Scene from Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 Nazi propaganda film, “Triumph of the Will”
by Don Clasen
July 28, 2020
“The Triumph of the Will is sometimes seen as an example of Nazi political religion. The primary religion in Germany before the Second World War was Christianity. With the primary sects being Roman Catholic and Protestant, the Christian views in this movie are clearly meant to allow the movie to better connect with the intended audience…[it] has many scenes that blur the distinction between the Nazi Party, the German state, and the German people.”
-Wikipedia on the Nazi propaganda movie, Triumph of the Will
In 1934, Adolph Hitler commissioned and supervised a movie by actress/director Leni Riefenstahl entitled The Triumph of the Will. As the quote above puts it, it was indeed intended to seduce Germany’s Christians away from thinking they had anything in common with Nazi philosophy. Hitler was a “big fan” as El Presidente would put it, of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who popularized the concept that those who successfully asserted their will over others were the true supermen amongst us. He was appropriated by the Nazis to somewhat be their official philosopher even though they twisted a lot of what he actually said.[1]
Nietzsche spent his last days unsurprisingly as a very confused mental patient, drunk on the idea of being an all powerful god.
One of Nietzsche’s signature (and false) concepts was that morality was first established by ancient conquerors such as Genghis Kahn, Cyrus the Great, Attila the Hun, Napoleon Bonaparte, and even Nimrod, I would imagine:
Nietzsche presents this “master morality” as the original system of morality—perhaps best associated with Homeric Greece. To be “good” was to be happy and to have the things related to happiness: wealth, strength, health, power, etc. To be “bad” was to be like the slaves over whom the aristocracy ruled: poor, weak, sick, pathetic—objects of pity or disgust rather than hatred.
In contrast,
“Slave morality” developed as a reaction to master morality. Here, value emerges from the contrast between good and evil: good being associated with other-worldliness, charity, piety, restraint, meekness, and submission; while evil is worldly, cruel, selfish, wealthy, and aggressive. Nietzsche sees slave morality as pessimistic and fearful, its values emerging to improve the self-perception of slaves.
-Wikipedia, “Friedrich Nietzsche”
Kingdom Philosophy
Yeah, yeah, well thus saith lord Nietzsche. The Lord Jesus Christ might beg to differ with him. Pessimistic and fearful? Well, I guess that’s a way you could look at it. A carnal way for sure, but let’s get real “street” about it. “Slave morality” to him is like a consolation prize for “losers,” as it would be put by, again, our own Most Illustrious. Christianity it follows is a religion for losers because no religion, no philosophy more epitomizes this ideal than that which is articulated in the New Testament.
Truth be told, we Christians plead guilty. The Kingdom of God it is true, are communities built upon a philosophy of serving, not ruling. It’s not a shame to us like it is in the world where you’re looked upon as “nobodies” for it. It’s not that we don’t have leaders, we do. It’s just that they’re supposed to first prove themselves as servants before they’re trusted to rule.
When the mother of James and John came to lobby Jesus to place her boys at His right hand and left, the other apostles were indignant. The truth is they all were affected with the essence of what the King says is the spirit of this world:
25 …Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, [literally, “lord it over,” tyrannize and oppress][2] and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26 But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. –Mt 20:25-28
The Will To Power
It shouldn’t surprise us then that another one of Nietzsche’s signature concepts was the Will to Power. He believed that except for times when people are struggling for survival, the normal bent of mind for people is to project their power as much as they can upon the world.
Well, no kidding. The misuse and abuse of power is at the root of all that’s wrong with this world.[3] It’s the essence of what we mean by “worldliness.” It’s at the heart of all of God’s problems with His volitional creatures starting with the very first sin, the willful pride of Lucifer (Isa 14:12-15).
In saying so Nietzsche was of course only revealing the values of his own heart, but his delusion was that this was the key to happiness. As he put it above, this is the path to “wealth, strength, health and power.” Its illusory fulfillment was the basis of his concept of the Superman even though the Nazis twisted it into a genetic superiority concept.
This in spite of the fact that those most successful in imposing their wills upon history were often the most miserable and wretched souls one could find. Alexander the Great, in spite of being personally tutored by Aristotle as a boy, and after years of mindless, pointless bloodletting, died in a drunken stupor at age 33 pining away because he had no more kingdoms left to conquer.
Martin Luther Doesn’t Help Much Here Either
Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus
Riefenstahl may have made The Triumph of the Will, (maybe she should have called it The Triumph of the Willful), but Martin Luther wrote a book on the same subject called The Bondage of the Will. In the early days of the Reformation, the Catholic scholar Erasmus, though sympathetic with the Reformers, wrote against Luther’s extreme views on election and predestination. Luther’s response was this book wherein he not only laid into Erasmus’ stance but Erasmus himself. His reaction to the reasonable objections of the saintly “Prince of the Humanists” reminds me of the joke sometimes made of Baptists, that they are deeply committed to the doctrine of entrenched human sin and prove it with every one of their business meetings.
In the course of my journey to discover what exactly the Bible teaches I have spent a significant amount of time considering the history of Christian doctrine, and there have been few that have depressed me more than that of total depravity and the supposed bondage of the will. As far as I’m concerned, the human will is far from paralyzed. Quite the opposite, it is not only quite free but very eager to prove itself so, as God well knows.
If Luther had written something called The Bondage of the Mind, I might be more inclined to take it seriously, because that’s where the problem lies. When people refuse to do the will of God then there’s only one of two possibilities as to why. One, they’re ignorant and thus need enlightenment, something the Holy Spirit is only too willing to provide. Or two, they’re dishonest and don’t want to comply with what logic, common sense and their heart (conscience) are telling them (Rom 2:15). And of the two it’s the latter that is God’s biggest problem. And it’s especially acute in the personalities of certain people as James Dobson’s The Strong-Willed Child discusses, the very book he built his Christian ministry upon.
Now it is not my intention here to wade into the tall, tall weeds of this centuries-long debate over the supposed bondage of the will, original sin, how grace works in the life of a Christian and the like. I would just like to point out a few practical observations. The implication in the Augustinian doctrine of original sin from Adam[4] and especially Calvin’s idea of total depravity is exactly what Luther was trying to argue. The idea is that because of this precondition, the moral direction of anyone outside of God’s salvation is only down, that every choice they make leads them on a one-way street to ever deepening depravity. They are forever doomed to get nothing but worse and worse, and cannot by sheer willpower do anything about it.
We Haven’t Helped Much Either
And yet I have watched many people, confirmed atheists and very hostile to the idea of God itself let alone His help, will themselves out of heroin addiction and similar things. Sometimes it may come from Motivational Science teachings or some other philosophy. I’ve seen men go from dissolute and irresponsible to making a definite change for the better, except they may have done it through something I consider false—such as say, Nation of Islam doctrine.
I will also note that after 40 years of the Church in America pushing and often succeeding in enacting family policy that the United States is ranked last in ten different measures of such among the more developed nations of the world. I’m sure that not the least of those reasons is that Americans after 40 years of Republican economic policies can hardly afford to get married let alone have and raise children. I would also note that in world happiness surveys, the most religious nations are some of the unhappiest while the most secular ones rank the highest. This in spite of Bill Barr’s contention in his Notre Dame speech that the United States’ decline is due to the loss of religion in the public sphere.
So, how’s this all working out for us? What kind of results are we getting? Could it be there’s something wrong about our whole approach to the things we are so passionately committed to, especially in the social and political arena?
The Founding Fathers’ Attitude About The Will
Trump’s unmarked private Federal forces that Barr today attempted to justify before the US House Judiciary Committee, Bugaloo Boy-types drawn from the US Border Patrol, TSA, Homeland Security, US Marshals, prison guards, private contractors and God knows where else.
Speaking of Barr, he was practically channeling David Barton in this speech, one punctuated with all kinds of Bartonian nostrums about “organic quotes” from voices in American history, quotes accompanied by little apparent idea of what to do with them today. Because what people like Barton want is Christian nationalism, a quasi-theocratic rebuilding of America from the ground up (starting with the family) with the State favoring or virtually endorsing only one religion. And this done with little regard for what the US is today—a highly-pluralistic nation that is struggling to find something, anything that will unite us. They could take their place as one more sector of that plurality and work to earn the respect of the American public with a reputation for being the most reasonable, flexible and stable (“salt of the earth”) force in our society, just like Christians everywhere else endeavor to do.
But no. Like Jesus said of Jerusalem’s response to His offer of Messiahship—“ye would not” (Mt 23:37). So does today’s Christian right know the character of the men they are trafficking with, and they are simply unwilling to reconsider their direction, even if it eventuates in martial law. Instead they throw their full weight behind this incendiary device in the White House and do everything they can to be as divisive and offensive as possible. They want to somehow wave a magic wand and make us go back to a fantasy past that never was anyhow. Beyond that, all they know or want to know is that their champion is defending their “religious liberties,” and as long as that’s protected Rome can go ahead and burn to the ground.
Heck of a witness, Brownie. Here’s an article by the conservative Cato Institute no less on the police state and threat of martial law these friends of yours are building.
As best I understand, the only real responsibility the Church has in this world is to be a good witness of God, His character and His values. We have no obligation to save America, nor the world. We give the best witness in both word and deed we know and that’s it. After all, how else can you change anyone without resorting to threats, bribes, manipulation or intimidation?
They Studied The Past. They Didn’t Try To Resurrect It.
The Founding Fathers in contrast were students of history (especially the Roman Empire) and deeply committed to preventing tyranny. Barr at Notre Dame can denounce “moral chaos,” “irresponsible personal conduct,” and the “unbridled pursuit of personal appetites at the expense of the common good”[5] all he wants. He says these things while doing everything in his power to ensure Donald Trump of all people, becomes permanent dictator, trampling all over the Constitution and our government’s traditions.
Here’s but one small point to consider Church, in the midst of all this disgraceful corruption, the stain of which is left on you for enabling these people. After four decades of non-stop Christian right activism in this country, we now have a Supreme Court comprised of five Catholics, three Jews and only one nominal Protestant. (And update, if Amy Coney Barrett gets confirmed it will be six Catholics.) And the reason for it is our own ignorance and incompetence.
Every right winger comes from the Federalist Society led by Catholic Leonard Leo, a Knight of Malta.
People like Barton can claim America has always been a Christian nation all they want and that’s generally true,[6] but it’s beside the point. The truth is it was deliberately designed to be a Protestant/Enlightenment nation,[7] and there is a difference. What both philosophies represented was a radical reorganization of society around two different standards of authority than what had prevailed throughout the feudalistic age. That standard was to be an idea rather than a human personality, to wit, the Bible instead of the Pope in religion,[8] and the rule of law in place of the whim of the king (or any man) in politics.
In religion the establishment of the Bible as our authority was revolutionary and overthrew the error Augustine introduced with his idea of one united earthly institution representing the Kingdom of God. Catholicism not only taught the people to be dependent upon sacraments to gain the favor of God but also ecclesiastical authorities to mediate between them and Heaven. The Reformation by making the Bible authoritative (something previously forbidden), taught the people what God requires of them as well as that there is only one mediator between them and God, the man Christ Jesus (I Tim 2:5).
This gave the people, as in politics, both a right and an obligation. The right is to go directly to God. The obligation is that God can now go directly to you. This is the very reason Jesus Christ went through all the trouble He did, to break out of that Holy of Holies to now live within living temples.
Not A Rule of Kings Or Men…
It was similar for the State. The Founding Fathers were not only aware of the danger of the Roman Caesars but they knew the history of the kings in the Bible. In Judah’s history, only about one fourth of all kings in the histories were listed as “doing that which was right in the sight of the Lord.” And in northern Israel, not one king ever attained unto that. Instead it was said of them all that they “did evil in the sight of the Lord.”
In other words, monarchy is a real roll of the dice. When you have children born into a royal family the odds are they will turn out to be real tyrants to one degree or another. Some of them in fact become living demons drunk on power. They learn to push around aged advisors and others from childhood on. Kim Jong Un, one of the most vicious tyrants on the face of the earth today, was raised in that exact kind of a spoiled heir environment.
“And then we fell in love, OK? No really, he wrote me beautiful letters, and they’re great letters. We fell in love.” -Trump at rally, Sep. 29, 2018, on one of the most savage heads of state extant today.
…But of Law
But even more to the point, what the Founders put forth was more than just the risk of putting all that power into the hands of one man. They put forth a truly revolutionary idea for the time, the idea of a rule of law rather than men (with the “men” part referring to either the whims of a king or any government official). The idea was that the legislature, the direct representatives of the people would pass laws that the government itself was obligated to obey as well. In fact, under this new paradigm, you can take the government to court and sometimes even win (in spite of all their lawyers and money) if you can convince a judge to rule in your favor.
This was unheard of under feudalism. In no way could you sue the king for anything. The only check on his power heretofore was the pressure of the barons to force him to share it with them (the Magna Carta). Only centuries later did the commoners have any rights but in time the British Common Law system did arise.
The Founding Fathers took this a step further by abolishing all aristocratic titles (and the sense of entitlement that went along with them) and making the government itself subject to its own laws. This was revolutionary for its time and established the idea (at least), of all—rich and poor, powerful and powerless—being equal under one law.
This was the real import of what the Founders meant by “the rule of law.” Richard Nixon of course perverted this notion with his “Law ‘n Order” candidacy fifty years ago, a meme Trump is currently parroting perhaps in his acid trip version of when America was “great.” What these two autocrats mean by “law and order” of course is only the idea of repressing the poor and powerless, not equal justice under law.
Under a real rule of law, law enforcement officers cannot go beyond their job of apprehending suspects in a professional way by appointing themselves judge, jury and executioner. Most crimes do not merit the death penalty and besides, that’s for judges and juries to decide anyway.
Thus in a 1985 Reagan-era Supreme Court ruling, police were forbidden from shooting even a fleeing suspect unless they had a weapon and were threatening to use it. Under no circumstances were they allowed to shoot people in the back, shoot them while subdued, shoot them 27 times, suffocate them, and many other unprofessional, viscerally-charged tactics. Nor was there to be the current cynical culture of placing a weapon on a suspect to frame them, claiming they were resisting arrest when they plainly weren’t, and a whole myriad of other illegal practices. Nor the practice of ignoring white collar crimes that are far more damaging to society.
Spare me. A glimpse into a right-wing artist’s fantasy world. Famous Americans praying for Donald Trump.
But that’s the cynical era we’re living in. Trump cultists can claim all they want that “Democrat-run cities” are in a shambles, that they’re being “burnt to the ground” and other distortions. The truth is, these cities are de facto being run/terrorized by police unions who threaten to walk off the job if the civilian officials dare hold them accountable. Instead the taxpayers must cough up all kinds of settlement money while the offending officers get “suspended with pay” and other vacation-type incentives to keep doing it.
If these kinds of distortions, fear-mongering and threats don’t work, there’s always agent provocateurs to destroy property so our demagogic Law ‘n Order candidate has the excuse to declare martial law having stoked the divisions all he can. All he needs is to get you to believe his fever dreams of anarchy in American streets until it actually becomes a reality.
Behind all of this is the long arm of Israel who is training our police in these brutal tactics and teaching them the American public are the new Palestinians. They are working with the Russian/Israeli mobsters who have been laundering their money through Trump’s real estate for decades. The Israeli/Russian online troll operations play their part too, appealing to our basest instincts.
But Don’t Worry Folks, It’s The Liberals Who Are Gullible and Naive
Both of these new standards about Church and State were intended to teach the people self-government. This is the significance of democracy, that model of government of, by and for the people that Abraham Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party so passionately hoped would never perish from off of the face of the earth. Democracy forces people to be citizens because it’s total self-government. If you’re not getting the kind of results you want, whose fault is it? Democracy forces the people to learn about not just their rights but their responsibilities as well. It’s not a perfect system but not because of the system. The problem is in the people and the moral tone of any given generation.
And this is the significance of what the “Framers” erected, a very complex system of both elected and appointed officials, elected and appointed judges, checks and balances, multiple layers of government, different branches, different procedures and the like. Or at least they got the ball rolling, and after many generations of trial and error it has evolved into a highly-variegated Constitutional democratic republic to be precise. And the whole point of it was to spread power out as widely as possible so that no one person or group or party monopolized it all.
And this is precisely the point of why the Evangelical Church is betraying the people of America and God Himself in supporting this megalomaniac in the Oval Office. In contrast to Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy which claim the Kingdom is now through the Church, Jesus taught that the Kingdom was only in our hearts and in the spirit until the King comes back. Only then will there be a legitimate, literal, political Kingdom of God on the earth. For now, democracy is the least bad among a long list of alternative political systems. Why? Because it best prevents tyranny.
The Thinking Is Getting Really Soupy
As I’ve tried to document in at least one previous article, today’s Christianity is flooded with subjective prophecies laced with a lot of Biblical lingo. And what is the background context of these Biblical passages, but an ancient world where governments were anything but democratic.
Democracy, though devised first by the ancient Greeks, really came into its own during the modern era with its sophisticated technologies, economies, transportation, communications—all things the ancient world knew nothing of. When you couple that highly-spiritualized Biblical language with the endless lies and absurdities gushing forth from the mouth of a psychopathic personality and the Pharisee/organized crime gangsters behind him, you’re asking to get psy opped. These people really think that reality is something that can be manipulated in the public’s mind to where your mind is being conditioned to think the unthinkable and do the forbidden—the betrayal of democracy for the passing illusion of Christian nationalism.
Hitler perfected his ability to manipulate crowds with pageantry, drama, emotional manipulation and high-sounding rhetoric
I don’t think I have to explain to you what the philosophy is of this “tough guy” benefactor you’re so passionately committed to. It’s been thoroughly documented through many books, interviews and admissions by the subject himself. But it could be largely summed up in Nietzsche’s view of power and “winners.” In fact, he could easily write his own book, The Rebellion of the Will and dedicate it to every stiff-necked and stubborn maestro who ever trained him. He is truly two-fold more the child of hell than the Pharisees themselves (Mt 23:15).
A Short Descent Into Madness
“You are killers. You are kings.”
-The mantra Fred Trump would pound into the ears of his three sons
As I’ve mentioned in past articles about the President, I don’t like wasting much time trying to divine the psychology of this man. This is partly because his is so complex only a professional could really do it justice. But mostly because I’m such a strong believer in the power of consciously-chosen philosophy to guide one’s life.
We all have inner sub-conscious emotions, often damaged from shocks, abuse or other unpleasant experiences pressuring our conscious thoughts. But that’s exactly the point of Biblical salvation. It doesn’t really care what you’ve been through. God speaks to us through law—do this and don’t do that and your psychological health, which is a very real thing, will eventually heal.
For much of these past few years Donald Trump’s inner psychology has remained largely in the realm of speculation. That uncertainty should be dispelled now by the publication of Mary Trump’s new book, Too Much and Never Enough. Mary Trump, who holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology (unsurprisingly) revealed something I had never known before, that it was Donald’s father who perhaps did more to form his inner psyche than anyone else. Previously I had thought it was the influence of Roy Cohn alone that made him the way he is. But what is so alarming about what Mary Trump (and Aunt MaryAnne, Donald’s older sister who provided much of the material for her niece’s book) reveals is the psychological component that may be behind the President’s soul.
If you’re a typical Evangelical, you’re probably not much aware of this book and its importance. That’s because you’ve been well-trained by the gatekeepers which guard your mind from the things they don’t want you to know.[9] They include institutions such as Fox News and The 700 Club, which carefully screen out information or any interest you might have in finding out the full truth.[10] But I pray you would be open to the chilling things she has to say from “someone who had a ringside seat” to it all as one of her friends put it.
Trump minces no words in her book, calling her grandfather Fred Sr. “a sociopath” who saw that Donald’s personality,
“served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do, they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends—ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance. By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it.”
In her interview with George Stephanopoulos she explained that this treatment wasn’t turned on Donald first however, but Fred Jr., Mary’s father.
“Clearly, he learned the lesson from watching his almost eight year old[er] brother be punished for being kind, for being generous, for being sensitive, for having interests outside of what my grandfather thought was acceptable…He wasn’t a killer…and [Donald] had to sacrifice whatever goodness there may have been in him once, whatever capacities for experiencing the full range of human emotion to my grandfather.[11]
In other words, Donald watched his brother be destroyed and resolved never to let his father break him. At the same time it seemed to set up a complex mindset of wanting to prove himself to him yet beat him in competition at the same time. And it didn’t hurt that the two of them shared kindred personalities.
According to Mary Trump, her father’s siblings were raised with a few core beliefs: “lying was OK — in fact, it was ‘a way of life’; apologies and displays of emotion or vulnerability were verboten; and bullying was perfectly acceptable if not encouraged.” Another not unsurprisingly was Fred Sr.’s belief that some people are just born genetically superior, a sentiment his famous son is known for often expressing. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised then that this family apparently indulges the most radical form of racism, the genetic supremacist kind.
“Killer” takes a stroll. Was it for a photo op on behalf of the Bible or martial law?
Anwendung und Praxis
“You can’t do that! What if he’s a loser?”
-Donald Trump to Ivana when she suggested naming their first son Don Jr.
Because of all these anti-democratic forces growing in the dark (II Thess 2:7) we are living in a time of wall-to-wall lies and psy ops. The entire United States is hopelessly divided today simply because no one knows who or what to believe anymore.
But at some point you’re going to have to make a choice. You’re going to have to either believe proven scoundrels or put your confidence in people who have a track record of some degree of integrity at the least. You’re going to have to exercise your discernment and deploy what you know about what the Bible teaches about the wicked patterns of wicked people around you and stop believing them (Rom 16:17,18 e.g.). “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit” (Mt 7:18).
I’m going to use only one article as a case in point. It’s from Veterans Today, a vast network of intelligence professionals who have nothing to gain and much to lose to alert you to what’s going on. It’s by editor-in-chief Gordon Duff and entitled, “Intel Drop, July 24, 2020: Trump Secretly Cancels Election.” Here are some chilling excerpts:
We can’t prove that Coronavirus was unleashed in the US in order to facilitate a takeover of the United States. However, we accept it as a possibility and even a likelihood.
We do know that Donald Trump has issued a presidential order cancelling the election based on a national emergency, COVID 19 and Chinese interference in the election tied to “treason” by Joe Biden and key American political figures whose names are already on arrest warrants…
With Trump now hopelessly behind in the polls, experts around the country are getting wind of what VT’s inside sources in Washington have confirmed, that Trump has no intention of leaving the White House.
Trump had, months ago, told congressional republicans that he would not accept the results of an election. As stated by [Republican] Senator Tim Worth in Newsweek, Trump planned to declare the election rigged and would order Biden’s arrest as a “Chinese spy.”
Attorney General Barr had, some weeks ago, presented Trump an opinion allowing him to overrule an election using emergency powers while Barr would start investigating allegations of Chinese interference on behalf of Biden…His announcement that the GOP convention is cancelled is a step in his plan…
Coming to a home near you eventually.
He has thus far formed a 60,000 man force [illegally and completely contrary to the Constitution] from border patrol, TSA, Homeland Security, US Marshals, prison guards and private contractors, to begin, not quell, violence in cities across the US.
He then plans to federalize the National Guard. Arrest warrants for more than a dozen state governors and a similar number of mayors of major cities have also been issued [Dan 7:20].
Word we get from Washington is that a cabal has been formed, Supreme Court justices, Lindsey Graham, Evangelical leaders and some within the military, funded by Russian oligarchs and Saudi Arabia.
Traitors within the Pentagon are planning to sink an American aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, blaming it on Iran. An estimated 2000 Americans are likely to die as a result.
GOP operatives across the US are meeting secretly with police officials telling them to no longer take orders from civil authority and that they are now, by presidential order, members of a secret militia answerable only to Donald Trump.
This last sentence is the fruit of years of Israel seeking to train US police departments to look for the “bad apples” amongst them and lobby to empower or at least protect them. It also suggests their usual modus operandi, to carefully hide their influence in the background. This is yet one more consequence of our idolatry of this manipulative little nation.
And oh yeah, one last thing. Our President’s COVID policy seems to have been influenced from its beginning by a Nigerian medical doctor who believes the pandemic is a hoax and that medical conditions can be caused by “demon husbands” who impregnate women with their evil sperm while they’re sleeping. I kid you not.
Dr. Stella Emmanuel, Presidential medical/spiritual advisor.
Conclusion
I don’t know if Trump and his gangster friends can pull off martial law before the election but it doesn’t much matter. He’s not leaving the White House, election or no election, win or lose. The rapid pace of deterioration tells me what I’ve suspected for some time, that the spring of 2021 may be a time of real reckoning. It’s that time around Passover that I’m concerned the Four Horsemen war could take place and I fear few Christians are ready for it. On the other hand, those that are will be a small remnant that comes out of all this “strong delusion” to bring in a mighty harvest (Rev 7:9). I hope you and I will be a part of it.
Notes:
[1] Nietzsche’s sister who took over his estate after he lost his mind was a hard-core Nazi falsified some of his materials to make it look like her brother was one too. He wasn’t, but there was still plenty in his philosophy for Hitler to pounce on.
[2] This attitude is exactly what Paul came against when he stated of him and his apostles, “Not that we lord it over your faith, but are workers with you for your joy” (2 Corinthians 1:24 NASB).
[3] That’s why Paul said “the love of money is the root of all evil” (I Tim 6:10) because money buys power in a fallen world.
[4] As opposed to a universal death sentence upon all of Adam’s posterity which certainly is the case.
[5] https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/william-barrs-wild-misreading-of-the-first-amendment
[6] It depends on what you mean by Christian nation. Holy and faithful to God? Hardly. A lot of Christians? Yes. A lot of Biblical world view in our culture? Yes again. But it still isn’t quite the point as you can see in the next line above.
[7] The Enlightenment being something of a secular version of the Reformation.
[8] Or any mediating priesthood or church officials.
[9] One interesting example I found was an essay written by a Dr. Sheldon Roth, a retired professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the author of a book, “Psychologically Sound: The Mind of Donald Trump”! And it was run in The Christian Post no less. He certainly made a valiant effort at arguing how Mary Trump’s book was an exercise in her own psychological problems and lust for vendetta. But if you want a perfect example of one of those academic elites you love to hate, here he is published in a Christian publication someone like myself could wish to have access to, the author of a book even more absurd than any charges he might level against Mary Trump. I rest my case.
[10] During this pandemic I’ve had the chance to track the way Pat Robertson’s network handles alarming news about the President and his attitudes, and I’ve been disheartened but not surprised by the way they screen out and skew the coverage. It’s quite an exercise in spin and propaganda rather than seeking to se “the truth that will make you free,” and quite a response to years of whining about Main Stream Media bias.
[11] ABC News interview and transcript, July 14, 2020. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-mary-trumps-interview-abc-news-george-stephanopoulos/story?id=71803869
