RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
Countrymen,
Question: Would you comment on this article by Ralph Peters titled When Devils Walk The Earth?
Answer: Concur on all points but find the clincher missing so all of these are not potent. He does not in these paragraphs identify the source of terrorism. I do not know why this is but he is in numerous and distinguished company.
Partly it is arrogance regarding the true extent of the power of clergy (they have none really because they are mumbo-jumbo artists … etc.). Partly it is arrogance regarding the premises of positivistic (sense-based) epistemology (only science yields facts/truth). And partly it is studied ignorance regarding what is taken as an irrelevant and therefore dismissible topic (religion qua religion and in particular what is and is not worthy of the name).
In fact, however, this non-seeing of the true enemy comprises a possibly fatal hole in our defensive/offensive littorals and the so-called clergy of all so-called religions (especially those passing popularly for Christian and Muslim) are taking armies of the younger generations through them every day — to attack one another.
Some day, someone with authority and means to take effective action will see the problem and fix it. It is the problem and, as always with problems, it will get fixed.
The problem is not clergy or religions, it is distorted (charlatan) presentments of both. And the only way to figure that one out is to know how to tell the difference between the true and the false, between true clergy and charlatans, who outnumber true clergy by many thousands to one.
And that knowledge is precisely what is dismissed by our educated/leadership orbits as irrelevant. So there it is: the mother of all security holes, unseen and willfully unseeable.
This phenomenon is the source of the heat President Bush is taking for not paying attention to terrorism. Of course, so should everyone else in our leadership orbits of whom I am aware take the same heat.
Question: But, each religion holds its truth uniquely valid … while others will be ignored, or put to the sword ….
Answer: Negative. Names, tastes and customs differ, religion is the same no matter how denominated — if it is truly religion.
This is the actual solution to terrorism, which is a far broader phenomenon than we customarily take it to be, encompassing so-called clergy of all religions. That common point of true religion, no matter how named, is the substance of our national security as that is presently being considered.
The criteria of true clergy are two:
1- true clergy earn their own living by the work of their hands and
2- true clergy do not accept fees for serving as clergy.
Clergy are the only professionals who must not be paid for their professional activities, nor may they live off donations.
The establishment clause of the First Amendment must be understood as cutting the economic pipe between clergy and laity especially in their conglomerated status as the state, not cutting a relationship between religion and government, which is an absurd notion that is not now nor never will nor can be practiced.
Anyone claiming to be clergy and taking money for acting as clergy is a charlatan.
In addition, anyone claiming to be clergy and engaging in political activity is a charlatan.
Similarly, the criteria of true religion are two:
1- true religions promulgate the universality of God as Lord and Father of all regardless of names and
2- true religions promulgate love as the structure of being and universal standard for all activities.
True religions vouch for the plenary validity of each other. The differences between true religions are those of name, taste and custom, not of essence or existence. Names, tastes and customs are no more an occasion for conflict between religions than they are for conflict between societies. Differences of name, taste and custom are natural and therefore acceptable and even desirable.
In addition, true religions are peaceful. Religions never cause wars. Egos cause war. Religions overcome ego with love, the structure of being.
The inner urge of theologians is to study. The inner urge of clergy is to overcome the estrangement of spirits. The inner urge of doctors is to ease the dis-eased. The inner urge of teachers is to form the character of young people. The inner urge of soldiers and their civililan counterparts (lawyers, judges, law enforcement personnel, political leaders and civil servants) is to protect the defenseless and foster the general welfare.
Q: Would you comment on this article by Victor Hanson titled The Mirror Of Fallujah?
A: Concur strongly with Hanson on this. However, he does not see the whole picture. He leaves out Africa. Caliphism is attacking humanity, not just Arabs. African (Amin, though dead recently, Mugabe, Taylor, etc.) support of heretical islam has to be factored in to get an accurate picture of the enemy’s order of battle and operational intentions.
The shiite ayatollahs of Iran, BTW, are Arab in origin, not Persian, who are Aryans, represented today by the Baha’is.
A side point is that Arab and African businessmen enslaved Africans (and Europeans, continuing today!!), not Europeans, although Europeans and many others bought the slaves and traded in them, again continuing today. The “white man” (a term fostered/favored by Caliphism) was secondary to the slave trade. Arab and African businessmen were primary, capturing and selling African and many other slaves.
Without using the word Hanson is pointing to the basic distortion of Caliphist societies: misogyny.
Update 1: Further discussion of the phenomenon of genuine and demonic clergy and scholars is here and here.
Update 2: The Jihadis’ Master Plan To Break Us
AMDG – VICTORY
