Escaping Corporatism

From local economic development bodies to President Trump, many folks have bought into the idea that the new Holy Trinity of science, technology, and industry (to use Wendell Berry’s words), especially as embodied in large corporations, is the key to obtaining a good life for a community.  But this is not so, for a number of reasons.  Let us look at a few.

First, the large corporate model excels in specialization, so that each worker has only a few tasks to repeat throughout the day.  This is harmful to the body and the mind:  the body, as it stands or sits most of the day in the same position; the mind, as it generally remains idle, thinking little, deciding little.

Second, and related to the first in some ways, it is stressful.  There are reasons why the population of the States is so heavily medicated, and this economic system is one of them.  From rush hour traffic, to the uncertainty of one’s employment, to the never-ending competition with other companies and even with one’s own co-workers, mankind following this way of life is bombarded with tension on such a regular basis that he is falling to pieces before our eyes.

Third, it is ugly.  Concrete and metal rectangles all across the landscape do not reflect the beauty that flows from God the All-Holy Trinity (the True Holy Trinity of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost) and cannot lead us to Him, Who is our life.

Fourth, large corporations generally uphold causes that are contrary to Christianity.  For instance, all the corporate ‘anchors’ that cities are so eager to attract nowadays, like Best Buy, State Farm, IBM, Ford Motor Co. - even companies that have a Bible Belt heritage like Wal-Mart and CenturyLink - received a perfect or very high score from the pro-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender (LGBT) Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index in 2017 for their support of the LGBT lifestyle, as reflected in their policies regarding benefits, training, hiring, and so on (The Index may be read here:  http://www.hrc.org/campaigns/corporate-equality-index). 

Fifth, their ruthless pursuit of profits leads to an obsession with efficiency, which in its turn leads to a dehumanization of the worker (his being treated like a machine) and his eventual replacement with robots, A. I., etc.

It is not necessary to live this way.  There have been many eloquent defenders of a “third way” between corporate capitalism and communism (which are two sides of the same Godless, materialist coin):  the English Distributists like Chesterton and Belloc, the Southern Agrarians like Andrew Lytle, Richard Weaver, and the aforementioned Wendell Berry, and other voices like Allan Carlson, Rev William Barnes of Dorset, and Wilhelm Roepke.  What they advocate is a return to the wide distribution of productive property amongst the people: land, tools, machines, small shops, etc., which would secure a livelihood to them in a manner much more humanely than Big Government and Big Business (again, two wings of the same bird) can provide.

But it is necessary not simply to put the property in their hands, but to make sure it does not easily leave them.  If it can be easily alienated from them, then the corporate system will be revived without much effort.  Some sort of legal protection is needed.  A good ensample that could serve as a blueprint of sorts is found in Leviticus chapter 25, where land could be lost or sold if one fell into debt and so on, but it would return to the owner every fiftieth year, the Year of Jubilee:

‘And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family’ (v. 10, KJV).

Giant corporatism is not the way to the good life.  We have tried to sketch a few features of both above, but the last word on this matter needs to go to Father Seraphim Rose of blessed memory who described what he called the “Old Order” in the little book Nihilism.  His description will make for a fine guidepost as we try to get there:

‘The Old Order was the soil, nourished by Christian Truth, in which men had their roots. Its laws and institutions, and even its customs, were founded in that Truth and dedicated to teaching it; its buildings were erected to the glory of God and were a visible sign of His Order upon earth; even the generally "primitive" (but natural) living conditions served (unintentionally, of course) as a reminder of man's humble place here, of his dependence upon God for even the few earthly blessings he possessed, and of his true home which lies beyond this "vale of tears," in the Kingdom of Heaven. Effective war against God and His Truth requires the destruction of every element of this Old Order . . .’ (St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 2009, p. 75, copied from http://oodegr.co/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm#IV., opened 23 Jan. 2017).

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Your National Exceptionalism, or Mine?

It has begun.  The flood of tradition-obliterating ‘American exceptionalism’ is raging all across the [u]nited States.  Pres Trump’s proclamation of 20 Jan. 2017 as National Day of Patriotic Devotion has set the tone:

A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart. We are one people, united by a common destiny and a shared purpose.

Freedom is the birthright of all Americans, and to preserve that freedom we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage.

Our Constitution is written on parchment, but it lives in the hearts of the American people. There is no freedom where the people do not believe in it; no law where the people do not follow it; and no peace where the people do not pray for it.

There are no greater people than the American citizenry, and as long as we believe in ourselves, and our country, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

 . . .

Source:  https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/24/2017-01798/national-day-of-patriotic-devotion, opened 27 Jan. 2017

Typical of this sort of arrogant neo-Puritanism, nothing is now safe from the lust to ‘make America great again’ - to ‘create jobs’ and ‘achieve American energy independence’, etc. - not even a lake on Native American tribal lands or the farm fields of Nebraska, when unnecessary oil pipelines or other ‘infrastructure improvements’ must be built to enrich the transnational corporations Trump says he opposes:

https://www.rt.com/usa/374969-keystone-dakota-access-pipeline-reactions/

One is justified in wondering what would happen if a large oil shale deposit were found beneath Gen Stonewall Jackson’s grave or underneath some other Confederate graveyard or monument; or even a non-Confederate historic site, like Washington’s home on Mt Vernon.  The invocation of eminent domain would probably not be slow in coming.  But would even something akin to this be enough to cause Southerners to wake up from their pro-American stooper?

What is America, after all?  ‘An idea’, her supporters will say.  And we quite agree.  And this is the essence of it, as stated by neo-con Michael Ledeen:

‘Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture, and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace … We must destroy them to advance our historic mission.’

Source:  Jonas E. Alexis, http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/vladimir-putin-the-new-world-order-worships-satan/, opened 29 Nov. 2015

Thankfully, there is another who claims for herself an ‘historic mission’, Holy Russia, and her ideals are quite the opposite of tradition-destroying America:

 . . .

Where is the subsidence? Where is the restriction? Are not Russians opened for the four winds? Are not they crucified in space, bleeding, suffering for others, taking on the burden and severity of the strange and terrible history of the world? Are not Russians universal? Do they not embody the whole grieving, suffering, outrageous, magnificent reality of the world? Is not the river their veins? And the hills – their bones? The mountains – their shoulders? The sun and the moon – their eyes? And the winds of the earth – their breathing? Are Russian people the only nation and that is all? No, it is not all, it is much, much more... They are the great Russians, more than just a Russian, more than just 'they'... They are happy and sad, they cross themselves, and bring to the priest a cherub baby, right to the bowl, directly to God, and God does not deny veneration and does not chase away a scared man, crooked man, miserable, crying man, a woman in a black shawl, who lost her daughter, or a beardless youth who find his love, confused man, who suddenly came in, and the habitually dressed servant – God unites all Russians, and Russians, in their turn, unite everyone, closely and appeasably, gently and persistently, and all other nations disappear in Russians and do not recognize themselves in a moment: there is no one, only Russians, and only the sun dancing over them, our Russian sun...

Dancing ... The Great Days are the Russian Days, the Bright Week is the Russian Week.

Delightful people, first and last, confused and precise, following a secret dream in the distant mountains, hiding in dark holes of the earth, unclear to anyone or anything, carefully looking for the unnamed and imperceptible, dying, faithful people, “in tombs” and rising again, again and again, always extending deep to underground paths and flying in clear cool red morning sky like a white dove ...

On Russian Easter, the nature of the world resurrects our nature, mother-desert, luxurious, like a lady, like a virgin, like a universally acute painful comfort. Suffer with us, die with us, kill with us, sing with us, come with us, disappear with us, unite with us, fast with us, cast down with us, vanish with us, love with us, hate with us, to rise with us again, to enter the Russian Easter, the Great Easter of Christ.

The fact that the Russians are the great people is an axiom, it cannot be proven, as it does not require it. This true greatness does not humiliate others, it does not make them smaller. As the resurrection does not kill, does not trample them, but saves them. The real greatness magnifies everything that it touches. There is no hatred, there is only delight, only happiness, joy and love. This is the dancing greatness.

 . . .

Source:  Alexander Dugin, http://4pt.su/en/content/russian-easter, opened 27 Jan. 2017

 . . . So also today ROCOR continues to proclaim outside Russia what the best of the rest of the Church proclaims inside Russia – the ideals of Holy Rus. What are these?

These ideals are Trinitarian, reflecting on earth the heavenly reality of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These Christian ideals can be expressed as: Faith, Throne and People, that is, the Orthodox Faith, the Christian Emperor, the Faithful. All three go together. If any one element is compromised, then all three are compromised. Thus, if we reject the Orthodox Faith, we do not build the Christian Empire among the People, as has happened in the Western world. If we reject the Incarnation of the Christian Empire, we fail to reflect the Faith in the Father and fail to preach the values of the Holy Spirit among the People, as has happened in disincarnate Parisian philosophy. And if the People lose the Orthodox Faith, there will be no Empire, as happened in 1917.

Just as we cannot have the Father without the Son and the Holy Spirit, so we confess all three of these ideals of Holy Rus together. This means that we are called on to proclaim the uncorrupted Orthodox Faith of the Church (the Father), the restoration of the Incarnate Christian Empire and Emperor (the Son) and that we call all the peoples of the world to join us (the Holy Spirit), as St Seraphim of Sarov prophesied nearly 200 years ago. These are the Trinitarian Orthodox Civilizational values of the Returning Christian Empire which is coming soon. Thus, we clergy and people of ROCOR are the free and conscious servants of the Faith and People of the Tsar-Martyr, called on to reverse the treason of 1917 and its disastrous worldwide consequences.

Source:  Fr Andrew Phillips, http://www.events.orthodoxengland.org.uk/2017-on-the-spiritual-significance-of-the-church-outside-russia/, opened 27 Jan. 2017

It is not for nothing that Holy Elder Paisios of Mount Athos (+1994) said of America and Western Europe,

I always say to young people who are going abroad to study, “Go if you want to, but be careful not to lose your faith; take only their expertise.  And most importantly, don’t forget to come home, to our Homeland.  Greece is waiting for you.  You owe her your help.  Stay close to the Greek people.  . . .  Be very careful not to let your hearts grow cold.  The Europeans are cold people.  And the United States is only for becoming wealthy in material goods and becoming spiritually bankrupt” (Spiritual Counsels, Volume I, 2011, p. 338).

What a mighty rebuke to Southerners!  Have we remembered our Homeland - Dixie?  Have we given her any help?  Have we stayed close to the Southern people?

May God forgive us, we have not done any of these things.  We have gone a-whoring after Babylon America’s material goods and become spiritually bankrupt. 

But with alluring visions of even greater material abundance before us, will Dixie be able to repent?

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The Meaning of Super Mario Bros. - Part 2nd

Hammer

The hammer has also been a recurring symbol from Mario’s Donkey Kong days until now.

(From http://themushroomkingdom.net/media/dk-gba/ss, opened 24 Jan. 2017)

(From http://themushroomkingdom.net/media/pmcs/ss, opened 24 Jan. 2017)

Here are some thoughts on its significance:

The hammer is essentially a masculine force, and when striking or crushing it represents justice and revenge. The hammer is not only a tool; it represents might. When paired with an anvil, represents ANDROGYNE, and with that often fertility and creation. The hammer is the thought while the anvil is the brain.

It is used often by the gods; it is Thor's most valued (but often lost) possession. They use it for destruction, protection and fertilization, but it also symbolizes immortality. Destiny is linked with the hammer too, as well as violence and manual labor.

"The two-headed hammer is an ambivalent symbol of the mountain of Mars and of sacrificial Inversion" (Cirlot, 137).

Source:  http://umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/H/hammer.html, opened 24 Jan. 2017

Transhumanism/Chimeras

A carrot or a super leaf will transform Mario into a half-rabbit/half-man or into a half-raccoon/half-man, respectively.  For the Globalist Elite who are intent on convincing everyone that gene-mixing of different species of plants, animals, fungi, etc. is perfectly safe, this seems like a convenient way to gently brainwash youngsters whose heads are ever in the pixelated clouds of the Mushroom Kingdom that there is nothing wrong with such things.

(From https://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/525245-super-mario-bros-3/images/128422, opened 24 Jan. 2017)

Renaissance

The names Mario and Luigi are reminiscent of Italy, whose culture is still very much associated with the rise of the Renaissance.  And the Renaissance was not just a revival of classical literature, painting, and so forth, but the revival of dark arts like alchemy.

During the Renaissance, Hermetic and Platonic foundations were restored to European alchemy. The dawn of medical, pharmaceutical, occult, and entrepreneurial branches of alchemy followed.

In the late 15th century, Marsilo Ficino translated the Corpus Hermeticum and the works of Plato into Latin. These were previously unavailable to Europeans who for the first time had a full picture of the alchemical theory that Bacon had declared absent. Renaissance Humanism and Renaissance Neoplatonism guided alchemists away from physics to refocus on mankind as the alchemical vessel.

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy#Renaissance_and_early_modern_Europe, opened 24 Jan. 2017

Curiously enough, in the instruction booklet for Super Mario Bros. for the NES, we find this:

One day the kingdom of the peaceful mushroom people was invaded by the Koopa, a tribe of turtles famous for their black magic. The quiet, peace-loving Mushroom People were turned into mere stones, bricks and even field horse-hair plants, and the Mushroom Kingdom fell into ruin.  [Italics added--W.G.]

Source:  http://legendsoflocalization.com/super-mario-bros/manuals/, opened 24 Jan. 2017

The games are fun to play, we will admit it.  But no one should be naïve enough to think there is not, at least on some level, something more going on here than simply an entertaining round of run and jump.

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The Meaning of Super Mario Bros.

Jay Dyer does a great job of looking at the meaning of the symbols and themes in Hollywood movies at jaysanalysis.com, and the more we thought about it, the more it seemed like that sort of thing could be applied to another pop culture medium:  video games.  It may seem frivolous to look at these kinds of things, but they have become so widespread in society (e.g., http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/10/247521444/do-americans-spend-more-on-video-games-or-movies) that they are now a major tool to condition the masses, to re-engineer them according to the wishes of the Elite.  Some knowledge of them seems necessary now.

So, first up, some of the major recurring symbols and themes from the Super Mario Bros. series, considering its continued popularity and longevity:  Another entry has just been released (Super Mario Run) and another will be released with the new Nintendo Switch (Super Mario Odyssey) later this year.

Super Mushroom

Perhaps the most recognizable symbol is the super mushroom (the mushroom theme runs deeply throughout the series:  the Princess’s name is Toadstool, her servants are called ‘Toad’ and have mushroom hats, mushroom platforms abound, etc.):

(From https://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/525243-super-mario-bros/images/211, opened 19 Jan. 2017)

(From https://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/525243-super-mario-bros/images, opened 19 Jan. 2017)

(From https://www.gamefaqs.com/nes/525243-super-mario-bros/images/217, opened 20 Jan. 2017)

And here we run into the first connection with darker forces, for this mushroom is strikingly similar to Amanita muscaria,

(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria, opened 19 Jan. 2017)

amongst whose ‘psychodelic effects’ are ‘[p]erceptual phenomena such as macropsia and micropsia’ (Ibid.), which affects the sight of the user such that he feels he is either larger or smaller in relation to surrounding objects (see e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macropsia, 19 Jan. 2017).  This is a good description of what happens to the Mario character, as he grows when he gets a super mushroom and shrinks without one.

It is important to note as well, ‘The professor also reported that the Lithuanians used to export A. muscaria to the Lapps in the Far North for use in shamanic rituals’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria, opened 19 Jan. 2017). 

All of this comes together as follows:

That scene transpires in a building with a checkered floor like a masonic lodge, only Neo’s “initiation” includes a drug trip (hence the pill) that “awakens” him from the matrix.  In fact, Neo’s experience is remarkably similar to an LSD trip.  At this point the film draws once again on far eastern and shamanic traditions, where the hallucinogenic experience awakens the shaman from the unreality of the dream world of his normal existence.  The “real world” is often there portrayed as the dream of the god(s), and the shaman’s initiatory revelation of the “other world,” or spirit realm is believed to be more real.  . . .

Source:  Jay Dyer, https://jaysanalysis.com/2014/01/20/the-matrix-1999-esoteric-analysis/, opened 3 Dec. 2016

Fire Flower

Mario’s ability to use fire by way of a fire flower is also another long-standing part of the series.  This recalls the myth of Prometheus, who defied the gods and stole fire from them and gave it to men for their use.  So here, beneath the surface, are themes of rebellion against God, the improvement of man according to his own ways apart from God, and the honoring of technology:

Prometheus' association with fire is the key to his religious significance^[38] and to the alignment with Athena and Hephaestus that was specific to Athens and its "unique degree of cultic emphasis" on honoring technology.^[44]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus#Athenian_religious_dedication_and_observance, opened 20 Jan. 2017

(From http://www.superluigibros.com/super-mario-bros-nes, opened 20 Jan. 2017)

Star Man

Mario becomes invincible for a short time when he gets a star man, which, as far as we know, is always represented in the games as a five-pointed figure.  This is a very disturbing symbol: 

“ . . . the blazing star of five points . . . represented Sirius . . .” 

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma

Sirius is emblematic of hidden power and secret allegiance to an invisible empire . . . (Michael Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare, 2001, p. 30).

And Sirius is another name for the devil (Ibid., note 15).  In other words, the five-pointed star is a symbol of the devil himself.  Knowing this, one might well ask why this symbol is so widespread in American culture - from the Dallas Cowboys to the [u.] S. Army:

http://www.dallascowboys.com/

https://www.army.mil/

Related to this theme of stars and invincibility is this statement of Arthur Clarke’s about a scene near the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey:

Arthur Clarke called the huge space baby at the end “Star Child.” The meaning is that man has come full circle, and now creates his own universe – he is now God. Existence is a never-ending succession of man’s ascent to godhood and then as a god-child, he creates a new universe and progresses and grows with it, in a blasphemous reversal of Genesis 1, where the seas are separated from the land, etc.  . . .

Source:  Jay Dyer, https://jaysanalysis.com/2010/06/11/2001-a-space-odyssey-esoteric-analysis/, opened 9 Dec. 2016

There is a little left still to cover, but we will stop here for now and finish up another time.

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‘The Divorce of Heaven and Earth’

¹⁴ And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

¹⁵ And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

¹⁶ And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

¹⁷ And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

¹⁸ And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

¹⁹ And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

--Genesis 1:14-19, KJV, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=KJV

⁸ Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

⁹ Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

--Job 9:8-9, KJV, https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+9&version=KJV

Through sky richly filled

With star-clusters bright and fair,

Slowly plods the bulky Bear.

On earth pairs of lights

Roll forward in morbid line,

Racing down a roadway bland.

The cities of the hills, the plain, and by the main,

Awash in purple-green fluorescent light,

Numbed by its never-ending hum,

Few eyes there will see the beauty

Of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades,

Few ears will hear the sweetness of their voices.

Orion, the mighty hunter of the sky,

Strides across the heavens as the seasons turn.

But for man entranced by TV glare,

Summer is the same as winter.

What recks he for the journey of a stranger?

In a quiet night in a hermit’s hut

A single candle burns before the icon of the Panaghia.

Softly he sings a hymn to the Master’s Mother;

Quickly is he joined by a chorus now familiar:

Hawk and hart; moon and mouse; a host of others.

And eager alway to join the vigil song

To the Queen of Heaven and earth,

And to add their beams to the vigil light -

Orion, the Seven Pleiads, and the Bear.

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Israel Hysteria

Evangelical Christians in the [u]nited States are unhinged.  Which usually means one thing:  not that the Church is under attack, but that the nation-state of Israel is (in this case, as they see it, by UN Security Council Resolution 2334). 

Such a mindset comes from a misunderstanding of who the true Israel is.  Seraphim Hamilton has some helpful words in this regard:

 . . .

I belabor this point for one reason: understanding that Jesus Christ is the one-man Israel allows us to understand the relationship of Israel and the Church. God has not cast off Israel, only to call a new people. Instead, God has focused Israel’s election onto one man—Jesus of Nazareth—who is faithful unto death and finds life in the resurrection. As a result, all who are “in Christ” are constituted as the “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16–17). Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; only a new creation. This is why Paul says that he “bears on his body the marks of Jesus.” The marks of Jesus are opposed to the ‘marks of circumcision,’ since to be ‘Israel,’ one must be ‘in Jesus.’ The only way to be ‘in Jesus’ is suffering with Him—a sentence-unto-death we all receive in the waters of baptism.

The restoration of Israel from exile took place in the resurrection of our Lord. As such, Israel’s identity depends on union with him. To deny that the Church is identical with Israel is to deny that God has fulfilled His promises in the crucified and risen Messiah. And that is why this is all so important: The true Israel is not Israel ‘according to the flesh,’ because “you are not in the flesh; you are in the Spirit” (Rom. 8:9).

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Proponents of a distinction between Israel and the Church often argue that to understand the Hebrew Bible on its own terms is to grant an ongoing, covenantal election of Israel in the flesh. But on the contrary, the opposite is true. If Israel is constituted by ethnic Jews and not the Church, God has failed in his promise.

Moses promised that there would be one exile and one return, and that return would be accompanied by the circumcision of the heart and the endowment of the Spirit. As N. T. Wright demonstrates in The New Testament and the People of God, Israel understood their exile as ongoing in the first century, having only partially ended with the return from Babylon. However, if a second exile began under the Romans in A.D. 70, then the words of both Moses and the prophets are thwarted. The Old Testament becomes a ‘lifeless, dusty, and mostly useless archive’ of promises that have failed. Only if the return from exile is constituted by the resurrection of Christ are the words of the prophets kept alive.

 . . .

Source:  http://blogs.ancientfaith.com/onbehalfofall/israel-and-the-church-why-does-it-matter/, opened 4 Jan. 2017

Christopher Pisarenko also has some interesting thoughts on evangelicals and their support for the modern state of Israel:

. . . It is by no means accidental that the Puritanical belief that Americans are God’s Chosen People was then projected on to the Zionists. Indeed, more and more Americans came to consider the Jews as a special kindred people – as being like themselves. It is therefore easy to see how it is an integral part of American culture to be pro-Jewish – this has been true, historically, since the earliest days of colonial settlement, long before the official establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Today, it is even highly doubtful whether a genuine American identity could exist without there being a firm pro-Jewish ethos in place, despite what the ever-dwindling numbers of paleoconservatives have to say. It all goes back to the civil millenarian tradition which arose out of a Puritanical religious source in the 17^th century and then mixed with a late 19^th century imperialist worldview.

Hence the fanatical support for Israel among evangelicals (aka Christian Zionists) in the United States. The evangelical belief in the rapture and Judeocentric prophecy interpretation, in addition to the central role which the Jews and the state of Israel play in the evangelicals’ overall belief system – all these fundamental pillars of the Christian Zionist worldview translate to mean that evangelicals (and Christian Zionists in general) have to support Israel and the Jewish lobby in America. It is quite literally a part of their religion – and I dare say the number one tenet of their entire Weltanschauung – to be pro-Israel. Their support for Israel is so important, in fact, that if Israel ever ceased to exist, their religion would be proven wrong. So the evangelicals/Christian Zionists must do whatever they can to support Israel in any way possible.

 . . .

Source:  http://katehon.com/article/roots-american-christian-zionism-part-2, opened 2 Jan. 2017

The people of Israel, that is, those descended from the Abraham according to the flesh, are now no different from any other people:  They will be blessed if they enter the Orthodox Church, the Body of Christ, the True Israel, and they will be cursed if they refuse to do so.

Does the return of the Jews to Palestine mean anything prophetically, then, as the evangelical Dispensationalists are eager to claim?  Yes.  But it is not the blessing that they think it is:  i.e., moving us closer to the ‘rapture’ of the Church (which will not happen) and Christ’s Second Coming.  It is in fact a step toward the enthronement of Antichrist:

 . . . The initial phase of this plan [of Antichrist becoming world ruler--W.G.] will be the achieving of popularity among the Jews.  The Antichrist will put forth every effort to induce the Jews to acknowledge him as their promised messiah.  He will be successful in establishing a Jewish realm and will undertake also the restoration of the Temple of Solomon, realizing a dream the Jews have cherished for thousands of years.  Then, “compelled by the people, he shall be proclaimed king.  And the Jewish people shall love him much, and he shall reach Jerusalem and raise up their Temple” (Lenten Triodion, loc. cit.).  (Archpriest Boris Molchanoff, Antichrist, St. John of Kronstadt Press, p. 6)

Modern Israel is certainly acting the part of a friend of Antichrist.  Since the current state was established in 1948,

Christians in Jerusalem have gone from 50% of the population to under 4% (around 10,000);

Christians in all of Palestine have gone from 13-25% of the population to less than 2% (60,000 at most);

3,000 Christians have left Bethlehem since 2000;

the Ascension Church on the Mount of Olives was bulldozed by the Israelis in 1992;

1979 and 1995 witnessed the martyrdom of Christians at the hands Israeli Jews;

and in 2012 many Christian holy sites were attacked by the same (Saint Herman Calendar 2013: Orthodox Saints of Palestine, St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, pgs. 6 and 77).

The evil Elite’s efforts to transform mankind into subhumanity (as Fr Seraphim Rose called it in Nihilism) through various chemical, biological, radiological, etc. means (GM crops, Wi-Fi blasting everything, harmful vaccines, and all the rest) is preparing the world for the appearance of their false savior.  The adoration of evangelicals for the old Israel of the flesh is also helping.  May God help us all to repent, and save us.

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