Martyrdoom: Fear Of A New Christian Death

In the world I report about, few things are as they appear. It appears to be a world of shadows, shadow archetypes, compelling sightings of things unknown and intrigue. Some may say I report about a world of paranoia. I analyze and entertain the idea of conspiracy theories, and see a complex and infinite world where demons haunt people.

Needless to say, I have been told that reporting what I do is dangerous and my life is going down a very dark path, while others constantly tell me I need to find Jesus.

The truth is – I never lost him, nor do I intend to.

My position has always been that we are being slowly eaten by a pervasive demonic force. I tend to look at the devil the same way that has been described in the Book of Job. He is not some horned cartoon, but a force of opposition, an obstacle and an adversary that needs to be examined.

Wickedness and evil should be explored and dialogue should be given so that we can identify hatred, prejudice, injustice, and persecution of the adversary.

Evil is to respected, not in a way of condoning it, but in a way that you respect the use of fire. Much like fire, evil breathes and consumes everything in its way.

We all know a secular world has no need for a Satan. Good and evil, however, still persist as a byproduct of people who are either reverent or profane. Our differences in denominations and religious beliefs have triggered many wars and have divided us for thousands of years.

When we go to war, we always say to ourselves the wars we fight are there to rid the world of evil. However, in order to rid the world of perceived evil, we must act like monsters and slaughter the innocent as well as the guilty. We call this good.

Equally, our enemies see things on this warped spiritual level as well. However, there seems to be a highly misguided duality in their conquest as we perceive it. The kill for the sake of ideology and with their form of murderous vengeance, they see the evil they perform as blessed by their unknown and misunderstood God. Therefore, they too see the slaughter and bloodshed as good.

When we doubt the “nobility” of the blood cement we make with our leaders and armies that kill for us, we hide behind that convenient cover of hollow support and fail to care about the innocent elderly that scream when the bombs drop, or the mothers that lose their children and the wives that lose their husbands. When all is said and done – we have only a sinister conspiracy to blame it on.

The question is whether or not it is valid. The more we explore the conspiracy the more we realize there is a conspiracy—it is against you and what you believe. It is conspiracy to rid the world of good. It is a conspiracy that was once dismissed as fantasy, and now becomes a tailor made self-fulfilling nightmare.

Lately, I have been feeling as if I am living inside a Jack Chick tract. Now for those who don’t know what Jack Chick tract is, I can only describe it as a mini graphic novel that uses comic illustrations in order to push the extreme Christian fundamentalist view.

Most of these tracts are focused on real nightmares that Christians have about the Antichrist, witches, the devil, and even the warnings to avoid Catholicism. Some of his tracts have been responsible for the idea that playing rock music backwards ensures a ticket to hell, and games like Dungeons and Dragons provide game geeks with rituals that will conjure real demons.

When I was in Argentina, Jack Chick tracts were everywhere. They were translated of course and the comic book apocalypse art was intriguing as well as the message that was part conspiracy theory and part dogma.

I remember one in particular about “the beast’ and the Antichrist. It showed a man walking among the world wearing an Egyptian head dress and throughout the tract it illustrated that people in “the last days” would in his words “deny Jesus” or say that “Lucifer is lord.” Anyone who was a follower of Jesus without the Mark of the Beast would be attacked. There were also scenes of Christians with electrodes connected to their heads, erasing their belief in God – or having guns being put to their temples with evil henchmen saying “Deny Christ and Live” or if you are a Christian you will be either beheaded or shot by firing squad.

Now here is where it gets frighteningly coincidental.

The British paper, “Sunday Express” reported scientists now claim that attitudes towards God and immigrants can be changed by beaming magnetic waves into the brain. Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurons in the brains of volunteers.

TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control. Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice.

In the majority of the volunteers belief in God was reduced almost by a third.

The scientists targeted the posterior medial frontal cortex, a brain region a few inches up from the forehead that is associated with detecting and responding to problems.

Volunteers were asked to rate their belief in God, heaven, the devil, and hell after undergoing pre-screening to ensure that they held religious convictions.

Dr Keise Izuma, from the University of York, said the reason this was being carried out was because people often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems. He told the Express, “We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death. As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death.”

The research, published in the journal, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, suggests our brains use the same basic mental pathways to solve practical problems such as following directions or ideological issues such as immigration and religion.

Lead author Dr. Colin Holbrook, from the University of California at Los Angeles, said: “These findings are very striking, and consistent with the idea that brain mechanisms that evolved for relatively basic threat-response functions are re-purposed to also produce ideological reactions.”

So this experiment shows us that we can now be programmed into not believing in God and to open up our arms to welcome anyone or anything that wishes to move into our territory.

This is a lot like what you see in the paranoid illustrations of Jack Chick, Christians being forcibly brought in to a lab and receiving a God wipe and then, the Mark of the Beast. The greater nightmare in these small comic books are the illustrations of Nazi-like executioners putting a gun to a Christian’s head and asking his prisoner to deny a belief in Christ or face death.

I once said on one of my shows that the biggest nightmare of the apocalypse would be seeing good Christians being lined up and shot if they testify to the end they are Christian. There has also been the fear by some fundamentalists that the future for Christians in the world is to be beheaded by guillotines for their undying faith.

This nightmare has reared its ugly head this year and even though it has all become watered-down news for political exploitation, we need to remember the recent shootings we have heard about were about faith and being Christian.

Dylann Storm Roof confessed to killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina because he hoped it would start a “race war.” While race and hate crime issues were brought up after the incident – it was important to note that the victims were all Christians, all kneeling down and praying. Either they died because of the color of their skin or their belief in Christ.

The Umpqua Community College shooter in Roseburg, Oregon was obsessed with Satan and documented his devotion to darkness in a manifesto that was recovered from his computer:

“I am forced to align myself with these demons and become one of them”. “At first,” he wrote, “it was involuntary, but now I am aligned with them. I now serve them. When I die I will become one of them.” “My success in Hell is assured.”

The shooter lined his fellow students up and asked them if they were Christian and if they were they were told that they were about to meet God and shot them in the head.

Those who refused to speak or say they weren’t Christian were shot in the legs.

It has been said by conservative commentators around Christmas time that Christians are persecuted; well now this is no longer valid. They have now been lifted to a new level far more frightening.

They are being targeted.

The Gatestone Institute, a non-partisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank is dedicated to educating the public about what the mainstream media fails to report.

Their latest report is one of the most ghoulish and nightmarish yet.

They report that our new found relationship with jihadis and our inability to contain ISIS has now endangered Christians in the Middle East.

Their latest article states:

“Everywhere that U.S. leadership helped Islamic jihadis topple secular autocrats in the name of democracy and freedom, indigenous Christian minorities are forced either to convert to Islam or die.”

Many are accepting death.

On August 28 near Aleppo, ISIS tortured, mutilated, publicly raped, beheaded and crucified 12 Christians for saying they “would never renounce Christ” for Muhammad.

The jihadis took one group in front of a large crowd. They cut off the fingertips of a 12-year-old boy, who steadfastly refused to submit to Islam. They “severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam.” He refused, so they “also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion.”

According to a Christian leader associated with the martyrs, “They were left on their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them.” A sign saying “INFIDELS” was placed next to their crosses.

The other eight Christians, including two women, aged 29 and 33, were also ordered to renounce Christ and embrace Islam before a large crowd. When they refused, the Islamic extremists then publicly raped the women, who continued to pray during the ordeal, leading the ISIS militants to beat them all the more furiously. The ministry directors reported that:

“As the two women and the six men knelt in prayer before they were beheaded, they were all praying.”

Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord’s prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus,’ the ministry director said. “One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, ‘Jesus!’

“After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses,” the ministry director said.

The same is happening in the two other Arab nations where the U.S., under the pretext of “freedom and democracy,” overthrew the secular dictators who had long kept a lid on the jihadis: Libya and Iraq.

Late last year, Andrew White, an Anglican Priest known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” recounted the horrific atrocities against Christians in Iraq — including seeing their children chopped in half for refusing to embrace Islam.

The ongoing slaughter of Christians by the Islamic State, and the destruction of churches and antiquities, can be blamed those Western nations that, intentionally or unintentionally, paved the way for the Islamic States, as Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said before the United Nations, while addressing those nations that supported the “Arab Spring” — chief among them, the United States.

Instead of a triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social disaster — and nobody cares a bit about human rights or the right of Middle Eastern Christians to life. Whether they realize it or not, it is also happening in Syria where our relationship with our former enemies has put Syrian Christians in the cross-hairs.

I don’t know if Jack Chick saw the targeting of Christians as being only American Christians and that they have a bigger importance than those outside our borders.

The targeting of all Christians sends a message to those that see this as an apocalyptic prophecy fulfilled.

Once again, we see a lot of art can foreshadow the future. It is also uncanny how someone like Chick, a virtual recluse has somehow fore-structured an entire apocalypse by design. An apocalypse that is close to all of the framed predictive programming we have been seeing in our entertainment, one that goes “by the book.”

Picking through Nostradamus like a vulture and quoting scripture can be an obsession with most people. However, it looks as if the recent happenings are furthering the crisis programming and is successfully proving that now Christians are not only persecuted, but targeted.

Our decisions and foreign policy have created a monster – our Faustian bargains with our enemies have made believers, martyrs.

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