“Since no man has any natural authority over his fellows, and since force alone bestows no right, all legitimate authority must be based on covenants.”            

 ROUSSEAU   1776

  This is one of my first and favorite stories that I wrote.  The history of the Charter Oak updated and my hometown remembered.

 In your face history.

   

           

 The Fundamental Orders

            Since the beginning of civilization, wartime has depleted and polluted the earth’s resources, and absorbed the lives of the civilian-soldiers. Death and injury brought grief and disruption to innumerable families over thousands of years and innumerable wars. Most accepted their lives of toil and misery as  THEIR BODIES were no more than CANNON FODDER, their labor taxed heavily by the local despot.

                The despair of the working poor is captured in the 17th century phrase, “Thy life is a bitch, and then thouest dies.” In time, the pilot light of personal liberty had begun to flicker, and new lands were sought.                                                                                                  

              Punishment was everywhere and eternal in those olden days, with a vengeful God and a diabolical Devil waging a war for our souls. Many people rolled their eyes and shook their heads at the superstitious nonsense spouted by religious zealots at the time before the Revolutionary War. Logic had taken hold in cultures during the Enlightenment of the 1700’s. As it needs to today. 

                Going back to 1600, much trade had developed between Europe and the Far East, and a curiosity developed about the edge of the world, maybe it wasn’t flat!  The Greeks figured that out a long time ago, but Christianity insisted the earth was a flat plane (maybe it is) and was the center of the Universe. lol. I mean, it was in a Papal Bull and everything.  Who knows, maybe we are the only flat planet in the Universe.

                 European explorers and adventurers wondered if there was an ocean or a continent they needed to cross to get to China, and during the first decade of the 1600’s. Dutchmen drove their ships up the Hudson River in New York State. In 1614 a Dutchman, Adrian Block, sailed up the Connecticut River as far as the Enfield Falls. Meanwhile, the French were exploring the Canadian wilderness via the St. Lawrence River.

                   There was a lot of friendliness and trade between the natives and the original European roughnecks and roustabouts. These original explorers paved the way for other pioneers. The first waves were the Gypsie's, the individuals, the characters, and the Johnny Hucksters by the score.  Dudes looking for adventure led the way, and the families came along later.

                   It wasn't until after the initial explorations into Indian territory that the elitists actively promoted the slaughter of the indigenous people. Faith based genocide; it was. The New Capitalists found easy money as they stripped the country of resources with the backing of the crooked clergy. Buy land. Watch the value triple in ten years was customary.

       Elitist historians think our history is war; true, a war to stamp out the heathen polytheists, in any form! A war on nature. A war on life. Always war. Always fear. Fear of an angry god that needs you to obey coercive authority. You know what? FTS.

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                 Plymouth Massachusetts became the first permanent European town in 1620, and other settlements began on the nearby east coast. The Puritans were a dominant force in the settlement, and despite escaping the clutches of tyrannical royalty in England, they then imposed a ridiculously restrictive theocracy on themselves when they got here.  For instance, if you said a curse word and the authorities found out, you might get your tongue nailed to a board in the center of town.  It was going to take a while for this place to be called "land of the free," with this christian albatross around our neck.                                                                                               

              The tally ho of the English elitists became the westward ho of those disenchanted with the Puritans and the Royalists in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and thusly began the westward movement in this country. Starting in the 1630’s, pioneers emigrated from Plymouth and Boston Massachusetts, and after that the religious zealots fanned out among the countryside looking for towns that would support and sponsor their "ministry".                          

        Truthfully, I realize many preachers started their own towns for the captive audience that ensued, and that is part of history.  They were portrayed as great Pioneers. They were actually instilling people with fear and damnation, and it kept them employed. There was always one religious sect or another trying to capture your mind and control your town.

               Eventually, the preachers asked, do we worship the Creator or the Creation? Most preachers seemed to think we must worship God and to hell with the animals and trees. Forests and babbling brooks and a countryside filled with animals. It’s not reality they insist.  We must bow down to the creator, they implore. The only salvation.

                He's so big we can't see him.

                Things were different with the freedom loving, non-Puritan pioneers, who were agriculturally independent and self-sufficient working slobs ruled by good spirits and kindness. They were not puppets of a conquering tyranny or Lemmings following absurd theocratic philosophies. Remember that, dinner party libruls, when you say the pioneers were racist genocidal maniacs. Not the working people.

             Before Plymouth and Boston, there was the first settlement of English-Europeans at Jamestown Virginia. The indentured white servants of the wealthy English were supposed to hold down the fort during the winter but were missing the next spring when a fresh new crop of rich preppies came to rule them. All that was left of the settlement of Jamestown was a note that said ’Gone to Croatan,’ that was carved in the tree. Croatan were nearby Native Americans.  

                        In 1631, stifling and stultifying governments around the world led many of its citizens to look for new homelands. Wethersfield, Hartford and Windsor became known as the Connecticut Colony and this was a good area for those wishing to work their craft and live honestly.  

                          It wouldn’t be long and there would be 50 different sects and religions in the colonies. It was a pity the pesky Puritan preachers promoted patriarchal platitudes, and these vultures were always looking for cowering, fearful, suspicious people to brainwash. Like todays Republicans.

 Most of the population paid lip service to the preachers who were whipping up an anti-native frenzy.  The new world was filled with heathens, the population was warned from the pulpits of hate, and a popular T-shirt back then in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.”

 They used scare tactics suggesting these Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start, and encouraged their parishioners to kill as many as possible.  Seriously, WWJS? Seriously, WWJD? He'd break out a can 'o whoop ass right there. Did Jesus have a grudge with the native North Americans? 

          Encouraged by a Podunk Chief whose tribe was settled on the east side of the Connecticut River, settlers explored the west side of the Connecticut River and found a Dutch trading post there in 1632 at the future site of Wethersfield. In 1633, the first permanent settlement was built in Windsor. In 1634, Wethersfield became the first incorporated town and in 1635, an area between the two towns, Hartford was founded. Wethersfield, Windsor and Hartford commingled in trade and held town meetings, and in 1639 banded together into what they called, "One Publick state or commonwealth".

         Unbeknownst to today’s pious hypocrites, Wethersfield settlers were about trade and not religion. The Podunks were looking for friends and allies.

                   Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it THE FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS

 

He created what has been praised as the first practical constitution to declare, "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." 

                Also at that time, in 1636, Roger Williams said the king had no right to claim native lands and he was banished for his efforts.  He went south to Rhode Island where he started his own colony through legal means, purchasing land from the Narragansets at fair value. 
                 By 1662, the Connecticut Colony was a proud and thriving region. The Wethersfield Red Onion was getting known around the world and was a superlative cash crop. The locally elected Governor sailed across the Atlantic to see the King of England.  The governor and the king had a splendid time, and along with extending the Connecticut Colony borders to the Pacific Ocean, he legalized the Fundamental Orders of 1639. It was the most liberal document ever approved by an English monarch, ever; anywhere.

         Remember the English counted India, Africa, Hong Kong and many other places as part of their empire. The sun never sets, remember? On the British Empire. Now 61 countries have Independence Day to deter the colonialism of the past.

 Things went well for another 25 years as people peacefully farmed fertile flood lands in the Connecticut River Valley.  Their only government was the monthly town meetings that were guided by the spirit of The Fundamental Orders of 1639. In the mid 1680’s one of the first sparks of revolutionary fervor burned right in my old hometown of Wethersfield. A previously unprecedented defiance, they succeeded in their refusal to pay a five-pound fine, which was imposed on them by the Royal Courts. They held a public election and voted in favor of not paying and this was a form of anarchy, thwarting government.

 Feisty, independent and developing a fervent civic pride, the Connecticut Colony did not kowtow or patronize British leadership. Moreover, yes, they excluded many from voting but the evolution of personal liberty had to begin somehow, and it had to begin somewhere.  Many Third World countries are hundreds of years behind us in understanding the notion that all people deserve freedom and liberty, so give these patriots a break.

The Connecticut Colony was mostly taking care of themselves, and they enjoyed unprecedented economic freedom. This was something new.  It was anarchy in a sense because of the completely decentralized nature of authority. Don't get in the way of chimney and fence inspectors, and if there were no religious kooks in the neighborhood, you could get by pretty well if you were good at storing crops for the winter and could get a load of firewood piled up in time for the winter.

                  So anyhow, years went by and the new king found this self-rule, this unity without hierarchy, this … freedom, was absolutely outrageous.  He appointed his own governor who went to Wethersfield to proclaim his royal authority while trying to invalidate the Fundamental Orders. Apparently, the town narcoleptic fell asleep at the main table and knocked the candles over as the Crown appointed governor, Edmund Andros, went to take the document. When the candles were relit, Andros was stunned that the charter, the original copy of the Fundamental Orders that was in plain view, had disappeared even though no one had left the meeting! 

           Tradition states that the Charter was thrown out the window to someone who traveled on horseback from the meeting place at the Wethersfield Cove to be hidden in an oak tree on a hill near the Hog River, a small creek near the Connecticut River in Hartford and site of the current capital building. The Redcoats could search homes and possessions but would be hard pressed to figure out where else it was hidden, like in a tree.

    As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority, and it is carved into the famous arch as you drive into downtown Hartford.

America is an example of how coercive authority was given the boot. No messing around like the Third World Half Men that kowtow to illegitimate authority. Many people in many countries need to just grow a backbone and fight for their family and their future. Stop coming to America because the gravy boat can only sink. Men that allow tyranny or fascist and obnoxious zealotry should be ashamed of themselves for not speaking up. We need to learn from the freedom-seeking activists of the Connecticut Colony so many years ago, and be inspired by their charter of freedom called the Fundamental Orders.                                                                                                                                                                      

                   In time, a cult developed on the hidden document. Someone hid it and kept it hidden. The infamous tree became known as the Charter Oak. The tree, a white oak, was huge and hollow. It was reputed to be 33 feet in its circumference at the base but was blown down in a hurricane in 1856. When I wrote the original story of the Charter Oak in the Bicentennial year of 1976, my idea was to show the fire in the belly the original settlers in Wethersfield possessed.                    

              After a couple hundred years, Wethersfield citizens became complacent, with the “old families” running the Bored of Education and ruling other functions. Stuffy aristocrats you just wanted to slap upside the head. The story of the Fundamental Orders and the Charter Oak is the story of the roots of our eventual American Independence and not some Puritan fairy tale. 

         They did not want to be toadies to royalty, and independence burned in their hearts, and this spirit moved with the pioneers. Kissing feet and rings and kowtowing profusely was not on their agenda and they were less enamored with the clergy than you are led to believe by TV.  

               Interestingly, the U.S. Mint allowed states to design quarters and Connecticut chose to use a representation of the Charter Oak, Rockin‘!  The story goes even deeper and the following is from Wikipedia, “The Dutch explorer Adrian (or Adriaen) Block described, in his log in 1614, a tree, at the future site of Hartford, understood to be the Charter Oak. In the 1630s, a delegation of local Indians approached Samuel Wyllys, the early settler who owned and cleared much of the land around it, were encouraging its preservation and describing it as planted ceremonially, for the sake of peace, when their tribe first settled in the area. “This tree has been the guide of our ancestors for centuries as to the time of the planting our corn; when the leaves are the size of a mouse’s ears, then is the time to put the seed into the ground.”

Corn was easily their most important crop because it could be saved for lean times and crop failures.  Important to note is that the local “Indians” knew that this tree was planted ceremoniously in the name of peace three hundred years previous and I find this fairly amazing and an example of our Native American pagans and what was sacred to them.

                This Charter Oak has a much deeper meaning and deeper roots than I realized. The tree’s beginning was actually in the 1400’s when the Oak was born and began to grow. When the tree was 20 years old or so, it was ceremoniously consecrated to be THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the open gap in the trunk of the tree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s.

        A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree!                                                   

                Fourth of July is a lot more than waving flags to me and this story had its original inspiration from the Bicentennial in 1976. The ideas of the Revolutionary Era should remind us not to take our freedoms for granted. Today’s Moral High Ground Hypocrites, the religious right and the alt-right and the not quite right, and are all about power, not liberty, and they have more power than numbers. 

          Not all of our oppressors are hiding in caves plotting our destruction. The Christians have been trying to create a theocracy for nearly forty years now, and they think they are in control with the alt-right coup of our United States.

If America is ever taken over, I know I will create my own fundamental orders and fight with others to regain our freedom, we all would.  Whether it's Nancy Pelosis gay police that are going to take your guns away, or some theocracy led by a hallucinating pastor who sees demons everywhere, we got to be ready for a loony toons fascist coup. Turnip talks a lot about “bloodbaths” when he talks.

All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old.  For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy. 

 QUESTIONS TO ASK   

Was  this freedom in 1662 a form of anarchy? The Connecticut Colony ran itself without government pretty much and my definition of anarchy is the absence of coercion. There were monthly town meetings to take care of most business.

I have written some quotes from the article to create some educational type questions

          "The Puritans were a dominant force in the settlement, and despite escaping the clutches of tyrannical royalty in England, they then imposed a ridiculously restrictive theocracy on themselves when they got here.  For instance, if you said a curse word and the authorities found out, you might get your tongue nailed to a board in the center of town.  It was going to take a while for this place to be called "land of the free" with the christian albatross around our neck." 

  "The new world was filled with heathens, the population was warned from the pulpits of hate. A popular T-shirt in the church book stores, would have been, “So little time, so many pagans to smite.” These preachers used scare tactics, suggesting the Native Americans needed to be slaughtered. Never doing any of the killin' themselves, these moral high ground religious hypocrites saw the native population as troublesome and ungovernable, and sought their extinction from the start, and encouraged their parishioners to kill as many as possible.  Seriously, WWJD? He'd break out a can 'o whoop ass right there. Did Jesus have a grudge with the native North Americans? 

I don't think so"

    "  Inspired by Thomas Hookers iconoclastic sermons, Roger Ludlow drew up a document for governing this new organization and called it 

                                    The Fundamental Orders                                . 

He created what has been praised as the first practical constitution to declare, "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." 

    "As the years went by, it was a source of pride and mystery. The Fundamental Orders was radical for the time and became an important part of the fuel that built our 1776 revolutionary machine. The Charter Oak is a symbol of American defiance against colonial authority."

    "  THE OAK they used as their corn-planting guide in the 1500's. It must have been a marvelous tree in its youth. Eventually the tree was the hiding place of the banned Fundamental Orders in the late 1600’s. A venerated oak in its youth and a symbol of the new American Nation during its maturity, imagine then the positive energy created by this one tree! "

    "All you need to remember as The New World Order engulfs the earth, the spirit of America, is this: "The foundation of authority rests with the free consent of the people." Their sacred document was hidden in a tree that was 275 years old and lived to be 450 years old.  For America to last that long, we need to oppose the growing fascist theocracy

TELESTE a different kind of easter story "are you the gardener?"

 

                            -5-9-     TELESTE                   

         "" Women had always been mere vessels to birth exalted warriors, infallible popes and wondrously and divinely appointed Kings; along with all those Bishops and Earls and Dukes &; Sheiks AND ……..Caliphates and on and on with all these Most Holy Men of God."

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    Baptists accuse Catholics of being a Mary cult, and it's true in a sense. There is also a Mary Magdalene cult, by the people who call her the spiritual successor to Jesus and who is now acknowledged as his favorite disciple. This is part of what Dan Browns Da Vinci Code was about. 

The Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1946, had chapters from Thomas and Mary Magdalen that was deleted from the Big Bible. The Gnostic Bible, it's called.
           The Bible never specifically says Jesus's gal pal, Mary Magdalene, was a prostitute. All pagan women were called sluts back then to invalidate Pagan worship and Pagan Women, as the Bible Thumpers began to wrest control of various cultures by invalidating the many Pagan gods. 

Mary MAGDALENE was another of those wicked sinning females, like Eve, that can’t resist temptation and sin; dragging men into their pits of depravity. Wink. Read that as having fun and being deeply spiritual.

          Christians say there are little white lies that are necessary. I was told this as a lad. Little white lies like the one I used to hear in church about Mary Magdalene were okay, as one example. A case of bearing false witness, the church thought nothing of the defamation and degradation of Mary Magdalene's character. 

        For many years, priests linked her with 3 different whores in the bible during their sermons. It was suggested Mary Magdalene was the penitent whore who washed Jesus feet with her hair (there was a lot of foot massages back then, not so strange). She was also the whore the mob was going to stone to death, remember? Then there’s some other groggy slut episode that escapes me at the moment. None of those attributed to her were actually her, as it turns out.  The casting out of seven demons has been interpreted as Jesus fully opening the Magdalens Chakras.

           Finally, in 1969, the Church issued a Papal Bull regarding this mistaken zeal, and formally apologized. They also upgraded her saint status from Floozy to Not a Floozy.  In 1971 Magdalene was portrayed in a sympathetic light in Jesus Christ Superstar as Jesus’ romantic interest, which created a lot of controversy at the time.

            The nonsense those Pustillaneous Preachers Pastors and Priests spout from their Pulpits of Hate continue to flow like miracle wine.  Demons arrow them when thee invisible, but the Priests know they are. 

  Don’t get me wrong, I like Catholics, they still have a grain of the truth, it’s the Protestants I have difficulty understanding.  They want god and country to be married completely, church and state on a blissful honeymoon, forever cleaving together as one fleshy appendage, writhing in harmony.  Reverend Redscare and his ilque, telling us what god told them, to tell US. Exactly what the Founding Revolutionaries were trying to prevent.

                                                       THE DEATH OF LIBERTY

 We don't need no Middle Man between us and the deities within a nation of laws and covenants. No Miracle Man to save our soul. Too many people can't see the sham that Extremist Christianity is. How many billions have been sucked out of their wallets and pocketbooks? An abomination created in Jesus' name. 

            Think about it, could there be a more devious mind control device than the Old Testament? A deception of the Devil right under everyones noses. The Bible as the Tower of Babel. It’s practitioners have been converting by force for over 1600-3600 years, while concurrently, fracturing into thousands of sects. Sowing discord, while reaping insanity and blind faith; destroying community after community of peaceful, pagan, peasant farmers around the world.  Kind of like what the GOP is doing to our safety net today.

              

              The Old Testament god needs to be expelled from the United States in a diarrheic diaspora, to say nothing of what should happen around the world. Concurrently, someone is going to have to explain the value of Mohamed and Allah to me, because I don't see it. The vengeful hysteria of those who claim to speak for god and allah have gone too far, for far too long. It is not a time to hope the other guy does something to counter the pile of poisonous slag they spout.  They talk about love,  but seem to hate practically everyone in the world. I have also found out, that the more the preacher talks about the Old Testament or the Koran, the more full of shit and hateful they are.

        Finally, the story of the Lead Disciple.   The search for the roots of the Mary Magdalene story led me to southern France. She left Palestine after the crusifixation, and travelled to southern France.  Or as I read recently, Mary and other Friends Of Jesus(FOJ) were set adrift in boats on the Mediterranean without oars and the Mary Magdalene group landed in southern France. She was sainted in 1900 and her feast day is July 22nd in the Catholic Calendar.  As the Penitent whore initially, and now a leading light for equality in the 21st Century.
             In southern France there are churches dedicated to her and her feast day brings joyous celebrations. There is a deep mystery to the history in this area along with the myths of the Great Teleste called Mary Magdalene. Sometimes this area in Southern France is called the Langue'doc,  as it was called before it became part of France, it is also home to the language called Occitan and a famous group of heretics called the Cathars. Before the Inquisition, a place of art and beauty and  the place where the Troubadours sprang from, a hundred some odd years before the troubles with the Cathars began.                         

            John Lamb Nash speaking of Mary Magdalene and Jesus and that they were actually pagans  "regarded as Pagans and heretics, Jesus and Magdalene would have been a pair of initiated teachers from the mysteries, the spiritual universities of the classical world. As such they would have taught the divine potential of humanity, but not claimed divinity for themselves, or anyone. The aim of gnosis was to know what the Gods know, neither to become God in human form, nor even to find God in one’s innermost self. "

            "Almost all we know of Mary Magdalene comes from gnostic sources, texts that portray her as an accomplished seer, an initiated teacher, a Telestes. She would have been an enlightened woman facing a world in spiritual crisis."                  

            "At the dawn of the Piscean Age, 2,130 YA (years ago) some Pagan teachers emerged from the anonymity of the Mystery Cults and undertook a public mission to address the controversy centered  on a single crucial question; Is human fate pre-determined, or can we each be guided through a life of our own choosing?      A tremendous upheaval, a kind of New Age fever raged across the Roman Empire. Many people expected a messiah to come along and bring social justice. "

"As gnostic initiates (Jewish or not), Jesus and Magdalene would have been committed to the task of spiritual guidance, helping people in all classes of society to find their way against the dictates of fate."

   "It was a moment of tremendous promise, when a great shift for humanity might have transpired. What happened instead was that Roman Christianity took control of the social and political life of the classical world. The pagan profile of Jesus and Mary, which is strongly supported by historical and textual   evidence, undercuts the sacred bloodline scenario because, what they very likely believed in was Tantric Principles and procreation was discouraged.” 

what about pink hair and nose rings?

                                               

                                       MORAL HIGH GROUND HYPOCRISY

               To the present then, here are some viewpoints that I hope cut through the fog of deception and half-truths concerning Christian America, that will fill our media in 2025. It has been presented by Fux News that there is some ‘Great Awakening’ going on, another great Christian Revival, and I’m going to quote conservative historian Richard Hofstadter from his book, ‘America in 1750‘ about the original Great Awakening to counter their nonsense..

 “A strain of rationalism was strong in the Anglican Church, and worse still, had given rise to Deism, which needed no church at all, and with the end of religious wars and extreme persecution; the rise of mercantile cosmopolitanism, and a more affluent and luxurious life  had taken some of the terror out of existence. In America, it had not been long since (slaveholder and witch executioner  Cotton Mather), had seen the Protestant Vanguard as leading a direct assault on Satan’s wilderness bastion, the cooling of religion could be felt, and men, even clergymen, leaned unmistakably to Enlightenment heresies."

          "A society that was beginning to produce deistical leaders like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was clearly loosening its religious stays, and the example of such men would soon affect the solid middle class, whose members wanted the best and latest of everything, including,  freedom of thought.”)

     One of those pagan virtues enshrined in our constitution. Freedom of Thought. Satans Wilderness Bastion. Did you ever?

          “New England pastors, growing desperate in the 1730's, would even hope at times that a smallpox or diphtheria epidemic or perhaps an earthquake would prod the people into a revival, "writes Hofstadter. 

          Americans continue to become more logical and educated but still we have to live with this Christian fantasy of a great battle between good and evil that is "prophesied."  People who think Satan is after their soul give me pause. I can't take you seriously after that as I would expect you to be if I were to say that the Easter Bunny is actually the real Messiah.It's been 2,000 years. Give it up already. 

 

         ""Early Christians experimented with a variety of formal arrangements, from relatively unstructured charismatic organizations to more fixed hierarchical orders. In some congregations, leadership was shared among men and women according to the movement of the spirit in inspiring gifts of prophecy, teaching, healing, administrations, and service. Others were headed by elders, bishops, deacons and widows. In many, women and slaves were important leaders; others resisted this reversal of the dominant social order, and worked to exclude them."  Wikipedia

               Women were treated as sub-humans throughout written history,  mainly because of the teachings in the Bible, Koran and the Torah. Women had always been mere vessels to birth exalted warriors, infallible popes and wondrously and divinely appointed Kings; along with all those Bishops and Earls and Dukes &; Sheiks AND ……..Caliphates and all those other Most Holy Men of God. Those mighty servants of god, warning us of demons and trying to steer us away from the evil of "The Devil." "Let me grab the wheel….of your life!"

Patriarchal pastors, priests and preachers with the slickest sales technique ever, blanket the airwaves and pollute our street views. We need to turn this ship around and save the people who are wasting their lives.  

       People around the world cannot figure out American Christians and why they are so extreme. Here is Pat Robertson, with one of his most perplexing platitudes. “You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” (facepalm).

           As the 1730’s progressed, a religious fervor gripped the populace, and next is a quote from a fiery preacher responsible for much of the hysteria called the Great Awakening. Jonathan Edwards once pontificated, “It is a reasonable thing to fright persons away from Hell.” Historian Richard Hofstadter recalls that famous moment, considered the Zenith of the Great Awakening, " His famous sermon ’Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ was to do just this.” 

          Hofstadter tells us, “Bringing his listeners to a vivid sense of eternal punishment and to impress them with the necessity of immediate contrition, since death might strike at any moment. A sermon such as a sadist might have trembled to deliver, it was presented by Edwards in a posture of transfiguration, his gaze firmly fixed on the bell rope that led upward to the steeple. The people of Enfield were urged to consider the torment of burning like a livid coal, not for an instant or a day but for millions and millions of ages and they would never be delivered’”.  How’s THAT for a sales pitch and little white lie?

             I have my doubts about this Christian God creating everything, and also disagree with people's insistence that I should just accept it:  'don’t mock god' I’m told. For one thing, I only capitalize god at the beginning of the sentence so I can counter balance a little bit of what has gone on in the past.     I do not believe that some magical Dude with a really big wand created the universe and all life on earth. From like, out of nowhere basically. No experiments in his garage just POOF …. I am creator of everything.! What a Great Concept! Hogwash, the only constant of the universe is matter and magnetism, adaption and evolution. Where the spirit came from, we can only guess, we cannot know.

Then there are all those demons the christians are always talking about, servants of satan everywhere, that they must battle.  I propose these demons have another source. Demons are called into the Material World by Pentacostalists and others as they “speak in tongues.” Then these demons jump into people like Glenn Beck, Pat Robertson, Half-Truth Hannity and some of the others, possessing enough people so they can corrupt society with hateful, mean spirited, brainwashing: uh huh, this is a true rumor I heard.

 So, in conclusion, this modern Great Awakening of the 21st century is really an attempt to put everyone back in the box, and put everyone to sleep, so this sweet land of liberty can become a repressive theocracy. Kneeling to false gods and toiling for the corporate behemoth.  We can do better than this.

In the 1700's, Edward Gibbon wrote about clergy and the basic deceptions of Christianity and why they are the antithesis of Liberty and Freedom. He compared the light hearted spirit of freedom that was developing with the Enlightenment, as a contrast to the cold, empty life that a Taliban-style, Christian ayatollah inspired world would be like.   “The acquisition of knowledge, the exercise of our reason or our fancy, and the cheerful flow of unguarded conversation, may employ the leisure of a liberal mind. Such amusements however, were rejected with abhorrence, or admitted with the utmost caution, by the severity of the church fathers, who despised all knowledge that was not useful to salvation, and who considered all levity of discourse as a criminal abuse of the gift of speech. The unfeeling candidate for Heaven was instructed, not only to resist the grosser allurements of the taste or smell, but even to shut his ears against the profane harmony of sounds and view art with indifference. " Edward Gibbon  1778

 

                  I don’t even understand how Christians can claim this is a Christian Nation. Their christian precepts are not compatible with the codes created in the constitution, it's as simple as that. Beginning with Thomas Morton, the Pagan Pilgrim in 1626, and Thomas Hooker, the liberal preacher  in 1639, our pagan roots attempted to grow the future concept of Liberty. Liberty born as an escape from the chaotic tyrannies of the King and Pope across the ocean in Europe.                      Thomas Mortons cheerful attempt s to bring the maypole tradition to Massachusetts, in 1626, was crushed by the Puritans and their austere, uninspired, empty house of a religion.  The Unitarian Universalists say there is no Original Sin we need to washed of, but an Original Blessing of kindness and sharing and an inherent worth and value of every life.

 My point is that whatever moral authority christians and islamics  have today is illegitimate.  It's like a Mafia Dude after 20 years of killing and extortion, buys hisself a legitimate business.           

Thomas Hookers sermons were the inspiration of the Fundamental Orders  I discuss elsewhere, and its quintessential essence was this quote.

        “The foundation of authority rests with the free                                         consent of the people.” 

Roger Ludlow was contracted to write the covenant for the Connecticut Colony in 1639.   Ludlow also wrote the Codes of 1650 if you want to research him. Liberal preacher, Thomas Hooker, managed to slip by the Puritan radar, but the Pagan Pilgrim, Thomas Morton, and his flamboyant attempts to party and mingle with the Native Americans were incompatible with a religion that nailed your tongue to a wall if you cursed. The Puritans were unable to see the kindness and humanity we all need in our pursuit of happiness, and the communication our communities require.    

People of the Enlightenment wanted no part of the hypocritical, moral high ground posturing of Christians, and the Founding Revolutionaries were finally able to outfox the cagey conservatives and their obeisant clergy. Authority is derived by the free consent of the people, or a " Mandate from the Masses", as the annoying peasant in the Monty Python movie “The Holy Grail" states.

      So here we have Protestant Preacher, Jonathan Edwards Great Awakening, along with The Catholics and the Mary Magdalene bashing Priesthood. Just lying out their ass like any other con man; making up shit about burning forever in hell, in the case of the Leader of the Great Awakening. Desiring to leave  the burgeoning 13 colonies scared shitless about their fate when they died. Not forgetting the pulpits of hate were the fomenters of the indigenous genocide.

    Those few that still believed as Enlightenment Heresies opened peoples minds. Undermining the lead woman in the Jesus' Ministry,   even today these "moral authorities" continue to throw women under the bus. The rising tide of Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions eventually denounced and defeated this divine authoritarian excess.

                         MARY JESUS MARY   the actual trinity

     Was that Mary Magdalen in Da Vincis painting of the Last Supper? Did he really possess secret knowledge as Dan Brown suggests? Was she the Great Teleste, learned in Pagan ways? How was it Mary Magdalene was the first to see the risen (or healed) Christ? "Are you the gardener she is quoted as saying?   

     How did she become the person to shake the disciples out of their despair, after Jesus was crucified, to get them to hit the streets and preach? Telling the Disciples to get off their ass, and spread the word.  Mother Son Wife, the new Trinity.    Mary Magdalene became the leader of the Muses after her death. Because I said so.     

 Get lost ya mugs, and just remember fellow patriots---Liberty will always be in ascendance over religion in the United States, or there will not be a United States.