Sometimes an image is the best way to make a point.
It is really amazing that this person is being considered for the position of President of the United States of America. It's like something out of The Exorcist.This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.
He didn't have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that have so deeply rooted in the American tradition.
He was successful. He attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest, that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it because they're smart. And so academia, a long time ago, fell.
And you say "what could be the impact of academia falling?" Well, I would have the argument that the other structures that I'm going to talk about here had root of their destruction because of academia. Because what academia does is educate the elites in our society, educates the leaders in our society, particularly at the college level. And they were the first to fall.
And so what we saw this domino effect, once the colleges fell and those who were being education in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you’d say, ‘wait, the Catholic Church’? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it. So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the Church, and what better way to go after smart people who also believe they’re pious to use both vanity and pride to also go after the Church.
After that, you start destroying the Church and you start destroying academia, the culture is where their next success was and I need not even go into the state of the popular culture today. Whether its sensuality of vanity of the famous in America, they are peacocks on display and they have taken their poor behavior and made it fashionable. The corruption of culture, the corruption of manners, the corruption of decency is now on display whether it’s the NBA or whether it’s a rock concert or whether it’s on a movie set.
The fourth, and this was harder, now I know you’re going to challenge me on this one, but politics and government was the next to fall. You say, ‘you would think they would be the first to fall, as fallible as we are in politics,’ but people in political life get elected by ordinary folks from lots of places all over the country where the foundations of this country are still strong. So while we may certainly have had examples, the body politic held up fairly well up until the last couple of decades, but it is falling too.
a silent story of invisible people
By @Min_Reyes
want to tell you a story
a story not mine to tell
but it must be told
for some stories are buried with bodies
and while remaining untold
not the rotting flesh nor bones, nor the silent soul
will stop haunting those who seek truth
to those to whom the land belongs
there has been no peace nor justice
to those who humble themselves not by conquering but coexisting
the winds, the secretive waters, the imposing trees, the welcoming earth
while the elders look upon their young with guilt and fear
the young return the gaze with hopes and dreams
there is a war
between the silk suited men and women
and the teary elders, outraged widows, childless parents
those in suits easily claim no understanding can be reached
for there are two languages, yet there is only one truth
but how wrong the suits are
while they bring to the assembly their own bottled drinking water
while denying to take a sip of water from the athabasca river
the same water they claim is safe for kids to drink
there may well be two versions of the truth, yes
but one truth speaks louder through increasing deaths, bloody noses
don’t hide behind numbers, don’t hide behind reports
the truth is in the living, slowly dying
our water is filled with arsenic, aluminum, mercury, and pahs
the dying community confronts
yet the faces of suncor and voices of government claim
tis only natural rivers contain carcinogenic toxins
while for decades denying tests meant to prove otherwise
what are people to eat and drink
when fish caught to fee the children are mutated
does one feed the hungry child tumor
the nets gathered with mutated fish
smell of oil, feel like oil
genocide
oh, how awful what is happening, you let a cry out
while sitting at your dinner table
your child looks shocked, your wife gives you a nod
oh, daddy, what happened to the little birdie?
why can’t the birdie fly?
you softly look at your child with pride assuming that she cares
bad people are killing the environment for money, you tell her
and for a moment you pause and think
you just came to an understanding that you have always known the truth
and because you cannot in all honesty, teach your own child otherwise
because as a decent human being, you refuse to teach your child
genocide is acceptable
and you quietly resume dinner
in silence
not daring to meet her beautiful and curious eyes
and so this story has slightly touched you
while quickly burns like furious fire
you are guilty
of genocide
in indifference, in ignorance, in silence
you are guilty
of genocide
