Humans are not pens. We are image-bearers. We have agency, conscience, and an unerasable spark placed in us by God Himself.
Government coercion cannot overwrite what God has written.
