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.
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. baptistpress.com/resource-libra…
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."
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.
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. fetzer.org/blog/faith-and…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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I just returned from the ARC conference in London where I had countless conversations with people face-to-face about the "Woke Right." While most by far were moderately to extremely supportive, some were duly challenging. I think it's worth talking about them and their variety.🧵
I will start by reiterating that (a) I had a LOT of conversations about the subject of the "Woke Right," far, far more than I wanted to, so it is definitely being widely recognized and discussed, and (b) that most of these were moderately to extremely supportive of my fight.
Of the conversations about it I had, which surely total over 100, at least four out of five were inclined to thank me for fighting it, some being extremely supportive. A couple dozen were challenging but not combative, which is fair around any controversial idea.
Unlike @MikeBenzCyber, I'm not a big expert on how USAID operated, but the big picture is that if there was something destabilizing going on pretty much anywhere, USAID found ways to dump American taxpayer money (usually through networks of NGOs) into that destabilization.
Woke stuff is extremely destabilizing, including abroad, hence pushing money into tons of Woke "research" and initiatives all around the globe, including here at home. That's the purpose of Woke stuff: destabilization and subversion. De facto, that was the purpose of USAID.
The hard truth a lot of Americans have awakened to in the past weeks is that not just their pension money, through ESG-driven index fund manipulations, but also their tax dollars have been being weaponized by a Deep State apparatus bent on GLOBAL destabilization and regime change
The fun thing about having lots of rumors swirling around about you is having to take treks into "None Of Your Business" zones publicly sometimes.
There's a rumor @SovMichael is my "weird benefactor" (as Chris Rufo put it to me recently, which brings us here). That's not true.🧵
Normally, I don't think it's anyone's business but ours to talk about our finances and business relationship, but since Rufo seems to have believed the propaganda about my relationship with Michael, as have many others, I'm going to address it. Again. Ughh.
Michael O'Fallon discovered my work while doing his own thing in Ireland in fall 2018, stumbling across a talk I gave that autoplayed on his YouTube after finishing a Jordan Peterson lecture while he was indisposed and couldn't grab his phone. He thought I've "got it."
Some of us were telling you all that Christian Nationalism is 10000% an op the Woke Right radicals were falling into or exploiting and delivering the receipts that the other ("critical") side of this op was working in alignment with the feds for a long time now, no money added.
People like Auron MacIntyre and William Wolfe, inter alia, are the right-hand side of a "Christian Nationalist" scissor operation that had people like Russell Moore on its other side all along.
Christian Nationalism is 10000% an op, even with one arm of the scissors now exposed.
This is classic Fabianism: both "Left" and "Right" arms of an op that seem to be opposed are actually working together in the same way that scissors work. The next phase is that the Woke Right side leverages the exposure of the Woke Left side to cover and advance.
I often hear that we need to abandon our "libertarian" (meaning constitutional) principles in order to win, or that we should do so because we need to "like winning." Let's talk about winning. As my Aussie friends say, let's check the scoreboard, mates. 🧵
If we're going to talk about winning, we need to talk about what we're winning, but let's look at the scoreboard first.
The "we need to win" crowd told us consistently before the election that we "can't vote our way out of this" and that "voting harder" won't work. It did.
Sure, we can harbor doubts about Trump now or the people around him (again) and be ready to throw a blackpill fit or whatever, or we can think the Left is more ultrapowerful than it seems and stay mad, but Trump won because we voted harder, and it looks like we voted our way out.
Yesterday, I did a thread about "post-liberalism" (after liberty) and discussed its unfair conflation of two traditions that both get called "liberal" and touched on how those two regard the "self." Most found it helpful. Some got upset. The trans issue adds much relief. 🧵
Without getting into it all again, the two traditions that get called "liberal" are American and Continental (or French-German). The first is rooted in realism and the second is rooted in idealism, which is anti-real in its metaphysics (in practice, often constructivist).
Further, the point of my thread was to illustrate that Prof. Patrick Deneen, a post-liberal (after liberty) philosopher is conflating these two and treating them as two parts of the same thing, which they are not, and that he used this error to incorrectly talk about selfhood.