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“He [Jesus] said to me, “My
grace is sufficient for you, for My
power is made perfect in [your]
weakness.” I will all the more gladly
boast of my weaknesses, that the
power of Christ may rest upon me.
For the sake of Christ, then, I am
content with weaknesses, insults,
hardships, persecutions and
calamities; for when I am weak [in
myself], then I am strong [in Him].”
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- 3. Presentation Outline (1) TheTen Teachers of Morality (2) Characteristics of a Revolution (3) Assault on the Family (4) Assault on the Church (5) How to Fight Back with the POPE
- 4. I. The TenTeachers of Morality (1) The United Nations (2) The foreign NGOs (3) The executive branch (4) The courts (5) The legislatures (6) The professional associations (7) The media (8) The school leadership (9) The Church (10) The family
- 5. "Promoting a "family planningfirst" strategy can send a message to poor people: 'Wish you weren't here’.” – Amartya Sen.
- 7. “The U.S. economywill require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. … Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States.”
- 8. The “Lineup” fromthe World’s Perspective
- 9. The “Lineup” fromthe World’s Perspective The Culture of Death The United Nations “Developed’ world governments The courts The print and electronic media The entertainment industry The “arts community” The big corporations The foundations and unions The non-governmental organizations A thousand anti-life groups The legal and medical professions The professional associations The billionaires Liberal churches The “New Age” movement The Culture of Life Us
- 10. Why We CannotLose Hope “He [Jesus] said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in [your] weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities; for when I am weak [in myself], then I am strong [in Him].” – 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
- 11. The “Lineup” fromthe Eternal Perspective The Culture of Death Satan and all of his demons The Culture of Life God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit Blessed Virgin Mary The Company of Saints The angelic host The people of God
- 12. The Origin ofthe Culture of Death
- 13. The Origin ofthe Culture of Death “If God were your Father you would love Me ...you are of your father the Devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” – John 8:42,44.
- 14. Contrasts Between theCulture of Life and the Culture of Death Prudence Temperance Fortitude Justice Faith Hope Charity Recklessness Self-Indulgence Cowardice Unfairness Skepticism Despair Selfishness
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- 16. We Were Createdto Fight for Life! “... and you will be hated by all nations for My Name’s sake. And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” – Matthew 24:9-13.
- 17. II. Characteristics ofa Revolution
- 18. The Purposes ofa Social Revolution (1) To eradicate guilt; and (2) To accumulate power.
- 19. Getting Rid ofGuilt (1) Fornicating teenagers feel guilty about what they are doing, and so they must be reassured that they are not doing anything wrong (“It’s perfectly natural”), and that they have every right to have sex, as long as they “act responsibly.”
- 20. Getting Rid ofGuilt (2) Women naturally feel that abortion is wrong, and they feel guilt when they kill their preborn children. So they must be told that “Abortion is just another way of ending a pregnancy, just like childbirth is.”
- 21. Getting Rid ofGuilt (3) Homosexuals are typically plagued with guilt. Instead of helping them change their deadly and corrupted behavior, anti-lifers tell them that they are fine just the way they are, and that the problem actually lies with “homophobes.”
- 22. Getting Rid ofGuilt (4) In Germany, prostitution is now considered to be “just another job.” So many married women who have lost their jobs have been told that if they do not accept jobs as prostitutes, they will lose their welfare benefits!
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- 25. Why Is EverythingSo Fouled Up? “We make men without chests and we expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and we are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” — C.S. Lewis.
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- 27. Why Attack theFamily?Why Attack the Family?
- 28. “As long asthe child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism ..." — UNESCO in 1949. “As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism ..." — UNESCO in 1949. 1. Political and One-World Philosophy
- 29. Completing the Revolution: Attackson the Family “We have to abolish the institution of marriage ... By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God ... We must under- stand that what we are attempting is a revolution, not a public relations move- ment ... humanism is the goal.” — Gloria Steinem. 2. Loss of Faith
- 30. Humanist Manifesto II(1973) “Humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer- hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith ... As non-theists, we begin with humans, not God; nature, not deity ... We can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. No deity can save us; we must save ourselves.” Humanist Manifesto II (1973) “Humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer- hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith ... As non-theists, we begin with humans, not God; nature, not deity ... We can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. No deity can save us; we must save ourselves.”
- 31. “We have yetto beat our public health drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine; we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though that is the exact truth.” — Mary Steichen Calderone, founder of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). “We have yet to beat our public health drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine; we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though that is the exact truth.” — Mary Steichen Calderone, founder of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). 3. Pregnancy as a Disease
- 32. "The pill, inmy opinion and that of my colleagues, is an important prophylaxis, perhaps the most important, against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses extant. That, of course, is unwanted pregnancy." — Alan Guttmacher, M.D., former Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
- 33. "[Pregnancy] is an episodic,moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents." — Abortionist Warren Hern. "[Pregnancy] is an episodic, moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents." — Abortionist Warren Hern.
- 34. "We must destroylove ... Love promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, susceptibility to pain, and prevents the full development of woman's human potential by directing all her energies outward in the interests of others." — Women's Liberation, Notes from the Second Year. "We must destroy love ... Love promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, susceptibility to pain, and prevents the full development of woman's human potential by directing all her energies outward in the interests of others." — Women's Liberation, Notes from the Second Year. 4. Hatred of Love and Family
- 35. St. Paul onLove Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. ― I Corinthians 13:4-8. St. Paul on Love Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. ― I Corinthians 13:4-8.
- 36. "Being a housewifeis an illegitimate profession ... the choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that.“ — Vivian Gornick. "Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... the choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that.“ — Vivian Gornick.
- 37. "It is stillpossible for weak, stupid, lazy, unambitious and otherwise lesser equipped individuals to remain and make their way within domestic work, both as housewives and as servants. As for the rest, prostitution is always available." — Nobel Prize winners Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. "It is still possible for weak, stupid, lazy, unambitious and otherwise lesser equipped individuals to remain and make their way within domestic work, both as housewives and as servants. As for the rest, prostitution is always available." — Nobel Prize winners Alva and Gunnar Myrdal.
- 38. How Satan PervertsLove • Love for God - Blasphemy, sacrilege, indifference, agnosticism, atheism, and Communism. • Love of self - Overindulgence in and addictions to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, food, money, gambling, power, pornography and sex. • Love of neighbor - Racism, theft, embezzlement, cheating, slander and lies.
- 39. How Satan PervertsLove • Love of life - Genocide, murder, infanticide, euthanasia, suicide, abortion, sterilization and contraception. • Natural sexual love - Homosexuality, pedophilia, pornography, adultery, masturbation, fornication, incest and rape.
- 40. 5. Eugenics Then "Birthcontrol of itself, by freeing the reproductive instinct from its present chains, will make a better race. ... Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house built upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit." — Margaret Sanger.
- 41. Eugenics Now "A womanwho stays at home, caring for children and the house, leads an extremely sterile existence. This kind of woman leads a parasitic existence that can aptly be described as "legalized prostitution" ... The time has not only come, it is past due, when marriage and motherhood as a life's goal should be cut out of the training of the female child ... The day has come when motherhood should be the lot and privilege of a select minority.” — Robin Morgan. "A woman who stays at home, caring for children and the house, leads an extremely sterile existence. This kind of woman leads a parasitic existence that can aptly be described as "legalized prostitution" ... The time has not only come, it is past due, when marriage and motherhood as a life's goal should be cut out of the training of the female child ... The day has come when motherhood should be the lot and privilege of a select minority.” — Robin Morgan. Eugenics Now
- 42. "The family isthe key institution for the determination and perpetuation of women's subordination, the place where oppression is most excruciatingly experienced ... Marriage, with its legal obligations, institutionalized male authority and compulsory heterosexuality, is incompatible with sexual freedom.“ — Mica Niva. 6. Free Sex! "The family is the key institution for the determination and perpetuation of women's subordination, the place where oppression is most excruciatingly experienced ... Marriage, with its legal obligations, institutionalized male authority and compulsory heterosexuality, is incompatible with sexual freedom.” — Mica Niva.
- 43. Types of Attackson the FamilyTypes of Attacks on the Family
- 44. Types of Attackson the Family (1) Anti-family propaganda (2) Break family links (3) Encourage consumerism (4) Dilute the meaning of “family” (5) Day care (and stranger ideas) (6) Simply declare the family dead
- 45. Tactic #1: Anti-Family Propaganda Tactic#1: Anti-Family Propaganda
- 46. Marxist Roots ofthe Attacks “The family contains in germ not only slavery, but also serfdom. ... The married woman differs from the ordinary courtesan in that she does not let out her body on piece-work as a wage worker, but sells it once and for all into slavery. ... The family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife” — Friedrich Engels.
- 47. Marxism in ModernFeminism “Engels did observe that the original division of labor was between man and woman for the purposes of childbreeding; that within the family. The husband was the owner, the wife the means of production; the children the labor; and that reproduction of the human species was an important economic system distinct from the means of production.” — Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex. “Engels did observe that the original division of labor was between man and woman for the purposes of childbreeding; that within the family. The husband was the owner, the wife the means of production; the children the labor; and that reproduction of the human species was an important economic system distinct from the means of production.” — Shulamith Firestone, The Dialectic of Sex. Marxism in Modern Feminism
- 48. "Marry to getout from under the bonds of slavery to enter into a more deathlike slavery." — Birth Control Review, October 1925. "Marry to get out from under the bonds of slavery to enter into a more deathlike slavery." — Birth Control Review, October 1925. Marxism in Modern Feminism
- 49. “Since marriage constitutesslavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." — Sheila Cronan of the National Organization for Women (NOW). “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." — Sheila Cronan of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Marxism in Modern Feminism
- 50. "Every propaganda means,especially the press, radio and movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures, must be used to instill in the Russian population the idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must emphasize the expenses that children cause, the good things that people could have had with the money spent on them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of childbearing on a woman's health.” — Nazi demographics expert Professor Heinrich Wetzel. Anti-Family PropagandaAnti-Family Propaganda "Every propaganda means, especially the press, radio and movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures, must be used to instill in the Russian population the idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must emphasize the expenses that children cause, the good things that people could have had with the money spent on them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of childbearing on a woman's health.” — Nazi demographics expert Professor Heinrich Wetzel.
- 51. Tactic #2: Breaking theLinks Between Family Members
- 52. Breaking the Links BetweenFamily Members (1) • The Link Between God and the Family: Agnosticism, atheism, indifferentism, the “New Age,” situational ethics and anti- apostolic propaganda. • The Unitive Link Between Husband and Wife: Divorce, adultery, prostitution and the use of pornography. • The Procreative Link Between Husband and Wife: Abortion, contraception, sterilization, masturbation and homosexual acts.
- 53. Breaking the Links BetweenFamily Members (2) • The Link Between Parents and their Children: Permissive sex education, school-based clinics, “values clarification,” parent licensing and government-sponsored day-care centers. • The Link Between Parents and Grandparents: Euthanasia and “physician-assisted suicide.”
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- 56. “The right tomarry means little if it does not include the right to marry the person of one's choice." — Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, November 18, 2003. 4. Dilute the Meaning of “Family”
- 57. Diluting the Meaning of“Family” “Queer politics is no longer content to carve out a buffer zone for a minoritized and protected subculture. Our goal is to challenge the pervasive and often invisible heteronormativity of modern societies ... Our task is to confront modern culture with its worst nightmare – a queer planet.” – The 1993 “Queer Manifesto.”
- 58. "Polygamy is theultimate feminist lifestyle. ... There's a shortage of good guys worth marrying, so it's better if many women marry the same man. I chose to marry my husband. The fact that he had five other wives was not a barrier." — Feminist lawyer Elizabeth Joseph. Diluting the Meaning of “Family”Diluting the Meaning of “Family” "Polygamy is the ultimate feminist lifestyle. ... There's a shortage of good guys worth marrying, so it's better if many women marry the same man. I chose to marry my husband. The fact that he had five other wives was not a barrier." — Feminist lawyer Elizabeth Joseph.
- 59. Diluting the Meaningof “Family” "Instead of marriage we want to promote a co-habitation law that ignores gender and allows more than two people in a partnership.” — Tiina Rosenberg, Sweden.
- 60. Cluelessness on theLoose
- 61. "In order toraise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them." — MaryJo Bane, Assistant Professor of Education at Wellesley College. 5. Day Care and Stranger Ideas
- 62. “It may bequicker and more efficient to dispense with family-based reproduction. Society could then produce its future generations in institutions that might resemble state-sponsored baby hatcheries.” — Time Magazine. Cluelessness on the Loose
- 63. "What if parentscommitted to gender equity counteracted the effect of testosterone on boys in the womb by complementing it with injections of artificial female hormones? Structural gender difference could be eradicated from the beginning. Such a policy would lead to men and women with normal bodies but identical feminine brains. War, rape, boxing, car racing, pornography and Cluelessness on the Loose hamburgers and beer would soon be distant memories. A feminist paradise would have arrived." — Andrew Sullivan.
- 64. "The traditional family isdisappearing almost everywhere ... patriarchal linear life is economically now over ... the one-earner, middle-class family is extinct." — Lester C. Thurow. 6. Declare the Family Dead "The traditional family is disappearing almost everywhere ... patriarchal linear life is economically now over ... the one-earner, middle-class family is extinct." — Lester C. Thurow.
- 65. How Can YouDefend Against Attacks on the Family? • Set the example: Avoid evil! • Remember our priorities: God first, family or ministry second, and pro-life activism third. • Get your children involved in the fight against the Culture of Death. • Homeschool if possible – and it is possible. • Attend church with your children. • Get your kids involved with other Christian children. • Laugh at the idiots who produce stupid ideas.
- 66. IV: Attacks onthe Church
- 67. Gnosticism: We canbe saved by knowledge. Agnosticism: Knowledge is limited. There may be a God, but we cannot confirm His existence. Atheism: There is no God. Anti-theism: Theism must be destroyed.
- 71. What Do Anti-TheistsWant? “I would like to see religion abolished as an institution, not just in this country, but worldwide ... it is indeed a form of mental illness. All churches should be closed down as unfit for human habitation. The ideas promulgated by churches are injurious to mankind ... I see no problem with government closure of churches ... What we really want is to see religion wither and die on the vine.” – “The Goals of Atheism” “I would like to see religion abolished as an institution, not just in this country, but worldwide ... it is indeed a form of mental illness. All churches should be closed down as unfit for human habitation. The ideas promulgated by churches are injurious to mankind ... I see no problem with government closure of churches ... What we really want is to see religion wither and die on the vine.” — “The Goals of Atheism”
- 72. "... the powerof government can be legitimately used against illiberal churches because doing so promotes greater freedom. ... Despite the Constitution's explicit prohibition of any religious test for public office, certain religious believers (notably Catholics) can justly be excluded from certain public functions, such as serving as judges." — Steven Macedo. The New Right Versus the Constitution [1987].
- 76. “The pope isa threat to everyone on the planet. We must pursue a one-child family norm as quickly as possible. ... All relevant U.S. policy should promote a goal of a one-child family everywhere. We must achieve this goal as quickly as possible. ... I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the Vatican is a political power whose security interests are in conflict with U.S. security interests.” – Population controller Stephen D. Mumford.
- 78. Why Destroy Churchand Family? (1) To complete the anti-life revolution; - Freedom from religion. - Freedom from gender. - Freedom from choice. - Freedom from thought. (1) To eliminate guilt. (2) To enable complete freedom of action. (3) To control the troublesome remnant.
- 80. What Happens toa Nation that Gives Up Faith and Family?
- 81. Are We HappyYet? • 30,000 suicides a year • Half a million dead of AIDS • 25% infected at marriage • A million divorces a year • 1.5 million kids born to singles a year • 45 million addicts • 7 million in prison • $730 million a day to clean up the mess Are We Happy Yet? • 30,000 suicides a year • Half a million dead of AIDS • 25% infected at marriage • A million divorces a year • 1.5 million kids born to singles a year • 45 million addicts • 7 million in prison • $730 million a day to clean up the mess
- 83. Secular Living inFront Royal • 9 – Sex ed begins • 14 – Having sex • 15 – Pregnant • 16 – 1st abortion • 16 – 1st STD • 17 – 1st baby • 18 – No college • 22 – No marriage • 24 – 8-12 “partners” Secular Living in Front Royal • 24 – 3rd STD • 70% divorce rate • 34 – Grandmother • Life of struggle • No husband • 38 – Last child gone • 39-75 – Lonely life, raise grandkids alone
- 84. Catholic Living inFront Royal • 9 – Virtues education begins • No sex before marriage • 22 – Complete college • 23 – Married • 24 – First child • Use natural family planning (NFP) • No sexually transmitted diseases • No AIDS • 3%-6% divorce rate • Grow old together, play with (not raise) many grandchildren • Side effect: Happy priests! Catholic Living in Front Royal
- 85. Who do YouThink is Happier?Who do You Think is Happier?
- 87. V. Defend Faithand Family with the POPE 1. Pray 2. Organize 3. Plan 4. Expose
- 88. • Pray. • Organizeand train. • Really learn your Faith! • Learn the battlefield. • Know anti-life strategies. • Keep the right attitude. • Never give an inch! • Support faithful men and women religious. How to Fight Anti-Family and Anti-Religious Bigots
- 89. The Right Attitude “Therefore,having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. ... We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” – 2 Corinthians 1, 8-10. The Right Attitude “Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. ... We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” – 2 Corinthians 1, 8-10.
- 90. We Are Calledto be Obedient, Not Victorious! • We have been conditioned to win. • When we can’t see the results of our efforts, we lose interest and give up. • Victory is in God’s hands, not ours. • Worrying less about winning will make you more durable and focused. • “The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord” — Proverbs 21:31.
- 91. “When we facethat awesome moment, the final judgment, it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You are there alone standing before God – and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But there’ll be a chorus of voices that are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, “Spare him, because he loves us,” and God will look at you and say not, “Did you succeed?” but “Did you try”?”
- 92. ““... be steadfast,...be steadfast, immoveable, alwaysimmoveable, always abounding in the workabounding in the work of the Lord, knowingof the Lord, knowing that, in the Lord, yourthat, in the Lord, your labor is not in vain.”labor is not in vain.” –– 1 Corinthians 15:58.1 Corinthians 15:58.
- 93. Brian Clowes Human LifeInternational 4 Family Life Lane Front Royal, Virginia 22630 USA E-mail: bclowes@hli.org Brian Clowes Human Life International 4 Family Life Lane Front Royal, Virginia 22630 USA E-mail: bclowes@hli.org
Editor's Notes
- #2 View of the Human Life International headquarters building in Front Royal, Virginia, in the United States of America. This 6,000 square meter building was completed in 1995 and now houses HLI, a Catholic chapel, a Montessori school, a Catholic high school named Chelsea Academy, LifeSite News, and a Catholic investment firm.
- #3 Title of Presentation: Faith and Family Under Siege Presentation updated on October 7, 2013.
- #4 Presentation Outline (1) The Ten Teachers of Morality (2) Characteristics of a Revolution (3) Assault on the Family (4) Assault on the Church (5) How to Fight Back with the POPE
- #5 Part I: The Ten Sources of Influence There are ten primary teachers of morality in any country, regardless of its size or economic status. These are divided into focused and dispersed sources of influence, as shown below. The Eight Focused Sources of Influence. These are organizations or entities where relatively few people influence the morals of an entire nation through mass means of communication. These individuals create and disseminate the ideas, attitudes and symbols that appeal to the rest of the population. The moral direction of every country is determined by an elite cadre consisting of about one tenth of one percent of the population, which leads; The United Nations and all of its dozens of huge member organizations, such as the World Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Food Program, and the World Health Organization (WHO); The more than one thousand major foreign-based non-governmental organizations (NGOs); The executive branches (Prime Minister, President, or King) of the national governments, and the leadership of the regions, provinces or states, and large population centers; The courts, particularly the national court systems; The legislatures at the national, regional and state levels; The leaders and boards of associations with specific missions, particularly the medical and legal associations, but also the foundations and public interest groups; The media, particularly the entertainment industry (motion pictures, television, radio), the print and news media (newspapers, magazines, book authors and publishers and newscasters) and the arts; and School leaders, from grade school board presidents to the policymakers at medical and legal colleges. The Two Dispersed Sources of Influence. These involve millions of people — primarily parents, clergy and more experienced individuals — influencing the morals of many others on a one-to-one basis in; (9) The Church; and (10) The family. Any violent, political or social revolution consists of a very simple two-step process. In the first step, a relatively small group of people seize or gain control of the concentrated organs of influence and then consolidate their position. In order to complete the process of revolution, they must then exert pressure on the dispersed organs of influence — the family and the Church — in order to make them "fall into line,“ through many tactics such as coercion, punishment, and propaganda. Anti-lifers always work from the top down by seizing the eight focused organs of influence. Once they have done this, they try to force the Church and the family to accept their vision. Pro-lifers must advance the Culture of Life by working from the opposite direction, from the "grass roots," thus making the Church and family invulnerable to anti-life meddling.
- #6 The Message Developed Nations Are Sending to Developing Nations "Promoting a "family planning first" strategy can send a message to poor people: `Wish you weren't here’.” – Amartya Sen, Indian winner of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences, quoted in Eve Tushnet. "Save the Children by Elimination?" National Catholic Register, August 13-19, 2000, pages 15 and 16.
- #7 The Beginning of the Modern-Day Population Control Movement: NSSM-200. National Security Study Memorandum 200, also known as The Kissinger Report, was written by the United States National Security Council in 1974, and was declassified in 1989. It remains the official population control policy of the United States of America to this day.
- #8 The Core Message of U.S. Population Control Policy “The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. … Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States.” – NSSM-200.
- #10 The “Lineup” from the World’s Perspective The Culture of Death The Culture of Life The United Nations Us “Developed’ world governments The courts The print and electronic media The entertainment industry The “arts community” The big corporations The foundations and unions The non-governmental organizations A thousand anti-life groups The legal and medical professions The professional associations The billionaires Liberal churches The “New Age” movement
- #11 Why We Cannot Lose Hope “He [Jesus] said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in [your] weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and calamities; for when I am weak [in myself], then I am strong [in Him]” – 2 Corinthians 12:9-10.
- #12 The “Lineup” from the Eternal Perspective The Culture of Death The Culture of Life Satan and all of his demons God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit Blessed Virgin Mary The Company of Saints The angelic host The people of God
- #14 The Origin of the Culture of Death “If God were your Father you would love Me ...you are of your father the Devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” – John 8:42,44.
- #15 Moral Contrasts Between the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death The Cardinal Virtues Prudence Recklessness Temperance Self-Indulgence Fortitude Cowardice Justice Unfairness The Evangelical Counsels Chastity Corruption Poverty Greed Obedience Disobedience The Theological Virtues Faith Skepticism Hope Despair Charity Selfishness
- #16 Who Will Win in the End?: It is All a Question of Brute Demographics. Even if you do not believe in God, the outcome of the battle between the Culture of Life and the Culture of Death is preordained by demographics. Those who have the children inherit the world! This is what my wife calls the DINKs [Double Income, No Kids] vs. the SILKs [Single Income, Lots of Kids].
- #17 We Were Created to Fight for Life! “... and you will be hated by all nations for My Name’s sake. And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because wickedness is multiplied, most men’s love will grow cold. But he who endures to the end will be saved.” – Matthew 24:9-13.
- #18 Part II: Characteristics of a Revolution
- #19 The Purposes of a Social Revolution (1) To eradicate guilt; and (2) To accumulate power.
- #20 Getting Rid of Guilt (1) Fornicating teenagers feel guilty about what they are doing, and so they must be reassured that they are not doing anything wrong (“It’s perfectly natural”), and that they have every right to have sex, as long as they “act responsibly.”
- #21 Getting Rid of Guilt (2) Women naturally feel that abortion is wrong, and they feel guilt when they kill their preborn children. So they must be told that “Abortion is just another way of ending a pregnancy, just like childbirth is.”
- #22 Getting Rid of Guilt (3) Homosexuals are typically plagued with guilt. Instead of helping them change their deadly and corrupted behavior, anti-lifers tell them that they are fine just the way they are, and that the problem actually lies with “homophobes.”
- #23 Getting Rid of Guilt (4) In Germany, prostitution is now considered to be “just another job.” So many married women who have lost their jobs have been told that if they do not accept jobs as prostitutes, they will lose their welfare benefits!
- #24 What Amuses Us? This is an age of entertainment, an age of distraction, an age of fevered activity. We immerse ourselves in experience and sensation, always making our physical selves feel good and engaged. The common complaint these days is “I’m so busy!” We all strive for deep inner contentment while losing it in what has been called the “tyranny of the immediate.” When we do try to reach for inner peace, the Devil is right there to tempt us with a galaxy of distractions. Most of these are not harmful, if they are taken in moderation. Indeed, some of them, like food and a certain amount of money, are necessary for our continued physical survival. The primary problem with all of these distractions, if we do not control them, is that they can lead to addiction -- and further remove us from the Source of all true peace and contentment, Jesus Christ. As St. Ambrose said, “The Devil’s snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the Devil’s bait” [Explanation of Psalm 118, 13, 37 (4th Century)]. There are many things that amuse us, but only in a shallow and temporary way: Drugs, sex, influence, possessions, the “New Age,” money, travel, fame, food, alcohol and power. According to Time Magazine [1], 18.7 million people in the United States [7.7% of the population] are alcoholics, and 12,000 more try it for the first time every day. 3.6 million Americans are drug addicts, and 8,000 more try it each day for the first time. 71.5 million people in the United States use tobacco products. 4 million Americans are food addicts, and about 15% of mildly obese people are compulsive eaters. Two million American adults are gambling addicts. An additional 4 to 6 million are considered to be “problem gamblers.” At least one in twenty adult Americans (or about ten million people) are compulsive shoppers. About 16 million Americans are sexual addicts – addicted to fornication, adultery, homosexual acts or pornography. Compulsive Internet use and overconsumption of caffeine products like coffee, Coke or energy drinks are often thought to be addictive behaviors. [1] Michael D. Lemonick, with Alice Park. “The Science of Addiction.” Time Magazine, July 16, 2007, pages 42 to 47.
- #25 We have learned through hard experience that only two things give us lasting contentment, happiness and joy: Faith and family. Yet so many people have given these things up for much more shallow pursuits. Is it a coincidence that Faith and family are so strongly under attack today? Certainly not. Remember the eight focused sources of influence. Once anti-lifer seize control of them, the only remaining step is to destroy or at least sideline the Church and the family.
- #26 Why Is Everything So Fouled Up? “We make men without chests and we expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and we are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.” — C. S. Lewis. The Abolition of Man [New York: Macmillan], 1947 and 1972, page 35.
- #27 Part III: Attacks on the Family
- #28 Why Attack the Family? Political philosophy (Marxism and one-world anti-nationalism); Humanism (loss of faith); Pregnancy as a disease; Hatred of love and family that you don’t have; Eugenics; and, as always, Free sex.
- #29 Reason #1 for Attacking the Family: Political and One-World Philosophy “As long as the child breathes the poisoned air of nationalism, education in world-mindedness can produce only rather precarious results. As we have pointed out, it is frequently the family that infects the child with extreme nationalism. The school should therefore use the means described earlier to combat family attitudes that favor jingoism ..."— The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Towards World Understanding (1949), Page 58, Book V. Interestingly, UNESCO’s first Director-General was the atheist, racist and eugenicist Julian Huxley. He was President of the English Eugenics Society, founded the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and was a member of both the British Euthanasia Society and the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA). His grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley, was a leading advocate of Darwin's theories. His brother Aldous was the famous New Age psychedelic drug lobbyist.
- #30 Reason #2 for Attacking the Family: Loss of Faith “We have to abolish the institution of marriage ... By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God ... We must understand that what we are attempting is a revolution, not a public relations movement ... humanism is the goal.” – American feminist Gloria Steinem.
- #31 Humanist Manifesto II (1973) “Humanists still believe that traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God, assumed to live and care for persons, and to be able to do something about them, is an unproved and outmoded faith ... As non-theists, we begin with humans, not God; nature, not deity ... We can discover no divine purpose or providence for the human species. No deity can save us; we must save ourselves.”
- #32 Reason #3 for Attacking the Family: Pregnancy as a Disease “We have yet to beat our public health drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine; we are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though that is the exact truth.”— Mary Steichen Calderone, M.D., founder of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and its President from 1964 to 1982, Medical Director of Planned Parenthood/World Population (PP/WP) from 1982 to 1993, and President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR). Quoted in Medical Morals newsletter, February-March 1968.
- #33 Pregnancy as a Disease "The pill, in my opinion and that of my colleagues, is an important prophylaxis, perhaps the most important, against one of the gravest sociomedical illnesses extant. That, of course, is unwanted pregnancy."— Alan Guttmacher, M.D., former Medical Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA). This quote was given during Senator Gaylord Nelson's (D-Wi.) Hearings on Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry, by the Senate Subcommittee on Monopoly — Select Committee on Small Business, Part 16, page 6,572, February 25, 1970.
- #34 Pregnancy as a Disease "[Pregnancy] is an episodic, moderately extended, chronic condition ... May be defined as an illness ... treated by evacuation of the uterine contents." — Third trimester abortionist Warren Hern, M.D. "Is Pregnancy Really Normal?" Alan Guttmacher Institute's Family Planning Perspectives, January 1971, page 9.
- #35 Reason #4 for Attacking the Family: Hatred of Love and Family "We must destroy love ... Love promotes vulnerability, dependence, possessiveness, susceptibility to pain, and prevents the full development of woman's human potential by directing all her energies outward in the interests of others."— Women's Liberation, Notes from the Second Year, page 117.
- #36 St. Paul on Love “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails” ― I Corinthians 13:4-8.
- #37 Hatred of Love and Family "Being a housewife is an illegitimate profession ... the choice to serve and be protected and plan towards being a family-maker is a choice that shouldn't be. The heart of radical feminism is to change that“ — Vivian Gornick, in the April 25, 1981 University of Illinois Daily Illini, quoted in David Kupelian and Mark Masters. "The New McCarthyism.“ New Dimensions Magazine, July 1, 1990, page 22.
- #38 Hatred of Love and Family "It is still possible for weak, stupid, lazy, unambitious and otherwise lesser equipped individuals to remain and make their way within domestic work, both as housewives and as servants. As for the rest, prostitution is always available." — Nobel Prize winners Alva and Gunnar Myrdal. Crisis in the Population Question. 1930, page 249.
- #40 How Satan Perverts Love Love for God Blasphemy, sacrilege, indifference, agnosticism, atheism, and Communism. Love of self Overindulgence in and addictions to drugs, alcohol, tobacco, food, money, gambling, power, pornography and illicit sex. Love of neighbor Racism, theft, embezzlement, cheating, slander and lies. Love of life Genocide, murder, infanticide, euthanasia, suicide, abortion, sterilization and contraception. Natural sexual love Homosexuality, pedophilia, pornography, adultery, masturbation, fornication, incest and rape.
- #41 Reason #5 for Attacking the Family: Eugenics "Birth control of itself, by freeing the reproductive instinct from its present chains, will make a better race. ... Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house built upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.“ — Margaret Sanger. "Birth Control and Racial Betterment." Birth Control Review, Volume III, Number 2 (February 1919), pages 11 and 12.
- #42 Eugenics Now "A woman who stays at home, caring for children and the house, leads an extremely sterile existence. This kind of woman leads a parasitic existence that can aptly be described as "legalized prostitution" ... The time has not only come, it is past due, when marriage and motherhood as a life's goal should be cut out of the training of the female child ... The day has come when motherhood should be the lot and privilege of a select minority.” — Robin Morgan (editor). Sisterhood is Powerful [New York: Vintage Books], 1970, pages 246 and 486.
- #43 Reason #6 for Attacking the Family: As Always, It All Comes Down to Sex! "The family is the key institution for the determination and perpetuation of women's subordination, the place where oppression is most excruciatingly experienced ... Marriage, with its legal obligations, institutionalized male authority and compulsory heterosexuality, is incompatible with sexual freedom.“ — Mica Niva. "From Utopia to Scientific Feminism?" Quoted in Lynne Segal. What is to Be Done About the Family? Penguin Books/Socialist Society, 1983, pages 66 and 69.
- #45 Types of Attacks on the Family Anti-family propaganda; Breaking family links; Encourage consumerism; Dilute the meaning of the term “family;” Day care (and much stranger ideas); and Simply declare the family dead.
- #46 Tactic #1: Anti-Family Propaganda
- #47 Marxist Roots of the Attacks on the Family “The family contains in germ not only slavery, but also serfdom. ... The married woman differs from the ordinary courtesan in that she does not let out her body on piece-work as a wage worker, but sells it once and for all into slavery. ... The family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife. "The first condition for the liberation of the wife is to bring the whole female sex back into public industry and that this in turn demands the abolition of the monogamous family as the economic unit of society. "With the transfer of the means of production into common ownership, the single family ceases to be the economic unit of society. Private housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and education of the children becomes a public affair; society looks after all children alike, whether they are legitimate or not. This removes all the anxiety about the "consequences," which today is the most essential social — moral as well as economic — factor that prevents a girl from giving herself completely to the man she loves. Will not that suffice to bring about the gradual growth of unrestrained sexual intercourse and with it a more tolerant public opinion in regard to a maiden's honor and a maiden's shame?"— Friedreich Engels. The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State [New York: International Publishers, 1942], pages 51, 63, 65 and 67.
- #48 Marxism Reflected in Modern Feminism (1) “Engels did observe that the original division of labor was between man and woman for the purposes of childbreeding; that within the family. The husband was the owner, the wife the means of production; the children the labor; and that reproduction of the human species was an important economic system distinct from the means of production.”— Shulamith Firestone. The Dialectic of Sex [New York: Bantam Books], 1972, pages 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 59, 60, 198, 199 and 240.
- #49 Marxism Reflected in Modern Feminism (2) "Marry to get out from under the bonds of slavery to enter into a more and deathlike slavery."— "Death in Life.” Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Review, Volume IX, Number 10 (October 1925), page 286.
- #50 Marxism Reflected in Modern Feminism (3) “Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women's movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage." — Sheila Cronan, at the 1988 Houston National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference for Women.
- #51 Nazi Anti-Family Propaganda "Every propaganda means, especially the press, radio and movies, as well as pamphlets, booklets, and lectures, must be used to instill in the Russian population the idea that it is harmful to have several children. We must emphasize the expenses that children cause, the good things that people could have had with the money spent on them. We could also hint at the dangerous effect of childbearing on a woman's health.” "Paralleling such propaganda, a large-scale campaign would be launched in favor of contraceptive devices. A contraceptive industry must be established. Neither the circulation and sale of contraceptives nor abortions must be prosecuted. "It will even be necessary to open special institutions for abortion, and to train midwives and nurses for this purpose. The population will practice abortion all the more willingly if these institutions are competently operated.” — The complete text of a short April 27, 1942 statement by Berlin population and demographics expert Professor Heinrich Wetzel, as quoted in the Nuremberg trial transcripts at NG-2325. See also Leon Poliakov. Harvest of Hate [Syracuse, New York], 1954, pages 272 to 274 [notice the striking parallels between Wetzel's statement and the modern-day propaganda methods and slogans used by population controllers and other anti-lifers].
- #52 Tactic #2: Breaking the Links Between Family Members
- #53 Tactic #2: Breaking the Links Between Family Members The Link Between God and the Family: Agnosticism, atheism, indifferentism, the “New Age,” situational ethics and anti-apostolic propaganda. The Unitive Link Between Husband and Wife: Divorce, adultery, prostitution and the use of pornography. The Procreative Link Between Husband and Wife: Abortion, contraception, sterilization, masturbation and homosexual acts. The Link Between Parents and their Children: Permissive sex education, school-based clinics, “values clarification,” parent licensing and government-sponsored day-care centers. The Link Between Parents and Grandparents: Euthanasia and “physician-assisted suicide.”
- #54 Why Try to Break Down the Family Like This? The primary target of this tactic is the younger generation. The purpose of the tactic is very simple: If the young people are taught not to listen to their parents, religious leaders, or older and wiser family members, who do they listen to? They listed to the entertainment media, which teaches them to live only for themselves. The movies and television shows especially transmit the message that the people who are happiest are those having lots of sex, drinking, using drugs, and just having fun. When the young think in this way, the government can control and manipulate them much more easily with the assistance of the media, and this is the purpose of the entire plan.
- #55 Tactic #3: Encourage Consumerism
- #56 Indirect Attacks on the Family: Encouraging Consumerism, Discouraging Childbearing The March 30, 1998 issue of U.S. News and World Report had a its headline “The Real Cost of Raising Kids: Would You Believe It’s $1,455,581 Apiece?” How many stupid Americans saw this and decided to get sterilized because they thought they could not afford to raise any children?
- #57 Attack #4: Dilute the Meaning of “Family” “The right to marry means little if it does not include the right to marry the person of one's choice." — Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, upholding the “right” of homosexuals to “marry” one another, on November 18, 2003.
- #58 Diluting the Meaning of “Family” “Queer politics is no longer content to carve out a buffer zone for a minoritized and protected subculture. Our goal is to challenge the pervasive and often invisible heteronormativity of modern societies ... Our task is to confront modern culture with its worst nightmare – a queer planet.” – The 1993 “Queer Manifesto.”
- #59 Diluting the Meaning of “Family” "Polygamy is the ultimate feminist lifestyle. ... There's a shortage of good guys worth marrying, so it's better if many women marry the same man. I chose to marry my husband. The fact that he had five other wives was not a barrier." — Feminist lawyer, radio executive and college instructor Elizabeth Joseph, in an interview with the Washington Times. "Polygamy Could Help Moms Who Work, Says Utah's NOW." Deseret News, August 12, 1997. Article downloaded from downloaded from http://www.patriarchywebsite.com/resources/ polygamy- working-moms.htm on June 11, 2001 [Joseph had promoted polygamy in a speech she delivered to the Utah Chapter of NOW in May 1997, which responded very favorably to her remarks. She said her group had denounced the religion- based polygamy that is common among breakaway Mormon sects in southern Utah, saying that "That amounts to slavery and child abuse. Church fathers divvy up young girls, 12 or 13 years old, among old men." Joseph and seven other women share their common husband, Alex Joseph. She said that he had fathered 20 children].
- #60 Diluting the Meaning of “Family” "Instead of marriage we want to promote a co-habitation law that ignores gender and allows more than two people in a partnership." — Tiina Rosenberg of Feministiskt Initiativ, Sweden. Ananova. “Party Aims to Ban Marriage .” Downloaded on September 14, 2005.
- #62 Attack #5: Day Care (and Stranger Ideas) "In order to raise children with equality, we must take them away from families and communally raise them.” — Dr. MaryJo Bane, Assistant Professor of Education at Wellesley College, quoted in David Kupelian and Mark Masters. "The New McCarthyism." New Dimensions Magazine, July 1990, pages 20 to 29.
- #63 Day Care (and Stranger Ideas) “It may be quicker and more efficient to dispense with family-based reproduction. Society could then produce its future generations in institutions that might resemble state-sponsored baby hatcheries ...“ — Time Magazine Fall 1992 Special Issue entitled "Beyond the Year 2000: What to Expect in the New Millennium."
- #64 Day Care (and Stranger Ideas) “What if parents committed to gender equity counteracted the effect of testosterone on boys in the womb by complementing it with injections of artificial female hormones? Structural gender difference could be eradicated from the beginning. Such a policy would lead to "men and women with normal bodies but identical feminine brains," thinks Matt Ridley. "War, rape, boxing, car racing, pornography and hamburgers and beer would soon be distant memories. A feminist paradise would have arrived.“ — Andrew Sullivan. "What Men Are Made of." Hotair [Virgin Atlantic Airline magazine], October-December 2000, page 50.
- #65 Attack #6: Declare the Family Dead "The traditional family is disappearing almost everywhere ... patriarchal linear life is economically now over ... the one-earner, middle-class family is extinct.“ — Lester C. Thurow. "Changes in Capitalism Render One-Earner Families Extinct." USA Today, January 27, 1997, page 17A.
- #66 How Can You Defend Against Attacks on the Family? Set the example: Avoid evil! Remember our priorities: God first, family or ministry second, and pro-life activism third. Get your children involved in the fight against the Culture of Death. Homeschool if possible – and it is possible. Attend church with your children. Get your kids involved with other Christian children. Laugh at the idiots who produce stupid ideas.
- #67 Part IV: Attacks on the Church
- #72 What Do Anti-Theists Want? I have been doing some thinking about American Atheists, the organization, and its goals lately. I do that a lot, "thinking," that is, and I know that is part of what makes me an Atheist. Every other cause organization, or "advocacy group" as they are called by the present generation, has some point, or end, or goal, for a group of like-minded individuals to strive toward. Members of ecology groups, for example, want to save the environment from destruction by human-generated pollution. Animal rights group members want society to be kind to their fellow animals and respect their rights as cohabitants of plant earth. What do we want as Atheists? I have been the president of American Atheists since 1986, and I have never developed a sense of a clear consensus of opinion of the members of this organization on this point. All I can tell you is what I want, as an individual Atheist, but I am not at all certain that such goals are in the minds of any of you as rank and file members. I would like to see religion abolished as an institution, not just in this country, but worldwide. What does that mean? That means that young people should not be taught the god idea anymore. No public school should ever host a religious ceremony. Every school should have, indeed, mandatory religion classes which would teach the psychopathology of religious concepts and show their detrimental effect on the history of humankind. Present and future generations should be intellectually inoculated against religion, for it is indeed a form of mental illness. This means that all churches should be closed down as unfit for human habitation. The ideas promulgated by churches are injurious to humankind. Religion was born by force, violence, burning, killing, torture, etc., and it only seems reasonable that a little counterviolence is what is needed to stop it. Therefore, I see no problem with government closure of churches, seizure of church property, and the turning of those edifices over to other uses for the common public good. After all, the public has been paying for them for many years through their tax-exempt status. Religious lands could become parks; churches could become community center, day care centers, and the like to educate instead of indoctrinate. They could provide secular community meeting places where classes might be taught on health, managing finances, child care, improvement of verbal and written communication skills, cooking, and a host of other practical topics related to everyday life and not to the fantasy of "life everlasting." Denominational hospitals should be seized by local authorities and turned over to city or county use as secular institutions taking all comers to provide the kind of universal health care for all citizens that our president envisages. I would like to see all religious broadcasting stations, radio or television, turned over to public or community broadcasting outlets which allow a broad spectrum of minority groups the opportunity they have never had to voice their opinions for positive change in our country. The voice of religion has enjoyed a monopoly of expression of its sick doctrines for too many hundreds of years. It is time that religious individuals just "shut up" and gave others a chance to speak, instead of being engaged in the business of stifling free speech, as religious institutions and individuals have been for a long time. If seizing and turning churches, religious hospitals, schools, colleges, and broadcasting outlets into secular outreaches is impossible, I would at least like to see public health warnings (as we now have on cigarette packages and liquor bottles) required for all religious institutions. A sign which says "The health authorities of the government of the United States have determined that entering this edifice is detrimental to your mental health" should be posted at the entrance of every church. I would like for religious persons and the institutions they support to get a taste of what it feels like to be muzzled so that their opinions carry no weight and can never be heard but by a tiny circle of followers. It is time for the shoe to be on the other foot, as the old saying goes. I want every elected official to be sworn in on a copy of either a state or the U.S. Constitution, depending on their office. No more oaths on Bibles would be allowed for public officials or in any court. The phrase "In God We Trust" must be removed from all coins and currency, the phrase "Under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, and our national motto should be restored to "E Pluribus Unum." Only secular marriages should be legal. A marriage has been a legal instrument (a contract) much more than a social construct now for so long that the social aspect can just be dropped. I would allow only cremations and do away with all burials. Cemeteries are a waste of our precious land resources only to further an ugly, primitive, barbaric ritual. I would allow only official, public celebrations of secular events — no more "Christmas" or "Easter" or "Passover." The world will be better off with celebrations that commemorate natural events (the Equinoxes and the Solstices) or human historical accomplishments. Why not celebrate the anniversaries of inventions, for example, such as the light bulb, the printing press, the automobile, radio television and other things that changed our very way of life in a dramatic way? Why not celebrate the birthdays of men and women of science who made significant contributions to human well being, instead of glorifying the death of an illiterate Jew on a cross? "Freedom from religion" should be the legal concept on which our nation is posited, and not "freedom of religion." It has been many years that Atheists have kept saying that they want "separation of state and church." That broadly defined and interpreted slogan has been a cover for what we really want, which is to see religion wither and die on the vine. That is not going to happen without positive measures taken against the religious ideas and institutions. If we are not going to speak up and speak out for what we really want, we should just shut up and never be heard from again. I am proud to be an Atheist, and I am fed up with hiding behind such concepts as "state/church separation." If we can't just come right out and say what we are and what we want, why have an organization? I think that we all understand that the United States is indeed a "Christian" nation. That is the majority view and we are most likely never to see religion get the shunning by the establishment that it richly deserves. What does this make us? It makes us an organization without a cause. We have been playing Don Quixote, jousting with windmills for over thirty years, in a state/church separation legal game of cat and mouse in which we never really had a chance. Those days are over with the present court system and the new configuration of the Supreme Court. All that is left for us now is to engage in partisan action consisting of petty acts of harassment toward the religious enemy, knowing that it is too powerful for us to "take it on" in any real sense. We can speak on public access television to a necessarily limited audience until such forums are pulled, for monetary reasons, from all access producers, as they are destined to be. We can send out a monthly newsletter, such as this, which speaks to a limited audience of the already convinced. We can publish books which bookstores will either not take or display only on a well-hidden back shelf. It is with such actions that we, alas, must be for the present content. To move beyond the role of partisan, to become a real challenge to religion, would require the resolve and dedication of time, resources and money on the part of all Atheists and not just the very limited number one group can reach." —Jon G. Murray. "The Goals of Atheism." American Atheist Newsletter, May 1994, pages 11 and 12.
- #73 "... the power of government can be legitimately used against illiberal churches because doing so promotes greater freedom. ... Despite the Constitution's explicit prohibition of any religious test for public office, certain religious believers (notably Catholics) can justly be excluded from certain public functions, such as serving as judges.“ – Steven Macedo. The New Right Versus the Constitution [1987].
- #77 “The pope is a threat to everyone on the planet. We must pursue a one-child family norm as quickly as possible. ... All relevant U.S. policy should promote a goal of a one-child family everywhere. We must achieve this goal as quickly as possible. ... I cannot emphasize strongly enough that the Vatican is a political power whose security interests are in conflict with U.S. security interests.” – Population controller Stephen D. Mumford. The Life and Death of NSSM 200: How the Destruction of Political Will Doomed a U.S. Population Policy [Advance Copy]. Center for Research on Population and Security, Post Office Box 13067, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, telephone: (919) 933-7491, FAX (919) 933-0348, pages 296-297, 304, 312-313, 329, and 371-372. The entire text of Mumford's book is on the Web at http://www.kzpg.com/Lib/Pages/Books/NSSM-200/index.html. The Web version is a considerably "sanitized" version of the Advance Copy.
- #78 Photo of a 1993 protest by ACT-UP (the homosexual group AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in front of the Vatican Mission to the United States. The protestors condemned the head of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, for his defense of Church teachings against the use of condoms. This is typical of condom pushers, who refuse to debate the issue, but instead resort to personal attacks and name-calling. Ironically, ACT-UP and similar groups loudly demand “tolerance” and “nonjudgmentalism” as they attack others.
- #79 Why Destroy Church and Family? (1) To complete the anti-life revolution; Freedom from religion. Freedom from gender. Freedom from choice. Freedom from thought. (2) To eliminate guilt. (3) To enable complete freedom of action. (4) To control the troublesome remnant that still resists.
- #81 What Happens to a Nation that Gives Up Faith and Family?
- #82 Are We Happy Yet?: Statistics for the United States 30,000 suicides a year Half a million dead of AIDS 25% infected at marriage A million divorces a year 1.5 million kids born to singles a year 45 million addicts 7 million in prison $730 million a day to clean up the mess
- #83 Scenes from Front Royal, Virginia, USA
- #84 Secular Living in Front Royal: The Average Life 9 – Comprehensive sex education begins in the public schools 14 – Having sex because everyone tells you that it’s “perfectly normal” 15 – Pregnant for the first time 16 – 1st abortion 16 – 1st sexually transmitted disease 17 – 1st baby 18 – No college 22 – No marriage 24 – 8-12 sexual “partners” 24 – 3rd sexually transmitted disease. If you do get married you face a 70% divorce rate 34 – You are now a grandmother and face a life of struggle with no husband 38 – Last child gone 39-75 – Lonely life, raise grandkids alone as your daughters make all the same mistakes you did, simply because they have never heard any other message.
- #85 Catholic Living in Front Royal 9 – Virtues education begins, which includes chastity (no sex before marriage) 22 – Complete college 23 – Married 24 – First child Use natural family planning (NFP) No sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) No AIDS 3%-6% divorce rate, according to surveys of NFP users Grow old together, play with (not raise) many grandchildren Side effect: Happy priests! They do lots of baptisms and marriages, but not much marriage counseling.
- #86 Who Do You Think is Happier – The lonely woman with lots of “sexual experience” with many “partners,” or the woman with a faithful husband and lots of children and grandchildren?
- #88 Part V: Defend Faith and Family with the POPE Pray Organize Plan Expose The POPE process is completely explained in Session 7 of The Pro-Life Basic Training Program, on Human Life International’s Pro-Life Library Compact Disc.
- #89 How to Fight Anti-Family and Anti-Religious Bigots Pray. Organize and train. Really learn your Faith! Learn the battlefield. Know anti-life strategies. Keep the right attitude. Never give an inch! Support faithful men and women religious.
- #90 The Right Attitude “Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. ... We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.” — 2 Corinthians 1, 8-10.
- #91 We Are Called to be Obedient, Not Victorious! We have been conditioned to win. When we can’t see the results of our efforts, we lose interest and give up. Victory is in God’s hands, not ours. Worrying less about winning will make you more durable and focused. “The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord” – Proverbs 21:31.
- #92 “When we face that awesome moment, the final judgment, it is a terrible moment of loneliness. You are there alone standing before God – and a terror will rip your soul like nothing you can imagine. But there’ll be a chorus of voices that are heard beautifully and clearly in the next world – and they will plead for everyone who has been in this movement. They will say to God, “Spare him, because he loves us,” and God will look at you and say not, “Did you succeed?” but “Did you try”?” – The great American pro-life champion, Congressman Henry Hyde.
- #93 When Discouraged … “... be steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that, in the Lord, your labor is not in vain.” – 1 Corinthians 15:58.
- #94 Contact Information Brian Clowes Human Life International 4 Family Life Lane Front Royal, Virginia 22630 USA E-mail: [email_address]