Inverse Exegesis

INVERSE exegesis is an interesting theological concept and may also be applied to the political, cultural and historical development of the world over the last few centuries. The Gnostics used this formula to create heroes out of villains in the Old Testament, and vice versa, whilst the talented war poet, Wilfred Owen, used inverse exegesis to alter the meaning of a 1920 poem that he had based on Genesis 22, in which Abraham is about to sacrifice his son, Isaac. The majority of the poem adheres to the original story, but rather than have Abraham replace his son with a sacrificial ram, Owen renders the final two lines thus:

But the old man would not so, but slew his son

And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

This twist in the tail is designed to make a point about the senseless slaughter of modern warfare, of course, but inverse exegesis itself - which, ordinarily, is confined to texts of a religious nature - is something that has been used to systematically distort the political, cultural and historical realities of Western civilisation. What else, then, are things such as political correctness and positive discrimination, than effective tools to reinforce a falsifying narrative centred around inverse exegesis? Much of what we know is false and, in that respect, the need to acquire 'gnosis' is more important than ever before.