Non-denominational, Independent, Bible believing Church
Reblog by Lawrence Morra III
Zero Lift-Off Only The Beginning
The same Old Game and Lie
Yes indeed a Pagan Society! Let us just consider immediately that grotesque fact, “Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions.” Just think honestly no matter how desensitized many of us have become to violence after a steady diet of it in our media and entertainment, from movies like Texas Chain Saw Massacre which is actually just mostly hype and then onto the real deal of movies that would have many of you not sleeping well or if you did pass out from lack of sleep your nightmares may give you a cardiac arrest!
Films like A Serbian Film (2010) A Serbian movie that had to be banned in so many European countries that it’s said if you have a copy of the film in your possession and you’re on the European continent you should turn yourself and the DVD over to the police! Some of the subject matter depicted quite graphically in this flick are things like Rape, murder, necrophilia, and child abuse among a myriad of other demented perversions are fused together in this amalgam of depravity as part of the film’s plot! The premise of the story is how a porn star mistakenly ends and quite sadly ends up in a pornographic “snuff” film. Then the plot of outright debauchery just thickens from there, becoming more bloody and gory from scene to scene!
Then there’s Battle Royale (2000) A Japanese film had director Kinji Fukasaku making “The Hunger Games” look like a “Cub Scout’s Kumbaya” big camping outing of childhood naiveté of the Scouts, “gathered around a campfire singing Kumbaya.” This one became a huge cult classic but it also triggered a government debate regarding such media violence!
Ichi The Killer (2001) This absolutely insane violent film have one theme throughout which is how it centers on the Japanese mafia – the “Yakuza” I submit here a still frame from one scene that gives a glimpse into this films bloodlust of debauchery full kickass mode! The film is so horrid it has been banned in many countries even though this Japanese director Takashi Miike says he was taking violence to a new level to make “bloody art out of it!” At a one-time midnight screening of this film madness at the Toronto International Film Festival, vomit bags where distributed to all attendees before they took their seats! Many used them!
Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom (1975) This totally disturbing even sacrilegious film delves into pretty much what the title says by director Pier Paolo Pasolini who based it on “The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.” Even renowned America Film Director Martin Scorsese no stranger to violent film content with some of his well-known epic Mafia, Gangster genre flicks like his Casino, Goodfellas or Taxi Driver which did contain the elements of the Mob and Prostitution but was the mildest of them; he said this film has artistic merit and has even been staunch defender of it, and the director. Keep in mind what I just said and then process that this film centered on the kidnapping of eighteen children by the “fascist Libertines!” Then these criminal despots subject these children/victims to murder, forced sexual acts and even brutal hate filled sadism. Absorb this fact, that this was Pasolini’s final film, because he was murdered shortly before its release. Could that have been because of the political corruption, abuse of power, and fascism that he depicted in his works; sort of how I Lawrence have spelled out what has happened to me and what I have observed or witnessed in my own realm going on continuously; some of these same things are out of control here and there, while these days just about anywhere; big money is the magnet! I’m literally the nemesis of Martin Scorsese saying the opposite of what he does and what messages these films convey!
I Spit on Your Grave (1978; 2010) Let’s wind this up so I can get onto why I’m specifying these films here in consideration of this article; so with this one in which the title says it all; and make no mistake about it the “dehumanization and lack of respect for human life” in all of these films, and this one in spades is in your face blatant mental and emotional misery to even think about for me, and I would venture to say most if not all of you; I hope! This flick delves deep into totally brutal victimization and rape of a poor woman by many violent evil men; so especially in the late version or remake this victim becomes a powerful protagonist to some viewers, but then to me sadly she is just as violent a creature as those that brought her close to complete destruction or to deaths doorstep! Only to not finish her off and perhaps put her out of her misery like some dying animal; no she must either do that herself or carry on and deal with it all! And deal with it all she does, again “in spades” here too, over the top and nothing is held back, as she gets total revenge! Like I mentioned already some may see her become powerful, as the lingo today goes, a huge dose of “female empowerment;” and this film to some is a critique on feminism, while many do clearly look at it as a feminist critique.
Keep in mind there are black market underground films being made that are beyond imagination too! Imagine what sorts of people have an appetite for such evil, actual, criminal film product and content; actual snuff films. We don’t want people like that as our neighbors or even living in our countries!
As we examine these realities of just what kind of violence and sin is gaining strength and a following in our culture and societies we can begin to hopefully see just how distorted and depraved in many cases human beings have become; I say even much worse than Ancient Pagan Cultures who for the most part where extremely primitive, superstitious and illiterate peoples who didn’t and mostly couldn’t quite reason it out the way we are capable of doing today in our high tech sophisticated modern world! I will say this, we all have heard the expression, “that you knew better,” I know I did as a teen when my father reprimanded me for being a foolish person with my friends and getting hurt or in trouble, he would go on to tell me, “let that be a lesson to you; to not do that again!” And fortunately I was a good kid so I leaned my hard lesson and took my father’s advice to heart! But that mechanism is sorely missing in many families and in society as a whole, where freewheeling decadence and entitlement comes into play so that many young people are not gaining the discipline or becoming attuned to reality and the “Real Consequences” of doing the wrong thing! Look at our major political leaders who are in many cases doing criminal things and going directly against the US Constitution with no accountability and they all get to make millions off their political office being akin to organized crime mobsters or worse too! I think of the Mel Gibson Film “Apocalypto” which was very well made but did delve into violence of that ancient Mayan civilization of like I said before an ignorant, illiterate, very superstitious and a violent people. Which if you look at it as a contrast to we living today in this modern fast paced High Tech Civilization, we have changed so much on the outside but at the core, in the human heart and soul; that same twisted sickness is there, an actual evil!
So ask yourself where is this all coming from and especially now in our age in just the last 60 to 70 years this gradual desensitization and acceptance of violence to where kids have played Grand Theft Auto as a violent rape and kill computer game which now has a leap forward to an even more twisted and violent updated version computer game Fortnite that kids just eat up! So imprinting such violent thoughts and behaviors from an early age should have what effect over time on individuals and society? Many people think it’s OK that their children are playing these crazed fantasy world games, when wouldn’t it make more sense for them to be doing something that doesn’t elevate violence and insanity while filling their heads with twisted thinking or perhaps developing mental triggers that are more reptilian than human?
Let’s consider these facts I quote from the article; “Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions. In the 1950s there were 72 serial killers reported and by the 1980s there were 768.” Keep in mind now in many locales abortions are allowed full term day of delivery which is actually the murder of an innocent human being; a little human baby!!!
Look at that, and can you say to yourself it will work itself out or something? This is absolutely “insane and diabolical evil” where this human race has gone over the centuries and millennia to arrive at this hellish earthly destination! I said those ancient people were mostly, I hate to use the crass term, but stupid and savage for the most part! What the hell is our excuse? Try to imagine my father’s voice when he caught me screwing up as a teen; “You knew better!” And, “Let that be a lesson to you; to not do that again!” So why are all of these top officials and even all of us just going along like it, “is what it is” and just keep doing the same Crapola over and over with some “Devil May Care” attitude? So people don’t give a damn, when you come right down to it, and figure if the world is going to hell in a hand basket, Oh Well! That’s sure what it looks like is happening, and for many it is going to hell with them going with it; to that same destination!
All of this violence and madness is totally out of line and ungodly “in Spades!”
So where is this all coming from; easy answer to that question, the only place it could be coming from; and that is the Prince of this world, the master of all lies and evil, Satan! So we all better wise up, this is crunch time; and though we can’t stop it all we can keep our hearts and minds full of God’s love and His will! Be strong in faith and belief in Him so that we are living in accordance with His will and plan; regardless of how much wrong is going on around us! We must believe and know in our hearts that Good will always overcome evil, and the Light will shine bright into the darkness! Amen.
Brother in Christ Jesus,
Lawrence Morra III
Check out the parallels between this writing and what I wrote last March.
Reptilian Impulse Factor
By William D. Howard
Multiple mass murders proclaim that life is not sacred. Multiple opinion polls proclaim that the majority of Americans no longer believe in a Judeo-Christian definition of sexual morality. We are now officially and popularly a pagan nation.
It took a little over sixty years to accomplish, but we have now committed “Cultural Self Genocide”. In 1945 America had achieved the status of the greatest nation on earth. After four years of World War, we were the generally recognized leader of the Free-world. We were the most admired country on earth, the military savior of Old Europe and the establisher of a New World Order. With the help of our allies we had defeated both the Nazi German Empire and the equally brutal Empire of the Rising Sun. We were also the only nation capable of effectively resisting and containing the new enemy of global freedom, Communism, but as great as these achievements were, we were equally admired for what people now call our “Soft Power”; our love of freedom, our insistence on the rule of law and our compassion for the weak and poor. To borrow Winston Churchill’s famous phrase, “This was our finest hour.”
Since 1945, in terms of wealth, power and cultural influence we have ascended to even greater heights, but sadly our culture is no longer known for its moral excellence. If a poll were taken of the world’s people today, we would be known for our Rap-music and our increasingly violent and sexually explicit movies. We would also be known for our hate-filled politics and all the different forms of violence which pervade our society.
The Judeo-Christian cultural foundation which was established by our colonial ancestors and “Founding Fathers” is no longer shared by most of our educational institutions, our cultural elites, and certainly not the Mecca of movie making called “Hollywood”. Of course we still have laws based upon that culture and we still have the Constitution, but they are standing naked against a freezing wind of secular humanism and the gleeful acceptance of neo-pagan values that increasingly fascinate America’s public.
The two main ways our present culture has departed from our past tradition is in its increasing disrespect for human life and its low level of sexual morality. If the history of the world proves anything about the future stability of a civilization, it is the fact that its success must be rooted in highly moral and disciplined family structure. Without these, peace and order soon begin to unravel. History provides many examples of what I call “Cultural Self Genocide”. This process is always the same: honored values and religious beliefs which had defined a civilization for centuries suddenly become the topic of social/cultural ridicule. Other values or beliefs are accepted with little scrutiny and even turned into a culturally fashionable campaign. A wise old Greek said thousands of years ago, “Custom is King”. Morals, norms, traditions, religious beliefs are the true foundation of a civilization, and if that template is broken, violence and chaos will soon follow.
Americans are rightly shocked by the terrible mass murders happening all too often, but we should not be shocked by why they are happening. Beginning in the 1960s we began to give up our parental rights to those who create and control our mass media. What all the statistics show is since the 1960s, there has been an almost constant increase in all types of violence. Mass-murders of course stand-out, but there are many types of violence which taken as an aggregate are exponentially greater. Violent crime nearly quadrupled between 1960 and 1991. Since 1973 in America there have been over sixty-one million abortions. In the 1950s there were 72 serial killers reported and by the 1980s there were 768. The rate of suicide increased 33% between 1999 and 2017 and Human Trafficking is increasing in every state.
In the 1960s Americans in large numbers began to give-up on conventional Judeo-Christian sexual morality and as a result premarital sex increased, out of wedlock births increased, divorce, and single parent families increased. The one thing that didn’t increase was the percentage of Americans who were religiously affiliated and who regularly attended religious services. The high point of religious practice was reached in the 1950s and since then there has been a steady decline, but most alarming is the fact that as a percentage of the national population, young adults now make-up the largest group of the American public which describes themselves as non-religious. To quote the Bible, America’s young have become “Sheep without a Shepherd”. Movies, TV, video games and of course music have become their surrogate parents. This was not an accident. There has been an intentional effort, on the part of a committed community of secular humanists and neo-pagans, to bring America’s Judeo-Christian culture to its knees. No matter how negligent American parents have been they did not create, produce, direct, write, or star in our mass popular culture.
Should we now be surprised that the proportion of young adults who are committing mass murder is increasing and the average age of all shooters is falling? Should we be surprised that the majority of these young murderers come from broken homes and that 85% of all shooters are religiously non-practicing?
Culture matters. Standards matter. America faces many problems, but the greatest problem it faces is the loss of faith in an eternal standard for morality and the cultural decay that causes.
William D. Howard is a freelance writer who has been published in both secular and religious formats. He had a long career as an educator and has traveled in over 40 countries.
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