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Communists strategically embed subtext meant to get past the “naive” while openly communicating revolutionary action to the ‘initiated” (“dog whistle”).

True Believers know that “resistance” & “confrontation” have precise meanings w/ violent subtext (think Hamas on 10/07).

https://twitter.com/hideyourkids0/status/1889106368109617303

All of the above are papers, addresses, trainings, & books from @APA & @ACACounselors presidents (Thema Bryant & Edil Torres Rivera, respectively).

This is revolutionary open communication, w/ demonstrably violent implications, from the monopoly mental health oversight bodies.

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It’s long past time to talk about what’s going on in therapy.

We let the profession with authoritative, confidential access to mentally ill people get captured by our enemies.

It’s now openly escalating insurgency.

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https://twitter.com/hideyourkids0/status/1895183129629073594

While I’d love to give you a precise ‘date of capture,’ therapy has suffered a gradual gutting at its own hands.

I suspect Carl Rogers opened a door that we’ve never been able to close, but it’s beyond our scope here.

Let’s just say it has been a long time coming.

Below is my conversation @JLeslieElliott, which was a follow-up to a chat we had over two years ago about issues in counseling training.

Thank you so much for sharing your platform and time for this talk, Leslie, and thank you to those who are here from this video.

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https://twitter.com/HideYourKids0/status/1889091868539117879

By way of a brief introduction: My name is Katie, I graduated from my counseling program at NYU late last year, and I’ve spent over two years writing about Communism in education, counseling/psychology, & religion under my titular nom de guerre, The Kids Are Not Alright.

Lured by Pyongyang’s propaganda (& aided by the Japanese Red Cross👀), nearly 100,000 mostly ethnic Koreans left Japan for North Korea to seek a better life. Poverty, famine, & the threat of torture, imprisonment, & death awaited them.

They got on those ships with joy, too.

https://twitter.com/hideyourkids0/status/1836941719293591952

🧵Degrowth for Christians? 🧵
An Extended Discussion on Ecotheology
Ecotheology is a potent vector for conscientization (especially to youth via faith-based education) and marketing Degrowth to Christians.

So, I have a long one for you all. There's a lot to go over, and some of it (imo) is quite shocking. In all, I hope a few people may find this helpful.

For those who aren’t familiar, Degrowth refers to the social, economic, and political movement that challenges the concept of economic growth and advocates for decentralization and a reduction in overall production and consumption to achieve ecological sustainability and social justice.

It is plainly Global Communism ("enviro-communo-fascism") and will guarantee the deaths of billions of people globally due to various resource shortages, mismanagement, etc. Those who survive will find their wealth redistributed, their freedom restricted, and their quality of life drastically reduced.

A core part of its facilitation is through global consciousness-raising (especially as it relates to climate change and ecology), the transfiguration of moral values through the capture of religious authority (especially faith-based education), and psychological operations like mass lines (e.g., 2020 George Floyd) that will almost certainly reach levels of intensity beyond what we’ve experienced so far.

This is where ecotheology serves as a vector for Degrowth (both in consciousness and application under the cover of major religious institutions like the Vatican) and is directed toward Christians around the world.

The following will include 1.) core themes, methods of interpretation, historical and biblical bases, 2.) its most prominent representation (in both thought and action) in Laudato si’, 3.) ecotheology in education, 4.) radical ecotheology and its disturbing implications, and 5.) brief final thoughts.

I tried to organize this so that you can skip over the aspects that don’t interest you, including this introduction. Just go to the next tweet. Feel free to bookmark and come back as needed. This is almost 7000 words in all, and I understand that not everyone is in the mood to read on Twitter. There was simply no way for me to adequately present this case without doing so thoroughly.

Before I begin, I also want to make it clear that I’m not making a theological judgment here. Various Christian traditions are represented in the bases and development here, and that doesn’t mean I am criticizing those specific aspects or figures.

What I am concerned with is how this theological approach is used to conscientize and facilitate the very real Global Revolution we’re currently facing. Christianity remains the world’s largest religion; it should come as no surprise that it will be wielded as a tool to support acceptance of lower standards of living, redistribution, migration, etc.

Similarly, parents are more likely to have their guards down for faith-based education and miss consciousness-raising in that context. Regrettably, this is thoroughly exploited, especially concerning Global and Ecological Citizenship.

As Klaus Schwab noted in 2016, “Faith is the most powerful force guiding societal and economic interactions.” It is the vector for the transfiguration of moral values and the fostering of “inspired intelligence,” a foundation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the basis for its esoteric ecumenical faith.

I'm limiting this discussion to Christianity but one could quite easily expand ecotheology to include other faith traditions, including Judaism and Islam. At the core is an interfaith, mystical, and praxis-based theological model that makes this a tremendous concern in the context of the psychospiritual piece of the UN 2030 SDGs and related Inner Development Goals (IDGs).

The following are cited texts for this discussion:
-A Primer in Ecotheology: Theology for a Fragile Earth by Celia Deane-Drummond
-Introducing Evangelical Ecotheology: Foundations in Scripture, Theology, History, and Praxis by Daniel L. Brunner, Jennifer L. Butler, & A.J. Swoboda
-Laudato si’ (Papal encyclical) from Pope Francis
-Plundering Eden: A Subversive Christian Theology of Creation and Ecotheology by G. W. (Gregory) Wagenfuhr.
-Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality by John Chryssavgis
-Toward an Ecology of Transfiguration: Orthodox Christian Perspectives on Environment, Nature, and Creation by John Chryssavgis, Bruce V. Foltz, George E. Demacopoulos, and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Formatting, editing, and citing on X is a massive pain in the ass so please pardon any errors, and links to other texts, such as websites, scholarly articles, addresses, etc. will be included at the end. Bible verses are NIV. What is Ecotheology?

Core Theological Themes
In general, ecotheology is an interdisciplinary field and contextual theology that aims to understand and address environmental issues based on biblical principles. It emphasizes Creation Care as stewardship, the interconnectedness of and being within God’s Creation, and cosmic reconciliation and redemption.

Here, the natural world (Creation) provides a second “text about God and that God has presented us,” to be “read” in dialogue with scripture. In the words of acclaimed saint of the Orthodox Church, Porphyrios of Athens, “Nature is the mystical gospel.”

To bolster this point, they collectively cite several historical figures in Christianity (some dates approximate), including:
-Anthony of Egypt (251-356), of the desert wisdom tradition, on how he can be enthusiastic without the comfort of his books: “My book, O Philosopher, is the nature of created things, and whenever I want to read the Word of God, it is usually right in front me.”
-Gregory Nazianzus (Gregory the Theologian) (325-391): “Study the enormous number of different birds, the variety of their shapes and colors… It gives me joy to speak of these things because they unfold to us the greatness of God.”
-Augustine of Hippo (354-430): “Others, in order to find God, will read a book. Well, as a matter of fact there is a certain great big book, the book of created nature. Look carefully at it top and bottom, observe it, read it…Heaven and earth cries out to you ‘God made me’…”
-Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): “All the elements and all creatures cry aloud at the blaspheming of nature and at wretched humankind’s devotion of so much of its short life to the rebellion against God; whereas unthinking nature submissively carries out the divine laws. This is why nature complains so bitterly about humanity.”
-Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) “Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God. Every creature is a word of God.”
-Thomas of Kempen (1418-1427): “If your heart is right, then every creature is a mirror of life to you, and a book of holy learning.”

In modern ecotheology, however, Creation (to include both the Earth and animals) is not just a “second text,” but can also vocalize and resist its oppression, including in solidarity with the oppressed. This is a core theme, with significant potential for exploitation in the context of our “climate crisis.”

“Nature, we know, paces like an enraged animal in a cage, and it is only a matter of time before it exacts retribution” (Chryssavgis, p 30).

This lends itself to a Christology of “deep incarnation” wherein God’s own Wisdom “conjoins the material conditions of God’s world of creation, shares and ennobles the fate of all biological life-forms,” and “experiences the pain of all sentient creatures.” Thus, the incarnation is “the story of God’s reach into the very tissues of material and biological existence” and redeems all of Creation (Gregerson, 2013).

It also states that we should be content with the gifts of creation instead of grasping for more, and limits are placed on humanity by God, enacted through asceticism, limits to resource use, and in some cases population control.

Here, you can see a concerning overlap with the foundations of Limits to Growth (the Club of Rome’s seminal work on exponential growth, finite resources, and systems dynamics modeling), and we’ll get to how disturbingly far this can go when we look at Plundering Eden.

While Creation is to be “read” in dialogue with Scripture, it also employs an ecological, often agrarian reading of Scripture that focuses on the relationship between God, humanity, and creation, including how Jesus’ ministry relates to the natural world and “recovery of the true meaning of apocalyptic literature” (Deane-Drummond, p 39).

Eco-Justice Principles of the Earth Bible from Norman Habel (The Earth Bible Team, “Guiding Ecojustice Principles," quoted directly from Deanne-Drummond, pp 53-54):
1.) Intrinsic worth relates to the worth of creatures (1 Tim 4:1-5).
2.) Interconnectedness is universally familiar to ecologists and environmentalists (Gen 4:10).
3.) Voice claims that earth is capable of raising its voice in celebration and against injustice, so viewing the Earth in kinship with rather than in alienation from humanity (Gen 12:11, 16:19; Jer 12:7-11, 4:23-26).
4.) Purpose claims that the universe, the earth and all its components are part of a dynamic cosmic design, where each contributes to that God-given purpose (Rom 8:18-22).
5.) Mutual custodianship reflects on the role of humans in relation to the earth (Psalm 8).
6.) Resistance claims that the earth and its components actively resist those injustices imposed by humans (Jer. 12:9).

Common scriptural references include:
-Genesis 1:26-31. This passage describes humans being created in the image of God and given dominion over the Earth. Ecotheologians emphasize responsible stewardship rather than exploitative dominion.
-Genesis 2:15. "The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." This verse highlights the idea of caring for and preserving the created world.
-Genesis 4:10. Abel’s blood cries out from the ground and the land takes vengeance.
-Job 12:7-9. Job cries out to God for an explanation, and turns to listen to the suppressed voice of the Creation.
-Jeremiah 12:9. Wild animals are called upon to be instruments of judgment (principles of resistance).
-Psalm 104. This psalm is a hymn celebrating God's creation. It describes the intricate balance and interconnectedness of the natural world.
-Matthew 27:45-51. When Jesus was crucified, “From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over the whole land” and, at the moment of his death, “the earth shook, the rocks split.”
-Revelation 11:18. “The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth." This verse is sometimes cited to highlight the concept of God's judgment against those who harm the Earth.

“If we stop and listen, to both the voice of God and Earth’s sweet sounds and groaning, we just might acknowledge the ambiguity of events like the Industrial Revolution, gain a sense of the ways in which the planet has suffered mistreatment, and repent of how we have failed to be responsible stewards of Creation” (Brunner et al., p 66)

At the core is the idea that the only solution to our current ecological (and, as some argue, existential) predicament is through transformational spiritual change. As Chryssavgis of the Eastern Orthodox tradition put it:

“The image of God in creation has been shattered; the face of God on the world has been distorted; the integrity of natural life has been fragmented.” Thus, “the restoration of that shattered image of the world [is] through the sacramental lenses of cosmic transfiguration, cosmic interconnection, and cosmic reconciliation. The aim is to induce personal and societal transformation in making choices that respect creation as sacrament” (p 30).

Through this right relationship, perceiving the world through the lens of cosmic transfiguration, interconnection, and reconciliation, both individuals and society “with the grace of the Holy Spirit can embark on the transformation necessary to restore the shattered image of creation” (p. 48).

Importantly, it generally falls within a praxis model of theology (“ecopraxis”), wherein one does ecotheology.

It is meant to include lifestyle changes and political action by individual Christ followers, the church, and the greater community as a whole. As Stephen Bevans notes, Praxis theologians begin with an understanding that “the highest level of knowing is intelligent and responsible doing.” Likewise, Clodovis Boff notes that in that model, right action is the ultimate criterion of truth.

This involves everything from church Green Teams to personal energy reduction to activism obligations.

Seven Biblical Principles of Stewardship from Christian evangelical Calvin B. DeWitt (“Creation’s Environmental Challenge,” quoted directly from Drummond pp 44-45)
1. We must keep the creation as God keeps us.
a. Human earthkeeping (Gen 2:15) mirrors the
providence of God in keeping human beings (Num
6:24-6).
b. Dominion is exercised after the pattern of Christ,
so that humanity joins with the Creator in caring for
the land (Deut 11:11-12, 17:18-20).
2. We must be disciples of the Last Adam, not the first Adam.
a. Just as in Christ all things are reconciled (Col 1:19-
20), so that human vocation is to participate in the
restoration and reconciliation of all things.
3. We must not press creation relentless, but provide for its Sabbath.
a. Exodus 20:8-11, 23:10-12 shows Sabbath rest
applies to the land as well as animals and human
beings.
4. We may enjoy, but not destroy, the grace of God’s good creation.
a. The tendency for human greed to destroy the
fruitfulness of the earth is documented in the
biblical accounts of human behavior (Ezek 34:18;
Deut 20:19, 22:6).
5. We must seek first the kingdom, not self-interest.
a. The mandate for this comes from the Gospels, as in
Matt 6:33.
6. We must seek contentment as our great gain.
a. This means being content with the gifts that
creation brings, rather than always grasping after
more. There are therefore limits placed on
humanity’s role within creation (Paul’s letters; Heb
13:5; Tim 6:6-21).
7. We must not fail to act on what we know is right.
a. The marriage between belief and action needs to be
fulfilled in stewardship practices. The need for a link
between belief and action is a strong biblical theme
(Ezek 33:30-32).

Ecotheology also explicitly links to liberation theology, another praxis-based Christian socio-religious movement particularly prominent in Latin America that emphasizes social justice and addressing systemic oppression.

It is here where we get the concept of systemic sin as demanding both individual repentance and structural transformation toward a “just and equitable” (Communist) society.

Historical Development of Key Theological Foundations

While ecotheology is more of a response to the modern, post-Industrial Revolution world, these theologians cite various influences and bases on its development within Christianity.

First, Eastern Christianity’s unique conception of salvation (theosis), its use of icons, and its emphasis on asceticism were cited as central to the historical and theological development.

Likewise, the “both/and” conception of God, as both transcendent and immanent, is essential here. And while the authors I’ve read (including Kallistos Ware) take great care to emphasize the risks of pantheism (all is God), they do explicitly acknowledge that their understanding of God is panetheistic (all is in God) and that Creation as a whole is to be saved.

Contributions from medieval Western Christianity include “ecological saint” Francis of Assisi, particularly his conception of a kenotic (“emptying”) Christ, “downward mobility,” and eschatological emphasis on “liv[ing] at peace with the whole of creation”. The mystic Hildegard of Bingen is also mentioned in praise for her capacity to speak of the “complaint of the elements” (querela elementorum), with creation responding to human restlessness, cruelty, and rebellion with pestilences, pollution, weather disasters, and crop failures.

Interestingly, while Catholicism holds the crown jewel of ecotheology in Laudato si’, Western Christianity is criticized most heavily, particularly its Renaissance humanist and reform traditions.

For the former, they criticize the “vertical” anthropocentrism that developed into modern science, which “utterly dethrones theocentrism, and a mechanistic, scientific framework becomes the model of modernity” (Brunner et al., p 137). For the latter, they fault the “theoanthropecentric” and “monastic withdrawal” theology of the reformers, where the primary emphasis was on God and humanity.

However, some noted contributions of reformation Christianity from the ecotheological perspective were acknowledged: “Luther spoke to the descent and earthiness of God in the incarnation [theologia crucis], to God’s neglected immanence, and to the hiddenness of God in Creation [deus absconditus]. Calvin lifted up God’s providential care for the Creation and humanity’s calling to contemplate the theater of God’s glory.” (Brunner et al., p. 135).

More recently, Ecofeminist theology (yes), with its commitment to praxis, prophetic themes, and rejection of economic and social structures of oppression are cited as influential to the development of ecotheology.

“Like liberation theology,” Mary Gray says, their spirituality “arises from the margins and out of the concrete concerns linking the devastation of the earth and the suffering of the vulnerable people.”

Other names worth mentioning:
-Patriarch Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, known as the “Green Patriarch’ and emphasized the spiritual connection to the environment.
-Elizabeth A. Johnson, a Roman Catholic feminist theologian who wrote Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love.
-Sally McFague, who wrote Models of God and A New Climate for Theology.
-Larry Rasmussen, a Lutheran theologian who wrote Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key.
Matthew Fox, a former Dominican friar of Creation Spirituality who wrote The Coming of the Cosmic Christ.
-Ivone Gebara, a Brazilian Catholic nun and ecofeminist theologian.
-Celia Deane-Drummond, a bioethicist and theologian, author of one of my primary sources and director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute at Oxford.
-John Cobb, a process theologian who has engaged with ecotheology, emphasizing the interconnectedness of all things.
-Jay McDaniel, a process theologian and environmental philosopher.
-Dennis Edwards, a Catholic theologian who wrote The God of Evolution.

Of course, one name left out is Pope Francis, but we’ll get to him next.

An impromptu thread indirectly related to the below, but some useful info for all the moms fighting the SPLC in schools, & a little lesson on Marxist consciousness-raising.

🧵The SPLC's Learning for Justice program is MARXIST CULT GROOMING & it's pretty easy to demonstrate.🧵

https://twitter.com/M4LPierceWA/status/1752550002067722468

1st, let's look at the stages of conscientization following this ND bullet, where James elucidates OG (Original Groomer) Hungarian Marxist Gyorgy Lukacs' 'History+Class Consciousness', as well as Freire.

There are 7/8 IDed stages, titles (sort of) mine:
newdiscourses.com/2022/07/proces…

Okay friends. Another day, another Christian-coated Commie pill.

🧵🧵Let’s talk about Freirean pedagogy/Culturally Responsive Teaching in the context of Christian education. 🧵🧵

Unfortunately, your guard must remain up, even w/ thoroughly Christian teachers+schools. Before we begin, I want to make it clear that I’ve focused my research in this area NOT to attack Christianity, but rather to support its defense.

Most will recognize that this is a simulacrum. It puts on the appearance of Christianity to trick you.

m.youtube.com/playlist?list=…

So I stumbled upon another Christian-coated SDG pill pushing distributist circular economics & “jubilee consciousness” that you should be aware of.

It’s not new, but I don’t see any discussion so I wanted to take the time to dive into it.

🧵On Sabbath Economics🧵

https://twitter.com/hideyourkids0/status/1747301600769835243

Sabbath Economics comes from American theologian Ched Myers. Alongside his wife, most of his work is done through the Bartimaeus Cooperative Collective.

BCC + Word & World created Radical Discipleship as a joint venture. The math white supremacy iceberg is what led me here.

While I have no interest in reigniting a back & forth, this is a very important impasse, so I wanted to at least take a moment to elaborate on this for the curious.

🧵🧵A brief, simple, common 2c on gnosis, truth, knowledge, liberty, and the impasse with “ARC”.🧵🧵

https://twitter.com/HideYourKids0/status/1729891905457238376

First, the strawmen. No one cares about your “mystical experience”. Barring rare exceptions, most people experience the same collection of internal emotional+noetic experiences. This is why we try to communicate them to other people with words, art, memes, political symbols, etc.

🧵🧵I want to apologize & provide an explanation as to my sudden disappearance.

As some of you know, I’ve been a hesitant counseling trainee in an exceptionally radical milieu, unsure if I could ethically pursue licensure in a field taken over & transformed by Communism. As the pressure ramps up, however, I’ve come to realize how essential & urgent *legitimate* therapeutic work is to helping overcome the intensifying nihilism, bitterness, & despair fueling the revolutionary breakdown of society from every angle.

What is United Nations 2.0?

The UN 2.0 quintet for 2024-2026: Data, innovation, digital, foresight, & behavioral science expertise.

https://twitter.com/HideYourKids0/status/1700315308580642952

Data-mining is ESSENTIAL to the global governance project.

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The ADL is as Jewish as Boehmian Theosophy is Christian, which is to say not at all.

It's increasingly obvious to me that we're getting baited into a reflexive back-and-forth on "the Jews," and we should probably talk about this a bit.

https://twitter.com/davidharsanyi/status/1699044457876779172

First, the ADL's parent org, B'nai B'rith, is esoteric rather than Judaic (complete w/ Freemason-style lodges & practices).

It's also thoroughly embedded in the late 19th/early 20th c Progressive era/movement.

@ClassicLibera12 has great threads on Progressivism w/i Idealism.

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After @conceptualjames’ thread on PBIS from yesterday (will link at bottom), I ended up going down a rabbit hole on the company Navigate360.

This integrated "safety" system is already in 35,000 schools, and *everyone* should be aware of it.🚩

navigate360.com




So, basics: Navigate360 is a public safety solutions company from Ohio marketing a “revolutionary suite of complementary and integrated solutions,” including “threat detection and prevention, mental health and wellness, and safety management and preparedness.”

Let's talk about the Fabian Window🧵🧵

If you're struggling to make sense of what's going on right now, symbolism can go a long way.

So, let's briefly walk through the famed stained glass window from the British Socialist Fabian Society & consider its relevance to now. First, some background: The Fabian Society is a British Socialist organization, founded in 1884, in favor of "incremental" transformation.

It had significant influence over both the British aristocratic milieu, as well as the development of the modern Labour Party.

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So I've been thinking a lot about this song & its popularity, esp as it relates to "marrying truth to a lie".

I think zooming out may help people recognize what they find compelling about the song w/o falling into this (carefully laid) dialectical trap👇

https://twitter.com/conceptualjames/status/1691659852047598004

First, it's worth recognizing why people feel legitimately connected to it, not as psyop targets but REAL people.

The average person is STRUGGLING. It's terrifying to look at your future & know that something is amiss, esp when you're unable to clearly articulate how & why.

So my curiosity got the better of me lol

Let's do a walk-through of @TheWorthyHouse's Foundationalism, shall we?🧵

@the_truemind_ @ConceptualJames @ClassicLibera12 The name alone stuck out to me, as "politics of future past" screamed Marx, whose ideology is perhaps best conceptualized as "potential" & "hope" through destruction, starting from the point of Reality.

In the Alchemical Trinity, it is starting from what's "sensible."