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Dr. Mike Halsey is the chancellor of Grace Biblical Seminary, a Bible teacher at the Hangar Bible Fellowship, the author of Truthspeak and his new book, The Gospel of Grace and Truth: A Theology of Grace from the Gospel of John," both available on Amazon.com. A copy of his book, Microbes in the Bloodstream of the Church, is also available as an E-book on Amazon.com. If you would like to a receive a copy of his weekly Bible studies and other articles of biblical teaching and application, you can do so by writing to Dr. Halsey at michaeldhalsey@bellsouth.net and requesting, "The Hangar Bible Fellowship Journal."

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Friday, January 15, 2016

HEEL!

Strange isn't it? It's strange how our culture has changed in such a short time to accept as normal, good, proper, and right ideas, policies, and practices that range from the silly and the ridiculous to blatantly evil, morally wrong, and even being obviously destructive to life, limb, and health. It's strange that a culture can come to accept and relabel what's good as "evil," and what's evil as "good." (That sounds like a statement right out of the Bible. It is.)

How does a society come to such a state of affairs? How does such acceptance happen? How is a society transformed, and is there a "they," that is, a group of people who plan and execute such a change. To say it another way, "How do they bring us to heel?" Stella Morabito delineates the process:

THE HOW TO

What we're talking about is the creation of public opinion to accept as good what is evil. It's a process, step-by-step, until the desired opinion is accepted. As with every process, to get to the desired result, there are phases, well thought out steps, tried and true that will work every time.

Phase 1: Inject the idea/policy/practice into the public at large. Start talking about it. Get people listening. What's accomplished in this step is that you've gotten people considering the idea. That idea as a good thing has never entered their mind, but now they're thinking about it. That's all you want at this incipient stage, think about it; discuss it.

Phase 2: Inundate the media with praise for the idea. What we have here is people telling us in print, on talk shows, in plays, movies, and TV shows that what we've always considered evil is good. When someone on a talk show promotes the idea, have the audience burst into enthusiastic applause and cheer. This makes any dissenter in the audience or watching on TV feel isolated.

Phase 3: Get a boatload of famous people, learned people, and admired people to sing the praises of the idea. At press conferences, during Academy Award speeches, wherever, get the endorsements of the rich and famous. This makes the idea look cool. What you're doing at this phase is creating something you must have to transform people's thinking, and thus transform society: you're creating an effect, a bandwagon. By creating the bandwagon effect, you're having people jump on board in large numbers. People want to be considered cool.

Phase 4: Next comes the negative side of the process. In Phase 4 the public shaming and condemning begins against a person who doesn't get on the bandwagon by labeling him as "a bigot," "narrow-minded," "uneducated," and/or "a hater." This phase is extremely effective in shutting down opposition because no one wants to be described by those words. Those words aren't cool.

Phase 5: Use movies, plays, and television programs to cast those who oppose your idea as evil, dumb, nefarious, on the fringe, that is, cast them in the drama as the villain or a bumbler. Instead of the drama format, also use the parody, the satire to ridicule the person who's skeptical of the idea. (This was done on a weekly basis--saturation--by the ground-breaking TV show, "All in the Family." It was so successful, that spin-offs came into being.)

Phase 6: Fire the skeptic from his job; fine him; bring the legal system with its mailed fist against him, ruin his livlihood. Publicize what can be done and is done to him. Make certain everyone knows what happens to those who who will not ask, "How high?" when "they" command, "Jump!"

Phase 7: Socially shun him. (Just the threat of Phases 6 and 7 will most often bring about a public apology from him, accompanied by his speaking with respect of the idea. Then, praise him for his courage to apologize, applaud him for evolving because evolving implies progress and progress is cool.)

ACCEPT?

It's done. The process is over. Fait accompli: the idea, policy, or practice is accepted. But wait. What does "accept" mean? It doesn't mean that everyone agrees with the idea, but it does mean that those who don't (even if they're the majority) have been coerced into silence and appear to be giving their tacit approval. The process has shut them down.

"THEY"

There are those who study and employ this process and, with forethought, put their plans for social engineering into action, phase by phase. Once initiated, the change they want comes fast and furious. From this, we can see how, when the phases are employed on a global scale, the whole world comes to call evil "good," and good "evil" (I John 5:19). Now we can see how the world will follow the anti-Christ.

1 comment:

  1. Amen......and so devious and deceptive are the ways of evil.

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