Sure, they talk about Pro-Choice and Contraception but it's a coverup for their real agenda: Control over every aspect of life that suppresses quality of life for The 99% and pollutes the world for profits to enrich the 1%. The only FREEDOM they care about is freedom for a corporate takeover of governance here and abroad. Be not fooled.
These two speeches, one by Rick Warren and one by the worldwide leader of so-called Christian Conservatism, Doug Coe, leader of The Family use the same exact words. One might think that Rick Warren's ascension could have been helped along by Doug Coe, like so many others with power these days.
In Jeff Sharlett's words found here:
I think they are definitely a force for fascism. I think a lot of the way the world looks is a result of their work. They were instrumental in getting U.S. government support for General Suharto, for the generals' juntas in Brazil. Just take those two countries alone, they are two of the biggest countries on Earth. Those countries might have been progressive democracies a long time ago had it not been for U.S. support for those regimes ...
Perhaps sharing the videos presented here with your friends who are being manipulated by so-called Christian values can help sway some away from the GOP. We have to try, right (no pun)?
This speech starts out a bit boring, but bear with it and listen OR Go to minute 2:22 to hear Rick Warren tout Hitler, Lennon, and Mao as leaders that inspired youth. "We need to teach our children, like Mao did" "Brown Shirts formed with their bodies a sign "Hitler, we are yours and they nearly took the world"
What Jesus said, really Rick. What a frightening method to teach youth faith.
Rick Warren simply parrots what Doug Coe has spread worldwide for 60 years. Go to 4:58 and listen to the end.:
Both have millions of followers worldwide. And both counsel leaders of ALL religions/governments here and abroad. Warren hosts and teaches youth worldwide. This is not good for a lot of reasons.
This is the foundation of the so-called Austerity Move.
Listen and read their words. Transcription of Coe's speech below.
Now, more than ever, we need to GOTV and vote against these "austerity for all" "we own women's wombs" "deregulate everything" "privatize all" fascists. I have hope we are not too late. The Occupy Movement gives me faith. People are waking up, standing up, and speaking out.
We lost ground in 2010, ground that has to be taken back. Can we? Will we? Yes, if we spread the truth about what is at the foundation of the GOP and even some members of the Democratic party.
Sharlett did a wonderful job letting us know about The Family (click to read)
They have plans. 80 year old plans. They are emboldened now. Koch brother meetings. ALEC, etc. Secret groups entrenched in every nook and cranny of politics here and abroad.
I think we need to at least push back with information for others to review. Perhaps enough will not follow and cooperate in The Family's/Christian Conservative movement's heinous plans for humanity.
Let's please put aside attitudes about religion. Religion isn't the issue. Religion and Jesus are a cynical ruse being used to gain total power, although many zealots and believers base their respect for the teachings of Warren, Coe, and others on their faith and convictions.
The conviction of blind followers, especially youth, is why the faux-Christian teachings of Warren, Coe, and others are so dangerous: The masses can be easily manipulated to follow the dogma that is really designed to serve the 1% and the multi-national corporations under the populist ruse of Freedom when, in fact, the teachings are designed to limit freedom to the 1% and the Multi-National Corporations.
In short, THE ISSUE is the misuse of religion and the misinterpretation of scriptures to justify what we see as our foreign policy and the efforts to dismantle social safety nets worldwide.
The heartless tenets being taught are based on a perverted interpretation of Scripture designed to mislead people, in order to seal power into the hands of the rich and powerful: The Chosen, so-called.
Our military is being indoctrinated as well. Here's an example of their thinking from Blackwater/Xe/Academi, Eric Prince.
Erik Prince told a sold-out Tulip Time lunch crowd that the worth of a warrior is not best defined by his deeds, but by his enemies. The founder of Blackwater and Holland native described his own enemies as Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and “noisy leftists.”
Jeff Sharlett speaks to
this:
A lot of their key men in a country would be the intelligence officers in the American embassy. Throughout their correspondence, that's the kind of guy they would like to have involved. They always had a lot of Army intelligence guys involved, Pentagon guys.
Keep in mind, that there are many who don't value a spiritual life, but want the outer appearance of having one (hypocrites for the most part). Many are the ones who follow and espouse Coe, Warren, and other purveyors of the gospel of prosperity.
They are taught and teach that the poor are poor because they are unworthy and that they are rich and/or powerful because they are worthy, The Chosen. That is why they have no compassion and why they teach austerity, which is really a worldwide ploy to create low-wage workers worldwide.
I am sure most here know that was not the intention of the teachings of Jesus Christ. On the contrary.
And Ralph Reed and Grover Norquist proved their wicked ways in Bill Moyers' documentary, Capital Crimes (click to watch).
These three videos can and should be be shared with any/all of those you know who are being hoodwinked by the so-called Christian Conservative leaders, many of which are good people being manipulated and misled by wedge issues designed to sway voters to vote for the 1%. I know, plain as day to us, however we have to work in our own back yards with our own contacts to bring this information to them.
I hope you will.
TRANSCRIPTION of Doug Coe's video in the intro:
Here is the entire transcription. Thought it would be helpful to be able to read without interruption.
Oddly, Coe mentions Tunisia, back in 1989 as a good example of dedication to its principles. That didn't work out so well, did it.
TRANSCRIPTION:
.....You can add to them, but I want to suggest you can't subtract from them. I will only quote the ones that were absolutely said by Jesus....
A believer is a follower of Jesus Christ. So let's follow him. Let's not follow the others (paraphrased).
I get concerned Protestants view of Catholics and their great concern about "Maryolitry", kind of leaving Jesus in the background, however, the very people that complain about them are guilty of Paulolitry. They wonder why we are so big on Paul. I think we should be big on both. but I think we ought to be bigger on Jesus Chrise, because without Jesus Christ, Mary and Paul are nothing. And neither are we. Without Him we are absolutely nothing.
So let's look to what Jesus said when He was wandering around Galilee with his friends.. And not only John and the 11, I want to say they weren't the only the only Disciples. There was Joanna, Mary, Mary Mag, Suzanna, and I want to say that in terms of intimacy I think they beat us. There were so intimate they don't have to have their names printed every minute. But when it came to some of the things Jesus needed to have done, He trusted them.
Furthermore, it was those women that supplied the daily needs for Jesus' friends, his men friends, before they went out. Talk about an responsibility and opportunity and a beautiful thing was Jesus relationship with those women.
And I want to tell you and as far as I can ascertain, Abram Vereide with whom I labored for years before he died, and I loved him like my own father, there would be no Abram Vereide if there had not been a Marian Johnson, who was an eccentric lachy from New York who met Christ. She's the one that had the vision, she's the one that paid the bills, she's the one that prayed for hours.
No one remembers her.
Behind John Wesley, Martin Luther, and Whitfield, there were some tremendous women, not discounting Suzanna his own mother.
I am telling you that this team in Christ there is no black, no white, no rich, no poor, male, nor female.
We are all One in Him.
But hear Jesus.
And I will comment briefly on what Jesus says. And you will notice as you go through the gospels He said in certain places that "if you do not learn, a chapter a week, from memory, you cannot be my Disciple" (laughter from gathering). No He didn't say that.
Goss (?) used to say "It isn't how much you go through the Bible, it's how much it goes through you."
I know a man that can't read or write, he just knows a few verses, but he radiates Jesus Christ. He just knows "twinkle, twinkle little star" but he really twinkles. He's got it.
But Jesus was walking along one day, and He said to his disciples:
"If any man comes to me and does not put be before mother, father, brother, and sister, and his own life, then he can't be my disciple." Coe 1, not quoted from the Bible.
That is what He said.
And you may be the greatest soul winner, discipler, friend, and everything else, and I'm not going to explain what that means to you, I can't, but I can tell what it means to me but I can't tell you what it means to you.
But I know this that if Jesus reins in your heart, He told us He would send His Holy Spirit to teach you and bring to your memory what He said. And one of the things He
said
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple." Coe 2, Luke 14:26
So I don't care whatever other qualifications you have, if you don't do that, you can't be a Disciple of Christ. You want to be a follower of Christ, a companion of Christ, a friend of Christ, a follower of Christ, if you do everything else and you can't do that, you can't be His disciple, Jesus said that.
Jesus said you have to put me before other people. And you have to put me before yourself.
Hitler, that was a demand to be in the Nazi Party. You have to put the Nazi Party, and its objectives, ahead of your own life, and ahead of other people.
I've seen pictures of the young men in the Red Guard, 20 years, 22 years old, in China, a table laid out like a butchers table, they would bring in this young man's mother and father, lay her on the table with a basket on the end, he would take an ax and cut her head off (Coe raises his arm and swings it down, as if wielding the ax). They have to put the purposes of the Red Guard ahead of their mother, father, brother, sister, and their own life.
That was a covenant, a pledge.
That's what Jesus said.
Today, in Los Angeles, in the gangs, you violate the code, you are dead. It's happening everyday, today, in this country, this very day.
Taken right from the Scriptures. Jesus Christ said
"If you do not put Me before your father, mother, your brother and your sister, you cannot be My disciple." Coe 3, not quoted from the Bible.
If you are going to have any movement that moves men and nations, you have to have that kind of commitment.
Jesus knew that. That's the way the social order is run. If you don't run it this way, the social order goes into disarray.
We start at 9:00 and quit at 5:00. And pay a $100,000 a year.
That isn't the way they worked around Ho Chi Minh. They worked 24 hours a day. They were together when they were apart. They had a covenant and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honors for the Declaration of Independence, and every man lost his, all 59, all but one lost his life. I think that was the record.
That's why we are here. There was a revolution. Jesus Christ is part of a revolution. He's the most revolutionary figure in history. The revolution of love.
Jesus Christ said:
If you do not put Me ahead of father, mother, brother, and sister, and your own life, you cannot be my disciple.
Christ before others. Christ before self.
The Communist Party before others, the Communist Party before self.
I heard a speech of Gorbachev, in Moscow, to 12,000 students from Socialist countries that he brought for 10 days to talk to them. Can you think of a head of a western country that has done that in your lifetime? Can you think of any head of state like Gaddafi and the President of Tunisia, for 2 weeks brought 1,500 of the leading young people of Africa together and spend two weeks with them to discuss the African revolution.
We get a few people that graduate with honors from Yale and Harvard, they pass through and we give them pin, we shake their hand, and they go out. No vision, no purpose, no nothing.
No national purpose. I can go on.
But Gorbachev and his speech. I listened to it, to those kids, change two words and Billy Graham could have signed the talk.
I can think of one of the passages. I'll try to quote it for you, he said:
"The greatest need of the hour is to mobilize the young people of the world, to fight injustice, to help the poor, to fight the future holocaust due to nuclear arms, to fight for mercy, and peace on earth, good will towards men. That's the possiblities of the youth of the world."
The only thing he didn't say was "Let's band together around Jesus Christ"
He said "Let's band together around Marx and Lennon, and let's do it."
And the kids love it.
We don't even ask them to give their lives, their fortunes, or their sacred honor.
We argue about giving 10% and a gift.
I don't think the media, with little exception, is too keen to connect the dots. We have to.
I {{ heart }} Bill Moyers!