Positive Atheism – Cliff Walker : Weak Bible Week Poster, part 3 of 7

Women: Property, Silence, Rape and Booty:
As we begin the sections that make reference to the Bible please note that Cliff Walker has discredited himself from condemning anything that the Bible states since he has written:

“I use the terms good and evil and right and wrong as shorthand, for the purpose of discussion, to describe how many people think. My current understanding of reality does not recognize any intrinsic good or evil.”1 [italics in original]

Therefore, he is basing his condemnation on his opinions and what “many people think.” One must wonder: is he referring to “many people” with whom he is acquainted and who happen to agree with him? And what if “many people” disagree? Well then, in such a case what is considered good and evil and right and wrong would change.

In the section entitled “Women” we begin to get into the Bible itself and we are told that in the Bible the “Wife [is] listed among property.” Well, in that case I shalt no longer introduce my wife as “my” wife.

We are then told that “Christian women: be silent” based on a text in 1st Corinthians 14:34-35 which, as the book’s title informs us, was written to a particular people, at a particular time, in a particular place: the Christians of Corinth some 2,000 years ago. In that place and time there were complex interactions of cultures and myths such as Gnosticism and the worship of various Greek and Roman goddesses. In that case, Paul apparently seeks to prevent the teaching of un-biblical myths and seeks to ensure that women become well informed. The historical / cultural context of the fact that it was not a universal requirement for women to be silent is made all the clearer by the fact that, as seen in previous segments of this parsed essay: in the New Testament we find accounts of women prophetesses, disciples, deacons, teachers, etc.

Based on quite a bit of minutia, it may be that Paul was referencing those with whom he disagrees in a juxtapositional manner. For example in 1st Corinthians 6:12 Paul juxtaposes two positions:

“All things are lawful for me,but all things are not helpful.All things are lawful for me,

but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

Such appears to be the case in chapter 14 in the case of those who thought that only women should keep silent. The way this would work within the text is as may be seen by broking it up into verses:

26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

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33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
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34 Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also says.35 And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.

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36 Or did the word of God come originally from you? Or was it you only that it reached?37 If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.

38 But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

Paul has been addressing the issue of disorder: each has a psalm, teaching, tongue, revelation, interpretation. Fine, just be sure to do these things for edification. If one, anyone, speaks in a tongue and there is no interpreter, they are to keep silent in church. When prophesying, judge each other and take turns “all prophesy one by one” and “let the first keep silent.” Keep in mind that prophecy does not necessarily refer to telling the future, but offering encouragement – “all may be encouraged.” Why this imposition of order? Because “God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.”
Next we find that some people offer a simple solution and say, “Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak_for it is shameful for women to speak in church.” Oh, really?!? “did the word of God come originally from you?” No, rather I, Paul, “write to you_the commandments of the Lord.” Therefore, keep order like I told you, take turns speaking and being silent “all” of you, both men and women.

We are next turned towards the Old Testament and informed that a “Woman must marry rapist” (Deuteronomy 22:28-29). Regardless of the poster’s preferred NIV reading, the Hebrew “taphas” refers to catching, handling, taking hold, grasping, etc. And “shakab” refers to lying down. There is actually no reason to think that the woman was raped. I performed a search of 13 translations and found 2 that translated as “rape”: the NIV and the NLT yet, context always determines meaning. The others read thusly:

KJV, “a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her.”NKJV, “a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her.”ESV, “a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her.”NASB, “a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her.”RSV, “a virgin who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her.”ASV, “a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her.”HNV, “a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her.”Young’s, “a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her.”Darby’s, “a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her.”Webster’s, “a virgin, who is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her.”

RVR, “una joven virgen que no fuere desposada, y la tomare y se acostare con ella.”

Please be aware that the verse actually ends with a statement that “they are found.” What is that all about? Does it mean that he was raping her and did not get away with it? Nay, the text is referring to a shotgun wedding. The man and woman engaged in intercourse not only while she was a virgin but when they were not even betrothed. Therefore, they must now be wed.

Next we are told that “Virgin women are war booty” (Numbers 31:1-18). In the aftermath of war, and without the aid of the great and mightily benevolent UN, the women could have been left to fend for themselves or could have been brought into the Israelite camp. Moreover, the warriors and women were to remain outside the camp seven days in order to purify themselves.
Moreover, regulations regarding war captives were very strict. In the case of a woman, if a man wanted to marry her he had to give her time to recover from the shock of war, she was to be taken into the home and “shall sorrow for her father and her mother a full month” (Deuteronomy 21:13). But if after marrying her he wanted to divorce her he was to “let her go where she will. But you shall not sell her at all for silver, you shall not make a slave of her, because you have humbled her” (v. 14). Here “humbling” refers to her being depressed and or having lost her virginity (while married).

Dan Barker Sues Barack Obama

At least that is the headline which I expect any day now since Barack Obama has broken the first demand-ment of the Freedom From Religion Foundation: thou shall not display “religious” objects/sentiments on government property.

Too bad that Thomas Jefferson knew of no such law.

Yes, Thomas Jefferson, deist or not, attended Christian worship services at the Capitol Building. Apparently, modern day liberal types know what Jefferson meant by “wall of separation” better than Jefferson knew what Jefferson meant. Of course, in order to rid “religious” objects/sentiments from government property we would basically have to demolish Washington D.C., for example.

Well, times have changed and now Barack Obama has done something that will surely insight the wrath of Barker. After all we are getting towards year’s end when, apparently, the Freedom From Religion Foundation reviews their budget for the following year and calculated how many lawsuits they must file in order to play the underdog/martyr and beg for donations (see Dan Barker and Michael Newdow’s School of Job Security).

With December being saturated with Christmas, Hanukah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, Solstice, Festivus, etc., lawsuits are rid for the pickin′.

Well, for Halloween Barack Obama had the White House draped in religious objects/sentiments in the form of paganism and had little unsuspecting and undiscerning children forced to join the worship service—surely, Richard Dawkins will cry, “Child abuse!”

Understand that Dan Barker himself supports Atheist-Neo-Paganism (as do many atheists, see here and here for Barker’s affirmations) as he did when he positively affirmed God’s non-existence (for which I am still eagerly awaiting evidence) when he protested a nativity display on government property and affirmed the Pagan roots of Christmas in stating

At this season of the Winter Solstice, may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world.

As Dan Barker stated it (filed under “news flash!”), “Christians don’t own the month of December” and Anne Nicol Gaylor stated, “We nonbelievers don’t mind sharing the season with Christians.” They stated these in their announcement that they would be posting a “Freethinking Winter Solstice Sign & Billboard” (emphasis added).

Thus, he will surely do likewise with Halloween.

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who was invited to represent the dark side?

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Praise Darwin – Evolve Beyond Belief Atheist Billboard News

Dan Barker, Annie Laurie Gaylor and the Freedom From Religion Foundation gang have again collected donations during a time of worldwide recession not to help anyone in any tangible way but in order to demonstrate just how cleaver they are.

This new billboard reads, “Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief.”[1]

Annie Laurie Gaylor has declared this “the Year of Darwin.”

Indeed, views such as those promulgated by Dan Barker are most certainly beyond belief.He has stated:

“Darwin has bequeathed what is good”[2]

“abortion is a blessing”[3]

“a fetus that’s the size of a thumb that has, what, what would you put it in a little locket and hang it around your neck?”[4]

He referred to Jesus as “a moral monster”[5]

Stated that “There is no moral interpreter in the cosmos, nothing cares and nobody cares.”[6]

As to whether it matters “what happens to me or a piece of broccoli, it won’t the Sun is going to explode, we’re all gonna be gone. No one’s gonna care.”[7]

He also argues that rape is not absolute immoral.[8]

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Perhaps Dan Barker’s views require further evolution.

As for the Britons and their bus boards, Prof. Richard Dawkins was asked if he was “surprised that so many individual donors responded to the campaign to mount bus advertisements?” and in a moment of clarity stated:

“I’m surprised and delighted but also somewhat embarrassed…The final figure is something like 130,000. That’s why I said I was embarrassed, because that is too much money to spend on a bus campaign. That much money would have been better spent doing something else. . . .I was actually in favor of diverting the money to something else, which I thought the donors would approve. But other members of the group felt that [as] the money had been given for the bus campaign they were legally obliged to spend it on that campaign” [ellipses in original].

He was also asked, “Do you worry that you might be causing people a lot of angst, since for many people religion is an important part of their identity?”

“It doesn’t worry me very much. I don’t have that much sympathy if people get their consolation from an illusion. I wouldn’t wish to shatter the illusions of somebody on their deathbed or something, but I think on balance, people should be more thick-skinned.”

This is interesting not only in that atheism is a consoling delusion but that he appeals to atheism as providing a sense of “freedom” and liberty (I will be posting on this shortly).

In a typical atrocity discredits theism but good does not accredit it assertion Prof. Richard Dawkins states:

“I don’t think there’s any general reason, any logical pathway, that goes from being religious to being good. . . .It’s quite interesting to reflect on the logical pathway that would lead you to be bad. I don’t know if you would accept this, but the 19 perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks genuinely thought they were being good. They believed they were doing the will of Allah. . . . There is a logical pathway from religion to doing atrocious things. I don’t think there’s a logical path that leads you from atheism to that kind of thing. Of course there are atheists who do terrible things. But I don’t think you can derive it [from atheism itself].”[9] [ellipses and brackets in original]

Just as a particular theology is the first brush stroke that eventually forms a worldview painting atheism is the blank canvas upon which individual atheists paint their worldviews. Thus, both theism and atheist are starting points towards benevolence or malice. The advantage of certain theologies is that they can absolutely condemn certain actions as evil while Prof. Richard Dawkins is left to impotent first shaking condemnations through which he urges us, baselessly, to rebel against Darwinism.

He further states, “Religion should not be a way of answering moral questions either, and to the extent that it is, it should not be relied upon.” This is dogmatic atheistic activism at its most militant. By this he condemns the very Christian premise upon which the two countries, upon which he quite safely and comfortably makes a living expressing prejudice, are founded—the very societies upon which he relies for his belief that rape is immoral since this too is a purely arbitrary moral.

One bit of new that I am excited about is that he is due to publish, in September, a book “on the evidence of evolution” (I hope that he defines “evidence” and “evolution”) that will be entitled, “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution.” I only hope that he will be able to slit his personality and write science whilst keeping his atheistic activism at bay. Seeing as he has comingled atheism with biology ever since he was taught Darwinism at the age of 16 this seems like a vain hope and we would all do well to, as usual when reading him on science, parse real science from worldview adherence.

Notes:
[1]Trina Hoaks, “‘Praise Darwin Evolve Beyond Belief’ billboards go up,” Atheism Examiner, February 2, 2009 AD
[2]Stated during debate with John Rankin, Evolution and Intelligent Design: What are the issues? [3]Ibid.

[4]Stated during his debate with Dinesh D’Souza, Christianity versus Atheism

[5]Stated during his debate with Paul Manata [6]Ibid. [7]Ibid.

[8]Stated during his debate with Peter Payne on ethics Part 1 and Part 2.

[9]Henry Chu, “Richard Dawkins on board with a pro-atheist message,” LA Times, January 11, 2009 AD

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Atheism and the Illuminati

Of interested is considering the common view of atheism as being anti-religion and how atheism ties in with the Illuminati.

Apparently, due to Dan Brown’s book “Angels and Demons” and the corresponding movie there is occurring a feverish internet search for information about the Illuminati. Some popular searches for the Illuminati are interesting and some amusing. Some examples are:

Illuminati symbols (not an Atheist Symbols, right?)
History Illuminati (as opposed to the history of atheism)
US currency Illuminati symbol
Illuminati news (can you imagine? Get yer Illuminati news ove’here!)
Bloodlines Illuminati
Illuminati conspiracy
The Illuminati
How do I join the Illuminati (what, they don’t advertise?!?!)
Illuminati diamond (surely, it would make quite the engagement ring)
Illuminati and Obama or Obama Illuminati (let the conspiracy theorizing begin, or continue) and do not forget George Bush, the Illuminati
25 goals of Illuminati (what about the New Ten Commandments?—of which there are fifteen)
Origination of Illuminati (where is that chart?)
Pyramids of the Illuminati review
Illuminati and librarians (I could see when they charged five cents for late books but now?)
Illuminati card game (probably makes of more exiting viewing than pro poker)
What is the Illuminati

Beware and be aware my friends, for while the Illuminati are lurking in the shadows attempting to establish their new world order another group, a menace of massive proportions, is acting in the wide open: they are—the Alluminati who are attempting to establish an atheist new world order (FYI: I used to play bass in a band called New World Chaos).

There seems to be a common misconception of atheism being anti-religion yet, it is not—it is very, very pro-religion. They are anti-theistic-religion but very much so pro atheistic-religion. This is not only due to militant activist atheist such as Michael Newdow who has long argued that atheism is a religion or the fact that, as noted in Nietzsche Nails Atheism, Again, atheism (under whatever label) has long held religious services (aspects of Unitarian Universalism are an example of this; see here).

It is, quite rightly, said that the best place to hide something is in plain sight. True indeed, as I recall that perhaps the first time that I posted on atheists attempting to establish an atheist new world order in the form of an atheist one world religion someone commented thusly, “‘Atheist religion’???? Dears, you really are a 3rd class blog.”

Atheists have been promulgating their wished to establish an atheist one world religion for, at the very least, three centuries. In seek to establish the atheist new world order the Alluminati complain that theistic religions are manmade and make assertions about supernatural transcendence which can only be known through personal subjective experience. In its place the Alluminati new world order seeks establish a manmade religion that makes assertions about materialistic transcendence which can only be known through personal subjective experience.

Many people ask “Is atheism a religion” and there are some reasons for answering in the affirmative yet, the simple answer is, “Whether it is one now or not one thing is for certain; many influential atheists want to establish it as a religion.”

I previously chronicled Atheism Spirituality evidencing their attempts to co-opt science in order to replace awe in God with awe in cosmic accidents, including the accident of the cosmos itself: they primed the pump for the Alluminati new world order by preaching the pseudo-gospel of neo-Pagan atheism: awe in nature or nature worship. Now I will chronicle just a few atheism quotes that are more specific to the establishing of a one world atheist religion.

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Let us begin with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) who conceptualized of a civil religion one of the commandments of which was,

If anyone, after publicly recognizing these dogmas, behaves as if he does not believe them, let him be punished by death: He has committed the worst of all crimes, that of lying before the law.

Claude Henri de Rouvroy – Comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825) envisaged a new Christianity premised on Humanism and scientific socialism. The secular priesthood would be composed of scientists, philosophers and engineers.

Auguste Comte (1798-1857) envisioned of a religion of humanity.

Dan Barker, of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (established in a country premised on the freedom of religious expression), stated the following:

Atheism and Freethought and true humanistic morality are, are so much more clear, so much more useful, so much more reasonable so, you know, without all the negative baggage of theology and judgment and hell and, and you know, and the supernatural….I don’t have to try to prop up this phony supernatural system…atheists and agnostics are more accountable they are more moral they, they have more responsibility in their lives because they realize that it, it’s a what matters is this world not an imaginary supernatural world.[1]

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This is one of the Alluminati new world order’s consoling delusions: the delusion of lack of ultimate accountability and the delusion of absolute autonomy.

Michael Shermer, editor of Skeptic magazine (who was outed as a pseudo-skeptic by Ben Stein), stated that his study of evolution was,

…far more enlightening and transcendent, spiritual, than anything I had experienced in seven years of being a born again Christian.[2]

If religion and spirituality are supposed to generate awe and humility in the fact of the creator, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists?

Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from, and where we are going.[3]

This represents the Alluminati new world order as neo-pseudo-Genesis.

Michael Ruse (philosophy professor, University of Guelph) wrote:

Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion — a full-fledged alternative to Christianity…Huxley, known in the papers as “Pope Huxley”, was determined to find a substitute for Christianity…Herbert Spencer…shared Huxley’s vision of evolution as a kind of metaphysics rather than a straight science…Evolution now has its mystical visionary, its Saint John of the Cross. Harvard entomologist and sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson tells us that we now have an “alternative mythology” to defeat traditional religion.[4]

Such sentiments represent the Alluminati new world order as replacement theology: replacing Christianity and replacing theist religion with atheistic religion.

In this regard Richard Bozarth has noted that “Atheism will be ready to fill the void of Christianity’s demise when science and evolution triumph…Christianity is nothing!”[5] Also, note that a very influential person state, “When understanding of the universe has become widespread…Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.”[6] The influential person was Adolf Hitler (see here, here and here).

In his article Is Science a Religion? Richard Dawkins wrote:

“science does have some of religion’s virtues…All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. And it’s exactly this feeling of spine-shivering, breath-catching awe — almost worship — this flooding of the chest with ecstatic wonder, that modern science can provide. And it does so beyond the wildest dreams of saints and mystics…
Science can offer a vision of life and the universe which, as I’ve already remarked, for humbling poetic inspiration far outclasses any of the mutually contradictory faiths and disappointingly recent traditions of the world’s religions.

Thus far, we are getting a taste of the Alluminati new world order as premising its atheist one world religion on science, evolution, goosebumps and anti-Christian prejudice.

Stephen S. Hall wrote the following in Darwin’s Rottweiler – Sir Richard Dawkins: Evolution’s Fiercest Champion, Far Too Fierce:

Einsteinian religion is a kind of spirituality which is nonsupernatural…It is something bigger, something grander, something that I believe any scientist can subscribe to, including those scientists whom I would call atheists. Einstein, in my terms, was an atheist…
I suppose my hope would be that science—the best kind of science, the sort of science which approaches the best sort of religion, the Einsteinian spirituality that I was talking about—is so inspiring, so exciting that it should be sellable to everybody…We have something far better to offer…Why are we freethinking secular scientists not getting into that same marketplace…and selling what we’ve got to sell? Because it’s a far better product, and all we’ve got to do is hone our salesmanship to the level that they are already doing it.

The statement, “Einstein, in my terms, was an atheist” and Richard Dawkins’ reference to Einstein as an “atheistic scientist” are examples of the Alluminati new world order’s attempts to rewrite history. Albert Einstein stated, “I’m not an atheist.”[7] Thus, the Alluminati’s minions will argue that Stephen S. Hall qualified his statement with “in my terms” and Richard Dawkins by referencing Albert Einstein as scientist. Behold the Alluminati new world order’s misleading statements: truth mixed with falsehood—classic misinformation.

From Gary Wolf’s interview with Daniel Dennett:

No rational creature, he says, would be able to do without unexamined, sacred things…This sounds to me a little like the religion of reason that Harris foresees. “Yes, there could be a rational religion,” Dennett says. “We could have a rational policy not even to think about certain things”… I ask Dennett if there might not be a contradiction in his scheme. On the one hand, he aggressively confronts the faithful, attacking their sacred beliefs. On the other hand, he proposes that our inherited defaults be put outside the limits of dispute. But this would make our defaults into a religion, unimpeachable and implacable gods. And besides, are we not atheists? Sacred prohibitions are anathema to us.

Dennett replies that exceptions can be made. “Philosophers are the ones who refuse to accept the sacred values,” he says. For instance, Socrates. I find this answer supremely odd. The image of an atheist religion whose sacred objects, called defaults, are taboo for all except philosophers – this is the material of the cruelest parody.[8]

This represents the Alluminati new world order as establishing atheist one world rational religion as refereed by, as coincidentally stated by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, philosophers.

From Gary Wolf’s interview with Sam Harris:

We discuss what it might look like, this world without God. “There would be a religion of reason,” Harris says…“We would be able to invoke the power of poetry and ritual and silent contemplation and all the variables of happiness so that we could exploit them. Call it prayer, but we would have prayer without bull****…At some point, there is going to be enough pressure that it is just going to be too embarrassing to believe in God.”[9] [italics in original]

This is the Alluminati new world order as establishing atheist one world religion of reason that will simply embarrass theistic religions into non-existence.

Sam Harris elucidates in this article, Selfless Consciousness Without Faith:

As a critic of religious faith, I am often asked what will replace organized religion. The answer is: many things and nothing…we need a way of talking about human well-being that is as unconstrained by religious dogma as science is.

Sam Harris notes, in his A Contemplative Science, that,

I recently spent a week with one hundred fellow scientists at a retreat center in rural Massachusetts. The meeting attracted a diverse group: physicists, neuroscientists, psychologists, clinicians, and a philosopher or two…We were on a silent meditation retreat at the Insight Meditation Society, engaged in a Buddhist practice known as vipassana (the Pali word for “seeing clearly”)…Of critical importance for the purposes of science: there are no unjustified beliefs or metaphysics that need be adopted at all…

This denotes the atheist one world religion’s Atheism Spirituality: all of the goosebumpy feelings with none of that bothersome accountability.

Sam Harris further notes that “we can promulgate that knowledge and pursue those experiences very much in a spirit of science, without presupposing anything on insufficient evidence.”[10] Also, “We must learn to invoke the power of ritual and to mark those transitions in every human life that demand profundity — birth, marriage, death, etc. — without lying to ourselves about the nature of reality…we will have no need for divisive religious myths.”[11]

Moreover, there are countless lower level Alluminati all over the internet composing doxologies to the atheist one world religion in the form of atheism spirituality, delineating atheist beliefs, seeking to establish an atheist symbol, composing atheist prayers, etc. Indeed, the Alluminati are hard a work, right out in the open, seeking to establish their new world order atheist one world religion. They also seek to rewrite history as the triumph of “reason” over “faith” (or seeking to deny that Communism was premised upon atheism). They seek to dictate child rearing. They seek to co-opt science as somehow implying, if not proving, atheism. They seek to paint atheism as holier and more moral than Christianity. And much, much more.

Meanwhile, the more that the Alluminati seek to establish their new world order the more I am reminded of Romans 1:18-28 which refers to:

…men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man…

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity…because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind…

Premised upon denying God, the atheist one world religion seeks to encourage nature worship—atheist-neo-Paganism.

Lastly, note that ex-atheist, the late C. S. Lewis, noted the following of a form of atheism spirituality which he referred to in terms of Life-Force philosophy, or Creative Evolution, or Emergent Evolution:

One reason why many people find Creative Evolution so attractive is that it gives one much of the emotional comfort of believing in God and none of the less pleasant consequences. When you are feeling fit and the sun is shining and you do not want to believe that the whole universe is a mere mechanical dance of atoms, it is nice to be able to think of this great mysterious Force rolling on through the centuries and carrying you on its crest. If, on the other hand, you want to do something rather shabby, the Life-Force, being only a blind force, with no morals and no mind, will never interfere with you like that troublesome God we learned about when we were children. The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost.

Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?[12]

Notes:
[1]Heard during an audio clip played during an interview with William Lane Craig, Thoughts on Sam Harris’ Claims
[2]The poster entitled the video
Kent Hovind Schools Dr. Mike Shermer
[3]Stated during a debate with Jonathan Wells, Why Darwin Matters, CATO Institute 2006 AD: videoand audio
[4]Michael Ruse, “How Evolution Became A Religion—Creationists correct?: Darwinians wrongly mix science with morality, politics,” National Post, May, 13, 2000 AD
[5]Richard Bozarth, “The Meaning of Evolution,” The American Atheist, Vol. 20, No. 2, February 1978 AD, p. 30
[6]Hitler’s Secret Conversations 1941-1944 (Farrar, Straus and Young, Inc. 1953), published in Britain as Hitler’s Table Talk 1941-1944 (Oxford University Press), pp. 49-52
[7]“What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck,” The Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 26, 1929 AD
[8]Wired Magazine online: Gary Wolf, The Church of the Non-Believers (found hereand here) [9]Ibid.

[10]ABC Radio National, Stephen Crittenden interviews Sam Harris

[11]Sam Harris, Science Must Destroy Religion
[12]C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, Chapter 4: “What Lies Behind the Law”

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New Age : The Melchizedek Method, part 9 of 10

This segment will serve as the Workshops – Overview, Level 1, 2, 3

The following is a basic overview of the some of the activities that take place in the Melchizedek Method workshops, as described in advertisements. Certain terminology such as Merkaba and Adam Kadmon are taken from Hebrew and defined with Kabbalistic concepts. Dr. J. J. Hurtak, from whose book “The Keys of Enoch” the Melchizedek Method came to be, states:

“The ‘Merkabah’ expresses the Divine Will in the experience of an ascension process. In other words, it is the energy vehicle of multi-dimensional travel and ascension which touches upon many realities, from the smallest to the largest part of the All-encompassing, placing the human in relation to the Will of the Creator. In my work, the awareness of the Merkabah is also the awareness of the immanence of God and His powers and vitality expressed in travel.”1

Dr. J. J. Hurtak reveals his belief in, and practice of, numerology or gematria2, in explaining his preference of the spelling of Merkabah over Merkaba he wrote,

“First, let us use the ‘original prophetic spelling’ of the term which I prefer-with a final ‘h’ on the end of the word which adds a higher gematria or mathematical combination of energy to the letters of the word.”3

To give detailed definitions would take a considerable amount of space and would deviate from our main topic and so we have provided basic descriptions. The late Gershom G. Scholem, Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, provides the following definition:The first chapter of Ezekiel mentions God’s Merkabah, His throne-chariot. The Beriah, the world of creation, i.e. of the Throne, the Merkabah and the highest angels. A concept of the doctrine held by the Kabbalists of Safed and in particular Cordovero. The Beriah is one of the four worlds placed between the En-Sof. The Zohar and the Kabbalists refer to the En-Sof as the infinite, the hidden God, the innermost Being of Divinity who has neither qualities nor attributes.

Zohar or Sefer Ha-Zohar “Book of Splendor” is Kabbalists literature written circa 1275. Adam Kadmon is defined as the ontological primary man. “_the primordial man_Adam Kadmon is nothing but a first configuration of the divine light which flows from the essence of En-Sof into the primeval space of the Tsimtsum-not indeed from all sides but, like a beam, in one direction only.” Tsimtsum means concentration or contraction and is defined by Kabbalists as withdrawal or retreat. It is a term used to explain that because God is everywhere He had to make room for the world by “abandoning a region within Himself_He withdrew in order to return to it in the act of creation and revelation.”4

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Level 1

“The Melchizedek Method Level One is a revolutionary new form of physical, emotional, mental, etheric and spiritual healing, age-reversal and lightbody activation.”

“The basis of the techniques presented is the activation of the Hologram of Love Merkaba, a rotating lightfield awakening your spherical consciousness. The tool of the Hologram of Love is a high dimensional active conscious living Divine manifestation that accesses all levels of consciousness. It has the ability to heal and rejuvenate any form of creation as it is the living conscious holographic pattern of God Source vibration.”

“The ‘Merkabah’ expresses the Divine Will in the experience of an ascension process. In other words, it is the energy vehicle of multi-dimensional travel and ascension which touches upon many realities, from the smallest to the largest part of the All-encompassing, placing the human in relation to the Will of the Creator.”5

“The Melchizedek Method demonstrates and teaches the skill of holographically removing any part of the body, outer bodies and thought programming into the higher dimensions to be cleansed and healed, and then returned into the physical completely perfect. Holographic healing and rejuvenation is a skill all human beings will practice in the future, according to Thoth, and will be instrumental in ridding this planet of illness and disease.”

“During the workshop, Thoth introduces the Holographic Body Computer through time, space and love. Activating the Hologram of Love 3 Breath Merkaba lightbody. Encoding the five sacred key languages of Egyptian, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Tibetan & Chinese through the pineal gland.”

“The workshop gives the opportunity to gather with other healers and teachers to share your divinity with each other. Each day you will strengthen your skills, and on completing this course you will receive a certificate blessed and honored during a ceremony by Lord Melchizedek.”

“Thoth made the comment at the beginning that the new Orbital Hologram of Love Merkaba was 1000 times higher in light and love frequency and was the true ascension unity consciousness merkaba light body. Once one has experienced the raising of cellular light quotient 1000-fold with the Orbital Merkaba, the following days of meditations are all on a cosmic conscious level.”

“Thoth describes this as having manifested a magnetic exchange with the galactic core (the horizontal band of light) and that you are then being drawn into cosmic consciousness. Many participants have then experienced a shift of consciousness and been drawn into profound experiences.”

“This workshop also explores our connection to Lord Metatron through the Great Pyramid at Giza traveling up the ascension corridor to the Orion Stargate which is the opening to the celestial worlds beyond. Metatron is the overseer of this celestial stargate opening and our connection with his energy is vital to completing our ascension journey.”

“Another aspect of this workshop is to experience Jacob’s Ladder through the four worlds of the Kabbalah. The encodings and energy experienced in this process combined with the Orbital Merkaba activation is once again profound and allows us to build a more powerful Adam Kadmon6 light body_The architecture of this merkaba, of course, is to be experienced, not just perceived.”

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Level 2

“Level Two also introduces you to a cosmic thought wave patterning that enables one to perceive and create the incoming Fifth Dimension reality of divine light and unconditional love. It allows the brain to activate as yet unused chambers within itself activating a collage of higher wisdom and experiences to magnetically manifest before you. The inner sanctum of your mind is opened to allow cosmic consciousness to be experienced.”

“Re-directing the Elements to conform to and enhance your reality. Amplifying the 33rd Degree Energies of your Adam Kadmon light body with rotational light color rays_Combine the ancient wisdoms of Egypt, Mayan, Hebrew and Kabbalah_The Hologram of Love Light Body Activation expresses only three breaths and on a daily basis only one breath.”

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Level 3Alton Kamadon wrote:

“It has been a long time since I went through a healing crisis, but_On the night of the third day of this workshop I experienced severe pains down the right side of my body to the extent that I ended up in hospital_

The surgeon wanted to operate immediately but I refused, knowing that I could use the Melchizedek Method techniques to heal myself_The next day, the last day of the Denver workshop, I asked all the participants to give me a group healing at the end of the workshop.

The result of that healing was profound. During the group healing session several people and myself saw three gallstones leave my body and dissolve into light_As a result of my healing process Spirit gave to me a new technique they called ‘Body Talk’ to deal with any dis-ease felt in the body on all levels.”7

What a fortunate and well-timed revelation. Just as the second and final workshop was coming to an end, Alton Kamadon receives a new revelation for a third workshop. Considering that the cost of the workshop that came to New Mexico was over $300.00 per person, it is a fortunate revelation indeed.

Apparently, since I first researched and wrote these essays on the Melchizedek Method in 2002 there have been added at least two more workshops which unfortunately I cannot take the time to research at this particular juncture.

‹ New Age : The Melchizedek Method, part 8 of 10 up

Occult New Age children’s TV show songs

Occult New Age children’s TV show songs

Children’s entertainment in whatever form—movies, TV shows, cartoons, books, comic books, etc.—are utterly saturated with occult New Age themes, immorality and non-, to anti-, Christian themes.

Children’s entertainment which would be ousted from the TV, theaters and bookstores if they contained Christian themes are celebrated therein when they contain, as they do, blatant occult New Age “spirituality.”

Consider that when Veggie Tales was placed on broadcast TV its Christian theme was utterly whipped out to the point that its creator stated that had he known what they would do to it he would never have sold it.

Let us consider the lyrics to three shows for the little ones.

Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination And when he’s tall He’s what we call a dinosaur sensation Barney’s friends are big and small They come from lots of places After school they meet to play And sing with happy faces Barney shows us lots of things Like how to play pretend ABC’s, and 123’s And how to be a friend Barney comes to play with us Whenever we may need him Barney can be your friend too

If you just make-believe him!

Overall, this seems pretty harmless and surely, kids are very imaginative and exercising their imaginations is to be encouraged. Yet, the question is towards what ends are their imaginations being put, in this case?

There is a subtle hint here which is actually quite blunt when you notice it. Barney is actually a character and thus, is not “from our imagination.”

The last lines are really just a prescription for how occult practices call upon their various “spirit guides” (demons by any other name). For some reason, kids, who can and do watch Barney on TV are being told that he can/will “comes to play with us” us being the kids on the TV program “Whenever we may need him” at their beck and call but more telling is the statement, “Barney can be your friend too. If you just make-believe him!”

The other Barney song, the “I love you You love me” song states, “Won’t you say you love me too…We’re best friends like friends should be.”

Thus, this make believe TV character can become your personal non-TV friend if the child will just make-believe him. This teaches kids to employ their wills towards creating or inviting entities which are to communicate with them.

Theme song from the cartoon Arthur:

Every day when you’re walking down the street, everybody that you meet Has an original point of view And I say HEY! what a wonderful kind of day. Where you can learn to work and play

And get along with each other

It is true that everybody that you meet has an original point of view or, at least, their own points of views.

You got to listen to your heart Listen to the beat Listen to the rhythm, the rhythm of the street

Open up your eyes, open up your ears

Why is listening to our hearts something that we “got to” do? This is a worldview based epistemological prescription amounting to that we discern truth via seeing how it feels.

Yet, Jeremiah 17:9 states, “”The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?” Thus, Christians are not to rely on their hearts for truth, epistemology, discernment, etc.

It may be reading too much into it but “the rhythm of the street” may refer to the common beliefs de jour. This is because the hoi polloi, the masses of commoners are generally referred to as the street.

Get together and make things better by working together It’s a simple message and it comes from the heart Believe in yourself [echo: believe in yourself]

Well that’s the place to start

Can we “Get together and make things better by working together” with people who all have different beliefs, “an original point of view”? Sure we can, it may be challenging but diversity does not necessarily equal impossibility of working together on what have you (think of your workplace).

But here it comes again as the “simple message…comes from the heart” which is deceitful and sick is to “Believe in yourself.” Wait! Why? See the point, forget YHVH, forget Jesus, but believe in yourself. This is another occult New Age worldview based prescription.

The song ends:

And I say HEY! what a wonderful kind of day Where you learn to work and play

And get along with each other

Lastly, the theme song from Sonic the Hedgehog with a very familiar theme, this is the character Tails’ theme:

When all alone in my chair, I just go about wishing I wanna be strong, I really wanna be trusted When all alone in my bed, I just go about yearning I wanna be cool, I also wanna be like him But that’s not something I can do so easily This is not simply my way, my style Gotta get a hold of my life [Chorus] I wanna fly high So I can reach the highest of all the heavens Somebody will be waiting for me so, I have got to fly higher When all alone in my sleep, I just go about dreaming I see myself there, having the same adventure If I just follow you, I will never see the light Now is the time to find my way through this life I’m trying so hard to be strong Gotta keep goin’ Everything is a brand new challenge for me I will believe in myself This is the only start for me [Chorus] Many friends help me out, in return I help them Certain things I can do and there are things that only I can do No one’s alone!

[Chorus]

Is this the theme to a cute little cartoon fox, Tails, or some sort of occult New Age hymn? Well, it is both.

The power of will in the form of wishing—will is job one in magick/witchcraft.

It is when they are alone in bed at night that kids ought yearn. Yearn to do/be what? Be strong, trusted, cool, be like him—“him” who , Sonic? Masonic? ;o)

“I wanna fly high / So I can reach the highest of all the heavens”—Tails

“I will ascend to heaven / I will ascend above the heights of the clouds”—Lucifer (see Isaiah 14:13-14)

Who is Tails talking to here, “If I just follow you, I will never see the light”? In any case, Tails has to “find my way through this life” and states “I will believe in myself.”

“I will…I will…I will…I will…I will…” guess who? Hint, see Isaiah 14:13-14 again.

Recall that the theme from Arthur stated:

Believe in yourself / Well that’s the place to start

Tail’s theme is virtually identical:

I will believe in myself / This is the only start for me

Lastly, note a good ol’ fashioned nursery rhyme:

Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily.

Life is but a dream.

What? Life is but—meaning just, solely—a dream?!?! What sort of odd, weird, twisted worldview is this?

Who would have written such a thing for kids? Well, not one seems to know.

The rhyme was published in 1852 AD (with similar lyrics as those well-known ones above). In their book Dark Side of the Tune: Popular Music and Violence (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music), authors Bruce Johnson and Martin Cloonan note versions and/or extensions of the song which include irreverence and violence.

Examples of these are:

Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. If you see a crocodile, Don’t forget to scream. Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Throw your teacher overboard And listen to her scream

—from Cynthia Lightfoot’s The Culture of Adolescent Risk-Taking Culture and Human Development

Examples of children’s entertainment—keep in mind that amusement literally means lack of musing aka thoughtlessness—is literally saturated with odd, strange, bizarre and occult New Age worldview talking point.

…whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
—Matthew 18:6

Open letter to Cathy Dunson on Zen Garcia and me

I am posting this as an open letter because I received an email, replied to it, got no reply in turn and then I looked up Cathy Dunson’s contact info, send her an email and got no reply.

I am concluding that someone sent me the original message without her knowing, as in hacked her email or what have you or she wanted to take a pop-shot and run off without actually dealing with issues in a serious manner—which seems like the most likely case since she did not reply when I contacted her within a new and separate email chain (a chain with only one link as it turned out) and not attached with the first one.

I received an email via the contact section of my site which was simply subject titled, “Sick.”
Now, my email system informed me that “This message may not have been sent by…” and Cathy Dunson’s email address.

The message read:

Wow. How foul your site is. And you pay to host it? I co-host for Zen. He is the most humble, kind, intelligent and smart man of God I’ve ever met. You know .. I stopped on your site in confusion some months back. And I was going to donate to you. Then I realized what you were about. Very sad for you. [sic.]

I replied thusly:

Shalom, I pray I find you well.

I appreciate you sharing with me but I am a bit confused. What do you find foul about my site and what does Zen being humble, kind, intelligent and smart have anything to do with it?

When I got no reply, I found her contract info on the site to which she posts and wrote this to her:

Good day Cathy,
I pray I find you well. I wanted to offer a word of caution as I received a very confusing, accusatory and not very nice email from your e-address and yet my email system stated, “This message may not have been sent by: [Cathy Dunson’s email address]” thus, it seems that your email has either been hacked or someone otherwise used it as their own.

Well, sadly, hit and run emails are not exactly uncommon as some people feel an emotion, type out and email, send it and simply ignore attempts to engage.

So if it was not by her then she seems unconcerned about her e-address being used in such a manner and if it was her she seems unconcerned about my desire to engage this issue.

But what is the issue? Well, the message was emotive and generic so I am not certain. It basically states that Zen Garcia is a nice guy and that therefore—well, therefore I know not.

Let us review: My site is said to be “foul” but there is no elucidation as to how or why. Yes, I pay to host it as does anyone who runs their own site.

We learn that she co-hosts for and/or with Zen which is true of the real Cathy at Fallen Angels.

I have no idea about Zen’s personality and thus have no problem believing that he may very well be “humble, kind, intelligent and smart” I will say a thing or two about the “man of God” portion below.

Now, Cathy or pseudo-Cathy visited my site “in confusion” whatever that means (by accident or because she was confused and sought answers to whatever issue) and then comes a sort of monetary hand-slap, she “was going to donate to you” but is no longer going to do so for the generic reason of now having “realized what you were about” without explaining what this even means, what she concludes I am about, etc. and that she is sad for me without explaining why.

Well, I have written a lot about Zen Garcia or rather have written a lot in reply to his claims on the specific issue of the serpent see of Satan theory which claims that Cain was literally the result of Satan having sex with Eve and that Cain’s descendants carry within them literal Satanic genetics.
Zen Garcia and I actually had very extensive interaction on this issue which is more than I can say for Cathy or pseudo-Cathy. I dealt with Zen’s claim and for that reason it is irrelevant whether or not Zen is “humble, kind, intelligent and smart” as he could very well be “humble, kind, intelligent and smart” and still his claims could be erroneous.

Cathy/pseudo-Cathy has taken an intellectual issue and turned it into an emotional one: because I oppose Zen’s views on the serpent seed issue then my site is foul and I am “about” something for which she feels “sad” for me.

I would like to know whether Cathy/pseudo-Cathy has even read one single article that I posted in dealing with Zen’s claims: which you can find here (and can find my replies to various other serpent seed proponents here which you can find here).

Lastly, to the touchy issue of Zen Garcia being a “man of God” I would ask: which “God”? I know that I am under some sort of pop-cultural obligation to state that “that is between Zen and ‘God.’” This is true in an ultimate sense. What I can state for certain that is that on the serpent seed issue his views are unbiblical and he refuses correction by myself and the many others who have pointed out where he is going astray. At times I listen to Zen and cannot tell if he is a Christian or not. At one point he stated that we are here on Earth in order to bring “dharma” which is Hindu, Buddhist, Sikhist and Jainist concept.

At one point, I noted to his that he was very clearly contradicting the Bible’s very clear statements about Adam and Eve when he claimed that pre-fall they were disembodied light beings who did not live on Earth. I sent him a list of quotations and citations from the Bible and he basically asked me if the Bible is all I had to go by: you can read that exchange here Zen Garcia on Adam & Eve as beings of light not from Earth.

Things got so out of touch with Zen that when I wrote to Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh about some of the things he was claiming she expressed concern and told me she would be in prayer about it. I reached out to her because they had posted a video discussion wherein they agreed with the serpent seed issue and yet, she was concerned about the direction he was going in general.

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Zen Garcia and Dr. Joye Jeffries Pugh

This goes to prove something I have suspected and which his words and actions verify. I do not know his personal history but he may very well have begun his research and public speaking and writing career considering the Bible as his authority. However, his words and actions verify that it is not his authority at the present time. I have read many apocryphal texts and so has Zen. However, whenever they contradict the Bible then the Bible has the authority over them. However, Zen’s modus operandi is that whenever they contradict the Bible then the Bible is wrong as they have the authority over the Bible. This can be proven 100% even simply considering the Adam and Eve issue noted above. The Bible is 100% clear on the fact that they were physical and lived on Earth but since Zen wants to assert that they were not then the Bible is ignored and Zen claims that he is right and does so based on apocryphal text.

I would love to see a reply from Cathy/pseudo-Cathy in general and if nothing else on the Adam and Eve issue as that one is very early to follow, is very clear and is one that she can take up with Zen on air or in private.
As always, she can contact me via my “foul” site’s contact page.

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