By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--October 9, 2012
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Ever since I was a young boy I played the silver ball From Soho down to Brighton I must have played them all But I ain't seen nothing like him in any amusement hall That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinballSo what has actually happened the last four years in the White House? Obviously, an elaborate fraud has been foisted upon a credulous, tired and intellectually inert American public. But why? Because liberalism is a movement so inherently illogical, unstable and anti-intuitive it needs leaders who are either dense blowhards, moral misfits, or literally insane to head the cause (see Sources of Madness--The Insane Thinkers of the Modern Age). Alarmingly, modern liberalism (socialism, Marxism, Fascism, etc) is a political religion intent upon converting the world, even by sword, if necessary. So the real star of Obama's administration is this quasi-religious, atheistic world movement which finds a surprising ideological partner in classic Islam. This menacing, anti-liberty movement will not rest until it has enslaved the globe.
The revolutionary faith was shaped not so much by the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment (as is generally believed) as by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany. This faith was incubated in France during the revolutionary era within a small subculture of literary intellectuals who were immersed in journalism, fascinated by secret societies, and subsequently infatuated with "ideologies" as a secular surrogate for religious belief. The professional revolutionaries who first appeared during the French Revolution sought, above all, radical simplicity.If we were to sum up the beliefs of the earliest socialists, it would be a rejection of human liberty at all levels, and a replacement of temporal authority with superhuman leadership transcending even God--illustrated by how Marxists regimes flouted all of His commandments. At heart is the deeply humanist and ultra-chaotic evolutionary reign of men subjectively controlling other men without any ultimate standard from which to rule-make or appeal. This is all achieved through revolution, one meant to sweep across the globe and wipe out all capitalism and democracy. This is the tradition Barack's handlers represent.
Working from a strong Marxist base, liberation theology teaches that the New Testament gospels can be understood only as calls for social activism, class struggle, and revolution aimed at overturning the existing capitalist order and installing, in its stead, a socialist utopia where today's poor will unseat their "oppressors" and become liberated from their material (and, consequently, their spiritual) deprivations. An extension of this paradigm, black liberation theology seeks to foment a similar Marxist revolutionary fervor founded on racial rather than class solidarity.
Collective salvation is a concept contrived by the originators of liberation theology. This way of thinking was introduced in Latin America Catholic churches in the late 1950's and adopted by many predominantly Black churches in the 1960's. Liberation theology interprets the teachings of Jesus to mean that we must fight for those trapped in unjust economic, political, or social conditions or to engage in political activism to advance the cause of social justice. Check out the ELCA social issues webpage. In liberation theology, there are only two classes, the oppressors and the oppressed, those with power and those that are powerless. The concepts of collective salvation and liberation theology are the driving forces of the ELCA's ministry. This fact will not be found on the home page of their website, but the ELCA Bishop, Mark Hanson, spoke about how important social justice is to him, when he referred to what he called the gospel of radical inclusiveness in his most recent town hall meeting. Most troubling is that while he was speaking about this social justice issue, was that he believed that it was as important to a Christian as is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Nothing is more important than our relationship with our Savior!3. Islam & Collective Salvation: Islam also embraces a kind of collective salvation. This is perhaps not as surprising when one realizes that the political model of Islam developed before the religious doctrines, as difficult as this may be to fathom. It also explains how Islam can demand conversion by sword, or heavy taxation and treaties for non-believers in Muslim lands without any irony. Both main sects of Islam, Shia and Sunni believe that membership in Muslim community saves one. Adbulaziz Abdulhussein Schedina writes in Islamic Messianism: The Idea of the Mahdi in Twelver Shi'ism,
The Islamic doctrine of salvation was conceived in the formation of an ideal religio-political community living under a fitting legal and social system of Islam on earth...the Sunnites looked upon salvation as possible only through the allegiance and loyalty of all believers in the community. As long as the community continued to be fully committed to the promulgation and observance of the Law (Shari'a), its salvation was guaranteed regardless of the qualities of the leaders.Shia agree with the foregoing, except that the leadership of the community must be pure for the community to be saved, as described in Understanding Bibi's Urgency: Israel is Only Target of Iran's Need for Islamic Apocalypse. Barack has also stated he is a redistribution several times, and also acted like one. But, more fascinatingly, Obama himself has an admitted fixation with group salvation, claiming this as his own belief repeatedly. Barack claims of himself: "My individual salvation rests on our collective salvation."
Marxist politics ends with the establishment of global communism as a new world order and the dissolution of the state--these are inevitable evolutionary steps. In the same sense that humans, societies, economies, and politics are evolving, so the new world order is an evolutionary advance over former nations, states, tribes, and other race or class distinctions. Georgi Shakhnazarov, a top aide to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, writes, "Our epoch is the epoch of the revolutionary transformation of capitalist society into communist." In tracing the beginnings of the revolution, he says, "the building of a new world order...was begun in October 1917 by revolutionary Russia, proclaiming socialist principles." The establishment of world communism, the ultimate aim of Marxism, puts the means of production in the hands of the people, abolishes classes, abolishes the state, and leads to a world society of cooperation and consensus.So the goal of all dedicated leftists is the overthrow of capitalism to make a world socialist state. Even here in America and even now.
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.