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The Argument of the Radical Right May 27, 2001 |
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The Argument of the Radical Right May 27, 2001 |
The Radical Right
and the Christian Reform Movement
Part 3: The It's So Argument of the Right
By Sherwood C. Ensey
Recently the Reverend Andrew Sandlin, in an article that appeared at chalcedon.edu, issued a reply to the information in these potent and truthful articles about the agenda and the doctrine of the radical religious right. However, Chalcedon and Sandlin fall short of directly naming the source of the articles they are in disagreement with. Apparently, Chalcedon found the information in those first two articles, written by The Roundhead Watch and based upon material authored by Chalcedon, to be disturbing, and more truthful than what they want their following to know about -- disturbing and truthful enough that Chalcedon chose to write new material that is in conflict with material first authored by Chalcedon on the subject.
In order to support a new and revised verion, Chalcedon has removed the original text and material about the doctrine and agenda of the religious right, which was the source of information for the first two articles that I wrote. The new material, written by Sandlin, paints an almost entirely different picture of what the real agenda and doctrine of the right is. The new Chalcedon material is based on a hard-line far right position, one in which Sandlin and Chalcedon say something is so, for the sole reason that Chalcedon and Reverend Sandlin say it is so. This is the core position and argument of the new material written by Chalcedon.
I find it very disturbing and discomforting that Chalcedon and the Reverend Andrew Sandlin have decided to conceal and disguise the information that was originally authored by them on the agenda and doctrine of their far right religious position and beliefs, since it is also the basis for the far right's religious and political views. These are views which have been expressed and put forward, time after time, by the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Richard & Helen Scaife, John Whitehead, and a little known but large financial backer of the religious right since the mid 1980's, the Reverend Sun Yung Moon.
Why would Chalcedon remove its original material on the radical religious right's doctrine and agenda, and then rewrite that position, downplay what they originally published, and put what they originally said into more palatable and misleading terminology?
There can only be one explanation, and that is the material that Chalcedon originally published, and which many radical right leaders have preached and supported, is the one more accurately reflecting their goals, but Chalcedon does not want to openly admit that this is so. To openly admit this would, in effect, confirm that the movement of the radical religious right is really about overthrowing both the society and government of the United States, along with the rest of the world's societies and governments. While this is the ultimate goal of the Christian radical religious right, and it has always been, Chalcedon and the right do not want to openly admit it, at least not in a straightforward manner. Such an open and straightforward declaration by the right would be to announce that they are in conflict with the US Constitution, and would in a sense, alienate the right from the very people that they are trying to manipulate with their doctrine.
Plainly put, the far right religious industry, primarily made up of zealous Calvinist Christians, does not want its own people, or anyone else, knowing what their precise plans are. It is much better for the right-wing religious industry to manipulate and deceive the masses of people.
This is the way that the radical right has always worked and operated; the real truth, and the telling of that truth, is beyond them.
If this was not a confirmed fact, then
why is most of the important work that the far right does in secret and
behind closed doors that are not open to the general public? An example
of this is the radical religious right's Council for National Policy, which
is not open to the public, one can sit in on CNP's secret meetings by invitation
only! [Several members of Chalcedon are members of the CNP.] If the radical
religious right was really interested in telling the truth, and being open
about what they do,
then they would not be holding secret meetings about what they are planning
to do behind closed and locked doors.
The truth about the far right religious industry, is that manipulation and coercion, through an orchestrated fear and deception campaign, is the right's best tool. Going public and doing things out in the open, and not in secret, would have the effect of defeating that tool. In the end, would lead to a decline in the number of people willing to listen to and follow the radical right.
This is why the radical right practices the doctrine of telling its people something is so because they say it is so, and demanding that the people believe it, and/or practice it. It does not matter whether or not the right is telling their people the truth just so long as the people believe it to be the truth.
In the 1980's, something that was presented as the truth, in this matter, was considered to be brainwashing. Telling the people that they must believe something because that you say it is so is brainwashing, no matter how you disguise it, or present it.
The Potters House is a good example of a group within the right that uses mind alteration extensively and with a high degree of success. Several of the major television networks had specials on The Potters House back in the 1980's presenting strong evidence that The Potters House was a religious brainwashing cult, one that had been started with financial funding from the Reverend Sun Yung Moon and others in the right. Currently, The Potters House has become an integral working part of the radical religious right, recruiting young people, many of them troubled, to its ranks. They then alter those young peoples minds to what The Potters House and the right wants them to believe in, and practice. The Potters House has been doing its recruiting and mind altering, in the same fashion since the 1980's. What the Potters House does is now considered as being normal for the radical religious right, and by those involved with recruiting, within the ranks of the radical right. In fact, the methods used by The Potters House to sway and alter minds has been adopted by many other radical right groups.
The premise behind any method of mind alteration is that the individual being subjected to the brainwashing, must 'totally' give themselves over to believing whatever they are being told, no matter what it is they are being told, as long as what the individual, or group of individuals is being told, fits within the specific guidelines of what they are to believe and practice. Subjects are told, "You will believe what you are being told, because what you are being told, is so... because we told you it is so. If you don't believe it is so, then you are bad, or something bad is going to happen to you, or you are going to go to some bad place."
Fear - it is fear, fear of the unexpected, fear of the unknown, fear of the unknowable, that makes brainwashing work. Fear is a powerful tool, and the right knows how to use every aspect of fear to the right's advantage.
Turn on any religious television programing hosted by Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Benny Hinn, Billy Graham, Oral Roberts, and the multitude of other televangelists that host religious programming, and you will see how fear is used. One of the most basic human needs, that almost all of us are born with, is to know who we are, why we are here, what our purpose is, and where we are going after we leave this body. This basic human need is a form of fear because each and every day, we hear about, or know, someone that has died. We question why they lived, why they died, and where they go after they have died. Out of that questioning, and vanity for our own immortality, we learn to fear for our own mortality and consciousness. Preachers, priests, and televangelists have locked on to this fear and vanity, and they have learned how to exploit it to their advantage and purposes.
The religious industry exploits this fear
and this questioning by telling the people that they have the answer to
the unknowable, and what no one else on Earth can answer or tell them. These
priests and preachers go on to tell the people, that what they are telling
the people is so, because the unknowable and unseen has told them so, and
that if the people listening to them, don't believe them and fail to listen
to them, and what they are telling the people, then bad things are going
to happen to the people. Fear & vanity - the religious industry mongers
live off of the fear, ignorance, and the vanity of the people, and because
of this it is very easy for these so called preachers and priests of God,
to take hold and exploit the minds and hearts of the people, and bend those
minds to the will, and ways of the priests and preachers, even if what the
people are being told by the priests and preachers, is not the truth.
Combine that religious brainwashing with politics, and you get a very mind-altering combination that totally supercedes individual thought. That is the goal and the objective of the right. The right does not want the people to think or act on their own, they want the people to respond and to act in accordance with the plans and the direction that those in charge of the right want.
It is very important that the followers of the radical right adhere to the standard laid out by its leaders, that what the people are told, is so, because the leaders of the right said it is so.
This is the way that the followers of the right are told to believe in God, and there is no debate or questioning that authority and way of thinking. If you do then you are not a true believer in God, and your place in God's kingdom is forfeited, and your right to eternal life revoked. The right has now taken this attitude one step further; the right has applied it to how those in the right and the church are to think and act politically, and if the people don't, then no heaven or eternal life. The far right-wing element in the United States, has pushed religion and politics to an all time low level because of this disgraceful attitude and manipulation of people under their control. This attitude not only degrades the movement of the right, it also degrades the people that are in charge of the right, and those who follow it. It is the concept of the blind following the blind, for the sake of doing it, just because it is the thing to do and someone told them to do it.
When individuals choose to follow a higher authority, and turn over their free will to that higher authority, they had better make sure that they are not throwing away their freedoms and liberties, and becoming the slaves of that higher authority in the process. If an individual freely gives up thinking, acting, and questioning for oneself, and allows the decisions they make to be based on what someone else wants them to do, on the premise that it is for the good of a higher authority and it is what the higher authority wants them to do, then that individual has become a slave, and they have thrown away the right to their freedoms and liberties.
I am not asking anyone to discard and put aside beliefs in the God or creator of their choice, but to question the real motives of the leaders of the far right. Motives based on those leaders selfish quest for nothing more than wealth and power, at the expense of those they are blindly manipulating and leading astray into a life of slavery and obedience to the right .
Look at how those far right leaders live, dress, eat, and what they drive - it is luxurious, and it is all done while over 12 million children go without adequate food or shelter in America, and tens of millions more go without adequate and proper health care.
While the leaders of the far right wine and dine at your expense, millions are going hungry, without shelter, and without proper medical care. The followers of the right need to think about that the next time the donation plate is passed around, and the next time they cast their vote for someone with a far right-wing ideology.
America is about being able to think and decide for oneself, and being able to have food in one's stomach, and a roof over one's head, and being able to go to a Doctor when you need medical care. The creator that I am familiar with, is not a creator that wallows in excess and manipulation, but a creator who wants all of these things for everyone, not just for the selfish few who use the creators name to get what they want and need from others.
The "it's so" argument of the right is a manipulation to provide the selfish and greedy leaders of the right with excesses, at the expense of those willing and gullible enough to give it to them.
The "it's so, because we tell you it is so" argument is of the far right, and is nothing more than a manipulative tool of the right, to keep the far right in power, and to keep the masses in step with what the right wants.
The "it's so" argument, is nothing more than a tool of tyranny used to enslave those individuals who are willing to accept and go along with the right's brainwashing.
The "it's so" argument of the
right is wrong for many reasons, but the argument is wrong mostly for the
reason that the argument is a tool of enslavement, and slavery in any form
that it takes, is wrong, no matter how you disguise it, or what you call
it.
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