XPost: alt.religion.orisha, alt.religion.new   
   From: rosaphilia@webtv.net   
      
    From: kkathome@earthlink.net(Karen R Pence)   
      
   GOP AS FASCIST CULT   
   THIS IS A HUMDINGER!  GIVE IT WIDESPREAD EXPOSURE!  K   
       
   A Christian Republican speaks to other Christians   
   Beware: the GOP has become a fascist cult   
      
   By Karl W. B. Schwarz   
      
   Online Journal Contributing Writer   
      
   October 23, 2004‹Many people are getting in touch with me asking about   
   what I see, what I know, and why as a Conservative Christian Republican   
   I am not backing Bush-Cheney and would not vote for them at gun point.   
      
   I have been telling Conservative Christians that who should be howling   
   at the top of their lungs is not the Liberal Left, it is the Far Right   
   Christian Conservatives for they are being lied to, seduced and misled   
   even more so than the Liberal Left.   
      
   They are being seduced into fascism and that is not Christianity.   
      
   Christians are admonished in the Bible to be leery of new prophets for   
   all prophecy ended with the coming of Christ the Messiah. In the Book of   
   James we are warned of the evil that comes from the mouths of men. James   
   3:5-6: "Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes   
   great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small   
   spark.   
   The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body.   
   It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire,   
   and is itself set on fire by hell."   
      
   Book of James 3:9: "With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and   
   with it we curse men, who have been made in Gods' likeness. Out of the   
   same mouth comes praise and cursing."   
      
   Unless you are deaf, dumb and blind, Christians need to come to grips   
   with the fact that Bush-Cheney are lying to the world and that is not a   
   mark of Christian virtue, nor is it a mark that the Bible tells us to   
   seek, or to follow as Christians.   
      
   One does not have to look very far or dig very deep to find one lie   
   after another that has come from Bush-Cheney. It is all an agenda; it is   
   all about empowerment and greed and doing anything they wish, to anyone,   
   and wrapping that all up as lies and spin to deceive us all.   
      
   I see it very clearly and if you saw it as clearly as I do, you would   
   not vote for them at gunpoint, either, for to do so would be making   
   yourself a deluded Christian that is not using discernment, that is   
   following liars, and is on the wrong course.   
      
   Many Christian teachings give step-by-step advice on how to recognize a   
   religious cult, and the same basic steps are necessary to recognize a   
   political cult. If you know what to look for, and take the time to study   
   closely, you can accurately recognize that Bush-Cheney is a cult of   
   lust, power and greed, none of which are considered Christian virtues.   
      
   How to Identify a Cult   
      
   Here's a few guidelines to recognize a cult. If several of these apply   
   to a group which has approached you, think twice before getting   
   involved.   
      
   *    Do they put the demands of the group before family, school,   
   and interests?   
       
   *    Are they vague about what their beliefs are until you're in   
   the group?   
       
   *    Does the leader demand unquestioning agreement or obedience?   
       
   *    Is the leader a charismatic person who claims special   
   spiritual powers?   
       
   *    Does the group change your sleeping and eating patterns?   
       
   *    Does the group keep you in constant group situations and   
   promote dependency?   
       
   *    Does the group feel that only they have spiritual truth and   
   that all other groups and churches are wrong?   
       
   *    Do group members keep contacting you even after you have told   
   them you are not interested?   
      
   In fact, if you look real close at Bush-Cheney and understand the   
   fundamental dynamics of what brought Hitler to power, how he controlled   
   the masses, how he sold the Great Lie, it is very easy to see that   
   Bush-Cheney "Compassionate Conservatism" and Fascism are one in the   
   same.   
      
   Many hear the term "Neocon" and do not recognize that in its current   
   operative sense, it is a term meaning New World Order Fascist.   
      
   Following are the Fourteen Common Threads of Fascism and how to spot   
   fascism. I ask that you read and think, as an American, as a Christian.   
      
   Use the mind that God gave you and use discernment that the Bible warns   
   you to use as a shield against following wrong or evil. I have taken the   
   Laurence W. Britt section headings and written what I have to say to you   
   Christians, coming from me as a Christian about each of those 14 points.   
      
   Fascism Anyone?   
      
   "Fascism's principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously   
   masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for."   
      
   By Laurence W. Britt   
      
   The cliché that people and nations learn from history is not only   
   overused, but also overestimated; often we fail to learn from history,   
   or draw the wrong conclusions. Sadly, historical amnesia is the norm.   
      
   We are two-and-a-half generations removed from the horrors of Nazi   
   Germany, although constant reminders jog the consciousness. German and   
   Italian fascism form the historical models that define this twisted   
   political worldview.   
   Although they no longer exist, this worldview and the characteristics of   
   these models have been imitated by protofascist regimes at various times   
   in the twentieth century.   
      
   Both the original German and Italian models and the later protofascist   
   regimes show remarkably similar characteristics. Although many scholars   
   question any direct connection among these regimes, few can dispute   
   their visual similarities.   
      
   1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. We were   
   purportedly attacked by al Qaeda, but Bush-Cheney do not want any of us   
   to know who the American and foreign names are that FBI translator Sibel   
   D. Edmonds found in translating those documents and who financed 9-11.   
      
    We were told Saudis did it, but what Sibel found disputes that and   
   Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft put a federal gag order on her so you and I   
   cannot know whose names are on that list.   
      
   Stop and think‹what does protecting the identity of American and   
   foreign names have to do with "national security" except to prove "WHO   
   DID IT?"   
      
   2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. If you have not figured   
   it out yet, the USA PATRIOT Act and Patriot Act II are undermining the   
   freedoms of all of us, treating us all as al Qaeda suspects, and is part   
   of a larger New World Order objective.   
      
   Consider this‹there are some who want the American Dream only for   
   themselves and you do not get to have it if they win. We are also having   
   many things "done in our name" in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere that   
   Americans would reject if they knew the truth.   
      
   What is really disgusting is that both sides of the aisle are doing it   
   to America. Their wealthy masters (contributors) are telling them to.   
   They are making the big bucks and we are getting stuck with the debt,   
   the dead and maimed soldiers, not to mention the burdens their families   
      
   [continued in next message]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)