25 September 2018
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth . . . — Ephesians 6:12–14
To sin by silence, when we should protest / Makes cowards out of men. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from the first lines of her poem, Protest[1]
Introduction
I need to get something off my chest, something that’s been brewing for a while now. I wrote this paper for two reasons:
- to try to work through my internal conflict through writing about it. Writing is the process that best helps me do that.
- to get the monkey off my back and share it with the people who know me best, then ask for their input: affirmation or correction.
IT IS NOT the purpose of this paper to try to prove any conspiracy theory to be true.
I realize that I’m asking a lot of you to wade through these some 3000+ words, especially on such a heavy subject. So if you don’t have the bandwidth to process this or simply would rather not deal with it at all, I certainly accept that. But for those who do read it and try to make sense of my words, I will be grateful. I welcome your input, feedback, correction, questions – all of it. I wrote this as a vigorous and rational argument (hopefully) for the need to expose conspiracy, but that doesn’t mean I’m closed to your input, because I certainly am open.
Another thing that I realize is, even if you generally agree with me, you may not feel the intensity of the burden that I do. We all have different gifts and callings; this is apparently mine, part of it anyway. But I don’t assume that it’s yours too. I do however hope that we can learn to better appreciate, support and encourage each other on whatever calling we have. Sometimes that support means a pat on the back; other times it means asking the hard questions. Both are welcome here!
One more thing. I use the word ‘prevent’ in all of my reasons to expose conspiracy. By saying that, I don’t presume to be able to single-handedly right the wrong. I simply mean to try to prevent it in as much as God calls me to. Anything else is vanity.
The evangelical church in America holds little influence on the larger culture. Yes, we have our mega-churches and our TV programs and our magazines, but few outside the four walls take much notice (except for the scandals).
Some engage in the culture wars of same-sex marriage, transgenderism, or get embroiled in debates over racism or forms of politically-incorrect speech. All that can be good, but I’m not here to talk about that. A clear line of topics exists that rarely, if ever, is crossed among evangelical Christians, and if someone does dare to cross that line, his fellow believers will invariably join the world in immediately dismissing, even ridiculing him and casting the dreaded epithet: ‘conspiracy theorist!’
The following topics have become or have always been taboo. I list these, not because I believe that all of them are true, but that they are – for some reason – practically unmentionable.
| vaccines | drone wars | false-flag terror |
| 9/11 | directed energy weapons | flat earth |
| chemtrails | mind control experiments | CIA drug running |
| moon landing hoax | fluoridated water | American empire |
| weather modification | weaponized music | wireless radiation |
| climate change hoax | smart meters | perpetual war |
| BPA and gender-bender compounds | Google/Facebook surveillance state |
When a subject becomes taboo, it takes on a spiritual power that can control us. It sucks at the life of our relationships. But sometimes, just simply acknowledging it can break its power.
I confess: too long have I allowed myself to be cowed – silenced on these and other topics; they have in effect become off-limits. Admittedly, to broach any of these subjects requires discretion and wisdom, but by and large those are not the reasons I’ve been silent. Also not all ‘conspiracy theories’ are valid, but even if a subject is valid I should first have something worth saying before I open my mouth.
It’s a common assumption that if someone believes one conspiracy, he must believe them all. That’s simply not true.
The reasons I’ve been silent are primarily:
- fear of offending
- fear of ridicule
- fear/reluctance of completely derailing and dominating conversations or ‘dropping bombs’.
But on the rare occasion when I have brought up a conspiracy, the typical Christian objection, though formulated in different ways, is:
Yes, but what does that have to do with our life in Christ?
If the dismissal of ‘conspiracy theorist!’ doesn’t shut down any potential discussion, this objection is almost sure to do so. Such dismissals, though they may be well-meaning, fail to consider valid reasons that some of these ‘conspiracy’ subjects may have. Here are the five reasons that now motivate me to speak with as much wisdom, humility, discretion and compassion that I can.
The five reasons are:
- to prevent the worship of false gods/idolatry
- to prevent impairment
- to prevent injury, death and destruction
- to prevent further deception and to enlighten/awaken
- to prevent shame and disgrace
I should speak:
1 To prevent the worship of false gods/idolatry
Some, but not all of these conspiracy subjects either engage in, or may lead to, idolatry. Idolatry was Israel’s besetting sin; it was the paramount sin that drew the Lord’s wrath more than anything else. After all, it topped the chart of the Ten Commandments. The problem today is, most don’t understand or recognize its modern-day practices or equivalents.
For example, it’s becoming obvious (to me) that Google, among other major internet companies, has become god-like – omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. Our passive use of their services allows them to effectively gain control of our lives. For more on this, see the article: Lie: Passive use of the internet is harmless.
This reason alone could sufficiently motivate me to speak up, but there is more.
2 To prevent impairment
To understand this point we need to understand the basic mechanism of idolatry. Psalm 115 conveys this idea well:
Why should the Gentiles say,
“So where is their God?”
But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not see
They have ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but they do not smell;
They have hands, but they do not handle;
Feet they have, but they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter through their throat.
Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who trusts in them. — Psalm 115:2–8
We become what we behold.
For a fuller explanation of how idolatry works, see my article: Lie: Idolatry is rare, part 1 and part 2. And the lie: I can be a god, part 1 and part 2.
Here’s a quick definition:
Idolatry – awe and adoration of a person, object or idea from which we falsely imagine to derive pleasure, protection and well being. It is a warped, all-important and indispensable obsession or fascination that we invest with power and that ultimately, if not destroyed, becomes a snare that hollows out our souls.
Idols come in many forms, from the puny to the mammoth, from the physical to the mental to the emotional, from the obvious to the almost imperceptible.
A massive impairment or hollowing out of human beings is now under way and is only growing in size and scope. People are finding it harder to think, to listen and pay attention, to feel, to empathize, to speak, to read, to remember, to sleep, to move and to act. The passive use of technology is impairing basic human functions. Consequently our ‘bandwidth’ of faculties gets more and more narrow until we effectively become non-functional.
Here’s the big point: It’s bad enough that we’re losing these abilities but it’s especially bad because, at some point, the impairment will become so severe that people will not be able to grasp the gospel of Jesus Christ, to process it intellectually or emotionally or otherwise.
The most vulnerable among us are our children.
Of course many other vectors work against real communication – polarization, degradation of language, mobility. All of these are serious and deserve attention, but none of them will end up mattering at all if our fundamental abilities are sufficiently impaired.
So for example, we need to work at overcoming the tribalization/polarization endemic in the church, but if we’ve lost the ability to reason or speak effectively about the subject, it won’t really matter.
This breakdown of fundamental human abilities is a direct attack on humanity itself and runs parallel with the transhumanist movement, so that, as humanity degrades, the need and opportunity to merge with systems – software, hardware and ‘wetware’ – increases. Coincidence? Maybe, but whether it is or not, the effect will be the same. The real danger is in the loss of our humanity, the loss of our souls.
Can an impaired humanity truly hear and respond to the gospel? What would be the signs of such a state of affairs? Assuming we haven’t reached this state yet, how far are we from it? Can it be reversed? slowed or shut down?
I have no answers to these questions.
3 To prevent injury, death and destruction
Let me state it as plainly as I can: The principalities and powers of this world have unleashed multiple vectors of injury, death and destruction. Aspects of this culture of death include:
| abortion | transhumanism | chemtrails |
| euthanasia | war | weather modification |
| robotics/AI | divorce | ‘estrogen-mimicking’ compounds |
| pornography | child abuse | mind control |
| evolution | eugenics | fluoridated water |
| slavery |
These and other programs poison, damage, desensitize, alter, create dysfunction or mayhem, enslave, irradiate, and kill in various ways, either subtly or overtly, suddenly or over time. For a long time I resisted the possibility of such a shocking prospect. But the evidence became so overwhelming that I could not ignore the reality any more.
So I feel compelled to speak of these things and warn and help the unsuspecting to prepare or avoid it; otherwise, I’ll be grossly irresponsible. I must risk the responses, including ridicule, anger, rejection, avoidance, or the thought that I’m crazy or weird. If I’m wrong, please help me see where I’m wrong. I certainly can be. If I’m wrong let’s talk about it!.
Let me ask you — if you saw black smoke coming through the window of your neighbor’s house, what would you do?
- A ignore it – it’s probably nothing.
- B check it out – something is not right.
- C call 9-1-1 – the evidence is clear, time to act; any delay in response could be deadly.
Maybe you’re not ready for option C, but I would hope you would care enough to at least choose option B. The black smoke may be caused by something benign, but more than likely it’s literal fire. At least it’s worth checking out. Or, for you, maybe the smoke is not black, but gray, or maybe you only smell smoke. Either way, I think most would agree that choice A is irresponsible.
4 To prevent further deception and to enlighten/awaken
Mark Twain said it best:
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
I remember distinctly in 2009 when the scales fell from my own eyes. I discovered, somewhat by accident, the YouTube videos of the World Trade Center building seven collapsing into its own footprint – to any common sense person, an obvious controlled demolition. Building seven was the 47-story tower that few outside New York City know about. Even to this day most people think only two towers fell that day. But actually this third tower fell after five-o’clock on the same afternoon – September 11, 2001. Thankfully no one was injured since the building had been evacuated.
At first I couldn’t quite imagine the rationale – why would someone in our government want to do this and blame it on our enemies? It seemed preposterous to me. I had never heard of false-flag terror before. But the combined evidence was too strong; then, I swallowed the ‘red pill’ to see how far the rabbit hole went. Since that day, life has never looked the same and I still haven’t found the bottom yet.
With 9/11, I realized that what I had been told about America was seriously flawed. Suddenly I started looking seriously at things I had never considered before, reasoning that, If I could be duped that bad, how else had I been deceived? Vaccines, fluoridated water, climate change, mind control weapons, etc – it was all suspect. Suddenly I had a new window to look at the world. Yes, it was humbling to admit I’d been duped (even to myself), but it was also liberating and at the same time frightening; apparently the sinister dark forces that the Bible talked about were actually real and were causing real harm in the world.
How could I have gone 52 years (until 2009 when I woke up) without seeing it? I don’t really know, but all I can say is that the deception goes very deep. It takes, not just reason, but humility and spiritual discernment to see it.
5 To prevent shame and disgrace
If I’m right, even partially right (and I realize that’s a big if), that there really are evil conspiracies afoot, cultivating a powerfully-deceptive idolatry and wreaking death and destruction, then it’s bad, really bad.
For a long time I’ve kept these things mostly to myself, partly because I was still connecting the dots (which I’m still doing), but also because I simply haven’t known how to communicate these things. Actually, I still don’t! But that can no longer be my excuse; I have to find a way to bring these things into the light as reasonably, winsomely and wisely as possible. Life is too short; men need to rise up and take seriously the real threats that we, our children and our children’s children face.
Of course I cannot force my way and if I’m not careful in how I broach these subjects, I could easily make a nuisance of myself. But I’m not going to do that. So what I am doing is making an invitation: I’m inviting you to prayer and to dialog. I need to quickly admit/assure you that I don’t have all the answers – no one does. We really need to seek God together. Truly Jesus is our only salvation.
Seeking is asking serious questions, so seeking God is asking God serious questions. We all have questions – questions about birth and life and death; questions about God and men and angels and demons; questions about how we should live, and what we should do.
But what are your questions? What perplexes you, nags you; what would you ask if you knew you could get real answers? Or have you stopped asking? Have we become too cynical to sincerely ask about life or death or God or why we can’t seem to stop our besetting sin? This is real faith – not to imagine we have all the answers, but to believe enough to ask a sincere question, believing that we can actually get an answer, an answer from God, an answer that shows us how to live in the world.
Like Neo in The Matrix, something gnaws at your brain; you don’t know what it is, but it’s driving you crazy, and yet you keep a manageable distance from what it may mean. I believe that we all have questions – none of us has gotten it all figured out. But some of us have forgotten how to ask; or maybe we’re too proud or too afraid that we won’t find any real answers or what the answer may be. But real answers do exist – true and complete and good answers, and not just Pollyanna ones.
But if we’re not careful we’ll grow content with the superficial, the surface, the packaged, pat answers. Most today are too easily pacified with the superficial, with the answers designed to shut down more dialog, answers designed to control how we think.
Yes, we’ll never have all the answers, but that’s not the goal anyway. If it was, life would lose its mystery and meaning in God Himself, seeing Him as the answer and learning to walk through life with Him. Life has gotten so complex and the pace of change is accelerating so fast that our traditions, our foundations have worn down so far that it seems nothing firm is left to stand on.
No one person can stand against the onslaught, the tsunami that threatens to bury us all. Like never before, we must seek for answers together; we must recognize our vulnerabilities as men and come together as men to seek for answers. This is what it means to seek God.
I’m convinced that the main reason we don’t seek God is because we don’t see or feel our need, our vulnerability. Why should we pray if we don’t see the need – if we don’t seriously think we’re in any danger? Consequently, our prayers tend to be routine, predictable and perfunctory.
What if I’m right and yet effectively do nothing? What if I’m right and you dismiss my warnings without sincerely listening? Then one day, when the truth finally comes out, and it will, either in this life or the next, and then it’s discovered that we could have done something but didn’t, we will have to accept our shame and disgrace; we will have to answer those who ask: ‘Did you know about this? Why didn’t you tell me?’
If you haven’t already, I hope you consider these things before our God and seek him for the answers. I wrote this especially for men in the hope that we will learn to rise up in the strength of the Lord; I pray we learn to wrestle with the enemy and serve our wives and families and churches and do all we are called to do in this hour.
I now invite you to prayer and to open dialog on these things.
[1] For the entire poem see https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/protest
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