Alone With God


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A Generation of “Shock Troops”

A swelling tidal wave is now threatening to engulf America and the world. The new burgeoning youth movement is the application-the action dimension of the well thought plan of the “Christian Marxist” ideologues which have gained control of each branch of government:

A New Youth Movement-Counterculture Fusion of Politics and Pop

‘There’s a new youth movement afoot in this country. It’s a counterculture fusion of politics and pop, and it’s taking over a high school near you. Like the waves that came before it, it’s got passion, music, and antiauthority posturing, but more than anything else, this one has God.” –Laureen Sandler, Righteous: Dispatches from the Evangelical Youth Movement. New York: Viking, 2006, flyleaf.

The same whirlwind forces that gathered and swept Germany into Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s is now gathering force for a potential tidal wave of change. The minds of the youth are being corralled, channeled, and directed into a new tyranny of thought by the master of the left and right wing ideologies persuasion.

When allied prisoners of war broke out of their prison camps in Nazi Germany, the greatest threat that they faced was the hundreds of Hitler Youth that were immediately locally called up in a hue and cry to search every corner of the woods, villages, roads, and towns.

New Youth Movement Uses the Modes Operandi Of the Sixties Fusing Pop Culture, Politics and Religion

The new youth movement is called “the alternative Christian explosion. Using the grassroots modus operandi of the 1960s, these religious kids-part of the ‘Disciple Generation’ as Sandler calls it-turn an antiauthoritarian sneer toward liberalism, feminism, pacifism, and every other hallmark of that era’s counterculture. And they’re engaging their peers with startling success, fusing pop culture, politics, and religion as they preach from the pulpit of the skate park, bar, and rock concert.” Sandler, Righteous, flyleaf. 

Rock and Roll, Rap Preachers, Hip-Hop, and Fundamentalism

They are skateboard missionaries, tattooed members of the post punk Seattle mega church that has evolved into a self-sufficient community, a rock and roll antiabortion group, rap preachers merging hip-hop’s love of money with old-fashioned Bible-beating fundamentalism. [Adapted from the flyleaf of Righteous.] “One must not overlook the fact that the Disciple Generation is foremost a growing fundamentalist population.  The apocalyptic imagination, the annihilation of the individual, the subjugation of women, the resistance to competing ideas-all these startling facts of this movement are conventional aspects of fundamentalism of any kind, anywhere…

“…We need only look eastward to see how fundamentalism can gather its angry power, fanning jihadist rage under the daily threat of violence in Baghdad or Gaza, as fear mounts and spreads.

A Cocktail of Fear and Loneliness

“…The experience of modernity for many people is a lifetime of loneliness, the ache of utter isolation in an impossibility huge and uncaring world. It is a cocktail of fear and loneliness…

There is a Tyranny Over the Hearts and Minds of this Generation

“…It’s no overstatement to declare that there is a tyranny over the hearts and minds of this generation, which is swiftly being exported abroad…The ache of modernity, as Hannah Arendt wrote in The Origins of Totalitarianism, is a great enabler of the rise of fascism, which ‘bases itself on loneliness, on the experience of not belonging to the world at all, which is among the most radical and desperate experiences of man.’ Further, Arendt remarked that ‘in this situation man loses trust in himself as the partner of his thoughts,’ a symptom that is clear in the Disciple Generation’s triumvirate of emotion, politics, and anti intellectualism, even what Arendt called the extreme contempt for facts.’     

That Is Their Program, To Get the Children

“…I often recalled what a priest in Germany warned journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1934 – ‘That is their program, to get the children.’” Sandler, 240, 241.

Marxist Cultural Tactics Used in Mass Outreach on the Christian Right

“I’m willing to bet members of the sixties New Left could have ever dreamed they’d see their own cultural tactics achieving mass outreach on the Christian right, nor could they have imagined how inclusive a revolution could be….” –Sandler, 241.

Theocon Strategy Applied to a Hitler-youth Style Movement

It looks like a burgeoning new Hitler Youth style shock troop fusion of right wing Catholic/evangelical agenda wedded to the organization and reality perceptions of the Marxist/pantheistic Jesuit hippie revolution of the 1960s unleashed in the ruling philosophy of the theocons, fueled by the intensity of rock, rap, and hip hop is emerging. This one bears watching.  

The fusion of the fury of the radical revolutionary heartbeat of hip-hop, generated by the gangs of New York and Kingston, Jamaica, with the religious agenda of the Catholic/evangelical movement is quite shocking. One of the enormously popular neo-Nazi style rock bands that is shaking up Germany today and is even heard on radio talk shows in America is Rammstein, which is appealing to the deepest gut levels of a modern nihilistic adaptation of the kind of thing that drove Nazi Germany psychologically.

Rammstein-Neonazism and the New German Hardness

Claire Berlinski, writer for the New York Times, The Washington Post, National Review, the Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and other publications, with a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, who has worked in Britain, France, Switzerland, Thailand, Laos, and Turkey as a journalist, academic and correspondent, devotes 51 pages-an entire chapter-in her book Menace in Europe to the danger of ne0-Nazism from this one group-Rammstein.

Claire writes, “Last September, the strong showing of far-Right and neo-Nazi parties in Germany’s regional elections, particularly in the formerly Communist East, sent a chill through Europe. Did the cultural transformation associated with Rammstein’s “neue deutsche Harte’ – the new German hardness-help these parties return to the mainstream?…

“The Nazis conceived of hardness as the hallmark of the New Nietzschean superhuman…

“…The killers at Columbine loved Rammstein. According to Russian authorities, the murderers at Beslan were listening to Rammstein during the school siege.” –Claire Berlinski, menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s crisis is America’s Too. New York: Crown Forum, 2006, pp. 205, 225, 226.

An Entirely New Perception of Reality

An entirely new perception of reality is emerging, shaped by the ideologies of the far right who were nursed and cut their teeth on the revolutionary strategies and tactics on the far left. Sandler writes, “Our president seems to be playacting Left Behind’s Steele at the helm of the Tribulation Force-  ‘Mission Accomplished,’ indeed.” Sandler, 224.

 

 

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