Now, They Are Threatening Jail Time For Praying

“Students, teachers and local pastors are protesting over a court case involving a northern Florida school principal and an athletic director who are facing criminal charges and up to six months in jail over their offer of a mealtime prayer.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/14/criminal-prayer-case-stirs-protests/?feat=home_headlines

The whole article is quite a window into the view of the state on Christianity.

A few observations,

1.) This article is an argument for getting your children out of pagan schools. When you send your children to government schools the government employees hold the position of “in loco parentis.” This means that the State, when your children are at government schools, are considered the parents of the children and have the rights of parents. In this case the government employees are not acting consistently with what the government parent (the State) desires and so are being prosecuted with the possible consequence of 6 months jail time for saying a prayer.

2.) We must continually keep before us that the opposition to the Christian religion being expressed in the School does not mean that the school is being operated apart from religion. By putatively seeking to sanitize the public square of religion the ACLU is only removing the opposition religions that compete with the religion favored by the ACLU. The religion favored by the ACLU is religious humanism complete with the religious premises of materialism, atheism and relativism. The ACLU is the most successful religious organization operating in America.

3.) We should not want Christian prayer in government schools, if only because the price of such prayer being present in the government schools will be allowing overtly pagan prayers in government schools. (I say overtly because I am fairly confident that “Christian” prayers in government schools would be covertly pagan prayers.) There is little difference between a school system that communicates that all religions are publicly endorsed and the school system that communicates that no religions are publicly endorsed. The end result that is communicated with both approaches is the idea that the State is the god over all gods.

4.) Christians, really must come to understand that the State is viciously opposed to their convictions. Now, some will respond to this by saying, “Well, we have to understand that in order for a school to operate it’s only ‘fair’ that either all the religions get to have expression or none of the religions get to have influence.” We have shown repeatedly that it is impossible to have a school setting where no religion is having any influence, and we have shown repeatedly when all religions have a influence in such a way that some entity is establishing just how much of an influence those religions can have, then the entity establishing just how much of an influence those religions can have is the entity that provides the God and the religion of the school. Remember Rome, where all the gods were allowed as long as all the adherents saw the State as God of the gods.

5.) All religions are totalistic, including the secular humanism of the ACLU. American schools are charged with taking the Christian Steve, the Muslim Muhammed, the Hindu Kartik, and the Jew Levi and turning them into the Secular Humanist Pan. One would think that common ground could be found among the variant religions if only in the idea that each is opposed to having their children wrenched from the god of their fathers in order to serve the god that is the American State.

6.) “He who takes the King’s coin is the King’s man.” Those who will be on trial have taken the King’s coin (their salary working for government schools) and having taken the King’s coin they should not be surprised when the King throws them into jail for not doing the King’s bidding.

7.) The schools have their own religion. That religion is decidedly not Christian. If you send your children to these religious schools you must not be surprised if they end up abandoning the Christian faith to become practitioners of the religion taught by those schools.

Lasch On Schooling & The New Illiteracy

“Faith in the wonder working powers of education has proved to be one of the most durable components of liberal ideology … Yet the democratization of education has accomplished little to justify this faith. It has neither improved popular understanding of modern society, raised the quality of popular culture, nor reduced the gap between wealth and poverty, which remains as wide as ever. On the other hand, it has contributed to the decline of critical thought and the erosion of intellectual standards, forcing us to consider the possibility that mass education, as conservatives have argued all along, is intrinsically incompatible with the maintenance of educational quality….

Universal public education, instead of creating a community of self-governing citizens has contributed to the spread of intellectual torpor and political passivity.”

Christopher Lasch
The Culture Of Narcissism — pg. 125, 130

Mass education has accomplished

1.) The easy spread of noxious childhood diseases.

2.) The creation of a whole new artificial sub-culture commonly referred to as “adolescents.”

3.) The pernicious effect of working in children the desire to be like their peers.

4.) Planned conformity to cultural abnormalities inculcated in school children.

5.) An addiction in our children to the drug of pseudo self esteem.

6.) Providing a place for dime store psychologists to practice their nouveau psychological theories.

7.) A cultural separation between parents and children.

8.) Giving a sense of status to people who have perpetuated what Lasch describes.

9.) A good living for the NEA

10.) A thorough despising for those who actually are educated.

Cooper on Voting

“In those countries where the suffrage is said to be universal, exceptions exist, that arise from the necessity of things, or from that controlling policy which can never safely be lost sight of in the management of human affairs. The interests of women being thought to be so identified with those of their male relatives as to become, in a great degree, inseparable, females are, almost generally, excluded from the possession of political rights. There can be no doubt that society is greatly the gainer, by thus excluding one half its members, and the half that is best adapted to give a tone to domestic happiness, from the stripe of parties and the fierce struggles of political controversies.”

James Fenimore Cooper
American Democratic Leveling

There was a time when men believed that they were protecting their female relatives by not allowing them to get in the dirt and grime of political turmoil. Our change in this regard owes much to the idea that women are just as good at being men as men are at being men. And so women vote just like men. Women candidate just like men. Women get down in the political gutter in order to advance their political careers just like men. What we have given up, if Cooper was correct, is a large share of our domestic happiness.

One result of allowing women to vote has been the tendency of women to vote for parties and candidates that promise to use the government as a mechanism to provide. If you look at women voting patterns you will see that among all women (52% of the population) the Democratic party has enjoyed a typical (though not constant) advantage of 5-8% in presidential elections. It is the natural instinct of a woman to want to be provided for and taken care of and so naturally they tend to, as a whole, vote for statist candidates.

Ironically enough, when the government takes on the role of provider, a situation is created where men are not needed as much in the home to provide. When the government becomes the provider of the family the role of the husband is undercut and his place within the family becomes far more tenuous. Familial coventantal unity is attacked also by the reality that in many homes the votes of husbands and wives in elections cancel each other out. The interests of women are no longer identified with their male relatives.

What woman’s suffrage has introduced is a conflict of interests between men and women.

Alinsky’s Obama

Saul Alinsky, the Father of community organizing, is the methodological ghost behind the Barack Obama phenomenon. One will increase their understanding of Obama’s methodological approach to advancing controversial policies only by understanding Saul Alinsky’s worldview as it is contained in his book, “Rules for Radicals.”

Alinsky was a follower of Antonio Gramsci who held, unlike traditional Marxism as interpreted through Lenin, that the overthrow of the West would not be achieved by a revolution committed to rubbing raw the economic friction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie but rather that the unraveling of the West had to pursue an agenda that was committed to exhausting the Christian capital that was informing the culture of the West. The Gramscian revolution would be culturally totalistic as well as continuous. For Gramsci, following the Hegelian dialectic that holds that progress is defined by perpetual change, the long march through the cultural institutions never ends. Revolution is perpetual.

Alinsky, taught that those radicals committed to overthrowing the status quo society must look like they grow up out of the people. This meant that though people may hold Marxist revolutionary views they must take on the look of insiders. Alinsky wrote, “true revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process.” Here we see that Alinsky taught that radicals must become moles, burrowing their way into places of influence through deception and acting.

This willingness to disguise ones true nature in order to advance a radical agenda means that Alinsky students like Obama and Hillary Clinton (and much of the Democratic party for that matter) can never be trusted in terms of what they say. The Alinsky method teaches them that, “An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth — truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing…. To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations…” Elsewhere Alinsky taught that “The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work.” Notice that the Alinsky method which Obama and Hillary have swallowed teaches a purely pragmatic approach to truth and ethics. Being good Marxists and Alinskyists they will pursue their agenda dialectically. Any concession by Obama will only be granted until a better time arises to gain back what has been conceded. The thing we must note here is that when dealing with people trained in this kind of mindset there should be absolutely no expectation that these people will operate according to some kind of Christian code of truth, ethics or honor. These people are Alinsky radicals and we can only trust them to act like an Alinsky radical.

Now interestingly enough even though the Alinsky trained radical does not have a absolutist code of truth they will engage in moral argumentation to advance their agenda. The reason this is done is because they understand that the people of the West who are hearing them are not operating with the same ethical relativism with which they are. An example of this is Obama’s disingenuous moral arguments regarding death care welfare. Being an Alinskyite, Obama doesn’t have a moral bone in his body but he knows other people do so he wraps his appeal for death care welfare in the tones of virtue and morality. Obama is a man who learned from Alinsky that, “you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.” Of course this is an appeal right out of Satan’s book as he likewise clothed his appeal to Eve with moral arguments.

Another reality that we must contend with as we are dealing with an Alinsky trained man is Alinsky’s teaching that the community agitator (organizer is a euphemism) is a man who is constantly calculating the reaction of the opposition to the agitators action. Alinsky taught, “The organizer knows that the real action is in the reaction of the opposition. To realistically appraise and anticipate the probable reactions of the enemy, he must be able to identify with them, too, in his imagination, and foresee their reactions to his actions.” Now the reason that this is so vital to understand with the current administration is that I believe Obama is sending in his Union Brown shirts into these town-hall meetings calculating that a reaction will arise from his enemies (the American people) that will allow him to take a strong-armed response under the pretense that he must protect Americans from the excesses seen in the town-hall meetings. In short I think Obama, as a Alinsky student, would love to see things get out of control at these town hall meetings, as long as the chaos can be blamed on his opposition.

Obama’s whole person and being is defined by his marxism. That Marxism has come to him through Frank Marshal Davis, Saul Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright and others. The question with Obama is not whether or not he will act in a Marxist fashion but rather the question is what kind of Marxists do we have on our hands. I believe the facts point to the reality that Obama is a Gramscian Black liberation theology Marxist. This means he will always seek to advance the Marxist agenda but with the purpose of advancing first and foremost the interests of the black population that have bought into this view of cultural Marxism. This means that the man will act duplicitously at every turn. This means that traditional Christianity will be attacked by this man at each opportunity.

The unfortunate thing in all of this is that the only real way to defeat this ideology is by 100 proof Christianity and there aren’t a good deal of people around drinking that these days.

Marxism’s Aping Of Christianity

“Marx took materialistic philosophy which taught that the force of (impersonal time + chance) history had decreed that certain things must inevitably happen, and married this philosophy to an intense personal, sacrificial dedication to make these things come to pass.”

You Can Trust The Communists To Be Communists
Dr. Fred Schwarz

There have been many who have noted that Marxism is the best example of a non-Christian religion which successfully aped basic Christianity. The way that Marxism did this was to take components of Christianity and place them in an materialistic, atheistic paradigm. For example, the idea of the inevitability of a humanist progress as coupled with the notion that that which is inevitable finds its inevitability as it is propelled forward by human implementation is actually the Christian doctrine of predestination combined with the doctrine of postmillennialism.

Christians, like the later Marxists who co-opted much of their faith, also believed in the idea that certain things had been decreed that must inevitably happen. The difference here is that in Marxism the predestinating agent is Hegel’s impersonal dialectical view of history as married to a Feuerbachian materialism, whereas in Christianity the predestinating agent was a personal creator God. Similarly, Christian, like the later Marxists who co-opted much of their faith, also believed that God ordained human agents to be the means by which His predestinating ends came to pass. The difference here is that in Marxism man is moving in terms of a predestination that is impersonal and is guided by time plus chance plus circumstance whereas Christianity always taught that man is moving in terms of a predestination that is personal and is guided by the explicit foreknowledge and will of an extra-mundane being. The difference between the two beliefs thus is only that Marxism believes in an irrational will that guides “progress” while Christianity taught a rational will that guides progress.

The embarrassment in all of this is that Christianity no longer believes in a postmillennialism that inspires intense personal, sacrificial dedication to make the extension of the Kingdom of God, which He has predestined, come to pass. Instead what we believe is some kind of predestination and eschatology where the story ends with God being defeated in space and time history. Believing in that kind of predestination and eschatology we are little engaged in sweeping forth with the Crown rights of King Jesus.
Without a vision the people perish. This has the consequence of leaving us as a people defeated by other predestinations and eschatologies of other religions and other gods. One of those religions remains cultural Marxism whose god is the State.