Wednesday, February 23, 2005

ISN'T THIS THE LAND OF THE FREE?

ISN'T THIS THE LAND OF THE FREE?

J. Croft

America, land of the Free-no it isn't if you judge our public servants by their actions instead of their words.

Every time some Bush crony speaks he's either droning about some "threat" or salivating over taking away more of our freedom. Come to think of it, it was the same with that male slut Bill Clinton. If we're the land of the free, how come we let ourselves be "led" by those who by their actions have no respect for freedom?

Every time you step to a govt. beaurecrat(or more likely, they step to you) you're toe to toe with someone who'd otherwise be a small, petty person who'd normally be shunned. Should be shunned and your Kids encouraged to harass to the point they leave your community.

But they work for the GOVERNMENT. That clerk behind the DMV counter, that traffic cop, that building code inspector, that federal bureaucrat; they all exude the rank arrogance that comes from unbridled power unaccountable to the average "taxpayer". Taxpayers-US-getting up to HALF our pay stolen from us by seven trillion dollars a year. To pay for this "freedom" of theirs-more niggling rules, less freedom-and they just love their jobs. They get off imposing all these rules on us, that we pay seven trillion dollars a year for.

What the hell does SEVEN TRILLION DOLLARS buys us beyond the most pervasive, most massive government in history? How much freedom does seven trillion buy?

Actually, it seems that seven trillion/yr more like takes it away. If you try to honestly pull yourself up to a better life, open and above board, you're faced with taxes, code inspectors, osha, health inspectors, agents-a legion of small petty bureaucrats trying to justify their jobs at your expense. You say "aw, the hell with it" you won't be earning so much. And being properly taxed, you're more on the margins than a entrepeneur.

You can lose your health-and between the HMO and the government saying money's tight, you can lose what little you got and be homeless. Do you know what bureaucrats are most likely to deal with people who can't secure shelter or regular places to shower or change their clothes? The cops. A lot of them are on a straight power trip(admit it) and get a kick out of harassing bums-it beats going after criminals posing as public servants or otherwise powerful people who can literally buy whatever legislation they desire-that become our laws… which they enforce. Without thinking about it because they're on that power trip.

Power trips. And they're jealous of their power! Try to fix a problem on your property yourself without "permit" and a "official" comes down on you for it. Recognize the police have no mandate to guarantee your personal protection-and take personal responsibility for your own safety-and you'll get some thug cops swarming you, and the criminal justice system will see your sorry ass as just another excuse for their gulags. And America has the largest prison system in the world-to go along with the largest body of law in the world. For the land of the Free.

Sounds like a lot of rambling, right? All over the board, field or whatever metaphor you like? No. The problem is systemic. It's the entire system that is at fault and it has been building to this juggernaut for two centuries. Two hundred years-and nobody has yet to successfully check it. Because nobody has realized that the problem is the system.

The system is the problem. The problem of why we are not free in the land of the free.

And too many of us have been cowards in this supposed home of the brave to do what we all knew and know needed to be done. And it's out of hand. It's all out of hand. I wonder if Ken Royce(Hologram of Liberty)* is right and it was rigged that way. It's a scary thought.

We used to be taught that we were a free people and that our prosperity is a byproduct of that freedom. The point of America is to be free to be prosperous. Where the hell is either of them? What the hell did we do? Did we by our silence give consent to giving up our freedom for prosperity? Well, I don't see us being very prosperous today! Never mind what the networks and cnn and foxnews and the govt. and that jackal Greenspan say, you drive around some factories, some steel plants, some downtown skyscrapers, guess what? THEY'RE EMPTY! Did by our silence and consent did we agree to prosper our traitorous corporations to move them to Mexico and China, and take away our prosperity… and by doing so making us struggle and focus on survival so much we haven't the energy or the time to act on our FREEDOM. Freedom to find out why our prosperity has been stolen from us. Freedom to take the time off work and that otherwise trivial game on tv to hold those traitors who institute the destructive legal and monetary policies responsible for taking away our prosperity-our means of sustinance. Our futures, people.

If we're not free to defend our freedom, we certainly cannot and by judging the actions of today's "americans" WON'T defend our right to a enviroment and society where one can sustain himself and a family. That's right; on top of unctous bureaucrats and politician buying, traitorous corporations there's the brutal impact of their enviromental gangrape of our land. I will mention the following because I hold that to be free also means to be able to have the freedom to breath clean air, drink clean water, and eat foods clean of poisons and pathogens.

MTBE a fuel additive supposed to clean up automobile exhaust is making our water poisonous. Our farmland is being literally washed down the Mississippi River because corporate agriculture finds it too difficult economically to actually take care of the land.** Contaminated foodstuffs are being passed along to us, and on top of that the corporations load up with hormones and chemicals that actually damage us. Our very infrastructure, our way of life is not geared to be efficient-it's incredibly wasteful with the distance between markets and communities demanding the car. And they're gashogs. Cities are trashed so developers can hype the latest subdivision made from farmland. Farmland we're gonna need when oil production wanes and there's not enough to fuel our wasteful cars, our power grid, and make fertilizers. Our consumption, this consumerism is a money pit. A resource pit. It's a false prosperity you're literally mortgaging your futures on that's not going to last past the next few years.

And these policies, to so totally screw ourselves, our children, our nation and our world-did we vote on them? Did we approve of the courses this once free nation has taken? Of course not.

And yes; it's all interconnected. Because who made these decision? Us?

No.

It was a CEO. It was a politician, a bureaucrat that took that payoff, that budget increase to implement the policies that allow these crimes to flourish. And we're free? To what? Have half our labor stolen by these people so they can poison us, take our livelihoods away and make us slave for half the effective pay we made thirty years ago. Strung out on debt SLAVERY so much we have to work twice as hard for a illusory taste of what the "american dream" was.

The "american dream"; I thought it was to be free. I guess it's an illusion to get you to give your money to some bureaucrat or corporation.

Well, you're supposed to be free, right? Free to do this, or that as long as you don't go out to harm someone else. Then, act free-be free.

Take back your freedom. Use your freedom of action to give your tv chair a rest, and rediscover what freedom is. You'll have to do that first because I'll bet this article's the first exposure you've had to any real notions of what that is. Educate yourself. Then find a issue that pisses you off, and take back your freedom.

Find others like you and do the taking together. For some reason the freedom-haters can't stomach a more evenly matched opponent. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that they're bullies and cowards; bullies for imposing their tyrannies on us, and cowards for pushing their violations of our freedoms behind closed doors, or disguising it as for "public safety", "for the enviroment", "homeland security", and "for the children".

Time to knock their teeth out for Freedom. Time to do it now while we still have SOME freedoms left!

*Ken Royce is a regrettably obscure Libertarian writer who wrote Hologram of Liberty back in the nineties. It's a frightening book that surmises that the Constitution was deliberately sabotaged by the elites of that time to eventually produce… what we pretty much have today.

**Farming was once a family affair in America, but corporations like banks got suckers hooked on easy loans to expand production during the seventies, and then pulled the rug from under them during the eighties. Those farming families were denied credit despite A1 ratings, and they were foreclosed on. The lands and equipment were scooped up by… more corporations and by the nineties corporate agriculture was washing our topsoil(where the roots are) down the river, and foisting their frankenstein genetically engineered seeds onto the enviroment.

DERAILING REVEALATIONS-A MANIFESTO OF HUMAN LIBERTY

DERAILING REVEALATIONS-A MANIFESTO OF HUMAN LIBERATION

How Humanity might yet avert it's Apocalypse-because our survival is at stake.

J. Croft

As a writer, and a Human Being, I have over my brief time in this world observed the gathering storm of disasters that threaten our race. I have watched the tv news and read the newspapers and internet at all the disasters-mostly preventable-that have struck again and again. Famines. Wars. Economic Sabotages. Industrial foul-ups of all kinds stemming mainly from our purposely faulty, wasteful, backward technology. These disasters could be preventable, even by retards yet they keep happening. And they keep getting worse. Union Carbide in Bhopal. The Murrah Building and the two assaults on the World Trade Center. Pearl Harbor. The last Great Depression. The in-progress demolition of America's social and economic being that is nearly complete save for the last props that are primed for detonation… the props that are touted as the very roots of America's and the world's economic and social prosperity. Then again, someone could decide to salvo their nuclear arsenal at some enemy in a radioactive gottendammerung. It keeps getting worse and worse, as though according to a deliberate master plan.

It is.

And there's a whole gang of enviromental catastrophes. Asteroids. Hurricanes. Drought. Supercell storms. Earthquakes. Coronal Mass Ejections striking the Earth. The Yellowstone Supervolcano that's primed to blow and destroy much of America and kill off most of Earth's biosphere in a black cloud of toxic ash. Yet, nobody's securing ways of growing our food, or hardening our infrastructure in the face of these threats. Nobody is preparing a defense against the asteroids or even a much more serious search for them. Nobody who matters, who can make things happen in this corrupt society is saying we must make emergency preparations against a CME strike or try to do something to avert a Yellowstone eruption or prepare. Well, if nobody's doing anything against the traitors sabotaging our Civilization, you can't expect them to be honest about the threat of sudden ice ages or falling celestial bodies.

Stupidity? No: the people who run the show didn't get there by a lifetime of beer swilling and television addiction. The people who run the show KNOW what the hell they're doing, so it's obvious: it's all part of a evil, genocidal master plan. I say genocidal because our current path is going to lead to all of our deaths.

I have been in my former life as a unthinking "christian fundamentalist" a avid consumer of what's referred to as biblical prophecy; that the Hebrew god Jehovah, that rogue, that murderer and enslaver would impose on some poor Bronze Age soul the heavy yoke of being one of his prophets. These "prophecies" would logically be directed at some enemy of this Yahweh-either some haughty Assyrian or Hebrew king that usually wound up in a genocide of some form and enslavement of the unlucky survivors. And yet… and yet, somehow they're forming up to be heralds of the events I keep seeing on the tv, the newspapers, the internet. I won't engage in reprinting bible verses-anyone reading a essay on Revealations should know them pretty well. A series of catastrophes that break the Human Race to the point where they accept a planetary wide techno-slavery and worship some fraudulant "messiah" that in a short time is replaced by another "messiah". A "messiah" that doesn't attempt to stop what's called the "antichrist" but let's that evil plan come to fruition just so he or they can come in and mop up.

So what does the above mean? I've been thinking about it for a long time, railing in my mind and heart against the gross injustice of it all. The pronouncements by so-called "holy men" that Man is evil, filthy, deserving of "divine judgement" unless there's a willingness to debase one's very soul and accept spiritual slavery. That from what I've observed cannot be true. It makes no sense: God-our Creator-grind us down as if He were the devil? Evil can't come from the ultimate good. Yet God creates because He wants to interact, to be with others, to share in our experiences, help us out if we need. We're His Children. Viewing creation, the natural conclusion to reach is God is very creative and loving-so the conduct ascribed to Him in much of the Bible? We all have the spark of life, a shard of the divine in us. Not to sound like some new age twinkie but if you recognize you are a part of the Creation you are inclined to take care of other parts of the Creation, like your fellow man. So, I've been thinking and have come to two conclusions.

The first is that the organized religions are in the most part a evil perversion of spirituality, of Man's connection to God. Not that that three letter word even does justice to the concept of the Creator or Source of All. No! It's a evil perversion set up by brilliantly evil perversions of Creation to pervert and subvert our connections to the divine and eternal out of our ignorance-so that we are enslaved to whatever self-destructive doctrine that "they" set up. I can relate detailed, gruesome firsthand experience vainly justifying my former faith in Christianity with what that Frankenstein of a "holy book" called the Bible says… or contradicts itself somewhere else in saying.

To make sense of the Bible you have to take into account it's origins:

*The first five books-known as the Torah in Judaism-were handed down by Jehovah to the Israelite underclass that had been a worker class in ancient Egypt, much as Latinos are in modern America. These five books have very strict rules on how to copy them; one flaw and the whole document must be ritually destroyed. Why? Allegedly, they contain a vast code that can "predict future events". Genesis, on the origin of humanity, is a highly compressed, edited version of much older Sumerian texts.

*Later Hebrew writings incorporated into the Bible(by a debauched Roman Emperor)reveal Jehovah to be a absentee god-who comes around to make his estranged followers suffer. These encounters when scrutinzed reveal not a God, but something akin to a being using advanced technologies to beat up on hapless bronze age humans.

*The New Testament is composed of the four gospels, Paul's writings, a few token writings by James and Peter, and Revealations. Seeing how it's Christianity, it's rather suspicious that Jesus Christ is only in the four gospels-which were written decades afterward, that barely scratch the surface. Where's the Jesus-what did Jesus teach-there had to have been a hell of a lot more than what's in the four gospels. Then, we have to suffer that pretender Paul-a liar and a hypocritical Pharisee(the ancient religious lawyer class of Judea)who's teachings contradict what little of Christ's teachings survived?

It's Paul's writings that are the center of gravity in the Bible we know. Jesus is used as a religious symbol-can be because Jesus was already long ago edited out. The Jewish writings become the Old Testament, that are used because they form a history, a code of religous based authoritarianism. Slavery. A slavery Constantine the Roman Emperor brought forth out of the Council of Nicea in 326. The final form of the Holy Bible was formed by another debauched royal, James II in the 1600's.

Religion is a evil perversion of spirituality, so why take it at what's presented as face value? It's spiritually suicidal, separating us from Our Father.

And Revealations?

My second conclusion logically derives itself from the first: what is presented as the Apocalypse is but the execution of a evil plan laid out thousands of years ago. Evil by evil perverted creations, the cancers and viruses of the Universe to have their way so that their secret backer takes advantage of the mother of all hegelian dialectics to be the solution. That solution being the genocide of the Human Race, God's greatest creation.

The Apocalypse of St. John, and Ezekiel, Daniel, what was attributed to Jesus at his last sermon; these amount to prototypes of the Protocols of Zion(Illuminati)… they're blueprints of a horrible master plan for the Human Race laid out in general millennia ago, to be finalized and executed as the scheduled time of their enactment drew near. Suppress genuine Human spirituality. Rob us of our true history-whatever that was, born witness by all the massive monolithic structures that keep being found all over the planet. Enslave us all in warring, competing Empires and States run by despotic frontmen to the master plan. And the kicker is, they've laid it out right in front of our faces in the Bible, just like they lay out their Masonic front symbolism and tout them as American.

To the master plan, laid out as Revelations, "Jesus Christ", the "messiah", the second coming are the ultimate authors of this horrible, genocidal master plan invading and finishing off the pathetic, enslaved, deluded and divided remnants of Humanity on the plains of Meggido. The scrolls, cups and bowls of the Apocalypse are the general layout of a plan to crush Humanity before we can arise and throw off our enslavers… our murderers.

And, so, coming to grips with the truth, then the only proper response for the Human Race-for any Human Being-is to RESIST. Resist it all; resist the economic attacks, resist the formenting of plots, resist the cultural, religious and economic chains of enslavement and death, resist their enforcers, resist the allowance of unpreparedness against enviromental destruction. Most of all, resist the evil, perverted creations, the viruses of the Universe who insist that what was written down two millenia ago in what reads like a ET encounter of the Fourth Kind be stopped. Resist the final implementation of a ritualized genocidal campaign. Resisted whether they present themselves as Presidents, Experts, Central Bankers, Royalty, and especially as any kind of "messiah".

So, we must resist. Yet how are we to do that? How can we?

Let's review, shall we? The solutions are readily apparent if we really want a solution.

We must take personal responsibility for ourselves, our families, our communities, our people, our planet. This is all interrelated but it comes down to not passing the buck to others because that's a big part of how we got in this mess in the first place. The actions of a individual can reach from the lowest common denominator to the very shaping of history itself.

So what does that mean for you? First it means educating yourself as to how things really are. You probably have already come to the conclusion either by first hand experience or by study that what's passed as our institutions are frauds. You must do more. Find out for yourself whether what you come across the Internet or other resources are true or not. This might take time away from the TV or your golf game but those are amusements designed to distract you, to keep you passive and ignorant.

Passive and willfully ignorant will get us all killed.

Educate yourself as to the way things really are. Then you'll come to the conclusion that you must join others and together separate yourself from the system-the entire system of culture, lifestyle, law, commerce, politics that's been carefully designed to enslave us as Americans, yet touted as freedom.

Culture: watch TV for hours, entranced by it's banality and programming-which it literally is! Turn it OFF!

Lifestyle: renting it under debt(slavery) a oversized tar paper and plywood "mansion", a gas guzzling SUV, a "home theater" that'll be obsolete in a few years anyway. The clothes, the fake gold jewelry, the credit cards. Sell it. Sell it all to someone dumb enough to stay with the illusion. You can get by with a hell of a lot less; lot's of fine folks around the world have no choice. We were NOT born to borrow luxury at 9 to 22 percent annual interest.

Law: written by the lawyers in our representative bodies-which we've given up trying to control so we can just be bothered deciding which show to watch on TV. These lawyers have operated unopposed by a sleeping America for a century now, and thanks to our negligence and apathy have built the greatest most sufforcating body of law in the known history of mankind. Is this the mark of a free society? You clean your own self of what enslaves you, you seek out others like you. Find a town that has a weak government and take it over on the local level. Then, clean out all the laws oppressing us and become a example of what being Free really is.

I have more details on how to do it in my essay, "Message to Mr. and Ms. America at freedomguide.blogspot.com

We have to seize back control of ourselves, and then seize back control of our planet.

If we cannot persuade those that make the rules that govern commerce, govern the value of our money, that "gatekeep" what's presented on the media as news and entertainment, that not destroying their fellow Creations is in their interest, then we must remove ourselves from as much of their institutions as possible. Stop using their sabotaged fiat currencies. Use money that has intrinsic value in and of itself, like Silver and Gold-real money that's been supressed by that "them" because they can't destroy it's value with a printing press or debt issuances. Or straight up trade for items with other items or with skills.

Even better is to stop consuming so damn much in the first place. The economy is set up for maximized purchase of goods and purchase of services to fix said goods. Why feed what we know is utterly corrupt and designed as bait to enslave us in debt? Stop spending on trifling junk! You are DEFINETELY NOT what you pay back at 21% annual interest to borrow to purchase. Americans have been sold a false set of goods with the "American Dream"; a cleverly executed bait and switch on the promise of freedom. Does that SUV, that plasma screen, that prefab faux mansion allow you to be you? Of course not! You're literally killing yourself body and soul in debt slavery, working overtime hours at a job that's slated to be moved to India or China soon!

I must also insert something about Nations and nationalism. Our cultures help define us, and as long as you keep in mind that the culture at large can do a better job of nurturing and supporting Human free will and expression, then defending your culture from the ravages of enslaving, numbing globalism is a duty. It however does not give license to engage in what America's dumbest President has been told to call "wars of pre-emption". This means no so-called war on terror. No jihad to make the world muslim. No war for international socialism or aztlan, or a greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere or Third Reich or any of that crap. They are the tools and excuses that malignant "they" use to get us to kill each other faster. If we all can't wake up and point our guns at the true enemy of us all, all the attempts at political, economic and spiritual liberation will be for nothing.

You are you in what you do, in what you contribute to those around you and to our Race. In fact, sell your junk. Get rid of it NOW while it's still worth something relatively speaking. That relief you'll feel is the sweet breeze of freedom.

Yes, sell that damn TV! What's on but distractions from the engineered destruction of society? If you live where America experienced it's greatest yet blackout in 2003, you'll remember-fondly I bet-how pleasant it was to step out of your mortgaged cocoon and actually talk with your neighbor. There was no TV trying to sell you something or make you envious or scare the crap out of you. You could actually think. For yourself. And that redneck or scary black person or snobby yuppie across the street probably turned out to be someone a lot like you-in the same sorry boat as you. How, people supported and helped each other and were courteous and understanding. And talked. And for one night acted like Americans-like Human Beings can act.

And then the damn power came back on and we all went back into our mortgaged cocoons and had our brains zapped by the damn TV you bought with debt. But the lesson was plainly evident; people not twisted by evil are generally moral, decent Creations. And we don't need all that crap we're sold really.

So, our economic freedom means separating ourselves from the economy. Trade items. Learn to grow food, make or repair items. That sort of thing. People will be isolated at first but clustering together in groups, and then trading with other groups, with our own monies, people will liberate themselves. Becoming independent of the global economy means independence from the worse effects of the coming engineered collapse.

With the liberation of time and labor will come the opportunity to liberate our own minds with observation and reflection. With stress and the TV largely gone, people can begin to think for themselves. At first it will be about practical day-to-day things but eventually it comes around to "why are things so screwed up?" Then the questions shall fly-all the questions our leaders, our institutions and our so-called faiths desperately try to stifle. Like all the protestations to love thy neighbor, unless gawd orders them massacred-or so that preacher says. Humanity must learn to be critical about the terminally diseased bovines sold as sacred cows if we all are to free ourselves. And if there are no honest answers coming from whoever is asked these questions, then where they're coming from will be apparent. They will be the enemy.

We as Free People must come together. It matters not who you are or where you're from. And we must come together to mutually support each other. I mean that foremost in a literal sense. The Libertarians have the right concept in their "Free State" efforts but their numbers are far too few to effect state wide changes. They and all of us must crawl before we can walk.

We must start with communities. A community: geographically isolated situated on defensible terrain. It must have the basic resources; water, decent soil, raw materials of some kind. The people already residing in this community would be the kind sick of their current local government, and I'm picturing a inept pack of busybodies and petty tyrants given way too much authority for way too long.

We move in as Free People. We integrate into the community, offer our skills and goods. Come election day we pack those voting booths and insist on receipts of our votes. We will add our votes independently of the election board and raise all kinds of hell if they even attempt to execute any vote fraud.

We take over the community. And we scrap whatever bureaucratic nonsense that's accumulated. We rewrite the local laws to honor freedom. Freedom of assembly, information, self-defense, association, travel. We revoke the criminal property tax and restore alloidial title to all private property. We hire police that honor the right to bear arms enough to train a volunteer community militia in the latest swat tactics. We rescind all traffic laws save those that actually keep the roads safe and make the local roads free to travel on without a license. We encourage third, fourth, fifth parties. We open the accounts of the community and if the Combined Financial Annual Report shows enough of a surplus-we let the government live off that and end taxation.

With the liberation of this community it will be a lightning rod of retaliation. It will also be an example-provided we expand on our alternative media production and distribution efforts, as the "mainstream" media will crucify this effort.

This liberated community of Free People shall become a example of how everyone could live in peace and freedom and prosperity. These Free People will of themselves replicate their efforts in neighboring communities. This will expand the liberated area to a county wide arena. It will greatly enhance the economic, political and if necessary the defensible viability of the liberated community.

And no doubt, the zone of liberation will expand to other communities, other counties, and eventually states and regions will become liberated, and with that shall come a showdown with the powers that have enslaved us since before recorded history. It is a showdown that must be embraced, must be won-because victory, even in extinction, is preferable to the absolute slavery they're attempting to push on us.

And don't kid yourselves for a minute. The enemies of Humanity who control our institutions will resist these attempts at liberation. All I can say is be ready. Always have extra places to go, extra goods, money to survive on. As a group, be willing to assist others in common defense. And always be spreading the light on your own as individuals. Liberation is one person at a time, one person at a time. Be ready to lose but fight to win. And we shall win. Strange as it sounds from someone who trashed religion as perversions and lies I have faith in God in our eventual victory. You have to have that faith in your heart. Because we must win. We must wrest control of our Civilization and Destiny from these evil creatures that plot to systematically destroy us if we are to have a chance to survive the enviromental catastrophes. Because with those threats, the only hope of survival shall be a truly socially, politically, and spiritually Liberated Humanity acting as ONE to defend itself.

And, finally what of this second coming? Gentle Jesus wouldn't lay out a monstrous hegelian dialectic to get us to ritually murder ourselves, especially on numerologically significant dates and coincidences? Gentle, healing, loving Jesus wouldn't let a pack of inbred jackals enslave the human race-I bet in fact that was what he opposed with all his heart… going so far as to command the disciples to get weapons no matter the cost as his final teaching.

No, mostly the depiction of God in the Bible is actually an enslaving alien entity and it's step n' fechit human coolies. If when we liberate this planet we come in possession of the technology-the true technological state of the art-of the human race it will be a no brainer to use it in the final stage of this revolutionary war. Take on and defeat them, because in the end it's the only option we have.

These however are contingent on Humanity acting together. Humanity acting together isn't going to happen until Humanity frees itself from the financial, social, political and religious chains of slavery that keep us all dependent, despairing, dumb, at each other's throats and enslaved to the notion that we must go through the Apocalypse of St. John.

We don't have to!

THE LAST COMMANDMENT OF JESUS

THE LAST COMMANDMENT OF JESUS


Your God-given Right to Weapons-and how pacifism is not only cowardly in the face of evil, but ungodly as well.

J. Croft

In the Garden of Gethsemenie, Jesus Christ was in torment, praying to the Father in desperation. See, Jesus had gone against every corrupt power in Judea, and knew that a betrayal and a gruesome end were coming. Nobody wants to go out having their closest friend betray them(Judas), and systematically tortured to death.

That however was what was going to happen, and having to go through with it was a terrible burden, even for Jesus.

So Jesus finished prayer to God and summoned two Apostles, and gave the last words of advice. In paraphrase: get a sword, even if you have to sell anything and everything else to get one.

A sword. In the time of the Roman Empire, before, and until the invention of the handheld firearm a sword was the most lethal personal weapon up to long range. Not getting into quibbling about the bow, a sword was a weapon of the military specifically designed for killing other men.

Killing other men? Wait, didn't Jesus say something about turning the other cheek?

Yes, but; why did Jesus say have military armament for self-protection? It makes no sense unless you actually start discerning what the Bible says from one verse to another and who said it.

The Bible has been in Human hands for millennia; more than enough time for mistakes, manipulations, and outright lies to be inserted. Indeed, knowing this one would be half tempted to call such a manuscript "Satan's Big Book of Lies". Except, why were these works manipulated in the first place if the basis for having their true meaning twisted wasn't to cover up something from God? To turn freedom into slavery, knowledge into ignorance, love into hate. You have to have faith that God is about freedom and knowledge and love-these concepts spring from our very hearts, where God resides and has a embassy of the spirit.

That is the litmus test by which you and I can discern with wisdom the Bible.

So at it's very essence, the message of Jesus Christ is Human Liberation and Redemption in Love by our common Father. This liberation unfortunately also requires physical self-protection against those fools who hate such things.

And there are plenty of those types. In the criminal underclasses, the bureaucracy, the military, and the rich. All such social classes incubate envy, greed, jealousy, wrath and other base evils.

Good news: unlike modern "liberals" and a lot of government types, Jesus would NOT have us walk through this planet of the shadow of death without protection.

God the Father extends His protection spiritually to those who fight for His fellow Children. He also provides in this "physical" plain by the inventions of Man.

Such inventions inexorably progress, even with the satanic retarding of Human Progress. Swords become more efficient in design and construction, as does the bow(Jesus used the sword as it was a much cooler visual).

Human technology progresses to the firearm, and arms of increasing effectiveness are built. Pistols for close in and concealed carry. Shotguns for devastating close in counterattack in your home. Rifles, for when you expect to fight, as the rifle is the premier hand held weapon. As the sword was in Jesus' time.

So if Jesus was walking the Earth today preaching, He would instead of getting a sword no matter what, would get a gun. A rifle preferrably. A pistol when you can't get to a rifle, but a rifle's the priority here.

What kind of rifle? The kind used by the military. The evil black assault rifle that get the calls to be stolen from YOUR hands every time a lone nut loses his ritalin prescription, somehow.

These rifles come in two basic varieties; main battle rifles and intermediate range "assault rifles"

Main battle rifles fire a powerful .30 caliber cartridge of some kind and are designed for aimed, precise fire out to a minimum of 500 yards. A minimum, because marksmanship standards have deteriorated to the point where it's forgotten except for gun enthusiasts that 19th century marksmanship standards called for engaging man sized targets out to a thousand yards. These are heavy weapons, firing heavy, hard hitting rounds and the typical military weapon will be a proven winner.

Assault rifles fire either a shortened .30 caliber or nowadays a high powered .22 caliber round-not usually over 300 yards as the cartridge fired isn't as powerful as a main battle rifle round. The payoff being many more rounds in the weapon and carried. The weapons are lighter, usually have full automatic or burst capability. They're designed and built around modern marksmanship standards-that is, a retarding of the marksmanship standards that demanded precise fire out of conscripts fresh out of the city and farm out to 1000 yards.

In fact, guns and their effective usage have been demonized and filtered out of the manufactured mass culture for two generations now. Guns are seen as evil, and their effective use-marksmanship-is now a subject only practiced by the remnant gun culture and government soldiers. What is depicted on TV is NOT how you use a gun, that is "programming" to make you miss.

Jesus wants you to hit, and He wants you to have the most effective arm, and that means having a main battle rifle. They're longer ranged and will penetrate tree trunks, auto body steel, concrete, light brush, and body armor. Something that can't be said for any assault rifle cartridge, which is what most government soldiers and most civilians use.

America may struggle with a false form of freedom, but there is still a good selection of military small arms with which one can observe Jesus' final commandment with. What would Jesus pack?

There are in bolt action, which are for those that are poor:

.303 Lee Enfield-10 shot detaching mag British rifle. Quickest bolt action, it's weaknesses are it's ammo; sometimes difficult to find, and it's rimmed cartridge invites feed problems. You'll spend at a flea market or gun show about 1-150 for the rifle and if you have any sense get a case of 800 rounds for another 100 as the .303's availability is spotty.

8mm, 30-06, and .308 Mauser-5 shot rifles made in the millions and in hundreds of variants. Most desirable and harder to find are Mausers in .308 and 30-06, however 8mm is currently(2005)very cheap and there are millions of Mausers from Turkey and Germany-via Russia. Slow, but dependable. Currently, 8mm Mauser is available by the case at gun shows at 7.62x39mm prices. A bargain. A .308 however will allow you to keep shooting with military ball ammo. The rifles will run from about 60 bucks each from Turkey(buy several along with a case of 800 rounds per rifle) to about 200 for a .308.

7.62x54R Moisin-Nagant-5 shot rifles flooding America, it's cartridge is unique, but plentiful currently at gun shows for cheap prices, as well as the rifles. Accurate, powerful. You can arm several people for the price of one modern combat rifle. And the design can withstand the worst climate and abuse on Earth. The cheapest of the bolt actions the carbines and full length models run from 50-100 bucks a rifle. Ammo is abundant at the gun shows currently. As with the Turkish Mauser buy a case per rifle.

For those who can afford it, more modern, semiautomatic rifles provide a great leap forward in shots on tap, plus they can be reloaded faster.

In .223 are the following: AR-15, Mini-14, AR-180, Robinson M-96, and Romanian AK-47. These are all carbines-300 yards maximum but you have 30 round mags and drums up to 100 rounds. The .223 will NOT penetrate much cover but the right bullet will cause tremendous shock.

AR-15's are the civilian version of the M-16, and there are many manufacturers offering a practically infinite amount of options. Accurate, and a joy to use, it's weakness is it's fragile semiautomatic action that blows propellant gasses directly into a number of finely engineered, low tolerance parts. Hold out for the now brand new short piston conversion that eliminates this stupid lapse of design judgement and finally makes the AR-15 a viable carbine. They start at about 600 dollars. The rifle's designer, Eugene Stoner, even thought it was which was why he designed the…

AR-180-The M-16's nearly forgotten replacement, it features a more conventional gas piston system and the new production Armalite versions feature some AR-15 mag and part interchangability with a more rugged design. Not so many gizmos for this carbine. About the same price as a starter AR.

Robinson M-96 is a redesign of the Stoner 63 for U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam. This is a well engineered rifle that is too expensive to be practical. Uses M-16 magazines.

Romanian AK-47. Comes in three calibers-7.62x39, .5x45x39, and .223. The .223 is the one you want, and it uses it's own magazine but they are currently cheap at gun shows. Known as the SAR-3, it and about 20 magazines will run you about 4-500 dollars. The AK's controls are not user friendly, it's sights are communist basic, but THIS AK is accurate and the Kalashnikov design will still be running when the last AR breaks down.

Mini-14. DON'T GET! No! Mini-14's are fragile, inaccurate, and unreliable.

Main Battle Rifles

Get these proven winners as they deliver full powered rifle ballistics in a modern semiautomatic package. All are in 7.62 NATO and use 20 round magazines and heavy, but you can do everything with these cartridge wise as a older bolt action, plus give out up to 4x the lead.

M-14, is a American design descended from the Garand Rifle that the Johnson Administration replaced with the M-16 as part of the Vietnam War. It was a mistake as the M-14 is reliable and accurate. It handles well and boasts the best iron sights. It's gas system is self regulating as John Garand was a genius. It is the lightest and has the fewest number of parts of any semi automatic rifle. They will start at 700 dollars for chinese copies and about a grand for American made civilian copies. The primo National Match guns go from 1500 bucks up. Since you're spending the big bucks, shell out about 500 dollars more for a good quality rifle scope and mount with bullet drop and rangefinding capability. Get a synthetic stock for a no warp bed for the action. Magazines are the most expensive at about 30 bucks each.

FN-FAL is a Belgian design that was used by over 90 countries before .223 was standardized. It has a pistol grip, fully adjustable gas system and sometimes a bipod, but it's sights are a lot more basic than the M-14's so a good rifle scope is mandatory. A very reliable arm. Several makes and price schedules. A Century Arms import will run from 500 to 700, a DS Arms FAL will go from1000 dollars up, and a original FAL will be over 2000 dollars. Magazines however run about 5 bucks each.

HK-91 is a German design that was also popular. This rifle has a delayed blowback system that is the most reliable of any semiautomatic weapon, and will function no matter what. What sucks about it is it's afterthought placed controls and crude sights. It recoils horribly unless you get a CETME spanish copy, which then you'll have to contend with sometimes crude remanufacture. Get a good scope for it. Mags are even cheaper than FAL mags though.

Okay you got a rifle-can you use it? If you know marksmanship you can.

Marksmanship.

The key to unlocking any gun's potential this is imperative in a rifle meant to strike killing blows out to 500 yards. There are many guides but here's a basic rundown.

Positions, in order of stability:

Laying on the ground(prone)-the ideal as this offers the most stability and lowers your body to the ground making you a more difficult target yourself. Use whenever possible.

Sitting/Kneeling When Prone isn't practical due to water, deep mud, obstacles, or because of circumstance.

Standing-least stable, your rifle's unsupported, but you can MOVE to a position where the more desirable positions can be used. You'll be in this position when you let yourself get surprised.

Rifle Handling:

Your buttstock is FIRMLY TUCKED in the meaty pocket of your shoulder.

Your left arm grips the forestock, preferably with a sling wrapped around it for stability. The ideal is a Military Sling; this is a complicated design with two hooks and a lot of holes. But it's use is simplicity itself; there's a loop midpoint just forward of the rear half, and you twist your sling a half turn clockwise and tuck your arm in. Wrap the sling counterclockwise around your left arm and your muzzle's a lot more stable-which will help you hit.

Otherwise you can just wrap your arm counterclockwise around the sling but this "hasty sling" makes the gun shoot left.

Your right hand has a death grip around the stock/grip EXCEPT FOR YOUR TRIGGER FINGER!!!!

Your trigger finger quickly, but lovingly caresses the trigger; it FEELS the trigger parts slide, resist, let go according to their mechanical design to send your rifle's firing pin on the round you've aimed at down range. ONLY IT MOVES.

Next, sight picture-align the top of your front post with your target, judge and adjust your range with the rear sight, align the rear sight with the front-unless you're using a rifle scope then you just align the crosshairs.

Breath in a full breath,

let out half,

focus your eye first on target then front sight,

squ-eeeze-and let the gun surprise you when it fires. Anticipating the recoil will make you miss. That's why gentle recoiling guns are easier to shoot.

Then you do it all over again for the next shot. With competence comes speed from repetition; just trying to be fast will cause you to miss. You want to hit.

It's a discipline, and it requires instruction and regular practice, and a place to shoot with a dirt backstop for the high powered rifle rounds, but fortunately the basics can be handled with by air guns and dry fire practice.

Airguns are fun, they allow shooting practice in the privacy of your own backyard or hallway. Get a basic bb gun and do each shot by the shooting methodology.

Dry fire practice is using your own rifle UNLOADED. No ammo around or you'll get careless and put a round through the drywall(I know).

So, where do I find these fine items?

You can find them at gun shows, flea markets, yard sales, or a gun shop.

At gun shows, there are dealers and private collectors. Dealers make you go through a government background check and fill out a yellow registration form which informs the federal government you have a firearm. You don't want that so look around for a private collector. You can tell someone's a private collector if he or she doesn't have a sign saying such by the following:

Guns; they will have funky, older models along with more desirable arms.

Prices: will be rounded off to the nearest ten or five.

No pad of yellow forms or a phone visible either on the table or somewhere underneath.

It is best to wait for the gun show to get your guns, and they're advertised in the newspaper. If however you don't have a gun show nearby check out flea markets or yard sales. This is pot luck; bolt action rifles are not common and modern semiautomatic rifles are rarely encountered. BUT, at least one flea market or one yard sale will have at least one viable defensive arm for sale.

What if you can't find a gun show, and you can't find a halfway decent arm for sale? Then you have to hold your nose and hit a gun store, fill out the yellow form and go through the background check. The government will have you and your gun on record… and there will come a day when the Government Agents are unleashed to come for your guns.

Get a gun NOW!

In His final instruction, Jesus communicated how much of a priority it was to be armed-to sell one's cloak if one had to. A cloak kept a person warm in those distant times, so personal protection is to be ranked above keeping warm… above keeping well fed… having that new car, that new plasma screen TV, that mall shopping spree.

Get it now; gun confiscation is coming to America and when most of the American People have surrendered that last vestige of their Freedom, then all hell shall descend upon this country. Don't look for the "rapture" to give you a easy out-nearly nobody on this planet even knows what Jesus really taught and meant, or lived as He did. You're here for the duration, and your inaction has helped make this planet a hellhole. Thanks.

So get that rifle. Get your sword while they are plentiful and available and not a hassle or dangerous to acquire. Do it, or else be utterly without defense against the evil one's minions.

2012 UPDATE:

Guns are disappearing, and fast! Get what you can, how you can with whatever ammo you can. Train as fire teams and be able to hit out to 500meters. Download and read "Second American Revolution Victory Guide 2.0"

RAPTURE THEOLOGY HAS DESTROYED CHRISTIANITY

RAPTURE THEOLOGY HAS DESTROYED CHRISTIANITY

How the false promise of a free ride to Heaven with a single prayer has corrupted otherwise good folks and damned the Earth by their inaction!

J. Croft

What on Earth of any worth is really free?

A rock laying on the ground is free, but unless it's a diamond what value does it have? Other than flinging it at something or using it for paving, not much.

Spoken words are practically free as well. Do something that harms another, and the cultural programming would have us say "I'm Sorry" and there; that verbal bandaid fixed that problem. No it didn't. It's used mainly to buy off the righteous outrage of the person harmed for the bargain price of a few exhalations of air and sound.

That sort of garbage is used a lot by guilt-ridden children. Forgive them, as they don't know any better-yet.

It's also used by the powerful-but only after a miraculously failed fight against the people they harm. It becomes no better than a excuse.

An excuse. In common usage a lame reasoning for bad decisionmaking. There's a lot of that as well, and more preferable than the "I'm Sorry" as there's no Guilt implied. Excuses are as plentiful in modern-day America as debt.

And the damnable thing about it is, lame excuses, being free and of no value to the problems they're tacked onto are created and used by those who should know better! Those, are people that go to church and watch the televangelists as part of the worship of that excessive time waster and mental enslaver that is television.

What excuses are they making for, and why?

The excuses are their-the self-professed "christians"-inactivity and submission to the many forms of corruption and darkness that are gripping our communities, our Nation and our World. They who preen about as if Righteous permit many crimes. I'll make list of fairly recent events that barely carves a snowball off the tip of the iceberg:

1.)Emil Gonzalez; a 6 year old Cuban refugee from Castro's hellish communism, some folks actually bothered to defend him from Janet Reno. The ugliest Attorney General in U.S. history staged a cowardly SWAT raid at 4 in the morning at his relative's home and literally at MACHINE GUN POINT a terrorist looking "agent" kidnapped that child out of the hands of the man who literally had saved him from the Atlantic Ocean.

So, where was the outrage from Pat Robertson? Why didn't he lead a crusade against his bud Jeb Bush and that shaved Sasquatch(you can tell I hate that woman)? Better yet, when Pat the walking bobblehead doll did his aw shucks what can you do routine, why didn't all those seemingly good folks not take their own initiative and consider that the last straw? Probably for the same excuses that made all those "good christians" fail to even utter a peep for their fellow believers in-

2.)Waco. ATF-better known as F-Troop-these folks are the result of the failed Whisky Rebellion in the 1790's. President George Washington himself led a 15,000 man army into the hills of rural Pennsylvania to put down a righteous rebellion of ordinary folks resisting a onerous tax on distilled spirits made by a power mad wanna be tyrant Alexander Hamilton. The rebellion crushed, the treasury department made the bureau that would eventually grow into regulating taxes on tobacco and … firearms.

Two hundred years after the Whisky Rebellion this same outfit of tax regulators would be equipped with body armor, military communications and the world's finest fully automatic weapons would go regulate a… church. A commune to be more precise but Freedom of Association is implied with our Bill of Rights. Now David Koresh did deal in firearms at the Texas gunshows, but he went out of his way to be cooperative with F-Troop. Even though right of uninfringed firearms ownership is explicitly stated in our Bill of Rights. They even shot at targets together and Koresh was often in town. He was in that respect law abiding.

So why, really was a firearms tax regulating bureau sent on a bizarrely stupid and excessive military style attack, treating the Davidians like a enemy objective? If Koresh DID commit child rape, that was the perview of the Texas State Police and Rangers. How come they didn't bust him in town? If Koresh DID brew methanphetamines, that was also not in F-Troop's jurisdiction. But firearms regrettably are as born witness by the THOUSANDS sent to America's prisons for the lamest of reasons. Koresh invited inspection of his firearms business.

F-Troop decided to attack, and make their ineptitude in military and police matters preserved on video for all time. So the big boys of the FBI were sent in and after 81 days of shooting at stragglers trying to surrender and non-stop psychological warfare they burn that clapboard compound to the ground and use CS gas that turns to a cyanide when burnt.

So where were the Branch Davidian's fellow Christians? Why were they allowed to be murdered by the government without protest? Children were burned and poisoned alive, and all the worshippers of Jerry Falwell could do is keep their born again heads tucked firmly in the sand. What lame excuse did they have?

3.) Terri Shiavo; where are those "christians" that worship T.D. Jakes-other than at their self-glorifying temple to him? Why aren't they raising holy hell with the state of Florida and her conniving lawyer-husband to give her the treatment that will cure her? Her brain problems are treatable, yet only a handful of people, and her loving Parents have risen to this helpless woman's defense?

4.)The "Patriot Acts". The first of these abominations was passed mere weeks after 9-11; as a legal document you could literally knock someone out with it if you had the muscles to chuck it, it's that thick. Nobody read it. Nobody had time to read it. It was near unaminously passed. And a Police State was officially codified.

And now hundreds of thousands of petty, power mad bureaucrats and legions of automatic weapon wielding ninja garbed goons terrorize us all. Where the hell is the outrage? Why aren't the Christians, those that are supposed to be bravely defending the virtues of America organizing and cleaning the Senate and the House of Representatives of all those traitors to God and Freedom? Is it that they're too busy? Too cowardly? Or is it all for this war on terror?

5.)War on Terrorism-how do you wage war on a military strategy? Or rather, how does anyone of conscience stand by and approve invading nations that had nothing to do with September 11? Iraq didn't have nuclear weapons after the first Gulf War. They didn't even have terrorists until after we invaded and finished on the ground what over a decade of bombings didn't get-their nation's destruction. We have created a new Vietnam War for us to lose and killed hundreds of thousands in a doomed attempt to secure the oil fields before India and China catch up to America in consumption with over half the people on Earth. There's no way that enough oil can be pumped out to satisfy everyone, so there will be war. Where are all those people packing America's megachurches? Why do they not object to war, to tyranny, to murder and repression?

There are thousands of injustices over the years that America's "christians" have let slip, and the world has become a lot more dangerous place to be in. Our-their-world is dying and they let it happen, even quiver with excitement like the day before Christmas. Why?

They're waiting for the rapture. That theological free ticket out of having any responsibility for their inaction and cowardice in the face of the dark forces trying to destroy this world. These self-professed followers of Jesus Christ are locked in a death cult mindset that predicates what they reckon as salvation on the death and damnation of nearly all of Mankind. So they sit their useless corpulent butts in their pews and lazy boys and listen to the toxic crap sold as gospel:

*Give money to your church!

*Obey your leaders!

*Pay your taxes!

*Support the system!

*Sneer at outsiders. They're going to hell anyway.

*We need even MORE MONEY so we can build a bigger church!

*But if you give, Gawd shall annoint and bless you and give you a better job, a better credit line, and a bigger SUV to get you to our megachurch and give bigger tithes!

*There's a Apocalypse coming, and there isn't a thing you can do to stop it, because every evil deed was preordained by the Lord Himself. But there's a easy way out-just confess Jeezus as your lord and savior, and when it's time for the lawd to tell Satan to finish off the planet, he'll take your good, tithe and taxpaying fatbody up to Heaven! That's it. That's all it takes.

*Support your President in the meantime. He believes in the Rapture-hell, he's trying his best to make the Apocalypse happen sooner, so we can all drive around in Heavenly SUV's and reside in even bigger versions of the homes we have here in 'Murika, and endless TV watching.


THAT IS NOT THE TRUTH!

The first Truth about the "Rapture" is that your average brainwashed 'Murikan churchgoer would never DESERVE such a out! We are all responsible for what we do and think, and if we allow others to take charge, to do our thinking for us, to tell us what to do, to define the dogma of what scripture says about God, then we have failed in our individual and collective responsibilities.

We are our Brother and our Sister's keeper. By implication, we are also keepers of the integrity of the institutions we consent to have over us. And we have failed utterly to keep those institutions in check so is it any wonder that our legislatures and our schools, and our churches and our media have been taken over by forces hellbent on destroying us all? Such people who would lie on their backs like a puppy wanting it's urine crusted belly scratched don't deserve Heaven.

The second Truth is that there is no mention by Jesus Christ in what is accepted as the Four Gospels of a rapture-as defined by modern christian theology.

Jesus mentions coming for a Bride-someone worthy of a union of equals, a fraternity with God. Godly people do NOT allow corruption and theft and murder without a fight to the death.

Jesus mentions that this Bride is without guile or defiled-that is this union is with people who do not follow false teachings. Regrettably there are false teachings in the Nicea Council Approved Biblical Canon; a bastardized work cobbled together by the Roman Emperor Constatine of watered down Gospel, Paul's abominations and the Hebrew Torah to forge a document that has either enslaved or caused those who study it to reject God.

I personally, nearly fell for that cruel trick. I stuck with God in my heart however and overcame the lies and deceptions. And because of that I can testify this: the assembled Bible is a brilliant manipulation by the Devil.

Yes there was Jesus-what Christianity is supposed to be about, but He's represented by four books composed long after the Resurrection. Most of what Jesus-probably 99.9 percent is supressed.

The rest is the Torah and Paul. And the Apocalypse. There's a disconnect one finds when one starts using wise discernment.

The Torah and Pentatuch-the Old Testament-are about Yahweh, who acted like the devil himself in forging a religion to worship him. Yahweh was very demanding, and very brutal about enforcing those demands to the point of slaughtering innocents and permitting theft and rape of entire peoples in the enslaved Hebrew's conquests. In that, Yahweh acted no differently than any of the pantheon of gods of other peoples of that era.

Jesus however claimed to fulfill the law so what happened to the Old Testament can be said to be in question. The Torah WAS precisely written to a extreme-over the centuries, and yet if there is a single mark that's wrong on a handscribed torah it is ceremoniously burned. Why the demand for such precision? Why else, so that you can find bible codes in it. On this I'll make a opinion; Yahweh, a great intelligence, but not God is still arranging things to suit him.

Or, maybe God really is crazy-bipolar, or has schizophrenia or is disassociative. Perhaps it was manipulated by God. Or the devil. Perhaps Jesus came to save the Hebrews from themselves? Whatever it is, there's a disconnect that either enslaves or causes people to reject God because they blame the religion handed to them. And since nobody on Earth has a time machine, this issue can only be settled by wrestling with your faith-and the part of God that's in your heart.

There is that disconnect, but another disconnect that finishes sabotaging Christianity is Saul of Tarsus-a Pharisee. Jesus cursed the Pharisees. Saul's writings comprise most of the New Testament, yet he was never, ever with Jesus. In fact, he persecuted Jesus' followers and would brag about his evil works even after being "converted". Saul's writings emphasized everything Jesus was set against.

Jesus spoke of faith and works to back up that faith. Paul preached that a few nice words, a "I'm Sorry" to God are sufficient, when they're not by all the evils that have flourished since he died.

Jesus made no excuses. He healed the sick, took care of the underclasses and went to war against the financial and religious elites of his day, advocated personal possession of military arms even at the cost of having nothing else-and paid the ultimate price willingly. All Paul could say was to say "yas suh, Boss", and obey your masters, even if you were a slave.

And that house slave mentality has permeated America. A deceiver, Paul would feel at home as a elite of a Nation that propagandizes Freedom, yet taxes and regulates and enslaves and poisons and murders more than any other in history. Don't believe me, just look it up in the history books-even they attest to America's un-Christianity.

Fortunately, Saul of Tarsus has had his bones blackened by the fires of hell for the past two millenia. Of that I have faith in.

And speaking of hellfire, there is Revealation. Some John gets whisked away in a psychedelic encounter with angels and events far in the future are laid out. Cryptic tales of evil beings and battles and great destruction and the genocide of the Human Race-we are to be rarer than fine gold. Thank, God.

Or, maybe it's not?

As presented in the Bible it reads as God's Plan, but that's like Americans destroying towns and cities all over the Earth to save those we war from themselves. Yes God shall judge, but God also wants to save Humanity, and has also stated in the Bible He can and would shorten and even cancel apocalypses-especially those arranged by the enemy.

But that's not what's taught. God is presented as wrathful to the point of wanting Humanity to cruelly perish. That presentation destroys faith, and those that it hasn't are, naturally given an easy out.


The Rapture.

Just ask to have Jesus in your heart, don't do anything else to upset the apocalyptic apple cart and if you're around when the bugle blows you get a free out. How more irresponsible, how more ungodly could a doctrine get? It can't! Your salvation dependent upon supporting the status quo and your World's destruction?

Be of wise discernment. I personally was at one time a pre-millenialist fundamentalist Christian-but only because I was forcibly sent to church at an early age and regrettably became enamored by the falsehoods preached by Hal Lindsey, and some other crusty old phart who is happily forgotten who actually gave a date on TV and arranged a tour for the "holy land".

But one day I started to read it for myself. I fell away from rapture theology after I discovered how the Bible couldn't support itself. Containing warped truth and lies, how can it? So I stumbled, but NEVER having rejected God outright allowed me to approach the Father objectively. And I thank Him for the wisdom and strength to make the journey-not back, but to Him in the first place! How? I was objective, I was logical, I used my God Given Wisdom and Discernment and reasoned for myself and struggled mightily with God against my societally given belief systems and cast them aside for the lying trash they are.

I faced the wilderness and the hard questions and overcame, and joined my Father.

As should all those that start actually reading the Bible objectively and in partnership with God who resides in your heart. And faces all the hard questions that shall pop up-and they shall, and shall floor you. This is your struggle-you must be brave and face it yourself. You get floored by Truth, you get up anyway. Your trust is to be in God-not Jesus who said there is none good but the Father. Certainly not in a devious Pharisee or a bloodthirsty demigod who requires flying contraptions, fire and wanton human savagery.

Most certainly NOT in the likes of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jack Van Impe, Oral Roberts, T.D. Jakes and the rest of those spiritual hustlers. And it goes without saying that you never, ever put your trust in the likes of a U.S. government that has burdened the people it purportedly serves with more taxes, more niggling regulations enforced by psychotic gun wielding bureaucrats, enslaved more people for more legislated and socially engineered crimes in hellish prisons, and killed more people in wars of conquest than any other government, ever.

You put your faith in God. God has no need of guilt ridden slaves or ornate buildings or spiritual pimps. God detests such things. He has need of You. He needs you, wants you to know Him and to grow in love and friendship, and to test everything, even holy scriptures, even spirits, even Him. Because God can pass every test and is happy to prove He loves you and me. Service among Friends is a mutual, joyous thing. It is works, mutual favors, looking out for our Brothers and Sisters no matter what the manipulated and perverted authorities color them as. Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, defending the defenseless, freeing those enslaved, casting out demons and other turds polluting our institutions, setting past wrongs right.

And God will come to our rescue, of that I have faith. We don't have to go through a genocidal apocalypse; if we seek God and ask for help He will deliver the Human Race from those that plot to destroy it, no matter how much they pawn themselves off as Him. God shall do this anyway! God however will not help those who suscribe to a false religion that promotes evils yet paints itself as salvation. He certainly won't be taking those, or even those who DO know God from Earth and let the rest of Humanity perish in the hands of Satan. God wants us to FIGHT for our Brothers and Sisters-ALL of Man is our Brothers and Sisters! Black, White, Red, Yellow, German, Zulu, Russian, Korean, Iranian, Australian, Japanese, Columbian, Mexican, and definitely Americans of all the flavors of Humanity.

And when We have awakened from the deceptions handed down as religion and ideology, and risen for the fight for our Earth, God shall stand by our side to cut short the Apocalypse, to crush the plans of those that would enslave and destroy us. And it won't matter what the enemy throws at us, with God in our hearts in partnership we'll overcome it.

The Human Race has not even begun to express it's genius, it's true capabilities without the chains of enslaving religious dogma and oppressive government that currently bind us and make us spiritually and materially ineffective. When we free ourselves with God from those enslavements I have faith that we shall soon enough be able crush the evil ones. I would only suggest that to prevent our Race from ever being enslaved again we actively make certain that those that tried to do us all in never ever get another chance.

When we liberate ourselves from satanically inspired "christian" dogmas and oppression we won't need a Rapture, a easy ticket out when we can annex Earth into Heaven. We-you-should be insulted by being offered a cop out like that. And you need to start calling out those spiritual pimps that preach such crap.

So stop praying for death and a ticket out. You'll just get the death and God will curse you for being a evil coward and you'll get to see what 2,000 years of hellfire does to human souls by watching Saul of Tarsus as you burn yourself. Saying "I'm Sorry" or making lame excuses at that moment will just annoy God more.

So, be just and righteous and loving and pray for God to have a direct relationship in your heart. God's infinite and should be listened to. Pray for Life and Freedom, and deliverance of us all from the devil and his apocalypse-including you. And take Personal Responsibility for securing the victory yourself and for everyone around you.

Of this I make this written prayer to God. Amen.

J. Croft