Mr
Bryan Fischer said several words on Focal Point (Friday, 12 June 2020)
that Protestants especially would do well to keep in mind as events unfold in
Seattle: ‘Those who do not learn from
history are doomed to repeat it’.
Well-known
Evangelicals like Tony Perkins are saying things like the following:
Most people watching Seattle, where armed
warlords have taken over whole city blocks, aren't looking at the city with
envy. "The rabid foxes are in the hen house," the Washington Times's
Cheryl Chumley warned. "These are not poor misguided youth exercising
their First Amendment rights. These are criminals -- violent criminals --
intimidating innocent law-abiding citizens... This isn't America," she argued. What this is, she said bluntly, "is
some third-world chaotic country crap, where loons and drug-addicted deranged
and soulless evil rise up and mount an assault on [ordered] society."
Yet when the president steps in and warns
Governor Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) to get Seattle under control, what's the Left's
reaction? "[They say] he's simply being his usual racist self by trying to
shut down the 'lawful protesters,' as they're deemed in the eyes of the
Democrats," Cheryl shook her head. And frankly, she told Sarah Perry on
"Washington Watch," the longer this goes on, the better chance it has
to get completely out of hand. "If you don't think other[s]... are
watching CNN right now with interest in planning and plotting similar takeovers
of their own, I think you have your head in the sand -- because I think this is
going to spread as far and wide as the leftist violent thugs can make it."
As disturbing as the situation is, she
points out, there's something even more concerning -- and that's the complete
capitulation on the part of political leaders. "Republicans could be a
little bit louder about the problems here," Cheryl agreed. "But
really, the Democrats giving these people voices, treating them as if they're
First Amendment, law-abiding protesters instead of what they really are [is
shameful]." The banner of the Democratic Party, she thinks, has truly
become "No law, no order -- just mayhem."
--https://www.frcaction.org/updatearticle/20200612/police-seattle
In
essence, their argument is that the violent lunacy in Seattle is mostly a
problem that stems from the ideology of the Left. But this is where their ignorance (or willful
blindness) of history must be addressed.
For it is not Marxist ideology that is ultimately to blame there, but
the PROTESTANTS’ VERY OWN WORLDVIEW.
What we are witnessing in Seattle with the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous
Zone) is simply the replaying of what happened in Münster, Germany, in the
1530s during the Protestant Reformation.
From Dr Vladimir Moss:
State
power protected the Calvinists from the ferocity of the Papists in both the England
of Elizabeth I, and the France of Henry IV. And yet Calvinists had an alarming
tendency to come out against the state, splintering off into ever more extreme
movements of an apocalyptic nature that advocated political as well as
religious revolution, and were accompanied by moral excesses directly contrary
to the strait-laced image of traditional Protestantism. The most famous example
of this was the Anabaptist revolution in Münster.
Owen
Chadwick writes: “At the end of 1533 the Anabaptist group at Münster in
Westphalia, under the leadership of a former Lutheran minister Bernard
Rothmann, gained control of the city council. Early in 1534 a Dutch prophet and
ex-innkeeper named John of Leyden appeared in Münster, believing that he was
called to make the city the new Jerusalem. On 9 February 1534 his party seized
the city hall. By 2 March all who refused to be baptized were banished, and it
was proclaimed a city of refuge for the oppressed. Though the Bishop of Münster
collected an army and began the siege of his city, an attempted coup within the
walls was brutally suppressed, and John of Leyden was proclaimed King of New
Zion, wore vestments as his royal robes, and held his court and throne in the
market-place. Laws were decreed to establish a community of goods, and the Old
Testament was adduced to permit polygamy. Bernard Rothmann, once a man of
sense, once the friend of Melanchthon, took nine wives.
“They
now believed that they had been given the duty and the power of exterminating
the ungodly. The world would perish, and only Münster would be saved. Rothmann
issued a public incitement to world rebellion: ‘Dear brethren, arm yourselves
for the battle, not only with the humble weapons of the apostles for suffering,
but also with the glorious armour of David for vengeance… in God’s strength,
and help to annihilate the ungodly.’ And ex-soldier named John of Feelen
slipped out of the city, carrying copies of this proclamation into the
Netherlands, and planned sudden coups in the Dutch cities. On a night in February
1535 a group of men and women ran naked and unarmed through the streets of
Amsterdam shouting: ‘Woe! Woe! The wrath of God falls on this city.’ On 30
March 1535 John of Geelen with 300 Anabaptists, men and women, stormed an old
monastery in Friesland, fortified it, made sallies to conquer the province, and
were only winkled out after bombardment by heavy cannon. On the night of 10 May
1535 John of Geelen with a band of some thirty men attacked the city hall of
Amsterdam during a municipal banquet, and the burgomaster and several citizens
were killed. At last, on 25 June 1535, the gates of Münster were opened by sane
men within the walls, and the bishop’s army entered the city…”90
The
Anabaptist revolution in Münster came exactly a century after the destruction
of the Taborite revolution in Bohemia, which it closely imitated. The Taborites
and Anabaptists were in effect communists, a fact which shows that there is a
blood-red thread linking the revolutionary movements of late medieval
Catholicism, early Protestantism and twentieth-century militant atheism.
--An Essay in Universal History, Volume
II, The Age of Reason (1453-1789), 2019, pgs. 84-5, http://orthodoxchristianbooks.com/books/downloads.php?book_id=823
If
Misters Fischer and Perkins, etc., want the States to escape a descent into
chaos, they must first renounce their own Protestantism, which has made things
like the CHAZ possible.
But
Roman Catholics, as Dr Moss implies, are not any more trustworthy than the
Protestants. Jay Dyer in an interview
delves into some of the major errors of the Roman Catholics (which spring up
well before Vatican II) here:
https://jaysanalysis.com/2019/09/21/jesuits-franks-prelest-jay-dyer-with-orthobro-snek/
What
is left is a return to the Orthodox Church, the Church of the Holy
Apostles. If the Protestants and Roman
Catholics need an example to goad and guide them (and we all do), we heartily
recommend St Alexis Toth (+1909) who reposed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, but
who interestingly labored for Christ for some years in Minneapolis, Minnesota
(the epicenter of the present discontent).
He escaped the Roman Catholic/post-Great Schism Western delusion and
returned to the Orthodox Faith of his forefathers:
Then,
from within the safe walls of the Orthodox Church, they will be able to
contribute something true and lasting to the peoples of the States:
https://chicagodiocese.org/news_200605_1
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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