Claim. The Cain-type view of life — pursuit of the external aspects of original nature severed from God — matured providentially through a single coherent intellectual trajectory: Renaissance humanism budded after the Reformation, branched into Cartesian rationalism and Baconian empiricism, fused into Enlightenment deism and atheist-materialism, was systematized through left-Hegelian biblical criticism, and culminated in Marx-Engels dialectical materialism as the cornerstone of the communist world.
Elaboration. Per Part 2 Ch 6 §2.1: the Renaissance elevated humans and nature over God and aimed to understand the world by reason and experience. Two modern philosophies issued from it.
Rationalism: René Descartes (1596-1650) doubted all received truth and rested investigation on innate reason (“I think; therefore, I am”), proceeding deductively. Though Descartes tried to prove God’s existence, later rationalists denied it.
Empiricism: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) held that truth can be investigated only through experience — the mind is tabula rasa. Both schools, while clearing away mysticism, “divorced human beings and the natural world from God.”
The two streams fused into the Enlightenment, which judged all matters by reason and empirical observation, discrediting the God of the Bible and becoming the driving force of the French Revolution.
Deism (Edward Herbert, 1583-1648) was the representative theology — God as Creator who set the universe in motion and left it to run by natural law, with no need for revelation or miracle.
Left-Hegelianism: G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) synthesized 18th-century idealism, but his left-wing followers turned his dialectic on its head under French atheist-materialist influence. D.F. Strauss (1808-1874) in The Life of Jesus denied the Gospel miracles as fabrication; Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872) in The Essence of Christianity argued God is the projection of inward psychology. They founded modern atheism and materialism.
Marxism: Marx (1818-1883) and Engels (1820-1895) systematized left-Hegelian logic as dialectical materialism, combining it with French socialism to form communist ideology — the matured Cain-type view as the cornerstone of today’s communist world.
Significance. DP reads the entire post-Renaissance “secular” intellectual history as a single coherent Satan-side providential maturation — not a series of accidents but a structured anti-providential lineage of ideas leading to communism as the eschatological endpoint.
See also. dp-satan-builds-counterfeit-societies-in-advance-of-god-culminating-in-communism · dp-gods-socialism-vs-satans-communism-as-economic-providence-toward-shared-prosperity · dp-reformation-and-renaissance-as-cain-abel-dispensation-of-separation