The Stealing of America in the Social Imagination of John Whitehead...

 

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. 

Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson.

Some of you should know his book, The Stealing of America. It was published back in 1983. Basically, it describes what is happening in America today and blames Americans and especially American Christians for allowing America become reprobate and oppressive. 

Here is an excerpt- from pages 96-97 ~ The secular state will inevitable lead to authoritarian government in one form or another. Such a state has no absolute reference point. It is bound by no philosophy except one of its own making; it recognizes no right as absolute and no Creator as the father of rights,morality, or human dignity. With a relativistic philosophy, the secular state can do or declare anything and justify it on the basis that it is for the good of the people. 

The individual in such a society is at the mercy of the elite who control the state. Abortion or euthanasia can be characterized as beneficial on such shallow grounds as population control or the 'rights' of pregnant women. 

The secular state will operate without any restraint. It will not operate under the law. It is under no law except its own which can be altered arbitrarily to meet the  situation. 

In the past, the illegitimate state, whether based upon majority rule or complete dictatorial rule by one man or an elite, has claimed to be the absolute. This means that the state possesses total jurisdiction and power over the people. 

Moreover, such a state will claim it is under no one. The state is the great umbrella under which all things must fit, even the Creator or conceptions of him. 

Therefore, as we often hear today, it will claim to be secular and indifferent or neutral to religion. This claim is, of course, a fictitious one since neutrality toward religion is nonexistent. 

The secular state main desire is to have a purely secular state, it must be emphasized, is of relatively recent origin. In fact, throughout most of history the state has been the religious order of man and the central vehicle of his religious life. 

...Under the concept of the secular state, there is no appeal except to the state and its officials. There can be no appeal to the Creator as we have in the Declaration of Independence. The Creator becomes either subject to the whims of the state or is made irrelevant to the basic needs of man. 

The secular state denies the existence of the eternal, while at the same time the state will crown its leader in a kind of religious ceremony. Ironic isn't it or not? It appears that man likes religion when he devises and regulates it; and moreover, faith in it is strictly enforced to the point of imprisonment or even death. 

Why steal America?  Because, its a light in the dark for the rest of the world. A light that shines about liberty/freedom. Hard to believe there are such evil people who just don't want that light to shine for everyone. But it can shine for some, those in positions of power and wealth - the ruling elite. 

The ruling elite has the means to create a crisis which then requires their solution; all the while the average person is never told that the crisis was created. Why? Because, the crisis always advances control over man 'masses' thus destroying free thought, freedom of movement and so on... creating a prison system for everyone but them. 

Hence, anyone telling this truth is banned and censored or called a science denier. You see, according to them their socio-political/economic agenda (global world order) cannot be trumped by anyone or anything… and only their science is the ‘right’ science. It necessarily has to be. You can ask, "what drives such people to attempt to control the world and other people?" 

Well, its the fundamental anxiety that drives them as it does everyone... the fear of death. Given that, their agenda is not about saving the world or the earth for future generations; its about saving it for themselves once they figure out how to live forever. They have no savior but themselves and that is sad. And, sadder is that they are evil enough to lockdown and kill others to get what they want... eternal life here and now!