The
carnivorous idol of "religious
liberty" is now so illustrious that a group of
Satanists have sued Missouri to keep the state
from telling them that abortionists murder children, on
the grounds that because of their religious beliefs
they should be shielded from the offense of such
information.
Makes sense. Foolish
Christian-minded people make the very same appeal to
Caesar whenever they feel forced to do something
objectionable
— what's the difference?
What makes this incident
more telling is that the Satanists admit they don't
even worship Satan. They merely like the Satanic
idea that you should be able to do whatever you want
to do, and in the case of the abortion, that you
should be able to control your own body.
A pro-lifer would correctly
point out that the baby has his/her own
body as well, and he/she should be allowed to fully exercise his/her right to live. The Satanist replies that the
claim "The unborn is a human life" is a religious
one, and that he/she should not be subjected to a dictate
derived from a religious belief.
The problem is the
statement "I should not be forced to do a given
thing" is also a religious claim
— the Satanist tries to clarify this by
boasting they follow science but that they do so as best
as they understand it, I imagine to wiggle out of
their logical recklessness.
I'd love to go on with this,
slavering at dissecting it all and
elucidating the robust truths,
demonstrating conclusively that the
zygote/embryo/fetus is scientifically a
human being by every widely accepted standard of
scientific methodology... but one more thing about this caught my
eye.
It was an added claim about
the steady devotion of the non-Satan-worshipping Satanist,
quoted verbatim from the news
story
— US News and World Report, January 28
2018:
"Though the organization is
described as dedicated to Satanic practice and
promotion of Satanic rights, it's actually a
progressive political organization that sees the
biblical Satan as a metaphor, and their mission as
rebellion against tyranny."
I urge you to read F. Tupper
Saussy's book
Rulers of Evil, 20th chapter pages 203 to 224. There you will discover that
the entrancing notion of "rebellion against tyranny"
is indeed a thoroughly Satanic idea, one which has
been widely promulgated for millennia and which
millions of well-meaning Christians also zealously
endorse.
I am fascinated by how Rome
generates these circumstances. How does it so proficiently captivate the
minds and hearts of so many millions of people,
those whom I tend to identify as Catholicists?
A "catholicist" may be the most rabidly atheist secularist,
the most rigidly religious Protestant, or even the
most clueless about anything Roman Catholic
at all, yet still they all fervently do the bidding
of those extraordinarily gracious and eloquent
professors in the black robes.
This webzine has spent years
detailing much of how it all happens, I invite you to
take a peek around if this is your first time
visiting.
Recently though I'd heard
about a nifty new work from the very intelligent
Niall Ferguson. I frequently peek at his stuff,
The Ascent of Money was an excellent treatise
on the history of economics. His latest is The Square and the
Tower, and I just had to snatch it up. After
all it is all about networks.
Yowza.
That's it right there, man. Ferguson is a
top-notch historian, prolific writer, Harvard
professor and everything. Of course straight-away I
eagerly scanned the index to find the hundreds of
references to Rome and the Jesuits and found
— piddle. There do happen to be a few references
to the Catholic Church and to the Jesuits, but they
are all incidental.
The most important
network for prosecuting System activity is
nonexistent in the most detailed exposition on
networks yet.
Not surprised though. For while Ferguson is really smart, he has
little spiritual insight. Please don't get me wrong,
he may be a quite virtuous individual, but being a pretty devout
Catholicist himself, he can't see the core reasons
why the networks operate as they do. 99% of the book
is a disjointed catalog of quasi-formidable networks through
history
— pleasantly instructive, but a
yawner.
There was really no meaning
tying it all together.
For instance take a look at,
coincidentally, his 20th chapter, where Ferguson
examines the budding but quite ominous Masonic
network involved in propelling the American
Revolution, spotlighting
the formal social connections people like Paul
Revere had with others who fomented it. Interesting
yes, but not meaningful.
There is meaning,
however. There is a reason the American
Revolution progressed as it did, and why Rome
continues to industriously provoke people to
rebellion. For that you must look in
another Book.
Really. I'll even tell you about some
places to look. Try out the fourth chapter of
Genesis. There you'll see the establishment of The
Network
— first called a city, managed by
The Builder
— the first
human sacrificer its superintendent,
its current manifestation
the present legion of powerful individuals girding it
through whatever network Rome subsidizes
— as Ferguson exhaustively documents there
are thousands of them.
To Ferguson's credit, he
does say some phenomenal things at the very end when
he gets around to flatly telling the reader what the
square and the tower mean. It's pretty much what
you'd think it is
— the metaphor comes from the renowned Piazza
del Campo in Siena, Italy. You've got this spacious plaza next to an imposing
tower, the square where enterprising people
may discursively connect, the tower where ordained potentates can
authoritatively administer.
What he says on pages 422
and 423 is indeed edifying
— perhaps quite unwittingly the seasoned secular scientistically-minded
historian
cites items regarding what will
happen as already brilliantly explicated two
millennia ago in Revelation.
It is no longer a mere
possibility that this [information technology
augmented] network can be instrumentalized by
corrupt oligarchs or religious fanatics to wage a
new and unpredictable kind of war in cyberspace.
That war has commenced. Indices of geopolitical risk
suggest that conventional and even nuclear war may
not be far behind. Nor can it be ruled out that a
'planetary superorganism' created by the Dr
Strangeloves of artificial intelligence may one day
run amok, calculating - not incorrectly - that the
human race is by far the biggest threat to the
long-run survival of the planet itself and
exterminating the lot of us. |
While he is too quick to pin
the apocalypse on renegade A.I. (part of the system
he gives the epithet "cognisphere"
— I love it!) there is no question Ferguson
wants us to grasp the truth of the immense temporal
power people in networks gain, especially when
controlled by Rome
— even when a given network so ravenously opposes
it. Ferguson confesses himself, "Revolutions are
networked phenomena." Sure, but do you know what is
actually going on in the networks and who's
really yanking the members' cords?
What? Are you reminding
me that I've considered Ferguson oblivious to Rome's
true devices?
Ahh, make sure you take note
of this nifty part right there at the very end of
the main substance of his work.
Six centuries ago the Torre
del Mangia cast a long shadow over the Piazza del
Campo... The tower's height was to make a point: it
reached exactly the same elevation as the city's
cathedral, which stood on Siena's highest hill,
symbolizing the parity of temporal and spiritual
hierarchies. |
The cathedral is Rome.
As much as Ferguson extols
the virtues of the vast new I.T. rejection of the
"vertical," at its most fundamental level it is
an energetically necessary part of it. The
extent to which the I.T. mandarins work seamlessly with the
System Operatives they'll get even the most erudite
observers to be convinced the "horizontal" will save
them.
As World War II ended and
the hue and cry rang out (yet again) for a kinder and gentler
planet, the International Monetary Fund was formed
as the economic equivalent to the United Nations.
While the World Bank is suited for development, the
IMF was established as a crisis mediator
— moving in whenever a wayward nation needed some
shoring up.
What IMF officials
discovered in the initial inaugurations was that many nations
expressed a desire to "pool their sovereignty"
— uh-huh, become more horizontal. This
meant yielding to programs that reduced the
oppressively debilitating corruption and increased
the amount of delightfully good things
— a bit more
transparency, a bit more accountability, a bit more rigor in
nourishing a civil society.
This meant a greater
desire to adhere to the principles of international
law.
Whenever you see anything
related to international law
— So wholesome! So robust! So splendid!
— make sure you emit some measure of appreciation to
the one who invented it, none other than Francisco
Suarez, preeminent Jesuit who scholastically lived
out the true meaning of the term catholic,
or "universal"
— I imagine today "global" is a decent
synonym.
It is fascinating that
half the U.S. is so vigorously rejecting
globalization, what with their ardent confidence in
Donald Trump to valiantly fend it off. The nouveau
nationalism is in a real sense the protracted
rebellion against the international order and all it
advocates. The Jesuit Order is the System's
network, and violently pushing against it is
precisely what they want. Really, think about it, it is the most
massive global revolution against the global! Damn
these guys are good.
All the upright
institutions of the System Network may claim to toil
industriously to end the baaad things among
institutional power brokers the world 'round, but they
don't. They incite it so millions of technocrats can
have jobs, mostly to ensure "pooling the
sovereignty" means other countries are saddled with
complicity in their corruption. Right now the battling networks are
streamlining, coalescing, and building entrenchments
(huzzah Francisco Suarez!) until the final ministry
has its fulfillment.
That ministry?
What's that? Stay tuned...
I actually did enjoy some
parts of
Ferguson's book. There were wonderful descriptions
of the networks with which we're most familiar, from
the more conventionally evil ones of Stalin and
Hitler to the rousingly dynamic ones of Facebook and
Twitter.
But again, he's got little there
about the deep System and nothing on the Kingdom.
The Kingdom? What does that
network look like?
I happened to come across an
interesting piece about the tremendous deficiencies
of social media. It was called "Can Facebook Erase the
Threat of 'Truth Decay'?" by Stephen Scott
— it wasn't even in any listed publication, merely
appearing in a web aggregator I frequent, Real
Clear Markets.
Scott speaks about the
feeble attempts by Facebook (along with Google, Twitter,
and all the others for that matter) to weed out the lies.
Really, in essence, Facebook itself wants to be your
friend, it longs to intrepidly protect you from
baaad things you shouldn't be seeing. It is a
foolishly hopeless endeavor, much of that because
the journalistic efforts that go into it
— read: New York Times
— are themselves so benighted that the "social
media network" is dying a slow torturous death.
He then introduces a very
profound concept, and one that is quite simple
actually. It is the maintenance of a "personal trust
network," that group of people you know and understand
and love and who themselves know you and understand
you and love you. This network simply cannot be
sustained in cyberspace
— there must be genuine physical proximity among the
members.
I might add that for a
personal trust network to
have any significance at all to begin with, Someone must be
unconditionally invited, the
only Source of love there is: Jesus Christ. The
key is that the only way you may know truth is to
know Him. It is a rapturous thing to thrive in a Kingdom network by
fellowshipping with others who enthusiastically consider
worship of Him paramount.
An important reminder Tupper
Saussy provides in ROE is the existence of
three ministries
— a ministry simply a formal activity in
which some people meet the needs of other people in
some way. It is Scripture's way of speaking
about networks.
The first is the
ministry of sin. Not much exposition required
here, except that there are many institutions that
augment people's evildoing and get paid well to do
so. Much networking is involved to keep this
humming, and The Square and the Tower is
all over that.
The second is the ministry
of condemnation. Every agency, church, bank,
commercial enterprise,
service organization in the employ of Caesar through
his rent-distribution network are vibrant parts of
this. A difficult truth is that this ministry is
fully established by God
— shouting about
how free you are or should be doesn't relax the
force of its grip. These two
ministries wrestle viciously with each other and
that interminable engagement is the life blood of
the System.
The third is the ministry of
reconciliation. This is the work of Jesus Christ,
and true authentic forgiveness, mercy, grace, joy,
peace, brotherhood, and life come through
Him. The Kingdom is His followers self-sacrificially
exhibiting His love by sharing Him with others. The System has its counterfeits, thousands of
them, but only in the Kingdom network can one find
healing, salvation, and deep abiding relationship.
I'd like to present two more
ministries that are just as important, supported biblically just as the previous
three are. They are not explicitly cited in
Scripture, but their veracity is quite clear. We
don't think much about them because right now
followers of Christ are doing things related to both
only
in the context of their reconciliation tasks:
one because of our continuing ministry to the Jewish
people, the other because of our anticipation of the
return of Christ.
The fourth ministry is the
ministry of preparation. This was and is no more,
manifest in the nation of Israel setting up the
conditions for Jesus to complete His reconciliatory work. The
establishment of the law was an indispensable part
of this ministry, just as the enforcement of the law
is a critical component of the ministry of
condemnation today.
The fifth ministry is the
ministry of consummation. This is still to come,
when the things we see happening right now leading
to the last days find their culmination in the
eschatological truths transpiring when Jesus returns.
Yes, the horrors described in Revelation and briefly
addressed in The Square and the Tower will
come to be, but Jesus holds His own as a Shepherd
does his flock.
Please, I'm not a
dispensationalist, I'm far from being that
sophisticated.
But these are the networks,
the most important ones.
Networks are very important
— ministries are very important.
The question above all
questions is...
Which one are you in?
***
Notes:
-
It is true that the thing
"scientific methodology" is itself
based on religious foundations and
nothing really scientific
per se, but then I am not against
the religious and moral bases of
scientific enterprise - it is the
atheist who is against it.
Here is a
page with some thoughts about this
thing science.
-
This thing religious liberty
can easily be an idol when someone
appeals to it instead of to the
truth. Starting any statement
with "It's just that I believe..."
concedes the issue to the
relativist/postmodernist.
Here is a page with a bit more
on religious liberty, and
here is one with some on
postmodernism.
-
A fine website with the scientific
facts of a pre-born baby's humanity
- again by all standard biological
measures of that which fully
constitutes a human life - is
here. Statements from textbooks
using clear, definitive scientific
evidences are
here.
-
The quote "Revolutions
are a
networked phenomena" is on
page 308 in Ferguson's book. For a
fine description of the features of
Caesar's overbearing bureaucratic
operation, check out pages 348-349.
I'd share more such highlights but
again, it all really doesn't amount
to much more than eloquent whining
about bad governance things of the
kind that's been bilged for
millennia. Nothing really new here.
-
The material on the IMF was gleaned
from a recent talk by Sean Hagan,
the Director of the Legal Department
at the IMF.
-
The ultrapowerful tech companies
futilely trying to weed out the lies
is actually an affront to those in
the occupation specifically working
regularly to do just that:
teachers. That education is so
readily dismissed here demonstrates
that schools have been so co-opted
by the System that they are
considered impotent and of no
matter.
-
For more on Tupper Saussy's work,
check out this
page.
-
Here is the
sitemap for the webzine to
further travel through the striking
contrast between the System and
Kingdom networks.
-
A list of the many counterfeit
Jesuses is
here. The ways churches
act as agencies of Cain's work is
here. A bit
of exposition about this Catholicist
nation is
here.
-
At the cost of tremendous brevity,
here is a
succinct explanation of how the Roman
Catholic Church pretty much runs the
World System that so controls the
thinking of so many.
-
For a truly sobering description of
the end of man that isn't
Revelation, and isn't even in the
New Testament,
read this from the prophet
Zephaniah.
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Some thoughts about Grace
And Truth are
here.
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