It is hard to get the mind and emotions around the reality of
what is actually happening - It is actually a shock mechanism called
The Normalcy Bias - people just keep doing what they are doing unable
to believe that the reason for doing it is gone.
I saw it when I was
Railroad Engineer 1971 - My train took the rear end off an automobile on a
crossing in East Point, Georgia - luckily there was only one person
in the car. As we walked the train back to where the half-car was
sitting we kept hearing someone trying to crank a car - you know the
sound of a starter turning over a motor. When we got to the car the
man was still sitting in the front seat. He had his seat belt on and was
very lucky to be alive. But he was sitting there looking embarrassed and was turning the ignition trying over and over
trying again and again to crank half a car. He looked at me and
said, "I'm sorry fellows. Just give me a minute and I will get
out of your way." I said, "Sir, have you looked at your
back seat?" He said, "Why?" I said, "Because it
is not there." He turned, saw the back of the car missing
and immediately passed out from shock. That is the Normalcy Bias and the entire
country is suffering it at this very moment, the Constitution is
voided, the political process is a mere show, mere theater to keep the lid
on, while all are still locked in the Right/Left political paradigm pretending that Obama v Romney has meaning.
On 2/14/2001 George Bush declared a state of national emergency under the Emergency Powers Act -few people understood what that meant. I had warned for years about the dangers of the Emergency Powers Act but suffering the Normalcy Bias - people refused to hear. It handed dictatorial powers to the president and it has constantly been renewed - we have been operating under a constant state of emergency ever since.
How do you think that Obama has been able to do so many things that are immoral and appear illegal, yet all the law suits filed against him are dismissed?
NEXT: The Patriot act authorized the arrest without charge and indefinite incarceration without right of habeas corpus of anyone suspected of being a "potential terrorist" In 2009 Homeland Security expanded the definition of "potential terrorist" to include you and me - (I have all the documents) and in June of this year Obama changed those who may be arrested without charge to anyone deemed "A threat to national security." That is the same power Joseph Stalin exercised.
Did you ever wonder how Obama could void bankruptcy laws and give GM to the unions and rob the shareholders? How he could by executive fiat order dealerships closed and a thousand other "seemingly illegal and unconstitutional acts"????
Read this article - NOT as if it is a rant but as if the words have meaning - this isn't about "emotion" it is about fact. BTW in June Obama declared a state of "International Emergency" which allows for intervention INSIDE the U.S. by the U.N. using foreign troops.
Now, the Luciferian forces INSIDE The ORTHODOX CHURCH IN AMERICA are hell bend on smearing him, destroying his reputation. What fool dares stand against the Scientistic Dictatorship Elite and their new morality???!!!!
Curse you Metropolitan Jonah, The Luciferian Forces Say:
In its quest to find something — anything — in their obsessive quest to destroy His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, operatives in Syosset (the headquarters of the Orthodox Church In America) found an old rape allegation, NOT against Jonah mind you, but against a priest who happened to be living in Washington. This priest was never in the OCA. They wrote an inept and irresponsible letter with the false charge that Jonah covered up the alleged rape.
The letter calls into question their veracity, intentions, and intelligence. They have thrown the OCA into a crisis of the highest order and show no signs of stopping.
Even worse, they never considered that in their Ahab-like quest to destroy His Beatitude, they would hurt another human being.
Yesterday I published a letter form this woman’s godmother, who wished to set the record straight. I applaud her courage. The family of the victim took umbrage at Syosset’s scurrilous claim and determined that the victim’s experience would not be used to destroy another innocent person. The record has been clarified and Syosset’s story is demolished.
The facts are now in circulation. No more needs to be said about this incident. In order to protect the people involved, all comments that mention this incident will be removed. They have suffered enough.
At this point, the broader, more troubling question is this: what new and scurrilous accusations will these same operatives bring forward in order to further blacken the name of our Metropolitan? When will they realize that enough is enough? Why Would They Do This? — Monomakhos www.monomakhos.com
You may call me cynical
if you like, but I would bet important body parts that was the exact
same reaction Dietrich Bonhoeffer got when he stood up against the
NAZI-compliant clergy of his day; when he saw the deadly lying forces
that had taken control of the public square, when he saw the
Christian Churches being turned into NAZI propaganda outlets, with the
very Icons of the faith turned to NAZI symbols.
Today they are much more sophisticated, the symbol less obvious but a thousand times more powerful to the unguarded psyche of the masses. As far as the “set to win – set to lose” scenario between the Republican and Democrat parties. Have you seen the expose' about the Iconographic imagery of the Obama v McCain campaigns, Bill Whittle did? He is awake. Bill Whittle thinks the Republican National Committee is inept. I think they are rather "compliant."
The people duped by the political kabuki play the Scientistic
Dictatorship is using to herd us against our will into the Brave New
World Order, are asleep, herded like cattle into the waiting
livestock rail cars, headed for their vacation in the country, just a
temporary thing, you know “until the national crisis is over.”
The events of the last ten years in the U.S., are identical to the
1930s in Germany, where the democratic system was used to create a
dictatorship. Where most brainwashed people's observation fails them now,
when feeling the pain, the oppression, the coming carnage and viewing the present abuses of “Obama-Power,”
is that they are guilty of giving him that power, because they were
willing to give the power to Uncle George who pledged to "keep them safe." Who pledge to use extra-constitutional powers, "just until the national crisis was over." George the amiable buffoon the right could not fear, whom they cheered on and felt toward him, like he was the family bad boy make
good.
HE and the republican congress, which held office with near
absolute power for SIX years, put in place all the Laws that
Obama-Power has used to take us down. The Scientistic Dictatorship
elite of the New World Order have played the stupid right-wing and
the stupid left-wing, and the feckless and apathetic "radical middle" like a fiddle. While they promised Liberty they gave us slavery; and STILL at this point when ALL guarantees of
personal Liberty are abolished, and the Federal Government has been
given unlimited powers of coercion through taxation and for eleven
years the Executive Branch has governed under a constant state of
“national emergency” under the “Emergency Powers Act” now
with TOTAL Dictatorial control, where the media is not only censored
but turned into a tool of propaganda via the same Emergency Powers
Act – STILL at this point people are asleep, or in total denial.
They converse in a “thought-frame of consciousness” "a fake dialectic" a totally artificial “talk
speak mindset" devoid of rational foundation, lost in a fantasy of security created for them to keep them from rising up.
Bonhoeffer saw
the apostasy of the Church, its use by the Luciferian power structure. We
are seeing the same thing as the churches, all of them are being
slowing molded into the Ecumenical falsehood of the Scientistic
Dictatorship's new religion. These Luciferians are too smart to openly
battle the good, when they find it is so much easier to corrupt it and
subvert it. Social Justice, and psychological “feelgoodism” have replace the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The newly created slate of scientistic based morals, has taken the place of the moral imperatives of a
Christian life. Now we must acknowledge our slavery to the material, to our biology, to our genetic predispositions.
It is not cynical to recognize lawlessness in
high places when that lawlessness exists. (We have an illegal president, a man with fake birth certificate, fake social security numbers - plural, fake biography, hidden college records, hidden birth records, etc., etc. ad nauseum.) It is not cynical to
recognize godlessness replacing Christ in the denominations of
Christianity, when it is, in fact, so.
Set to win:
The Republican Logo in the George Bush campaigns, with the upside-down Chrysler logo in the middle of the five pointed star, giving the signal that everything is good for business.
Set to lose:
The Republican Logo used by McCain's Campaign and now Romney's with the five point star turned into a satanic symbol.
Satan upside down Pentagram - google it, it is the head of the Goat.
This stuff is not by accident, every symbol is set for its effect. This year for the Republicans it is to once again set up a straw man for Obama to blow over.
I Am Archpriest Symeon Elias; Here I STAND.
Mirror article:
Pushing the Gay Agenda in the Greek Archdiocese
BY NICHOLAS CHANCY
SUNDAY, 01 MARCH 2009
Source: OrthodoxBiz
Globally, Orthodox Christianity is known to be highly conservative concerning what is frequently referred to as "traditional Christian morality." In Europe, for example, more progressive and liberal elements of society spare no effort in attacking the Church as a bastion of traditionalist repression, especially concerning homosexuality.
Ironically, however, in the United States an image seems to be growing of the Orthodox Church as more liberal towards sexual sins than, for example, the Evangelical denominations. Quite a few people, judging by chatter on the Internet, are getting the impression that Orthodoxy is similar to the Episcopal Church in respect to moral issues.
Part of this confusion stems from the book Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe by John Boswell. This book, published in 1994, asserted that certain Greek Orthodox medieval rituals were really ecclesiastical blessings of homosexual unions. Boswell especially singled out the Greek Orthodox Rite known as adelphopoiesis or "brother-making," as one such example.
Since the book’s publication, Orthodox sources have roundly debunked Boswell. (One such effort can be found here.) Even so, a casual stroll through Google will find Boswell’s claims widely repeated on Websites associated with homosexual issues. (LGBT sites in the common parlance of today.) The fiction created by Boswell is useful for sexually active homosexuals, both within the Orthodox Church and without. Even those who don’t know much about the Orthodox Church, still understand its great antiquity and authority. By putting forward a claim that the ancient Christian faith celebrated homosexual unions, activists are attempting to invalidate any current opposition to their plans for forcing churches to fully recognize their lifestyle.
While this book has been useful to homosexual activists, its damage to the reputation of the Holy Orthodox Church has been largely contained. It’s an obscure book written by an academic and open to easy debunking, so the American mainstream has remained mostly unaware of its erroneous conclusions. Of far more concern is the current clique of Greek Orthodox bloggers centered around The Huffington Post.
There are three people to discuss, but let us begin with Michael Huffington. Michael Huffington is the son of Roy Michael Huffington, the founder of an oil and natural gas company. After completing his education, he served as vice chairman of the family-owned energy business called HUFFCO from 1976 to 1990. Needless to say, he isseriously rich.
Huffington met Arianna Stassinopoulos at a 1985 party hosted by Ann Getty in San Francisco. Born in Greece, Arianna had made a name for herself in the United States as a leftist. She had even been personally involved with uber leftist and California Governor Jerry Brown. Michael and Arianna married in 1986.
Huffington himself had always had an interest in politics. In 1968, he was a summer intern for freshman Congressman George H.W. Bush in Washington, D.C. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed Huffington as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy with responsibility for conventional arms control negotiations.
In 1992, Huffington was elected to the House of Representatives from California’s 22nd District (Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties). After one term in the House, Huffington used $28 million dollars of his own money in a bid for a seat in the United States Senate. At the time, Huffington’s was the most expensivecampaign in a non-presidential election in American history. Huffington lost in the general election by 1.9 percent of the vote to Dianne Feinstein.
Huffington divorced his wife in 1997. By that time, Huffington had joined the Orthodox Church. In 1998, he came out publicly as a bisexual. In an article on his ex-wife’s blog, The Huffington Post, he told of coming to terms with both his sexual orientation and his Orthodoxy:
During my marriage, I became an Orthodox Christian after having been Episcopalian for over a decade. Through the Orthodox faith, I came to realize for the first time in my life that God had created me in His image, and that His image encompassed bisexual and gay people. Two years after I became Orthodox, and one year after my divorce, I decided to come out to the public as bisexual. This was made into a big deal by the press because I had recently been in the national spotlight as a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate race in California. I did it solely on my own volition. And I did it joyfully because I knew God loved me for who I was, and wanted me to live an open and truthful life.
Please understand this very clearly. Michael Huffington is not a man stricken with same-sex attraction who is quietly struggling, by the grace of God, to live a chaste life. Rather, Michael Huffington has decided that it is perfectly acceptable to remain a communing member of the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church while having illicit sex not only with women, but also with men.
Huffington claims there are quite a few other Orthodox Christians that agree with him on this. From the same article, Huffington describes how his parish took the news of his bisexuality:
My experience with my own church had been gratifying. The article about my coming out was printed on the front page of the metro section of the Sunday Los Angeles Times. As I went to church that day, I was fully aware that most of my fellow parishioners and priests had read the story. To my utter amazement, not one person said anything negative to me or to our priests. Instead, I was patted on the back, and told by straight men how courageous I was. They congratulated me for being brave enough to tell the truth. This was Christianity at its best. Christ was indeed among us that day.
Following his own personal revelation from God about bisexuality, Huffington decided to devote his considerable fortune to producing movies to help convince others that an unrepentant homosexual lifestyle is perfectly acceptable to God. The most recent, and well-known of these films, is a documentary called For the Bible Tells Me So which was released in 2007.
We meet five Christian families, each with a gay or lesbian child. Parents talk about their marriages and church-going, their children’s childhood and coming out, their reactions, and changes over time. The stories told by these nine parents and four adult children alternate with talking heads – Protestant and Jewish theologians – and with film clips of fundamentalist preachers and pundits and news clips of people in the street. They discuss scripture and biblical scholarship. A thesis of the film is that much of Christianity’s homophobia represents a misreading of scripture, a denial of science, and an embrace of quack psychology. The families call for love.
This documentary is widely-known. The "gay" press covered it, as did the mainstream media. Interestingly, while Huffington’s film viciously attacks the Religious Right, it is silent concerning Orthodoxy. This gives the impression that Orthodoxy is not on the same page as Evangelicals concerning homosexuality.
When not funding films or blogging, Huffington is also busy using his checkbook to directly further his ideas. In 2007, Huffington gave $5 million to Loyola Marymount University to establish the Huffington Ecumenical Institute to promote Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and understanding.
Michael Huffington gathered with Orthodox and Roman Catholic priests at the ceremony celebrating his endowment of the institute that bears his name at LMU.
As he said of the new institute, "I feel very passionate about this project, because my dream is that someday I’ll get to see members of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church be able to take Communion in each other’s churches."
Loyola Marymount is a Jesuit institution with about 5,000 undergraduates and 3,000 graduate students. The institute that bears Huffington’s name has been busy sponsoring ecumenical dialogues and other encounters among Catholic and Orthodox theologians, religious leaders and church members. In January 2009, it facilitated the award of an honorary doctorate in humane letters to Archbishop Demetrios of America.
Michael Huffington was there to stand alongside the Archbishop at the award ceremony, and his name was featured prominently in the official press release. You can read the press release about the event on the Greek Archdiocese Website by clicking here.
Huffington seems to make quite an effort to keep reminding the world that he is Greek Orthodox. His religion is almost always mentioned in articles about him, even when focusing on secular topics such as his political advocacy.
It is difficult to believe that this is a coincidence. Constant repetition of his religious affiliation by Huffington, and his press enablers, seems designed to foster the impression that the Orthodox Church accepts him, his lifestyle of homosexual sex, and his Theological views. So far, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in the United States seems to be reinforcing this impression through its silence.
Part of Huffington’s fortune went to his ex-wife Arianna in the divorce. She used this to found TheHuffington Post, a leading leftist blogging site, where the Huffington article previously quoted appeared. Arianna herself is considered to be an intellectual light-weight, so her own views on religion and politics are discounted by most people. But starting in late 2006, she scored a huge coup when Frank Schaeffer started blogging for her.
Orthodox Christians know Frank Schaeffer as a former conservative Evangelical whose book Dancing Alone sold well and was very influential in bringing many people (including this writer) to Orthodoxy. The world knows Frank Schaeffer as the son of prominent religious leader and Protestant Theologian Francis Schaeffer.
Schaeffer began his blogging career on The Huffington Post by mostly excoriating the Bush Administration on its foreign policy. There were quite a number of conservatives and libertarians who felt similarly, so this was not really exceptional in itself. His disgust with the Bush record, and his anger at religious conservatives in general, eventually caused him to endorse Obama. This was a step most Theologically conservative Orthodox were unwilling to take. While I disagreed with him on his pro-Obama stance, in a blog written last November, I actually defended the purity of his intentions.
However, the longer Schaeffer has been blogging for The Huffington Post, the more belligerent his blogs have gotten concerning traditional Christian morality. He is now prone to introduce his blogs by stating, "I’m pro-Obama, pro-gay rights."
Let’s suppose for a nutty moment that the evangelical/Mormon/conservative Roman Catholic/ultra-Orthodox Jewish and Muslim view of such issues as abortion, homosexuality, marriage (gay or otherwise) is correct. For one crazy instant let’s even assume that God wants everyone in America to live as if all the injunctions of the Old Testament, New Testament, and Koran, when it comes to sexual moral behavior or not eating shellfish, are to be practiced literally, up and to including the stoning to death of homosexuals. How then to best get back to some sort of Promised Land of rectitude and God-pleasing ways?
Like Huffington, Schaeffer constantly reminds readers of his blog that he is Greek Orthodox. If you read his blogs, you will quickly notice that when singling out religious groups for abuse concerning their traditionalism, he omits the Orthodox. In the same blog in which the above passage was written, Schaeffer wrote the following:
Long after I left that evangelical/hard right subculture I converted to the Greek Orthodox Church (in 1990) and so I’m also getting to a few "how can you support the abortionist Obama" hate e-mails from some of the more right wing and politicized members of the Orthodox community. (Most of them are converts who brought their former evangelical and/or Roman Catholic right wing politics into their new church.)
I will be the first to agree that there is an element of truth to this statement. Some converts to Orthodoxy do, in fact, bring attitudes, ideas, and Theology into the Orthodox Church which are not appropriate. However, sexual morality is no different in Orthodoxy than in Roman Catholicism. Schaeffer knows this, but appears to be intentionally obscuring this point, pretending that the "real Orthodox" are somehow more tolerant of sexual sin than other traditional faith communities.
Michael Huffington and Frank Schaeffer, united by the blogsite of Ariana Huffington, are doing a great deal to undermine the witness of the Orthodox Faith in this country. The misimpression which their efforts is fostering among Americans simply must be corrected.
It must be corrected for the sake of men and women, laboring under the burden of same-sex attraction, who may feel validated in their sin. It must be corrected for the sake of the many millions who are seeking the true path of Christ, but may turn away if they believe the Orthodox Church is only the Episcopal Church with more ritual. And it must be corrected for the simple fact that it does an injustice to the Gospel.
The Orthodox Church recognizes marriage as the only moral and spiritually appropriate context for sexual relations. Thus, all other forms of sexual activity such as fornication, adultery, homosexuality, lesbianism, pornography, all forms of prostitution, and similar forms of behavior are sins that are inappropriate for the Orthodox Christian. Marriage is only conducted and recognized in the Orthodox Church as taking place between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriages are a contradiction in terms. The Orthodox Church does not allow for same-sex marriages.
Individual members of the Greek Orthodox Church, such as Michael Huffington or Frank Schaeffer, may feel differently. This is regrettable, but irrelevant. The teaching of the Orthodox Christian Church is clear, explicit, and timeless. It is the same today as it was on the Day of Pentecost, and will be the same forever.
Nor is the Greek Orthodox teaching on this topic in any way different from that of the other Orthodox jurisdictions in the U.S. In a Statement on Moral Crisis in Our Nation, allthe Orthodox Bishops in the United Statesmade their position very clear:
The Orthodox Church cannot and will not bless same-sex unions. Whereas marriage between a man and a woman is a sacred institution ordained by God, homosexual union is not. Like adultery and fornication, homosexual acts are condemned by Scripture (Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:10; 1 Timothy 1:10). This being said, however, we must stress that persons with a homosexual orientation are to be cared for with the same mercy and love that is bestowed by our Lord Jesus Christ upon all of humanity. All persons are called by God to grow spiritually and morally toward holiness.
That statement was published in 2003. More recently, the Orthodox Bishops in California (where Michael Huffington lives) published a statement in support of Prop 8 which was intended to eliminate Same-sex marriage. Here is part of that statement:
Therefore, we, the Orthodox bishops of California, call upon the faithful, as responsible and concerned citizens of California, to overturn this ruling by the California Supreme Court by voting in favor of Proposition 8 this coming November. This proposition is a regrettably necessary measure to restore the true definition of marriage in the eyes of our state. A state that believes same-sex couplings constitute "marriage" implicitly – and sooner or later, explicitly – denies the role of the Church and all faiths that adhere to traditional values in public life. Please exercise your citizenship and vote in November. The passage of Proposition 8 is an imperative.
In his blog, Frank Schaeffer blasted "Religious Right" supporters of Prop 8, without ever once mentioning that the ruling bishops in California of his own Church firmly supported that very same voter initiative. I doubt it was because he was unaware of this fact.
Above all, one thing must be kept squarely in mind when looking at the teaching of the Orthodox Church on the nature of human sexuality and the nature of marriage. There is no controlling authority in the Orthodox Church which has the ability to alter the teaching of the Church concerning these matters. Revelation in the Orthodox Church is considered fixed and final – it can not change. There simply can not be a valid debate within Orthodoxy on the questions of what constitutes marriage or on the nature of human sexuality. You either accept the teaching of the Church, or you reject it. There is no one to lobby, no one to convince, no one to appeal to. This is in stark contrast to other religious bodies, such as the Episcopalians, who gather every so often to figure out what they believe now.
This does not mean, of course, that Orthodoxy is not vastly different in tone and focus from the Evangelical denominations that comprise the "Religious Right." This fact is made clear by the following excerpt from Father Thomas Hopko’s book Orthodoxy and Same Sex Attraction:
When we enter the arena of the Church and the struggle against sin, we are no longer labeled with our sin. This is true of heterosexual sin, homosexual sin, or any other sin. We are not defined by the gender of the person for whom we have a sexual desire, but by Christ. The Church is only concerned with who you are becoming in Christ through the practice of the virtues, regardless of your besetting sin.
We are not to be labeled by our sin. We can and should rise above our sin, not wallow in it, while pretending that our sin is somehow a permanent part of our character defining us for all time. That is a powerful message of hope that is the true message of the Orthodox Church. That message has been somewhat clouded, but it is time to get that message out loudly and clearly.
Glen Chancy is a CIO of CorFun, Inc. an eServices company based in Orlando, Florida. He is a graduate of University of Florida, and has been a member of the Orthodox Church since 2000. More of his writing can be found at OrthodoxBiz.com.
The "normalcy bias" is in full display and people are totally unable to entertain the reality of the events of the last decade and particularly of this last year.(Normalcy Bias)
Here are the
references where we get this idea of the mark of the beast.
"All
people were forced to put a mark on their right hand or forehead.
Whether they were powerful or weak, rich or poor, free people or
slaves, they all had to have this mark, or else they could not
buy or sell anything. This mark stood for the name of the beast and
for the number of its name.
Then I saw
something that looked like a glass sea mixed with fire, and people
were standing on it. They were the ones who had defeated the beast
and the idol and the number that tells the name of the beast. God had
given them harps, and they were singing the song that his
servant Moses and the Lamb had sung. They were singing, "Lord
God All-Powerful, you have done great and marvelous things. You are
the ruler of all nations, and you do what is right and fair. Lord,
who doesn't honor and praise your name? You alone are holy, and all
nations will come and worship you, because you have shown that you
judge with fairness."
"Finally, a
third angel came and shouted: Here is what will happen if you worship
the beast and the idol and have the mark of the beast on your hand or
forehead. You will have to drink the wine that God gives to
everyone who makes him angry. You will feel his mighty anger, and you
will be tortured with fire and burning sulfur, while the holy angels
and the Lamb look on. If you worship the beast and the idol and
accept the mark of its name, you will be tortured day and night. The
smoke from your torture will go up forever and ever, and you will
never be able to rest. God's people must learn to endure. They
must also obey his commands and have faith in Jesus."
"The first
angel emptied his bowl on the earth. At once ugly and painful sores
broke out on everyone who had the mark of the beast and worshiped the
idol."
"But the
beast was captured and so was the false prophet. This is the same
prophet who had worked miracles for the beast, so that he could fool
everyone who had the mark of the beast and worshiped the idol. The
beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into a lake of burning
sulfur.
I saw thrones, and
sitting on those thrones were the ones who had been given the right
to judge. I also saw the souls of the people who had their heads cut
off because they had told about Jesus and preached God's message.
They were the same ones who had not worshiped the beast or the idol,
and they had refused to let its mark be put on their hands or
foreheads. They will come to life and rule with Christ for a thousand
years."
There
is the imagery of the Mark of the Beast from the Book of Revelations.
I think the actual physical mark isn't as important as the idolatry
to which a great portion of mankind has already bowed.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the New World Order, that is, those from diverse groups
who seek the utopian goal of a one would government, which is taking
shape as the Scientistic Dictatorship Elite (SDE), is the mechanism
by which the anti-christ will take control and for a period express
himself as God in a near total domination of humans upon the earth.
Already, very strange things are happening that seem to point to the
total control of the “human animal.” Everything – and I mean
everything is coming under the control of "some entity" and removed
from the power of the individual. More and more things will not and
cannot function unless “sanctioned” by government or corporation.
The chips in our automobiles are a classic example. Automobiles are no longer "independent entities" now they operate at the discretion of both the
government and corporation, and the lines between government and
corporation are now totally blurred, and in the banking world do not exist and have not for one-hundred years next year.
The ObamaCare ruling legally gives total power
over the “human animal” to the state and the massive new taxing
authority gained by the Roberts Court Precedent June 28th,
2012 (a day that will live in infamy) give unlimited coercive powers
to the state. I read an article recently where more and more places
are requiring people the “register their gardens” and people are being fined for producing their own food, that is operating unregistered gardens. At this point
in time it would be difficult to name an object you use, a medicine
you need, food you eat, clothes you wear, and on and on that cannot, at a whim, be withheld by corporate/government. Even the "certificates of ownership" we keep thinking that the "certificate" represent "ownership" if a fraud. It represents only the rental of the object from the state. The state holds actual ownership - and this is the situation NOW.
When Darwin
suggested that the Human Being was beast only, and humanity began to
bow to that Idol, hundreds of millions dishonored God by bowing to "the beast only" denying that there was anything of “the creator” in them. For the Christians and Jews who accepted the premise that they "spontaneously generated from mud" as is Evolution's theory, they took to new dimensions the phrase, "Having a form of Godliness, but denying the Power thereof." They accepted the mindset
Saint Paul describes in detail in the First Chapter of the Book of
Romans. They have increasing come to wear the result of that idolatry in their persons, becoming “Beast Only," that is, displaying progressively less civilized rational behavior and more bestial slavery - that is, slavery to their genetic proclivities. What else could cause the insanity where today mere buggery is raised to the level of "sacrament." The vast majority who have already accepted the premise that they are beast only, will find it natural to be marked as such. As buggery-as-sacrament demonstrates to any sane person, they have lost the ability to distinguish between human and inhuman, natural and unnatural. Already, there is massive discrimination against those who refuse to be beast only, who dare witness the mere possibility of a Creator. One need not look further than the praying NFL player, and the vicious slander he endures to see the animal state of the masses. Also programed into Face Book, Google, search engines and popular blog sites are servo-programs, artificial intelligence, reading content and promoting the beast's agenda and censoring truth.
For we who know we are more than mere beast, and who will never accept to be marked as beasts, it means that for a period we
will suffer horrible physical privations. But like the Protomartyr
Stephen was filled with the Holy Spirit and witnessed Christ as the
stones hit him, so in the course of physical privation those faithful
to Christ shall see the ministry of angels.
I am proud to be one of those clergy who signed the Manhattan Declaration and will stand by it to my dying breath. The Scientistic Dictatorship Elite that has taken control of our Society and is bringing us the New World Order, is also at work inside the Orthodox Church as well, pushing it toward the same Abyss of Apostasy, which has taken the Church of England and the Episcopal Church in the U.S., several main line Protestant denominations and a huge segment of the Evangelical movement as well. It is a move toward moral relativism and the Marxist philosophy of Social Justice - May God Have Mercy On Us All. Metropolitan Jonah - MANY YEARS! - MANY YEAR! MANY YEARS!
Of course, it is “politics” when an Orthodox leader defends the church’s doctrines in public. It is not “politics” when liberal activists inside the church work to silence the voice of the church, while quietly lobbying in seminaries and elsewhere to redefine those same doctrines. Gosh, that logic sounds rather familiar.
This move of the Orthodox Church in America, to oust Metropolitan Jonah from his seat as Head of the Council of Bishops of the OCA, signals to me that the OCA is making a statement the breaks my heart. It is another signal of the apostasy of Christianity which continues in America. Metropolitan Jonah as a comfort to every Christian in this country who genuinely knows Christ and seek to express in according to the Apostolic Tradition of Christianity. The group that has taken him down represent a secularize Christianity unable to speak with a clear voice on social and moral issues - that is the secularists. The OCA represents by far not the largest Orthodox jurisdiction in America, but the only "Autocephalous" (that is self headed - not governed by a foreign Patriarchate) - Metropolitan Jonah is a hero in my book. My grief is more than seeing a friend abused - and the Bishops of the OCA have literally abused +Jonah from the first day of his tenure as Metropolitan, but the sad "truth" it signals about where a segment of American Orthodoxy is headed. This article explains that divergent path pretty well. May God have mercy on those whose eyes have lost the link between Truth and Liberty.
There are three people to discuss, but let us begin with Michael Huffington. Michael Huffington is the son of Roy Michael Huffington, the founder of an oil and natural gas company. After completing his education, he served as vice chairman of the family-owned energy business called HUFFCO from 1976 to 1990. Needless to say, he isseriously rich.
Part of Huffington’s fortune went to his ex-wife Arianna in the divorce. She used this to found The Huffington Post, a leading leftist blogging site, where the Huffington article previously quoted appeared. Arianna herself is considered to be an intellectual light-weight, so her own views on religion and politics are discounted by most people. But starting in late 2006, she scored a huge coup when Frank Schaeffer started blogging for her.
Evangelical whose book Dancing Alone sold well and was very influential in bringing many people (including this writer) to Orthodoxy. The world knows Frank Schaeffer as the son of prominent religious leader and Protestant Theologian Francis Schaeffer.
