Religion and Politics
The Hollow Specter of Sophia
Religion is politics, and politics is a religion. They may differ to some, but they are certainly bedfellows, for they are so closely intertwined that they can be said to be ‘as one’.
Religion is the "false prophet" or mouthpiece of the ruling class.
Religion is very political. Just ask anyone in a religious organization if the people in it are practicing politics. At first they may deny it, as most groups of people in places of worship would like to think that they are above politics, but the honest person will agree, religion is up to its eyeballs in the fog of political maneuvering and micro-mind wars.
Wherever people are, there will be politics, and when the two mix so thoroughly that they become almost indistinguishable, major wars are the inevitable fruit of that union.
Let us take one of the most famous of the religious figures – the man we call Jesus Christ. He had 12 disciples, to which he was their master, or teacher of his philosophy or wisdom -- for ‘philo’ and ‘sophia’ are the Greek words for the ‘love of wisdom’.
When we read from the gospels how his disciples acted towards him and interacted with each other we see that they became political very quickly. They jockeyed for position and power both in the here and now, and for the hereafter, seeking to become the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, and the pure wisdom their master had taught them slowly became corrupted -- no longer from above, but natural and earthly -- and as one apostle has said -- demonic.
His group also found contention with other religious-political organizations such as the Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees - each a faction within a party, and having their own belief systems and interpretation of scripture, often arguing amongst one another.
Not much has changed in over 2000 years.
He and his disciples very quickly found that they were at odds with the most powerful political groups of his time -- the controlling powers of Judaism and the controlling powers of Romanism.
Rome believed in the power of Caesar and the Roman Empire, and Judaism in the power of Jehovah and Israel. And, as the story goes, because he opposed them both, they killed him for that opposition.
If we are honest about the narrative, we see clearly that those he opposed most virulently instigated the very plot to have him disposed -- his own kinsman, and the very ‘truth’ to which he attested -- the Kingdom of Heaven, was also sacrificed on that day.
Throughout the ages religion and politics have caused innumerable conflicts both great and small. The caustic reactions of those who adhere to opposing philosophies have turned the world upside down in all cultures and creeds. Some would argue that this has been a necessary evil and one which over time has brought us to the global civilization we now know, yet one must ask one’s self, ‘At what cost?’
Blood has been spilled enough to flood an ocean basin in the name of religion and politics, and it looks like the spigot will not be shut off any time soon, for wars over religion and politics continue to this day.
Brother kills brother over philosophies, and this ‘love of wisdom’ is quickly turned to the ‘love of hate’. Leaders of political parties are assassinated, by name and reputation, and even bodily, as in the political assassinations of the 60’s -- losing three great ones -- JFK, RFK, and MLK. Only the religious fervor of politics could cause such a thing. Power has no conscience and would crucify any opposition to remain seated.
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Civilization is not so civilized when we see it in this light. The first thing to be sacrificed for the sake of the controlling powers is the very foundation of truth, the ‘love of wisdom’. The proverbs speak of wisdom as the ‘principle thing’ -- the foremost element, the precious object that should be uppermost in all our minds, and sought with all of our heart.
Without wisdom we are as the brute beasts that prey upon one another, on our way to the eternal grave by way of the dust of the Earth -- with wisdom we are as the gods, for we are as ‘gods’ said Yahshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus the Christ), and with the practice of heavenly wisdom, are on our way to becoming citizens of the kingdom that is above, and as disciples whose principle goal, said Yahshua, is to bring that kingdom to Earth. At this we have failed miserably, in spite of two millennia of his teachings.
It has been said that ‘power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. If this be true, then we must at all cost limit the powers of religion and politics, for both are insidious powers, and have been and will continue to be corrupted, and when religion and politics become indistinguishable from one another how complete is that corruption! Such a thing has so great a seed of disaster in it that it can bring a nation to its knees in a few short years.
In less than a decade a great nation has been reduced from prosperity to poverty, and the only wisdom that seems to be produced by those in control is that which is earthly and demonic -- selfishness and greed. It is a great evil to see the rich get richer, and the poor poorer on the backs of the very people who believed so fervently the religious and political rhetoric that issued from the marriage of the two.
It is a slap in the face to the very people that Jesus came to die for -- the poor -- to see the spiritually bankrupted rich bailed out and saved from calamity, and the finacially bankrupted poor deeper in disaster and despair. Without faith, hope and vision, a nation may perish -- perhaps even a whole planet of nations.
When this man Yahshua finally returns, will he find faith and hope on the Earth?
We need a new vision -- hopefully one without religion and politics. For the two systems that the powers say we must have to be civilized so far neither has worked out to the advantage of humanity.
Yahshua, come quickly!
Inclusion of this gospel is for comparative purposes only.
Comments regarding what I know to be true have always been like a lightening rod sparking much debate. No-one can come to god unless He draws them. God cannot be found intellectually. He is a spirit first and foremost. Can anyone describe a spirit intellectually? No. Only by His spirit can we know the truth, and then only to the degree He allows us to know it.
God can only be found just beyond all we know, for he is beyond the vanishing point of all things, being "Set Apart". If anyone would desire to know God, then they must seek Him with all of their heart. The word says nothing about their mind, for he cannot be found in this manner, for the mind is darkened by a false light from the light-giver Lucifer, the god of this world. This is why the Annointed One/Messiah/Christ said, "Unless you become like a child you cannot enter the kingdom of God."
The one we know as Sama El Semyaza has many aliases as do most serious criminals. Yes, he does use other names like Yaldaboath, Abraxas, Quetzalcoatl, Baal, Bel-zebub, and many others, depending on the culture.
We are also correct in pointing out the Gnostic way of explaining this adversary called the Demiurge. This aspect of aliases has worked in his favor to muddy the waters of our understanding, even as he has preached a protoevangel of many 'saviours' over thousands of years prior to the advent of the true Massiach - Yahushua.
One thing the god of this world has done very effectively is to place a cloud of confusion over the name first, and then over the message. The prime cypher to understanding it all is the Book of Enoch. This is why the universal church (Catholic) tried to eliminate it, and did so for over a thousand years.
However, this 'satan' is not one, but many, known as the Ha Shatan, literally translated as The Opposers. As to the name 'Yahweh', if it is made into a byword, to which the scriptures do say it will become so to the heathen and the pagan, it is made so by those who would disparage it out of ignorance.
The name of god is Yahua, his son Yahushua, his people Yahudim (Yahuda/Juda/Jews). The essential element of his name is YAH, derived from the name he gave Moshe - Eh Yah or Ha Yah, meaning I AM. This was the very phrase He spoke when the other intellectuals of his (Yahushua Ha Messiach's) day used to convict him of blasphemy, when He used it in answering the Pharisees question of who he was, and said Ha YAH - I AM.
Intellectuals cannot think past the Big Bang, for there it all ends for them. And they just accept, using a greater faith than any believer, that it just happened by itself. Science itself states very clearly that there is no effect without a cause. The big bang was an effect, not a cause. That cause which they accept by faith has a name, and it is YAH - I AM, and the cause was His words, "Let there be Light!" And, I might add, the 'i am' that is their consciousness is given to them by the Great I AM.
The sad thing is that they may have known this once when they were a child, but have forgotten it due to the pride of life and the arrogance of human learning that subtly states that they are god, and that there is no other god but themselves, and this has blinded them to the truth. If they were to humble themselves like a child once more, and seek the I AM with all their hearts, the I AM will reveal himself to them.
All works of darkness and deception will be revealed and exposed by the light of truth