Church and State : Freedom & Tyranny : Life & Death

The initial position held in the 60’s by some authors of war and peace studies during international nuclear tensions tended to rely on the premise that war production is an essential pillar of economic stability and that a transition to peace through world wide disarmament would not be economically possible without a massive unilateral restructuring of the entire international banking system along with its interdependent national war economies. Billions of workers in global labour markets, who for centuries have been sponged off by the land and property owners who initiate wars, firstly would have to organise a revolution in thinking about who owns what, secondly tear down the governmental system that maintains nationhood for the relatively few who own its assets and thirdly produce a constitution for wealth creation that criminalizes excess. A real democratic revolution can never take place until the military industrial administrations are dismantled, the science and technology of destruction on which their owners have traditionally depended for political power is converted to socially beneficial enterprises, and a sweeping reform in education to totally debunk the renaissance of the materialist man and bring back a spiritual acclamation of the sanctity of life.

The researchers’ academic approach barely concealed an intention to use a mechanistic style of objectivity at the outset that avoided moral assumptions about the sacredness or otherwise of human life. The argument, often repeated with interesting but predictable variations, claimed to be driven by an objectivity not tainted or coloured by subjective ethical theory but by an icy rationalism willing to explore the idea of peace from within an intolerant forensic type of dialectical materialism. The first principle of this type of reasoning is to view humans primarily as components of an impersonal material universe and the second principle, which is contingent on successfully establishing the first, is to view humans secondarily as having value only when the first principle has been thoroughly proved to be true.

The agenda of materialists, believers in a purely material universe, in which the will and purpose of one individual is simply a mechanical part of a single will that pervades the cosmos (Schopenhauer), is to establish something like this as a first principle of truth through the school curriculum in State Primary and Adult education. As a tool for sublimely conditioning the receptive mind of the child, the school curriculum, like a church catechism, engages the student in perceiving rationality in terms of physics and maths, success in terms of economic worth and acquisition of matter, and meaning in terms of competing for and protecting possessions.

The Big Bang Evolutionary theory, taught as fact in the curriculum, is a critical element in the reasoning of materialists, since it lends credibility to their course material offering a causal explanation for the spontaneity of existence, negating reason for believing in a benevolent loving Designer and Creator God. However, whether they like it or not, the dimension in which this discourse takes place is a spiritual one since the terms of reference used in their ‘material’ brings into existence ad infinitum non-visible non-provable concepts of time and space. The endless circular arguments that have kept history alive since language and cognitive theorising ‘evolved’ 15 or more millennia ago suggests there is no locus for pinpointing the moment in time when man emerges from his ignorant state (Kant) but rather that there is a continuum, a state in which the pursuit of knowledge is experienced for spiritual purposes in the life of each being, that is not necessarily leading to anything conclusive for future generations in the intermediate or very distant future. The time space continuum theory for example, that involves theorizing about a parallel universe, would suggest an understanding of the concept of eternity from a different perspective; one that does not put a limitation on the possibility of other dimensions existing outside of our linear view of beginnings and ends. In this context Jesus Christ looms above all history of rational thought and cognitive development when He made it clear with absolute authority that He had come from another Kingdom that is eternal.

Sadly the first principle generally taught by a secular curriculum also elevates the will of man as the supreme force in the Universe and this is where the Church and State run into difficulty. The will of God and the will of man have always been a contention, which in purely psychological terms clearly indicates we are born to contend within ourselves, and the stand off between Church and the State as institutional representations of incompatible belief systems, nearly always manifests inner spiritual conflict in the form of armed combat.

The business of the State, of organising labour in particular, is to harness the productivity of its citizens to an economic system that notionally maximises stability and comfort for all. But this business is run by people who have strong personal ambition as well as broad humanitarian objectives, who are strongly motivated by the need to create something out of their short lives by appropriating meaning through possession of things that can be given a name or a title denoting an importance that elevates their self-image above others, which is part of the first principle of secularism. The necessary production of identity and of self image, of the elaborate construction of nationhood for example, to give meaning and purpose to a feral, earth bound, purely materialistic existence, requires the possession of a totalitarian type of political power by those who believe in this world view. Political groupings emerge that keep their group or class more dominant than others, who maintain a continuity of the historical significance of their class identity and value so that it serves as a kind of tribal rallying cry to the rest of ‘society’, the rabble, to believe in and follow them like sheep. The idea of having a share in a common purpose and a common identity, as a single unit in a cosmic whole, sounds gloriously wonderful but it still requires an image or shape to give form and meaning to the ‘invisible things’ the ‘humanitarian’ ideas allude to and these become objects, which over time, massaged by a historical narrative, become sculpted into idols and icons, statues, cenotaphs and memorials. Throughout history, people locked into a secular world view, have objectified their perception of reality using metal and stone, imbuing the objects with meaning and value by regulating against their destruction, and religiously preserving their constructs amid much artistic pomp and ceremony. Idol and totem worship carried over into the modern era has produced a cultural landscape littered with objects d’art that have become like gods adorned with the cornucopia of garlands, flowery prose and statutory importance.

Gods of secularism are stony creatures littering the landscape of man-made worlds that remind citizens they live under the political and economic system of an ordered universe kept in the ‘right’ political shape and ‘proper’ proportions of value and worth by a shadowy dynastic class who, with the aggregate power of their combined wealth in land and property, always muzzling a plebiscite, ensure the idolatry of a human centric universe is replicated across every area of society extending even to the architecture of religious buildings. Wealth and status leads to possession of a kind of political power that can open doors to executives of State who decide on policy, who themselves benefit most from the type of laws that regulate for example the low value of labour upon which their rapacious appetite for more possessions and greater wealth depends.

A demarcation of human value has evolved over time that we accept today as a norm. Eras of economic experimentation has resulted in a liberal acceptance of a system of worth measured by nothing more than a notional order of merit. In a meritocracy, some people are worth more than others and, taken to its less altruistic ends which happens frequently in history, significant populations end up at the bottom of a value system and are kept their by dominant groups claiming to have more merit than they. Politicians are good at raising their status and importance in this way, just like the aristocracy did in their day of political dominance. Meritocracy is an offshoot of the human centric philosophy that teaches worth is earned by what you do, by how much you contribute and by the level of commitment and risk taking but the bench mark for measuring worth becomes distinctly unclear against a backdrop of exploitation and abuse in the workplace by an employer motivated by greed. Egotism drives people to be winners in a survivalist impersonal universe of competing egos and to create for themselves a meaningful existence of some notoriety or importance that promotes their status above others, making them monsters in the arena of work where their inflated view of their worth translates into exploitation of many souls they believe to be of less value. (Adam Smith). When the first principle of secularism, of a human centric universe, is mercilessly applied in this way, the existentialist approach together with the iron will of the individual (Sartre) ensures the creation of social systems that always gravitate towards totalitarian solutions (New World Order) because under the influence of leaders and academics pushing a secular agenda the only means of controlling and regulating exploited labour is through the power of the collective ego of those who benefit most from their materially acquired status, of being the owners of the biggest slice of the gross ‘national’ economic value in terms of shareholding and property ownership. Under the influence of a narrow materialist philosophical mindset an economic depression is used by creditors as a device to re-assert their power of control, which is often done by devaluing the worth of labour using fiscal adjustments like the exchange rate mechanism, which decreases the value of currency, depresses the labour market, and increases levels of debt among the poorest.(Korten, Klein, Chossudovsky) At the heart of secularism the great god Greed always undermines the idyllic utopian world postured by political idealists who forever and a day preach ‘change’ from the hustings of their particular party. It is tiresome to hear the same rhetoric being preached from the pulpit every election while the political will for redistributing the excessive worth (therefore cost of exchange) of property and land remains elusive and demure, which is a situation that makes political parties look the most ineffective as innovators of real change.

Since the meaning of life, according to this secular curriculum, equates to accumulation of wealth and power, and the means is production of goods, and production is in the hands of the few who regulate the systems that control the production it is inevitable that the strongest and most capable will carve out their existence at the expense of those deemed ‘less capable’ and of ‘less value’. By keeping the ‘less capable’ and ‘less skilled’ on a wage that reflects their economic value within a materialist philosophical system of meritocracy, the cost of production is kept low and excessive money supply in the hands of the few is kept high. A cost economy in the hands of highly paid executives and politicians ensures that a low wage policy remains in force so that millions of souls are kept in a state of perpetual debt and poverty, perpetually indebted to those who control the money supply.

In his book ‘When Corporations Rule the World’ David Korten identified this nexus of political control as being the old boys network in a literal sense of old partnerships going back centuries. The business of the world is about possessions, possession means everything, a total rational religion of materialism, and the labour force that provides the wealthy elites with their protective armour against the attacks of the poor who have been robbed by them over the centuries is controlled by a Governing system their imperial ‘masters’ have created. A secular civil Government is all about elitism, and sucking up to the demi-gods in industry and banking.

The battle between Church and State in this very Machiavellian arena of creating meaning out of possessions is not just about the mechanics of social and economic justice, of discussing a methodology for distributing charitable pennies to the poor. Nor is the conflict meant to be articulated in the triumphal patriotic language of nationalism, which it sadly often is. (War on Terrorism). No. The battle is for the restoration of the spiritual consciousness of man, the opening of the mind to dimensions beyond metaphysical mutations and the reinstatement of the concept of Creation and a Creator God in the very centre of the school curriculum, to run alongside the concept of spontaneous creation promoted by champions of the Big Bang theory, as equal partners in shaping the abstract world of ideas that eventually evolve into real worlds of ideological and monopolistic political regimes and tyrannies (Totalitarian Democracy – W. Engdahl).

The battle between Church and State is a battle between two types of consciousness, attitude, meaning, priority, importance. The battle that took place between the representatives of the State in Israel, the Jewish Lawyers, Priests and Procurators for Rome, and Jesus Christ the representative of the Eternal State of spirituality, of the kingdom of heaven (which He said was within you) repeats itself ad infinitum throughout human history. Jesus is the archetype man bonded to God, prophet, king, liberator, knight, activist, teacher, friend, healer whose passion was for opening people’s minds to the spiritual dimension of time and space, to discipline and train the rational mind to exchange one consciousness for another, one kingdom for another, to transfer the world from death to life. His passive resistance to those who believed they had power of men’s souls even troubled Pilate. The Church and State are metaphors for the battle that rages within our minds, where spiritual forces emanating from a sense of righteousness cause the divided self and ultimately split personalities.

A battle between diametrically opposed systems of thinking impact upon the most vital and essential core understandings of what constitutes human worth and identity. One system teaches that humans are just like blank slates for writing on, easy to organise as slaves or, in modern parlance, as evolved apes, born without an image whose value is determined by demi-gods controlling the macro systems of production and trade, while the other teaches that people are created in God’s image and born with a value that is eternally sacrosanct and divine. The former system of thought has no means of producing judicial systems that can properly recompense those whose lives have been violated since the beginning of time by massive military industrial systems while the latter system of thought refers to a future time of recompense and justice, a final judgement, that will re-iterate the truth about how equal we are in God’s order of creation much to the remorse of those who thought they were gods.

Jesus Christ came specifically to reveal the truth about human worth but sadly the introduction of the Bible completely undid this truth and sent civilisation back to Old Way of thinking about God and Man that was seen as a kind of partnership in carving out a place called Heaven using science, the exploration of ways to equip the ego with the raw physical strength of a new implement of war improvised from a creative manipulation of the properties of metal and stone. (Pre-emptive Tactical Nuclear Missile) From Old Testament warriors to Christianity in a single phase that totally bypasses the truth that Jesus taught.

The Bible and the State have much in common but as historical narratives they have little, or nothing, in common with the treatise on human worth that God despatched from Heaven when He descended as man to Palestine.


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