Title: 13
Author: Joe Griffin
Last saved by: PaulD
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The Church of the Living God

		09-02-19.FBC08-80 /

Strategy & Tactics of the Devil in Religion, Gender, Nationality, Sexual Orientation, & Global Warming; Kimball’s “Cultural Marxism” 

20.	Next in the passage comes the prepositional phrase “to resist”: the aorist active infinitive of the verb ¢nq…sthmi, anthistēmi: “to set oneself against; to oppose, withstand, resist.”
21.	The concept is to “hold your six feet of ground.”  The reality is the ability and the capacity to confront the “strategy and tactics of the devil,” the word methodia in Ephesians 6:11.
22.	These include the “philosophy and empty deception” of Colossians 2:8, the “doctrines of demons” and the “hypocrisy of liars” in 1 Timothy 4:1, the “smooth and flattering speech” of the false teachers in Romans 16:17-18,  the “deceitful workers” of 2 Corinthians 11:13, the “cleverly devised tails” of 2 Peter 1:16, the “mockers” of 2 Peter 3:3, and “Satan who deceives the whole world” in Revelation 12:9.
23.	These assaults on the believer’s soul are presently in the form of repackaged Marxist, socialist, and collectivist theory in the form of multiculturalism, political correctness, and equality: all tactics of the Dark Side to sell social Marxism.
24.	These tactics conceal while advancing the hidden agenda of Progressive ideology which is the fulfillment of Antonio Gramsci’s “long march through the institutions”: the transformation of Western culture into the satanic ideal of an egalitarian world order.
25.	As a singular example of the Marxist underpinnings of Lucifer’s “strategy and tactics” there is this article from World Net Daily:
A Christian nurse in Britain (has) been threatened with dismissal for offering to pray for her patients’ recovery.  A report from the Christian Legal Centre said the nurse, Caroline Petrie, later was restored to her position.  Petrie was suspended and faced further discipline because her employer claimed she failed to show a “personal and professional commitment to equality and diversity” when she suggested the prayer.

“Nurse threatened for praying reinstated,” World Net Daily, February 6. 2009, http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88180.

26.	The nurse offers to pray for an elderly woman under her care and the woman refused which led to the controversy.  This is not the point I am emphasizing.  The concern on the part of the facility, North Somerset Primary Care Trust, was her failure to commit to “equality and diversity.”
27.	The rhetorical veil that promotes cultural Marxism is political correctness which imposes restraints on free speech in order achieve a multicultural society in which everyone is equal.
28.	The basic tenet of political correctness is that no culture is any better or worse than any other culture but that all are equal.  A few examples illustrate this notion:
1)	Religion: The beliefs held by a religion are no better or worse than those held by any other religion, therefore, when Christians insist that the only way to enter heaven is through faith in Jesus they are being politically incorrect and must be categorized as a religious fanatics and a danger to society.  This has led to the development of fuzzy gospels and hesitancy to teach doctrine on the one hand and open attacks on Christian traditions on the other hand.
2)	Gender: Women are on an equal par with men in all areas of life, therefore, when Christians subscribe to the biblical principle that a wife is to be subordinate to the husband in marriage, or that only men possess communication gifts, they are being politically incorrect and must be categorized as sexist.
3)	Nationality: No nation is any better or worse than any other nation, therefore, when Christians assert that the Anglo-Saxon culture, Western-European heritage, and Judeo-Christian ethic of the United States makes the country exceptional to all others they are being politically incorrect and they must be categorized as xenophobic.
4)	Sexual orientation: The method a person uses to achieve opioid release is no better or worse than any other person’s, therefore, when Christians maintain that sex is restricted between one man and one woman in the divine institution of marriage they are being politically incorrect and must be categorized as homophobic.
5)	Global warming: The contention that since the very existence of the human race is destroying the planet we all must pay a tax to offset our “carbon footprint.”  When Christians maintain that the earth’s temperature is dictated by cyclic nature of sunspots they are being politically incorrect and must be classified as “global warming deniers.”

Roy W. Spencer, “How Weather Works,” in Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians, and Misguided Policies That Hurt the Poor (New York: Encounter Books, 2008), 45-61.

Spencer, “Climate Change Denial,” in Climate Confusion, 93-95.

29.	These tactics move forward Satan’s strategy to win the appeal trial.  Anthistēmi is directed toward the believer’s free will to resist, to stand fast, to reject the “strategy and tactics of the devil.”
		NOTE:	“Cultural Marxism” by Linda Kimball:
There are two misconceptions held by many Americans.  The first is that communism ceased to be a threat when the Soviet Union imploded.  The second is that the New Left of the Sixties collapsed and disappeared as well.
Because the New Left lacked cohesion it fell apart as a political movement.  However, its revolutionaries reorganized themselves into a multitude of single issue groups.  Thus we now have for example, radical feminists, black extremists, anti-war ‘peace' activists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, and ‘gay' rights groups.  All of these groups pursue their piece of the radical agenda through a complex network of organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), People for the American Way, United for Peace and Justice, … Planned Parenthood …
Both communism and the New Left are alive and thriving here in America.  They favor code words: tolerance, social justice, economic justice, peace, reproductive rights, sex education and safe sex, safe schools, inclusion, diversity, and sensitivity.  All together, this is Cultural Marxism disguised as multiculturalism.
Birth of Multiculturalism
In anticipation of the revolutionary storm that would baptize the world in an inferno of red terror, leading to its rebirth as the promised land of social justice and proletarian equality—Frederich Engels wrote, 
"All the ... large and small nationalities are destined to perish ... in the revolutionary world storm ... (A general war will) wipe out all ... nations, down to their very names.  The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only reactionary classes ... but ... reactionary peoples." 
By the end of WWI, socialists realized that something was amiss, for the world's proletariat had not heeded Marx's call to rise up in opposition to evil capitalism and to embrace communism instead.  They wondered what had gone wrong.
Separately, two Marxist theorists—Antonio Gramsci of Italy and Georg Lukacs of Hungary—concluded that the Christianized West was the obstacle standing in the way of a communist new world order.  The West would have to be conquered first.
Gramsci posited that because Christianity had been dominant in the West for over 2000 years, not only was it fused with Western civilization, but it had corrupted the workers class.  The West would have to be de-Christianized, said Gramsci, by means of a "long march through the culture."  Additionally, a new proletariat must be created.  In his "Prison Notebooks," he suggested that the new proletariat be comprised of many criminals, women, and racial minorities.
The new battleground, reasoned Gramsci, must become the culture, starting with the traditional family and completely engulfing churches, schools, media, entertainment, civic organizations, literature, science, and history.  All of these things must be radically transformed and the social and cultural order gradually turned upside-down with the new proletariat placed in power at the top.
The Prototype
In 1919, Georg Lukacs became Deputy Commissar for Culture in the short-lived Bolshevik Bela Kun regime in Hungary.  He immediately set plans in motion to de-Christianize Hungary.  Reasoning that if Christian sexual ethics could be undermined among children, then both the hated patriarchal family and the Church would be dealt a crippling blow. Lukacs launched a radical sex education program in the schools.  Sex lectures were organized and literature handed out which graphically instructed youth in free love (promiscuity) and sexual intercourse while simultaneously encouraging them to deride and reject Christian moral ethics, monogamy, and parental and church authority.  All of this was accompanied by a reign of cultural terror perpetrated against parents, priests, and dissenters.
Hungary's youth, having been fed a steady diet of values-neutral (atheism) and radical sex education while simultaneously encouraged to rebel against all authority, easily turned into delinquents ranging from bullies and petty thieves to sex predators, murderers, and sociopaths.
Gramsci's prescription and Lukacs' plans were the precursor to what Cultural Marxism in the guise of SIECUS, GSLEN, and the ACLU--acting as judicially-powered enforcers--later brought into American schools.
Building a base 
In 1923, the Frankfurt School-a Marxist think-tank-was founded in Weimar Germany.  Among its founders were Georg Lukacs, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor Adorno.  The school was a multidisciplinary effort which included sociologists, sexologists, and psychologists.
The primary goal of the Frankfurt School was to translate Marxism from economic terms into cultural terms. It would provide the ideas on which to base a new political theory of revolution based on culture, harnessing new oppressed groups for the faithless proletariat. Smashing religion, morals, it would also build a constituency among academics, who could build careers studying and writing about the new oppression. 

Toward this end, Marcuse-who favored polymorphous perversion-expanded the ranks of Gramsci's new proletariat by including homosexuals, lesbians, and transsexuals.  Into this was spliced Lukacs radical sex education and cultural terrorism tactics.  Gramsci's ‘long march' was added to the mix, and then all of this was wedded to Freudian psychoanalysis and psychological conditioning techniques. The end product was Cultural Marxism, now known in the West as multiculturalism.
In 1950, the Frankfurt School augmented Cultural Marxism with Theodor Adorno's idea of the ‘authoritarian personality.'  This concept is premised on the notion that Christianity, capitalism, and the traditional family create a character prone to racism and fascism.  Thus, anyone who upholds America's traditional moral values and institutions is both racist and fascist.  Children raised by traditional values parents, we are told to believe, will almost certainly become racists and fascists.  By extension, if fascism and racism are endemic to America's traditional culture, then everyone raised in the traditions of God, family, patriotism, gun ownership, or free markets is in need of psychological help.
The pernicious influence of Adorno's ‘authoritarian personality' idea can be clearly seen in some of the research that gets public money.
"In Aug., 2003, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the results of their $1.2 million tax-payer funded study.  It stated, essentially, that traditionalists are mentally disturbed.  Scholars from the Universities of Maryland, California at Berkeley, and Stanford had determined that social conservatives...suffer from ‘mental rigidity,' ‘dogmatism,' and ‘uncertainty avoidance,' together with associated indicators for mental illness."

B. K. Eakman, “What?  Are You Crazy?” Chronicles, October 2004, 28-29.

The Orwellian cast of the pathologies named shows how far Gramsci's long march has led us.
A corresponding and diabolically crafted idea is political correctness.  The strong suggestion here is that in order for one not to be thought of as racist or fascist, then one must not only be nonjudgmental but must also embrace the ‘new' moral absolutes: diversity, choice, sensitivity, sexual orientation, and tolerance.  Political correctness is a Machiavellian psychological ‘command and control' device.  Its purpose is the imposition of uniformity in thought, speech, and behavior.
Critical theory is yet another psychological ‘command and control' device.  As stated by Daniel J. Flynn, 
"Critical Theory, as its name implies, criticizes.  What deconstruction does to literature, Critical Theory does to societies."  (Intellectual Morons, p 15-16.) 
Critical Theory is an ongoing and brutal assault via vicious criticism relentlessly leveled against Christians, Christmas, the Boy Scouts, Ten Commandments, our military, and all other aspects of traditional American culture and society.  
Both political correctness and Critical Theory are in essence, psychological bullying.  They are the psycho-political battering rams by which Frankfurt School disciples such as the ACLU are forcing Americans to submit to and to obey the will and the way of the Left.  These devious devices are but psychological versions of Georg Lukacs and Laventi Beria's ‘cultural terrorism' tactics.  In the words of Beria, 
"Obedience is the result of force ... Force is the antithesis of humanizing actions.  It is so synonymous in the human mind with savageness, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude toward people to be granted by those people the possessions of force."  (The Russian Manual on Psychopolitics: Obedience, by Laventi Beria, head of Soviet Secret Police and Stalin's right-hand man.)
Double-thinking ‘fence-sitters', otherwise known as moderates, centrists, and RINOs … in some cases literally afraid of incurring the wrath of name-calling obedience trainers … have opted to straddle the fence lest they be found guilty of possessing an opinion, one way or another.  At the merest hint of displeasure from the obedience-trainers, up goes the yellow flag of surrender upon which it is boldly written: 
"I believe in nothing and am tolerant of everything!"
Cultural Determinism
The linchpin of Cultural Marxism is cultural determinism, … birthed by the Darwinian idea that man is but a soulless animal and therefore his identity is determined by for example, his skin color or his sexual and/or erotic preferences.  This proposition rejects the concepts of the human spirit, individuality, free will, and morally informed conscience (paired with personal accountability and responsibility) because it emphatically denies the existence of the God of the Bible.  
It is said that courage is the first of the virtues because without it fear will paralyze man, thus keeping him from acting upon his moral convictions and speaking truth.  Thus bringing about a general state of paralyzing fear, apathy, and submission-the chains of tyranny-is the purpose behind psychopolitical cultural terrorism, for the communist Left's revolutionary agenda must, at all costs, be clothed in darkness.
The antidote is courage and the light of truth.  If we are to win this cultural war and reclaim and rebuild America so our children and their children's children can live in a ‘Shining City on the Hill' where liberty, families, opportunity, free markets, and decency flourish, we must muster the courage to fearlessly expose the communist Left's revolutionary agenda to the Light of Truth.    Truth and the courage to speak it will set us free.

Linda Kimball, “Cultural Marxism,” American Thinker, February 15, 2009, http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html

30.	This verb is another constative aorist which contemplates the action in its entirety, gathering it into a single whole.  When the believer is faced with a cosmic tactic he is to resist by standing fast on doctrinal principles.
31.	The active voice indicates that only the believer who is functioning in the sophisticated spiritual life can produce the action of this verb which pretty much rules out most of you. But at least you have an objective to move toward if you can ever get back in fellowship long enough to grow in grace.
32.	The infinitive is of intended result.  Here is the translation so far:
Ephesians 6:13 -	Because of the Angelic Conflict, pick up and put on the full armor of God, for the purpose that you might have the ability (power, intelligence, knowledge skill, and competence) and the capacity (production, performance, and deployment) to stand fast and resist …
33.	The occasions to do this fill each day.  You may be losing these battles and not know it.  You may be in opposition to the Lord and be an emissary of the Dark Side and not know it.  But, on the other hand, maybe you do know it and are too arrogant to admit it.

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