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Land of the Lost

2/20/2022

"And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they made"
---The Sound of Silence (Paul Simon)

Digital media is devouring Western Civilization and we need to ween ourselves from our devices. What started out as a fascination with technology has grown into an obsession. Video and sound pollute our thinking, and digital imagery has become what Karl Marx described as an opiate of the masses.

After the First World War, radio captured our imagination and motion pictures fascinated audiences. In 1939, color was introduced to motion pictures with the release of Gone With the Wind and our nation entered the lion's den much as Daniel had done in the Old Testament.

Television brought forth a Babylonian Tower when the device was introduced to the American public in 1948, and our fascination with media grew into a form of idolatry: Soap operas and sitcoms have sodomized our nation, reality TV has bred avarice, lust and envy, and celebrity talk shows have exposed false Christs.

Similarly, televised sporting events have enslaved audiences to Caesar's bread and circuses. In the fall and winter seasons for example: college football dominates God's day of rest and professional football dominates the first day of the work week.

In the 1980's, a new Gomorrah metastasized when movie theaters and television converged: Home video rental stores were sold to the public and pornography was infused into our suburban communities. Cable television preceded this and popularized bundled entertainment services with explicit content.

Premium television altered the landscape for broadcast news altogether. CNN ushered in 24/7 news coverage and cut into the ratings of the established news networks.

Rather than stick to their principles, the networks hyped up their news coverage as well. They canned news on local affiliate networks and sensationalized headlines. This hyperbolized news coverage.

In radio markets, stations struggled to retain advertisers during the during the cable boon. Station managers hired shock jocks to create controversy and stir up ratings.

In competing markets, competing shot jocks coveted the the title of King of the Airwaves: ensnaring themselves in the process with their hedonistic acts.

The hyperbole in both radio and television continued well into the 1990s and fed the internet revolution. Much like the Sodomites, internet pioneers built an illusory Hanging Garden: a labyrinth of decadence masking the Whore of Babylon. Graphic images and video reels lured an adoring public ever deeper into the flytrap of Venus.

Pornographers led the way and search engine pioneers followed their lead. Both designed their trawlers to appeal to pleasures of the flesh: luring consumers with tempting snippets below voyeuristic headlines. The advent of smart phones and tablets extrapolated the temptations.

Nearing the quantum era, we are inundated with music and video all throughout the cities and suburbs. Noise pollution and electromagnetic vibrations are so pervasive that we barely notice the introduction of new invasive devices.

The Hanging Garden of Babylon has taken root on American soil and it has despoiled the land of milk and honey. A dystopian future awaits all of Western Civilization if a revival does not begin soon.

Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither --
whatever they do prospers.

Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in
judgement,
nor the sinners in assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting

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The N-Word and the C-WORD

2/14/2022

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You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone covered you: carnelian, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold; they were prepared on the day you were created.
---Ezeikiel 28:13

In Ancient Rome, the word Christian was a derogatory term used by pagans to imply racial inferiority in much the same way the terms nigger, spic, chink, pollack, and arab have been used in modern times.

After Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, his apostates, the disciples, and their followers scattered from the Holy Land into the Greek nation, up through Constantinople and then into Eastern Europe. Almost everywhere they went, they met with persecution and resistance. Especially near Athens: there they were hunted like animals and sold into captivity by Greek officials.

An underground railroad of sorts was established all through the Greek corridor. Friendly taverns and inns marked their establishments with the Chi Rho Symbol: the first initials of Christ the King from the Greek alphabet interwoven with one another.

In the areas in which they settled, followers of Christ treated their neighbors with kindness and welcomed outsiders to join their flock. This gave birth to orchards and vineyards up and down the Aegean coastline.

Taking the Lord’s name in Vain
Rome’s decadence and bloodlust spun out of control after Christ rose from the grave. In the years that followed, Roman legionnaires expanded the Empire’s boundaries northward into Germania and eastward across the Aegean Sea. They subjugated the people in the lands they conquered; enslaving their defeated warriors and claiming their women.

Followers of Christ Jesus were typically executed by the Praetorian Guard for remaining true to their faith. Some able-bodied men were however picked at random and sold into slavery. Many of these men were carted off to Rome where they were paraded before the Emperor in triumph.

Within the capital, they were mixed in with slaves from all corners of the Empire: North Africa and the Saharan Desert, Espania, Gaul, Samaria and Carthage just to name a few.

Christian slaves shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with their fellow captives and echoed Christ’s teachings. This converted Gentiles to the faith and expanded the flock.

Followers of Christ were routinely persecuted for their beliefs by Roman citizens. Unwavering in their devotion to the Christ Jesus who had freed them of their sin, they stood resolute in their faith. Some even earned the status of freedmen by exploiting loopholes in Roman law to relinquish their shackles.

Roman Citizens and friends of Rome took notice of their strength; as did the Roman nobility.

The Roman Senate expressed concerns about the growing faith movement with Julius Caesar and he uttered the word Christian in profanity: out of avarice and prideful anger.

Caesar despised the Jewish tribes and chose to make a mockery of their faithful: the ones who recognized Christ Jesus as God incarnate and accepted His divine providence over the heavens and the earth. He fed those he labeled Christians to hungry lions in the Roman Colosseum as sport: to demonstrate his authority over and his apathy toward the Jews.

A Warning to the Western World
Jesus Christ welcomed all nations of the earth into His dominion before he was betrayed; and few people have heeded the calling. Like the Israelites Moses led out Egypt and into the promised land, our elders have largely ignored the Ten Commandments and chosen their own decadence and sin over honor and virtue.

Today, authoritarians and bigots in positions of power exploit immutable characteristics such as our age, our skin color, our sex and our genealogy for their own gain. They seek to divide and distract us from true threats they themselves have largely enabled. They employ useful idiots to trumpet their unholy rhetoric in our schools, on the airwaves and over the internet to embitter us toward one another.

What seems like a majority of the privileged class within Australia, Great Britain, the European Union and the Americas have forgotten their Biblical upbringings. Tax paying citizens have effectively become the new niggers within the corridors of power: treated with contempt and apathy.

May God bless and keep the shadow players who prey upon tax paying citizens around the world and lead us again into war.

Author: Erik Gagnon - Managing Partner, Chi Rho Consulting

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