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Feb 20, 2025 18 tweets 9 min read Read on X
In the midst of the USAID scandal flowing to Christianity Today and, apparently, Russell Moore, who tried to gently transform the Southern Baptist Convention to soft Woke up through 2019, I have made a curious discovery: they did some of it with the occultist Fetzer Institute. Image
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As reported in the Baptist Press back in 2019, the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberties Committee (ERLC), headed by Russell Moore and with the collaboration of many notable others, coordinated with the occultist Fetzer Institute to produce a report.
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The report and project behind it declared American public discourse "dead" and aimed to iluse soft Woke insinuation and struggle sessions to bring about more "civility." It characterized public discourse pre-2020 as "toxic" and warns about the infamous "Big Sort." Image
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The Fetzer Institute, an occultist New Age spiritualist organization founded by John Fetzer (allegedly by having channeled the Archangel Michael) with the goal of harmonizing science and spirituality and infusing the result into education was directly involved in the project. Image
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The Fetzer Institute considers the project and report to have been part of its "democracy initiative" that ultimately seeks "oneness" across all difference. They see their ultimate goal to be spiritual, in line with their founder's deep occultism.
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You don't even have to do any digging to discover the New Age and occult commitment of the Fetzer Institute. These images appear on their landing page, for example. It's inconceivable that the Southern Baptists involved wouldn't have known the dark spiritualist roots here. Image
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The Fetzer Institute is also the original origin point of the catastrophic education program called Social-Emotional Learning and its biggest purveyor, CASEL, which was founded at the Fetzer Institute in 1995. The goal of SEL is to hide spiritualist religious education. Image
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Fetzer's goals with its contributions to both SEL and the ERLC report are the same: to force conditions that "nourish" the emergence of a "healthy democracy" based on "civility" defined in its One-Everything occultist terms. Image
The Fetzer Institute cannot be said to be a merely religious organization. Its founder claimed to have channeled archangels like Michael and Gabriel for inspiration, to have been reincarnated from Paul the Apostle, and embraced the occultism of Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, and more. Image
John Fetzer's commitment to occultism was so profound that he not only collected occultist texts of every sort, but he also ended his weekly meetings with the Theosophical occultist invocation of Alice Bailey (creator of the Lucis Trust, née Lucifer Publishing Company).
Moreover, John Fetzer considered the profoundly New Age occultist book, and possible CIA psy-ops, A Course in Miracles, to be the most profound spiritual book ever, underlined almost every word, and put a copy in the physical foundation of the Fetzer Institute HQ building.
The 72-page report, written in 2019, introduces two poles of Christian thought: a critical race theory understanding and a diametrically opposed "Christian Nationalism" that stands in racial opposition to it. This is the same 2019 of "Resolution 9" infamy, by the way. Image
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Resolution 9 brought Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality into Southern Baptist Convention policy directly as "analytical tools" and was downstream so the notoriously controversial "MLK50" event in which CRT was mainstreamed by Moore into SBC politics. So is this report. Image
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The early invocation of Christian Nationalism from the same groups who would in 2021 go on to name it the cause of J6 has a twist to consider here: Mark Dever of Capitol Hill Baptist Church is upstream from both this report and the Christian Nationalist operator William Wolfe. Image
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Wolfe, a leading provocateur for the current Christian Nationalist psy-ops, was brought to faith and baptized by the political operative Mark Dever at Capitol Hill Baptist, a fact he doesn't hide from, although he avoids comment on Dever's Wokeness, despite big disagreement. Image
Indeed, Wolfe, now an arch "Christian Nationalist" agent provocateur and political operative interned for Mark Dever in 2021, two years after this report was published, so he ostensibly would have been aware of Dever's positions on the fractious issues of 2019 and Dever's roles. Image
This curious wrinkle aside, it's alarming to see that the dialectical maneuvers that were being made in the SBC in recent years to move it left have undeniable connections to the occultist Fetzer Institute, which is strangely connected to many transformational programs today.
If you want my opinion on this, both of the dialectical moves being made against Christians today have similar roots and overlapping operators—both the soft Woke of 2019 and the Christian Nationalism since 2022. Dialectics means playing both sides against the middle.

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From my Woke Encyclopedia, an explanation of the "friend-enemy distinction" of Carl Schmitt, which is the Woke political logic. Link at the end!🧵

(1/13) The friend-enemy distinction refers to the cornerstone object of the political and judicial philosophy of a German theorist named Carl Schmitt, who wrote a number of works of right-wing political philosophy and thought before becoming such an enthusiastic Nazi in 1933, just after Adolf Hitler took power, that he earned the informal title “the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich.”

Though most of his significant political thinking was done both before and after he was a Nazi, during the years when he was a part of Hitler’s National Socialist movement and Party, he contributed strongly to the legal theory that justified the Nazi “total state,” including writing the 1933 piece that gets rendered in English as “The Legal Basis for the Total State,” which is significantly based upon the friend-enemy distinction.
Friend-enemy distinction:

(2/13) Schmitt’s thought is primarily of interest on the Woke Right, where he is a favored thinker and model political mind. He is vigorously forwarded for a handful of his political concepts, perhaps most visibly his “friend-enemy distinction” as the essential criterion of what makes politics political. This idea is first presented and developed in full detail in his 1927/32 book The Concept of the Political.
Friend-enemy distinction:

(3/13) For Schmitt, what makes the politics political is the distinction between (public) friend and (public) enemy, where enemies are defined as those who are interested in destroying one’s way of life and friends are defined as those who are willing to band together in its defense.

Schmitt specifically compares the essential nature of this distinction in politics to the distinction between good and evil in morality, beautiful and ugly in aesthetics, and profitable versus non-profitable in economics.

That is, politics is only political to the degree that it recognizes the possibility of factions that exist in mutual enmity underwritten by the potentially existential threat of violence. Of course, that means that Schmitt believes the essential criterion of politics is war, which he reveals also in part by making his point by completing the identity contained in von Clausewitz’s famous remark that “war is politics by other means.”
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All radical movements find themselves in a pinch: they can only really advance when people don't know their true intentions, but they can only really advance by going public with what they're doing. It's an intrinsic dilemma that only rare figures in rare circumstances can win.
Mamdani is a good example of a rare figure (extremely good at presenting himself disingenuously while looking real) in rare circumstances (terrible primary opponent, then running against a terrible combination of Cuomo/Sliwa, then still not winning by huge margins).
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Your left-leaning friends (if you have any) would make fun of you for not getting it. Your right-leaning friends would laugh at you for making a mountain out of a molehill. No one really understood there was a serious problem with the Woke Left until after summer 2020.
The reason I know this is because I was there and doing this full time already by that point in my life.
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