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In the 1961 treatise “Thought Reform & the Psychology of Totalism — A Study of Brainwashing in China,” psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton analyzed the forced political indoctrination programs used by the Chinese Communists, labeled them ‘Totalism,’ and said that it subjugates the human to the ‘ahuman.’ He explained, from Camus, that it ‘puts an abstract idea above human life, even if they call it ‘history,’ to which they themselves have submitted in advance and to which they will decide quite arbitrarily, to submit everyone else as well. Under the rubric of ‘sacred science,’ Dr. Lifton further explained the elevation of the Leftist ideology to the level of the sacred while also providing it with the status of scientific certainty thus rendering all opposition to it both immoral and unscientific. Sound familiar?

Coughlin & Higgins
Re-remembering the Mis-remembered Left; The Left’s Strategy and Tactics to Transform America — p. 121

If you’re reading along I hope you see what a masterful insight this is. Our culture is currently be run along a Maoist track of totalistic control via the means of language manipulation invested with Scientism and partaking of the aura of the sacred. Americans have become so dumbed down that they can be easily manipulated by this Maoist brainwashing technique. You’re college graduate coming home to visit on the holidays isn’t learned when they scream about how the white man destroyed native American culture. They are brainwashed and so stupid. You’re neighbor who is screaming about Climate Change isn’t smart and well read. They are stupid and have been manipulated by fake science. The Karens you meet in your life who hyperventilate about masks and the Wuhan… they are just brainwashed ditties. Any time anybody starts demanding that you bow to some “fact” that has been forever scientifically proven — never mind that the fact in question is not falsifiable for the interlocutor berating you — and so therefore is unquestionable you have discovered a Maoist.

You can’t throw a rock 15 feet in any direction and not hit one of these brainwashed dupes in our country. You know who they are … they are the ones who gasp when you note that “actually, six million Jews were not killed in the Holocaust; recent numbers as adjusted by the Jews themselves have been significantly altered downwards.” They are the ones who gasp when you say that “the white man is not the axis of all evil in the world” or when you say that “actually European colonization of the third world had many positive benefits for the third world.” They are the ones who gasp when you tell them that, “Actually, many former slaves spoke of how slavery was the good life as seen by the slave exit interviews done in the 1930’s.” They are the ones who gasp when you tell them that, “God does not love everyone and in point of fact says Himself that He hates the wicked.”

And on and on it goes. We have been circumscribed by Maoist brainwashing on what we can and cannot think in this culture.

Actually, this is a long-overdue article attempting to explain why I remain baffled that so many Christians consider the sins of unrepentant sexual immorality (porneia), unrepentant boastfulness (alazoneia), unrepentant vulgarity (aischrologia), unrepentant factiousness (dichostasiai), and the like, to be only toxic for our nation, while policies that endorse baby-killing, sex-switching, freedom-limiting, and socialistic overreach are viewed as deadly….

Therefore, Christians communicate a falsehood to unbelievers (who are also baffled!) when we act as if policies and laws that protect life and freedom are more precious than being a certain kind of person. The church is paying dearly, and will continue to pay, for our communicating this falsehood year after year….

When a leader models self-absorbed, self-exalting boastfulness, he models the most deadly behavior in the world. He points his nation to destruction. Destruction of more kinds than we can imagine.

Dr. Rev. John Piper
Election Article – Desiring God

I stumbled across Piper’s article on the Drudge Report where Drudge headlined the link,

“Prominent pastor warns evangelicals of Trump’s ‘nation-corrupting’ sins.”

Now, as nearly everyone knows who reads Iron Ink or who knows me, I am no Donald Trump fan. I am not voting for Donald Trump because I believe he is a moral reprobate as well as a man of the Left. Having said that, I still find myself compelled to defend Trump from the incredible hypocrisy of John Piper, who screams, by way of innuendo (he never names Trump), that Trump’s character is so bad he can’t be elected President without saying a word about the rancid, fetid character of Joe Biden.

Now, I quite agree that Trump’s character is of Hugh Hefner quality but Piper never said a peep in that article about the Larry Flynt character of Joe Biden and I don’t think that is accidental. I think that this whole character shtick that Piper complains about is purposeful and is intended to help Biden win election. I will even go as far as to say that Piper’s article is likely part of the Biden campaign since the Biden campaign itself is seeking to make Trump’s character as the reason people should vote Biden.

But if Piper wants to talk about character let us, by all means talk about Biden’s character.

Johnny boy Piper wants to complain about Trump’s unrepentant sexual immorality. I quite agree. However, what Johnny Boy Piper failed to give us by way of innuendo is the unrepentant sexual immorality of Joltin’ Joe Biden. Hey Piper … Was Joe showing his superior character when he cornered his female assistant (Tara Reade) in the hallway of his office and sexually abused her by forcing, against her will, his fingers into her vagina? Is that the kind of unrepentant sexual immorality you’re talking about Rev. Piper? In all your self-righteousness, in the name of Jesus Christ, you took a violent swing at one unrepentant sexually immoral candidate while saying not a word about the other.

Was Joe showing his superior character every time he sniffed some 8 year old’s hair or felt her up on live television Dr. Piper? How did you miss mentioning that? Was Joe showing his superior character when he skimmed money off from Hunter Biden’s illicit gains made on the Biden name? Was Joe showing his superior character when he demanded the Ukraine Government to fire the Attorney General of that country because he was investigating Joe’s son Hunter for talking illicit monies out of Burisma so he could pass off the cream of the finances to his father? How is it Johnny Boy Piper that you can so clearly moan about Trump’s character but completely miss Biden’s character. You are a hypocrite Piper and all the more so seeking to ply your hypocrisy in oh so subtle and slithery of a fashion so as to help Joe Biden win the presidency.

Let’s keep talking about this superior character of Biden you implied existed. (And you implied it existed by mentioning Trump’s gutter character without mentioning Biden’s lower than the gutter character.) By railing against Trump’s character you put your thumb on the scale of the election and gave to Christians a moral equivalency between Biden’s desire to kill the unborn and Trump’s faulty character failing to inform us about the Biden’s fur-ball character. However, to get your Leftist thumb off the scales lets talk some more about Biden’s character.

Biden’s character includes, lying about the truck driver in the accident that killed his first wife and daughter. Biden has been lying about this for FORTY-SEVEN YEARS insisting that the man driving the truck that hit his wife was drunk when it has long been established, by the ruling judge in the case, that the man was not drunk and it was Biden’s wife who was at fault in the accident for running a stop sign. Is this the type of morally superior Character that negates Trump’s pro-life position Johnny? Is this the type of character you think should be in the White House? Rev. Dr. Piper you find this kind of sustained lying and character attack to be superior?

Want more of Joe Biden’s superior character that Rev. John Piper failed to mention while slamming Trump for his admittedly shameful character? Here we have Joe Biden who had to drop out of the 1988 for having plagiarized whole biographical sections from some other politician’s life (Neil Kinnock) in order to embellish his own life story. Biden did this while speaking from the stump. He took Neil Kinnock’s life and made it his own and he did it in order to gain votes.

Let’s remember… we are mentioning these character faults of Biden because Rev. Dr. Johnny Boy Piper insisted that Trump’s character was an issue in terms of how Christians vote but said not a word about the despicable low life character of Joe Biden thus seeking to subtly support Joe Biden’s candidacy over Trump for President.

What about Joe Biden’s lies about which college he went to and how high he graduated from his law school? Both lies. Joe said he went to a black college. Lie. Joe said he graduated in the top 50% of law school class. Joe graduated 76^th out of 85. The man is a congenital liar.

What about Joe Biden’s whopper saying that found his father telling him, when as a boy he saw two boys kissing, that “Joey, it’s simple. They love each other.” This supposedly happened in the 1950’s Scranton. We are supposed to believe this crap?

Now, remember, I stipulate that Trump is a moral reprobate. Remember, I’m not voting for Trump. My point here is that John Piper by writing this article inveighing against Trump’s character was lying by omission when he said nothing about the same sleaze-ball character of Joe Biden. Piper, in this article is subtly campaigning for Biden. He is telling Christians that a vote for Trump is not morally superior to voting for Biden since Trump is such a moral lowlife.

And yet we see here that Biden is every bit the moral lowlife that Trump is. So… if you think you have to vote for one of the two moral lowlifes (I don’t) you should probably vote for the moral lowlife who isn’t going to compound his rancid character by killing babies.

With that piece by Piper, I have no higher a view of Piper’s character than I do of Trump’s or Biden’s character. Lucifer could not have deceived as well as Piper in that article.

Just one more reason to hate America’s clergy corps.

“Notions of prisca theologia and philsophia perennis include the idea that there was a time before race, gender, and nationality; that sex was contained in an androgyne unity of opposites. If the process of moving to the perfected endpoint of history concerns the actualization of the perfected original form, then the process itself will demand a convergence of all things.

Think, for example, of the internationalist movements associated w/ the Left – the Communist International (Comintern), not to mention a global Caliphate. Perfectible futures that are equated with convergence demand that individual, individual groups, religious and national identity be converged (negated) as particular identities in order to realize the perfected universal form they will all find themselves sublated into.

This suppression (or sublimation, or negation) also includes the convergence of sex (genderism), race, religion (interfaith), and national identity (globalism — enforced mass-migrations that are destroying national identity) From the interfaith movement to the radicalizing activities directed at race, gender and the border, the dialectical engines are pervasively acting upon America in the form of operational plans from the Left oriented towards the negation of America through the destruction of identity that be purely sourced to the alchemical Hegel. For example, the multi-cultural concept of the ‘other’ (antithesis) is positioned against the ‘American’ (thesis) in a dialectical negation that claims to helically rise mankind to a new improved global citizenship (synthesis) when in fact the only thing that results is an impoverished national identity — like Venezuela.”

“Re-remembering the Mis-Remembered Left: The Left’s Strategy and Tactics to Transform America.” — p. 40

“The man of the distant future will be a hybrid. The present races and castes will fall prey to the overcoming of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid future breed, externally similar to the ancient Egyptians, will replace diversity of peoples with a variety of personalities. For, according to the laws of inheritance, diversity grows with the difference of ancestors, and with the monotony of the ancestors, the uniformity of descendants. In inbreeding families one child is like the other, because they all represent one common family type. In mixed-race families, the children differ more from each other; each forms a novel variation of the diverging parental and pre-parental elements.”

R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi — Himself a child of miscegenated parents
Father — Pan European Movement
Praktischer Idealismus

Of Coudenhove-Kalergi, Whitaker Chambers once wrote,

“(Coudenove-Kalergi) is practically a Pan-European organization himself. “The Coudenhoves were a wealthy Flemish family that fled to Austria during the French Revolution. The Kalergis were a wealthy Greek family from Crete. The line has been further crossed with Poles, Norwegians, Balts, French and Germans, but since the families were selective as well as cosmopolitan, the hybridization has been consistently successful.” The Kalergis family roots trace to Byzantine royalty via Venetian aristocracy, connecting with the Phokas imperial dynasty. In 1300, Coudenhove-Kalergi’s ancestor Alexios Phokas-Kalergis signed the treaty that made Crete a dominion of Venice.” We would add that R. N. Coudenhove-Kalergi’s mother was Japanese. When Kalergi advocated for the amalgamated man he was advocating for kinism per his understanding that the alien and stranger were his kin.

The attempt to encourage by advertising and propaganda the increase of miscegenation is not accidental. The Left has a purpose in all this as we see from above and it is the Left that is pushing this. This idea of fusing all the elements goes back to ancient pagan notions of prisca theologia and philsophia priscas where mankind returns to a time when race, gender, and nationality were united in their primitive state. It is the pagan appeal for the unity of the opposites.

There is ZERO Christian thinking or reference in the idea of normalizing inter-racial marriage. The ideology of universal miscegenation is all coming from the Marxist left. Their words repeated over and over proves this. This quote from Kalergi is just one more example. Amalgamated man has been in their playbook from the beginning. Of course the Marxist left has co-opted much of the idiot Church who is completely unaware of this history of ideas.

Appealing to Scripture we find in Church history that some have taught that man is dichotomous being (body and soul). This view finds its anchor in Genesis 2:7 where we learn,

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Dichotomy teaches that the constituent nature of man is body (dust of the ground) and soul (breath of life).

Others have taught that man is trichotomous being (body, soul and spirit). They would appeal (errantly) to passages like Hebrews 4:12,

“For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ”

In Church history Watchmen Nee was one of the biggest proponents of the idea that man is a tripartate being. This view has had some pretty bizarre (read Gnostic) interpretations — not least of which was Watchman Nee.

This post is not primarily about dismissing trichotomous thinking on the nature of man but allow me to quickly dismiss it by noting that Hebrews 4:12 is not teaching that soul and spirit are two distinct natures in man that are to be divided out. The Greek verb that is translated here as “piercing” is never used in Scripture for the sense of distinguishing two different things but instead is used when referring to distributing and dividing up various aspects of the same thing (see Heb 2:4; Lk 11:17-18; Mt 27:35; Jn 19:24).

Citing Kim Riddlebarger who is citing John Murray,

“The point is not that the Word separates two distinct things–soul from spirit–but that “The Word of God judges the thoughts and attitude of the heart” (Heb 4:12). The Word does not divide soul from spirit, as though these were two distinct entities, but the Word does divide soul and spirit in the sense of penetrating into our inner most parts.”

However there is another school of thought that doesn’t get talked about much and that is the idea that man is a modified unichotomous being. This views admits that man is body and soul but sees body and soul as so integrated that to over separate them in our thinking is a serious mistake. Modified unichotomy tips its cap to the idea that man is comprised of body and soul (dichotomy) but wants to emphasize that man as a creature remains a psychosomatic unity, so that while distinction between body and soul certainly must be made a divorce of the two in the creature is not allowed. The idea that man is a modified unichotomy seeks to embrace the organic integrity that is man.

The upshot of the modified unichotomy view is that man cannot be divided between his ideological self (soul) and his corporeal self (race / ethnicity) without doing grave and serious damage to the nature of man. The implication is that who man is racially and ethnically impacts what we think ideologically and what we think ideologically cannot be divorced from who God has made us in our racial – ethnic persons. It is merely to recognize that who we are corporeally impacts who we are as incarnated thinking beings. The brain and the mind are not the same thing but neither can they be divorced from one another. The body and the soul are definitely not the same thing but while living they cannot be divorced from one another.

We are whole beings. What happens at death is altogether unnatural and will be cured when we take on our glorified bodies. Until then, what we think, and who we are as corporeal being as the inheritance from our forebears are integrated.

Holding this view allows me to say “no” to both Darwin who was a materialist and to Franz Boas who wanted to completely ignore the corporeal aspect of man and so really was a high brow Gnostic. (Boas has done more than probably anybody in the 20th century to advance postmodernism through the back door of cultural anthropology.)

The person who embraces modified unichotomy avoids both the scylla of materialism which sees man only as matter in motion and the charybdis of man as merely a unembodied thinking mind as if who man is in his wholeness has no impact on man. What we are finding among the Evangelical and many Reformed is a verbal affirmation of man as bipartate but an unwillingness to embrace the implications of that so that there is hostility to the idea that the creaturliness of man in his genetic wholeness has any impact of the non-corporeal reality of man (i.e. — his thinking, his inherited disposititons, etc.). This has the surreal result that these folks who refuse the psychosomatic unity of man are constantly flip flopping like a fish on dry ground between practical Darwinism and Boasian Gnosticism. It’s the darndest thing to witness.

“We can also see that family members of the Dorr’s have noticed. We know Ben Dorr has a Father-in-law — a reconstructionist Pastor — who has been following this broadcast closely. He’s taken to calling me (Lisa) and Chris the ‘Lugenpresse twins.’ ‘Lugenpresse’ means ‘Lying Press’ in German. The word was popularized by the Nazis and popped into American far right vernacular around 2016.”

National Public Radio
No Compromise Podcast

1.) There is irony here if only because during this very same NPR broadcast the Lugenpresse Twins tell us that they learned about Confrontational Politics. They learned that those who practice Confrontational Politics consider it a success when they get so under the politician’s skin that the politicians begin to assiduously ignore them but better still is when the politicians begins yelling at them and denigrating them. Having read Richardson’s book, “Confrontational Politics” well over a decade ago I can only revel in the success that my confrontational approach here at Iron Ink had with the Lugenpresse Twins to the degree they believed they had to give me 18 seconds of air time in practicing their Lugenpresse attack on me by way of lexical innuendo.

2.) The Lugenpresse twins flatter themselves by suggesting that I was “following their broadcast closely.” They produced a format. I listened to the format and wrote down my impressions and a rebuttal. If listening to the show constitutes “following their broadcast closely” then color me a NPR fanboy. What I see is a continued practice on their part of habitual hyperbole. I listened to the show and they call it “following their broadcast closely.” The people can’t help themselves in their attachment to hyperbole. Who knew NPR hired Drama Queens?

3.) They mention I am a “reconstructionist Pastor” almost as if that is worse than being a Nazi. What would they ever think if they knew that I preached that the God who is has just wrath against sin and sinners that can only be assuaged by trusting in Christ alone? They’d probably look to see if I was somehow related to Himmler.

4.) Would have the Lugenpresse Twins given me a pass if I had used the French language and called them “presse couchee,” or if I had used Dutch and called them “liggende pers,” or if I had used Xhosa and called them “cinezela cinezela?”

5.) But if I had done that then they couldn’t do what their whole six part series excelled at. If I had used any language but German they couldn’t have used innuendo to hint that somehow because I used German it proved I had Nazi sympathies. I also smoke Cuban cigars so that must prove that I have communist sympathies. (But then again, having Communist sympathies would likely be acceptable to the Lying Press twins.)

6.) Since I grew up with German Grandparents it couldn’t be that I still remember snatches of German that I learned from my Grandparents from 55 years ago. Ah no… I must be some kind of Nazi sympathizer since I used the phrase “Lugenpresse.”

Ahh, well, NPR has finished their irresponsible Christ hating hit piece. They have finished their attempted assassination of Character by way of innuendo and guilt by association.

Oh… and I just can’t resist. Earlier in their broadcasts they hinted at the idea that the Dorr brothers weren’t really lobbyists and yet in their final broadcast they explicitly say that the Dorr Brothers will often work with a few “champion” legislators to push the legislation the Dorr Brothers desire to see passed. You’ll excuse me if I note that sure sounds like lobbying to me.

Oh… and the closing with your false and insincere sympathy was a cheap shot. You used family tragedy to suggest, by way of innuendo, that you were correct on your analysis on what you consider their recklessness.

You people have neither any honor, nor any shame.