We’re fighting a faith that’s lasted for centuries.
A pervasive foreboding has enveloped the world, a feeling that we’re on the verge of something traumatic and epochal. The feeling has been stoked by overlords at the World Economic Forum and other globalist groups, promising us a miserable future, ostensibly to fight germs and changing temperatures, but actually to institute global governance and totalitarian control. That the overlords no longer hide their agenda, and that their bleak program has made the remarkable headway it has, hints at some sort of sinister, unrecognized force at loose in the world. Some say it’s satanic, though the world has been here before.
The historical analogue is Europe in 1517, just before Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints Church and launched the Reformation. That epochal movement involved a crisis of faith in a human institution—the Catholic Church—and a wrenching reexamination of belief that led to centuries-long intellectual ferment and sectarian violence across Europe. The Reformation sparked the Enlightenment and eventually a belief that was stronger than faith in the Catholic Church: faith in government. As that latter faith falters, the new reformation will be just as wrenching and violent as the old one, probably more so.
The testament to the newer faith’s strength is its persistence despite governments’ myriad and manifest failures. Government grants itself a monopoly on the right to initiate force. Violence is a dubious foundation for religious faith, but the legal privilege to force others to do what one wants casts a spell impervious to logic or reality. To the contrary, governments’ failures feed the devout’s desire for more government and increases the determination of its high priests to maintain their power.
Government itself, not facts, logic, or argument, is destroying the faith, in part because it’s destroying the faithful. Nothing demonstrates that more clearly than the COVID vaccines. Millions believed propaganda and lies, dutifully lining up for their shots, and are now severely injured or dead. More research is necessary on the vaccines’ lethal mechanisms—research that is officially discouraged—however, their lethality has persisted since mass vaccination began and could persist for many more years.
An institution whose foundation is violence destroys and kills, and attracts those drawn to destruction and death. The outcome of violence is not order and safety, it’s chaos. Chaos may appear to be a “bottom up” phenomenon, but it’s usually the result of decisions and actions from the top. At the bottom, most of us want to peaceably live our lives and pursue our happiness. At the top, our overlords make it impossible for us to do so.
We get tyranny, war, destructive laws and regulations, government interference in every facet of life, deceit, propaganda, censorship, and corruption. After a century in which governments killed an estimated 100 to 200 million, you would think people would be disabused of their belief in it. Such is the strength of faith that they are not. Consequently, this century’s death toll may exceed last century’s.
Will the U.S. government avoid the blame for the chaos it has created, thus preserving the faith? It has so far and will continue to try to do so. However, the flip side of a government that wants to control every aspect of American life and preserve a global empire is that there is so much that can and will go wrong. The Biden administration is a demonstration in real time.
The faithful blame the unfolding domestic catastrophe on the enemies of the faith—the deplorables, aka right-wing extremists. How that group is responsible for central bank manufactured inflation, rising interest rates, financial collapse, the border crisis, ruined Democrat-led cities, or the COVID vaccines’ death toll are questions that answer themselves—they’re not—but never underestimate the destruction stemming from not asking or answering questions. The faithful believe in the same way as end-of-the-world cultists after the world fails to end on the predicted day.
Faith in government is behind what so many of us have observed or experienced: the inability of the faithful to engage in rational discussion. They will belittle, shout down, walk away from, physically assault, censor, imprison, execute, or otherwise evade those who ask questions or state facts. Philosophers and theologians have gone back and forth on the compatibility of true religious faith and reason for centuries. There is no doubt about the incompatibility of faith in government and reason; never the twain shall meet.
In foreign affairs and global empire maintenance, faith in the U.S. government runs into problems. Europe’s cowardly leaders have refused to publicity consider the possibility that the U.S. government sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, shutting off cheap and plentiful Russian natural gas to Europe, although the usual cui bono question and Seymour Hersh’s investigative journalism say that it did. Nor have the Europeans rebelled against the U.S.’s proxy war in Ukraine that’s all pain and no gain for Europe. Ostensibly, the U.S. government still enjoys the support of a good portion of the “Golden Billion”—the U.S. and Europe, with Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Israel throw in.
The other seven billion have discovered that they have no use for a rules-based order whose rules apply only to them. After decades of depredations and hypocrisy, the U.S. has managed to create a coalition of the unwilling who reject its crap out of hand.
Israel has herded 2.2 million Palestinians into the Gaza strip. It controls their entry and exit, their ability to work, and the flow of food, water, fuel, electricity, medicine, and other essentials into Gaza. High walls topped with razor wire surround this de facto concentration camp. The Israeli government knows this situation fuels seething resentment. The Palestinians periodically express their frustration through nonviolent demonstrations and violent terrorism targeted at both Israeli’s military and civilians. Israel’s government responds with outrage and disproportionate force.
Hamas, the officially designated terrorist organization that acts as the Palestinians’ nominal “government” in Gaza, recently launched a surprisingly successful incursion into southern Israel and kidnapped or slaughtered hundreds of Israelis and citizens of other nations, including the U.S.
There are two contending explanations for Hamas’ success. The first is that notwithstanding Israel’s extensive control, intelligence, and surveillance of Gaza and the Palestinians, Hamas took it by surprise. The second is that Israel allowed the Hamas attack to justify launching a retaliatory attack on Gaza that would essentially obliterate it. So, the Israeli government is either incompetent or has disregarded the well-being and lives of its own people. (That disregard was already demonstrated in the government’s COVID vaccination campaign.)
There has been rhetoric from Israeli officials that Palestinians are animals, and that by the time Israel is done with Gaza it will be a tent city (looking like parts of urban Democrat strongholds in America). Israel has imposed a full blockade of Gaza—no food, water, fuel, or electricity. To concerns expressed that and its impending military action will be genocidal, Israeli officials offer assurances that their intelligence on the Palestinians will allow them to pinpoint Hamas hideouts.
As Caitlin Johnstone recently pointed out, you can believe that Israel intelligence’s incompetence enabled the Hamas incursion, or you can believe that Israel intelligence is so good that they’ll selectively annihilate Hamas, but you can’t believe both. Either way, Hamas had to know that Israel’s retaliation would be brutal and kill thousands of innocents. It’s another government disregarding the safety and lives of its own people; it’s what governments do.
To believe that the U.S. government, fresh off another stinging defeat—in Ukraine—could somehow make this volatile situation “better” is yet another triumph of faith over reality. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Among the potential unintended or intended consequences of U.S. intervention: a potential war against Iran (a long-time neocon dream) and its allies in the Middle East, as well as Russia and China; a war that engulfs three continents; a war that engulfs the entire world, and a nuclear conflagration. Even then, someone will emerge from the radioactive rubble and say that what the world needs is more government. The faith never dies.
However, the faith is receiving its biggest challenge in centuries. The U.S. and the world’s best hope is the Heretics—the ever-increasing group who have rejected faith in government and its noxious narratives. Heretics is a better label than “Deplorables,” a label given to U.S. heretics by an acolyte who despises us but wants to rule us. As Ants at the Picnic (Part One here, Part Two here), we must challenge the faith at every turn with our words and weapons. We must fight the overlords who would turn the world (other than their own posh enclaves) into one big Gaza Strip. And we must defeat them, or meet the fate of so many heretics back in that first Reformation.
“To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Therefore, I cannot and will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me, amen.”
From the movie “Martin Luther” (1953)
“To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Therefore, I cannot and will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me, amen.”
From the movie “Martin Luther” (1953)
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The Reformation did not spark the Renaissance or the Enlightenment. Both preceded the Reformation
Wikipedia has the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century, so I’m technically not correct there, but the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries, so I am correct there. Thanks.
Thank you, Robert.
I seem to toggle between seeking spiritual inspiration and strength and sourcing ropes and lampposts.
Wishing you and yours well.
Thanks.
The Renaissance was preceded by the Black death. Amazing what can happen with fewer people.
It is a wonder to me, that more people do not have PTSD. So many now, do not even want to KNOW they’ve been lied to by the govt., regarding just about everything. I guess govt. figures that’s how they have us by the balls. People turn away from the truth because govt. indoctrination is so good, they would rather believe govt. than anything else. Your clarity and insight, are spot on, as usual, Robert.
Thanks.
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American People.” – H/T to H.L. Mencken. After contending with the crowds of sheeple, normies, and cucks at the CDA Costco, I have to conclude the culling, when it happens, will be horrific. The great unwashed is still a bunch of shambling, texting, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, brain-dead, Barbie-loving, vaping Mall Zombies. Their day is coming. Bleib ubrig.
The obvious answer at the individual level is to see to it that everyone who believes in the government gets their Vaxx! Schedule the follow up booster at the same time. While doing this remind them that they will soon be registering children or grandchildren for the draft to fight in far foreign lands. Point out how much the military hates straight white males and congratulate them for not having any, especially if they are white.
Faith in man and his institutions have led many astray. People and groups who claim to come to us in His name. People who pay lip service only. This has even caused some to loose Faith and belief in God altogether.
Individuals need to seek for themselves, not for show nor glory. The True Church is made up of individuals with a one on one connection. What is inside each of us?
I like that comment.
Bob:
Ayn Rand’s greatest achievement was her rational destruction of “moral equivalency.” While doing so she provided the logical basis for the concept of “morality,” and argued for wresting it from “religion” and placing it into its proper CONTEXT!
For decades the founding documents of both the Palestinian Authority (in control of the West Bank) and Hamas (in control of the Gaza Strip) have made it very clear that they do not recognize the existence of Israel, and that their eventual goal is its utter destruction, including the elimination of all its citizens.
Hamas has once again demonstrated how they intend to achieve this elimination, by killing every Israeli Jew they could/can find.
Repeatedly, Israel has explicitly demonstrated its willingness to live in “peace” (keep reading!) with the Palestinians, and each time has been met with hate and murder. In Gaza, specifically, Israel unilaterally exited in 2005, actually forcing (inducing!) Israelis who had settled there to give up their property so that Gaza could be handed over in its entirety to the Palestinians as, potentially, their own independent nation.
At that moment the Palestinians had an opportunity to prove they wanted to live in peace. Instead, they elected a terrorist organization to run Gaza, who has then spent the last two decades using it as a base for attacking and killing Israelis.
Further, it is my understanding that when Israel turned the entirety of Gaza over to “the Palestinians” in 2005, it included all the infrastructure – even leaving the crops and greenhouses. I am told they then responded to a request to help build a modern water and waste treatment plant(s), subsequently sending to Gaza the necessary pipe to do so!
Apparently, after a quick election (2007) in which a significant plurality of Palestinians voted for Hamas to govern Gaza, said government then melted down the pipe into shells and ammunition.
On the other hand, government – whether thought “peacefully” democratic or brutally authoritarian, is not to be trusted. As to why they are not, well, the reasons remain “legion!” For example, government now assists in arguing over alleged “facts.” Facts which must always exist in CONTEXT!
When I cited the fact that Israel had “turned over” Gaza to the Palestinians, I did so with the understanding of what, in this instance, “turned over” means. Yes, I have read articles and absorbed commentary over the years that indicate what I stated above has occurred. On the other hand, the context in which they did must be understood as well! “Understood” without embracing the obscenity of “moral equivalency!”
ASs you indicate, “Israel has herded 2.2 million Palestinians into the Gaza strip. It controls their entry and exit, their ability to work, and the flow of food, water, fuel, electricity, medicine, and other essentials into Gaza. High walls topped with razor wire surround what amounts to a “benevolent” concentration camp. The Israeli government knows this situation fuels seething resentment!”
What are they to do? “Relaxing” said tyranny always seems to produce more dead Israelis. So, they maintain the intolerable, somehow expecting something to “change.” When it does – as it did over the weekend, most are appalled, some in denial, all fearful of what may ensue. And, of course, America, the “West,” and Israel, are portrayed as the modern perpetrators of “evil.” Those fighting them portrayed in the best possible light – even in the face of the unspeakable!
We are already being reminded of the FACT(!) that many, many, innocent Palestinians will die (or worse) in what will be an all-out attempt by Israel to destroy whatever remains of Hamas in Gaza. Those fears are real and, alas, certain to be part of the outcome.
Instituting war/violence is evil. There are many otherwise innocent Palestinians that cannot leave Gaza – just as there were many innocent German citizens throughout Germany in late 1944 as their cities were turned into rubble prior to the Allie’s slaughtering their way into Germany, determined on destroying what remained of the Nazi evil. An evil that a number of “innocent” German people had previously voted into power, subsequently enabling it to precipitate the bloodbath that it did!
As Rand so eloquently taught, each of us must decide what is “just” and why, even in the face of a CONTEXT that is contradictory, convoluted, and, seemingly, bewildering!
I would advise these innocent Palestinians to leave – to whatever extent they are able! While the Israeli soldiers will likely behave very much like American soldiers did in Germany, it is certain that many of the results will, nonetheless, reflect the inescapable brutality, carnage, and injustice, that IS war!
Dave:
You mention the founding documents of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. You do not, however, mention what the Palestinians term the “Nakba”: the establishment of Israel in 1948, backed by the U.S. and British governments, the forced dispossession of many Palestinians from the land on which they had lived for centuries, the theft of their homes and other property, and the murder of tens of thousands. (I recently saw a picture on the Internet of a National Geographic map of what we now consider Israel, except it was labeled “Palestine”.) Since then, the land allocated to Palestinians under the ill-defined partition has steadily shrunk to the West Bank and Gaza. After Israel is done with whatever it intends to do, there may be nothing left. There are reports that Israel is asking Egypt and Qatar to offer refuge to Palestinian refugees. How do these facts weigh on a moral calculus?
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The whole thing is a setup for WAR–a False Flag.
Netanyahu Bragged About Zionist Support for Hamas
https://kurtnimmo.substack.com/p/netanyahu-bragged-about-zionist-support
The Israel state has manufactured terror as a pretext for ethnic cleansing and mass murder.
KURT NIMMO
OCT 12, 2023
Scott Horton, the editorial director of the Antiwar website, has found further evidence that Hamas is an Israeli-controlled terror organization. Horton points to a recent post at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The article is locked up behind a paywall. However, it is posted on the *Archive.org website8. https://archive.ph/2023.10.10-030658/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/another-concept-implodes-israel-cant-be-managed-by-a-criminal-defendant/0000018b-1382-d2fc-a59f-d39b5dbf0000
During Netanyahu’s fraud trial, writes Gidi Wewitz, the prime minister is quoted as declaring,
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“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy—to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” (Emphasis added.)
Bob:
In direct answer to your question, I suppose that fact “weighs into the moral calculus,” along with all other relevant facts that contribute to make up CONTEXT.
Were the establishment of the State of Israel by the UN, which you certainly understand represents yet another example of wholesale violation of the rights of individuals – in this case the Arabs/Persians living there, were to have NOT produced a relative modern and Western “Eden” arising in cultures surrounding it, cultures that in many respects represent moral, political, and cultural values little different than those of the Middle Ages, the State of Israel would have quickly vanished following its establishment!
It is because of the contrast in values and the existential results such values produce that it did not and has subsequently become what it has. A “mixed” economy and State in which the usual suspects prescribe the usual Western values, with one important difference. Unlike America, Israel is under an on-going mortal threat of nothing less than extermination.
I have immense sympathy for what are termed “the Palestinians.” Just as I do for “Native Americans” – “Indigenous Peoples” – “Tribal Natives” – or whatever palatable political term one might fashion. However, I do so always within CONTEXT.
This subject/issue involves universal philosophical conceptions that are focused into the issue of power – disgusting power over the lives of others. Who has it and why, and toward what end/goal is that power to be used. Israel uses theirs based on values thought to be “Western” – with all the relative and existing evils that you and I would agree these values have come to represent. Israel’s enemies use their power based on their values and what they represent. Those values were again on display last weekend!
Those facts, together with other more abstract ones “weigh into my moral calculus” – resulting in the moral CHOICES I have made with respect to this tragedy. A moral calculus ultimately passed through the lens of liberty, and the values such a focus produces.
As the keeper of the chalice in the Indiana Jones movie admonishes, “choose wisely.”
Dave
Dave
See the article from Aaron Maté I will post tonight.
Bob
Bob:
I shall do so.
Dave
Great read, Bob. I’m with you on most of this.
If you ever feel like digging deeper and looking into the esoteric (Gematria, numerological and astrological) scripting that our very evil ‘controllers’ use on a daily basis to control us and our societies, take a look at this site: http://www.gematriaeffect.news
If you can see (numerical) patterns, you’ll understand. It’s an ancient art that they still use to this day.
Thank you. I can make no promises regarding Gematria. My days are filled with the non-esoteric.
Government = false Gods?
Polycrisis, Great Reset Leap Forward, Tikkun Olam, Oh my!
Be vewwy afwaid!
Fear is all that they have.