It’s noticeable that Kamala Harris received her significant improve into politics from a partner who was a close alliance of the cult criminal Jim Jones as the key presidential candidates proclaim their belief credentials in the last days of the election.
In 1978, Jones led more than 900 supporters to their deaths in the forests of Jonestown, Guyana, by having them ingest contaminated wine. It was one of the saddest days of the innovative after-life of the 1960s in America.
The odorous odor of Jonestown however permeates American society. The drama was intrinsically linked to the development of a fresh civilized society in place of “old Christendom.” Charged by hyper-racialist and pan-sexual self-expression, it proved angry at its base to traditional Christian home life as the basic foundation for the U. S. state.
The novel legal religion’s globalization was demonstrated at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics. Caligula swaying around a blasphemous LGBTQ movie of” Last Supper” was in stark contrast to Jones ‘ culturally Marxist and largely Christian new purchase. That trend in “normalized” type is now not only recorded but mainstreamed. In the United States, it replaces lingering lovely nods to Christianity for as President Eisenhower’s 1950s” In God We Trust” motto on U. S. money.
Cult Leader Helps San Francisco Democrats
In demonizing a racialist and pan-sexualist political system, Jones evilly merged a religion with a religion, drawing on Willie Brown, Harris ‘ fan and coach, and other leftist officials. Jones harvested vote to support their jobs and spread their post-1960s beliefs. This new civilized society of power is more of a pagan problem to what John Adams called the “general concepts of Christianity” that underpins America than it is an irreligious revolution ideology.
The Communist Manifesto‘s Trotskyite interpretation and materialistic consumerism from Silicon Valley were the catalyst for the desire to destroy the Christian sense of family. It exalts individual may while unfortunately reducing social control by making people more obedient. As if a revolution LinkedIn to advance jobs, it afflicts all sides of the political spectrum, although the Harris-Walz solution of” change” is the clearest avatar this election time.
With the backing of Democratic frontrunners in the 1970s, Jones was able to run his violent religion. Brown, a former California Assembly member and mayor, officially visited Jones’ Peoples Temple several times and lavished praise on him. Mayor of San Francisco, George Moscone, has appointed Jones as the city’s housing authority payment seat.
Gay image Harvey Milk spoke frequently at Jones ‘ church, saying he found that” a sense of being … I can not leave”. At a testimonial dinner, Brownie praised Jones as” a combination of Chairman Mao, Angela Davis, and Martin King.” Brown’s flippancy about Mao, likely the greatest mass-killing leader of history, was more chilling given Jones ‘ finale, the greatest cluster of forced civilian deaths of Americans prior to 9/11.
Prior to that, Brown spearheaded the legalization of homosexuality in California and built his political clout in what became the epicenter of the new American civil religion, now known as “wokeness,” with Jones as an ally. The new quasi-religious awokening from the start sought to override the “laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” cited in the Declaration of Independence.
Kamala Tied to Sexual and Other Marxists
Brown disavowed Jones, but only after the tragedy at Jonestown. Harris never rebuffed Brown, who allegedly gave her a BMW and traveled to Europe as a couple while they were romantic. They “dated” in 1994-1995, during which he appointed her ( a younger deputy state’s attorney ) to two commissions, which gave her a statewide profile. He backed her victory as the district attorney for San Francisco.
Her underlying beliefs continue an ultra-racial and hyper-sexual reinterpretation of what it means to be human that exploded among leftists in Brown’s time. A culture hostile to what Abraham Lincoln called “one nation under God” and to the Declaration’s claim that rights come from God in a Christian context. In his book Demons, Fyodor Dostoevsky argued that demonic influence was a contributing factor to such nihilism a century before Jonestown in his century-long play.
Indeed, Jones made the early decision to join the Soviet-allied American Communist Party, which he later fought for with an anticommunist FBI. So, he decided to infiltrate American Christianity. He served as a pastor for the Disciples of Christ, a cherished Protestant sect where he and his congregation remained until their violent end in 1978.
The new culture of radical politics in northern California merged with a worldview of people who were categorized by skin color ( the mystical unity of “voices of color” ) and preferred sexual orifices and stimulation. Its paradox was that it depicted identity as fluid, free from any predetermined boundaries, aside from self-aware racial and sexual identities associated with career success.
Claiming a Pastor 400 Miles Away
Harris enjoys and participates in this new West-led, American-led religious culture. Her parents are of Irish-Jamaican/African and Indian backgrounds. Although her mother and name are associated with Indian Hinduism, she was raised married to a Jewish man and grew up in an African-American Baptist church in San Francisco.
After living in Los Angeles for years, she still identifies her home place of worship far away at Third Baptist, San Francisco. The pastor at Third Baptist, the Rev. Willie Brown, who was unrelated to Willie, controversially blamed America for the terrorist attack on September 11 and supported Rev. When Gerald Wright was attacked for his remarks on” God damn America,” Wright was portrayed as President Obama’s former pastor.
Despite living so far from Third Baptist, Harris often shouts out praise to Amos Brown, and he was one of her guests at Joe Biden’s inauguration. He has followed me every step of the way, from the moment I first considered running for public office almost 20 years ago, according to Harris. ” And he has been such a voice of leadership, more leadership, and leadership in our nation. And so I want to thank you, Dr. Brown, for all that you are – all that you are”.
Consider, too, Harris ‘ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. He backed the use of tampons in boys ‘ school restrooms to accommodate transgender stereotypes and placing Covid medicine in the order of race. Critics claim that he ignored racialist concerns in his response to the heinous riots involving Antifa and Black Lives Matter in Minnesota. He assumes the role of “normal” American.
The erosion of the republic’s first principles symbolized by the Harris-Walz ticket does n’t attempt to erase the Eurocentric Enlightenment, but is its extreme apotheosis. The nation, which is disassociated from the traditional Christian family, stumbles like a sleep-walking giant whose self-will philosophy conflicts with John Quincy Adams ‘ prediction.
The Spirits Inside Bolshevik Atheism
The need for self-emptying in Christ rather than self-assertion was a lesson from Dostoevsky’s great novels, according to the late Dartmouth poet Donald Sheehan. In our new civil religion, we have the latter present in abundance.
Amid all the self-willed identity power, where is loving our neighbor more than oneself in Christ? Alexander Solzhenitsyn summed up three fundamental principles of Bolshevik atheism in an essay titled The Gulag Archipelago that strangely jive with the self-assertion of today’s globalizing ethos:
1. Survive at any price. The ends justify the means, even the death of others.
2. Only material results matter. Two wrongs can make a right.
3. Respect for the “permanent lie” Do n’t interfere with the virtual reality that we all supposedly have to navigate, lest you cause trouble for your career and your loved ones.
Scarily, these rules guide today’s civil religion under the banners of social justice and careerism. In them, “love is love” flatlines as self-love, as the revolution has become live-streamed.
Self-expression for power requires adhering to the new secular high-tech mass as a rite. It is like a parody of , Christian sobornost,  , or mystical unity, outside the Church as the Body of Christ, and in a dark mist like the biblical sorcerer Bar-Jesus, unable to see.
At the Olympic rituals, we are left with Dionysus ‘ body and Jonestown’s long shadow in the background. We learn to love live-streamed kindly” Momala” and allegedly affable Walz, while off-screen Dionysian , maenads , would, like Jones, tear apart our children in the medical neutering supported by Harris-Walz.
What’s Weird: Paganism or Christianity?
A new religious spirit is at work, permeating all sides of American politics. We frequently look through God’s Creation without seeing it, which is becoming increasingly demonized.
I remember watching the broadcast reports of the Jonestown massacre as a boy and being” something wicked this way comes” in our working-class Chicago neighborhood. Jones also directed the killing of investigators including my own cousin, Rep. Leo Ryan. Ryan grew up with my father in a West Side Irish-American enclave. In high school, the two went on double dates. They wrestle on an inner-city lawn in an early home movie that was left over from an earlier American Dream.
The new virtual-real world’s system now places us online as the new norm. It defines the traditional as “weird”, synonymous with creepy. But once “weird” meant having an otherworldly destiny.
Indeed, the ideas of self-government that came into existence from traditional Christianity have always been strange in the older sense. The recent live-streaming of the global Dionysus from Paris and Jonestown, on the other hand, raise the possibility of normalizing the diabolical.
Christians, however, know this live-streamed revolution will not be the last word. Thank God.
Dr. Paul Kentigern Siewers is a visiting fellow in religion and public life at Princeton University’s James Madison Program. He is an associate professor of English at Bucknell University. He is also a priest at St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco Russian Orthodox Mission Church in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He teaches and writes on Christian literature and ideas of nature, and on literary resistance to totalitarianism. His opinions are those of his.
