Ministers,
I come to you today to speak of remarks I’m sure you have heard already, from the son of our most previous Executive. I bring them to your attention nonetheless because they must be heard and understood for what they are, what they mean, and what they portend.
“If we band together, we can take on these institutions,” Trump [Jr.] told the crowd in Arizona. “That’s where we’ve gone wrong for a long time.”
“They cannot cancel us all,” he continued. “This will be contrary to a lot of our beliefs because I’d love not to have to participate in cancel culture. I’d love that it didn’t exist. But as long as it does, folks, we better be playing the same game.”
“We’ve turned the other cheek and I understand sort of the biblical reference — I understand the mentality — but it’s gotten us nothing,” Trump said. “OK? It’s gotten us nothing while we’ve ceded ground in every major institution.”
This man advocates the renunciation of the very core principles, the tenets of your faith.
The movement that he and his father foment this very moment is raising up a young man whose only claim to such reverence is that he prematurely ended the lives of two of his fellow citizens. There are many, and count me among them, who believe that young man escaped the law that normally would have seen him convicted of murder. This is the ethos that this movement celebrates.
The movement that this man and his father foment this very moment exhorts its followers to deny themselves life-saving treatment, on account of their excessive yet unsubstantiated remonstrations. They demand this denial of life under the language of purity. They hide their calls of absolute submission and obedience under false cloaks.
They are encouraging spiteful self-sacrifice, performed in a manner they cannot determine or prepare for themselves; rather, they are being told to relinquish their lives to impending fate. This tribulation will only engender a sense of uncomprehending, incomprehensible fury; a fury difficult to extinguish, let alone command.
We are coming upon the anniversary of one of the most destructive acts against a secular-sacred institution of our government, the seat of the people’s house of power. This act of destruction was born, nurtured and unleashed by a man who sullied his very office and means to return to it; he vows, in word and deed, terrible retribution for the psychic wound against his pride. He will rend this nation for its repudiation of him. He and his son promise this. They mean to denude the followers of Christ of their empathy, of their lovingkindness. That is the destruction of one’s inmost heart; that is soul-murder.
This anniversary has the high potential to strike sparks and begin a conflagration we have not seen on these shores in decades. This duo, this father and son, mean to bend their followers to their interpretation of ethics and morality; and so far, their evocation has to be to embrace the unexamined shadow self instead of bringing their own lives out for inspection, interpretation and healing.
They mean to execute.
You are ministers; certainly, you see that these designs to murderous impulses will doom not only them but all who come into contact with them. The psychological infection will not be contained. The followers will take their message and proselytize, for you have instructed them well.
For the sake of the love of your fellow citizens, your neighbor, yourself, please consider delivering a sermon between now and January 6 to your congregation, your flock, your people who are family in heart, and remind them that the core teachings of the faith demand fidelity, integrity, but most of all lovingkindness; without the last of these, we are lost.
In the spirit of shared humanity,
Wednesday, Dec 29, 2021 · 12:46:09 AM +00:00 · novapsyche
This video describes what spiritual abuse might affect congregants as they leave a high-intensity group, such as QAnon and other offshoots of the base of this policital movement. This is what awaits you, ministers, when these people in the near future need someone to attend to their impending trauma:
[at 15:25] “I found that after that, after I’d left the group, that I needed some kind of relationship with God, and at first I couldn’t even look at the Bible. Because every time I tried to read the Bible, the leader’s voice would be all I could hear. So I couldn’t read the Bible for some time after I left. Then I did go to a church, and found the particular church I went to, even though the people were very warm and friendly, I was still very uncomfortable. So, for me, I’ve found that I’ve had to develop my own personal relationship with God.”