From: rpattree2@gmail.com   
      
   EXPOSÉ: THE "CHRISTIAN" MAFIA   
       
   Where Those Who Now Run the U.S. Government Came From and Where They Are   
   Taking Us   
       
   By Wayne Madsen   
       
   Part I   
       
   A   
   fter several months of in-depth research and, at first, seemingly unrelated   
   conversations with former high-level intelligence officials, lawyers,   
   politicians, religious figures, other investigative journalists, and   
   researchers, I can now report on a    
   criminal conspiracy so vast and monstrous it defies imagination. Using   
   "Christian" groups as tax-exempt and cleverly camouflaged covers, wealthy   
   right-wing businessmen and "clergy" have now assumed firm control over the   
   biggest prize of all - the    
   government of the United States of America. First, some housekeeping is in   
   order. My use of the term "Christian" is merely to clearly identify the   
   criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to   
   Jesus Christ to advance a    
   very un-Christian agenda. The term "Christian Mafia" is what several   
   Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not   
   intended to debase Christians or infer that they are criminals . I will also   
   use the term Nazi - not for shock    
   value - but to properly tag the political affiliations of the early founders   
   of the so-called "Christian" power cult called the Fellowship. The most   
   important element of this story is that a destructive religious movement has   
   now achieved almost total    
   control over the machinery of government of the United States - its executive,   
   its legislature, several state governments, and soon, the federal judiciary,   
   including the U.S. Supreme Court.   
       
   The United States has experienced religious and cult hucksters throughout its   
   history, from Cotton Mather and his Salem witch burners to Billy Sunday,   
   Father Charles Coughlin, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall   
   Applewhite, and others. But    
   none have ever achieved the kind of power now possessed by a powerful and   
   secretive group of conservative politicians and wealthy businessmen in the   
   United States and abroad who are known among their adherents and friends as   
   The Fellowship or The Family.    
   The Fellowship and its predecessor organizations have used Jesus in the same   
   way that McDonald's uses golden arches and Coca Cola uses its stylized script   
   lettering. Jesus is a logo and a slogan for the Fellowship. Jesus is used to   
   justify the Fellowship'   
   s access to the highest levels of government and business in the same way   
   Santa Claus entices children into department stores and malls during the   
   Christmas shopping season.   
       
   When the Founders of our nation constitutionally separated Church and State,   
   the idea of the Fellowship taking over the government would have been their   
   worst nightmare. The Fellowship has been around under various names since   
   1935. Its stealth existence    
   has been perpetuated by its organization into small cells, a pyramid   
   organization of "correspondents," "associates," "friends," "members," and   
   "core members," tax-exempt status for its foundations, and its protection by   
   the highest echelons of the our    
   own government and those abroad.   
       
   The Roots of the Fellowship   
       
   The roots of the Fellowship go back to the 1930s and a Norwegian immigrant and   
   Methodist minister named Abraham Vereide. According to Fellowship archives   
   maintained at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, Vereide,   
   who immigrated from    
   Norway in 1905, began an outreach ministry in Seattle in April 1935. But his   
   religious outreach involved nothing more than pushing for an anti-Communist,   
   anti-union, anti-Socialist, and pro-Nazi German political agenda. A loose   
   organization and secrecy    
   were paramount for Vereide. Fellowship archives state that Vereide wanted his   
   movement to "carry out its objective through personal, trusting, informal,   
   unpublicized contact between people." Vereide's establishment of his Prayer   
   Breakfast Movement for    
   anti-Socialist and anti-International Workers of the World (IWW or "Wobblies")   
   Seattle businessmen in 1935 coincided with the establishment of another   
   pro-Nazi German organization in the United States, the German-American Bund.   
   Vereide saw his prayer    
   movement replacing labor unions.   
       
   A student of the un-Christian German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,   
   Vereide's thoughts about a unitary religion based on an unyielding   
   subservience to a composite notion of "Jesus" put him into the same category   
   as many of the German nationalist    
   philosophers who were favored by Hitler and the Nazis. Nietzsche wrote the   
   following of Christianity: "When we hear the ancient bells growling on a   
   Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a Jew,   
   crucified two thousand years ago,    
   who said he was God's son? The proof of such a claim is lacking."   
       
   One philosophical fellow traveler of Vereide was the German Nazi philosopher   
   Martin Heidegger, a colleague of Leo Strauss, the father of American   
   neo-conservatism and the mentor of such present-day American neo-conservatives   
   as Richard Perle and Paul    
   Wolfowitz. Strauss's close association with Heidegger and the Nazi idea of   
   telling the big lie in order to justify the end goals - Machiavellianism on   
   steroids -- did not help Strauss in Nazi Germany. Because he was Jewish, he   
   was forced to emigrate to    
   the United States, where he eventually began teaching neo-conservative   
   political science at the University of Chicago. It is this confluence of   
   right-wing philosophies that provides a political bridge between modern-day   
   Christian Rightists (including so-   
   called Christian Zionists) and the secular-oriented neo-conservatives who   
   support a policy that sees a U.S.-Israeli alliance against Islam and   
   European-oriented democratic socialism. For the dominion theologists, the   
   United States is the new Israel, with    
   a God-given mandate to establish dominion over the entire planet. Neither the   
   secular neo-conservatives nor Christian fundamentalists seem to have a problem   
   with the idea of American domination of the planet, as witnessed by the   
   presence of    
   representatives of both camps as supporters of the neo-conservative Project   
   for a New American Century, the neo-conservative blueprint for America's   
   attack on Iraq and plans to attack, occupy, and dominate other countries that   
   oppose U.S. designs.   
       
      
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