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The Pulpit A Solution to Serial Wars within Our Grasp by Charles E. Carlson "Judeo-Christian" leaders, both media celebrities and mega-church pastors, with only a few rare exceptions, are responsible for keeping serial wars going. Without the support of church leaders and airwave celebrities, not one of the recent wars could have been sold to the American public. There is no other sizable cohesive population group that compares with "Judeo-Christianity," or "Christian-Zionists" (as it has more recently self-named) in its constant promotion of wars! Followers may not know why, but we must share in the guilt, for we have significantly abandoned the teaching of Christ to follow our Pharisee leaders on what Jesus might have called the "broad and easy way that leads to destruction." Most Celebrity leaders on this wide and prosperous route favor every war that is proposed by anyone, especially if Muslims are on the receiving end of the bombs, without any regard to the financial consequences. The blood from every death and casualty, be it Indian female soldier Lori Piestewa, the two Marines who died yesterday in a bombed out Hummer, or the thousands of maimed and starved Iraqi and Palestinian children, yes, each one’s blood is on the hands of the Enablers. War-makers are financial and political opportunists who have discovered a way to influence mega-churches and religious celebrities into enabling war, their harvest. The enablers are the pawns who influence somewhere between 40-70 million (depending on which leader you listen to) relatively honest, moral American who calls themselves "evangelicals." It is from this base of practicing "Christians" that the political swing vote is maintained. Theirs is often a silent vote of assent for serial wars funded by the insidious reality of financial "dilution". John Adams, an activist of the first order and perhaps the prime initiator of the American Revolution, called the churches "the moral compass of society." Today’s "Judeo-Christian" celebrities and their followers are the enablers of our Plague. Their acts reflect the degraded morality of today’s society. How can a country find justice when its compass points in a wrong direction? The mega-church businesses run by "Judeo-Christian" celebrities are a multi-billion dollar a year tax-sheltered racket allowed and encouraged to prosper because they constitute the most effective public opinion bloc in the world. As one example, every president has had his favorite Judeo-Christian blesser-of-wars; Billy Graham blessed two generations of wars; John McArthur blessed G. W. Bush’s first two wars. Unlike the bubonic-infected rats, the Enabler-leaders are only partly immune from the disease they spread. They are insulated financially, but not morally or spiritually. Favorable media and tax laws help them flourish, and many, such as Benny Hinn and Joyce Meyer, claim this prosperity is a gift of God; they say their business success demonstrates God's approval--a frighteningly bold apostasy. Immorality and financial abuse at the upper levels of "Judeo-Christian" churches is on a par with steroid abuse in the big leagues or drunk driving in the NFL. "Judeo-Christian" churches should be viewed as part of the media. Because of their special tax status, there are no limits to how much the Enablers can accrue, but this generous IRS treatment has strings attached. Celebrity "Christians" enjoy favorable media. Anyone who doubts this can compare the press Billy Graham receives with that of Mel Gibson. In exchange for tax exemption and access to a media, the Enablers must and do formally promise they will not "violate public policy." The biggest political muscles Some would argue that Christian Church is not a political factor and that it is separated from the State. Nothing could be less true, and every politician knows it. When did you last see a presidential candidate who did not claim to be a Christian? The only recent exception is Joseph Lieberman. Churches have enormous clout. An obvious proof of this is The Passion of the Christ, which took in an unprecedented sums—more in the first-weeks than Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter or Star Wars—and which was promoted almost entirely through the evangelical "Christian" leaders. Some of whose churches rented entire theaters for matinee performances. Only a few weeks ago there were talk that Mel Gibson would even find a sales agent to handle the film. He promoted it by advance showings to thousands of church leaders. The Passion was panned on opening day by dozens of prominent reviewers including Newsweek, Time, The New York Times and the Washington Post, all trying, without success, to bury Passion before it got started. The power of the Judeo-Christian "right" was greater than all these combined! Successful promoters of war Pat Robertson’s American Council for Law and Justice (ACLJ) sent out blind e-mail solicitations (probably millions) supporting the bombing of Iraq and asking for donations. Support of the bombing complied with "public policy" and was politically safe for any church. It is no exaggeration to say that George W. Bush’s only organized grass roots war support was and still is the "Judeo-Christian" church. American Jewish support for serial wars is small compared to "Christian" support, no more than two million voters--a mere tenth or twentieth of the Judeo-Christian churchgoers. This coalition of financially powerful Jewish Zionists and their largely controlled media, and the "Judeo-Christian" Enablers is directly responsible for the bombing and occupation of Iraq and the American policy toward Palestinians. If America’s churches can be so successful in promoting "the Passion," why can’t they succeed in curbing abortion or ending serial wars? The answer is that they could, if they chose to, but abortion and wars are part of our public policy and Israeli public policy, so the churches provide lip service only. The Passion was a bandwagon the Judeo-Christian Celebrities climbed onto after Mel Gibson had taken all the risk. If churches put the same effort into preventing war, curbing street crime, or ending financial dilution, these plagues might have been controlled decades ago. Celebrity Christian Entertainment To understand how the "religious right" influences politics it must be seen for what it is, entertainment. Most churches and religious broadcasters do not represent traditional Christianity but are more similar to traveling circuses, the Ice Capades, the Globe Trotters and Hollywood than to what Christ would have called his ecclesia. What it mean to support "public policy" Public policy means it is perfectly OK to bomb Iraq, fund Israel’s genocide and pay for a 30-foot wall around the Palestine. These acts are clearly US policy, declared by Presidential decree. Enablers’ Tax-exempt status is safe as long as they never oppose it. Members of the public have a right, even a responsibility, to resist public policy under the First Amendment if they think it is immoral; but pastors of tax privileged churches or charities do not! Privileged status has to do with obeying the ruling powers, as we explained in "The Internal Revenue Service's Role in Controlling Churches." Jesus Christ’s trial came about because he challenged "public policy." Pilate made it clear that Jesus was not guilty of violating any law. His statement, "I find the man guiltless," is clear for those who believe the Bible. As Gibson portrayed this accurately in "The Passion", Jesus challenged the Chief Priest of the Sanhedrin Caiaphas, and the Pharisees, who were the Roman’s puppet government. It was they, not Pilate, who demanded Jesus’ death. The Pharisees saw to it that He was tried and convicted and they pressured the Roman to execute him; Pilate, a politician, only imposed the sentences. Jesus himself defined the limits of the magistrates’ authority. He said in Matthew 22, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s; and render unto God what is God’s." He did not say that it was up to Caesar to set policy to determine what should belong to God. Jesus used an illustration of a small coin with Caesar’s face inscribed, showing its insignificance in God’s world. Jesus said everything else belonged to God. Judeo-Christians provide a continuous platform for our Plague. Starting with the Southern Baptist Convention, scores of unaffiliated mega-churches and, to a lesser degree, Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Mormon and the rest are all infected to a greater or lesser degree. You must apply a test church by church to know who enables the disease. Project Strait Gate provides the litmus for the test. The Quadrangular Godhead Church leaders must be confronted about New Testament heresy in the presence of the congregation. Most of them teach from the "Scofield Reference Bible" which is owned by Oxford University Press, and which purposely promotes "Judeo-Christian" heresy. After three revisions, the last of which took place in 1967, Oxford, under Scofield’s name, managed to establish the State of Israel as a god to be worshipped along with the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The resultant church is, as Jesus said, "salt that has lost is savor," "fit only to be trodden under the feet of men." See: "The Source of Our War Problem: Why Judeo-Christians Do Not Demand Peace," a Special Report available on our book page. Consider your options Political activism cannot end our Plague; it is much too late to defeat the Warmakers politically; they own the candidates of both political parties, one of whom will be our next President. Nor can we hope to sue them for their crimes in the courts that they themselves established. The Warmakers are also the diluters. They print the money they use to suppress our legal uprisings, and they can even control our jobs and mortgages by manipulating interest rates. See "Gold, the Rediscovered Investment." Will armed revolution work again? Can Americans win a second revolution without bloodshed? The answer is that there is already bloodshed. Look at the losses on both sides in one senseless war after another. There should never be a hesitancy to talk about revolution with or without bloodshed. That is how our Nation was started, and some may someday find it necessary to repeat it. But we must look at the odds. Right now revolution is a hopeless choice for one very good reason. The Judeo-Christian church is part of the controlled media! The church helped John Adams Today the churches are a stumbling block to peace and Justice. Seventy million of our neighbors and closest friends—the Judeo-Christians—think they should follow the Enablers. They would without question line up on the side of world Zionism movement. If you revolt against government atrocities they might shoot at you! They would also shoot down the Palestinians if the Zionist leaders told them they most do so to protect Israel. If our Judeo-Christian friends and family members do not object to bombing Iraqi children who have done nothing at all to them, why would they not do the same to you if they thought you were a threat to Israel? If the entire Muslim population in the US was interned in labor camps in Nevada It is doubtful if a word of protest would come from the Enabler’s churches. A healthy revolution to pull down the Federal Reserve Bank as Andrew Jackson once did to stop dilution, and as Hutton Gibson suggested, would bring a blood bath on Beaver Street unlike anything seen during the American Revolution. But it would be our blood. Revolution is futile, because the "moral compass of our society" is no longer moral and no longer a guide. What is left? Christ followers, as they were originally called, are a small minority who are present in every church, though many have dropped out in disgust. They are mostly disillusioned, confused and bored with the media church and can be won away from the Enablers, one by one. We must build our numbers from their numbers by offering a practical and aggressive mission to follow. We need only to shift "Christians" back to following Christ, instead of following John Hagee and Pat Robertson as many do. To do this we must take our message to the 50 or 70 million evangelical laymen who are unsuspecting followers of the Enablers. Five to seven million educated activists who know they have been fooled would overwhelm the rest, peacefully. At the start, Jesus’ followers numbered only twelve, some accounts refer to 70…but the rest were silently sitting in the corrupted synagogues. Challenge the business church The Enablers need to be told they are corrupted by privileged, tax-exempt status that is granted them in exchange for unholy commitments to honor the American Caesar ahead of God whereby, once accepted, each Enabler must keep his pact, else his business will be at risk and his sleep disturbed. This unholy alliance is highlighted in The IRS Role in Controlling Churches. These twin heresies--money and false gods--render most Judeo-"Christian" ministries incapable of standing for Jesus Christ, making them Enablers of war instead, and the one root cause of our Plague. "The Passion" rabble crowd is incited by the Sanhedrin leaders to shout "Let the blood be on our hands, and on our children." We hear only the blood lusting shouts of the followers of the Pharisees. In the book of Matthew, Ch. 27, we read those words the crowd was shouted in Aramaic. Judeo-Christians today are sounding that same terrible shout. "Let the blood of the Palestinians, Afghans, Iraqis and the rest of the Muslims be on our hands and on our children." Pharisee leaders are the rats in our Plague cycle. Jesus would have called the leaders of the evangelical churches "Generation of vipers," "Sons of Satan," and "whitewashed tombs containing dead men’s bones," words that are repeated about 75 times in the New Testament. Jesus and his followers took their message of His "Way" to the doors of the corrupted Pharisee-dominated synagogues. Martin Luther nailed his complaints to the door of the church at Wittenberg 1600 years later, and it worked! Project Strait Gate is following these examples. We have prayed that God show us the true cause of our Plague, and we think He has. We have earnestly begged him to show us a solution that will honor Him, and we think He has done so. The Strait Gate, a window of opportunity Those who control the media will soon establish airtight control over the entire Internet. Plans to tax messages to where only the privileged and the pornographers could send bulk mail are in the works. Someday this message and others like it will be filtered out before you ever see it. But for now the Internet is the clear path. We have it in our power to reach 36 million e-mail users around the world with our message using a program we tested in January that is entirely legal. Project Strait Gate has already challenged no less than thirty major churches and Judeo-Christian organizations at their place of business, including the Southern Baptist Convention, Benny Hinn, and Jerry Falwell. We have nailed our message to their doors. This rewarding activity will take root and grow. About the Author(s): Charles E. Carlson is President of Strait Gate Ministries. Mr. Carlson was also a co-founder of WHTT, an educational organization. http://www.whtt.org/whoweare.htm See under Our Contributors to find out about the Author(s) of this article. |
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