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.
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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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.
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