Posted on 11/14/2005 4:01:55 AM PST by kindred
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Monday, November 14, 2005
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feeding the fires of Moloch
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By Vox Day
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Not long ago, I bore witness to a small thing that many would consider sweet, and others would regard as ominous, even sinister. It was a Sunday, I was attending a small evangelical church, and the 50 or so people there were singing an upbeat contemporary Christian song accompanied by a decent electronic sampler with a built-in drum machine.
Having been raised amidst scathes of Scandinavians, I've never been inclined toward the demonstrative customs of Southern Baptists and other evangelicals, to say nothing of the rump-shaking ebullience of the Brazilian contingent at this particular church. But their enthusiasm is contagious, and it does not take many cheerful cries of "Oh gloria!" before one finds one's lips beginning to curl, not in contempt, but in appreciation for an expression of defiant joy piercing the darkness of a fallen world.
The small, sweet thing I saw that morning was a pair of little hands belonging to a young girl, lifted up in praise in the unconscious imitation of the adults and older children around her. She was beautiful, only 2- or 3-years old, her eyes were closed and she swayed to the music as she sat in her seat. She was too young to understand the significance of her gesture, just as she was too young to understand how unusual it was to see people from at least five different cultures worshipping together, or to know how seldom one sees a black man embracing a white man and greeting him as his brother.
She was not, however, too young for the gesture to be without meaning.
Lean's "Collectanea," a 19th-century collection of Elizabethan proverbs, contains a maxim it ascribes to the Jesuits: "Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards." In like manner, Vladimir Lenin said: "Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
All around the world, parents are stunned and dismayed by the actions of the educational bureaucracy. Germans are again fleeing from their government into France and Switzerland as officials announce they will take children away from parents who refuse to turn their children over to the state-mandated schools. California parents are reeling from the recent decision by the a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which asserts that parents' have no right to control how the public schools educate their children. In Texas, parents are angrily protesting their children being medicated by school personnel against their wishes.
However, these despicable actions should come as a surprise only to the ignorant – who are clearly the great majority – since only an ignoramus or a fool would voluntarily pass his children through the pagan fires of the public schools.
The Association of California School Administrators is reported to have issued the following statement:
"Parent choice" proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained.
It is perhaps apocryphal – I could not find an original publication to cite here – but in it one hears a distinct echo of the man who established the first public kindergarten and was the U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1899 to 1906. In "The Philosophy of Education," William Torey Harris let the cat out of the bag by asserting that the entire point of public education is "the subsumption of the individual."
This is why Marx, Lenin and Hitler were all supporters of public schooling in their attempts to permanently secure the individual's services for the State. The standing in line, the bullying, the drudgery and boredom of the mind-numbing daily school routine is not incidental to the education of the schoolchild, it is the education. Contrary to what most parents believe, it is actually reading, writing and arithmetic that are entirely incidental to the true purpose of public school – subservience is the "socialization" of which educationists correctly complain that homeschooled children lack.
The homeschooling movement was inevitable, as it is only a symptom of the fundamental conflict between Christianity and the utilitarian collectivism that lies below the surface of the public-school system. The little girl who raises her hands to praise the Son of God who loved her enough to die for her will never buy into the lie that she is nothing more than an insignificant and eminently replaceable cog in the great machine of the collective. She is an immortal soul, a creature of eternity who cannot be subsumed.
The latest battle for the minds of the next generation's schoolchildren has barely begun, but the result is already certain. Nero failed. Lenin failed. Hitler failed, and so, too, will the American educationists and their evil school system. If the gates of Hell will not triumph against the Church, then what chance do the NEA minions infesting your local Molochian altar have?
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As I recall there was a Moloch monster in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Moloch
by Micha F. Lindemans
"King". The sun god of the Canaanites (Ammonites?) in old Palestine and sometimes associated with the Sumerian Baal, although Moloch (or Molekh) was entirely malevolent. In the 8th-6th century BCE, firstborn children were sacrificed to him by the Israelites in the Valleye of Hinnom, south-east of Jerusalem (see also Gehenna). These sacrifices to the sun god were made to renew the strength of the sun fire. This ritual was probably borrowed from surrounding nations, and was also popular in ancient Carthage.
Moloch was represented as a huge bronze statue with the head of a bull. The statue was hollow, and inside there burned a fire which colored the Moloch a glowing red. Children were placed on the hands of the statue. Through an ingenious system the hands were raised to the mouth (as if Moloch were eating) and the children fell into the fire where they were consumed by the flames. The people gathered before the Moloch were dancing on the sounds of flutes and tambourines to drown out the screams of the victims.
According to some sources, the Moloch in the Old Testament is not a god, but a specific form of sacrifice.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/moloch.html
just FYI
John Dewey made social engineering the education which is what schools provide today and little else.
Public education is abortion.
The society at the disposal of every individual is a utopia, thus it's only about making each individual at the disposal of a tyrant in the end.
This cannot work either, of course, since it is sinful decree conflict of interest behavior.
A humble nonsinner is what it takes, or a humble society in polite deference of each
ping!
You may want to try better "history" than from Buffy.
Molech was one of the ancient gods of the Canaanite peoples, who lived in what is now Israel before Hebrews.
It is documented that human sacrifice of babies was performed to this thing, often by heating the metal idol red hot and placing infants in its outstreched arms.
Sounds worse than the Buffy version, IMHO. And of course this one is not fantasy.
Moloch was a false god that many old testament jewish people sacrificed their children to and was an abomination to the Lord God. It represents abortion today and was a pagan practice.
This articles was more about the sad experience of people sacrificing their children on the alter of public school teaching your children how you must raise children in the values of a corrupt secular humanist culture.
education ping
Or someone who's been well-schooled. Schooling works.
And this essay isn't hyperbole. Check out the German origins of compulsory schooling here. Read it and weep.
This should be chilling for anyone who has ears to hear. Compare the statement from California:
"Parent choice" proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained.
To this from The ABC of Communism by Nikolai Bukharin:
In bourgeois society, the child is regarded as the property of its parents - if not wholly, at least to a major degree. When parents say, 'My daughter', 'My son', the words do not simply imply the existence of a parental relationship, they also give expression to the parents' view that they have a right to educate their own children. From the socialist outlook, no such right exists. The individual human being does not belong to himself, but to society, to the human race. The individual can only live and thrive owing to the existence of society. The child, therefore, belongs to the society in which it lives, and thanks to which it came into being - and this society is something wider than the 'society' of its own parents. To society, likewise, belongs the primary and basic right of educating children. From this point of view, the parents' claim to bring up their own children and thereby to impress upon the children's psychology their own limitations, must not merely be rejected, but must be absolutely laughed out of court.
re: your post
I followed the link where it just repeated what you said about the Moloch sacrifice. Where is there archaelogical evidence to back this up? Did they find the actual metal statue? Are there ancient writings or pictographs of this? it is too horrible to just accept that this happened without more verification. The Bible does not mention a physical statue of Moloch and I've heard it could be a euphemism for mingling with peoples who worship other gods (small "g"). Thereby their children where lost to the true God.
California is on the leading edge, of course. To me, it's perfectly obvious that parents can't reasonably expect to control, or even influence, the content of any part of government education. It's the state's game, and they make the rules.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2005/020104grovebackground.htm
The above link is to an Illuminati type CT website.
It has some interesting photos and links to the Bohemian Club, the owl worshipped and some photos of idols to Molech/Moloch.
Many Romans wrote of Carthaginian child-sacrifice. Archaeological evidence including grave stele inscriptions and sacrificial altars is mentioned here:
http://www.ancientroute.com/religion/Godsname/melqart.htm
Bronze statues would not have survived for several reasons. First, they were repulsive to those who conquered the child-killers; second, bronze had real value, i.e. in weaponry.
I do find the relationship between Moloch, Baal, etc. confusing, but chucking kids into the fire horrified the Romans and it should be a bit too multicultural for us.
d.o.l.
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