'The Family' - A Secretive, Elitist, Fascist, Tax-Exempt, Fundamentalist, organization that influences politicians
Offline I caught this on NPR this afternoon. Basically an author came on to talk about a little known and secretive fraternity known internally as "The Family" and externally by many aliases.
http://www.wamu.org/programs/dr/index.php
It's one of the most influential and least well known organizations in the country. The Family, also known as The Fellowship, consider themselves followers of Christ, and individuals responsible for changing the the world. An inside look at the power and history of The Family.
Here is a wiki article about them
The Family
I was pretty shocked to hear what these guys have had their hands in. Not to mention they are tax-exempt despite lobbying all of these politicians, dedicating to "ministering" to the powerful. They've supported dictators, even recruiting former Nazis back in the 40s and have counted members of the US fascist movement among their members. This author was in their group for a while and has spilled the beans on their secrets. Their worldview is essentially a dumbed down form of Calvinism where they, upon joining the family, believe themselves to be members of the elect and from there on, are, no matter what they do, doing the work of Jesus Christ. Their agenda is to turn America into a Christian empire and is incredibly anti-democratic, as they believe that their inner circle of elites should be the ones who rule the world, in the name of god of course. And I am not just using vitriol in the title. All of the things I said about them in the title are things that they have used to describe themselves. Back during the 40s they would do the Hitler salute. Currently they are the sponsors of the national prayer breakfast and when asked by sociologists, many conservative politicians rank them as the most influential religious organization, even higher than focus on the family and the family research council.
Check it out, its very shocking. And not just that, these people are virtually unknown outside of elite circles, which is part of their strategy.
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I was thumbing through the book.."The Family" while wandering through Borders today. Quite disturbing.
i'm not sure how much good it will do but they need to be exposed.
Bump !
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
but nobody heard of them.I watched an Interview with Jeff Sharlet on "Democracy Now" it's on their web page at www.democracynow.org a real eye opener.So then I checked out the Library,and it not in yet ,so I placed a hold on it ,and checked out his other book "Killing the Buddha:A Heretic's Bible"by Peter Manseau & Jeff Sharlet,I've only briefed it so far,and it looks real good.
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It really doesn't surprise me that this sort of organisation exists in America. It's probably the only place in the West where they could exist.
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This sounds very similar to Dominionism/Christian Reconstructionism. Is there a connection, beyond similar goals? Are they working together or are they divided in some way?
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
fucking fascists and their anti-socialist agenda. i don't care what religion they espouse, in the end they all work together to maintain the status quo, which is the imperialist rape of the third world. i would put every fucking one of them against the wall and not look back. parasites.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
...Fire? You know what 'internally inconsistent' means, right?
That's what your above statement is.
You cannot be extremely influential without being well known. Being well known is a requisite for being influential. Take a look at actual dictators in the past, from across the world: Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot... these men attained their powers through notoriety, not secrecy.
Wells got it right. The guys you ought to fear are the ones championing violent upheaval and radical revolution, not the bogeymen some people claim have the world on puppet strings.
People claim this kind of crap all the time, Fire. Some people claim to have helped to have been participants in the 9/11 conspiracy; it doesn't mean the conspiracy is real. There's this stuff called 'evidence', and I like to see it before I'll give weight to the kind of accusations this fellow wants to make (even if it's a Christian org being accused).
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
gotta disagree with you there on stalin at least. he came to power almost totally through internal party maneuvering and didn't have a lot of popular notoriety at the time. he was just very clever, managed to get himself on both the politburo and the orgburo, and kept tabs on everybody (which is why he was jokingly referred to as "comrade card index" ). the cult of personality and popular acclaim came during the arms race with nazi germany and WWII, years after he assumed control of the communist party and the government. in terms of charisma, he was pretty bland. if anybody had a lot of popular acclaim, violent rhetoric, and revolutionary zeal, it was trotsky, and look what happened to him.
this is also true of mao, to a lesser degree. while he already had quite a popular legend about himself built up by the time of the long march, so did his big rivals like gao gang and wang ming (who had stalin's support). wang ming especially was charismatic and notorious. mao, just like stalin, got to where he did primarily through party maneuvering. he was even less charismatic that stalin, and had a legendary fear of public speaking. he couldn't even speak mandarin, only a hunan dialect.
"I have never felt comfortable around people who talk about their feelings for Jesus, or any other deity for that matter, because they are usually none too bright. . . . Or maybe 'stupid' is a better way of saying it; but I have never seen much point in getting heavy with either stupid people or Jesus freaks, just as long as they don't bother me. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone. They will not inherit the earth, but then neither will I. . . . And I have learned to live, as it were, with the idea that I will never find peace and happiness, either. But as long as I know there's a pretty good chance I can get my hands on either one of them every once in a while, I do the best I can between high spots."
--Hunter S. Thompson
Sure you can. The individual members are all well known on their own. They are ministry of the powerful by the powerful,. a kind of cult for the elite. They don't need to be known by the public to influence policy, they just need to get other politicans to buy into their bullshit.
People claim this kind of crap all the time, Fire. Some people claim to have helped to have been participants in the 9/11 conspiracy; it doesn't mean the conspiracy is real. There's this stuff called 'evidence', and I like to see it before I'll give weight to the kind of accusations this fellow wants to make (even if it's a Christian org being accused).
The evidence is out there, its not like a 9-11 conspiracy. They don't rule the world, but they are more powerful than all the christian groups people know about.