WADE BURLESON, Artificial Intelligence, and the November Vote

WADE BURLESON, Artificial Intelligence, and the November Vote

Published Monday, October 14, 2024 THIS WEDNESDAY WADE BURLESON Wade resigned as the OCPAC Foundation Board Chairman earlier this year in order to step into the Artificial Intelligence arena. Listen to Wednesday's preview and bring someone with you to hear Wade pull the curtains away from the details of AI, American politics, and this November's Presidential election. Bring a friend!!! Send this Newsletter to another here. Come and be a part of building an informed Oklahoma! Bring your family and friends Wednesday Bring your pastor and buy his lunch! Send this Newsletter to another here. Lunch is optional for $10 Doors Open 11 AM Meeting Noon to 1:15 PM OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK $5 ENTRY FEE Tax-deductible donations accepted at door. SEE YOU AT THE WEDNESDAY LUNCHEON Find us at Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. BOB LINN Democracy: The Bane of Freedom While driving home through the streets of Norman last week, I passed a lawn sign promoting democracy and Kamala Harris.  Democracy is the battle cry of far-left political extremists.  It was in the Garden of Edin that our first parents, in possession of divine revelation, chose to form a democracy and take a vote to establish the official posture of mankind regarding the Word of God.  In a unanimous vote, they sidestepped revelation and ate the apple. The ancient church was faced with the same option when the Hebrew children, in Numbers chapter fourteen, voted 10-2 to decline the divine mission.  The mission was fulfilled by their children, but for the parents, democracy did not work out well. (Stephen called them "the church in the desert" in Acts chapter seven, KJV)  In Matthew’s twenty-seventh chapter, we read that Pilate opened the judgment of Christ to a democratic vote of the people.  The vote displayed Jerusalem’s cultural decadence and the defilement of the shepherds of God’s people. Democracies value of ideas of majority opinion rather than eternal revealed truth. Democracy as a form of government was looked upon with derision by America’s founders. Noted American author, James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), is famous for his book The Last of the Mohicans. He said of democracy: It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law.  This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a professor at Edinburgh University and ended his career at Harvard. Of democracy, he wrote: Communism is an extreme form of democracy . . . All forms of socialism . . . are democratic.  They all obtain popular assent by the manipulation of mass psychology. Renowned scholar Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn was born in Europe but spent a considerable portion of his life in America. When he wrote his Liberty or Equality, he made it clear that the word “democracy” was the ideological click-bait of tyrannies such as the ones established by Lenin & Stalin. Because of noted Alexis de Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America, Leddihn points out that even Tocqueville declined to endorse democratic forms of government.  Tocqueville said of democracy: I despise and fear the masses.  I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy . . . liberty is my foremost passion. In his book, Leftism, Leddihn writes: Outstanding men who have a certain pride in their experience or their knowledge are not likely to be admirers of democracy which refuses to distinguish between the various degrees of knowledge, is indifferent toward truth (as Berdyaev pointed out) and takes its stand based on quantity and biological age rather than quality.  In this system of government, votes are counted and not weighed, an observation Aristotle made over 2,000 years ago. Indeed, it would be difficult to find in Europe more than a handful of truly outstanding thinkers who believed or believe in democracy. Speaking of the "classic liberal" ("conservative" in the 21st century): The aversion of the early liberals for the two democratic postulates of equality and majority rule also had other important roots.  They knew about the incompatibility between the liberal and the egalitarian principle, they saw very clearly that the enfranchisement of the masses would inevitably lead to the rise of political movements exploiting the envy of the many, the realized that the concept of the “politicized” nation was in itself totalitarian – a term then not known or used but clearly sensed and understood as in Tocqueville’s vision of the new tyranny to come. It was also evident to the early liberals that democracy would replace the search for truth in the light of reason with the mere whim, the emotions, the naked desires of the many expressed in numbers. For more on the word liberal, see our September 23rd article on Old Words that Built America here. U.S. President, John Adams In a letter written on December 17, 1814 to U.S. Senator John Taylor, President John Adams wrote that a democracy would quickly become an oligarchy and then to a despotism.  He wrote: Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. IN CLOSING In his book Leftism, Kuehnelt-Leddihn elaborates on these very thoughts that President John Adams addressed more than a hundred years earlier. Leddihn emphasized that the masses are not pure as the wind driven snow. They are not innocents whose moral and civic infection came only by American education, publishing, the press, the theater, and the movie industry. Those negative public influencers of culture I've just listed have simply promoted ideas which have appealed to the already existing seamier side of human nature. Public influencers have exploited the dark side of the American soul. Ideas once commonly understood as pernicious have been articulated, through various media (including the American classroom), using twists of language presented in clever and coherent ways. Corrupting ideas once more hidden in the American mind in nascent and undeveloped form were given a language which seemed to justify the unwholesome as something we should all be proud of. All of a sudden, the second half of the first chapter of the book of Romans came to America. As did Genesis 19 (Sodom & Gomorrah). America did not even know to blush! These influencers enabled Americans to affirm ideas once considered noxious, pernicious, and immoral. America has been given a new light. It has been a new light emanating from what our Bibles tell us is Satan who has transformed himself into an angel of light. (II Corinthians 11:14) WHY A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC? All other forms of government are based on the unfettered opinions of the human race.  The epistemological foundation of all mankind is fixed in the Word of God, the Scriptures.  All constitutions, rules, & laws not directly connected to the Bible are destructive to humanity. Micah’s vision in his fourth chapter portrays the only resolution to the international political scene. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountains of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and peoples shall flow to it and many nations shall come and say: “Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” ~Micah 4:1, 2 This is the true relationship of church and state.  Rather than a separation, it is more akin to the intimate relationship of a husband and wife where the two are distinct, but function as a unit. Scripture looks to a day when no one will have the temerity to speak of church-state separation.  International peace, as in the day of Solomon (I Kings 5), will be the fruit of the reign of the wisdom of Christ. COME THIS WEDNESDAY THE RETURN OF WADE BURLESON  SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. The nation is in peril and is calling to each of you for help! See you Wednesday! 11:00 AM Doors open 11:00 AM Lunch Available NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK  God bless! LAST MEETING RYAN WALTERS Watch Ryan's presentation here. Watch the entire meeting here. COMING!!! THIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 NOVEMBER 13 AFTER THE ELECTION ALEX GREY BREIFING CELEBRATE YEAR'S END TOGETHER! I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. 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The Church is the Soul of the State

The Church is the Soul of the State

Published Monday, October 7, 2024 NEXT MEETING OCTOBER 16 Artificial Intelligence & Election Day in November See Information below Send this newsletter to a friend here. BOB LINN The Church is the Soul of the State America’s morally impoverished classroom has bled dry the American soul.  The assault on the nation’s children through public education has alarmed a number in academia who see the pathway to societal collapse at our doorstep.   For those who have forgotten from whence we have come, the return to our moral foundations seems radical. However, it is the path we have allowed ourselves to be led for too many years that is radical. So decimated is our moral fiber, we are at the brink of a revolution of the same magnitude as that which propelled the Russian Bolsheviks to empower Lenin. THE DEATH OF CHARACTER HAS PLACED THE NATION AT RISK At the turn of the twenty first century, and with profound concern over the trajectory of America’s education, University of Virginia Professor James D. Hunter summarized massive amounts of research in his book, The Death of Character. The research is overwhelming that our psychological methods of nurturing morality have failed. Hunter writes about the revolution that has transformed the classroom by eviscerating the moral fiber of the nation.  He discusses what began slowly a hundred years ago: Transcendent moral truths and the authority of Christian traditions were moving inexorably to the margins . . . Psychology was becoming a more authoritative source of moral instructions than religion.  Not only did the Deity disappear from books and articles . . . but the role of family and the church weakened as well.  In the early decades of the twentieth century, the institutional authority of psychology had become foundational. The evisceration of truth and moral absolutes were propelled by an educational tsunami called values clarification.  Among those who promoted the concept widely were authors Sydney Simon, Leland Howe, and Howard Kirschenbaum. Together, in 1978, they published a book that helped push America’s children further into moral chaos.  It was titled Values Clarification and published in 1978. Values clarification is a technique by which young people develop their own values.  The authors write: It does not teach a particular set of values . . . the teacher who instructs at the values level is accepting and nonjudgemental . . . he understands that there are no right or wrong answers to questions at the values level.  The goal is to make them aware of their own feelings, their own ideas, their own beliefs, so that the choices and decisions are based on their own value system. THE REVOLUTION IS DESTROYING AMERICAN VALUES Mark B. Tappan wrote in the May 1989 issue of The Harvard Educational Review: This vision seeks to use education to enable each student to resist and overcome social and cultural repression, and hence to authorize his or her own moral voice. The function of education is to remake society. OKLAHOMA’S STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION IS RESTORING OUR VALUES CHRISTIANITY IS THE SOUL OF A NATION Christianity views all mankind as divine image bearers.  It views those who reject the Bible as those whose lives continue to have value and are precious. They simply need a spiritual renewal.  They are not punished as enemies of the Christian state. It is incumbent upon a Christian nation to pray for and to befriend those outside the church community and to continue to protect the human rights. To protect their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is the heritage of our American origins. In contrast, those living in nations hostile to Christianity (communist) have no freedom to criticize the government. Non-conforming dissidents are categorized as non-humans and fodder for slave labor, mass incarceration, starvation and execution. We see these traits in the American left. The left has no tolerance for free speech and they prevent those with whom they disagree to come to campus meetings to speak. The political left has worked to insure those with whom they disagree are punished in their work place and fired. They seek to harass Christian businesses. SIDE NOTE REGARDING TYRANNY IN AMERICA: Coach Joe Kennedy was fired for praying after football games at Bremerton High School in the state of Washington. Joe Kennedy's successful plea before the U. S. Supreme Curt was written by our own A.J. Ferate who played football at Bremerton High. After the victory, Joe was at the OCPAC Foundation meeting in September of 2023. He how has a movie out you'll want to see! Average Joe is now playing in theaters across America. Needless to say, no high school administrative thug will dare try that stunt again. My grandson is co-captain of his high school soccer team and at his initiative, the entire team kneels on the field of play both before and after every game. IN CLOSING: Xi Van Fleet was rescued from Mao’s China by Christian missionaries.  In her book, Mao’s America, she affirms the universal practice of godless governments of re-defining enemies to be mere animals whose death and enslavement means nothing. She writes: One day, I was watching a rally with a friend when a line of trucks came by with men in back . . . one of the men was my friend’s father.  On his signboard [hung around his neck] was his name crossed out and replaced with the phrase “little reptile,” which meant he had been a follower of a denounced party leader. She continues to explain that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promoted hate by demonizing its political enemies as monstrous villains. She writes: It was much easier to humiliate, mistreat, torture, and kill when the enemies were considered to be subhuman. America’s founding generation knew that Christianity was mankind’s only hope to build a political structure which would respect the individual while assuring, through the rule of divinely-revealed laws, that society would knit itself together. We cannot sustain civilized society without a moral code John Locke (1632-1704) stated the role of the Bible clearly: As to the foundations of [virtue], there ought very clearly to be imprinted on his [the child’s] mind a true Notion of God, as of the independent Supreme Being, Author and Maker of all Things, from whom we receive all our Good, who loves us, and gives us all things. And consequent to this, instill unto him a Love and Reverence of this Supreme Being. If John Locke is any indication of the 17th century mind, we may conclude our founders thought there is no morality apart from God. However, were there a doubt, their own writings would bear this out. A few weeks ago, I noted the renowned German atheist, Jürgen Habermas.  His perception of Christianity has morphed over the past twenty years as it has become apparent to him that not only is Christianity the root of European culture, but it is also the very lifeblood without which Europe cannot move forward.  He writes: Christianity has functioned as more than a mere pre-cursor or catalyst . . . ideas of freedom and social solidarity . . . are the direct heir to the Judaic ethic of justice and the Christian ethic of love. To this day, there is no alternative to it.  We draw upon the substance of this heritage. Twenty years ago, Hofstra Law Review published an article pointing out that the mantra of separation of church and state was a myth.  A review of the state constitutions of the early colonies demonstrate that the first amendment protected the state’s rights to be Christian or sectarian or anything they wanted to be. As one of many examples, and right under the nose of a freshly written First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut declared its purpose: To maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ which we now profess. Bibles in the classroom represent the path to the restoration of America’s historic role as that bright and shining city on a hill. Send this newsletter to a friend here. OUR BOARD MEMBERS IN THE NEWS While the foundation does not endorse candidates at any level, it is noteworthy that three of our board members, operating independently of the board and of the foundation, were a part of an organized effort to gather close to 400 signatories with extensive experience in national security, foreign policy, intelligence, border enforcement, and more (along with a dozen families of service personnel killed in Abbey Gate in Afghanistan) supporting the reelection of President Trump. The list included over twenty-five former cabinet secretaries including former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo and former Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin. Alex Gray, who worked close to the President while in the White House, was privileged to organize this effort alongside of his former White House boss, Ambassador Robert O'Brien. Of note was the reference to the Lord's Sermon on the Mount. Reflecting on the President's stellar record of a peaceful administration, Matthew 5:9 was quoted in the signed document: Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God. While our foundation does not endorse or fund candidates, we would be remiss if we did not recognize and congratulate so many of our members who are able to participate at such a high level in the national affairs of the nation. IF YOU MISSED OUR LAST MEETING . . . RYAN WALTERS Watch the presentation here. Watch the entire meeting here. TOM GANN ILLEGAL SURVEIANCE Watch the presentation here. Watch the entire meeting here. COMING!!! WEDNESDAY October 16, 2024 COMING!!! WEDNESDAY November 13, 2024 COMING!!! WEDNESDAY December 11, 2024 OUR FOUNDATION BANKS AT QUAIL CREEK BANK A few of our board members at Quail Creek Bank From left to right: Joseph Palmer, Alan Loeffler, Suzanne Reynolds, Lucia O'Connor, Father Stephen Hamilton, Bob Linn, and Gaylene Stupic. OCPAC FOUNDATION is a 501 (c) (3). Gifts are tax-deductible. I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world.

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