Secular Humanism (Pt 1)—Exploring the Root Causes of America’s Current Civil War

Post Election Analysis

The once United States of America has just emerged from a presidential election where we are anything but united. We are united in name only, but, in reality, it is now the Divided States of America. How did we get here and who are the main players in this giant kabuki theatrical act? What is the source and origin of this division where the two sides are squared off against each other in pitched formation with muskets and cannon perpetually ready to fire?  Who is to blame? Even though the more traditionalist, conservative and patriotic side has won the current battle, the culture war still rages on. What can we learn from this and where do we go from here?

America may not be in a literal or hot civil war where one side is firing muskets and cannons at each other, but, to be sure we are in a cold, cultural and spiritual civil war. The one side that calls itself democratic is using every possible means—after all, don’t you that the ends justify the means—to destroy its opponents. Their weapons du jour? Censure free speech and attack one’s opponents in every possible with shoot to kill orders. This involves viciously attacking their enemies politically and judicially, the use of lawfare to destroy one’s reputation and finances, Stalinist-like show trials where one imprison one’s opponents for little or no reason, the destruction of the businesses and economic opportunities of one’s enemies, the use the governmental security and intelligence agencies to spy on and persecute one’s opponents, the use the media to vilify one’s opponents through unverified accusations and by stating lies as facts and by accusing one’s opponent of what one is guilty of oneself (in psychological terms called projectionism). Other means employed to vilify one’s enemies included ad hominem or character assassination tactics. Names were used such as deplorables, garbage, stupid, fascist, Nazis, Hittlers, white supremicists, racists, misogynists and much more. A generation ago, who would have remotely guessed that the terms “American” or “patriot” would become pejorative bywords in America itself? 

The America haters even attacked the populace through so-called pandemics. What could have been more telling than the imposition of face masks to symbolically and suggestively gagged the public thus curtailing the freedom to speak out against such anti-U.S. Constitution tyranny? If that was not enough, many more constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties were either abridged or outright suspended such as the right to gather, to speak freely, to move about freely, and to publish freely one’s opinions. Generally speaking, the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness including the freedom of operate one’s business and occupational pursuits in order to support oneself and one’s family were limited or made illegal. Since when are illegal mandates suddenly legal? Another Amerika has emerged out of the confusion and dystopic disorder. Can we come out of this? Only time will tell. 

Currently the New America is not America anymore. Gone are the days when the two political parties were both overtly patriotic and loved their country, and even though they may have had different visions of how to make America better, they still respected each other enough to agree to disagree without being disagreeable. They worked things out through respectful discourse leading to compromise. Now for the leftist, so-called progressive side, it is my way or the highway. If you disagree with me, you are scum and deserve to die figuratively if not literally. If they fail to get their way, the are the first either to murder you with their words, destroy your reputation and business, declare you to be an enemy of the state, label as mentally ill, imprison you on trumped up charges, or even try to assassinate you. Does the former Soviet Union, communist China or Castro’s Cuba ring anyone’s bell? To this point, more and more people who fled those tyrannical, totalitarian regimes for freedom in America are now sounding the alarm that the land of the free and the home of the brave is heading in the same direction as these failed experiments in secular humanistic idealism that promised a utopia for the masses but instead delivered a hell on earth dystopia, which is why they fled those countries often at great personal risk for America. Do we humans never learn from the lessons of history? 

Thankfully, a majority of Americans resoundingly said, “NO!” to the demonic agendas of the “progressive leftists” by voting out the current regime. Enough Americans searched their soul and realized that something was amiss with the status quo, normative narrative. There is a glimmer of hope for us. So what will we do now with what heaven has given us? 

Now that the U.S. presidential election is history, and Providence has mercifully given America another reprieve from the severe judgments that we deserve for largely turning away from the Almighty Creator Elohim, it is time to reflect on a few things. In this epic battle, who is the real enemy? Is it the “progressive, leftist Democratic Party” and their acolytes, or is it something greater and way beyond that? As always and as truth seekers, we must attempt to dig deeply into the soil from which movements ideologies spring up to discover the real source and origin of such things. The noxious weed above the ground is merely the surface manifestations of its roots that go deep. Nature and common sense teaches us that first there is a seed, then the roots, then a sprout, then the plant and then more seeds and the cycle repeats itself again and again down through the cyclical course of human history. History repeats itself again and again. There is nothing new under the sun. The world is a giant and ongoing theatrical play. The story line and plot are always the same; only the actors and costumes change.

So what are the roots of the current spiritual, sociological and cultural hell on earth in which we currently find ourselves? To find a solution to a problem, one must identify the causes. There is never a political or economic solution to a spiritual problem.


Secular Humanism: The Devil’s Original Lie and the Religion of the New World Order

We are presently watching unfolding before us an epic and cosmic struggle between the forces of evil and good. The world system or cosmos of the devil is pitted against the unalterable and immutable plans, purposes and Word of the sovereign Creator of the universe, YHVH Elohim. Ultimately, it boils down to the epic and perennial battle between the spirit of antichrist versus YHVH-Yeshua the Messiah (Jesus Christ).

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The Shameful Truth Behind Gay Pride Month

What’s the Big Deal Abut Pride Month?

The rainbow flag, Pride Month, LGBTQ+, DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), Wokeism, CRT (critical race theory), the NWO (the new world order), ESG (environment, social, governance), gender pronouns and the list goes on and on of the terms that are now part of our current lingua franca whether we like it or not. Who is pushing this stuff on us anyway and why? It is definitely not Bible believing people. That in itself ought to give us a clue as to the source of it all! As I write this, it is the month of June. June used to be notable for being the beginning of summer. No longer. June is now about celebrating homosexuality and various expressions of sexual “freedom,” or biblically speaking, sexual deviancy. Pride month is now being celebrated and promoted from the White House all the way down to my local city hall.

It used to be that the role of government be it national or local was to build and maintain the highways and parks, protect our borders from alien invasions, defend us from enemies foreign and abroad, protect the civil liberties enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, make and enforce laws to protect the citizens, lock up criminals, and make sure that water flows from our faucets, and when the toilet flushes it goes away. Now, however, the government has taken on the mantle of social engineer, or stated another way, the State has assumed the role of God by being the creator, purveyor and enforcer of its own religion called Wokeism or whatever else you want to call its anti-biblical agendas. And what is the goal of this new religion and its sycophantic acolytes? It is to remake society into its own image of what it thinks people should be like, and that image is very different than the traditional and often biblical based values we have known for hundreds of years in our Western societies. The tenets of this new religion rabidly and militantly stands against nearly everything the Bible declares to be right and true. Face it, if you are a Bible believer, you are the target, and are in their gun sights! Like a vomit-inducing horror movie, the agenda of these new religious zealots, who virulently hate YHVH Elohim, the Bible, the Messiah and you, is coming to a theater near you if it hasn’t already. This is the spirit of antichrist!

This movie called, “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” or DEI for short, which is now being produced by Antichrist Inc., is being featured on the marquis of the ideological movie theater in my town. How is this, you ask. I live just south of one of the most liberal and libertine cities in the America, Portland, Oregon. Our state in general and Portland in particular, whose unofficial motto is “Keep Portland Weird” and who worships itself in the form of a goddess called Portlandia and whose giant statue adorns city hall, is a poster-child for Woke weirdness and leftist,  DEI antichrist ideologies. If it is antilogical lunacy, it passes muster with the majority of voters and politicians in this state whether it is euthanasia, the legalization of hard drugs, defunding the police, paying and enabling people to be homeless, criminalizing law-abiding gun owners, selling retail marijuana on every street corner, promoting full nudity in public places like downtown Portland’s annual naked bike ride, the state no longer requiring high school graduates to be able read and write because to do so is racists, or emptying the prisons of felonious criminals, and then refusing to prosecute criminals who attack the police. These are just a thimble full of crazy ideas that have taken root in the fertile ground in this Bible intolerant, God-hating state. Oregon definitely lacks tolerance, diversity, inclusiveness, equitability when it comes to biblical values or those who promote them!

So when I say that the religion of Wokeism and DEI has come to a theater near me, I am not speaking fantastically. This is because the middle to upper class suburban town in the outskirts of Portland in which I live has enthusiastically taken up the banner of DEI and Wokeism—nice sounding labels for sexual promiscuity, sexism, reverse racism and the persecution of people who hold to biblical values. I have checked it out and found that this attempt at social engineering is not in our city’s charter! Yet this does not stop my city’s political lemming leaders from marching in goose step with the ideological overlords and puppet masters of this new global religion. To wit, at tax payers’ expense, my city is now making bumper stickers with the city’s logo against the background of rainbow flag and encouraging its citizens to paste them their vehicles. What’s more, to make sure that their religion gets planted firmly in hearts and minds of local residents, the city is even sponsoring talks at our local library encouraging DEI and Woke ideologies. The city is then publishing articles in our city’s monthly newsletter promoting this new religion. Just this month, the city newsletter (a small newspaper), in celebrating “Pride Month”,  featured a giant rainbow flag in its masthead. All of this is going one while the roads go unpaved, dead and hazardous street trees remain uncut, weeds infest many of our city’s parks and flower beds and crime is on the rise. Can you see what’s wrong with this picture?

With regard to the rainbow that the homosexual agenda has hijacked as its identifying symbol, isn’t ironic that they would choose a symbol that YHVH Elohim used as a promise that he would not wipe the world clean again via a global flood because of its evil including sexual promiscuity and deviance? Is not the use of the rainbow to represent the homosexual et al agenda no more than an upraised and taunting fist in the face of the Almighty as if to say, “I dare you to bring judgment against us!” But I digress.

Now on to the real point of this piece. So June is Pride Month. Why pride? Pride in what? What is pride really all about? What is the opposite of pride that the moral degenerates are trying to cover up in themselves? What does the Bible have to say about pride? Let’s explore these a bit.

The Dictionary Definition of Pride

It is a fact that languages and word meanings evolve over time. This is a natural phenomenon. This reflects cultural trends of a society including its morals, values and ethics be they good or bad. Sadly and nowadays words like inclusive, gay and pride no longer mean what they used to. These words have been infused with colloquial meanings that reflect the values of a culture that is in moral and spiritual decline. In fact, for many of us, we have to be careful how we use these words in everyday speech for fear that people will think that we mean something other than their strict dictionary definition.

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The Heresies of Marcion the Heretic Persist in Today’s Mainstream Church

For the written study notes with references to quotations mentioned in this video, go to https://hoshanarabbah.org/blog/2024/05/04/the-leaven-of-the-early-church-fathers-exposed-from-biblical-truth-to-church-tradition/.