Defend the separation of church and state aggressively
The evangelical christian “Family” National Prayer Meeting fuels faux-holy war all over the world, not just America.
Abolish the the annual prayer breakfast! In 2016 Trump invited 40 Russian Nationals, including Maria Butina to the three day lobbyist buffet that is the national prayer breakfast.
Are you suspicious of National Prayer Day, their malign influence and how deep it penetrates?
The congressmen living in C-Street need to be exposed and labeled ASAP. Their bribes also need to come to light. So much needs to happen now that people are becoming aware of it and its just not happening. The media should be investigating and reporting about this.
Who Lives At The C Street Center In 2019? Netflix’s ‘The Family’
C St.: where scandal meets spirituality
A $1.8 million rowhouse on C Street SE that houses a few members of Congress and a group that organizes the National Prayer Breakfast is no longer tax-exempt, reports the Post.
This Is How the National Prayer Breakfast Got Its Start
The Fellowship, also known as The Family and the International Foundation, is a U.S.-based religious and political organization founded in 1935 by Abraham Vereide. The stated purpose of The Fellowship is to provide a fellowship forum for decision makers to share in Bible studies, prayer meetings, worship experiences, and to experience spiritual affirmation and support.
https://thefellowshipfoundation.org/
The Tea Party Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated for by the United States Republican Party during the 1994 Congressional election campaign. Written by Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, and in part using text from former President Ronald Reagan’s 1985 State of the Union Address, the Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Many of the Contract’s policy ideas originated at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
K12 Education FACTS
- Tea Party: HOUSE FREEDOM PARTY: American League, Skull and Bones plan for Koch Brothers
- HOUSE FREEDOM PARTY used to be called THE TEA PARTY OLIGARCHY
- “Behind every great fortune there is a great crime”
The Tea Party Used To Be called The American League- Franklin Deleno Roosevelt Was All For Workers Rights and Unions and Fought The American League and Won!
Book: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet | Jun 2, 2009
They lay their hands on the donald and they annoint him as “the one” doesn’t matter how corrupt he is as long as he gets the job done in Jesus Name …. cause you know Jesus runs America, the church runs America! This has been going on for years and years and years.
https://newrepublic.com/article/154763/familys-big-secret-hiding-plain-sight
The Family’s Big Secret Is Hiding in Plain Sight.
Netflix’s new investigative documentary exposes a shadowy religious organization with immense influence—and a connection to Donald Trump.
We are in a high season of political showboating. On the debate stage, candidates for the Democratic nomination tussle for our attention, straining to exploit their allotted seconds of screen time. But televised debates are electoral theatrics, not governance: Most of the people who run the world have little to no face recognition. I don’t think I could pick Robert Mercer out of a line-up, for example, and he bankrolled Brexit and Trump’s candidacy.
The scrutiny has extended to evangelical Christians, who have confusingly been a pillar of support for the president, despite the fact that he behaves in decidedly un-Christian ways and frequently takes the Lord’s name in vain. A new documentary faces both issues—the private money behind the government, and Trump’s alliance with the religious right—head on.
The Family is a Netflix miniseries based on two books by the investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet. Across five episodes, director Jesse Moss lays out a series of shocking claims regarding a secretive Christian organization variously called The Family, The Fellowship, or nothing at all. It has no hierarchy, no staff, and its members prefer not to acknowledge the group’s existence. But if Sharlet and Moss are to be believed, The Family is one of the preeminent powers behind the throne. It doesn’t merely run a system of private prayer meetings to funnel tax-exempt cash to favored individuals, or promote a warped interpretation of Christian scripture.
Its goal is to undermine the project of American democracy itself.
It’s the kind of story we’re hungry for now, because The Family, like any good conspiracy theory, makes sense of what would otherwise be absurd, nonsensical. We begin with Jeff Sharlet himself. As a young writer in New York City in the early 2000s, Sharlet recalls, he was asked by family friends to check on their son, who they worried had joined a cult. The two men met, and the son invited Sharlet to take a look at the community he had joined near Washington, D.C. There, Sharlet found a group of young men all living together, fraternity-style, spending their days playing sports or reading from a slim volume simply titled Jesus. Also: The young men were told they were being trained to rule to world.
The organization running the community claimed to have no name and no real mission, aside from spiritual matters. So why was Sharlet noticing so many politicians—from U.S. senators to the leaders of foreign nations—visiting their compound? From its narrow initial focus, the show’s narrative opens up to incorporate a huge story that has its origins in the Great Depression.
The Campaign at the End of the World
But that public-private boundary is fraying. President Trump’s atrocious behavior in office has begun to sully the public image of many of his major donors, with billionaires like Equinox-owner Stephen Ross suffering boycotts waged by his high-income, left-leaning customers. Things have gotten so perilous for plutocrats that Joaquin Castro, a congressman whose brother, Julián, is one of those Democratic candidates for president, was accused of harassment when he publicly named a few of Trump’s campaign contributors—which of course was already a matter of public record.
The scrutiny has extended to evangelical Christians, who have confusingly been a pillar of support for the president, despite the fact that he behaves in decidedly un-Christian ways and frequently takes the Lord’s name in vain. A new documentary faces both issues—the private money behind the government, and Trump’s alliance with the religious right—head on.
The Family is a Netflix miniseries based on two books by the investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet. Across five episodes, director Jesse Moss lays out a series of shocking claims regarding a secretive Christian organization variously called The Family, The Fellowship, or nothing at all. It has no hierarchy, no staff, and its members prefer not to acknowledge the group’s existence. But if Sharlet and Moss are to be believed, The Family is one of the preeminent powers behind the throne.
It doesn’t merely run a system of private prayer meetings to funnel tax-exempt cash to favored individuals, or promote a warped interpretation of Christian scripture. Its goal is to undermine the project of American democracy itself.
It’s the kind of story we’re hungry for now, because The Family, like any good conspiracy theory, makes sense of what would otherwise be absurd, nonsensical.
We begin with Jeff Sharlet himself. As a young writer in New York City in the early 2000s, Sharlet recalls, he was asked by family friends to check on their son, who they worried had joined a cult. The two men met, and the son invited Sharlet to take a look at the community he had joined near Washington, D.C.
There, Sharlet found a group of young men all living together, fraternity-style, spending their days playing sports or reading from a slim volume simply titled Jesus.
Also: The young men were told they were being trained to rule to world.
Trump doesn’t sound like a dictator by accident, and The Family finally explains why, in detail: The president speaks that way because men like Douglas Coe idolized fascist rulers of the mid-twentieth century and spread their appeal. The “covenant” offered by Christian fundamentalism is popular because of, not in spite of, its similarity to Nazi brotherhood, and it was engineered on purpose to be its equivalent.
Though it’s doubtful that The Family will sway many conservative religious viewers—how can you prove that the show about a conspiracy isn’t a counter-conspiracy?— Coe’s admiration for Hitler cannot be forgotten once learned. Though the documentary’s larger argument is muddier and harder to verify, that speech from 1989 will haunt Coe’s spiritual descendants with a viciousness that will only grow as more of the public learns about his views. Meetings can be secret, and diplomacy can be covert, but videotape is forever.
For those of you who don’t have access to Netflix, the following videos are essential viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn098XYE7pk
The authoritarian/totalitarian underpinnings of Christianity (and the Conservative party) as it is about the Fellowship group. Founder Abraham Vereide Associate Director Douglas Coe (deceased)
Key people Richard C. Halverson, Senator Harold Everett Hughes, Doug Burleigh
Affiliations Christians in Congress
The Fellowship has been described as one of the most politically well-connected and most secretly-funded ministries in the United States. The group is real and gives you enough pieces to put together what’s truly going on. Frat House for Jesus
The Fellowship grooms members and selects them for their receptivity to totalitarianism (the obliteration of the self and devotion to chosen ‘leaders’, the acceptance of truth without fact) – under the guise of following Jesus. We see this exemplified by the fact that they don’t care about the Bible, about scripture or even about good works. All they care about is if the magic word “Jesus” makes you throw away any semblance of a moral code and protect other individuals for whom the word has the same effect.
This fraternal network of devotees seeks what all other groups like this seek – power, in the disguise of truth and knowledge. We know this because we can see how its members use the magic word to get close to world leaders everywhere – but without the goal of promoting good works. Their only goal is to further the spread of their ideology – which, again, is totalitarianism – devotion to a system that is designed to be ruled by a few chosen elites.
This ideology extends beyond the Fellowship, into the general conservative and Evangelical movement at this point. And it’s scary – because while average Americans search for peace and a good life, these individuals search for domination – and more believers to fuel their faux-holy war.
Americans are groomed for fascism
Handmaidens to Authoritarism
#Mercer, #Zuckerberg, #Sandberg, #Page, #Brinn, #Dorsey
So for anyone watching the documentary – know that it’s about more than the Fellowship – it’s about fascism and power in America.
The most clarifying moment is when they talked about how they believe helping the poor goes against god’s will because he chose for them to be poor. Explains so much.
If you believe in an all knowing, all powerful god that is the creator of all, then “free will” cannot exist.
God would have know all that was going to happen and created things differently if it wanted different things to occur — specifically including people’s “choices” / free will.
No More Democracy
just “know your place” and believe “it’s your fate” and that you are part of their “caste” system where they lord it over everyone in servitude forever.
CRUEL