CULTURAL MACHINATIONS

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If you wanted to change the mindsets of a Judeo-Christian nation and culture, what steps would you take to accomplish your goal? Would you be straightforward and transparent, or would pervasive machinations be utilized. For the sake of clarity, pervasive means: “spread throughout” and machinations means: “a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends.” The synonyms attached to machinations include: “conspiracy, design, intrigue, scheme.” 

I am indebted to a friend, Sue Thielke and her co-author Roger Ball, for the excellent work they have done in their book, “Serfing America: The Progressive Destruction of the American Dream!” It is available at: www.amazon.com. Sue has carefully mapped out the progressive strategy in Chapter 2, The Progressive Game, in which she quotes from the Saul Alinksy playbooks, “Rules for Radicals; A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals and Reveille for Radicals.” The following represents some of the progressive mindset and pervasive machination regarding how one can change a nation from its foundational principles into a progressive culture. From Rules for Radicals:

• “The organizer’s job is to inseminate an invitation for himself, to agitate, introduce ideas, get people pregnant with hope and a desire for change and to identify you as the person most qualified for this purpose.”   Pg.  103 
• “The middle classes are numb, bewildered, scared into silence. They don’t know what, if anything they can do. This is the job for today’s radical - to fan the embers of hopelessness onto a flame to fight.”  Pg. 194 
• “…our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power from the Haves.”  Pg.  126  
• “Ethical standards must be elastic (lying when necessary) to stretch with the times.” Pg. 30-31.
• “To me ethics is doing what is right for the most.”  Pg.  33
• “...rule of ethics of means and ends is that you do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments.”   Pg.  36

Sue continues by listing additional cultural machinations from Alinksy’s book, Reveille for Radicals:

• It is a tactic “…to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going back anyway…”  Pg.  viii.
• “…morality is largely a rationalization of the point you happen to occupy in the power pattern at a given time.”  Pg.  x.
• “America’s radicals are to be found wherever and whenever America moves close to the fulfillment of its democratic dream. Whenever America’s hearts are breaking, there American radicals were and are. America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals.”  Pg. 15
• “Throughout Western civilization, radicals tied their destiny to the organized labor movement…The labor movement has been as much of an ideological foundation to all left-wing thinkers as the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule are to devout religionists.”  Pg. 24 
• “…today much of organized religion is materialistically solvent but spiritually bankrupt.” Pg. 200

From a Biblical Christian perspective, we should identify with the prayer of the Psalmist, Psalm 43:1, “Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people, from the deceitful and unjust man deliver me!” One should be able to discern and identify the deceitful and unjust man. Two passages that give the Biblical Christian a heads-up are: Jeremiah 17:9-10 (ESV), “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick (wicked machinations); who can understand it? I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” And, II Corinthians 11:12-15, “And what I am doing I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will correspond to their deeds.” I Peter 5:8 reminds one to “be sober, be vigilant for your adversary, the devil, goes about seeking whom he may devour - resist him steadfastly.” We need to be aware of the strategy of the day and be found faithful as we stand upon and defend the firm foundation of our faith. Consider these things with me!