The Reality We Like the Fantasy to Conceal, Addendum

Thought I'd add a few more thoughts about my recent post and our visit to the "Magic Kingdom." I'd riffed a bit on the meaning of the whole Disney dominion and how it is merely part of the System's enslavement, as fun, exhilarating, and yes, enchanting it is to enjoy it all.

First, I do get the idea of why so many have been so inured to an aversion in some measure to old white men. What is not more clearly understood are the key reasons why. The main one is that quite a few old white men do administer the monolithic Romanist hegemony many leftist-minded people despise. It is not hard to jump from that conception to one that indicts all old white men, and this is indeed one of the reasons the whole racialist and sexualist agenda is so wicked. It is a gross violation of the Ninth Commandment against bearing false witness.

(And why, by the way, the Vatican seems to be seriously considering a dark-skinned prelate for next pope, you know, so they can be seen as especially progressive.)

It is precisely the same thing that afflicts perception of the gospel. A whole bunch of fancy people in robes, so many of those old white guys, tell us they are representatives of Christ when they are merely Romanist cult brokers. The ill-informed see all the iniquity and exploitation of that institution and carry those perceptions on to those who hold genuine abiding faiths in Christ who want to share with them the beauty and wonder of the Kingdom and the real freedom therein.

The straw-man Jesus of Roman Catholicism is the only thing they know about Christianity.

Because they've had pounded into them all the things the World has taught them, they cannot resolve their cognitive dissonance. They meet someone who loves them enough to share the real biblical Jesus with them and so many just fall back on what the World has told them. The Jesuits are the best, they don't miss a trick. They do their work very well.

I'd mentioned in that post that it has been demonstrated about 1 of 5 average individuals could quote a Bible verse off the top of their heads, simply for them to show something of a cultural literacy, let alone any biblical literacy. That's stunning, really. But then I thought it is even worse when it comes to meaningful understanding about the profound distinction between the World and the Kingdom. 

I'd venture to say that number is more like 1 in 100, if that. 1 in 100 truly insightful Kingdom dwellers who know their only salvation is in Christ and not in what a super boffo institution's management says they must labor interminably to do to earn a good lasting "social credit score." They know the entire Disney simulation is merely one way the System keeps people's hearts and minds in its grip, whether as a Radical Selfist (always immersed in some kind of rebellion against Rome) or a Devout Romanist (valiantly defending the honor and ways of Rome at some level).

Furthermore, the Kingdom dweller well-versed in God's word knows this is the way it must be. God sent this in motion as Cain's very legacy -- the Ministry of Condemnation established by virtue of a massive religiously imbued municipality with grand public works and most importantly the most ferocious prosecutorial powers over any who'd challenge The City's authority, even going so far as to routinely practice human sacrifice to achieve those ends. (See the fourth chapter of Genesis for more.)

When inside Disneyland try messing with the official Disney law and bylaws, try deviating from the firmly expected behavioral norms, see what happens. Yes they won't put you on the rack, but they will deal with you pretty fiercely.

Out of this morass of law-breaking and inevitable law-adjudicating in whatever form, the genuine follower of Christ knows the only deliverance is in the Ministry of Reconciliation, the blood of Jesus shed for us and our own sinfulness as the only substance for the invitation to what we really want: Him and His Kingdom.

1 in 100? What do you think. Am I being too cynical? Or even too generous. I don't know. The times I interact with those who say they are Christians, those conversations can be very difficult -- so many really just don't get it. Too often they say the most insane things thinking they really do understand, when they are just spewing some version of the stuff the World has dumped into their hearts and minds.

However many there are, even if only 1 in every 100, I'd sure like to meet them. Talk with them. Worship God with them. I admit quite candidly I so very much long for that, I really do, and grieve when it is so hard to do so.

Yes, it is indeed kind of funny that Disneyland has always spouted that it is the "Magic" Kingdom, but here's another augmented part to the whole Disney take here. Do you really know about magic and its consideration through history? Has it just been rabbits being pulled from hats and the like?

I'd already known about the origin of the words "hocus pocus," deriving from the Latin hoc est corpus for "Here is the body" when the Roman Catholic priest tells everyone that the wafer he is holding up has actually become the body of Jesus. That should tell you a lot. I'd recently discovered where the words "abracadabra" came from. Also quite interesting, it is actually the Aramaic term avrah kedabra, or "I create with my words." (See note at end of post.)

Wow, how demonic are all the pithy New Age and New Thought aphorisms and repetitions -- not so new and really no different than what the priest says at the altar, indeed what everyone drones in your standard Catholic church service. It doesn't really matter what any of it means, just as long as the authorized incantations are properly bleated.

All this magic stuff has been prominent through all of history, far more seriously engaged than today when we titter at the corner magic show. If God is not fully trusted to care for us in every single aspect of life, then it is almost automatic that people would immerse themselves in divination, geomancy, necromancy, augury, shamanism, sorcery of all kinds. Yes the older forms may look quite ludicrous and even amusing, but today's supposedly milder and more acceptable versions are no different.

Disneyland makes this reality quite clear to see.

I also find it interesting that to his credit, Walt Disney wanted to enliven the imagination -- again, our imaginations are not bad things, they were created by God and if directed by the Holy Spirit they are wonderful things. But in his day Disney also saw that carnivals were all about appealing to our imaginations, and he wanted to take that whole thing and make it something much better.

Because the whole carnival environment was pretty nasty, tremendously immoral in so many ways, it is understandable what Disney wanted to do. The more traditional Protestant voices in history fervently warned against going to those places. In fact the whole idea of carnival is another splendid Roman Catholic invention, the time of wild lascivious activity just before the Lenten season when you had permission to indulge all the evil your heart desires before being required to be good for once.

Yes, the Disneyland experience is indeed extraordinarily appealing, just a super sophisticated carnival that is mostly pretty tame stuff, and again, good for making our imaginations run a bit.

But let's face it. In the context of the World and its use as a spiritual captivating device, it is an illicit drug. It is very much like the Greek pharmakeia, or yes, sorcery. I can't help but think of Mickey in one of Disney's very first major motion pictures, Fantasia. You know the part, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." In a very real sense, however, Disney was making the not-so-bad statement "See what happens when you do anything related to witchcraft!" The real problem is when you make a fine rendering of it even like this and introduce very susceptible souls to the practice. This is where it gets very tricky -- young people thinking, "Huh, what is that thing, that doing sorcery thing? I may want to try it, looks pretty cool actually."

There is nothing wrong with feelings of enchantment when it comes to the joy of dwelling in God's Kingdom, rejoicing in Him and His created things, acknowledging that it is all His and that by His overwhelming grace He gives it all to us, and worshipping Him in Spirit and in Truth, purely for the sake of those things in and off themselves. When it becomes too rote (obligatory liturgical gyrations) or too demonstrative (religious pride displays) or too made-up (every sect, cult, religion, ever-so-wholesome interest group, mesmerizing performance art spectacle, or any entrenched materialist humanist activity especially when it involves some kind of spiritism) that is when Hell seeps in, even pours in -- and it looks and feels so good. 

But its end is death.

I can't help but close by sharing this I just pulled from a Breitbart news story. The last thing to mention here relates to the last thing in my previous post, just that it'll be fun (greatest sarcasm there) to see what happens when the god "AI" starts making its way deeper and deeper into the World System mainstream. Sure enough there was this, the first paragraph of the article clipped for your enjoyment (bit more sarcasm there, sorry):

How can you look at that and not see the horrors of World System activity most pronounced in what the Roman Catholic Hegemony has been doing for millennia as Cain's Legacy. Scripture tells us in the last days people will go from bad to worse, being only lovers of themselves, that their love will grow cold (certainly why the LGBTQ crowd must screech at the top of their lungs "LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE!!!..." because they know they haven't a clue what love is), and of course now there is this. 

Add to it all the latest ways the Hegemony cracks down on things with the best new technocratic devices (surveillance, biometrics, nanotechnology, weaponized robots, 15-minute cities, etc etc etc...) as well as the latest mind-bending substances and VR machinery and neurolink implants that will make us delightfully transhuman.

Is this a surprise?

All I can do is share here in this webzine and blog effort, talk with people, pray with them, teach a few of them at my job, leave gospel tracts everywhere I can...

And very much pray for them that they look and see Jesus and Kingdom there with Him.

And go to Him.

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The image of the palace is one I'd had in my computer file for some time. I am not familiar with what it is or where it is. Neuschwanstein in winter? The image of the opened enchantment book was mine and taken when in line at the Disney park for the ride "Mickey's Runaway Railway." 

I should add in a quick note that there must have been some dozen or so specific Disneyland items I could reference here that testify to the esoteric nature of the place. Just too much for now. One real quick one that is pretty pronounced is the whole Alice in Wonderland thing. Might want to check that out, and take a look at how much Lewis Carroll was a product of that widely embraced spiritist sentiment throughout the western world in the 1800s. I'd added an image of Alice and the Chesire Cat there, which is from Pinterest, which they say they clipped from the Disney Facebook page. 

The Breitbart story about "AI" enabling people to better feel like gods is here. I'd read all of it, it is indeed a real-life horror story.

Also, I've looked a bit into the veracity of the "abracadabra" term, and there are major questions about its origin. Everything that comes up, however, is that it has always been a way to use a word to cast a spell of some kind, so the point is still made. It is still witchcraft: "I will change reality to suit my own desires."

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