Nature of the battle: Will we fight the culture war in vain?

 

Why we will fight the culture war in vain if we refuse to understand the nature of the battle:

Ephesians 6:12 KJV

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

The Bible is a collection of metaphorical stories which reveal the unchanging nature of both God and man. How could that not be so given that we are His creation? The Bible is a motif of recurring thematic elements and is our greatest artistic literary work.

Hebrews 13:8-9

8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.

9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.

Many Christians look for the fulfilling of Biblical prophecies as a one-time event without realizing this. Since the Bible is a collection of stories rife with metaphorical meaning which reveal man’s eternal struggle to be free of totalizing oppression. It is helpful to understand that Biblical prophecy rather than simply revealing a single event actually refers to something that is far more eternal which repeats as an ongoing process.

Matthew 24 KJV is often used as a sign of the eminent return of Christ, yet Jesus told those who were hearing him that they would witness the fulfillment of verses one and two themselves. Then later in the same chapter Jesus reveals the ongoing nature of this struggle against our oppressors leading up to His ultimate return. The last part of the chapter covers a very broad period of time. After all, God is eternal, and a day is as a thousand years to Him.

Matthew 24:1-2

1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

 2And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

It is important to note that the Romans destroyed the Second Jewish Temple in the year **70 CE** during the siege of Jerusalem. This event marked a major turning point in Jewish history. The Roman army, led by the future emperor Titus, besieged Jerusalem, the center of Jewish rebel resistance in the Roman province of Judaea. After a five-month siege, the Romans destroyed the city and the Second Jewish Temple. On Tisha B'Av, 70 CE (August 30), Roman forces overwhelmed the defenders and set fire to the Temple.

A day is as a 1000 years:

The phrase "The day is 1000 years to the Lord" is a reference to a verse in the Bible, specifically **2 Peter 3:8**. This verse states: "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

This illustrates the **eternal nature of God**. It suggests that God transcends time and what we perceive as a long period of time may be insignificant to God. It also emphasizes that God's perception of time is different from ours. This verse is often used to explain why it may seem like God is slow to fulfill His promises, according to human standards. However, from God's perspective, He is not slow but patient, waiting for us to repent.

The Church as the New Israel:

There are several scriptures in the Bible that have been interpreted to refer to Christians as the "New Israel". Here are a few:

1. **Galatians 6:15-16**: 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. 16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.  This verse refers to the church as the "Israel of God".

2. **Jeremiah 31**: This chapter speaks of a "New Israel" and is often interpreted as referring to the church.

3. **Psalm 24:6**: This verse is interpreted to mean that Jesus Christ, the head of the church, is also the head of the "Israel of God".

In the New Testament, the church is often described as the spiritual Israel, composed of spiritual Israelites. This new congregation is commissioned to fulfill what the physical nation of old failed to do: carry God’s glory and salvation throughout the earth.

Israel and its oppression by the totalizing powers of its day as a metaphor for the present oppression of Christians under the prevailing totalizing enterprises of our time:

The Israelites lived under the dominion of other nations on four separate occasions in the Old Testament. Here are the instances:

1. **Assyrian Captivity**: The Kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian monarchs Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V.

2. **Babylonian Captivity**: The captivity of Judah was accomplished by three distinct invasions of the Babylonians and covered a period of twenty years.

3. **Persian Rule**: After the fall of Babylon, the Jews were under Persian rule, which allowed them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple.

4. **Roman Rule**: The Romans took control of Judea in 63 BC. The Roman destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD marked the beginning of the Jewish Diaspora.

It is interesting to note that the use of the number 4 in the Scriptures is the number of trial and testing. Each time Israel was given over to the totalizing tyranny of each of its four oppressors it was due to Israel’s unfaithfulness. Their final unfaithfulness was due to the failure of them to recognize Christ as their Messiah. This resulted in the diaspora where the Jewish people were scattered abroad until Israel once again became a nation in 1948. The Jews are the only people in all of human history who successfully returned to their ancient homeland to recover it.

Each time Israel was forced into exile because of their unfaithfulness. In exile and under totalizing oppression the people of Israel were required to bow down to false deities and accept practices which were to them blasphemous rejections of the one and only God.

From Psalm 137 KJV

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

4 How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

I weep when I remember my righteous ancestors whose Christian faith and values became the foundations for the peace, order, and good government upon which Canadian was founded. Do we honestly think as Judas Iscariot did that our oppressors can be so easily dismissed when Canadians have so completely rejected God? After all Judas betrayed Christ because he falsely believed that the Lord was going to drive out the Romans out of Israel without first leading Israel to repentance and acceptance of Him as their Messiah. Judas’ failure to grasp the nature of Christ and that of his own fallen nature led to Christ’s crucifixion and Judas’ own death! Peter stated of him in Act 1 KJV 16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. 17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. 18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.

Our struggle against the oppressors in our day:

Ethic scholar Dr. Julie Ponesse has a PhD in Philosophy (Western, 2008) with areas of specialization in ethics and ancient philosophy. She also holds a Masters in Philosophy with Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics from the University of Toronto and a Diploma in Ethics from the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. Dr. Ponesse has published in the areas of ancient philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics, and has taught at universities in Canada and the US for 20 years.

In the fall of 2021, Dr. Ponesse saw her academic career of 20 years fall apart after she refused to comply with a Canadian university’s COVID vaccine mandate. In response, Dr. Ponesse recorded a special video directed to her first-year ethics students. That video went viral. Since the release of that video, Dr. Ponesse joined The Democracy Fund as the Ethics Scholar focussing on educating the public on civil liberties. However as of December 2022, Dr. Ponesse has resumed her private life and ended her term with The Democracy Fund.

Earlier today Dr. Julie announced the following on social media, “The darkness of the last few years is undeniable but it did give us an invaluable gift. It showed us who we are, what we are made of, like nothing else could have done. It awoke us not just to the horrible truths of this world, but to who we can be, and need to be, moving forward. It showed us what humanity needs and what we EACH need if we are to rise and flourish, and not just to survive. The question for each of us is “Will you retreat or will you run towards the light?”” She wrote this as a preamble to her new book Our Last Innocent Moment available at this link: https://www.amazon.ca/Last-Innocent-Moment-Julie-Ponesse/dp/1630692581

Let me read the preamble to her new book:

“If there can possibly be anything good to come out of the horrors of the last three years, it is this: some of us, at least, have been shaken awake. We now know that we are under attack. We are under attack not so much for the particular things we say or do but simply for wanting to be free, for wanting to be able to think through our lives, and for wanting our lives to be the products of our own choices.

Whatever happened over the last few years, we have been fundamentally changed by it. There’s no reclaiming the innocence we lost. Life is more serious now. Our obligations are more weighty, or just more apparent. There are certain truths we came to see that can never be unseen. And everything is so much more complicated than we thought.

This is a dark time for humanity. But darkness always creates the greatest opportunities for growth and self-awareness, and for us to intentionally remake ourselves for the better. The moment is upon us. We can’t reclaim the innocence we lost in 2020, but we can use our experiences to remake a more innocent world for ourselves and for our children. We can, I dare say, create something even greater.

Whatever you’ve been through over the last four years, whatever you left unsaid and undone, whatever you’ve lost, and however it changed you, this book is for you.

Dr. Julie Ponesse is Chief of Biomedical Ethics for The Wellness Company, a 2023 Brownstone Institute Fellow, and the author of My Choice (2021). She has a PhD in Philosophy (Western, 2008) with areas of specialization in ethics and ancient philosophy. Dr. Ponesse has published in the areas of ancient philosophy, ethical theory, and applied ethics, and has taught at universities in Canada and the US for 20 years.

In the fall of 2021, she saw her academic career of 20 years fall apart after she refused to comply with a Canadian university's COVID vaccine mandate In response, Dr. Ponesse recorded a special video directed to her first-year ethics students. That video went viral.”

My conclusions:

While I laud Dr. Julie for her courage and integrity, she falls short of stating why we will fail if we refuse to recognize the following, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland, Steven Guilbeault, the CCP with whom they are deep in bed, their injection into the WEF, all the COVID failures, lockdowns, the reaction of the state to legitimate dissent, whatever source for and manifestations of the totalizing enterprise our elected representatives are the walking, talking manifestations of these Satanic principalities and powers. We must arm ourselves with the full armour of God if we are to press on toward the Holy City on the hill for only then can we defeat them. There cannot be a political solution to our moral, philosophical, and indeed spiritual crisis. There can be no recovery without first the Church repenting of its wicked compliance to the ways of this present age. The Truth of Christ which is only present in the Church must prevail if we are to defeat this totalizing enterprise!

 

 

 

 

Trudeau's agenda: Economic Collapse!

 

The most difficult aspect of being aware of the prevailing ideological dangers of our time is to be left devoid of fellowship with Christians who share my concerns. As a result of age and health issues I wake often to meditate on what the Lord would have me to do given so many others seem either unaware or unwilling to take up their Cross as this illiberal authoritarian attack has now become the focus of even the legacy media. Churches are being burned, synagogues are being attacked, Jews and Christians have become targets of hatred and mischaracterization by our own government. So, I awake in the “Midnight Watches” to pray and intercede for the Almighty to deliver us from this wicked assault on our civil liberties, peace, order, and good government. Keeping watch on the “Midnight Watches” refers to the practice of meditating on the Scriptures during the night watches. In biblical times, the night was divided into three or four watches, each lasting about three to four hours. Here are a few relevant scriptures referring to being God’s watchmen:

Psalm 119:148: My eyes anticipate the watches of night, that I may meditate on Your word.

Psalm 63:6: When I remember You on my bed, I think of You through the watches of the night.

Mark 13:35-37: Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming— in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning.

These verses highlight the significance of the night watches referred to in the Bible and the practice of meditating on God’s word during these hours. It’s a time of reflection, prayer, and anticipation of God’s promises. My prayers include His promise to expose and defeat the Trudeau government's illiberal and ungodly plan. “What is his plan?’ you ask. Let me lay that out in brutal clarity:

The prevailing socio-economic chaos is deliberate. Our leaders are malignant Marxofascists who fully intend to collapse what little remains of free market capitalism to install complete state control over our natural resources, the means of production, and the distribution of goods and services. We all know where that will lead, not being able to buy or sell without the mark of the beast they are intent on creating!

The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and wife Frances Fox Piven.

It is the strategy of forcing political change leading to societal collapse through orchestrated crises. The "Cloward-Piven Strategy" seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, amassing massive unpayable national debt, and other methods such as unfettered immigration thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse by overwhelming the system.

Cloward and Piven were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work. The strategy was outlined in a May 1966 article in the liberal magazine The Nation titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty".

Cloward and Piven's article is focused on forcing the Democratic Party, which in 1966 controlled the presidency and both houses of the United States Congress, to take federal action to help the poor. They stated that full enrollment of those eligible for welfare "would produce bureaucratic disruption in welfare agencies and fiscal disruption in local and state governments" that would: "...deepen existing divisions among elements in the big-city Democratic coalition: the remaining white middle class, the working-class ethnic groups and the growing minority poor. To avoid a further weakening of that historic coalition, a national Democratic administration would be constrained to advance a federal solution to poverty that would override local welfare failures, local class and racial conflicts and local revenue dilemmas."

They further wrote:

The ultimate objective of this strategy – to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income – will be questioned by some. Because the ideal of individual social and economic mobility has deep roots, even activists seem reluctant to call for national programs to eliminate poverty by the outright redistribution of income.

Michael Reisch and Janice Andrews wrote that Cloward and Piven "proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy."

But how and through whom did these ideas infect Columbia University?

According to my web search results, some of the professors from the Frankfurt School of Cultural Marxism who went to teach at Columbia University were **Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Pollock, Leo Lowenthal, and Eric Fromm**¹². They moved to the United States in 1934 after the Nazis forced the closure of their original institute in Frankfurt, Germany¹². They were influential in developing critical theory, a philosophical and sociological movement that aimed to critique and emancipate modern society¹..

Source: Conversation with Bing, 1/28/2024

(1) Frankfurt School and Critical Theory - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://iep.utm.edu/critical-theory-frankfurt-school/.

(2) Frankfurt School - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School.

(3) The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed America. https://needtoknow.news/2017/04/birth-cultural-marxism-frankfurt-school-changed-america/.

(4) The Birth Of Cultural Marxism: How The "Frankfurt School" Changed .... https://bwcentral.org/2016/08/the-birth-of-cultural-marxism-how-the-frankfurt-school-changed-america/.

(5) en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School.

More about Cloward and Piven from https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/01/the-plan/

“These two Sixties radicals were professors at Columbia University and likewise proponents of the Frankfurt School. They developed the Marxist strategy of “overloading the system” to precipitate a crisis that only the federal government could solve. Does that sound familiar given the Chicom virus lock-downs and the unchecked rioting that is ongoing in Democrat-run cities and states?

Richard Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven wrote about collapsing the U.S. economy and how they planned to do it in an article they co-authored in the 1960s called "Mobilizing the Poor: How it Could Be Done." Later, it was published in the left-wing magazine The Nation, under the title "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty." This strategy came to bear their namesake as the Cloward - Piven Strategy.

Cloward and Piven believed in "change" and "social justice." Inspired by the Watts riots of Los Angeles in 1965, they wrote and published their article which outlined the best way to bring the kind of Saul Alinsky-type social change to America. "In their estimation, it was to overwhelm the system and bring about the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with impossible demands and bring on economic collapse."

Following its publication, liberal activists like Barack Obama were attracted to the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called, and were eager to put it into effect.

Barack Obama was a direct descendant of these radical groups. He was, (and is) a Marxist at heart who did everything he could as president to undermine and destroy our constitutional Republic. In one sense, Obama is among the most – perhaps even THE most – successful presidents in US history. He promised to fundamentally change America and given what we see happening all around us today, it would be extremely difficult to argue that he has not done that. He was and is a “community organizer” in the mold of Saul Alinsky; that is exactly how he started his career. He was and is a proponent of “undermining from within” and “exploiting crises to advance a political agenda” – just as the Frankfurt School, Alinksy, Cloward, and Piven argued.

OFA/Antifa/BLM

These groups are the political heirs of the aforementioned radicals. They are not “indigenous”; they are well-funded by left-wing billionaires and foreign governments, all of whom seek the destruction of America. And they are executing “The Plan.”

The ostensibly non-violent “community organizing” arm of the Democrat National Committee during the Obama years was “Organizing for America,” which is suspiciously similar to a predecessor community activist organization called ACORN in membership and motivation. It has now morphed into “Organizing for Action” after Obama left office. Is there overlap between members of OFA and Antifa? Since 2017, OFA has subsequently been transformed into the umbrella activist organization that provided many of the “street organizers” who have planned and executed Antifa’s non-spontaneous riots in American cities over the past month.

Antifa — “anti-fascist” — is not a single organization per se. Rather, it is a loose network of groups and individuals who coordinate their "anti-racist activism" on an ad hoc basis in different areas both within and outside the United States. Its political objectives align perfectly with the goals of the left-wing of the Democrat Party – and with Obama in particular. Antifa is the current manifestation of the activist authoritarian Left in America, seeking to suppress any dissenting political speech on college campuses and in the streets and using the tried-and-true Alinksy tactics of personal confrontation to put pressure on political opponents”.

So, as I keep the midnight watch and pray as an intercessor throughout the day, I remind the faithful that they too might consider keeping these watches with me. I so often hear pastors and teachers, evangelists and deacons avoiding these facts like the plague that these facts clearly demonstrate is coming. So often in the past the Church had it within its power to end totalitarian tyranny yet simply went long to get along.

The Deputy Prime MInister Minister Chrystia Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War.

From our friend Dr. Mark Milke https://macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/on-castros-death-a-look-at-fidel-and-pierre-and-justin/ :

“Back in the summer of 2006, Pierre Trudeau’s youngest son, Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau wrote a fawning happy 80th birthday column in the Toronto Star in praise of then Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.  The piece included tributes such as how the revolutionary leader was a “great adventurer…a great scientific mind,” someone whose “intellect is one of the most broad and complete that can be found. ”

Castro, Trudeau claimed, was “an expert on genetics, on automobile combustion engines, on stock markets, on everything.”  Alexandre pressed upon his readers to analyze Castro in “psychoanalytical terms”, to think of Cubans as children and Castro their father. Trudeau then fondly recalled his late brother, Michel, who when they were young kids complained to their mother that he had fewer friends than his brothers. Margaret Trudeau replied that unlike his brothers, Michel “had the greatest friend of all: he had Fidel.”

Shortly after Trudeau’s column appeared, I interviewed a naturalized Australian, Luis Garcia, who with his parents had left Cuba in 1971, when Garcia was 12 years old. Given they asked to leave—one must make such requests in communist dictatorships— the Garcias were labelled “gusanos” (counter-revolutionaries). Luis’ father was then forced to work for three years in the sugar cane fields in service to the communist revolution, government, and dictator from whom they wished to flee. Garcia told me when he initially read Alexandre’s comments he thought it was parody. He then realized Alexandre Trudeau was earnestly serious.

I thought of Alexandre Trudeau’s fawning 2006 tribute recently given it was 10 years ago this month that Fidel Castro resigned. (By coincidence, I was in Cuba the day Castro stepped down. Not being a fan of tyrants, I toasted his resignation in a Varadero bar with a friend who broke his Lent fast from alcohol to join me.) But the anniversary also brings to mind Alexandre Trudeau’s brother—the prime minister, and his weird, fantasy belief that another autocracy, China, is somehow efficient on economic and environmental matters. That belief helps explain his relentless pursuit of a free trade deal with a country whose economic model, while improving, is best described as crony capitalism and whose environmental practices would never be tolerated by citizens in a liberal democracy.

Having a soft spot for tyrants prompts multiple blind spots, whether on democracy, the economy or, more recently, on the environment. All have been on display in the Trudeau family’s ongoing infatuation with tyrannies and autocracies. in the comments from Alexandre, Margaret and Justin Trudeau. We see evidence of the Trudeau family’s long love affair with the world’s autocrats and tyrants.  But the problem started with Pierre.”

And as for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault in an article by Matthew Lau: entitled “Steven Guilbeault, 'policymaker of the year,' is killing economic growth” https://www.saultstar.com/opinion/steven-guilbeault-policy-maker-year-killing-economic-growth

“Environment minister shackling economy with new rules for clean fuels and electricity and caps on oil and gas emissions

The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of environment and climate change, its 2023 policymaker of the year. “Ruthless, reckless and damaging,” the cover of the latest issue of MLI’s Inside Policy magazine calls him, announcing its choice.”’

My conclusions:

If Canada hasn’t become the posterchild for the ultimate example of the Cloward-Piven Strategy being put into practice I defy anyone to find a clearer or more perfect example of Marxofascist oppression which has come after our faith, our families and our property to turn the Dominion of Canada into a Cultural Marxist hellhole rife with fascistic control of our resource riches, an obscene grip on what people are permitted to think and say, replete with a legacy media who are paid to lie to the Canadian public about what I have easily demonstrated is the government’s actual agenda. We have lost our social glue because we have lost our love of God. Beulah Land refers to the people of God being married to the land to keep it inviolable and Godly, while the majority of Canadians have become married to belief in a godless ideology which whenever it has been tested resulted in economic ruin, persecution of the kind we are now witnessing of Jews and Christians and collapsing social values. A common identity as Christian nation has been rendered impossible by fools who are flooding this nation with people who will never share what was once instantly identifiable as the Canadian identity. And the church sleeps on. Just yesterday I reached out to a local pastor offering to help him and his fellowship develop a better understanding of this crisis and was told by him that he couldn’t sign into YouTube. Seriously, can’t sign into YouTube is your reason for not reading or watching my blog and vodcast Pastor? A not very believable excuse for not joining me in prayer on the night watches!

 

 

Who is profiting from unwinnable conflicts while the taxpayer foots the bill?

 

While out walking with Solskinn at Conroy Pit Dog Park this morning I ran into my friends Jim and his Great Pyrenees, Finnigan. If ever there was proof of the incredible elasticity of the dog genome it is demonstrated by the differences between those two friends, one being my tiny Chihuahua and Jim’s Great Pyrenees.

Jim and I got chatting about ongoing armed conflicts that seem to have no end in sight where the sole winner appears to be the “Marxofascist Military Industrial Regime” that profits obscenely while arming both sides. These are conflicts that our leaders do not have diplomatic solutions capable of ending them yet they throw taxpayers’ money to fund these conflicts as though mayhem and murder in lieu of reasoned discourse were the logical solutions to war. Here is the thing though, Jim flatly denied that Canada was funding the conflict in the Donbas Region of Ukraine where a significant portion of its population are Russian ethnics. Then came the inevitable question from Jim the answer to which he ought to have know better than to have asked, “Do you support Putin?”. That question if ridiculous since it demands I ought to pick between two sides who both are at least in part to blame. Putin is a tyrannical oligarch; of this I have no doubt. His invasion was yet another typical act of someone who’s zeitgeist was forged by the KGB in the Soviet Union. But the Ukraine is corrupt and a product of post Soviet lawlessness too.

The question I asked Jim that he refused to address is what evidence do we have that Ukraine can win a war that has dragged on at enormous cost of human suffering and lives with no signs of abating or any real indicators that progress has been made on the diplomatic front? And the same goes for Gaza where no diplomatic solution appears even possible while combatants on both sides are being supplied with weapons at rate that permits ongoing untold cost to human lives. As for diplomacy the oft repeated suggestion of a two-state solution neither side appears even willing to consider, even though Israel in the past has suggested it.

But back to Ukraine and Jim’s assertion that we do not fund the war. So how much has Canada given the Ukraine and what are our ongoing commitments to fund a conflict that is leaving countless thousands dead and injured with no diplomatic solution or military victory in sight? This is a disaster for Ukrainians hearkening back to the Holodomor where the Ukrainian economy will be destroyed, and its workforce decimated.

Canada has provided significant financial support to Ukraine. Here are some key details:

- Canada's aid for Ukraine is set to surpass **$800 million** in the current budget year¹.

- Since last year, Canada has committed over **$8 billion** in funding assistance to Ukraine, including over **$1 billion** in military aid³⁴.

- The economic statement says Canada is expected to spend **$318 million** on military aid to Ukraine next year and **$197 million** in the 2025-26 fiscal year¹.

- Canada is contributing another **$35 million** worth of military equipment to Ukraine².

- Canada has largely funded its military support for Ukraine on an as-requested, ad-hoc basis¹².

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2024-01-26

(1) Canada's aid for Ukraine set to surpass $800 million this year. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-aid-for-ukraine-800-million-1.7035135.

(2) Trudeau commits $500M more in military aid during surprise visit to .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-ukraine-visit-counteroffensive-russia-1.6871411.

(3) Canada has promised more than $1.5B in military aid to Ukraine. Here's .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-ukraine-military-hardware-1.6895534.

(4) Canada sending more equipment to Ukraine as full-scale war with Russia .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ukraine-russia-canada-1.7092366.

The total number of deaths in the Ukraine war is difficult to determine due to the ongoing conflict and varying reports. Here are some key details:

- The overall number of estimated deaths in the war in Donbas from 6 April 2014 to 31 December 2021 was **14,200–14,400**⁴.

- The U.K. Ministry of Defence estimated around **320,000 Russian casualties** between late February 2022 and November 2023⁵.

- A Ukrainian civic group confirmed **24,500 combat and non-combat deaths** using open sources. However, if many of the 15,000 troops listed as missing are also dead, the figure could be much higher⁵.

- The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) reported **26,015 civilian casualties** in Ukraine, including **9,369 deaths** and **16,646 injured**⁶.

Please note that these figures are estimates and the actual numbers may vary. The situation is fluid and the numbers can change as more information becomes available. It's also important to remember that every casualty represents a human life lost or affected by this conflict.

Source: Conversation with Bing, 2024-01-26

(1) Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrainian_War.

(2) Hundreds of thousands wounded and dead in Ukraine as war grinds on .... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-1.7053035.

(3) Ukraine death toll: how many lives have been lost in the war? - MSN. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ukraine-death-toll-how-many-people-have-died-in-the-war/ar-AA13rkGY.

(4) ‘No More Tears,’ as Air Strike Deaths Hit 18 – War in Ukraine Update for Jan 24. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27100.

(5) War update: Ukraine’s Air Force hits eight Russian clusters in past day. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3816973-war-update-ukraines-air-force-hits-eight-russian-clusters-in-past-day.html.

(6) Russia-Ukraine war live: At least 25 killed in shelling at a market in Donetsk; fire at Russian liquefied natural gas producer. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-live-fire-at-russia-s-largest-liquefied-natural-gas-producer-north-korea-says-putin-keen-to-visit/ar-BB1h15op.

 

My summating thoughts:

And so, who is the perpetual winner in this hellish nightmare which has left foreign affairs departments throughout the West with no option but to continue to fund conflicts with no diplomatic solutions in sight? Why the Marxofascist Military Industrial Complex whose primary reason for existence is to perpetrate ongoing unwinnable conflicts for profit! On January 17, 1961, Dwight D. Eisenhower ended his presidential term by warning the nation about the increasing power of the military-industrial complex. Before and during the Second World War, American industries had successfully converted to defense production as the crisis demanded, but out of the war, what Eisenhower called a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions emerged. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience Eisenhower warned, "[while] we recognize the imperative need for this development...We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence…The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." Eisenhower cautioned that the federal government’s collaboration with an alliance of military and industrial leaders, though necessary, was vulnerable to abuse of power. Ike then counseled American citizens to be vigilant in monitoring the military-industrial complex. One can only wonder why the Republicans in particular refused to heed the warning of the man who had been the Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front in WWII, after all, if anyone understood the danger posed by the Military-Industrial Regime it was Eisenhower. The failure to take his warnings at their face value as an insider who knew the real dangers has led to countless conflicts where the goal wasn’t to win but to rather simply to propagate unending conflicts where human lives are being exchanged for profit!

 

 

Why the Church is to blame for the false doctrines of Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau is a unique blend of pathological narcissism, profound imbecility, and ideological possession. He is gripped by every idea pathogen Dr. Gad Saad wrote about in his magnum opus on the dangers to society posed by idea pathogens entitled, “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense”. Whether it be social constructivism, cultural relativism, postmodernism, political correctness, identity politics, central planning, 15 minute cities, admiring Communist China and the CCP, cooperating with dictators, ignoring constitutional law, confiscating bank accounts, mistreating and mischaracterizing Canadian citizens, silencing legitimate protests while encouraging violent ones, the damage to the economy his neo-Marxist policies have caused, bureaucratic interference in the free market, printing money out of thin air. charging political dissidents with crimes they didn’t commit while denying them swift justice, controlling the freedom of the press by using the media as a government tool of misinformation, taking bribes, cooperating with multinational conglomerates without regard for the Rule of Law, his costly mishandling of COVID and the illiberal policies and failures around inoculations that do not work as advertised, and the scientific impossibility of “net-zero”, each unworkable idea and the resulting impossible policies are manifestations of a completely parasitized mind which has in turn has infected the entire Canadian government and its bureaucracy.

Many appear to remain utterly unaware of the threat this poses to the Rule of Law, Constitutionalism, democracy, our future as a free people, and most importantly, the legacy we are leaving for our children and grandchildren to inherit. Amid this attack on every Godly principle which ought to limit and constrain our government to ensure that we are being governed righteously the bulk of the Church has remained woefully silent in its condemnation of these unholy attacks on peace, order, and good government. Shame on the weak and venal Church leaders and their congregants who are more interested in conforming to this world than they are in condemning this horrendous perversion of justice and sound moral leadership.

They won't let you know the facts that they refuse to measure!

 

The saying "You cannot manage what you do not measure" is often associated with management expert Peter Drucker. The principle itself has a history that predates Peter Drucker by some 2,000 years. As an example of measured success Japan’s path from post-war devastation to export powerhouse involved many important factors, a lot of hard work and a statistician. Two Americans played key roles in the world’s greatest economic recovery story--a story that has altered lifestyles and reinvented production systems around the world—they were Gen. Douglas MacArthur and quality guru Dr. W. Edwards Deming.

MacArthur’s greatest contribution as supreme commander for the Allied Powers in Japan (1945-1951)--a de facto dictator--was to break apart an outdated and ossified economic and social structure, which allowed Japan’s inherent creativity to blossom. “This was all very important for the development of Japan’s post-war economy,” said Masayoshi Tsurumi, an economics professor and financial historian at Hosei University.

On the corporate front, MacArthur smashed the grip of Japan’s family trusts, something Canadians are all too familiar with given the fact Justin Trudeau’s only qualification as Prime Minister is the name of his father. In Japan these trusts were known as zaibatsu, which had dominated Japan’s economy for decades and sent their avaricious tentacles into every corner of economic life, just as Justin has done here. Although some survived in modified form, including Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo, the retrenchment opened the field to a new breed of innovators with names like Sony, Honda, Toyota, and Panasonic that would over the next 30 years catapult Japan onto the global stage.

On the labor front, MacArthur encouraged trade unions, which further checked the oligopolies, broadened Japan’s wealth distribution, and helped develop an increasingly affluent middle class that would serve as a domestic base for exporters. And his farm reform policies, arguably his most far-reaching achievement, blunted the sort of rural discontent that would soon spring Mao Tse-Tung to power in neighboring China, argued MacArthur biographer William Manchester in “American Caesar.”

But most importantly in terms of verifiable production improvements MacArthur unleashed Dr Deming to assist Toyota in inventing tools which would permit those involved in production on the shop floor level to affect changes in production issues as they were being encountered. Some of these include the Plan-Do-Study-Act improvement cycle, control charts, etc., 5 Whys, and Pareto analysis, among many others. Deming transformed the factory by empowering the worker by providing them with tools and information to do his or her job correctly the first time. Moreover, to react to problems with Team Kaizen efforts which would solve quality issues at their source. Thus, the Toyota Production System was born which became the gold standard for process improvement and measurable success.

In appreciation the Japanese created The Deming Prize which is the longest-running and one of the highest quality awards in the world. It recognizes both individuals for their contributions to the field of quality and businesses that have successfully implemented exemplary systems that promote quality of goods and services. It was established in 1951 to honor W. Edwards Deming who contributed greatly to Japan’s proliferation of statistical quality control after World War II. His teachings helped Japan build its foundation by which the level of Japan’s product quality has been recognized as the highest in the world, was originally designed to reward Japanese companies for major advances in quality improvement. Over the years it has grown, under the guidance of the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to where it is now also available to non-Japanese companies, albeit usually operating in Japan, and also to individuals recognized as having made major contributions to the advancement of quality. The awards ceremony is broadcast every year in Japan on national television. Two categories of the awards are made annually, the Deming Prize for Individuals and the Deming Prize.

Yet we live in an age of the totalizing enterprise of ever-expanding government intervention and bureaucracy while in the face of the increase of state intervention there are almost no methods to verify the successes and failures of taxpayer funded programs. Over 70 plus years after Deming helped revive the Japanese economy our own leaders have forgotten the importance of measurable success.

So let us examine several of the reasons why governments often fail to measure the success of expensive programs:

1. **Groupthink and Echo Chambers**: Decision-making groups with limited perspectives can fall into the trap of groupthink, where countervailing evidence is filtered out of discussions and warning signs about potential pitfalls in a policy are ignored. This can lead to an overemphasis on certain pieces of evidence that support the preferred policy, while ignoring others.

2. **Short Institutional Memories and High Staff Turnover**: High staff turnover can lead to short institutional memories, limiting the capacity for learning because the lessons of the past quickly get forgotten. This can be particularly problematic in democratic governance, where high churn amongst politicians is inevitable.

3. **Overly Rigid Hierarchies and Inward-Looking Institutions**: Institutions with low levels of accountability, where people lower down a decisional chain fear speaking out against a policy orthodoxy, tend to make more policy mistakes.

4. **Bias Towards Project and Product Success**: Organizations often have a bias towards measuring 'project and product success' rather than a broader view of success as 'problems are solved with development impact'.

5. **Complexity of Measuring Success**: The complexity of measuring success can also be a factor. For example, even with billions of dollars spent on weatherization, it's still unclear just how much good this approach to energy efficiency has accomplished.

In particular Socialist governments are most often the leaders of the inefficiency pack. So let us examine several reasons as to why socialist governments may not measure the success of their programs:

1. **Complexity of Central Planning**: Under central planning, there is no profit-and-loss system of accounting to accurately measure the success or failure of various programs. Without profits, there is no way to discipline firms that fail to serve the public interest and no way to reward firms that do.

2. **Inefficiency and Misallocation of Labor**: Under socialist planning, government commands were used to allocate employment and thereby did not permit the hiring or firing of workers for strictly economic reasons. The problem with this was inefficient production, underemployment, and misallocations of labor.

3. **Lack of Democratic Legitimacy**: Some countries feature strong roles of the government in the economy, but because they lack democratic legitimacy, they do not serve the will of society.

4. **Modern Economies are Too Complex to Plan**: The Soviet disaster shows that modern economies are too complex to plan. State ownership and scientific planning would replace the anarchy of the market. However, the complexity of modern economies makes it difficult to plan and measure the success of programs.

Now consider the following measurements coming out of Florida on vaccine injuries

In Florida alone, there was a 1,700% increase in VAERS reports after the release of the COVID-19 vaccine, compared to an increase of 400% in overall vaccine administration for the same time period (Figure 1).

The reporting of life-threatening conditions increased over 4,400%. This is a novel increase and was not seen during the 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign. There is a need for additional unbiased research to better understand the COVID-19 vaccines' short- and long-term effects.

The findings in Florida are consistent with various studies that continue to uncover such risks. To further evaluate this, the Surgeon General wrote a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) illustrating the risk factors associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and emphasizing the need for additional transparency.

According to a study, exit disclaimer iconFraiman J et al, Vaccine. 2022, mRNA COVID-19 vaccines were associated with an excess risk of serious adverse events, including coagulation disorders, acute cardiac injuries, Bell’s palsy, and encephalitis. This risk was 1 in 550 individuals, which is much higher than other vaccines.

A second study, exit disclaimer iconSun CLF et al, Sci Rep. 2022, found increased acute cardiac arrests and other acute cardiac events following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

Additionally, exit disclaimer iconDag Berild J et al, JAMA Netw Open. 2022, assessed the risk of thromboembolic and thrombocytopenic events related to COVID-19 vaccines and found preliminary evidence of increased risk of both coronary disease and cardiovascular disease.

While the CDC has identified safety signals for stroke among individuals 65 and older following the bivalent booster administration, there is a need for additional assessments and research regarding safety of all mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.

To support transparency, the State of Florida reminds health care providers to accurately communicate the risks and benefits of all clinical interventions to their patients, including those associated with the COVID-19 vaccine as additional risks continue to be identified and disclosed to the public.

The State of Florida remains dedicated to protecting communities from the risks of COVID-19 and other public health concerns, specifically by promoting the importance of treatment and promoting prevention through healthy habits. We encourage our health care partners and providers to do the same.

If the Surgeon General of Florida’s assessment is accurate, the data indicates crimes against humanity being perpetrated by governments all throughout the Western World. I suppose that is as good a reason as any for the politicians and bureaucrats not to want people to know what has actually transpired which continues unabated and unchecked by the vast majority of global leaders. Look at this following webpage and tell me if you do not think there is something very odd about its findings. You may access it for yourself at the following link; https://www.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2023/02/20230215-updated-health-alert.pr.html

So, its time for a little “quality control” of the delusional ideationists whom we have entrusted with our health! We, like MacArthur, must smash the grip of the globalist trusts and multinational conglomerates who are experimenting with the human genetic blueprint because these oligarchs are transhumanists who detest their fellow man!

 

 

 

The impossibility of neutrality in the culture war

 

I want to make myself abundantly clear, we are not merely in a culture war, we are at its tail end. If the powers of social collectivism have their way every underpinning principle upon which limited constitutional government under the Rule of Law depends will have been done away with in favour of an imposed world view which seeks to control the hearts and minds of mankind. These idea pathogens are manifestations of a pernicious ungodly ideology that is anti-Christian and anti-democratic to its core. It has come after our faith, our families, and our property to fulfill the warning from the Book of Revelation 13:17 KJV: “And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” If you as a Christian think that it is possible to be found sitting on the fence in the midst of this totalizing enterprise which is a Satanic battle for the souls of men, you are sadly deluded and perhaps infected by this ideological pathogen yourself. Truth be known, I find it impossible to believe that you possess the New Birth if you have not taken up the fight on behalf of Christ to defend the faith and the Godly values it imparts to a sin sick world in desperate need of Christ and the Godly order that just government influenced by Christianity provides.

Merely preaching repentance without equipping the Church with the tools it needs to put on the full armour of God is insufficient to wage war against these demonic lies which, if possible, might even deceive the elect. God has not saved us from sin and united us with Christ in death and resurrection to be seated in Christ at the right hand of God the Father to fall victim to a cult of social collectivists who have made the idolatrous State their idol. But first we must understand the nature of the ideological deception we face and its origins to understand how it operates so that we may attack it both at its head and its roots. We live in an age where access to information is at our fingertips, literally, your smart phone and laptop have access to the world wide web where there is unlimited information on how these idea pathogens operate and their consequences on society here in the West. It is fascinating to note that the third world, the Muslim world, the Communist Chinese, and the Russians are almost totally unaffected by the species of idea pathogens that have completely taken over our universities and everything downstream of them. This is why these ideas are the concepts which are driving the totalizing enterprise of globalist control. Obscenely wealthy and powerful Besserwissers who are infected by a unique blend of Cultural Marxism and Fascism are demanding that we will own nothing and be happy. They are currently meeting in Davos as I am typing this. So, Pastors, teachers, deacons and elders, you are without excuse if you are not equipping the Church that God has entrusted in your care!

Yet there was one at Davos who was having none of it, the President of Argentina. From the Toronto Sun published January 17^th by WARMINGTON: “Argentina's president unleashes anti-woke storm at WEF. One thing for sure, it won’t be easy for Klaus Schwab to “penetrate” Argentine President Javier Milei’s cabinet.

And, he sure as heck will not be influencing it in any way, either. The World Economic Forum’s founder, or anybody else, didn’t need a translator to understand what Milei was saying Wednesday. Whether in Spanish or English, it was loud and clear: Socialism is bringing the world to its knees, and it has got to stop. 

“ The solution to be proposed by collectivists is not greater freedom but rather greater regulation which creates a downward (spiral) of regulations until we are all poorer and life for all of us depends on a bureaucrat sitting in a luxury office,” said Milei. Ouch. Talk about a skunk at garden party.

He spoke from experience since his own country had been utterly undone by socialism. Please listen to his remarks at the following link; https://www.youtube.com/live/-VwtRYZkYjU?si=na6nueEXTlIP_W0H

Then consider the following from Dr. A. James Gregor regarding the blending of the two major forms of social collectivism and his warnings regarding what he predicts would be their impact on the 21^st Century. A. James Gregor, a professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote a book titled "The Two Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century" in 2000¹. He argues that fascism emerged from a revision of Marxism that incorporated nationalism, racism, and totalitarianism. He also traces the influence of Marxist ideas on various fascist movements and regimes, such as Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Mao's China.

The preface from his book:

The turn of the century is as convenient an occasion as any to take stock of our time. It has been a time of trouble. Two world wars grew out of the “belle epoque”—and by the end of the century, more human beings would be killed by their own governments than would die in those wars. In attempting to understand something of that doleful reality, many have had recourse to the existence, in our century, of “fascism.” “Fascism,” we are told, was “one of the most glaring examples of political evil in modern history.”! Fascism, we have been told, was uniquely inhumane. We have been told that “anyone with any concern for human dignity can see the destructive effects of the fascist denigration of human life.”’ The implication of judgments of these kinds is that fascism, however that term is understood, is largely responsible for much of the devastation of the twentieth century. More than that, an effort has been made recently to identify “fascism” with “right-wing extremism,” and thereby credit the Right with virtually all the infamies of our time.’ Somehow or other, only the Right figures in the catalog of horrors that make up contemporary history. Yet almost everyone now acknowledges that the regimes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were stained with the blood of millions of innocent victims—more than those of the extreme right. We are left perplexed.

Even the most generous estimate would make the Left at least partially responsible for the mayhem that distinguishes our century. The political Right and the political Left seem to share something of a common malevolence. All that notwithstanding, some Western scholars continue to treat the political universe as though it were divided between the evil Right and the benign Left.

The thesis of the present work is that much of the literature of the twentieth century devoted to the analysis of violent revolution has failed to appreciate the central issues around which the insurrectionary violence of our time has turned. The failure of that literature is manifest in its treatment of the revolutions that followed the First World War—and which continue to the present—as being either of the Right or of the Left. Fascism is of the Right and Marxist-Leninist regimes are of the Left.

I will argue that the major systemic revolutions of our time have been of neither the Right nor the Left. Our error has been to attempt to force each revolutionary instance into a procrustean bed of preconceptions. To this day, some in the West remain convinced that while the revolutions of the Right have been unqualifiedly “pathological” and “homicidal,” those of the Left have been compassionate and benevolent—and that only extraneous circumstances produced the horrors of the Great Purge, the Great Proletarian Revolution, and the massacre of innocents by the Khmer Rouge.

There are others who, for at least two generations, have argued that the political universe we have known since the Bolshevik and Fascist revolutions has not been divided, primarily, by conflicts between the Right and Left, but between representative democracies and anti-democratic “ideocracies.” The contest has been between systems that base legitimacy on electoral results and those whose legitimacy and authority rest on appeal to an ideology considered inerrant, the guidance of a “charismatic leader,” and the armed persuasion of a hegemonic party. Among the latter movements and regimes there is no Right or Left. There are only anti-democratic systems.

However convenient and informative the distinction between Right and Left may be in local politics, it is largely irrelevant in dealing with the revolutionary movements that have shaped the international environment during the last hundred years. There have been many who have recognized as much.

This work is an effort to restate the case for the latter view. It attempts to supplement the argument advanced a quarter of a century ago that there is more “fascism” in the Left than most Western scholars have been prepared to recognize.” Recent developments in post-Soviet Russia and post-Maoist China eloquently make the case. I attempt to trace the decay of Marxist theory among left-wing intellectuals. Bereft of much of its mummery, Marxist theory reveals itself as a variant of generic fascism, The contest of the twentieth century, which has cost so much in human lives, was not between the Right and the Left. It was between representative democracies and their anti-democratic opponents. It has been an arduous struggle.

The anti-democratic temptation continues to have appeal to those who feel themselves to be oppressed and humiliated. One of the implications of the discussion in what follows is that, at the end of the century, there really is very little convincing evidence that the democracies have won the contest. That does not bode well for the twenty-first century.

Not bode well? Indeed not! As I mentioned in my last blog/vodcast, we have a Prime Minister who is walking manifestation of every idea pathogen inherent to this perverse blend of Cultural Marxism and Fascism. These idea pathogens include radical feminism, social constructivism, cultural relativism, postmodernism, political correctness, and identity politics, yet Trudeau believes that he and his friends at Davos must be granted total control over our energy sector and therefore the economy. Justin Trudeau has advanced an agenda that has been ruinous to the freedoms and prosperity of the land God has married us to. Moreover, he is a classic example of what he decries in others as “white privilege”. He is seemingly unaware of his own addled ideological contradictions because he is a unique mix of profound imbecility, incredible narcissism, and a completely parasitized mind.

You cannot fight an ideology that you do not understand. Worse you will not fight if you refuse to identify the threat and press on as Christian soldiers. It is up to you to be instant in season and out to know how to answer everyone with the word of truth which will be useful to counter the false ideology of our day. Every generation of believer were convinced that they lived in the end times. I hear too many who are convinced that they know Christ’s return is eminent. It may well be but when He comes it will be as a thief in the night. The reformers were convinced that the Pope was the anti-Christ since he claimed to have the keys to heaven, earth, and hell and have the power to absolve sin to an apostate church. If you doubt me read the dedicatory letter to the King James Bible which makes that point abundantly clear. They believed this because the Pope was manifesting the spirit of the anti-Christ. A spirit which will always be with us until the Lord returns. He is coming for a victorious church as spoken of in Ephesians 5: 27 “That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Not for a weak, ineffectual, sectarian, and divided body rife with conflicting doctrines that bring no glory to Christ. Educate yourself that you may do as admonished in 2 Timothy 4: 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

I find it appalling that some of the most useful voices denouncing the ideological possession of the social collectivists are not believers. This is to the shame of those who ought to be at the forefront of this battle against false doctrine. Jordan B Peterson, Gad Saad, Stephen Hicks, James Lindsay just to name a few have done more to warn us of the dangers of this perverse ideology than any leading Christian voices have other than perhaps historian Dr. Victor Davis Hanson and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson. Why is that? I have repeatedly offered my help to pastors to help develop speaking series on the leading false doctrine of our age and have been completely ignored or dismissed. That is not just a shame, it is a remarkable acknowledgement that those whose very sacred duty it is to shepherd the flock away from ravenous wolves would rather see them devoured than upset the applecart of their little fiefdom.

 

 

THE PARASITIZED MIND vs THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF GOD'S WORD

 

Dr. Gad Saad is an evolutionary psychologist and marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal as well as being the author of a book entitled the “Parasitic Mind” which seeks to expose the threat that ideological possession poses to society. He recently stated the following about Justin Trudeau regarding his ideologically addled view of the world.

“Justin Trudeau is a walking manifestation of every idea pathogen that I have discussed in the “Parasitic Mind”, whether it be radical feminism, whether it be social constructivism, whether it be cultural relativism, whether it be postmodernism, whether it be political correctness, whether it be identity politics, each of those concepts is what I call a parasitic idea. Justin Trudeau has advanced every single one of those ideas. So yes, but by the way I hate to be the one to remind people that I told you so but before he became Prime Minister in 2015 I was going to the top of the mountain and screaming out saying, “Do not vote for this guy he is a very, very dangerous guy because he is a unique mix of profound imbecility, incredible narcissism, and then a completely parasitized mind. So, you know what I mean, talk about, “white privilege”, well I mean this guy’s only contribution until the time he entered politics on the wings of his father's name was that he was a substitute drama teacher in high school! That was the highest professional gold standard he managed to achieve prior to his life in politics.”

So why has he and his ideology taken over the Canadian Zeitgeist so successfully? In Matthew 6 KJV the Lord commanded us to pray in secret beginning with; 9) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10) Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. In this we clearly see that Christ wishes that His will be done here on earth in the same manner His will is done in heaven. So here is the obvious question, who will ensure Godly order in this world if not for those who possess the New Birth? And since it is Christ’s own commandment that we pray in this manner, why are so few believers ensuring that those like Justion Trudeau are being held accountable for their godless ideology? Every double-edged sword cuts two ways. That is why it has two edges. Many believers are limited by their own species of ideological possession since they see the truth only in the light of what they have been taught without examining the Scriptures under the light of Divine revelation. I often have heard pastors and teachers admonish their fellowships to study the written word, but if they were to study and memorize the entire cannon of scripture without God revealing its meaning then the words will remain dead. After all the Pharisees knew the Scriptures inside and out even wearing them on their foreheads, but they had no revelation and that lack of revelation with all their Scriptural knowledge only caused them to put Christ to death on the Cross and then martyr Stephen.

Sunday, I heard a brother warn us that persecution is coming. Undoubtedly it is. But much of it is coming since the Church has lost its savour, the salt of the earth is no longer affecting society since it has lost its saltiness. Not once did he remind the believers that it was their job to hold their elected representatives accountable to obey the Rule of Law, recognise our God given rights promised in the Charter and admonish them to involved themselves in the process of ensuring Godly government here on earth. Christ is returning for a victorious church without spot or wrinkle not for weak simpering victims of circumstances beyond their control.

Matthew 5:13 KJV 13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

In Hebrews 4 KJV Paul speaks of the rest God wishes us to enter due to having a revelation of His Living Word. 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

It is impossible to understand the meaning of the written word without seeking for revelatory knowledge of it with all the ardor we can muster, or we too will fall prey to ideological possession. There is a religious species of that too. Since Dr. Saad is an unbeliever, he is utterly unaware of how Christians can be religiously deceived. Which is why I am warning you. We must thirst after the Truth as though our very lives depend upon it. Why? Because they do. My brother was right. Persecution is coming but certainly not because it was necessary that our government collapse in Satanic ideological possession. How hard do you thirst after God’s own revelation of the written word which will remain dead until He breathes His life into it?

Psalm 63 KJV: 1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; 2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. 3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. 4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips: 6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. 7 Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice. 8 My soul followeth hard after thee: thy right hand upholdeth me. 9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth. 10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes. 11 But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by him shall glory: but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

May we seek revelation of Christ in His Word until we can say as was said of Paul’s and his converts in Acts 17, ’These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;”

1 Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

3 Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

4 And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

5 But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

7 Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.

8 And they troubled the people and the rulers of the city, when they heard these things.

9 And when they had taken security of Jason, and of the other, they let them go.

10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.

11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

13 But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.

14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.

16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

33 So Paul departed from among them.

34 Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

A summation of my thoughts and my prayer for you all. Brethren, we are not only not turning the world upside down, but we are also failing to affect our own gatherings with the prayerful passion needed to usher in the Kingdom in our midst. Too heavenly minded to be of any earthly use? No, too focused on going to heaven that we fail to do what we are commissioned to do to usher in Christ’s Kingdom on earth today! You see that Justin Trudeau and the totalizing enterprise that he represents are not the only forms of ideological possession. Believers who think they have God in a box are unwilling to counter the idea pathogens of the idolatrous ideology of our time. Just as Paul and the brethren did in their day, they called to the light those who were also given over to false doctrines. Let it be said of us that we are those who have turned Justin Trudeau’s world upside down. Let us restore a powerful expression of Christ on earth using the double-edged sword of the discerning word of Truth to uncover and divide asunder the nonsense possessing the minds and hearts of men to liberate them for a revelation of Christ and Him crucified and resurrected!