Conspiracy Theories
Like a few recent commentators, I too believe that there is a good deal more to history than what the court historians report. Like the poor, conspirators will always be with us. Augustine reminds us that history is to understood as a battle between two cities. One uses the power of the Word and Spirit to advance its kingdom, the other is apt to cheat, steal, rape, kill and blunder. But the City of Man’s main method of warfare is not force, but dissimulation and secrecy. Christendom seems to have forgotten that our enemy is the deceiver of the nations.
The fact that there have been conspiracies and secret movements has been too well documented to deny. The works of important historians such as Carroll Quigley (Tragedy and Hope), James Billington (Fire in the Minds of Men), Antony Sutton (America’s Secret Establishment), and Frances Yates (especially her, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age) is testimony to this.
There are two general problems with most “conspiracy” books, though. The first is that they approach conspiracies from a non-Christian theory of history and the second is they tend to play into the hands of the conspirators themselves by leaving the impression that the men behind the curtain are all-powerful and nothing can been done to stop them. The first fault tends to produce confusion, the second, fear and paralysis.
Like the Apostle, we should not be ignorant of our Enemy’s schemes. But our attention should not be riveted to these things. Our job is not to expose the plots the Evil One and his minions (at least this is not our most important job), but to intelligently persist in deeds of faith and charity.
Aside from The City of God, the best book written on conspiracies is C.S. Lewis’, That Hideous Strength. Not only does is unveil the nature of the conspiracy of those who oppose Christ’s Church, but offers the strategy to overcome it. His strategy is not original. Milton was aware of it as well, as are all but the most obtuse commentators on Psalm 2.
If you use the word conspiracy against someone. You are in effect just calling them crazy. That is all that word is a substitute for. I have seen some of the most intelligent men talk about what everyone knows to be true. Although they know the subject matter. They are discredited with the word conspiracy. So in effect they are saying so you believe in this so called crazy (conspiracy theory).
In the world of propaganda and dis-information. Propaganda only works well if repeated continually and with consistency. Consistency is important both that and repetitiveness give it credibility. This is why all your news is the same, stories the same, subject matter the same on the so-called competing channels. You would be surprised at the level of government information officers (for lack of a better term) on all of the news broadcasts. You would be very surprised to know that a lot of what is talked about is formulated in places like Virginia and Washington DC. If you come to the realization that this government is basically run by the Super Rich. Rockefellers, Rothchilds (who own outlets like NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX just to name a few) and the like you get an idea of why the so called free press works with them so well. The point being the rich stay on. The people they patronize congressman, senators etc. stay in power a very short time.
So who really called the shots on all the gay programming? How is it such a big topic all of a sudden? Never was before. Again shiny metal rabbit on the track for the opposing sides to chase. They are at the front gate robbing the till.
Dis-information is interesting as well it is meant to dis-inform rob you of information. For instance I have a Internet site with some pretty good information. I want to follow up that information even further. I go to another site get most of the same information. Whoa all of a sudden IM reading about Martians landing in NYC and going to nightclubs. The whole thing is dismissed by the casual reader as nuts. They spend a little time at doing this. There are whole agencies that devote themselves to discrediting information and more importantly people. Take Hugo Chavez at the UN. They to a news broadcast discredited him by calling him nuts. The Internet is a very diffused medium. You do not get 28 million people on one website every night it’s a little easier for them to deal with. Of course they love the evil of pornography everywhere being the evil people they are. That’s probably the only reason we have it for now.
Comment by George Roy — February 15, 2007 @ 9:05 am
Mr. Roy,
This is not our destination, but the path along which we are traveling.
There are sometimes bandits who conspire along the path:
Acts 4:26 The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
But, as TJH was pointing out, God laughs them to scorn:
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
That is why they, like everyone else, need to heed the gospel call to Repent and Believe!
Psalm 2:10-11
10Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth. 11Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Because the path has an end.
-Turretinfan
Comment by TurretinFan — February 15, 2007 @ 9:40 am
Once again the way would be acceptance of the norm. Another words accept the way things are. Put up with all of the evil of Freemasonry. The PCA which is basically funded by the Super Rich in the form of Rockefeller also people like Billy Graham even related to him by marriage. How else would he have that kind of access to the leadership. That one verse you quote in Acts is specifically aimed at the ruling class of the time. This obviously left out David.
Acts 25: Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
Acts 26: The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
Acts 27: For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
We take a man like Scoefield to widely distributed in seminaries. It would suprise many to know how he rose to fame so quickly. But I give you this:
Franklin Rockefeller (1845–1917) (m.1870) Helen Elizabeth Scofield
By marriage. That was Scoefields sister. Her father was the President of Standard oil of California. It even goes deeper than that. The Rockefellers are related by marriage to the Rothchilds by one Elisha Davison of Pennsylvania. This marriage also brought the likes of Billy Graham into the fold a relation of Rothchild and people like his cousin Hugh Hefner, Julia Roberts to name a few. I guess one might not think that the girls of Playboy actually dumb things down on purpose and they are well of pornography. Hefner was getting away with things no one else could and the girls well. Lets just call it all very kosher.
Again this isn’t some kind of creepy mystical religious experience. It is mostly about money. Security contracts (you might be familiar with)scaring the hell out of people for no reason. Military contracts. Now Social item Contracts. The Federal Reserve which is nothing but a private corporation made up of member banks some of, which are kept secret also. So you see now I get the big contracts. Military, Security etc. I lend the money and get interest on it. What a deal!
With security contracts, they scare the hell out of us continually with alerts and all kinds of nonsense. Meanwhile during all of this the Mexicans are streaming in with impunity. The drug people are smuggling millions of tons of drugs in. And somehow Osama and the wild eyed Muslims after us cant figure out how to work mapquest to either get to or back to the US to get us. I guess they can’t buy a GPS. Or maybe it is this we used stratiegery on them. We stopped them with our big powerful American brain. We did such a good job of it did we not! Why we should be able to guard that 14k mile oceanfront border with no problem. We can just put a sign up in the ocean to fool them a left hand turn sign should do it.
Comment by George Roy — February 15, 2007 @ 11:03 am
Dear Mr. Roy,
Perhaps that’s just what Bill Gates and the Waltons want you to believe?
-Turretinfan
Comment by TurretinFan — February 15, 2007 @ 4:31 pm
This place is getting weirder and weirder…
Comment by Jimmy Li — February 15, 2007 @ 5:19 pm
Is there anything wrong with being a Freemason or a Skull and Bones initiate or a regular at the Bohemian Grove? A weekend sware’ at the Ordo Templi Orientis never set anyone back on the chain of evolution, only advanced their achieving “True Will”, divinity and godhood. After all the profane ones, the goyim, need us, they need our illumination, in fact not only do they need it, but they love it, and readily bow the knee and wave the flag!
Comment by secret agent +J(o)>S~H** — February 15, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
The subtitles of comment 4 do not escape me. Like I say some people are in it for themselves and their own best interests. The problem I see is not strangeness it’s the stupidity of true believers. Not in Christ. But those who will believe anything that some demagogue like a Pat Robertson or James D. Kennedy display.
People have their own best interests at heart. I look at the reply and I look for motive. Either could be affiliated with what I have brought up in my topics. This is probably the case.
In any case abortion through all 9 months does make the United States a little weird I do agree. A place that would stoop so low and fiddle as if nothing has happened while the killing goes on that is very strange I agree.
Comment by George Roy — February 15, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
I think what the man was trying to say. I agree with almost everything he said. That Freemasonry basically is about money. Not about some religion. I have had experinces with Masonry. I have lost several contracts to their members and am suspicious of how that worked. So have several of my friends.
Comment by Jim Marcus — February 15, 2007 @ 6:35 pm
I agree entirely. If that man up there added. He could figure out that 3 dollar a gallon gas muliplyed by everyone having to fill up at least twice a week at the cost of say $65 a week far outstrips what Bill Gates ever dreamed of selling including Microsoft. He must not be a very good businessman. Most people know that the Corporate Heads say oh Exxon and Chevron GE and the like are nothing but front men for the people that truly own those companies. It would be nice if the unsophisticated held their comments to themselves.
Comment by Allan Porter — February 15, 2007 @ 6:50 pm
I would like to echo MRB’s acclaim for “That Hideous Strength” by allowing the inimitable Fairy Hardcastle to have her say: “Isn’t it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That’s how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E.[National Institute for Controlled Experiments] is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. It it’s properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we’re non-political. The real power always is.” That Hideous Strength, C.S. Lewis, p. 97.
This principle has a host of applications in the contemporary scene, but one that comes to mind is Israel. Any criticism of the master State is deemed incipient Nazism by the Left and naive bleeding-heart pacifism by the Right. And if you calmly note that Central banksters are the ones who really profit from our wars you are labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by both sides. End of conversation.
The modern political scene should remind one of nothing so much as professional wrestling. Like the reporter doing a story on Hulk Hogan who famously wandered into the locker room looking for the merciless behemoth only to find him having a smoke and a chat with his arch-nemesis the Iron Sheik, the American populace, especially the “Christian Right,” is in for a surprise.
Comment by Doug Wood — March 6, 2007 @ 10:59 am
That is a very astute statement Doug. Those of us that suffer from all the lying I would guess are the best observers of all the hi-jinks. My question to all that read would be this. Why do they all line up on this one issue, Israel? Does not matter if Christian right. Far left all are together on this with absolutely no descent that I have ever heard of anyway. Except on the false issue of dividing the land which is thrown out for the biblically stupid and of course they jump right in. Jesus I guess never really gave a darn if they divided the land.
Where his statement is astute is this. Why all the support? Why all the seamless support. I have never seen that in Washington on to many things. They seem to want to keep this one issue this way for some reason. I consider politics nothing but witchcraft myself and manipulation of people.
Which brings me to this point. There is much more to this than meets the eye. More hidden than one would care to guess. It is up to the smart to look for the underpinnings of what’s taking place of course. Big bankers true. You could change that to the super rich and have pretty much the same thing. That again would be the very top. Then you have freemasonry and the G8 countries where there news is virtually all the same and the governments run in the same manner which sucks tax money out of the populace hands it to the super rich in the form of government contracts, military social and more. Then they print the money lend it to the government which pays for the contracts they can get and then they earn ridiculous interest on it. Freemasonry being the organization of the government which is the pay out for all the politicians and supporters. Meanwhile the populace is kept wound up with social issues while all the thieving takes place. Also with silly things like some playboy bunnies death while a 28 trillion dollar budget is being allocated without barely a word. So guess who owns the network stations. I would think the super rich wouldn’t you?
Comment by George Roy — March 6, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
What’s interesting to me is that people are so worried about the budget and the war, while every day a false gospel of “Jesus Loves You” is passed off as Christianity.
Now that is a conspiracy worth decloaking. The other conspiracies (if they even exist outside the minds of the theorists) are relatively insignificant.
-Turretinfan
Comment by TurretinFan — March 7, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
You have to watch people and there agendas. In everyday life people have self interests. The word conspiracy in itself you might as well just say its crazy. Basically the propagandists and there minions will use that to discredit the validity of things that are very true.
A true thief with no self control would jump in on that immediately. Especially if he had interests similar to the Masonic power structure. These people that benefit from masonry are wormy sorts and participate in things frequently as they are protecting there own self interests. Make no mistake they are very deceptive and clever how they go about things. They will even play all sides. I am very tired of their lies.
Hitler threw the masons out of power who were installed after WW1 it is published fact. Hitler hated corruption, Masonry is corrupt. They hate him to this day for it. The Masonic of the G8 countries. They did there best to make sure Germany never came back again.
I for one believe that Germany will be back. Run by the honest hard working people of that land. I very much look forward to that day. Until then it will be run by people as corrupt as the Masonic governments of the G8 stealing and spreading the spoils to their friends and lying their faces off.
Comment by Kevin Weeks — March 7, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
TF -
False dichotomy. It is because we believe the gospel that we reject the modern warfare state. The false gospel is seen in many different ways. Many Christians have identified Christianity with American foriegn policy, esp. in the Middle East. Such grotesque error sullies our holy religion.
And be patient about specific errors relating to the gospel. My colleague has launched a series on the Holy Catholic Church in which he is laying the groundwork for exposing the sham of many wannabe churches. These “churches” almost always are engaged at some level in undermining the gospel of Christ.
Comment by MRB — March 12, 2007 @ 4:01 pm
As I mentioned in the original post, one of the best conspiracy books is Lewis’, That Hideous Strength. For those who have not read it or for those who wish to re-read it, note how Lewis develops the following themes.
The inner ring (Here is an essay that Lewis wrote about the lure of being an insider.)
The role of skepticism
Distinction between science and scientism
Technology and nature
Science and the state
Knowledge and control
Relation between the occult and scientisim (esp. in the characters of Frost and Wither)
The “soft” sciences (sociology and the police state)
The nature of conspiracies
How to defeat conspiracies
The role of symbolism
The nature of mind control
Man as ruler of earth vs. man as ruler of the planets
Man and his relation with the beasts
The male and female archetypes
Physical and spiritual realms
Lewis also explores the theme of “news” and propaganda in the novel. In a letter he confessed, “I never read the papers. Why does anyone? They’re nearly all lies, and one has to wade thru’ such reams of verbiage and “write up” to find out even what they’re saying.” This was written in the golden age of newspapers. Just image what Lewis would have thought about Fox News.
Comment by MRB — October 23, 2007 @ 3:52 pm