Endless Sacrifice

Religion as Power

These are strange times indeed.

The world is both coming unglued as nations go to war with other nations and the wars within themselves.

Iran’s Theocracy is coming unhinged. The once revered and unquestioned Mullahs, who gained more and more power by playing on the religious fears of the people, while warping the doctrines of Mohammed, are now revealed as shallow, greedy, abusive, monsters whose only ambition is to have all power unto them, and to them only.

Politicians to them, are mere puppets, a show for the people, to make them believe they have any control over their lives, or a say in how their nation is governed. Women are treated as breeders, with no voice and no rights, subjected to horrors of abuse, rape and murder at the whim of the all powerful male dominated culture.

The Mullahs have been revealed in Iran as frauds and hypocrites. They go against the teachings of their holy books and violate every tenant to grab and hold power, and the illusions of piety, and they designate themselves as the Chosen, the Holy Men.

They lie, they cheat, they torture, rape, murder, their own people in their name for God. They perform desecrations and call themselves “holy”. They are revealed and the people are in revolt. They are seen through and the people, with non-violence, stand up to them and with courage and sacrifice, they stand up against what they know is wrong.

They have no weapons. They have only their lives. They defy what is evil and which has overpowered them for so long. Theirs is an endless sacrifice.

Meanwhile, corrupt nations support the corrupt Iranian leadership. China, Russia, North Korea, all who want the oil, applaud the barbaric and cheer on the heathens masquerading as holy men.

Iran claims to be the voice of Moslem People the world over. Yet, they ignore the fate of Uighurs, who are attacked for their Moslem faith in nations such as China.

Clearly, this is not about any God by any name other than Oil, Power, Money.

Parallel Politics

The Founding Fathers of the United States foresaw the downfall of our nation and what could prevent it. They set in place the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. They knew that for our nation to endure, we must have a clear separation between Church and State.

Religious Zealots, such as we have seen in Iran, are what brings down a system that relies all or in part, on the participation and agreement of Religious Leaders.

Political Power and Religious Power, if combined, rob the citizens of their freedoms to choose their religions, or to choose not to follow any religion. If we are required to follow any religious tenet as a qualification for to enjoy the full rights and privileges of citizenship, we start down a road that leads our nation and its politics, into the darkest corruptions of power.

Further, once Religion becomes the key, the driving force behind politics and the motives of politicians, a war within begins. Which religion? Which club do you have to belong to in order to participate in your own government? Will Catholics go to war with Lutherans? Will Baptists battle the Nazarenes? Will Christians make other religions ‘lesser religions’? And will they, like the Mullahs, battle it out amongst themselves, at our expense, for the most powerful seat in the land?

As religious demagogues worm their way into our political discussions, a place where they have no right to be, are we not inching our way towards a Theocratic Ruled Nation?

We have seen the rule of “Separation between Church and State” eroded more and more each election. We have seen our laws warped and twisted to accommodate the religious interests at the cost of our health, our economy and our sense of security.

We are told, and too many are conditioned, to just believe without question, follow without asking, the leadership of those who pretend to be men of Religion, but who are in fact, only men of Politics and Power.

Now, it is time for us all to take a good look at Iran, and how it got that way. How we, the USA, with all our Power, overthrew their democracy and installed the Shah, who used torture and abuses to control the people. We protected him, and he gave us all the oil we wanted.

It was only a matter of time before the people became intolerant and overthrew our puppet. They were lead by a powerful force, a religious zeal that made them unstoppable. In their desire to overthrow the corrupt, and to have their freedom of religion returned to them, they installed a powerful religious zealot, who oppressed them for reasons of his own. They went from a Democracy, to an Autocracy, to a Theocracy … and now they want Democracy. They want not just freedom, but equality.

Meanwhile, our nation, born as a Democracy, inches its way into a theocracy.

A book we all must read to understand how people are turning religion into power, and justifying crimes against Humanity, in the name of Power, and how our government is being subverted into a Theocracy, is “THE FAMILY” , by Jeff Sharlet.

It calls itself a Church, but it is a cult. They twist the meanings of right and wrong into something appalling. They justify every infidelity, every crime, even the rape of children as okay, because they consider themselves “chosen by God” and given “power” by God and therefore they can do no wrong, and nothing they do can be considered wrong.

It is quite possibly the most dangerous cult in our history. It targets all the seats of power, and seeks to control all the levers of power. Their ambition does not stop at our borders. They seek to conquer the world using our blood and treasure.

They extol the virtues of Hitler, Pol Pot, Suharto and every villain we have ever despised, as people who were "chosen for power by God" and that their tactics were masterful. They seek to emulate the most evil and their most vile ways. This is no 'Church' my friends. This is a cult blatantly seeking absolute power.

They seek to divide marriages, families and all that is loved in this world. They seek to displace the love of family, and of country, with the worship of their Leader and his words, regardless of how much they contradict scripture, common sense, or even what he himself has just said, shall be above question.

Anytime you are taught to obey without question, any mortal, you are following a madman. And yet, for the past 70 years, some very influential politicians have been doing just that. Their allegiance to their country falls far from oath to obey their leader, David Coe. Their marriage, their family, all without value in the eyes of their cult. No wonder so many who were climbing the ladder of power have fallen on the bonfires of infidelity. To them, they were doing no wrong. They could do no wrong. They were the Chosen.

They say they are building a kingdom so that Christ can return. Judging from what I have seen of their constructions, the last thing they would want to see is Christ walking around in the corruption and the destruction they have created.

I firmly believe that all religious cults, or any cult that prays on a religious belief, have at their mast, a non-believer, the biggest hypocrite of all. A true believer would know that force, intimidation and hypocrisy are wrong.

A true believer would know that committing crimes, infidelity, murder and wars are not pleasing to the God they pretend to worship.

But a hypocrite knows how to manipulate the undereducated, the weak-minded, the fearful, and make them an army. It is that army that they are building, within the marbled and gilded halls of our government, that will lead us all into the downfall the Founding Fathers warned us against.

They attempt to change history, creating a false beginning and purpose of our nation. They want to teach what they preach, and make fiction hold sway over the truth. They want to say that our nation was founded on Religious principals. It was not. Our nation was founded as a trading outpost for an empire that competed with other empires for the resources of the known world.

We fought to keep those resources as our own. We stole the lands and the resources from the Indians who had facilitated both our survival in this new land, and our success in the wars against other nations. We thanked them with broken treaties, abuses, and false history.

That fiction has weakened us. Now, to create a fiction that we were Chosen ones, and that we have done no wrong, leaves us only to follow those who call themselves “the Chosen”, and their warped hypocrisy, into a cauldron of our own destruction.

Read the book. I am. Learn what we must do to save our Democracy from those who would twist it into a Theocracy. Do it now, before we are dying in the streets, chased by thugs who have the power of our government telling them it is okay to shoot us down in the streets as we protest.

We can come together now, and overthrow the cult that is overthrowing our government, or we can wait and see how much we can stand to lose before we take to the streets in endless sacrifices.