One of
the internet’s many hit-and-run-artists decided to ask a question on one of my
web logs a few months ago. The question was “Why do you think you have all the
answers?”
The
question is nonsense, plain and simple. The internet is filled with people who
use the anonymity of the web to be excessively rude and argumentative. If the
person had bothered to read anything I had posted, she would have figured out
that I don’t think I have all the answers. I am, like many, groping in the
descending darkness, trying to define a line of tactical response to the events
of our day. I am not trying to exalt or glorify myself as being some kind of
cosmically defined leader. I am but one soul who, with the aid of history, sees
a nation descending into troubled times. What history, you may ask? Read the
words of Adolph Hitler below:[1]
The
national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power
of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the
very basis of our collective morality.
Today
Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again
with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral
developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press -- in short, we
want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life
and culture as a result of LIBERAL excess during the past years.[2]
I
believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator... I am
fighting for the Lord's Work.[3]
The
[National Government] regards Christianity as the foundation of our national
morality, and the family as the basis of national life.[4]
***
Secular
schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious
instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is
built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived
from faith.... We need believing people.[5]
I hope
to live to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we won't give
any public schools. The churches will have taken over again and Christians will
be running them. What a happy day that will be![6]
The first
quote above is from Adolph Hitler; the second quote is from Jerry Falwell. Not
only do Falwell’s words almost exactly match what Hitler said in 1933, but also
his beliefs are the foundation of a theocratic state. Manifest Destiny came out
of such theocratic institutions. Ask Native Americans how they feel about such
teachings. There is more evidence of the disdain with which the
neo-conservative community holds the rule of law in the United States
The
Supreme Court of the Unites States of America
That statement matches much of the rhetoric in the
pre-Civil War days of the late 1850s.
I
believe this notion of the separation of Church and State was the figment of
some infidel's imagination.[8]
It is
interesting to note the past tense used in the statement and the date; the
statement was made well over 20 years ago.
The
majority of our leaders are pro-abortion. Therefore, you don't say, "I'm
an advocate against abortion." No, you say:
I'm interested in housing, or development, or
sanitation. And you keep your personal views to yourself until the Christian
community is ready to rise up, and then, Wow! They're going to be devastated![9]
I want to be invisible. I do guerrilla warfare. I
paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a
body bag.[10]
In
January of 1994, Vice-President Dan Quayle spoke at a training conference of
religious-right activists in Fort
Lauderdale
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was
invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.[12]
When I said during my presidential bid that I would
only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. ‘What do
you mean?’ the media challenged me. ‘You're not going to bring atheists into
the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the
Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America
The
Spanish Inquisition, first imposed in Spain in 1478 and expanded by Holy Roman
Emperor Charles V to the Netherlands in 1521, promoted the questioning and
burning of "heretics" under government auspices. Speaking as a
heretic (a Gnostic), I would not take kindly to be questioned or burned due to
my particular belief system.
With
the apathy that exists today, a small, well-organized minority can influence
the selection of candidates to an astonishing degree.[14]
This Republican Party of Lincoln
It is
accepted that we do ignore the lessons of History. George Santayana said,
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George
Wilhelm Hegel said, “What experience and history teach is this - that people
and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on
principles.”
George
Bernard Shaw believed, “We learn from history that we learn nothing from
history.”
All of
this points to a cataclysmic confrontation with destiny that has not been seen
since World War II.
Do I
have any answers, let alone all the answers? I have one answer. We do not have
to repeat past mistakes; if we choose to talk, listen, and learn from one
another and from our collective past we can avert the judgment of history. Barring
that, we will once again go down the road of chaos and horror. At some point in
the future, the sun of reason, intelligence, and wisdom will break through the
clouds of darkness, fear, hate, cynicism, and judgment.
It is
up to you to define the answers of our collective future. Even our friend, who
did not take the time to find out the answer to her question, has the future in
her hands…if she has the intelligence to manifest it in wisdom for the good of
all.
[1]
I can no longer recall the source of all the quotes from Hitler. In due
diligence, I have searched for the source of the quotes to no avail.
[2]
Adolph Hitler; Taken from The Speeches of Adolph Hitler, 1922-1939, Vol. 1,
Michael Hakeem, Ph.D. (London, Oxford University Press, 1942), pp. 871-872. The
Book Your Church Doesn’t …, Leedom, p.265
[3]
Adolph Hitler in 1938, The Book Your Church Doesn’t …, Leedom, p. 292
[4]
Hitler
[6]
Rev. Jerry Falwell, 1979
[7]
Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, 1986
[9] Antonio Rivera, Christian Coalition, NYC,
1992
[10]
Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition, 1991
[12]
Rev. Jerry Falwell
[13]
Pat Robertson, The New World Order, page 218
[14]
Pat Robertson, The Millennium, 1990
[15]
U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT. I would suggest that you visit the
site Theocracy Watch
(http://www.theocracywatch.org/) for more information
on the threat posed by the Neo-Conservative Right
Kevin Phillips in his recently published American Theocracy, states, “We can begin by describing the role of religion in American Politics with two words: Widely underestimated.” Religion and politics are incredibly intertwined in the U.S., as they were in Europe before the foundation of the U.S.; and, that influence has been overlooked by the Establishment. Yet, George Gallop, the famous pollster, said, “religious affiliation remains one of the most accurate and least-appreciated political indicators available.” (Potts, Clifford A. Radicals, Religion, and Revelation. 1st ed. Dallas: WordTechs Press, 2008. 5-6. CD-ROM).
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