War - the worship of Satan's power

The idea of giving worth to people entails making value judgements based on information that is constructed in the imagination. People use this information to justify their actions, which vary in extreme from legitimising the obliteration of millions of souls whose ‘worth’ has been downgraded to that of an expendable ‘enemy’ to commodifying groups of people as being worth more than other groups of people because their ‘worth’ is measured in materialistic terms of economic or social status. The culture of idolatry, of worshipping stuff in the imagination, produces predictable social and political attitudes that in turn develop into traditions and conventions codified by the small print of ‘great’ institutions whose remit is to use every possible evocative artifice and symbol of power to reinforce the meaning of the idols and icons they desperately need in order to reify the supremacy of the human imagination. Worship is central to human activity, an extant need greater than libido, but when the focus is intelligently carnal it becomes slavishly feral.

People without a consciousness of a Creator who live day to day without giving a single thought about the prescience of eternity are prone to give worth to all kinds of putrefying nonsense cellophane wrapped in ideological waffle. Ideology that legitimises carnage based on the worship of man’s supremacy in the universe is one that sets in concrete the framework for injustice and cruelty throughout history and is promoted by depraved minds who mock the chapter when ‘God executes His justice’ at the end of time as Mohamed Al Fayed intimated on leaving the coroner’s hearing last month.

In a world dominated by ‘professionals’ who hate the concept of the existence of a supreme God, let alone one who excludes non worshippers from an eternal purposeful existence, the scripture that has evolved out of their musings down the centuries, which they rely on for propping up their materialist view of the universe is written in the form of endless laws that not only make absolution for the hatred of God but mediate more violence and mayhem than any religious tract or holy book I know of.

Political elites always reify idols of wood and stone to give meaning and tangibility to their absolutist atheistic beliefs, which become shrines to which they pay homage every year. Jesus slammed the Pharisee for worshipping shrines, which evoked their feral spirit to use their absolute laws to justify reducing the worth of His life to that of a ‘blasphemer’ so that they could have him executed with impunity. Such is the mind of the God hater.

In ‘Manufacturing Consent – The Political Economy of the Mass Media’ Noam Chomsky shows how people are unevenly valued by a shared consensus of worth within well established political, industrial and mass media hierarchies in the modern world. He spends a whole chapter on exposing the operation of a ‘worthy and unworthy’ filter, acting like an invisible electric fence, that deflects the direction and flow of news reports away from any image or story that might damage the reputation of the US internationally. The filter operates at all levels to ensure the national consciousness of power, prestige and righteousness is preserved in print at whatever cost to humanity and in the process the use of military thugs reduces the value of one group of people to that of a dung beetle compared to others.

The dilemma of nations and therefore of the many institutions they rely on for constructing national identity is that, in their over reliance on the structural integrity of military assertion as a legitimate means to preserve collateral and material advantage over other nations, they preserve the idea of supremacy over other people using the Hitlerian model of nationhood. Hitler legitimised the slaughter of Jews in the name of National Socialism, a palatable yet pseudo humanistic label. In the name of ‘Democracy’, another nice sounding word used by the intelligentsia of the ‘Western ideology fits all’ politics, the military/media infrastructure in 2003 legitimised the slaughter of Iraqi citizens; dragging yet another Lord Chief Justice out of the closet wearing jackboots to announce human slaughter ‘as legal’. Worship of self always leads to an obsession with ego, self-assertion, which on a national scale becomes institutionalised corporate obsession with objects symbolising the meaningful lives of unbelievers who support murder to get what they want out of life, which creates a landscape of shrines hallowing destruction; war memorials, war museums, victory parades, memorial ceremonies, flags, emblems, inane slogans like ‘God, and my right’, coats of arms and heraldry. All the institutions that play their part in massaging the identity of self in this maniacal worship of mankind’s supremacy over time and space is a role filled by God haters who know nothing about the eternal Kingdom of God that Jesus Christ established even before any sludge was formed on the Earth.

Jesus Christ came to give culture an opportunity to develop an attitude of worship that guarantees a civilised use of the world’s resources but high brow intellectualism, the voice that knows better than God, that spoke through the high brow intellects of Jesus’ day, has created over time a mega narrative that secures the role of atheism in our schools, universities, political parties, military establishments, hospitals, arts foundations, media, etc which in turn guarantees the worship of men and women, of heroes of mythical proportions, of ideological claptrap that guarantees conflict of material interests between nations and armies and industries each worshipping their own identity kits.

I beg you to listen to Christ and worship the God who created you while you have ears to hear the words that offer hope today for those who turn and repent but which also guarantees loss for those who stubbornly refuse the gift of life.