September 15, 2011
United
Recently some folks
in our community began a recall of the County Commissioners. At first the
political wind seemed to be favoring those circulating petitions; however the
momentum now seems to be changing because another group has come out in
opposition to the recall. I am reminded of the chief priests and Pharisees
going after Jesus, “They looked for a way
to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that
he was a prophet.” (Matt 21:46 NIV) I find it interesting that the chief
priests and the Pharisees weren’t afraid of Jesus himself, they were afraid of
the crowd. Whether it is in the political or the religious arena, we often
underestimate the power we have over others when they perceive we are united in
thought.
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Gail;
-----Then united in thought becomes the problem. “After this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, terrible and dreadful and exceedingly strong; and it had great iron teeth; it devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the beasts that were before it;” (Dan 7:14a-d)(ha) Daniel’s vision expresses itself twice into history, the first being the Roman Empire. Iron teeth devouring and breaking things into pieces for a stomping under foot well defines its nature. A bundle of sticks tightly lashed into a cylinder with an ax bound to one end was carried before Roman magistrates. This piece of work represented the united will of the people given the magistrates for power to chop and cut down anyone in the way. When in the inner city of Rome, the ax was removed; the people were there.
-----This cute, little bundle of sticks was called a fasces. And because it takes mutual effort to overcome many obstacles just to survive nature, the concept of strength in togetherness has used the fasces as its expression throughout Western history. If you look carefully you will note fasces on both arms of Abraham Lincoln’s chair in that memorial. It’s on many dimes and government seals. Yet America has been the land of free thought and expression unitl recently. Effort towards making good and benefit for a benevolent and good people is our unity, while we expect competition amongst divergent thought to produce premium answers.
-----But to others the fasces has meant unity of thought for power from the masses. Mussolini’s Fascist Italy was born by the left-wing practice of coercing unified thought towards designated ambitions. Like stupid ants, if you joined the ambition, you were in the bundle. Otherwise, you were chopped. They made heavy use of the fasces symbol. But the people who made heavier use of coercing unified thought made little use of the fasces symbol and became known by a derivative of the very term - Nazi fascists. Twentieth Century politics swung around this hinge of fascism, swinging mostly to the left and giving us communist Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Indonesia, Cuba, Venezuela, Socialist Canada, UK, France, most of Western Europe, and the Progressive Democrat Party of the US. These are all people highly vested in you thinking what they think you must think, that is, unity of thought.
-----I want to stomp and clench my fists and shout at the top of my lungs, “PROGRESSIVES ARE FASCISTS!” like Charlton Heston shouted, “SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!” But as in that portrayal of brainwashing, the left-wing tactic of term tampering has neutered the term “fascist”: "Soylent Green is just food; party on, and stop being so brash!" PC takes us there, there to unity of thought.
-----The Biblical concept of unity is not that of thought. It is that of truth. Truth does involve some thought. But it cannot involve all thought, since the human mind is flawed. Therefore its thoughts beyond simple basics are flawed. Therefore, beyond simple basics, truth is distorted by thought. And so there can be little actual unity of thought. That is why the Biblical concept of unity is that of faith. It is in peace. It is in the Spirit, and it is, “... of spirit, sympathy, love of the brethren, a tender heart and a humble mind.” (I Pet 3:8)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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