Utilitarianism Is an Antichrist Morality

"By their fruits ye shall know them." The highway to postmodern hell was paved with the best-sounding intentions.

A wicked wizard using his “Utilitarian Calculus” to mesmerize a crowd in a formerly Christian society.

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Mark Bisone

and I discussed in a recent podcast,¹ Christianity gets unfairly blamed for much of the evil currently consuming the postmodern West. Supposedly, Christianity cucked everyone and made us all easy marks for the Globohomo Ziobankster Cabal, despite the fact that the cucking keeps getting drastically worse as Christianity’s influence recedes from our culture. Truth is, rather than blaming Christianity for our postmodern “slave morality,” we should blame Utilitarianism.

Utilitarianism is a moral and legal philosophy that is based (roughly) on the following ideas: (1) that Pleasure is the greatest good, (2) that Pain (or Suffering) is the worst evil, (3) that pleasures and pains can be quantified (and even assigned a monetary value), and (4) that the duty of both individuals and governments is to bring about the greatest good for the greatest number of people (again with “good” defined as “maximum pleasure and minimum pain”). Since pleasures and pains are the only relevant moral considerations, and since they can be quantified in dollar amounts, duties are typically discharged by transferring money from one group of people to another. Thus, Utilitarianism is strongly favored by banksters and central planners.

Utilitarianism is so insidious because it takes a few simple truth about Human Nature and declares them to be the whole Truth. Pleasure, in itself, is good; Utilitarianism declares it to be The Good itself. As a purely descriptive matter, most of us are motivated, most of the time, by a desire for pleasure and an aversion to pain. Somehow, from this straightforward is, a very doubtful ought is derived. It’s all an illusion, like the rabbit that appears to materialize out of nothing inside a magician’s top hat, and upon this rotten foundation has been built an antichristian morality that is destroying the West.

Utilitarians are the real egalitarians!

According to its critics on the dissident Right, Christianity is to blame for all of clownworld’s DIEversity mandates, egalitarianism, and globalism. From Marxism to Wokeism, supposedly all the worst ideas of the Left are derived from Christian principles like The Golden Rule and biblical passages like The Parable of the Good Samaritan. I disagree. The real culprit is Utilitarianism.

Whenever Leftists appeal to scripture to justify their agenda, they always give it a fundamentally Utilitarian interpretation. They achieve this by taking the passage completely out of context, stripping away everything spiritual until nothing but a dry husk of vulgar materialism remains, ignoring ethnic and cultural distinctions, and treating both the subjects of the passage and the people to whom it was originally addressed as if they were all impersonal widgets who are fully interchangeable with the people living in any other time and place. In other words, they remove both the Christianity and the Humanity from the passage.

Theophilus Chilton

provides a thorough rebuttal of the Left’s deliberate distortions and contortions of scripture in his posts Driving Out the Moneychangers Again and Biblical Hospitality and Immigration. Blaming Christianity for the antichristian Left’s mischaracterizations of it, is like blaming a painter because you bought an obvious forgery — “Hey, if you hadn’t painted that, then he wouldn’t have forged it, and I wouldn’t have gotten ripped off when I bought it!” If anything, all the heretical knock-offs of Christianity demonstrate that there’s some solid value in the real thing; otherwise, no one would try to counterfeit it.

Besides, if you want a “religion” that works hand-in-glove with globalism, look at Buddhism, not Christianity. The platitudes of westernized Buddhism make decent punchlines for corny dad jokes — Did you hear about the Buddhist vacuum cleaner? No attachments! And A Zen monk walked up to a hot dog vendor and said, “Make me one with everything!” — but they also make dangerous mantras for well-intentioned liberals. No attachments! Certainly don’t be attached to things like the traditional culture of your provincial hometown! How unenlightened! Make me one with everything, including all the third-world biomass flooding across our open border! Buddhism provides a much more hospitable metaphysical home for Utilitarianism than Christianity does. This explains why many more self-professed Utilitarians (especially believers in the so-called “Effective Altruism” movement) are Buddhist rather than Christian.

Christianity not only permits, but requires you to make distinctions between people, and to show partiality to some individuals over others. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. (1 Timothy 5:8. KJV.) Even within the church, individual Christians are not considered identical and interchangeable, which is why St. Paul calls the church “Christ’s body,” with each member having a distinct role in a defined hierarchy. (See, 1 Corinthians 12.)

Utilitarianism, on the other hand, would have you reckon equally the pleasures and pains of all people — and even, increasingly, of all animals! Noted Utilitarian (and possible psychopath) Peter Singer says that we are wrong to prioritize the needs of Mankind over the needs of other species. Being “antiracist” isn’t even enough for Utilitarians; you have to be anti-speciesist as well! Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of PETA, once declared, “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”² See, there’s nothing special about you or your family! In the grand scheme of things, you’re no better than a rat!

Check out PETA’s webpage “Why Animal Rights?” In addition to Peter Singer, they shout out the Father of Utilitarianism himself, Jeremy Bentham. The Left doesn’t celebrate too many old dead white men from Britain’s imperial past, but they sure love them some Jeremy Bentham! I guess if you articulate a philosophy that provides a moral framework for convincing whites (and eventually everyone else) that their own lives are worth no more than that of a rat or a pig, then the Left will honor your legacy until the end of time.

Does Utilitarianism Lead to Victim Consciousness?

Jeremy Bentham, the founder of the reforming utilitarian school of moral philosophy, stated that when deciding on a being’s rights, “The question is not ‘Can they reason?’ nor ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’” In that passage, Bentham points to the capacity for suffering as the vital characteristic that gives a being the right to equal consideration. (Excerpt from Why Animal Rights?)

Something in that formulation presages today’s veneration of victim-consciousness as virtue. What underlies your dignity and value? Anything that you can achieve or become? Or anything that your life might mean to your loved ones? Nope. It’s your “capacity for suffering.” And it really doesn’t take that much effort to go from the idea that the “capacity for suffering” gives your life moral importance, to the idea that suffering itself is what really counts. Yes, I know that flatly contradicts the original Utilitarian premise that suffering is evil and pleasure is good, but that’s how the devil works, like an effective con artist or cult leader. He starts with what sounds agreeable and familiar, but then keeps twisting it, subtly at first, but eventually turns it into a full-blown pathology that ends up contradicting the platitudes used during the initial sales pitch.

Utilitarianism is a replacement morality (leading to replacement immigration) …

Back to Utilitarianism and Christianity. Not only do Utilitarians actively distort Christian teachings in order to manipulate people, but their entire project arose out of their desire to replace Christianity as the moral foundation of the modern West. Its founder, Jeremy Bentham was one of the new atheists of his era.

Between 1809 and 1823 Jeremy Bentham carried out an exhaustive examination of religion with the declared aim of extirpating religious beliefs, even the idea of religion itself, from the minds of men.³

While John Stuart Mill was more agnostic than atheist, and therefore less antagonistic towards traditional Christian beliefs than Bentham was, Mill nevertheless believed Bentham’s philosophy could meet the religious needs of society better than Christianity had been able to do.

In his Autobiography (1873) Mill relates that when he first encountered Bentham’s ideas in the Traités “I now had opinions, a creed, a doctrine, a philosophy; in one among the best senses of the word, a religion; the inculcation and diffusion of which could be made the principal outward purpose of a life” (1963–91, I, 67–68).⁴

The term “antichrist,” as used in the New Testament, doesn’t so much mean something that flat-out contradicts or opposes Christianity, as something that supplants it and tries to take its place, something that presents as a legitimate substitute for Christ. There are many counterfeits that aspire to that role, and Utilitarianism has been one of the more successful (although in reality it is connected to, and works in tandem with, other ideologies like Zionism and Marxism, as part of a larger Antichrist world system).

And we haven’t really discussed the spiritually poisonous idea that the greatest good in Life is pleasure, or that pain is the worst evil. That’s how we wind up with a “safety first” morality, where not dying matters infinitely more than actually living. If we adopt an absurdly reductionist materialism as our metaphysics, then I guess there’s no transcendent value in anything — and I suppose that that is why G.K. Chesterton said that the goal of the modern philosopher is to make you hate your own life as much as he hates his: misery loves company. They’ve taken the poison; now they’re spiritually dead; and they resent you because you are still alive. This is another reason why they hate Christianity so bitterly: it encourages people to reject the modern cynics’ poison.

These demons see a functional, high-trust community full of happy, healthy people with simple beliefs and traditional lifestyles, and they seethe with resentment and rage. They want to destroy it. They want to extinguish the light in every eye and erase the smile from every face. And to accomplish those desires, they use the devil’s favorite weapon, lies. And the most devastating lies of all are half-truths. They take something good and beautiful like The Golden Rule or The Parable of the Good Samaritan, and they corrupt it with the lies of Utilitarianism, like an assassin might corrupt his victim’s drink with a toxic poison. They can’t just give you the poison straight up; you’d never take it. So they mix it with something that appears outwardly good, so you’ll drink it unawares.

“Love your neighbor as yourself!” they proclaim, while using illegal immigrants as bioweapons to destroy the lives and livelihoods of the regular people who already live there. As with the climate change movement, we have a gang of guerilla moralists pretending to care about some terribly important cause, but their agenda always seems to benefit the elites while harming everyone else. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” said Jesus. Actions speak louder than words. Look at their track record. Look who benefits, and consider who is harmed. Where does Jesus ever command his followers to lie and cheat in order to promote an agenda that benefits the rich and powerful at the expense of all others?

“Do unto others what you would have them do unto you!” they scream, before making the extraordinary leap of illogic from that maxim to the conclusion that you must admit infinity third-world immigrants and relax every law and norm to tolerate the dysfunction and destruction those barbarians bring. This only makes sense if you contort the Golden Rule to fit a Utilitarian framing: all that matters is that net utility go up. In the final analysis, the well-being of the folks being replaced is outweighed by the hypothetical and abstract improvements to the lives of all the invaders. This way of thinking doesn’t work very well for the regular people being replaced, but it’s a dream come true for banksters and central planners.

They make bad-faith appeals to Christian principles to guilt-trip those they’re harming. They pat themselves on the back for their supposed virtue. It’s nakedly narcissistic.

It’s like going around and randomly sucker punching people and then quoting the verse about “turning the other cheek” to make your victims out to be the bad guy when they hit you back. That’s why St. Paul said, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life” (2 Corinthians 3:6 KJV). The Utilitarians lack the spirit, so they profess a belief in the letter of the Law — but only when it serves their interests. The sacrifice needed for their schemes always falls on others to pay, like how “no human is illegal” in places like Martha’s Vinyard … until those humans actually arrive there, in the flesh. They’re still not technically illegal, they just have to leave, or the people with guns will come in to make them leave — and then send them to live in the middle of the commoners’ community instead. In practice, the elites’ “utilitarian calculus” just winds up providing a pseudo-moral pretext for them to pursue their own private profit at everyone else’s expense.

Utilitarianism is Anti-Human

“Love your neighbor as yourself” only works if you actually do love yourself. And it only works if you actually know who your neighbor is. You cannot love humanity as a whole, except in the most abstract and meaningless sense. We simply aren’t wired that way, what with Dunbar’s number and all. That’s why Stalin, that Utilitarian par excellence, said, “A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” You simply cannot care that much about that many people. By detaching you from the relatively small number of people for whom you should care, the Globohomo Ziobankster Cabal can turn you into one more worker ant in the giant Utilitarian anthill of “progress.” By getting you to believe that “a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,” the Utilitarians will get you to hate yourself as you hate your neighbor, because both of you will seem to have no greater value than a worthless rat.

The hour is late. The regime’s magicians are on the razor’s edge, racing against the clock. Their job is much easier if we adopt their framing and blame Christianity for what they have done. They wouldn’t be this desperate to get you to reject Christianity, if Christ didn’t truly threaten their anti-human agenda.

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2. Quoted in “Why Animal Rights?” at https://www.peta.org/about-peta/why-peta/why-animal-rights/

3. Crimmins, James E., “Bentham on Religion: Atheism and the Secular Society,” Journal of the History of Ideas Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1986), pp. 95-110, University of Pennsylvania Press.

4. Crimmins, James E., "Jeremy Bentham", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2024 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/bentham/>.