I recently received this alarming article, which appeared right before Trump’s inauguration.
The author describes his indoctrination in what he calls a “Christofascist” world view.
I think you should read it.
He writes:
“I grew up in the far-right evangelical conservative (Christofascist) movement; specifically, I was homeschooled and my parents were part of a subculture called Quiverfull, whose aim is to outbreed everyone for Jesus. I spent my teen years being a political activist. I was taught by every pastor I encountered that it was our job as Christians to outbreed the secularists (anyone not a far-right evangelical Protestant) and take over the government through sheer numbers. I was part of TeenPact, Generation Joshua and my local Teenage Republicans (TARS).
“When the Tea Party rose in 2009, that was my culture. The Tea Party was step one. I was laying the groundwork for those elections in 2006. These people didn’t come out of the blue like it seemed. This plan, this Christofascist takeover of the US government, has been in the works for decades. When evangelical conservatism started becoming popular and more mainstream around the 1970s, the foundation was being laid for the tragedy playing out right now.
“Evangelical conservatives started taking over their local republican parties and founding organizations like Operation Rescue, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, just to name a few.
“Michael Farris founded HSLDA in 1983 as a way to ensure that homeschooling was legal, but what he’s been striving for is the wild west. His organization is trying to keep homeschooling away from any interference so the children he trains through his sister organization, Generation Joshua, would be able to fly under the radar. Generation Joshua started in 2003, primarily catering to children homeschooled by extremely religious rightwing adults. Its purpose was to train us to fight in what the Christofascists have been calling the “Culture Wars.” It’s a loose and ambiguous term that basically means anything or anyone that doesn’t align with this very specific view of Christianity must not be allowed to continue.
“How do you do that? Well, you overturn Roe v. Wade, Griswold v. Connecticut, Brown v. Board of Education and Bob Jones v. The United States. Each of these decisions currently protects reproductive rights or non-discrimination based on race. As retribution, you amend the Constitution to discriminate against queers, trans people, women and people of color. Then, you make laws legislating morality. The only way to do this is to infiltrate the government; so Generation Joshua, TeenPact and other organizations exist to indoctrinate and recruit homeschooled youth who have ample free time to participate in politics. The biggest resources for teaching civil discourse are the National Christian Forensics and Communications Association and Communicators for Christ (since renamed Institute for Cultural Communicators). Through these programs we learned how to argue effectively. As students, we were taught critical thinking skills but given only a narrow view of what was acceptable to argue for. We were, after all, being trained to take over the country for Christ, literally. We knew how to perform logical gymnastics about abortion, Christianity and any evangelical talking point you could throw at us.
“When we showed up to city council, local political party meetings and tours of the Capitol we asked intelligent questions, were respectful and had a vested interest in how our local political machine ran. We impressed every government official and staff member with our questions, earnesty and demeanor. In short, we were sneaky and polite Trojan horses; we had an agenda. Yes, even as 15-year-olds. It was forcefully handed to us by the adults in our lives who had been preparing for this since before we were born.
”I watched the Tea Party takeover and was surprised no one saw it coming. After all, this was part of the plan. Trump being elected is also part of the plan, although not Trump specifically; the true goal is Pence.
“Christofascists have been wanting someone like Pence in the White House and, until now, didn’t have a way to get one in. They know Trump is easily manipulated and will change his mind with the wind if it makes him feel more powerful and famous. Trump couldn’t care less about policy, a fact he’s made quite obvious. The Right has given a tyrant power and fame; he will do whatever they want him to do in order to keep it. This way they can sneak Pence in on a piggyback while filling Congress with even more evangelical conservative Republicans. Compared to Trump’s abrasive and terrifying behavior, Pence seems much less threatening. This is not the case. Pence has a proven track record of legalizing discrimination and acting against women and marginalized people. Those of us who didn’t leave the far Right are being elected to federal positions or are taking over states and cities. With Pence in office, even the reasonable-seeming incumbents – who have been and are still at the mercy of the Tea Party – are growing more bold in their attempts to further the Christofascist agenda: To Take Back The Country For Christ.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The Best Press That Money Can Buy
The press has always been owned by the wealthy and powerful. In the early nineteenth century, for example, William Randolph Hearst pioneered what is known in business as “vertical integration.” He owned timber lands, paper mills, and newspapers. So, when a couple people invented a machine that would make very cheap, high-quality paper from hemp, he threw a lot of resources into getting hemp made illegal. He bought politicians, and he ran stories in his papers about black men smoking marijuana and attacking white women. He also introduced to wide use in the United States the term “marijuana,” a then little-known Spanish term–to associate hemp used recreationally with people of Latin descent, another appeal to racism. All this worked like a charm and led to marijuana prohibition and to the highest incarceration rates in the world. And, ofc, it was a great jobs program for drug cartels.
In recent decades, consolidation of ownership of news media in the hands of the wealthy has accelerated, but there are competing forces–Murdoch owns Fox, Bezos The Washington Post. A string of Republican presidents and congresspeople worked hard to defund National Public Television and National Public Radio so that these would be beholden to wealthy donors.
Now, the candidacy of Bernie Sanders has united and scared the holy crap out of a lot of wealthy people, and so the far right news media has ramped up its fear-mongering about Socialism, as if Denmark were Germany under Hitler or the Soviet Union under Stalin. That’s entirely predictable and works for Trump’s uneducated base. But the so-called “liberal” press is also hard at work to undermine the candidacies of Democratic Socialists like Sanders and of left-leaning candidates generally. So, CNN announced the Sanders candidacy by running a story with a headline that reads “Bernie Sanders Is Running for President–and His Policies Would Have a Huge Impact on Business,” and NPR ran a story with a headline with a headline saying that “Many Democrats” were “Not Thrilled” that Sanders had announced. This is much more subtle bias, but still, bias it is. These aren’t neutral headlines like “Bernie Sanders Announces 2020 Bid” or slightly positive headlines like “Sanders Enters Race with High Poll Numbers.”
So, economist Thomas Piketty, the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century, says that in the past 30 years in the United States, incomes of the bottom half of Americans have increased by 0 percent, while incomes of the top 1 percent have increased 300 percent. Furthermore, over the same period, almost all the more than doubling of value produced per worker–the massive increase in productivity–has gone to the ownership class. In such a circumstance, Sanders’s positions–universal, single-payer health insurance, a $15.00 minimum wage, and steeply progressive taxes for the wealthiest Americans, have enormous appeal to a lot of voters. In order to keep these things from happening, the press is going to have to be very busy. An organization like NPR employs many fine journalists, but those journalists have bosses, and those bosses know who is writing the checks now–not the National Endowment for the Humanities but various “philanthropic organizations” owned by the very wealthy. So, expect a lot of headlines of the “Huge Impact on Business” and “Not Thrilled” variety as we head into the 2020 election.
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Bob Shepherd: I was surprised when I read the comments on the NYT about Bernie’s deciding to run. I usually like the comment section but he was being blasted…too old, will cause Trump to win, “socialist’ to kill America, not smart enough, too grouchy, don’t need an independent, etc. It was revolting how some people think. I’d say the negative comments were WAY, WAY over half of those responding.
The corporate media attack machine is up and running otherwise people would realize how much he is working to help them. It’s frustrating that an ignoramus like Trump can win when he offers nothing. His major achievement is more money for the wealthy and himself.
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Thanks for posting this article. I would like to point out that there is a common theme running through yesterday’s postings detailing how big money influences political discourse and this article. The theme is that outsized political influence can be the result of grassroots organizing. When the ideas are not too distant from your own, you observe the process with a certain detachment. Let me explain.
Quiverfull, the organization referred to in this article, is small, vigorous, and dedicated to remaking the country in the image they see as God-like. Their belief in that our world should reflect the glory of God is common across the belief system we call Christianity. The vague generality of this belief is, naturally, the source of major disagreement in various sectarian Christian groups and has characterized schism in the religion since early Christians became one or another branch of this diverse religious phenomenon.
What this means to modern Christian voters is that certain general phrases trigger positive responses. What on earth is wrong with reflecting the glory of God? The problem is the meaning of that. My good friend John thinks that means loving your neighbor, even if he is different from you. He supports freedoms for all groups, regardless of color, creed, or any other divisive category. His Christianity demands that he behave this way due to what the scripture says to him. He does not delve deeply into political matters, so when he hears something done to the glory of God, he thinks of his own God and is not immediately repelled by such a statement.
Meanwhile, Martha, another friend who is a Christian in every sense of the word, accepts the phrase as well. To her it means rejection of ideas she considers immoral. This list would include drunkenness, loose sexual mores including homosexuality, and a host of other issues. It would not, however, include the idea that Quiverfull holds dear, that women must bear many children to foster the glory of God or that women should eschew career. She would really be horrified if she knew that the same people using the phrase “glory of God” meant all that.
We should look deeper into the slogans of those whose personal agendas are promulgated by vague expressions. History is full of people who will use the occasional slogan to steal individual rights from individuals in favor of a few people being allowed to exercise their own view of narrow justice.
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Insightful observations, Ray.
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Max Blumenthal wrote a book more than 10 years ago that supports everything in this post. Here’s a lengthy review I wrote for myself should it interest anyone: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/788636394
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A great read, GregB! Thank you!
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Yes, to both of Bob’s sentiments.
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“Their beliefs are callous and without empathy, prioritizing dogma over people.” The right wing Christians are fanatics. Now that they have established a beachhead in politics, we need to vote them out before they change America as we know it. They are slowly overturning secular government, and they are changing laws one vote and one appointment at a time. Pence is their crown prince, and responsible voters that value the separation of church and state must work to keep Pence out of the presidency. Trump is a means to an end for the radical religious right. They are playing a long game, and they are not about to stop until they impose their religious beliefs and social values on the whole country.
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In case you missed it, this is a reading list for Generation
Joshua. The organization offers online “civics” courses in addition to meet-ups and other training. What lessons are extracted from the reading list? That is the question. f you are familiar with the “Great Books” program, you will notice some overlap in the selections.
https://hsldaaction.org/GenJ/about/resources/reading-lists
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“What lessons are extracted from the reading list?” That is, indeed, the question. I suspect that the answers to that question are all contained in one of the three books of “philosophy” on the list, James Sire’s The Universe Next Door, which envisions the modern era as a battleground of worldviews, with traditional Christian belief in a personal God with a plan for everyone’s life and strict rules for behavior against a lot of modern enemy -isms–deism, naturalism, nihilism, Existentialism, pantheism, New Age belief, Postmodernism, and Islamic theism. It’s certainly an interesting reading list. Thanks for linking to it.
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What a weird list. Two thoughts come to mind: They obviously have never read St. Augustine’s The Confessions because there’s no way it would make the list if they did. And I love (ironically) the list titled, “Worldviews hostile to Christianity.” One way I love to drive righties crazy is something to the effect of, “In my opinion, much of the Communist Manifesto is a restatement of Luke 6:31. No matter if you think this is important or tripe, if you’ve actually read it, then I hope you will agree with me that the intent was a just world. You may disagree about the means, but not its aspiration. Honestly.” I’d love to be a teacher in Christian school giving that lesson.
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That’s a booklist that would retard development. Apparently, women died out about 60 years ago. Ayn Rand is miffed that she was excluded. And, the minority experience in the U.S. is one and the same with the White, Christian experience, so no need to read that perspective. Fantasy is well-represented (Lord of the Rings, etc.)
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C.S. Lewis would surely be outraged to learn how his work has been hijacked for these purposes. Much like the misplaced, newly found reverence for Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose vision of evangelism bears no resemblance to how they use it.
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Jesus Camp is a 2006 documentary directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing about a pentecostal summer camp for children who spend their summers learning and practicing their “prophetic gifts” and being taught that they can “take back America for Christ.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LACyLTsH4ac
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Speaking in tongues: Shee la la la la la la. Wasn’t that a pop song in the 1970s? LOL.
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If it was a song from the 1970s, it was about people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia who imagined hearing voices speaking to them with god’s tongue.
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There’s a long history of this, of course, in religions around the world–working oneself into a state of entrancement. The word enthusiasm comes from Greek roots meaning, literally, possession by a god–having a god within you. As Julian Jaynes points out in The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, in early Greek writing, it was common to attribute human thought and action to such possession–tio a god working from within and through a person. In Christianity, ofc, the official doctrine became one of possession by the Holy Spirit–one of the manifestations of the Triune Deity (which is itself another idea found in many pre-Christian religions).
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I’m sure that all those people that ended up “having a god inside of them” were really all narcissists like Trump, psychopaths like Trump, sociopaths like Trump, and any other mental disease like Trump has.
Now someone might challenge me for alleging Trump has more than one mental disorder.
No need to challenge me because I do think he has a BIG basket full of mental problems and disorders but doesn’t know it. In fact, I think he considers everyone else to be mentally ill and he is the only stable person on the planet.
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I agree that he is a Dumpster Fire of psychological disorders. That’s pretty clear.
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And the Orange Idiot keeps fanning the flames of his own dumpster fire. I wonder if he even knows he is on fire.
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And yet you want to overthrow Trump in favor of Pence…
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Yes. I want to see them both thrown out.
Nancy Pelosi is next in line to be president.
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’tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished!
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OMG! What is happening to the WRAP AROUND SERVICES in the GREAT AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEM?
What is the RESPONSIBILITY of an individual to society, in their desire to practice their freedom of belief?
Is the common good more OR less important than abusive religious indoctrination that serves the interests of the rich, while harming working population? Back2basic
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Everyone needs to remember the “Josh Duggar” issue. He was one of the golden boys sent to DC for the radical right, evangelical christian movement. I don’t know how his indiscretions were revealed or who did the revealing, but it certainly put a dent in the movement. I used to occasionally watch the Duggar family show on TV and I often wondered if the money that they made (or that of the video production company) funneled that money into radical right Christian groups? Yes, they are very polite and seem to come across as pious and kind, but they are truly evil, racist and biased….wolves in sheep clothing. I would much rather have DT tweeting, lying and blustering than the cool and calculated Pence who is so far right that he is scary.
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So, the following is the theocracy mindset-
Mr. and Mrs. Romney, Mormons, thought God wanted Mitt to be President. But, God wanted the lyingTrump.
God wanted Ted Cruz, “Lucifer himself”, to be elected so that Ted could vote to put more money in the Koch’s pockets.
Foster Freiss makes buys for God. God wants Turning Point USA.
God wants Erik Prince to have a private Army, financed by taxpayers so that the middle class can pay for the schemes and plots of tax-avoiding, war mongers, while impoverishing their own selves.
Bill Gates is favored by God which explains the timing of the religious right/ALEC’s rise to power to coincide with Gates’ privatization and corporatization of education.
Evidently, God is all about money. Who knew?
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“Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They neither toil nor spin…” Who said that? Hmmm can’t quite recall.
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here’s a funny one: George Bush, Jr., calling Jacques Chirac to in 2003 to explain how the invasion of Iraq is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
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Don’t include Mormons in this. Radical right-wing Christians don’t consider Mormons to be worth anything.
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I’m with you and against you on this. Every Mormon I’ve ever met is a decent (sometimes annoyingly decent 😉), caring person. But then you have people like Orrin Hatch, Mike Lee, Jason Chaffetz, and Chris Stewart who are as radical right as it gets.
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I, too, GregB, have met a lot of really nice Mormons. That goes a looooong way.
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Mormons- some nice but, none willing to say the church’s history puts it off the rails?
Seriously illogical people can cause jeopardy to others.
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Linda, I think if we value the first amendment’s religion clause, we must respect the faith of others, even when we consider certain aspects to be illogical. To me, for example, it is illogical that anyone takes the Bible literally. But I must respect the right of others to believe and practice their faith, especially when their beliefs do not impose on my beliefs.
But, as I always say, I am a hypocrite when it comes to scientology.
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Greg-
The political majority crossed the point, a long time ago, where they respected my religious beliefs and those of others. The proof is evident in many situations from Muslim bans to their legislative success in thwarting a woman from making a decision about a cluster of cells in her uterus. Based on my religious beliefs, I conclude the religious right is on the wrong side of almost every moral issue. They concocted the abortion issue so that their base could cling to some righteous feeling while being hypocrites like Duggar about just about everything else.
The fact that the Paul Weyrich training manual (founded the religious right and ALEC) has lead to rules that ALL of us have to follow, shows his religion is institutionalized in the U.S.
Diane’s linked essay from a religiously “indoctrinated” person documents the politicized lack of respect for the religious views of others.
I and all Americans deserve the right to practice our religions. None of us have the right to inflict our religious views on others.
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Exactly right. Live and let live when it comes to religious views and beliefs. Not to practices, e.g., human sacrifice.
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I think we are saying the same thing in different ways. You use the word “inflict” and I used “impose.” I have no problem with when evangelicals come to my door to discuss their faith. I respond to them politely that I respect and value their right to do so, but that I have a different perspective than they do and I hope they will respect that. I’ve never had a bad experience from exchanges like this.
But I understand and agree with every example about which you write. We’re on the same team, so to speak. We just have differing styles, and there’ nothing wrong with that!
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When I lived in a house in Brooklyn (not an apartment), Jehovah’s Witnesses frequently rang my bell. I learned that it is not a good idea to engage in discussion as they never give up. No, thank you, worked best.
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dianeravitch: Diane, Jehovah’s Witnesses’s came to a friend’s place when I was visiting in Borneo. These young men came from Idaho and we talked about Idaho, not religion. Whew. [By now you probably know that I grew up in Boise.]
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I don’t want to convert anyone and I don’t want anyone to convert me. Simple.
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And I read yesterday that Senator Romney is on the short list of Republicans that might vote against Trump’s Great Wall and put a stop to this abuse of Trump’s executive power.
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Lloyd-
Romney is Gumby.
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You might find this worth some chuckles.
A site that lists Mitt Romeny’s Nicknames.
Top Ten (There’s more than the top ten):
Brain in the Ass
King of Bain
Mitt the Twit
Mittler
Mitt Rotney
The Stiff (Donald Trump made this one up)
The Romenybot
Mitt the Flopple
Rigger Mortis
Pac-Man
http://www.thehypertexts.com/Mitt%20Romney%20Nicknames.htm
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Lloyd-
Thanks- I did enjoy the Romney nicknames.
Did Romney’s 5 sons immigrate from a different planet? The human gene seems absent in them.
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Maybe Romney’s sons were cloned from him and grew in a giant test tube.
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Hi Linda:
The reason that gullible people enjoy the silly and vulgar language from grade 3 or 8 level of Trump’s speech is because of an entertainment and a satisfaction to people’s low self-esteem.
Your sarcastic language has a double meaning to 1) frustrated people, and to 2) naive people. So, what the result do population receives now – a bad economy and a political danger = both can cause chaos within a country.
In short, educators need go straight to a focus about humanity, peace and happiness in reality. All frustration and sarcasm in history should be told and exposed through human sufferance as the true evidence. People should tackle to bad behaviors and to avoid sufferance without wasting our breath and precious time. Back2basic
Note: This is a double meaning movie about desire and consequence of its desire whether fame, fortune or lust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utlbs4S1FKA
( Here is a true comment from viewer: “a demon came to a child, and offered the world for a sacrifice, much like how Satan tempted Christ, but the poor child accepted. We must be vigilant to the ways of the evil one”)
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May-
Blog readers like me are fortunate that you comment. Your perspective broadens our understanding.
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Dear Linda:
I felt the conscientious people’s pain but their gullible compassion and blind faith will hurt their own peace, kindness, all of their loved ones, co-workers, friends and neighbors.
I am an immigrant who was fresh out of the boat 40+ years ago. IMHO, all immigrants regardless where they are from any part in the world, please remember that we come to NORTH AMERICA in order to appreciate the first principle of equality of rights = the true principles of WESTERN VALUES.
I truly believe in the absolute universal Law of Karma as well as I respect the second chance for redemption to people who are truly repentant (sinners to humanity, NOT TO GOD!!!). = sinners do to yourself whatever you do to others, like rob money or lives from people, sinners need to pay back through action , NOT BY WORDS or TEARS.
In short, Trump or Pence, or all upcoming presidency candidates in 2020 need to consciously think, talk, and act NOT ONLY in protecting themselves, their family members, and their own country people BUT ALSO the human race. This will be worth for their second chance on Earth for redemption and repentance (sinners to humanity, NOT TO GOD!!!).
I hope that you will agree with my idea. Back2basic
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“This will be worth for their second chance on Earth for redemption and repentance (sinners to humanity, NOT TO GOD!!!).”
In my belief, God loves everybody but that earth is a school in which we come to learn. We set goals while on the Other Side and come here to learn. Some people fulfill their goals and some fail miserably.
I also believe that we ALL go to ‘heaven’, or what is commonly known as the fifth dimension. Nobody goes to hell because it doesn’t exist. What happens is that humans, all of us, have what is known as a life review. Each person has to relive all the hurts that he or she put on others. You will feel their pain and learn that what you did caused pain. You will see the situation and remember it even though it was many years ago when you were young.
Mankind has a long, long, long way to go to learn that we are meant to care for each other, not hate and fear and show loathing. We must eventually see that we are all connected to each other and that putting pain on one person affects us all. Whether or not this can happen depends upon how we treat the earth. It is being destroyed by pollution and politicians who care more about their pockets than preserving our only home. Animals, plants, insects and ocean creatures are all being affected negatively by man’s ignorance. Climate change will eventually kill off all the lower parts of our food chain and then we will learn that taking care of earth is extremely important.
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Many members on Maryland’s State Board of Education are from private interests that jeopardize public schools.
Several may fit the indoctrination profile in the post.
Then, there’s Chester Finn’s POV which coincides with Gates’ venture “philanthropy”.
Did the AFT/NEA and other groups that believe in the common good, like public employees (the majority who don’t hypocritically shill for business), encourage candidates to run for the board?
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Yes, MSDE members….appointed by our wonderful Rep. Governor.
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Did you mean to write “vulture” instead of “venture?” 😇
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Yes, thanks for the correction.
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Hi carolmalaysia
February 21, 2019 at 6:49 am
I appreciate your wonderful belief.
Being a logical thinking educator, I hope that you can have an example and your own experience of your wonderful belief in order to persuade commoners like all students and your other educators, who are in different religions, can understand your wonderful belief.
I have a simple and realistic case between a monk and a serial killer. According to your wonderful belief in which “ALL go to ‘heaven’,… Nobody goes to hell because it doesn’t exist,” would you think there is the same enjoyment in a peaceful life versus in a solitary confinement?
If your answer is yes, then my next question is about a case of an FORTUNATE immigrant who can learn fast and work well for a living while a MISERY native enjoys living with a welfare provided by immigrant’s income tax. According to your wonderful belief, you wrote “You will feel their pain and learn that what you did caused pain.” In my case, who would be in pain and who causes the pain?
In short, I agree with your wonderful belief. However, your belief needs to make sense and practical to people of different ages and different careers through your own experience, historical examples, as well as people can apply your belief to obtain a result in a case of “ALL go to ‘heaven’,… Nobody goes to hell because it doesn’t exist.”
Sincerely yours,
May
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m4potw: Thanks for being interested and wanting me to explain in more detail. Sorry. What I said made perfect sense to me.
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“would you think there is the same enjoyment in a peaceful life versus in a solitary confinement?”
While here, a peaceful life would be great. Solitary confinement would be just plain lonesome and the person put in there is most likely suffering terribly. There is no equivalence.
I’m talking about when one passes on to the Other Side [heaven] that we relive what we have done to others. Ex: Look up Dannion Brinkley. He died several times by being hit by lightening. He explained, in a talk that I heard, that he was a bully when he was young. When he got older, he sold guns undercover for the US government to some place in the world that he didn’t name. He had a Near Dear Experience, in which he died and then came back to life. He was officially dead for a period of time. There are over 2,200 cases of Near Death Experiences that have been verified.
While he was on the Other Side [dead according to doctors], he went through a life review. He had to feel the pain of every person that he had bullied. For each bullied person he recalled what he had done and then experienced the pain the other person had felt. For every gun that was sold, he had to experience the pain that the person shot [maimed or killed] experienced, plus the pain of all the relatives and friends who knew that person.
Pain comes from the life review after we have died and crossed over. At that time we relive the awful things we did in our past life on earth. This is a way to learn from what we did while living on earth. I cannot imagine what Hitler went through after being responsible for the holocaust. He had to feel the pain of each person who died and each person who suffered in any way from what he did.
Trump is going to experience a horrible life review when he dies since he has hurt many, many, many people. He will have to relive what he did and feel each person’s pain [when he has died]. This most likely will include the pain he is causing immigrants, contractors who weren’t paid, people he screwed at Trump University, people he called vicious names, how he treats people in the press, etc.,etc.
Dannion Brinkley. Born in 1950, Dannion Brinkley is the author of three international best selling books — Saved by the Light, At Peace in the Light, and Secrets of the Light.
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Hi carolmalaysia;
I truly appreciate your precious time to give me a story about Dannion Brinkley.
I do not have a bit of doubt about your wonderful belief. I truly practice on my own whatever I could do in order to understand and believe in the religious logic while I live, feel and understand.
For instance: 1) Body: I eat and drink very simple and pure for 10 years 2) Mind: I learn very details every subject from grade 3 to grade 12 or 10 years 3) Spirit: I do all good deeds to people from poor to power within my ability in all my life.
My own experience confirms that people self create their own contentment or self-suffer their own misery in all three aspects body, mind and spirit.
In short, there is only the absolute truth about contentment or misery on this Earth. Human beings and all sentient beings NEED to improve their own body, mind and spirit until all three aspects become NATURAL PURE DIAMOND = UNTOUCHABLE and very SHINING.
I am positive that we will all go to heaven as long as our body, mind and spirit are pure in kindness, caring, sharing, exchanging knowledge, and experience to bring us to the absolute strength in body, intelligence in mind and wisdom in spirit.
Truly yours,
May
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May, you are always such a beautiful person. How wonderful this world would be for everyone if all people were as knowledgeable and caring as you are. You definitely will have a great life review whenever that time comes, and may it be in the far, far, far, far distant future.
PS. Here are the names of some others who have experienced Near Death Experiences. Many have written books.
Cassandra Bauer
Terry Larkin
Kathy Forti, Ph.D a clinical psychologist
Joann Koenig-Macko
Eben Alexander III, MD [neurologist…great book, “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife”]
Debera Diamond
Ann Ellis, MDIV, PHD
Toni Anne Winninger [wrote a number of books through channelling]
Carol Vengroff
Eileen Grace, R.N.
Rev. Howard Storm…former atheist
Sharla Rae Janke
Alma Blazquez, EdD
Steven Fanning, Ph.D…Quadriplegic NDEr who was healed during NDE
Beth Peterson
Mary Neal, MD
Anne Archer Butcher
Lisa Dietlin
These are all people that I have heard speak at the Chicago IANDS. [International Association of Near Death Studies] IANDS is located in many places throughout the US.
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