In previous articles we have developed for you the present global goal of Atheistic Russia. Moving from the general to the particular we shall now turn our gaze to the 'Communist War Against Christ in America'. Further, our enquiry will lead us to observe Soviet infiltration and propaganda policy which has made such inroads into the very fabric of American society that would move one to say that 'Only God can save America now!'

This article is taken from
Issue No. 23 of Don Bell Reports

       It would be difficult to name the precise time when a Republic becomes an Empire. But in 27 B.C., Octavian, nephew of Julius Caesar, was honored by the Roman Senate by having his name changed to Augustus, meaning The Revered. Ethelbert Stauffer in Christ and the Caesars remarked that special coins (the communications media of the times) were issued to celebrate the occasion and holy incense was distributed to the people to be used for purification from sin. "The symbolic meaning is clear," said the author. "A new day is dawning in the world. The divine Savior-King, born in the historic hour ordained by the stars, has come to power on land and sea, and inaugurates the cosmic era of salvation. Salvation is to be found in none other than Augustus, and there is no other name given to man in which they can be saved. This is the climax of the Advent proclamation of the Roman empire."

The War Between Christ And The Caesars

       It was because Augustus was "deified by government" that Christians were persecuted. Not because they were bad citizens, but because they refused to worship Caesar as god and savior. Tertulian, an early Church leader, wrote to the Emperor, pointing out that Christians were Rome's best citizens, its most honored citizens, its best soldiers, its most law-abiding people, and its best tax-payers. But all this meant little to a Roman government whose state religion demanded that its emperor be recognized as savior-king.

       This made Christians criminals in the eyes of Roman law. So they were tortured, fed to wild animals for the people's entertainment, burned, crucified, beheaded. For the war between Christ and the Caesars was a religious warfare, "a struggle between two claimants who represented rival religions and wanted to order society in terms of their faith," wrote Reverend R.J. Rushdoony in Christianity and the State. The Roman government was a religious institution; its laws and morals were derived from its faith. Christianity presented an opposing set of laws and morals that had been established, not by man, but by the Word of God. This particular war did not subside until a truce was declared by Emperor Constantine, who moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople, later to be renamed Istanbul.

       Two millenniums later, in this century, there have been and are being two repeat, but reversed, incidences involving the persecution of Christians; one in the past, one in the present time. The original Russian Empire and the countries behind the now totaled Iron Curtain and the Fallen Wall of Berlin had their own national governments whose laws and morals were based upon their provincial or national interpretation of the Word of God. Communism presented a diametrically opposed kind of religion; a religion based on Marx's interpretation of Hegel's pronouncement that "The State is God", and its prophets are Lenin, Stalin, Gorbachev and those ruling briefly in between. When the International Bankers financed the Communist conquest of Russia, millions of Christians were murdered, not because they were bad citizens or slaves, but because they worshipped a true God whose laws and moral code were in opposition to the Communist creed. Recently, because the time is ripe for the Merging of Nations, and because the enslaved Nations must present a better face to the world, there has been the granting of certain freedoms to some of the people; to the Poles, then the Hungarians, the East Germans, and soon the Czechoslovakians. But weapons manufacture continues, supplies to Nicaragua continue, people still need food and soap and the necessities of normal life. The persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was ended by Constantine. Somehow, we can't see Gorbachev in the same light.

Persecuted Christians in the U.S.A.

       With the persecution of Christians and anti-Communists having slackened in Eastern Europe (for geopolitical purposes, geopolitics favorable to powers other than the powers of the established governments involved), the persecution of Christians has now shifted to the United States. There is a reason for this. It is a part of the program of the New Age Movement, the New World Order, and the One World Government goal. When the United States became a nation, its laws, customs and morals were established on a Christian foundation. And any country whose government is based on a Christian law foundation must be changed to make the "Merger" possible." The state has progressively disestablished Christianity as its law foundation and, while professing neutrality, has in fact established humanism as the religion of the state," declared Reverend Rushdoony. "When the religion of a people changes, its laws inevitably reflect that change and conform themselves to the new faith and the new morality."

       Thus, for example, the murder of babies becomes legal, while anti-abortionist activity becomes criminal activity. "There has been deception on the part of the courts ... they have substituted one religion for another, humanism for Christianity ... as a result in most countries today, and no less the United States, humanism is the established religion of the state and is progressively the source of legal revisionism. Humanism is also the established religion of schools and most churches, and most of society." This is evidenced by the recent conflict concerning abortion. Given the power to at least restrict public payment for murder, four states have moved to permit, and even promote, the murder of innocents, and at taxpayer expense. "Christian protestors against this carnage," writes Don McAlvany, "can now be jailed and fined more severely than drug dealers, murderers, rapists, extortionists, and burglars. That is our American liberal/left legal system in action. Thousands of anti-abortion protestors are being jailed and fined by liberal judges across America. Many are receiving very rough and abusive treatment by local law enforcement officials."

This is Baby Choice, a precious four and one half month old little girl, burned by the saline solution used to abort her. There are 4,000 babies aborted each day in America, (one every 20 seconds). Abortion is legal through the ninth month of pregnancy. We have been led to believe that having an abortion is removing a mass of tissue. Look at this little girl, she is more than mass of tissue. She is a perfectly formed human being! It is obvious that to be " pro choice" is to approve of murder.

Humanism Replaces Christianity

       And it's all quite legal, because a Christian law foundation has been replaced by a humanist foundation built on a hill of sinking sand. One evidence of this was the action of the American Bar Association in what amounted to a declaration of war against Christianity. J. Shelby Sharpe practices law in Fort Worth, Texas. He wrote an article which was published by the Plymouth Rock Foundation, Marlborough, NH 03455. "Christianity in America is increasingly under attack by civil government regulation and litigation," he wrote. "Recently, private litigants have begun to bring suits against the Church and Christian ministries. All signs point toward a rapid escalation of these attacks on both fronts and in the very near future." He referred to a seminar conducted May 4 and 5, 1989, in San Francisco, sponsored by the American Bar Association. "At the top of the ABA brochure advertising the seminar was the very distressing statement that the seminar was for 'Attorneys who want to be on the leading edge of an explosive new area of law.' Christianity was placed on notice that there is a 'new area of law' coming against it, and it is 'explosive'. The new weapon is the tort suit, and it was described by several of the speakers as a nuclear weapon. Shockingly, it is not the American Civil Liberties Union that is taking the lead in training the trial lawyers of America to fire this new weapon at religious organizations and individuals within those organizations -- it is the American Bar Association, the most prestigious legal organization in the United States."

       Mr. Sharpe (op. cit.) who attended this ABA seminar, wrote that "The opening subject area was entitled 'Expanding Use of Tort Law Against Religions'. This set the tone for the entire seminar. The first speaker under this topic was a trial lawyer who addressed 'Tort Law as Ideological Weapon'. He was followed by another trial lawyer who spoke on 'Tort Law as Essential Restraint on Religious Abuses'. The whole thrust of these presentations was how tort law was and would be used against religious organizations and individuals. War has been declared, and Christianity is in a fight to the death."

       By definition, tort is "a wrongful act, injury, or damage (not involving a breach of contract) for which a civil action can be brought." In this brief report, it is impossible to explain how liberal, Communistic, atheistic and humanistic trial lawyers will use this "nuclear weapon" the ABA has taught them.

Christian Conversion Branded As "Brainwashing"

       Briefly, ABA's explanation of "Tort Liability for Brainwashing, Coercive Persuasion or Mind Control" is the most dangerous and sinister threat to God's people, because it goes to the heart of orthodox Christianity. Example: If a sinner hears, even voluntarily, a sermon or is counseled by a Christian and is converted, that can be treated as "brainwashing, coercive persuasion, or mind control". In fact, the California Supreme Court in such a case declared that "There is a compelling state interest in preventing its citizens from unknowingly being subjected by religious organizations to coercive persuasion, brainwashing, or mind control." The court defined what we might call soul-saving activity as "a forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, society (sic) or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting regimented ideas". In short, a person could be sued for preaching to or counseling a person, influencing that person to become a Christian. There's much more to this dangerous "nuclear bomb" adaptation of Tort Law, but this alone should show you why Mr. Sharpe says "War has been declared, and Christianity is in a fight to the death."

       "War has been declared, and Christianity is in a fight to the death."

       But there's more to come. On October 10, 1989, the US Supreme Court ruled that a federal anti-racketeering law (RICO - Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Practices Act), originally passed to help the government fight against organized crime, can now be used against anti-abortion protestors. Twenty-six Philadelphia anti-abortion protestors were arrested and convicted under RICO and fined $108,000. "So now," comments Don McAlvany (op. cit.) "an unholy alliance of abortion clinics and liberal judges have combined to label anti-abortion demonstrators as criminal racketeers. Similar RICO lawsuits have been filed against pro-life activists by abortionists in Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Brookline, MA. Molly Yard of the National Organization for Women (NOW), responding to the RICO rulings, said: "Militant anti-abortion protestors are in the same league with gangsters and racketeers, so 'we' shall treat them that way."

       Shortly before ABA held its Tort Seminar, its officials had been meeting with their "opposite numbers" in the Soviet, government-controlled lawyers organization. Scanty reports indicate that they "agreed to study law together". "Merging" of nations is the goal of the Insiders, and in many ways the United States has been taking giant steps toward a Soviet-type legal system; one that is designed to stifle all religious and political opposition. In America at present tort law is supposed to be civil. But there is this trend (RICO) toward making civil violations the same as criminal violations, subject to the same punishment. So, the religious activities we still enjoy, and which we take for granted, could become illegal and subject to severe criminal penalties (as has already occurred in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Brookline). This could be the beginning of even more severe punishment of Christians and of driving the True Church underground, as in Rome when Christians worshipped in the Catacombs, or as in the USSR and Red China where True Christians still must meet secretly in private homes.

       It should be noted that no new laws need be passed to implement this ABA "nuclear bomb" that is to be used against Christian individuals and organizations. There is an army of lawyers and judges waiting to go on the attack against Christianity via litigation and the ABA sponsored interpretation and rulings on laws that already exist. In other words, this War against Christianity is not something in the future. It already exists.

       Hosea wrote (4:6): "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." David answered (Psalm 18:3): "I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies."

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