Satanists on the Religious Right
This just in:
Kansas Church:”America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.”
“Mark Holick, a preacher in Wichita, Kansas has posted a hateful message on his church sign that reads “America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord.”
The preacher refuses to remove the sign despite the fact that Obama is a Christian.”
The article has a photo of the sign, which includes an abbreviated reference to the book of Exodus, Chapter 20, Verse 3. That might perhaps be the weirdest thing about this little imbroglio. Exodus 20:3 is otherwise known as the First Commandment (of Ten Commandments fame — you may have heard of them):
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.”
Let’s temporarily leave aside the fact that Muslims worship the same God of Abraham (Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, YHVH) that Jews and Christians do.
The implication seems to NOT merely be the simple claim that the supposedly apostate Obama is sinning (for sake of the false claim that he is Muslim, which is, in turn, mistakenly thought to violate the 1st Commandment).
Rather, the clear implication seems to be that the U.S. electorate has sinned by electing Obama. Now, as an anarchist I believe electing anybody is a “sin”, but that’s not really the same thing that this preacher is saying.
Rather, the preacher seems to be implying that he believes choosing the president of an earthly government is an act of worship — one that has been improperly performed, to a sacriligious degree, by the particular choice of president in this case. This is rather stunning. It indicates this preacher doesn’t worship God. He worships government. The election was an act of worship to him, and he condemns the electorate for ruining the worship ritual by choosing (in his estimation) the “unclean” candidate.
I should point out, BTW, that this worship of government rather than God by the preacher makes the preacher a de facto Satanist. Refer to the essay “Jesus is an Anarchist” by James Redford.
No, I’m not a man of faith myself. I do believe those who are ought to be evaluated on their adherence to what they profess to believe, though.
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The Cult of the Omnipotent State
America’s Founders would have agreed that both statism and Islam are violations of the First Commandment:
Idolatry and the Ten Commandments
Why Leaders Should be Christians
An Oath is an Act of Worship
Both Muslims and Christians (of a dogmatic, fundamentalist stripe) agree that they do not worship the same god, and that the other does not worship the true God.
America’s Founders on Muslims
Thanks for sharing those interesting links. I appreciate you taking the time to comment on this post.
Hey Brad,
I know this may be a bit off topic, but (appropos of religious belief) I wanted to see if I could lodge a request with you for one or more future posts regarding your interest in (and practice of) ritual magic. You’ve had a few intriguing tidbits in the past recording ‘hacking’ the self/psyche, and I wanted to see if you would be willing to elaborate?
I’m personally a big fan of theurgic neoplatonism (viz., that of Iamblichus and Proclus, especially as developed and Christianized in Pseudo-dionysius the Areopagite, John Scotus Eriugena, Pico della Mirandola, Meister Eckart, Nicholas of Cusa, and the like), which I think shares certain interesting affinities with ritual magic.
Can you point me in the direction of any good more theoretical expositions of the sort of magic (as mind-hacking) that you’re interested in?
Thanks,
Araglin
P.S. Congrats on hiring Kevin Carson for C4SS. I’d love to seem him with a snug sinecure so that he can write full time…
I second Araglin.
Unfortunately, I have little of any interest to say on the matter. I’m a mere dilettante whose tentative investigations of theory have far exceeded my stint as a practitioner. I find ritual magick of interest as a psychological technology and don’t regard it as in any way connected with the “the supernatural” (whatever THAT might be).
For the curious, I recommend Donald Michael Craig’s book “Modern Magick: Eleven Lessons in the High Magickal Arts”.