Posted on 10/11/2008 3:59:23 AM PDT by spirited irish
In recent times, America has been experiencing an explosion of neo-pagan movements in concert with a relentless assault on truth, reality, first principles, universal moral law, and the created order of being---the two sexes (male and female) for example. These movements interface with mystical, quasi-Buddhist, occult Gnostic, and other ‘blood and soil’ notions: New Age cults, transcendental meditation, Wicca, goddess worship, ‘gay’ shamanism, reincarnation, Luciferian Theosophy, the Great Apes Project and all other animal rights agendas, Gaia worship, deep ecology, channeling and other such notions. All are types of pantheism, which stress in one way or another that mankind is ‘one with’ nature (or the cosmos or dialectical matter) and should therefore make obeisance to it as Sovereign.
In his penetrating analysis of the organized Left, M. Stanton Evans author of ‘The Theme is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition, observes that it is only against the background of neo-paganism that the bizarre ‘isms’ of Leftist politics come into focus. The common feature of all these movements---naturalism, materialism, sexism, multiculturalism, determinism, economic determinism, heteronormativism, and patriarchalism for instance, is that they view irrational nature itself as ultimate and sovereign. In other words, they make a god of irrational nature, which is precisely why Al Gore is synonymous with Gaia, global warming, and carbon footprints, and the Left in general is so very ‘green.’ “Much of it, indeed,” Evans continues, “is pantheism or other nature-worship, dressed up as secularism or science.” Darwinian evolution, says Evans, is the “most influential case in point (as it) explicitly replaces (or identifies) God with physical nature, and in some versions even attributes to nature, or some agency within it, ineffable designs.” (The Theme is Freedom, p. 122)
For almost one-hundred years, the Left has been busily engaged in stealthily undermining and gutting our founding documents and America’s social, political, legal, and cultural infrastructures. Toward this end, they’ve managed to marginalize the Declaration of Independence—the charter document—and to cleverly infiltrate new and alien meaning into our Constitution. Whereas originally, the individual’s right to liberty was viewed as God-given---thus fixed and unchanging---God has been declared dead and subsequently replaced by a quasi-divine State, while group privileges are increasingly sweeping away individual rights. And where each and every human life possesses an ‘inalienable right to life’ was held as an immutable truth and a universal moral good, the ‘enlightened’ politically correct view holds that truth and morality are irrelevant and human life is without value, dignity, or purpose. Taking the place of our inalienable right to life is politically correct choice. In reality, choice is an elitist eugenics mentality in disguise, hence it views procreation of undesirables---such as the common man---as bad, therefore all population control schemes such as euthanasia, abortion, and the abomination called partial birth abortion---which is tantamount to infanticide---are ‘good.’
However, despite these and the Left’s many other successful changes toward the transvaluation or total inversion of America’s traditional cultural, social, political, and legal order, our Second Amendment rights remain a primary concern to the totalitarian ambitions of the organized Left.
In the face of these ominous signs of impending serfdom, there are---very incredibly— those who have expressed to me their fear that should the Left ever succeed in fully taking over our country they will take our x-boxes away from us.
Fear not, they don’t want our x-boxes. Nor do they covet our mind-and-soul destroying entertainment.
What they want are our guns, for a weaponless people are a helpless people. What Leftists definitely don’t want are our x-boxes, MTV, porn, drugs, sado-masochistic Jerry Springer programs, slut-and-pedo-chic clothes, and demonically-occluded rap, for these things are modernity’s versions of yesterday’s Roman ‘bread and circuses.’
Various Leftists and their ilk predicted long ago that they and an interconnected network of accomplices throughout academia, the entertainment world, government, and elsewhere, would bring about the fall of the West by way of a ‘long walk through the culture.’ A diabolically conceived ‘walk’ that would slowly invert our traditional order by disarming, dumbing-down, and putting Westerners ‘to sleep’ (enslaving them) through immorality: ‘’sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll.” The unwary sleepers, it was confidently foretold, would never dream that they would one day awaken to a nightmare world of slavery.
Over the course of many years those predictions have been coming true. For today, far too many Americans are fast becoming an immoral, narcissistic people addicted to instant gratification; an infantilized people whose ongoing mind-conditioning comes by way of a warped, pornographic, propaganda-spewing media and entertainment. And while Americans have been sleeping, our universities and schools have become transmission belts for the proselytizing of socialism, political correctness, open-borders, New Age pantheism, sexual confusion and androgyny, one world universalism, and hate: hate-whitey, hate-Conservatives, hate-America, hate truth, hate Boy Scouts, hate history, hate free markets, hate straight males, hate-tradition, hate-morality, and hate the Biblical God.
As truth, common sense, morality, and knowledge of our founding worldview die, the American mind shuts down in tandem, thereby allowing the icecap of a new ‘green’ totalitarianism to relentlessly advance across our nation snuffing out the light of liberty and all things good. Under its oppressive weight, America is being crushed downward into a dark abyss of pagan superstition, where at the urging of the Left’s demonic mendacity, 2+2 becomes 5, being bad is cool, but doing evil is much more gratifying.
Our founders long ago warned Americans that only a God-fearing, informed, and virtuous people can remain a free people, for these practices lend themselves to self-determination (impulse-control) and the cultivation of higher reason and logic, hence to individual liberty and our form of self-government. In the words of Patrick Henry---Christian patriot, governor of Virginia, revolutionary general, “The Voice of Liberty,’ and signer of the U.S. Constitution:
“The great pillars of all government and of social life (are) virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.”
Ignorance, narcissism, and the giving in to base impulses and passions on the other hand, leads to lack of impulse-control (determinism) and the downward spiraling consequences of dependency, lying, cheating, crime, chaos, anarchy, and eventually slavery. Tragically, and of great consequence to the continuance of individual liberty, all too many Americans today are materialistic, drug-using, infantilized, violence-prone, obscenity-spewing, sex-obsessed people, and the name Jesus Christ is for many of these---and particularly for the Left’s ‘self-anointed’---- the obscenity of choice. In 1909, Reverend Francis Grimke warned of the perils of moral corruption. He said:
“If the time ever comes when we shall go to pieces, it will…be…from inward corruption----from the disregard of right principles…” (Equality of Right for all Citizens, Black and White Alike)
As we watch and wait in trepidation, wondering if our fellow Americans will be so foolish as to elect the seductive, charismatic Messiah Obama—the most Progressive Leftist in Congress—-we need to realize that our greatest enemy is often ourselves. For when we allow ourselves to fall down the slippery slopes of moral corruption, ignorance, dependency, and apathy we fall right into slavery, both spiritual and physical. Our own freely chosen follies and conceits---in concert with a willingness to transgress---will be the downfall of our individual liberties, self-government, and a free America.
Copyright Linda Kimball 2008 http://patriotsandliberty.com/
Founding quotes from Wallbuilders
About Linda: Linda is the author of numerous published essays on culture, politics, and worldview. Her writings are published both nationally and internationally. Linda is a member of the New Media Alliance and the MoveOff alliance.
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Quite so. But there just aren't enough people willing to brave the inevitable charge of "white supremacy" or "racism" or "bigotry," by standing publicly for whites, conservatives, America, truth, scouts, history, free market, heterosexuality, men, tradition, morality and the Judeo-Christian God.
It just isn't done anymore. I'm not even sure it's legal anymore.
Posted on 08/12/2005 4:45:06 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood
As anyone who truly studies religion knows, The Bible is not the be-all and end-all of Hebraic thought; it is merely the primer. Judaism is much, much more than The Bible, some of it written down for thousands of years, some of it preserved in ‘the oral tradition’ until written down some time later. But all of it is part of Judaism. It is from all these sources that we get our knowledge of demons and a wilderness.
Demons are often described as belonging to the wilderness and we even have prayers and rituals surrounding them. The term “scapegoat” comes from a very ancient and holy Jewish ritual. During Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, the sins of the people are symbolically placed upon the goat’s head, after which the goat is sent into the wilderness.
The wilderness itself is a designation that is surrounded by ancient Jewish teachings. And this whole concept of wilderness, as well as demons, may be an undercurrent of what we see happening today.
For various reasons, some being political, not all Jewish teachings and writings were included in the portion of The Bible that comes after the Torah (the first five books, also known as the Pentateuch). And yet, it is from some of these teachings and writings that we get our deeper knowledge of Judaism. The Book of Enoch is one such work and some of its teachings are echoed in The Midrashim and other places. (1, 2)
The Book of Enoch, parts of which were found with the Dead Sea scrolls, goes into much greater detail regarding the story surrounding the fallen angels, who are mentioned in Genesis. According to the book of Enoch, there were two main fallen angels: Shemhazai (aka Semjaza aka Samiaza aka Shamhazi) and Azazel (aka Aziel aka Aza’el, aka Azael aka Asa'el). Shemhazai was the leader of the fallen angels and Azazel taught humans how to make war and weapons. (1, 2, 3)
Curiously, both have been referred to by the nickname “Aza” at various times and places. (3) Perhaps even more curiously, what we English-speakers designate as the area known as “Gaza” is called “Aza” by the Israelis and people who live in the Middle East.
Back in ancient times, there were thriving cities, usually with wildernesses between them. There were no paved roads or urban/suburban sprawl. This scenario held true for that area we know as Gaza/Aza, although the original specific site for it is still uncertain, it is known to have been in the general area. (4)
In the Book of Enoch, we are told that as punishment for his sins, the fallen angel of war, Azazel, was thrown into a pit in the ‘Wilderness of Dudael,’ and left there to await Final Judgment. Although no one knows to where the name ‘Dudael’ refers, ‘Dudael’ also means ‘Great Desert’ and ‘Fiery Caldron.’ Furthermore, there is one place in Israel that fits that description: the Negev, which has one of its borders on…Gaza/Aza.
So how do places come by their names? Oftentimes, they are given names either relating to important people, events, history and the like. Is it mere coincidence that Gaza/Aza has the same name as one of the leaders of the fallen angels?
But there is more.
Sometimes these ‘demons of the wilderness,’ to whom the scapegoat is sent, are referred to as earth-bound evil spirits, having the warlike attributes of their progenitors -- the abominations created by the fallen angels, while also taking human form. (5) Either way, original demons or earth-bound spirits, these embodiments of evil have certain characteristics, bizarrely echoed by the inhabitants of Gaza/Aza today.
The current occupiers of most of Gaza/Aza today are the Arabs/Muslims. But they are not the descendants of the original inhabitants. Gaza/Aza is mentioned 18 times in The Bible as part of the Jewish homeland. The Israelites had been in Gaza before the time of Samson (Judges, 16:1) and were still in possession of it in the time of Solomon (Kings I:4:1). (6) However, just as what happened in Judea and Samaria, Gaza/Aza had its Jews expelled, and has been occupied by numerous invaders and foreign civilizations.
Gaza/Aza was part of the Jewish homeland long before Islam sprang into being. Archeologists have documented remains of a Roman-period synagogue in Gaza which includes Judaic inscriptions on a column located today in the major mosque of Gaza/Aza. This writing is a Hebrew-Greek inscription complete with Jewish motifs that mention Hananiah, the son of Jacob. It has been dated to the second or third centuries -- long before Mohammed lived. And as late as 1839 the Ottoman census of Jerusalem demonstrated that Jews were still living in Gaza/Aza. (6)
Therefore, it is obvious by the historic and archaeological evidence, that the Arabs/Muslims are invaders who took the land by conquest and war. And war is one of the characteristics of that fallen angel Azazel and his demons or evil spirit followers.
Then come some of the other characteristics of demons. They are known to be the embodiment of evil, perpetrating lies, manipulating mankind and causing pain, strife, terror and destruction. With this in mind, let us look at the behaviors of the current Arab/Muslim occupiers of Gaza/Aza.
Do they lie about who they are? Yes. There has never been a country known as Palestine, nor an Arab/Muslim people known as ‘Palestinians’ until Yasser Arafat and his supporters stole that designation from the Jews in the early 1960’s. One of their own leaders bragged about this in an interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw. Zahir Muhsein, Executive Committee Member of the PLO, stated the following:
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity.
In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.
Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.
For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem.
However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." (7)
Then, as true to demonic characteristics, there are the unrelenting lies meant to foment hatred and genocide. The official government of these Arab/Muslim occupiers promotes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as factual, claims that Jews poison their (Arab/Muslim) food, water and candy, and puts bombs in their children’s toys.
Next are the traits attributed to Azazel: those of war, violence and terror. The Arabs/Muslims occupying Jewish Gaza/Aza have perfected the homicide/genocide bombing, specifically targeting women, children and the elderly to spread horror, fear and death, and to destroy future generations of Jews.
Coupled with these warlike traits of Azazel are the demonic traits of the utter disregard for life, even of their own offspring. They have camps for young children to brainwash them into aspiring homicide/genocide bombers. (8) And like ravening beasts, they will literally tear apart, from limb to limb, any Jew who ventures into their area, passing around the body parts as in some Satanic ritual of cannibalism. (9)
The incidents of unrelenting violence and war, often including the bizarre and perverse, are much too numerous to detail except to say that they number in the 10’s of thousands in the past five years alone.
Regarding the wilderness aspect of these current Arab/Muslim occupiers of historical Jewish Gaza/Aza, here too is truth. They have been the recipients of billions upon billions of aid dollars and yet choose to remain in a wilderness of their own making. They use their world record-setting welfare dollars for anything except improving their lives and living conditions. Whatever is given to them they systematically destroy, including ancient and historical buildings and sites. Recently, they even drove out the free medical services provided to them by the Red Cross.
So when The Bible and other teachings tell of ‘demons of the wilderness,’ it has become obvious that they aren't speaking in parables, but truths for today and warnings for the future of Israel and all humankind.
Endnotes
(1.) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/scr3.html
(2.) http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jcreeves/bereshit_rabbati_29-31.htm
(3.) http://www.torahaura.com/Bible/Learn_Torah_With/LTW_5761/LTW_5761_Noah/ltw_5761_noah.html
(5) http://www.deliriumsrealm.com/delirium/mythology/watchers.asp
http://www.isfsp.org/gaza.html
(7) http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28222
(9) http://goldwater.mideastreality.com/2004/may/12_02.html
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This is well done, well said. We are only kidding ourselves if we say that we haven’t thought about at least some of these things and seeing the seething undending hatred of the Left, the no-holes barred attacks leaves one with only one conclusion that I can come to: there’s no going back. Civility is out, reasoned discussion a thing of the past.
Witness the mindless attacks concerning the children no less, of the Palins while the Lib’s side is untouchable but I don’t think true conservatives would stoop to such measures anyway but it’s a case, and a very visible case, in point.
“the demonic mendacity of the organized left.”
just a bunch of self-appointed-intellectual, adolescent punks who are seeking to steal everyone else’s money.
(just like in the schoolyard)
except that their parentage is that of murdering, lying, concentration-camp-organizing, totalitarian scu%bags and they’re in control of the congress and waiting to be president. (how interesting)
IMHO
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I've been saying the same thing for years, only, I have no platform to convey such ideas to many people, and even if I did, how effective would I be? Even close friends and relatives are asleep.
This is not all that complicated - if you truly believe there are only 2 sides in the conflict. The Alinksy-Lucifer-Obama side, is one of the sides.
Has America just failed the test of prosperity? Looking like it.
...”This is well done, well said. We are only kidding ourselves if we say that we haven’t thought about at least some of these things and seeing the seething undending hatred of the Left, the no-holes barred attacks leaves one with only one conclusion that I can come to: there’s no going back. Civility is out, reasoned discussion a thing of the past.
Witness the mindless attacks concerning the children no less, of the Palins while the Lib’s side is untouchable but I don’t think true conservatives would stoop to such measures anyway but it’s a case, and a very visible case, in point”...
YES! Read this article and weep, people. Those here who are my age have seen this shaping up since the 60s, through all administrations..Trust is gone. Just wait until super inflation hits as a result of all this “bailout” money being pumped into our system. We might need a wheelbarrow full of cash to buy a loaf of bread. Sorry to be so blunt but these are perilous times and the realities, whatever they are, need to be faced by those with common sense. This is the kind of ground from which dictatorships grow.
(THis one's a keeper)
Read this evening.
Over the course of many years those predictions have been coming true. For today, far too many Americans are fast becoming an immoral, narcissistic people addicted to instant gratification; an infantilized people whose ongoing mind-conditioning comes by way of a warped, pornographic, propaganda-spewing media and entertainment. And while Americans have been sleeping, our universities and schools have become transmission belts for the proselytizing of socialism, political correctness, open-borders, New Age pantheism, sexual confusion and androgyny, one world universalism, and hate: hate-whitey, hate-Conservatives, hate-America, hate truth, hate Boy Scouts, hate history, hate free markets, hate straight males, hate-tradition, hate-morality, and hate the Biblical God.
Maranatha, Jesus!
Thanks for the links to what looks like some very interesting reading.
snip..the seething undending hatred of the Left, the no-holes barred attacks leaves one with only one conclusion that I can come to: there’s no going back
Spirited: Exactly. Hatred is the prelude to violence. At some point it will-—like a pressure cooker-—hit the right temperature and then explode outwardly in blood, brimstone, and fire.
you post an entire thread in a single reply? what gives?
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The author of the thread said this:
Demonic Mendacity of the Organized Left
Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:57:41 PM · 15 of 18
spirited irish to Sir Francis DashwoodThanks for the links to what looks like some very interesting reading.
You're either asking the wrong question or the wrong person...
For a minutes I thought I'd accidentally clicked a link to another post.
What’d you do, right click/view source/ copy ans paste the HTML from another post into your #5 comment ????
You really nail it here, spirited irish!
With God "dead," so is any universal standard of the Good (public or personal) — or Truth for that matter.
Or of morality, private or civic (i.e., morality as it extends to the welfare of the whole public life — the public Good).
Under this mindless regime, everything becomes a matter of "opinion"; and given some deranged concept of human "equality," all opinions are held to be equally valuable — at least as long as they are not equally despicable! Talk about the perfection of irrationality!
Plus ethics becomes "situational"; morality, "relative." Thus law itself becomes unhinged from any basis in a fixed principle, a ratio, criterion, or standard that can validate or invalidate the truth of statements (bye bye logic!) and proposals.
And yet this what it takes to get us a "rule of men," and why the American rule of law, the Constitution, must go.
If folks don't wake up smell the palpable danger to the American republic in all this, and start putting up a resistance to it, we shall lose our country.
Yet few seem to notice that this is a critically serious problem that has been cultivated and primed to undermine and abolish the Constitution — and thus the liberties of the people — by irrational, manic people who make a whole lot of senseless noise. Certainly they are people who hate God, and being thoroughly, bitterly unhinged from Him, have lost not only their humanity, but their minds as well.
I've just finished reading David McCullough's magnificent biography of John Adams, in which I found this choice item: "I know not what to make of a republic of thirty million atheists [then the total population of the U.S.]".
He was speaking in response to the enthusiasm of one political party of the time (i.e., the Republicans under TJ) for the French Revolution. Even before the horror stories from France began filtering in, Adams perceived (correctly as history testifies) that enshrining Reason, elevating it to the status of God (as the philosophes so attractive to TJ argued), was a sure prescription for tyranny, social breakdown, and ultimately war.
Adams well understood the necessity of an unvarying, fixed moral code as the only true source of the citizen virtue it takes to maintain and defend a constitutional republic. It was his lifelong conviction that the two truthful, faithful sources of morality personal and civic were (1) the Holy Bible — first and foremost; (2) as the model of American citizen virtue, the Roman Cicero.
Americans don't spend a whole lot of time in public schools contemplating such things these days, thanks to the wonderfully "creative" pedagogical models of the likes of William Ayers.
spirited irish, I don't know what the answer is. All I can say is I'm praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!
Thank you ever so much for your beautiful essay-post spirited irish!
p.s.: Somehow we folks have to draw the line at any undercutting of the Second Amendment. That would be the final usurpation against the true sovereign of this country: We the People. Then it would be a case of: The king is dead! Long live the king! After that, our circumstance would be little different than that of supine cattle.
If we will not be governed by God, then we will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn
AFter a couple of nukes go off in American cities..
The "people" might give God a re-think..
Or devolve into to total anarchy..
Or shades of Escape from New York! LOLOL!!! The Law of the Jungle being like the reinvigorated corpse that became Frankenstein!
Jeepers dear brother in Christ, but I'm not quite that pessimistic yet.
My optimism (such that I have it) transcends what most people mean by optimism. Which seems to be: Everything in the world affecting us (or me) personally will work out to our (my) advantage. But the word "advantage" is really not defined at all. So I don't know what this optimistic statement actually means, logically speaking.
My optimism is placed in God Himself: That all things here on earth are and yet shall be as they are in heaven — all according to God's Will and Purpose in creating the universe, and especially man.
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I was excited to see your name on the ping. I wondered what happened to you. Great to have you back! :-)
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And Obamination must be defeated.
Okay, I read it and I agree with everything except the reincarnation part. IOW, a real understanding of reincarnation is not new-agey leftist materialism. But that is a minor point, all in all.
People who are slaves of their senses quickly become slaves of those who control the objects their senses crave. They then cravenly lick the boots of their masters, hoping for goodies to be doled out to them. They will ignore all atrocities, enslavement, and horrors just to keep getting doses of their chosen poison.
We can see it happening all around us.
It does seem like people generally, only truly appreciate freedom and prosperity when they don’t have it. Regardless, I still refuse to believe the perpetual state of slavery is better for mankind’s soul.
Fear of such a brand, kept the mouths of many who could see the disaster for which we were headed quiet, and held back those who dared to say anything from pushing their point any harder.
And, betty, I can do no more than reiterate the beautiful intent of your heartfelt prayer:
All I can say is I'm praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!
Amen.
~ joanie
I propose that at the very least there is a provision added to the constitution that if a religion was found to be detrimental to America by the actions of its followers said religious group would be bound under certain articles to in effect be made illegal.
Practicing Islam in America would then become illegal due to fact its doctrines mandate actions detrimental to American laws, policies and security as a free nation.Islamic countries eventually are consumed my Islam, very few nations have held off the encroachment of Islam.
If we cannot restrain Islam we the people must know how to make it known that they are not welcome in our country.
And our first responsibility is to at least elect people to lead us that actually know who the enemy is, not someone who has them on a speed dial.
I join in your earnest prayers for our country!
After reading this piece by LK I think I understand him a little better...
I pray for our country daily, as well. One of my consolations is the fact that the Pilgrims dedicated the New World to the Glory of Jesus Christ, and the spreading of His Kingdom into the New World. God has not abandoned us but I am afraid we have a great deal of Tribulation heading our way.
We seem to be in the same place Germany was in the waning days of the Weimar Republic.
Reincarnation is a babylonian abomination against God.
As if he could not create a few billion wholly unique souls and needs to recycle them. HAH!
The babylonian mystery religions are the very foundation of leftism.
Nope. More accurately about where the Judeans where shortly before they went into Babylonian captivity. At least the Germans were not slaves.
If you want, we could start a thread about the topic.
I can’t say it any better than Burke:
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke
I propose that at the very least there is a provision added to the constitution that if a religion was found to be detrimental to America by the actions of its followers said religious group would be bound under certain articles to in effect be made illegal.
Spirited: We will then find ourselves undertaking the very same effort as the Marxist Communists, who engaged in barbaric mind-control experiments in an effort at controlling and/or erasing ‘bad’ or ‘politically incorrect’ thought. And when they realized the futility of that effort, they resorted to extermination-—genocide.
Our battle is not with flesh and blood but with ideas-—the metaphysical realm. We must engage the war in that realm.
After reading this piece by LK I think I understand him a little better...
Spirited: We are witnessing the successes of what is really a war of ideas whose ultimate goal is the capture of the mind. The mind is the citadel of the soul; capture the mind, and the soul has been taken as well
I don’t know what the answer is. All I can say is I’m praying a lot these days. That God will not forget America, and that He will forgive us for not defending her — or His truth. That He may give us yet another unearned blessing!
Spirited: As I stated previously to Dirty Harry, the battle that rages is not of flesh and blood, but of opposing
ideas, that is, the thesis vs the antithesis.
The battle then, is a metaphysical battle made immeasureably more difficult by the fact that many Americans no longer believe in the reality of the metaphysical. Hence they are truly blind to the forces that have captured their minds.
We are witnessing the awful tragedies and realities of spiritual blindness, for as the mind is the citadel of the soul, its capture means the capture of the soul.
We must become more effective at articulating the right ideas in a manner understandable to every person. We must do this simultaneous to exposing the illogic, inner contradictions, and consequences of the opposing ideas, or antithesis.
The Bible tells us that as a man believes, so he is. We now know—for we can see the evidence everywhere we look-— the profound meaning of this truth.
True.. some overlook that "things" are currently exactly the way they are supposed to be.. God "IS" in charge and "things" are proceeding nicely.. And that current events marching to a persistent drummer.. According to spiritual formulae of prophetic design..
True.. some overlook that "things" are currently exactly the way they are supposed to be.. God "IS" in charge and "things" are proceeding nicely.. And that current events marching to a persistent drummer.. According to spiritual formulae of prophetic design..
You said, “We seem to be in the same place Germany was in the waning days of the Weimar Republic”
Exactly! And the connection is the Frankfurt School, Dewey, and the turn-of-the-century Progressives such as Rockefeller, Ford, and Carnegie, whose money made it possible for the Frankfurt School to do to America what it had done to Weimar Germany.
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