I can always tell when the government, medical or psychiatric organizations have been dabbling in our television shows, the message is singular, obvious and insane.

It was clear as a bell when the popular (for a while) television show, Touched by an Angel, came out in favor of psychotropic medications. In that episode, a jazz musician was a danger to himself and his family if he was not on his medication, but he was not creative or even a good musician when he was all doped up like that – in fact, he hated it. So he didn't take his meds, got creative and was happy playing music to die for. The “Angel of the Lord” came and told him, “Your medication is a gift from God. You must take it.” Thereafter, he did “the right thing,” taking his meds and opting for mediocrity instead of musical greatness. That was the last time I turned that show on. It was canceled soon after.

The other night, I was doing late work and my wife was watching “Law and Order.” The culprit was a loving mother who did not believe in getting her child vaccinated. Her failure to get her child vaccinated caused another child to be sick and die. They arrested the mother, took her child away and the world was again safe. The message repeated again and again during the show was “Get your child vaccinated.”

For years I have feared that there was something going into the vaccine that the government wanted us to get but that we wouldn't stand for given the choice. The answer: remove the choice. There are many parents who will not have their child vaccinated. They do not believe in it, or they do not believe in government intrusion. Perhaps they are organic people and do not believe in the artificial, chemical, Brave New World that is being sold to us daily.

For years, I have had a rule: Where there is a hard sell, there is something of which I should beware. Now here is none other than the “Do no evil” cops of “Law and Order” telling us we should get vaccinated. I say “No!” Just because the government or some medical organization or psychiatric organization (especially a psychiatric organization) says to line up and get stuck with a needle full of something mysterious and magical, that is no reason for me or anyone else to do so. In fact, when they sell it to us so hard, that's a good reason to be extra careful.

It was Karl Marx who said, “Give me a child before he's five and I'll have him for life.” I fear that what is in that vaccination is something that will be in my child for life and not to his betterment. The proof of the pudding is that the powers who want that needle in the kid's arm have gone to the writers of popular television shows to sell it to us.

Shame on you, Law and Order.

My friend, Bev Eakman, wrote: Does declining church membership and service attendance mean Christians are slowly moving toward non-belief?  That is what many are saying, including Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse in last week’s article published in Christianity Today and The Washington Times.  Many research firms and pastors agree with her.
 
But belief, per se, may not be the problem, at least not yet.  See today’s article, “Are Christians Becoming Nonbelievers?” — just posted online at:  http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/family/5546-belief-versus-detachment-christianitys-greatest-challenge-in-the-21st-century  
 
Particularly at this juncture, right before Christmas, every Christian might want to consider the issue in the context of three trends, all of them unique to the present era.

My answer comes from my experience:

This is an area wherein I have some personal experience and insight. In 1985-86, I traveled with the Religious Freedom Crusade, writing songs and speaking before crowds of up to five thousand at a time. In Portland, I was on TV and radio regularly. The leaders of the RFC, like doctors, searched for the source of the infection. It is world-wide. In parts of Europe, many religions are banned. In France, 183 religions, including Baptist, are illegal.

The reason will shock you. Psychiatry doesn't make any money when you go to church. Big Pharma doesn't make any money when you go to your priest or minister for council. And you are not under anyone's control if you take your problems to the Lord. Besides, if your minister, the Pope or God tells you not to follow a government order, you are likely to not follow it. So basically, religion is bad for governments, psychiatrist, pharmaceutical companies and those who seek to control the populace. The "opiate of the masses" is the drug that government most wants to make illegal. What drugs are legal? The ones you see advertised on TV.

The attack is sometimes subtle and sometimes blatant, but it cannot be ignored. Removing prayer from schools, manger scenes from lawns, first of government buildings, then of churches, and taking any mention of God out of government, including the invalidation of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, are only the beginning. 

Fewer people are going to church because religion is being made to seem ridiculous, wrong and downright evil. There have been priests going wrong for centuries, but you're only hearing about them now and the news is ghastly. Why? Because "It's dangerous to go to church!" Republicans are being portrayed as "right-wing, religious zealot, nut cases" by democrats, - I personally know a few who speak of anyone who didn't vote for Obama as "religious extremists." They don't know just how extreme I am! 

It's simple: If people are animals, lacking a soul and any recourse to what's troubling them except psychotropic drugs, they can be controlled. If they have a soul, answer to a higher authority and believe in a greater reward, one that appreciates ethical behavior and clean living, they are loose cannons and a danger to big government. 

Marx, Lenin and Stalin sought to stamp out religion, it was necessary for the State to rule, for the people to submit to the will of the government. The New State, the one begun by past presidents, including the Bushes, and continued full speed by the present Leader of the (soon-to-be-abolished) Free World, must stamp out religion if it is to control the population. 

Make no mistake - it's all about control.