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Christian Nationalist Rhetoric Before and After the 2020 Global Totalitarian Coup

11/21/2021

I firmly believe that the still largely unacknowledged global totalitarian coup of 2020 marked the peak of "things coming to a point", which Bruce Charlton has outlined in the following manner:

In sum, when things have come to a point - life-choices will be substantially (this can never be absolute, due to our mixed-nature and mixed-motives) simple, dichotomous and direct. The choices will be between God, Love, Beauty, Truth, Virtue, Harmony... and the negation of these.

Once we have people choosing against-Good, against God, consciously and with their eyes wide-open; then that will also be the situation when people will choose eternal damnation in preference to the gift of salvation and eternal life as Sons and Daughters of God - they will reject Heaven and choose to reign in their own personal Hell.

This is the end game; yet we can see that this must be carefully prepared if the situation is not to 'backfire' from the perspective of evil...

The clearer that choices become, the more likely that the mass of distracted, cloudy-minded, muddled, partly conscious and not-yet-fully-corrupted people will perceive the situation and choose Good.

So - a world of things coming to a point is also a world in which it is easier to discern Good. Much easier...

The iron fist has emerged from its velvet glove; the wolf has shrugged of his sheep's clothing. Strategic deception becomes a thing of the past.

For Men of Good intent - life becomes clear and simple - right choices are easy to recognise.

After that - it is up-to-us, each as individuals.

The undeniably clear distinction between good and evil marks the essence of "things coming to a point". The gray area dissolves; veils are lifted; masks slip away; the true natures of people and things are revealed.

Once "the point" has been recognized and acknowledged, choices between good and evil become definitive in the sense that the choices themselves immediately determine which side the choice-maker has aligned himself or herself with.

Moot points hold no water once "the point" has been recognized and acknowledged. Once good and evil are revealed with irrefutable clarity, what is there left to argue about?

For example, many people considered the current Hungarian prime minister and his government to be on "the right side" before the 2020 global totalitarian coup. I was among those people who gave the Hungarian prime minister and his government the benefit of the doubt. More precisely, I knew that the Hungarian PM - like all politicians - was rather corrupt and had a penchant for lying, but when it came to matters of fundamental importance - matters such as Christianity, mass migration, demographic decline, the family, sexual revolution and trans propaganda - the Hungarian PM and his government appeared to be on the right side.

Yes, they were sinners, but in terms of God and Creation, they were also siders.

Well, 2020 put an end to that illusion. Christians and conservatives who still believe the Hungarian PM and his government are on the right side of the spiritual war would benefit from revisiting these convictions in light of everything that has transpired since 2020. Consider the following two quotes from the much hailed Christian nationalist leader. The first pre-birdemic coup; the second is post-birdemic coup (key terms changed by me):

We regard the essence of our God-ordained responsibility in our government to be the preservation of the life outlook which on the basis of Christ's teachings has made Europe and Hungarians great, has shielded them at times of danger and helped them through spiritual, intellectual, and national crises.
- October 31, 2017

The pecking of all Hungarian citizens is inevitable. The unpecked are a threat . . . not only to themselves, but to all others as well. In the end, everyone will have to be pecked; even the anti-peckers will realize that they will either get pecked or die.
- November 19, 2021

The second quote is the same line of "none are safe until all are safe" logic being employed by nearly single leader of every single country around the world.

You could say it has become a sort of unofficial global diktat that even self-proclaimed "Christian" leaders like Hungary's pugnacious PM are more than eager to follow.

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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Forced Pecks; Or, Whoomp, There It Is!

11/19/2021

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I live in a small landlocked country in Central Europe close to the border of another small landlocked country in Central Europe. Until the end of the First World War, these two small landlocked countries in Central Europe were basically one entity known as the Dual Monarchy, also referred to as Austria-Hungary or the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After World War I, the Empire and Monarchies were dissolved; Austria and Hungary became separate independent countries.

Until last week, I held university jobs in both of these separate independent countries, but the peck agenda has since dissolved my dual job-archy status in former Dual Monarchy. The institution that employed me in Austria made it abundantly clear that the peck had become a non-negotiable in its relationships with its employees. I stalled and delayed and asked for exemptions . . . and then I was terminated.

Barely two days later, the newly installed and unelected (not that it makes a difference) Establishment mouthpiece, who had assumed the rule of Austrian Chancellor after the formerly installed and elected (not that it made a difference) Establishment mouthpiece was evicted from his chancellorship due to some corruption scandal, suddenly announced that he was locking down every unpecked Austrian citizen until they came to their senses and pecked themselves.

A mere four days later, the newly installed chancellor extended the lockdown to include everyone because locking down (or locking out) the unpecked had apparently done nothing to alleviate the rise in "cases". He topped off his speech by issuing a national peck mandate from which no Austrian citizen would be exempt. Quite the week for the new chancellor, I must say.

Pecks in perpetuity it is.

National peck mandates have been implemented in a few countries in the world, but as far as I know, Austria is the first country in Europe to do so. Whether or not it will actually be implemented in February or if it will even work if it is implemented remains to be seen, but one thing is certain - the totalitarians have not only let the velvet glove slip from the iron fist - they've dropped the glove on the ground, doused it in gasoline, and put a match to it.

I don't know what the actual goal of the birdemic peck is, but I do know that the goal of the peck cannot be a good one. I also know the peck is a crucial component to a much larger Satanic agenda.

And that Satanic agenda is undeniably clear now. Moreover, it is getting awfully impatient - some might even say to the point of desperation.

What's the rush all of the sudden?

Which is why it is so crucial to resist - now more than ever. Caving in to the blatant manipulation and outright coercion now will not end anything or make anything better.

On the contrary, it is guaranteed to make things worse, not just for that small landlocked country, or for my own small landlocked country, but for every country and for every family and for every single being alive in God's Creation.

Note added: Turns out Austria is not first country to force a nationwide peck mandate. The Vatican is - at least for its employees.

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God's Ultra-Realistic Metaverse

11/17/2021

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The Babylon Bee really hit it out of the park with this one:

God Develops Ultra-Realistic Metaverse Where People Can Talk, Learn, And Work With Other People, Calling It 'Universe'

EARTH—In a bold announcement to all of His children, God unveiled the creation of an ultra-realistic metaverse where people can talk, learn, and work with other people, stating this unique new metaverse will be called “Universe.”

“This is more realistic than any virtual reality I’ve experienced before,” said reality enthusiast Miles Kann while walking through one of the Universe’s city parks in real-time. “I can literally smell the fresh air, touch the cool grass, and interact with other players in incredible ways."

Another early adopter of God’s Universe demonstrated how detailed and immersive the player-to-player interaction was as she showed off her humble home, complete with husband, children, and dog. She thanked God for providing her with a sense of purpose and fulfillment unmatched by any competing product.

Critics were quick to point out possible bugs in the Universe, listing wars, injustices, violence, and disease, and suggested God either label it “Early Access” or reboot altogether. These criticisms, however, were countered by God’s supporters who were well-versed in the instruction manual, stating a truly realistic Universe must come with the full experience of joy and pain, choice and accountability, life and death, but that the end game was worth it.

According to witnesses, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg screamed in terror at the frightening, immutable reality of God’s Universe.

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The Devil You Don't Know Might Not Be a Devil at All

11/15/2021

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"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't" is a possible (and probably very common) response to the manipulation and coercion of the birdemic peck agenda.

When confronted by threats of imminent job loss or other pecuniary punishments, people are quick to cling to the devil they know - income, security, stability - than try their luck with the devil they don't - unemployment, insecurity, instability.

Though I imagine most who have resisted the peck until now understand that succumbing to the peck agenda in order to preserve a livelihood is a bad situation in and of itself, I suspect many end up complying because they believe the situation that awaits them if they don't comply will be infinitely worse.

In all fairness, from a purely material perspective, it very well might be.

But this immediately begs the question about what qualifies as worse.

Now some people - families with small children, those with limited job opportunities or skills, whatever - may not have a great deal of wiggle room when it comes to walking away from jobs or being sacked from livelihoods over the peck.

At the same time, I get the sense that the old adage about devils you know and devils you don't amounts to a wrong approach to the peck agenda challenge.

To begin with, there is something inherently dispiriting about the "devil you know and devil you don't" paradigm because it automatically removes the potential of a good or better situation should people willingly choose to abandon the devil they know.

From a Romantic Christian perspective, I believe it is deeply wrong to conceptualize one's circumstances as being stuck between two devils for the simple reason that it completely removes God from the equation.

In simple terms, the devil you don't know is a knee-jerk reaction against faith and creativity. It immediately negates faith in the possibility that a good decision (refusing the peck to save job that may not be all that good anyway) might actually lead one from a bad situation (an employer using coercive tactics to force you to do something you don't want to do) to a good or better situation (another job where you may not have to endure such things or perhaps another way of earning income that might land you in better circumstances).

Material considerations aside, it also sidesteps the spiritual "better" that arises should one decide to abandon the devil they know.

The devil you don't know is also an affront against spiritual creativity, which entails a certain degree of risk-taking in order to think and act creatively in harmony with divine creation.

Within the devils paradigm, the devil you know represents the comfort, security, and familiarity of the System as well as the call to stay with the System, but of what good is the comfort, security, and familiarity if the price you are being asked to pay for it includes being manipulated and coerced by the System toward something you know to be wrong and evil?

Once again, I understand that not everyone is free to choose in this situation, but I suspect many are far freer to choose than they present themselves to be.

Instead of "better the devil you know than the devil you don't" why not think in terms "worse the devil I know that the angel I don't".

Yeah, the phrase has a kind of cheesy Hallmark card quality to it, but there's nothing cheesy about the message the phrase conveys.

Why stick with a bad situation you know? Why not have some faith in God and yourself and take a chance at something potentially better?

The essence of spiritual creativity is simple. Our thoughts and actions help God's ongoing work in Creation. When we align our thoughts and actions with God, when we harmonize our creativity with His, we have the potential to become co-creators. But we should approach this as a duty rather than an option.

If we take a chance at something better and work toward it, we provide God with the room and tools needed to help make that something better a reality. We also have the opportunity to add something to creation that God may not be able to add on His own.

If we cannot take a chance at something better, we can repent and use our powers to work toward something better in the bad situation that is the devil we know. Within this context, the act of repentance alone is already a major victory for the side of God and Creation.

Either way, each is a step toward harmony with God, which is a prerequisite of creativity and co-creation.

Co-creation is a calling from God. When it comes to the realization of His Divine Plan, He needs us just as much as we need Him.

Note added: What I have outlined above should not be confused with material, worldly lines of thinking like "the power of positive thinking", which Dr. Charlton lucidly addressed in a post today.

Aligning ourselves with God through repentance and creativity is about spiritual learning and working with God toward the co-creation of a better spiritual present and future. Since the spiritual encompasses the material, this may lead to better or improved material outcomes. On the other hand, it may not. Either way, in terms of priorities and motivations, the co-creation of better and improved spiritual outcomes must take precedence over better or improved material outcomes.

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An Addendum to "This Will All End When You Comply"

11/14/2021

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In my previous post I noted that those who comply with the ongoing birdemic peck agenda in the hope that their compliance will somehow help bring the whole sorry affair to an end are being taken in by what basically amounts to a gross deception of the "Captain Obvious" variety.

Freely and willingly succumbing to demonic pressure out of some hope that compliance will bring an end to it all extends far beyond the realm of bad decision-making and penetrates rather deeply into the realm of zero spiritual discernment of evil.

Case in point, Jordan Peterson. Now, here's a man who has intensely studied "the psychology" of totalitarianism and claims to be somewhat of an expert on tyranny and oppressive regimes. Yet this same man freely and willingly pecked himself in the hope that doing so would put him on the "right" side of birdemic and, presumably, on the right side of history.

The video below features Peterson coming to the startling realization that he has been duped. His compliance with the peck agenda and the global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe" did nothing to end the birdemic or alleviate the demonic pressure.

Contrary to his high hopes, the global totalitarians simply refuse to leave him alone even though he has been pecked. Even worse, he appears to (kind of) understand that his decision has only made things worse and that the demonic pressure will rapidly expand into other Litmus Test issues like climate change.

And to think I once I believed this man knew his stuff and had some good ideas! Every time I am reminded of that I feel like banging my head against a wall!

Anyway, my main point here is not to disparage (though I don't mind disparaging), but rather to hold Peterson up as an example of the obvious limits of despiritualized thinking:

By choosing to cut itself from all communications with the Divine, this mode of consciousness has basically closed off all possibilities for continued spiritual growth and development.

Secondly, by closing off all possibilities for continued spiritual growth and development, people locked into a despiritualized mode of consciousness have rendered themselves incapable of spiritual learning. Moreover, they have rendered themselves incapable of real world thinking and learning.

Thirdly, by rendering themselves incapable of spiritual learning, people a in despiritualized mode of consciousness have lost all sense of the true purpose and meaning of mortal life.

Fourthly, since they have lost all sense of the true purpose and meaning of mortal life, they have forfeited the spiritual resources needed to make the right choices.

And finally, since they have become utterly incapable of making the right choices, people in a despiritualized mode of consciousness inevitably make the wrong choices, but are utterly incapable of learning anything of meaning or value from the wrong choices they make for the simple reason that the very concept of wrong choice utterly eludes them.

And for all intents and purposes, this is a dead end.

Peterson appears to understand he has made a wrong choice. He admits his stupidity, but continues to lay the blame wholly on the totalitarians who have refused to hold up their end of the deal.

Look, we are in a spiritual war. People who do not recognize the primacy of the spiritual and lack the spiritualized consciousness needed to understand evil and make right choices will not make it very far, neither in this life nor in life everlasting.

Moreover, they will have learned nothing of real value in the process.

Don't be a Peterson.

And as for Peterson - what's it going to take for the penny to finally drop?

Language warning - The doctor uses some spicy words in the video.

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"This Will All End When You Comply" is a Blatant Deception

11/14/2021

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Back in July I used a movie poster for the awful Chuck Norris film Delta Force to predict what we could expect from the birdemic. At the time, I speculated that we would first experience The Siege, which would eventually segue into The Ordeal.

I anticipated that the Siege would primarily be an intense psyop blitz aimed at manipulating the unpecked into taking the peck. I then suggested that this would be followed by stringent, punitive coercion measures that would make it increasingly difficult for some of the unpecked to remain unpecked.

Well, both have occurred and both are currently at play. Fundamentally, The Siege and The Ordeal are intense examples of demonic pressure that are meant to manipulate and coerce. Suffice to say, neither The Siege nor the The Ordeal is meant to be pleasant. On the contrary, both are calibrated to inflict high levels of misery and distress.

To adhere to the formula from that movie poster of the awful Chuck Norris film, relief from The Siege and The Ordeal comes in the form of The Rescue. In terms of the peck agenda, The Rescue happens the moment people reach their breaking points, give into the demonic pressure, and allow themselves to be pecked in the hope that such an action will "make it all stop and go away."

Our totalitarian overlords continue to insist that a return to normal is just around the corner, that everything will stabilize and normalize soon, but that this can only happen if everyone on the planet complies with the global diktat of "none are safe until all are safe", which is contingent on everyone willingly accepting the peck.

Take the peck and the pain ends. Take the peck and the world goes back to normal. Take the peck and you help save the world. Take the peck and you'll be happy.

This is a blatant deception.

In reality, agreeing to or surrendering to the peck is just the tip of the iceberg. Far from being a one-off act of compliance, saying yes to the peck represents saying yes to a re-engineered System whose sole purpose is damnation.

As Dr. Charlton notes in a recent post, the true motivations behind the peck agenda are spiritual, and they reside in the portion of the iceberg that floats hidden beneath the surface:

My point here is that the decision we are confronted-with Now is not between getting 'the peck' or not. The choices will not stop here. This is just the first of many choices.

The eventual choice is about whether we agree to a long-term system of mandatory, imposed, continuous pecks for multiple reasons and regardless of their effect.
That is where we are being led - step by step. They want Us to want that kind of world - want Us to agree that would be a necessary and Good way of living for everybody in the world to submit to... whatever They say is Good for Us.

"The" birdemic peck is only the first of many steps. But we need to remember that this is a spiritual war, a war over souls; and Their objective is to make people reject salvation and choose damnation.

In principle, as totalitarians ruling a compliant materialist/ atheist/ leftist mass population, They could forcibly impose any evil on anybody. But their goal is to make people want evil.
That is why the birdemic peck is the first step. If the people can be induced into wanting that which is unnecessary/ ineffective and harmful just on the say-so of an Establishment-media that is known to be evil. And to want this imposed everywhere, on everybody and forever - and whatever.

If that stuff can become desired by Men - then those Men are damned.

But those who perceive the truth of 'what is going-on' and withhold their consent from being recruited-into this plan and onto the side of evil; have already defeated this strategy of evil in themselves.

Many will be tempted to choose the peck in the false hope that such a choice will provide some sort of rescue and bring an end to The Siege, The Ordeal, and the entire birdemic, but such a choice will not initiate an end to any of the above. On the contrary, such a choice will only lead to the intensification of misery and distress for the simple reason that such a choice amounts to tacit approval of the misery and distress.

Any rescue the System offers is a blatant deception. More significantly, any rescue the System offers is sure to lead to damnation. The only rescue available now resides in the spiritual, and that begins the moment you commit to resisting The Rescue the System offers. And this is accessible even if you have been duped by or cannot "physically" reject the peck agenda.

But this requires repentance and a renewed commitment to begin working with God rather than against Him.

Note added: The materialization of certain previously made speculations does not make me a fortuneteller or a prophet. I have no clear idea of what the future holds. At the same time, some of evil's movements do become predictable once the motivations driving the movements are recognized and discerned.

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Man's Role in the Realization of God's Plan

11/13/2021

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I believe the further development or, more precisely, the fulfillment of God’s Will is contingent on understanding that God expects man to fully and actively participate in the ongoing work of Creation as a co-creator.

Christians who reject this idea maintain that man’s primary religious duty is to obey God and submit to His Will. In this they are perfectly correct. Obeying God and submitting to His Will is indeed the primary duty of Christians. The crux of the disagreement concerning man’s role in Creation resides exclusively in the interpretation of what obedience and submission entails.

Those who dismiss the idea of man as co-creator regard redemption as the cornerstone of obeying God and carrying out His Will. Rather than venturing forth guided by some mysterious creative pursuit that is likely to end in waywardness and apostasy, those who reject the idea of co-creation insist man should concern himself primarily with the overcoming his sinful, fallen nature in the hope of attaining salvation.

In other words, man’s main goal is to know his place as a creature rather than as a co-creator in Creation. His role is to subjugate the bulk of his spirit and force to the external forms of God. Within this understanding, carrying out the Will of God is reduced to a kind of formalism – to strict adherence to prescribed external forms.

From the perspective of operation, obeying God and submitting to God’s Will is largely a matter of obeying a set of established external rules, doctrines, and practices. Within this framework, the pinnacle of co-operation between God and man resides in man observing predetermined rules of arrangement of outward form over inner reality and subjective experience and meaning.

Though this conceptualization of the limits of man’s co-operation with God is far superior to atheistic, secular, humanist, materialist conceptions of man as a “natural” and necessarily subjective sole operator locked in his own little subjective world that is ultimately ruled over by nature with no possibility of co-operating with the Divine, it remains intensely restrictive and does little to address the deeper significance of the imago Dei in man.

The danger of adhering to mostly exclusive forms has become undeniably apparent. Most (if not all) forms of organized Christianity have willingly and actively merged with the external forms of Satanic global totalitarianism. Consequently, observing the predetermined rules of arrangement of outward form over subjective reality carries the very real risk of not obeying God nor following His Will.

Man must obey God and man must obey God’s will. He must overcome his ego, his self-centeredness, and his seemingly infinite false selves and become God-centered in order to carry out God’s Will – but the Will of God demands that man rise up in creative spiritual liberty, a creative spiritual liberty that holds the imago Dei highly in hand.

Man’s spiritual mission in the world now depends on his creativity, but this, in turn, depends on his becoming conscious of himself – of his real self – in freedom. Man’s creative thoughts and actions can add to and continue the creation of the cosmos, but this can only occur through alignment with God, which is grounded in man’s freely given love for God.

Rather than submit his creative forces and spirit to the prescribed external forms of God in the hopes of salvation, man seeks salvation by offering up his latent creative forces to God as a gift. Through this, man aspires to actively work with God and through God and have God work with him and through him.

In the words of Nikolai Berdyaev, “Man is called not only to seek for divine assistance and salvation, but to help God in the realization for His plan for the world."

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Satan Loves to Slice Salami

11/11/2021

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Mátyás Rákosi - An altruistic soul if there ever was one.

As we inch closer toward the two-year anniversary of the global Satanic coup that most of the world still refuses to acknowledge, I thought it would be fun to briefly comment on one of the demonic totalitarians go-to tactics - the salami.

Apparently, the term salami tactics - also known as the salami-slice strategy - was coined in the late 1940s by one of Satan's most beloved little helpers, Hungarian communist dictator Mátyás Rákosi who boasted of dividing and, eventually, destroying non-communist political parties in Hungary by "slicing them off like pieces of salami." According to Infogalactic, Rákosi employed the tactic in the following manner:

By portraying his opponents as fascists (or at the very least fascist sympathizers), he was able to get the opposition to slice off its right wing, then its centrists, then the more courageous left wingers, until only those fellow travelers willing to collaborate with the Communists remained in power.

Though many credit Rákosi with the term salami tactics, the American economist Thomas C Schelling assured the world that salami tactics were invented by a child:

Tell a child not to go in the water and he’ll sit on the bank and submerge his bare feet; he is not yet ‘in’ the water. Acquiesce, and he’ll stand up; no more of him is in the water than before. Think it over, and he’ll start wading, not going any deeper; take a moment to decide whether this is different and he’ll go a little deeper, arguing that since he goes back and forth it all averages out. Pretty soon we are calling to him not to swim out of sight, wondering whatever happened to all our discipline.

I like Schelling's example because it illustrates the "baby-step" process inherent in salami tactics - just one small slice . . . okay, just one more . . . I think I need two slices this time . . . okay, two more . . . don't complain - you still have the salami! . . . I'm going to need three slices this time around, I'm afraid . . .

And so on until all of the sudden the salami is gone. This is referred to more commonly as "salami slicing" which Infogalactic defines as:

. . . a series of many small actions, often performed by clandestine means, that as an accumulated whole produces a much larger action or result that would be difficult or unlawful to perform all at once. The term is typically used pejoratively. Although salami slicing is often used to carry out illegal activities, it is only a strategy for gaining an advantage over time by accumulating it in small increments, so it can be used in perfectly legal ways as well.

The bulk of the fake birdemic response measures implemented since 2020 have been a masterclass in salami slicing. It's just two weeks . . . it's just a mask . . . it's just a peck . . . etc. I suspect most have seen the memes, so I won't elaborate further.

I mention salami slicing and salami tactics in this post because my employers - both of them - have begun using these methods against me in a manipulative effort to get me to accept the peck as a condition of employment.

As I watch both of my employers sharpen their knives in anticipation of some good old salami-slicing fun, I am struck by how obvious salami slicing and salami tactics are. They were obvious when the Establishment announced they only needed "two weeks to flatten the curve" back in 2020; they are obvious in the divide and conquer strategy of pecked versus unpecked, and they are obvious in my workplaces, both of which are threatening to furlough me for having the incomprehensible audacity of refusing to be pecked in the name of "none are safe until all are safe."

Well, my employers can sharpen their knives all they want because the only thing I'm giving them to slice is air. Nevertheless, going through the process at a more personal level got me thinking: How can tactics that are so obvious be so brutally effective?

It doesn't take long to understand that when it comes to politics and society, salami tactics and salami slicing depend entirely on the willingness and cooperation of the party against which these sorts of tactics are deployed. Put another way, the salami only gets sliced if the other party allows the salami to get sliced. Moreover, the salami-slicing ends the moment the other party takes the salami off the table, so to speak.

And yet here we are.

We are nearly two years into a still largely unnoticed global totalitarian coup and an absurd birdemic narrative and yet the vast majority are perfectly content to let the salami slicing continue.

I'm not sure how much of the salami is actually left at this point, but I get the sense we're getting awfully close to that little metal ring that encircles the end.

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The Right and Wrong Paths of Freedom

11/11/2021

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Lady Mermaid, a regular reader of this blog, recently posted a lucid summary of freedom and how it relates to the further development of Christian consciousness. I have decided that it deserves a post of its own (slight editing and bold added):

Many traditionalists/reactionaries rightfully argue that the emphasis on individual freedom led to the godless world of today. While individual liberty did lead to the downfall of the West, I don't believe that this downfall was inevitable.

The quote from Berdyaev about this increased freedom leading to God or the devil is the most sobering aspect of this post.

If the Enlightenment had been centered on how to use individual liberty to grow in Christ, it could have a been a great development in man's consciousness.

Unfortunately, the majority of Enlightenment thinkers used their new freedom to reject God. Instead of mankind embarking to better things, the post Enlightenment man fell into the horrors of Communism, Nazism, Facism, scientism, rationalism, "public health", and the security state.

While man has certainly abused the freedoms he has gained over the last two centuries, I agree w/ Berdyaev that God did want us to be able to truly decide to follow Him rather than simply out of habit or tradition. This is why attempts to restore the former traditional paths during the 20th century failed whether it was a Catholic Republic of Ireland or Franco's Post WWII Spain. Modern man is fundamentally different than the medieval or Renaissance man.

I'm not dismissing the spirituality of the past by any means. It's simply that today it has be an individual choice rather than taken for granted.

There is a great price for this freedom if we continue on the wrong path, but there are great rewards if we freely choose Christ.

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Freedom Will Be Found Only In Christianity

11/8/2021

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The denial of freedom means a curtailing of human individuality and the extinction of spiritual life of man. Individuality revolts against transformation into an automaton. The idea of Christian freedom, considered fundamentally with all its consequences, presupposes the affirmation of freedom in all spheres of human creativity, in science, philosophy, and art, in social relationships, and in love. Coercion in these matters has no value whatever from the Christian point of view.

In all spheres of creation the truth of Christ must be revealed in the very depths of liberty. Science, art, society, like the free love between man and woman, must serve the truth of Christ and must turn their creative forces towards God as the manifestation of a free love towards God. No outward limitations can be imposed on freedom of thought and feeling. The life of Christ must be born within them; the void and non-being of evil and the nothingness of all forms of atheism must be clearly revealed.

This is the line of development through immanence, the only one which humanity can follow, which has brought it to the very climax of the trials and contradictions of culture. The final separation of the two kingdoms will take place along this line of freedom which will lead definitively either to God or to the devil.

And the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when freedom will be found only in Christianity . . .

- Nikolai Berdyaev, Freedom and the Spirit

Thoughts:

Berdyaev is right about the line of freedom leading definitively to either God or the devil, but he maintains that it will be the Church of Christ that will ultimately defend the freedom of man against the violence of this world.

I am of the mind that no form of organized Christianity will rise up to defend anyone from anything, particularly not against the violence of this world. The Church of Christ resides solely in individual Christians now because that is the only place human freedom still exists in this world.

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