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Monday, March 25, 2024

North Korea & America's Future

Published Monday, March 25, 2024

A note from

OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT

BOB LINN

ATHEISM &

NORTH KOREA

A NATION OF PRISONERS


North Korea’s crimes against humanity have been known to the United Nations and the world at large for more than twenty years.


On February 7, 2014, after more than ten years of investigation, the UN Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) concluded that the gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.

 

The council spoke of the barbaric nature of Pyongyang’s gulag system and the all-encompassing indoctrination machine that takes root from childhood [with the] almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought.

I’d like to say that North Korea is an extreme example of the end game of leftism, socialism, and communism. However, similar accounts are known in other places and at other times. The Communist Party in China practices brutality as well. It also partners with the brutality of North Korea and represents the status quo of international communism as the world’s largest communist representative.


Left-leading American elites who do business with China have ignored multiple pleas to expose these unthinkable atrocities and to help bring them to an end.


As North Korean defector Yeonmi Park discovered, the initial shock and sympathy of America's most wealthy and famous regarding her testimony of the North Korean travesties quickly turned to silence when she privately made the connection to the Chinese government.


After telling her story of rape, starvation, and torture to a gathering of elite actors, businesspeople, and politicians, she said this:


The people who had only a moment before looked at me pleadingly for advice on how they could help people like my mother still stuck on the other side of the Pacific now looked at me again like I'd come from another galaxy, or else like a naive little girl who didn't understand the complexity or importance of China to their livelihoods. Their interest in me seemed to recede quickly.

This shocking state of affairs is more difficult to understand given, as has been pointed out by many observers, that socialism finds its ideological origin in Christianity.

 

Acclaimed academic and prolific author, Baron Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn noted:


Socialism and communism take their initial inspiration from basic Christian tenets. Universal brotherhood, altruism, mutual aid, social justice, all-pervading charity . . . all these notions have Christian roots.


Christian imagery is important in the socialist-communist vision.


The strong trend in our age to use Christian tenets to justify reconciliation with leftism can be found in bygone centuries.


Socialism and all these leftist isms are secular versions of a few of the tenets of Christianity.

 

Christianity is far more than a few tenets. As the Baron would agree, Christ Himself is the core of Christianity, Christendom, and Western Civilization.

Socialism advocates vociferously for a secularized and Christless version of Christianity. However, without Christ Himself, mankind is without his created identity and nations are without a soul. Quickly, families, communities, societies, and nations unravel, deteriorate, and become grotesque images of the Christless dream the secularist has promised.

 

This was stated repeatedly by Nobel Prize winner, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who, in his publication Russia in Collapse, records the statement of a Russian from Vladivostok. Vladivostok is a city in the far southeastern remote edge of Russia next to the border of North Korea. This devout Russian saint said to Mr. Solzhenitsyn:

 

We Russians do not value our own culture. But if we do not value our culture; we cannot save the Russian people.


POLITICS WILL NOT SAVE A NATION

THE CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION

OF ITS PEOPLE WILL SAVE A NATION


Solzhenitsyn records another comment coming from the southeastern edge of Russia. This time from an elderly Orthodox woman in Blagoveschensk, a city on the Chinese border. She said:


None of us need a Russia without God. And none of us need freedom without Russia. If we do not come forward in repentance, Russia is not worth a dime.

These comments reflect what many have said regarding American society in the 21st century. Until we as a people return to our devotion to Christ, there are no legislatures, no institutions, no men who can save us.

 

SOLZHENITSYN

A PIONEER IN THE RENAISSANCE

OF RELIGION IN ATHEIST NATIONS


On May 10, 1983, Solzhenitsyn stood before dignitaries in Buckingham Palace to receive the Templeton Prize. The Templeton Foundation described him as a pioneer in the renaissance of religion in atheist nations.

He then delivered what has become known as the Men Have Forgotten God speech and said this:

 

More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”


Since then, I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval.


But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”


And if I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire twentieth century, here too I would be unable to find anything more precise and pithy than to repeat once again: “Men have forgotten God.”

Socialism is grounded in a Christless Christianity. It eviscerates the human soul as well as the very soul of a nation. Marxism is the secularist’s dream.


In its effort to stand alone without God, socialism eviscerates individuality, creativity, responsibility, individual development, and personal achievement. Under its leadership, the few consume the labor of the many and the many become impoverished and abused.

 

Christ keeps the promises that

the secularist seeks, always

unsuccessfully, to imitate.


Secularism, as North Korea and the ravages of the 20th century illustrate, only reverts humanity to the primitive, to the impoverished, and for hundreds of millions, to abuse, torture, and extinction.


The godless secularist cannot help, once he has grasped the reins of power, to abuse the masses under his power. He rules in order to live in his own private paradise. All that he has promised to others, he achieves only for himself.

 

It was Christian America that became so prosperous, so robust, and, as a nation, so enabled its citizens to bask in liberty that people the world over sought a path to her gates.


Christian America has stood long in sharp

contrast to nations under the control

of secular, atheistic oligarchs.


There is no more clear vision of the entanglement of 21st Century American Controligarchs with the Chinese Communist Party than Yeonmi Park’s While Time Remains.

I finished reading her book last week and intended to write extensively about it but will save it for another week. I stand with Eric Metaxas in stating that you must read While Time Remains.


The book’s shocking details of her personal testimony, its philosophical and psychological depth on many levels, and its warning to America make it compulsory reading. The book’s wonderfully written style make it all easy to digest.


From one of its pages:

 

North Korea is a socialist state, a totalitarian dictatorship that has enslaved 26 million human beings into a cult of personality around three evil men, two of them dead, who have overseen a country-sized concentration camp.


It is Earth’s longest-running experiment in deliberately managed human misery, a perpetual crime against God.

 

The pulpits of Oklahoma must awaken the church of Oklahoma to the risks we assume when electing government officials at all levels who do not possess in them the soul of Solzhenitsyn and a conviction that life without God is a bloody and painful disaster for any nation.

Join our meetings and help us

change Oklahoma as we seek to

right the American ship of state.

Make plans to come to the

Oklahoma History Center

in two weeks on

Wednesday, April 3 at noon.

LAST WEEK

Hear Joey Magana here.


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Monday, March 18, 2024

St. Patrick and Education Choice

Published Monday, March 18, 2024

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THIS WEDNESDAY

Milton Friedman has cast a powerful shadow over the educational movement in America. This Wednesday, his organization's Vice President of Policy and Advocacy will present the solutions for educational transformation at both the state and national levels!


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BOB LINN

The Footsteps of St. Patrick

When the Irish captured the sixteen-year-old English boy we know as St. Patrick, it was the beginning of the national transformation of Ireland. For six years, he shepherded his captor’s sheep.


It was during those six years that, by divine providence, Patrick devoted his life to the One the Scriptures call the great shepherd of the sheep and began to consider a future mission to bring Christ to the Irish.


He escaped to England where he spent the next 15 years studying for the priesthood. After his ordination, he returned in 432 A.D. to Ireland, inaugurating one of the most transformative missionary endeavors in history.

St. Patrick transformed a nation.

 

As Christianity developed,

it transformed both men

and governments.


Today, we a just under 200 years shy of celebrating the 1,000th year anniversary of the Magna Carta (June 1215). It established the idea that both the people and their king are under the authoritative rule of law. Many note that the Magna Carta owes its birth to the Christian scholarship of Alfred the Great (848 A.D.-899 A.D.) and his legal code.

So developed was Christendom by 1643 A.D. that Ireland, Scotland, the British House of Lords, the British House of Commons, and King Charles II all signed the Solemn League and Covenant which read, in part:

 

And because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against God, and his sons, Jesus Christ . . . we profess and declare before God and the world, our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins, and for the sins of these kingdoms . . . And this covenant we make in the presence of almighty God . . . to the glory of God, the enlargement of the kingdom of Jesus Christ and the peace and tranquility of Christian kingdoms and commonwealths.

As Christianity continued to flourish throughout Europe, its impact brought the Scientific Revolution.

 

Christendom produced men who based scientific inquiry on the Bible they loved. Among those earliest Christian men were Copernicus, Kepler, Descartes, and Boyle. Sir Isaac Newton wrote more theology than science, but his impact on the world through his “hobby” led Einstein to say:

 

His clear and wide ideas will forever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.” Einstein himself operated on Biblical foundations and considered science a discipline which uncovers the work of our Creator.

James Hannam, PhD (history of science, University of Cambridge), is the author of The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution.

 

He writes concerning the Christians who began in the Middle Ages to develop the science that became the scientific revolution:


For them, science was the study of God’s creation. The metaphysical assumptions of Christianity, unlike those of the Greeks or even Muslims, turned out to be extremely conducive to uncovering true knowledge about nature. They weren’t trying to, but it was Christians who laid the foundations for modern science.

 

They were simply studying God’s creation so that they could become better theologians and Christians. The metaphysical background to Christianity turned out to be uniquely conducive to successfully understanding the working of nature. 

 

Atheist historians such as Richard Carrier are wrong to say Christians neglected science and that pagans were on the point of a scientific revolution. On the contrary, Christianity was a necessary, if not sufficient, cause of the flowering of modern science.

In addition to establishing the foundations of science, Christendom produced the great music of Western Civilization.


On the heels of the German Reformation came Bach, the devout Lutheran known as the father of modern musical composition. He is the pride of the early 18th century.

CHRISTIANITY & BASKETBALL


I may as well point out, as we are in the midst of March Madness in the form of the NCAA basketball tournament, were it not for the Presbyterians, we’d not even have basketball!

Dr. James Naismith, Presbyterian minister, invented basketball

The ball was tossed into the peach basket!


Christianity is the foundation of

the American form of Government.


Dr. Benjamin Rush is considered to be one of the three most important founders of the American Republic.   In his Defense of the Bible as a Schoolbook, he explained:

 

In contemplating the political institutions in the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes, and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity, by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others, favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws, and all those sober and frugal values, which constitute the soul of republicanism.

Teaching the Bible to all America's youth is fundamental to American civics. There is simply no way to understand our founding documents without the commas our founders referenced. It is not a mission to convert them in school. Bible reading simply insures they are not unsophisticated and void of philosophical reference points.


Early in our Republic, President John Adams wrote:

 

Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

 

Without a citizenry in possession of an understanding of the history of Christendom and the content of the Scripture, it is not possible to be ruled by our constitution.

 

Leftist influence on nearly 100% of America’s children through the government’s system of schools has created in America a cultural mismatch for our form of government.

So traumatized is the culture today that Baron Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s towering book, Leftism, is proven true each day. He writes:

 

The imminent fear in the American noncommitted right is that the left . . .is riding the Wave of the Future!

 

How otherwise, could one understand that temperamentally very conservative boards of trustees of colleges and universities have repeatedly hired professors notorious for their leftist ideas?


How could one understand that archconservative American businessmen have sent their sons and especially their daughters to institutions of learning equally well known for their exorbitant rates and their extreme leftism, a leftism pertaining to politics, history, philosophy, economics – and morals?


How often do well-paid Marxists in such places indirectly and even directly tell intellectually innocent maidens – at their hard-toiling fathers’ expense – that their procreators are real scoundrels and blood-suckers?


Yet the hard-toiling fathers know all this and both parents accept this state of affairs with a sigh.

The American conservative stands in need of a magnanimous aggressiveness, a will to win, coupled with the liberality of those who believe in real diversity [individual liberty!].


His highly acclaimed sequel is Leftism Revisited.


____________


Marxist ideological propaganda whether emanating from the schoolhouse, the Sunday School, or the dinner table prepares a society for masochistic rot and is a cancer which must be stopped. To remain silent is to observe a people commit wholesale suicide when national therapy is available.

 

St. Patrick introduced a nation to Christ.

 

We must play our part just as he played his. This Wednesday, we will address the things we can do to right the ship through remediating American education.

 

Dmitri Myerezhkovski wrote in his brilliant book on the Communist Revolution, Tsarstvo Antikhrista:


Not on account of their own strength are the Bolsheviks powerful but only thanks to your weakness. They know what they want, but you do not know what you want.

Let’s shed our fears and the

defeatist theology we have

listened to far too long.


I hope to see you this Wednesday!

AND, DON'T FORGET!

ANOTHER BOLD WOMAN


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