Conform or what??!

I have been thinking about whether I really wanted to talk about this or not. It's a complicated and hot button issue; the last thing I want to do is point out a group of people and say "bad doobie!" That's not what this is about. It's not about good or bad. It's about being aware of the motivations and mechanisms of control. . . and control is definitely what these particular people are about. They wish to control you with their religion. Literally, they feel their religion should be in control of everything because if it is not of their religious philosophy it is ungodly and therefore evil. We saw a glimmering of this during the madness of what was supposed to be a fun little blogging contest. They called it spiritual warfare in fact.

Most spiritual people will tell you that control is an illusion, so will most religious people out the side of their mouths as they are yanking on the reigns of their own lives and sometimes the lives of the people around them. The difference is simply that between philosophy and dogma. Philosophy requires individual thought; dogma is repetition of someone else's thoughts.

I am speaking of this now because a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak to someone within this particular thought form of a religion one on one. It still haunts me.

He was a young man in his early 20's. He still had the haunted look of being a bit lost, yet he gushed over and over how he was now the co-pilot of his life and how Jesus saved him from himself. He rattled off the drugs he had been on and how poorly he had been living through his faithlessness in the Lord. I felt for him. He genuinely looked as though his life had been one road rash experience after another.

The thing that began to alarm me is that he started to speak about spiritual warfare and that it meant fighting the demons that were not part of Christ's realm. I probed further into this and asked what he meant by this and he couldn't elaborate any. He kept repeating the words fighting demons and couldn't define what a demon was; he kept repeating they were evil and to be vanquished. He repeated familiar dogma like: anyone could be saved and that all you had to do to be saved was pronounce that Jesus was your Lord and saviour. He then went on about how he's better than those who were not saved. I asked him what he meant by that and he said he was a better person than those who were not saved. I probed further by asking if he was better than a Jewish person because he was saved and he said, without skipping a beat: yes. I pointed out that he just dehumanized about 3/4 of the population. He fervently denied that so I quoted back to him his words and their dictionary definition. He fought the logic of what was just pointed out and fell back into repeating dogma. I dropped the subject as he was in serious denial of not understanding the words coming out of his mouth.

Our conversation lasted for about a half an hour before he left my porch in a daze as to why I wouldn't convert. I could see him stumble around in his own head wondering what went wrong. I watched him go as I began to have the frightening chill creep up my spine as it dawned on me that this young man was the product of some serious and complete brainwashing. All the hallmarks were there. Repetition of nonsensical dogma, peer pressure, finger pointing and the wielding of fear. These are the people who want to control our nation. Literally they believe they should have influence in every aspect of life. They call it the Seven Mountains of society: Arts and Entertainment, Religion, Education, Family, Government, Business and Media.

They also have a militia. You hear them occasionally talk about the Army Of God. Really??? God needs an army? What are you guys gonna do with this army? I thought God's first law was Thou shalt not kill. Maybe I am reading the wrong bible.

Here is where we get to the problem. These people have individuals in the gates to obtaining power. Palin, Bachman and Perry ( just off the top of my head) all have ties to these Seven Mountain dogmas. They all profess this repeatedly and Rick Perry even held and backed an event called The Response which espoused these religious beliefs. I have an issue with this. I do not want politicians in office that are going to use their power to force their religious beliefs upon our country. This country was founded upon the principles of freedom, religion especially so.

Beginning on October 3, they plan on wielding spiritual warfare on this country. They plan on praying for their God to restore the Kingdom of Christ to Washington DC. They have denounced Columbia as something evil. I'm sorry, how can the Spirit of Freedom be evil? It has become clear to me that these people do not understand what it is they are doing. It has become clear to me that they have gotten ahold of some new age terms and began Christianizing them for their own purposes and misusing them. It seems to me that what they are doing is akin to giving a toddler a box of matches, showing it how to strike them and letting it run amuck. The best we can hope for in this scenario is that only fingers will be burned.

I am all for letting people have their religious convictions, but it also seems that cramming their beliefs down everyone else's throat is part of the Seven Mountain belief system. I believe that to be wrong. They are out there screaming CONFORM!!!!

My question is: conform or what??? Die? Are you going to march through this country with your Army of God, line up your neighbors, friends and family and shoot them? Are you going to put them out of business because they won't conform? Are you going to drive them out of their homes because they are ungodly and unworthy of being your neighbor? Are you going to make laws enforcing your religious convictions upon people who aren't of the faith you observe? Are you going to only allow TV shows, news casts and movies that espouse your views to be produced? What do you plan on allowing children to be taught? What about the definition of family. Are you going to start dictating what is and is not a family?

They say they do not wish a theocracy, but the actions they are mounting in accordance to the Seven Mountains philosophy sure seems like a theocracy to me.