Rebellion At Any Cost

I was reading some excerpts from Thomas Hobbes' Levithan last night, and was reminded again of man's inescapable gnawing awareness of his need for God.

Hobbes' materialist and determinist beliefs required that he could not scientifically presuppose God. Therefore, knowing that which is self evident about unrestrained human sin, he found himself compelled to construct an totalitarian state upon which he endowed all the attributes of God. Rather than presuppose that there is a True Sovereign, whose laws are truly just, Hobbes presupposes that matter is the only truth and thereby forces himself to endow one man with the right to dominate, legislate, and oppress all other men in subjection to him (ie. play God).
Rather than humbly bowing the knee to the King of Heaven and Earth, and being completely subject to His compassionate law, Hobbes chooses to place himself in bondage to the will of one man (supposedly endowed with the "autonomous rights" of his subjects). He would prefer to be stripped of all freedom and creativity, for the sake of crying from his disgusting little cage, "Look at me, I am free! I made my own prison! I chose to join this social contract, but never forget, the source of the sovereignty was me. Once upon a time I was God, but I have chosen of my own to create this hell!"

I cannot be amazed enough at the extent to which man will deceive himself in order to rebel against the King. We will make hell on earth, just to say, "I am the Beginning and the End...not God!"