The Spirit Of Truth Blog: On the edge of the abyss...

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

On the edge of the abyss...

What we've been witnessing is government intervention to maintain collective faith in the "invisible hand" of money.

When Mammon is no longer the popular god served by man, government will assume that role directly.

Of course, salvation will only be realized when man's faith is truly in God.

In the long-run, freedom only results in social harmony ("general equilibrium") and maximum happiness for all ("Pareto optimality") if people abide by the Golden Rule. This contradicts the false religion of selfishness (read: economic "theory") practiced by homo economicus in modern secular society (see yesterday's episode of NOVA).

IMHO, if love for one another is not the organizing life principle of man, then, in the long run, there is a catastrophic collapse of civilization and what emerges is a totalitarian police state to maintain control.

Is tyranny in the form of a false 'kingdom of god' the way to cure the insane historical cycles of collective sinfulness and sin's consequences?

I personally don't think so.

Maybe Christ was making an important point about social organization.

"Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants." - William Penn

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"Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of their predecessors and working towards a 'New World Order'. When the right moment comes the mask will be dropped and the Russians with Chinese help will seek to impose their system on the West on their own terms..."

- Anatoliy Golitsyn, Memorandum To The CIA: The Importance Of The Strategic Factor In Assessing Developments In Russian And Communist China, February 1993

"War to the hilt between Communism and Capitalism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. To win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard-of concessions.The capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we will smash them with our clenched fist."

- Dimitry Z. Manuilsky, Soviet Chairman of U.N. Security Council, 1949

"The failure of U.S. policymakers to comprehend the veiled aggressiveness and hostility towards the United States inherent in Sino-Soviet strategy and the belief that the political and economic reforms in Russia and the partial introduction of capitalism in China have foreshadowed these countries' development into real democracies, have eroded the effectiveness of U.S. policies in the foreign affairs, defense, intelligence and counter-intelligence fields. U.S. policymakers have recklessly accepted the premise that Russia and China are no longer enemies, but are rather potential allies and partners fully deserving of U.S. support. Only countries like Iran, (pre-2003) Iraq and North Korea - which (ironically, in this context) work secretly with Russia and China - are still considered potential adversaries."

- KGB Defector Anatoliy Golitsyn, The Perestroika Deception, 1995, p.230

"He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." [Matthew 12:30-32]

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." [Luke 14:11]

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Winston Churchill

"I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and so precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren't fit to live. You may be thirty-eight years old, as I happen to be, and one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls upon you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid. You refuse to do it because you want to live longer. You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you or shoot at you or bomb your house. So you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are ninety, but you are just as dead at thirty-eight as you would be at ninety. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. You died when you refused to stand up for right. You died when you refused to stand up for truth. You died when you refused to stand up for justice..." - Martin Luther King, 1967

"Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants."
- William Penn