Pat Shannan's MUSINGS
Christianity's Greatest Enemy
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds. It will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." -- Charles Mackay
In late December, I had occasion to attend a Christmas Eve service at one of the Judeo/Christian corporations with my family in Florida. Prior to the delivering of his message, the CEO at the podium instructed the ushers to pass out gift envelopes to the congregation, while he explained that the entire collection this night would go to supplement the retirement fund of ministers of his sect nationwide. The reason? Because inflation had so decimated the purchasing power of the "dollar," the retired ministers were unable to live on their pensions.
I thought: If these preachers in their younger days had had the courage to stand up for an honest system of just weights and measures (Deut. 25:13-15) while our coin and currency were being debased (1963 - '68), then maybe the fraud would have been exposed before it could grab a foothold. Instead, they just continued to chirp, "Render unto Caesar." Now they are bellowing to the younger sheep of their former flocks to lead them through the mess that they helped create. I quietly passed the plate on to the next person without adding a single farthing of cupranickel to the coffers.
The result of this neglect a generation later is a textbook example of mass mind control. "Render unto Caesar" is now so firmly imbedded in the psyche of the corporate christian that he, while believing he is behaving Biblically, will robotically follow all of Caesar's instructions without questioning.
Imagine that our character's name is Joe, one of many million in the U.S. He is part of the corporate congregation every Sunday, always with his new Bible in tow - the one which now instructs him in Romans 13:1 to "Obey the Government," perverted in recent years from ". . .be subject to the higher powers." As a voting, tax-paying, "law-abiding" citizen, Joe will soon be called for jury duty to decide, with eleven others much like him, the fate of another Christian who may have "recovered his senses" and has been accused of violating one of Caesar's statutes. This defendant has not harmed any of his fellow citizens in any way. In fact, there has been no victim to his alleged crime.
The trial script is the same almost every time. After listening to a few days of the droning-on from the prosecutor and that inevitable coup de grace - the judge's charge to the jurors - our model citizen and the others vote to send a fellow Christian to jail for a few months or years. If Caesar has pre-determined that this "crime" against the state qualifies as a felony, then the defendant is stripped of his right to vote and own a firearm and must carry the stigma of being a "convicted felon" for the rest of his life. The print and electronic media make sure of that.
The judge thanks the jurors for doing their civic duty and "making this democracy work," and Joe goes home to hug his wife and children. When they gather for dinner that night, the family holds hands to give thanks, and Joe praises the Lord for the blessings of liberty and the privilege of living in a free country. He gives no thought to the family of the newly convicted "felon" or any consideration to what degree he has just contributed to the erosion of his own liberties.
This little scenario is played out dozens of times every week across America. The churches were deceived into incorporating and the pastors played along. (After all, the "bottom line" of any corporation is profit, and in the corporate church this translates to numbers of butts in the pews.)
The prosecutor lies, the defense attorney puts on a charade of defense but is forbidden to point out the higher law, and the judge cements the deceit. All those in the establishment go along to get along, and tradition continues to override the Supreme Laws of Man. Only Joe and his fellow jurors could have stopped this travesty, and they were long ago far too dumbed-down to have any impact at all.
Jonas Clark, William Penn, and John Locke were a few of the heroes of the pulpit prior to the founding of this nation. Do you know any today who will stand up for Truth? There are few. And someday when the data are all analyzed, historians may realize that organized religion was the greatest enemy Christianity ever had.
And as for the typical juror, particularly a federal one, consider this experiment.
Start with a cage containing five apes. In the cage, dangle a banana on a string and put stairs under it. Remain prepared above with a water hose for this Pavlovian test. Before long, an ape will go to the stairs and start to climb towards your banana, but as soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all of the apes with cold water. After a while, another ape makes an attempt, but each time you spray all the apes with cold water.
After several incidents, you turn off the cold water. If, later, another ape tries to climb the stairs, the other apes will try to prevent it even though no water sprays them. Now, remove one ape from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other apes attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five apes and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm. Again, replace a third original ape with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well. Two of the four apes that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest apes. After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes, all the apes that were sprayed with cold water have been replaced.
Nevertheless, no ape ever again approaches the stairs.
Further to last month's theme of "The Politics of Medicine," we have learned that one more prominent truth-seeker in the field of alternative treatment has been attacked. Dr. Hulda Clark, author of several books, including The Cure for All Cancers and The Cure for All Diseases, was taken prisoner last September 20th. She was arrested in her nightclothes, jailed in San Diego, and charged with "Unlawful Practice of Medicine."
Dr. Clark spent a lifetime in research and treatment and set a goal of 100 cases to be cured of cancer before publishing her book, The Cure for All Cancers, where she blatantly attests, "It takes five days to be cured of cancer regardless of what type you have." The raid on her home and nighttime arrest in no way indicates any criminal activity on her part to us but rather protection of the cartel she has been exposing. Media Bypass does not offer this book for sale, but you can help her and yourself by ordering from 1-800-231-1776.
By now it should be quite evident to all Americans (certainly the readers of Media Bypass) that the central powers have little interest in the General Welfare of the People. For this reason the cartel(s) must maintain secrecy. No liar can reveal the truth. Were the truth known, the liar would be condemned. Only the repentant can gain absolution. Only the repentant can expect forgiveness. Only the repentant intends to change his ways. Unrepentant individuals and governing bodies know that they intend to continue their deceptions and misdeeds. They intend to violate - both the law and the private citizenry. For this reason alone they will continue to lie. They have everything to gain and - via the protection of the churches, news media, and the courts - nothing to lose. To survive until retirement and then live out the remaining days on the golf course with a fat pension is far more appealing than making waves now.
There were 34 black people inside the Branch Davidian Church home at Mt. Carmel when it was gassed and torched by federal agents. Also among the dead, were 6 Hispanics, 6 Asians, 1 Israeli, and one Filipino woman. Nearly half of the total body count was female. Can anyone tell us why the NAACP, CORE, NOW, JDL, SPLC, and every other civil rights and minority protection group you can think of is not involved in the attempted exposure of the cover-up of this government-instigated atrocity?
The thrust of this issue revealing alternative health methods reminded me of a personal revelation regarding news media cooperation with government control that happened during the middle of the last decade.