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Christianity: An Antidote to Tyranny
Crisis Magazine ^ | May 23, 2016 | Clifford Staples

Posted on 05/23/2016 9:42:10 AM PDT by Heartlander

Christianity: An Antidote to Tyranny

Clifford Staples

Like all modern tyrants, Karl Marx hated religion, Christianity in particular, because he understood that it was going to be very difficult if not impossible to get men to follow him so long as they continued to follow Jesus Christ, and so the first thing an aspiring tyrant in the middle of Christian Europe needed to do was to uproot and destroy Christianity. With Christ dwelling in the hearts of men there was no room for the atheist humanism that Marx and others were proposing as an alternative. But without God men could be convinced to believe anything, even Marxism.

Karol Józef Wojtyła understood this too. And he also understood that as long as the Christians of Poland, and Eastern Europe, and everywhere else, continued to follow Christ they would endure and outlast any and all tyrannies, Marxist or otherwise. As atheist humanism takes root in American culture and anti-Christian tyrants emerge from among the rich and powerful, we should pray to St. Pope John Paul II for help and guidance. He knew what was happening then in Poland and he knows the same trouble is headed to America.

Having spent years making gay okay in the schools, in Hollywood, and elsewhere, gay activists have now gained enough support from amongst the powerful to simply force their views on everyone. We are all now to accept whatever they want in the way of sex, marriage, family, and gender. We are to accept it not because it is true or good or beautiful or in accord with reality, or nature, or nature’s God, but because they want it, and to deny them what they want is considered a damnable injustice. If anyone dares to point out that what they want, being against nature and nature’s God, is wrong, and does not cease to be wrong simply because they want it and have the power to get it, such people are to be shamed and their views suppressed, and they are to be punished insofar as they continue to hold and act on those views. For these sex and gender tyrants, might makes right, as for tyrants in any age.

In our age this tyranny is to be imposed on the people in the name of “equality,” and “justice,” as defined by an increasingly anti-Christian power elite. These anti-Christians now control the commanding heights of the economy and society including Fortune 500 companies, the entertainment industry, online and print journalism, and the universities. They come mostly from America’s elite professions, zip codes and tax brackets, and they are using their power and privilege to impose their values on working and middle-class Christians from rural “fly-over” country and the South. While according to surveys some 70 percent Americans still at least identify themselves as Christians, it is anti-Christians who now rule America. This has become clear as we watch billionaire CEOs like Marc Benioff bully and belittle anyone who dares to object to the new gender order. Few, including politicians, seem willing to stand up to the new powers that be because they have seen what happens to those who do. Activist corporations and CEOs are now coming together to use their combined economic muscle to crush any last pockets of resistance in those states and among those Americans who have so far refused to bow to the new regime on the grounds of religious freedom.

The anti-Christianism that we see among the American power elite is demanded by the atheist humanism that America’s ruling class was taught in our best universities over the last generation. Now these enlightened ones are “teaching” the rest of us what to believe and how to live. American society is now more or less a huge re-education camp. Pretty soon it might even have a fence around it.

And speaking of re-education camps, it seems clear that we are now living not in a benignly post-Christian society of freedom and tolerance, as some have promised, but in a repressive anti-democratic and anti-Christian one. In fact, one could argue that we are headed toward a society not unlike China; a society ruled by a privileged elite of corrupt politicians, demagogues, party hacks, and crony capitalists, in which laws reflect nothing other than the will of the powerful, and in which religious persecution in the name of “order,” and “justice” and even “freedom” is routine. In this respect it is interesting to note that many of the same U.S. headquartered multi-nationals who have led the corporate effort to undermine religious freedom in the United States also do business in China, a country well-known for religious persecution of the masses and compulsory atheism for the elite. No doubt we will soon be reading white papers from the Business Roundtable promoting anti-Christian social activism as a “global best practice.”

St. Pope John Paull II help us!


TOPICS: Education; History; Religion
KEYWORDS: christianity; homosexualagenda; religiouspersecution; tyranny

1 posted on 05/23/2016 9:42:10 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander

> Christianity: An Antidote to Tyranny

The Second Amendment, An Antidote to Tyranny.


2 posted on 05/23/2016 9:49:33 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Heartlander
Well actually, Jesus and the movement in Qumran, were in theological rebellion against the authority in Jerusalem, because of their close relation with the Romans.

And, of course, everyone knows what the Romans were really all about.

3 posted on 05/23/2016 9:50:28 AM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: Heartlander

Christ was the first to say that a single person is just as important to God as a ruler, or as a mob. The Romans and the Greeks were scratching at the truth with law and philosophy but did not have it right. The teachings of Christ are the basis for the idea that man is born with rights. Without the idea that you are personally important to God, then you have no innate rights, only the privileges you have the power to take.


4 posted on 05/23/2016 10:22:55 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Heartlander

World history doesn’t support this.


5 posted on 05/23/2016 10:36:56 AM PDT by Seruzawa (If you agree with the French raise your hand. If you are French raise both hands)
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To: RightOnTheBorder

Aristotle and Cicero basically got most correct—but they did not apply it to all people.

Christianity said “Love thy Enemy” and “Forgive trespasses”. It is the ONLY truly human and truly JUST ethics that have ever existed. Tribal, herd (animal) instincts make it “hard” to be Christian (moral).

Christianity created the concepts of Free Will (choice) and Individiualism (against mob (democracy) tyranny)—that every single person (even the unborn) has dignity and Natural Rights from God ONLY——their Rights predate ALL man-made governments. (This worldview created the US Constitution).

Marxists, sodomites, islam, humanists, pagans make up their own “gods”-—usually themselves, but ALWAYS removed from Reason, Truth, and Justice (Western Virtues). Aristotle created the Nicomachean Virtues-—the system which was adopted by the Stoics like Cicero which was only a small leap to Christianity. Christians added the three Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity-—which created all the chivalry, harmony, and Romance and Beauty of the Renaissance and later “cultures”.

Concepts are embedded and learned by transmitting Traditions to children—and that has been destroyed totally by our evil, dehumnaizing culture—removing young children from the Natural Family and putting them in front of screens to be programmed and atrophy all brain coordination. Time and reading and studying ALL the Great Books/Great Ideas that came before and learning from the perfect, loving role models which includes true diversity of the World: male/female paradigm. No culture but Christians, put motherhood and women on a pedestal. All other cultures were always pederastic, misogynous ones where vice was rampant. (Vice creates slaves only-—no virtue (Virtue—inner control of base animal instincts is the ONLY thing which creates Free men/women and allow Free Will. Without Virtue, as Socrates and the Catholic Church stated in the Middle Ages—there is no possiblity of Freedom).

That is why Marxist promote Vice to our children 24/7 and have totally erased our Constitution—flipped it actually to promote Vice in our “Justice” (virtue) System-—to erase Virtue formation and normalize the pagan, Marxist, sodomite worldview of slavery. Destroying the meaning of Words is the Marxist meme-—how they flipped everything since the evil Justice Holmes who erased “Justice” (virtue) from Just Law (lol) (unconstitutional, but he got away with it).

Without Knowledge—Wisdom of the Ages-—there is no “Christian Worldview and only Christianity was banned from “skools” in the 1930s by the evil Humanists and Socialists who wanted children dumb and incapable of critical thinking skills-—just programmed into Lies and misinformation so no possibility of “thinking”—reduced to a godless animal—incapable of Humanity (reasoned Animal).


6 posted on 05/23/2016 10:47:25 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Heartlander

bkmk


7 posted on 05/23/2016 11:12:12 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: BuffaloJack

I think the phrase, “God, Guns, and Guts” when referring to what made our country great, can piggy back on your comment.


8 posted on 05/23/2016 11:14:58 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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