At the same time as celebrating Independence with “pomp and spectacle”, including explosions, we relished our theft of land and lives, and made a huge capitalistic business out of slavery, began our rape of peoples and land; and we have never kept a single treaty we made with indigenous peoples. We’ve only ever been concerned with our own independence and privilege. We still relish our thievery, selfishness, and greed. We are in love with racism and slavery the same as in the past. We actually have Congressmen openly calling for a return to slavery and servitude. We have always been exactly what the Zionists are. Using the Bible (Old Testament/Tanakh) as a club made up of false historicism. Another writer here has pointed out the falsity of Christianity embracing the OT law, which their Jesus claimed passed away, and regurgitating that ignorance as current law now; always wanting to force OT subservience, but never once wanting to praise or bring forth the philosophy of that original Jesus in the form of the Sermon on the Mount. Neo-Jesus, the very embodiment of the OT has successively returned since a co-opted Revelation to murder for profit, because they believe in a murderous deity. It’s an addiction, the “opiate of the masses”.
[The hypocrisy of America is borne out, first and foremost, by its love of slavery…]
Thomas Moore, Irish poet
Once upon a time… the US (the Colonies) sought to become independent of the British King. For years the Colonists had fought war at the King’s side, mostly against the French and Hurons (Iroquois nations) for control of North America. The French and Spanish also wanted control of the western continents. But we, being loyal British subjects, at the time, fought to defeat them. Defeat of any monarch, despot, or monarchical system is a laudable goal (whether church related and/or political), and so we moved on to defeating the British monarch as well. Having done so, we celebrated, and continue to celebrate this victory and independence with pomp and spectacle. As far as the British King, or any royalty goes, fuck all kings and their aristocratic ilk, always and forever.
But we need to be aware of, and accept responsibility for, the atrocities we have caused and continue to cause, even if we choose to call our King the “President” (whether Republican or Democrat). At the time, we really weren’t aware or sensible of our own faults (are we ever?) in building an empire upon the backs of slaves and wage slaves (a system based in greed and fanciful notions of superiority, and that’s a sign of mental illness), and driven by false notions of destiny, and authority to thievery, preached by Kingly deities, priests, pastors, and Reverend Doctors since the Dark Ages. (Read here to understand the transmogrification of Jesus into Neo-Jesus, a blood soaked abuser and marauder). This doctrine, Manifest Destiny, allowed Europeans (Americans) to justify theft of property, wholesale lands, and the lives of natives. Yes, we stole, raped, pillaged, slaved, and slaughtered our way to prosperity and power. The natives, who did greet us warmly at first, turned against us as we continued stealing their land, raping them, slaughtering them, and driving them out (just like Zionists). We’ve never apologized, and we haughtily believe we had the right, because Americans to this day believe in their superiority and that “might makes right”. What applies to Zionists, also applies to us, being “little concerned for human blood if it is not [our] own.” (Morris Ernst, FDR’s international envoy for refugees)
We have gone from a people who were told by their leaders that a standing army is an evil thing, and we should “stay out of foreign entanglements”, to the largest military machine the world has ever known, to the tune of >1 TRILLION dollars per year, with hundreds of weaponized bases and mobile nuclear weapons around the globe.
This is NOT a new or recent thing. We started immediately after we celebrated that first victory. Clergy and politicians supported slavery and aristocracy, then and now, and the South still receives pity based upon those preachings of superiority, nevermind that they started a war where over 600,000 men lost their lives; and for what?… the abomination of slavery. Circa 1900 we sent US Marines and “volunteers” to the Philippines to crush what the Marine Corps and the Pentagon call the “Philippine Uprising”. Those Filipinos were fighting to get their land back from capitalist theft, and they didn’t want to be used as slaves to collect coconuts for imperial powers (US). Thousands of Filipinos were slaughtered, raped, and tortured. Spain had felt they owned the Philippines, and when the US defeated their fleet, the US decided we owned the Philippines (and many Pacific islands), and we took violent control of all for the sake of greed and building another base of power operations (we learned so much from the abuses of the English throne, didn’t we?). Earlier, we pulled this same force on Japan to force them to open their doors to capitalistic greed.
We forced Pacific islanders to stand still while we dropped nuclear test bombs around the Pacific (we also made US soldiers guinea pigs for these experiments).
We made best buddies of Japan, because they bowed to our power, and we grew them a protective shield, even after they had raped, pillaged, and murdered their way through east Asia and the Pacific, and tortured and slaughtered American servicemen. We decided to hate the Chinese for the sake of the British, and their losses of drug profits and control. Is it any wonder the Chinese drove the British out? We decided to hate the Vietnamese for the sake of the French and British. Is it any wonder that China and N Korea despise capitalists, especially since capitalists love their most violently aggressive torturer, Japan?
We invaded, yes invaded, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc… for the sole purpose of helping the French and English hold on to their stolen goods. If your home was invaded so others could steal your property, rape your women & men, torture you and/or take your lives, would you still agree with “might makes right”?
We have invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, encroached into Pakistan, all based on our own lies and Zionist lies, all while supporting Zionist violence (rape, torture, murder), and supporting Saudi murder; and we continue our insane ideas about invading Iran. The British are still looking to take over the “sick man of Europe”, Turkey. The British have long memories, as does the US. We toppled the the democratically elected President of Iran, and with the British installed a puppet dictator (the Shah). Arabs, who once trusted us and cooperated with us, we have lined up in front of us and stuck knives deep into their backs by kissing the Zionists’ ass.
We have much to be sorry for. While we celebrate our “independence” we come further under the control of foreign influences, majorly the British and Zionists (who practically control the British now). Will we ever be satisfied with enough? Will we ever take our responsibilities as humans as seriously as we take our greed and lust for more? Will we ever listen to our combat veterans who continually tell us we are egregiously wrong in what we’re doing? Will we stop supporting Zionist psychopaths in their lebensraum?
“Joe Biden is not the ‘new FDR’, he’s the old Harry Truman, and that’s a serious problem.” Biden has supported every war, even though, or because, he’s never had to fight in one. If you think Barack Obama is a “good” man, you are seriously wrong (the meme of his wife pontificating that her House was built by slaves, and the Afghan child sitting in rubble below says, “You have a house?!? Your husband blew mine up” pretty much says it all. If you think Donald Trump is a “good” man in search of peace and prosperity for you, you must be living with a lobotomy, or you’re stuck in deep denial. If you think George Bush was a “good” President, then pull your head out of your ass and reread the lies he told (based on Israeli lies) to drag the US into war. This same analysis goes for almost every President we’ve ever had, Republican AND Democrat; lies, corruption, psychopathology of power, and much, much more. If you think even one member of Congress is untouched by corruption, you are deluded beyond belief.
This IS what we have become, a nation of war mongers & thieves, psychopaths, and sociopaths. Stop listening to the Church and political hierarchies. Stop listening to ecclesiastical and political propaganda. Start getting yourself educated. Have some pride man! Embrace the power you have as a Citizen and slap the shit out of these people. Embrace humanity and send everyone’s god and greed packing.
“It is the fate of many abstract words to be used in two senses, one good and the other bad. Morality means the will to righteousness, or it means Anthony Comstock; democracy means the rule of the people, or it means Tammany Hall. And so it is with the word “Religion”. In its true sense Religion is the most fundamental of the soul’s impulses, the impassioned love of life, the feeling of its preciousness, the desire to foster and further it. In that sense every thinking man must be religious; in that sense Religion is a perpetual self-renewing force, the very nature of our being. In that sense I would make no thought of assailing it, I would make clear that I hold it beyond assailment.
“But we are denied the pleasure of using the word in that honest sense, because of another which has been given to it. To the ordinary man “Religion” means, not the soul’s longing for growth, the “hunger and thirst after righteousness”, but certain forms in which this hunger has manifested itself in history, and prevails today throughout the world; that is to say, institutions have fixed dogmas and “revelations”, creeds and rituals, with an administering caste which claims supernatural sanction. By such institutions the moral strivings of the race, the affections of childhood and the aspirations of youth are made the prerogatives and stock in trade of ecclesiastical hierarchies. It is the thesis of this book that “Religion” in this sense is a source of income to parasites, and the natural ally of every form of oppression and exploitation.”
The Profits Of Religion – Religion – Upton Sinclair
Christians have a responsibility to ask themselves: “Do I believe what Jesus said, or do I believe the rich man, who was sad that Jesus said to give away his wealth and follow, and brought forth Neo-Jesus for comfort and slaughter?”; “Do I believe Jesus, or do I believe the Pharisees and Sadducees (lying political dogmatists & aristocrats) whom Jesus despised?”; “Do I follow what Jesus said, or do I follow the wolves in sheep’s clothing and embrace slavery, apartheid, genocide, and murder for profit (‘It’s only business’)?”; “Do I believe that the “old law has passed away”, or do I believe I know more than the socialist man I claim as a saviour?”; “Am I radical like the man I wish I could emulate, or am I follower of the sick dogmatism that man despised?”
“On Great Lone Hills”
(X Rubicon)
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir burned this into my heart when a boy. Now it burned my heart considering all the death I had dealt, and helped to deal from above. It’s a patriotic song, and shows a longing for Peace, but Peace gained at the expense of Truth will never last. In two world wars, German soldiers stormed into war wearing belt buckles emblazoned with the words, “Gott Mit Uns” – God With Us. Since the supposed end of WW2 the US has made the world sick with its own colonial version of God With US, even when slaughtering in the mountains of Central America and elsewhere. I stood on those hills and slaughtered for every American and their God.
View Central America today and you will see what the American God has wrought, Corruption. The American God truly “walks abroad in garments of might”, but there is no “path of splendor” or crowning of light – only death, power, and corruption. Granted, these words were written and used in defiance of the Nazis, but they are words that every American, including land thieves and slavers, have known and felt incessantly from the founding of the republic.
On great, lone hills, where tempests brood and gather,
Primeval Earth, against primeval sky,
We, faring forth, possessed by fervent longing,
Have found a throne, eternal and high,
Have knelt at last in wordless adoration,
Till fire and whirlwind have both gone by.
With ardent song we greet the golden morning.
By faith upborne, remember not the night.
The whole wide world, triumphant hails the dawning.
God walks abroad in garments of might,
The hills, behold, are now a path of splendor,
Transfigured all, and all crowned with light.
Hymn from Finlandia – Jean Sibelius
Words by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi
Performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
We have successively become the fascists we pretend to dislike. On 4 July, I beseech you to come to your senses which you have within you; to leave the man-made non-sense behind, to embrace your humanity and that of all the humanity of the Earth. Everyone, not just you, wants independence.
'Stop listening to ecclesiastical and political propaganda. Start getting yourself educated.'
Yeah, fully agreed, Sean. Well-written and insightful article on the US empire's history and how religion plays an important role in it.
From the 'founders' to the mormons, from the genocide of indigenous peoples around the world to here at home, from the hypocrisies and atrocities of imperial revisionist history - textbook examples of historical truth and reality! Thank you, Sean!!!!