Today a friend of mine, somewhere in the vast United States, sent me a note from his wife who is a medical professional and whose job often takes her to government schools. This morning this woman wrote her husband her observations upon her entrance into the propaganda center facility.
Her husband forwarded this note to me and I duplicate it here in its entirety,
Hi Honey,
This morning I walked into Scarlett and I feel really sick… The kids are all getting the first hour of school to decorate their home room halls for the inauguration. I walked in and there are red, white and blue stars hanging from the entry way ceiling and these groups of Barak Obama balloons with Barak’s face on them and the words U.S.A, change, hope, progress. Then in the cafeteria, they’ve set up an “inaugural ball” The kids are going to watch the inauguration on a big screen and have a party after. All the kids are dressed up. It’s really sickening to see the catechism at work.
I love you,
Henrietta (name changed)
Now, I don’t think that they should have but do you think they went to this bother for any other President’s inauguration?
Look, I don’t care how you slice it, this is the kind of behavior that you expect to find from schools and teachers in North Korea as they celebrate the great leader’s life. This is the kind of thing that you watch in videos where children of communist states are all lined up to sing the praises of the tyrant. This is bleeping sick, and it would be sick no matter who it was being done for.
Note also the brilliant last sentence of Henrietta’s letter. She realizes that this is all catechism. Another word for it might be propaganda. These children are being brainwashed into Obamaism.
Andrea,
First paragraph — Those facts make me ill
Second paragraph — Well said!
I watched that video and was horrified.
“I pledge myself to serve President Obama?”
“I pledge to only flush the toilet after a two and not a one.”
“I pledge to use less plastic and so will drink less bottled water.”
“I pledge not to use plastic bags from the grocery store.”
Please God, save me from these people ever having any control over me.
Very creepy. I’ve always thought those portraits of the president in every government building were creepy and imperialistic though.
One could even go so far as to say all these portraits (of Obama) serve as icons, in a sense. They are mystical channels through which divinity is accessed and transmitted. Through them we can share in the attributes of our new god: hope, change, progress. However, this is the essence of paganism and false religion, a denial that the one and only mediator between God and man is Jesus Christ.
What we are witnessing is essentially emperor worship and it is an abomination to Jehovah. Will the Church confront and resist this evil, like our forefathers did in the first century?
Ah … Joshua L.
Great catch. I wish I’d have said that.
Magic is the idea that material symbols here can be manipulated so that the manipulation here manipulates the higher reality they are symbols for and of, which in turn brings about the reality that is being conjured. All of these portraits, banners and catch phrases are talismans to connect us to the divine Emperor mediator.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Great Post Joshua L.
And no … most of the Church won’t confront it. I just read a long defense of cultural surrender by a prominent Baptist author on a facebook discussion. If what he is advocating remains the norm the Church in the West will go even further into eclipse.
If you didn’t get this already, I though you might be interested in it. We are truly entering into troubled waters.
Rick Warrens Prayer
Let us Pray
Almighty God, our Father, everything we see, and everything we cant see, exists because of You alone. It all comes from You, it all belongs to You, it all exists for you glory. History is your story.
Scripture tells us hear oh Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One; and You are the compassionate and merciful one. And you are loving to everyone you have made. Now today, we rejoice not only in Americas peaceful transfer of power for the 44th time. We celebrate a hinge-point of history with the inauguration of our first African American President of the United States (Cheers). We are so grateful to live in this land. A land of unequal possibility. Where the son of an African immigrant can rise to the highest level of our leadership. And we know today that Dr King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in heaven. Give to our new President, Barack Obama, the wisdom to lead us with humility, the courage to lead us with integrity, the compassion to lead us with generosity. Bless and protect him; his family, Vice President Biden, the cabinet; and every one of our freely elected leaders. Help us oh God to remember that we are Americans; united not by race or religion or blood; but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us; when we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone; forgive us. When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us. And as we face these difficult days ahead, may we have a new birth of clarity in our aims, responsibility in our actions, humility in our approaches, and civility in our attitudes, even when we differ. Help us to share, to serve, and to seek the common good of all. May all people of good will today join together to work for a more just a more healthy and a more prosperous nation and a peaceful planet. And may we never forget that one day, all nations and all people will stand accountable before you. We now commit our new President, and his wife Michelle, and his daughters, Malia, Natasha, into your loving care. I humbly ask this in the name of the One who changed my life, Jeshua, Esau, Jesus, who taught us to pray, Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, Amen
What we are witnessing is essentially emperor worship and it is an abomination to Jehovah. Will the Church confront and resist this evil, like our forefathers did in the first century?
Yer kidding right? We have accurate representatives of most of the modern church in the ministers scheduled to offer prayers for the Obamessiah, our new Deliverer-King. Insanity has fallen over this people of a type that can only be described as divine judgment.
This is all happening because of the church, not in spite of it. Salt preserves and light gives direction. Neither are any longer present in any significant amount. This nation is lost and rotting. We the people of Romans 1.
God help us
This is most alarming, as it reminds me of the Hitler youth corps that grew up into faithful Nazis that brought such murderous oppression under his rule. Not all in Germany supported this charismatic demagogue and his political party, but he still held full sway over the people, who largely complied with his tyranny. Are we headed towards a repeat in our nation? Perhaps not, but the thin veneer of civility between various factions in our country is growing quite thin and I can foresee civil unrest leading to various state efforts at secession. Like Lincoln, maybe our new president will seek to preserve “the union” by force. For the last several generations the public school system has been developing the troops necessary for such a grand salvation.
The Church won’t confront it because of its latent Lutheranism. The Reformed folk in Germany were Lutheran. The Church won’t fight their sacrament (abortion) and willfully gives it’s children to their priests (teachers)to be catechized.
We are salt and light. Where there is light God’s truth is made known. Where there is light there is also judgment. Where there is light there is salt because we are both. We are the “salt of the covenant” Lev 2:13. If we don’t declare God’s truth we aren’t lights and become unsalty (no longer the salt of the covenant)the judgment then comes upon our heads. We become “no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.”