Left Behind Madness

2006-06-01T18:02:00.000-07:00

End Times Madness

There’s a new Christian video game based on the ‘Left Behind” books and movies being released this coming Christmas 2006:

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/29/195855/959

The Purpose Driven Lifetakers
By Jonathan Hutson

“Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice

....Could such a violent, dominionist Christian video game really break through to the popular culture? Well, it is based on a series of books that have already set sales records - the blockbuster Left Behind series of 14 novels by writer Jerry B. Jenkins and his visionary collaborator, retired Southern Baptist minister Tim LaHaye. "We hope teenagers like the game," Mr. LaHaye told the Los Angeles Times. "Our real goal is to have no one left behind.""

Timothy LaHaye, a leading Evangelist Christian, supports this video game. Sounds unbelievable, right? Christians playing violent video games about killing everyone who isn’t one of them. Can there be any doubt that American Christians have the ‘spirit of the antichrist’ and are transforming into a potential mob of sociopathic crusaders?

Fundamentalist religions generate intolerance for others, which is the primary reason why America is becoming increasingly fascist. Fascism is gaining in the supposed land of the free because of successful and widespread fundamentalist religious indoctrination. If a religion teaches “this is the only way to believe” that is expressed politically as “this is the only way to behave”. Fascism is a form of rigid cultural control and its source is from programmed religious intolerance.

Next, consider the operating mechanism of religious memes: http://kwelos.tripod.com/memes.htm

In order to justify themselves against attack by reason, religious memes place absolute reliance on faith, which is seen as being superior to reason. They also contain self-referential or circular claims to the truth such as "This meme says it is the divine truth. Since it is the divine truth whatever its says must be true. Therefore it must be divine truth because it says so and all competing memes must be the work of the devil".

These two types of self-referential statement "propagate me" and "I am the only truth" provide the driving force for memes to invade the minds of their hosts and spread throughout susceptible populations. In addition, many memes contain the instructions "Help people who believe in this meme, attack people who do not". These commands being the ultimate cause of all religious wars throughout the centuries.

Many American Christians support the war and its consequences because they believe that Christianity is the ‘only way’. Religious fascism turned deadly. The great irony is that Christian cultists obsessed about not being left behind are becoming increasingly left behind. The feared antichrist system is a creation of an irrational belief system. The Apocalypse is being made manifest, it is now, and all Christians are ‘left behind’ to experience their creation. Fervent believers trying to save souls, by any means, are creating and becoming the one thing they fear most, the minions of Satan.

A mind infected by Jewish created biblical memes is a death sentence for that body. Every true believer in Jewish memes or her offspring: Christianity and Islam are hopelessly trapped, so they subconsciously seek death as a way out of their predicament. Have you heard the Christian meme that ‘Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light’? The exact opposite is true. When the mind is possessed by irrational memes it is near impossible to accept the truth. Light can’t get through to a controlled mind until the memetic veil is lifted. Think about that next time you watch a TV broadcast of a Muslim suicide bomber attack on Israelis. Have not both sides created the tragedy? Afterall, the Universe isn't broken, things are happening just as they should. Death is a way out for trapped minds.

Christian minds are frozen like a locked computer screen; even the escape key is inoperative. Most humans live their whole lives in a suspended state of memetic possession, that mental state of blind belief unable to find to door out of their psychic prison. To be human and experience life one must gain control of their thoughts and become the owner of one’s own mind. Christians are total fakers because they pretend to be living fulfilled lives even though they have given away their mind and thus their spiritual destiny. Anyone who insists that you give yourself away to a book or a man-god is playing the role of deceiver. The real devil is the preacher, not the imagined one battling the omnipotent god (as if that’s possible). Giving in to group acceptance and allowing the installation of religious programs on your brain hard drive is a death sentence, hardly ‘the way’ to life.

A real teacher does not deceive the student. Preachers that teach the literacy of the Bible are false teachers and not to be trusted. Where’s the proof that the primitive myth they are teaching is literally true? These deceptive con artists teach a whole range of falsehoods. The greatest and most evil lie perpetrated by Christianity is that salvation is needed to get into heaven, that Jesus got sacrificed to save the human race from the wrath of the father god. John 3:16 states: "For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life." In one sentence heaven’s door is slammed in the face of all non-Christians. Heaven has limited entry through belief in the one true savior meme; all those not chosen are damned. Christianity’s history of bloodletting stems from this exclusionary belief, if you believe the other is already damned then murdering that person becomes logical. Christianity can not exist without the concept that a judging god is sending all to hell for the crime of being born. I consider John 3:16 to be the most anti-human verse every written. This verse is often proudly displayed as a bumper sticker that perfectly identifies the true Christian vibe that is exclusionary, vengeful, and hateful. John 3:16 is pure evil. But the Christians weren’t the first to get it wrong.

Almost as bad is the idea that god has bestowed favor on a chosen race of people, the Jews. This exclusionist meme was the prime mover that created the Holocaust. Exclusionism as an organizing tribal principal creates tremendous resentment to those who believe yet are not the ‘chosen ones’. Jews have suffered tremendously because of their very own belief system. I have a humble suggestion for those born a Jew, first stop viewing yourself as a Jew. You are a human being, not a race stereotype, and you have the perfect freedom to fully self realize as a spiritual being. Secondly, instead of experiencing pain and death as your forefathers, why not stop believing in that which caused the pain? The door out of hell is to simply stop believing in exclusionary text. Living as an equal brother in humanity, directed by your own internal guidance, embracing love over any fear based myth is “the way”. Love embraces all and is not exclusionary. That’s also a good message for the White Supremacist and Christian Identity movement – the counter cultures response to Jewish Supremacy.

Another very bad meme Christians love to tout: god has given humans free will but he must be loved and obeyed. Christians who seek to impose control link love and obedience together as if they are the same thing. First the obvious metaphysical contradiction, loving and obeying are exact opposites. If a person accepts the construct that love is about obeying then love becomes a control mechanism. Slavery is the result of this form of conditional love. The imagined god of Jewish-Christian-Islamic charlatans is a god who bestows free will (love) with an eternal damnation threat attached (fear). Polar opposites equated. To accept this is to sign a contract made in hell. A twisted dysfunctional mind is the result of anyone who buys this as the truth and then worships such a god. Jehovah is such a god, one created by prejudicial tribal minds.

My favorite is the antichrist meme: 'the antichrist is anyone who denies Christ'. It is also expressed as 'any idea that doesn't agree with our view is of the devil'. This memetic hook is brilliant, preventing the mind from examining contradictions that would cause one to question their faith. How is it possible to deny that which has never been proven? The person that invented this self reinforcing memetic loop was an evil genius as countless millions have been tortured and killed for ‘denying’ Christ, an unproved thus fictional character. The proven fact is that Christ myth is nearly word for word identical to previous myths like Krishna or Mythra.

A mind infected by biblical memes is unable to reason and thus unable to exist except to propagate the meme. Reason must be rejected in order to keep the meme alive. Christians give up their earthbound lives for unproven rewards in the afterlife. Christians most definitely are not living in the present moment. Ram Dass’s book “Be Here Now” is the antidote to the future rewards theory. The ‘Lord’ is actually the satanic memeplex operating system that has been burned into their neural network. The only goal of those infected is to propagate the meme, apt to violence at the first historic opportunity like the conquest of the new world. Thus Christians can act Satanic while doing the bidding of the Lord but not see the negativity of their actions. The great irony is that the 'Lord' the fundamentalists are actual worshipping is the 'Lord Satan' because of their fear based construct. Jesus, purported to be unconditional love, is not to be feared.

Millions of Christian Evangelicals have dismissed Evolution out of hand. Think about that for a moment. Millions of Americans living in a first world nation have rejected scientific process and physical fossil evidence in favor of unproved 4,000 year old biblical memes. Why? Because fundamentalists insist that Biblical memes are to be taken literal. The entire Christian Evangelical movement, that claims 70 million Americans alone, is founded on one principle that the Bible is literally the word of god. Why? Because that's the hook the preacher needs to exert control over his flock, thus employing himself as god's liaison because he interprets the 'word' for those who are to lazy to think and make decisions for themselves. The cornerstone of Evangelism is literal belief and that’s exactly why Darwin’s ideas must be attacked and ridiculed. Currently, millions of Americans believe that the earth was created 6,000 years ago and that Evolution didn't happen. The fact is evolution did happen, thus proving the Biblical version of creation false. Evolutionary theory is a death blow to the literalists and they know it, which explains their obsession with attacking Darwin.

But far worse then widespread denial amongst Evangelicals is that their literalist writers recently wove a modern ‘end times’ myth of Old and New Testament Biblical memes. Hal Lindsey wrote a best selling novel linking random Biblical passages haphazardly together, forming an end times story and timeline. His fairy tale novel “The Late Great Planet Earth”, which sold over 20 million copies, is commonly accepted as Evangelical truth. These ‘end times’ ideas have woven themselves into the American cultural fabric and is accepted by millions of non-practicing Christians as well. Hal Lindsey is the father of modern Christian Apocalyptism but his book sales were overtaken by Timothy Lahaye who cashed in on the literalist revival by all time record breaking sales (nearly 70 million books) of the “Left Behind” series. Probably half of the American population now believes that any day now good believing Christians are going to be raptured and then the ‘tribulation’ will commence. They voted en masse for GW Bush in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Bush’s presidency was a creation of this mindset; his wars are the fruit of ideas originally popularized by Hal Lindsey. The incredible violence and destruction of Iraq is the tribulation made manifest and it's the demon preachers who bear the full responsibility. Popular TV Evangelists like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are Bush’s biggest supporters and promoters of Bush’s “War on Terror”, a fear based program.

As men give their minds away to the literacy of the Bible it heralds the end to The Age of Reason, the effect on our modern world will be catastrophic. The ‘end times’ belief system promoted by Timothy LaHaye and others is a collection of very bad, dangerous memes that are manifesting the feared Apocalypse. Our world is in mortal danger because irrational religious beliefs are making their way into politics. A faith based culture is a deranged war making mob. As true believers subcome to LaHaye’s ‘Left Behind’ madness expect increasing levels of irrational behavior. LaHaye is no laughing matter; he’s a modern devil leading millions down the road to perdition. But he’s only following the footsteps of the real Satan, Hal Lindsey, the father of modern Christian Apocalyptic Zionism.

09 June 2006
- Phishna

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