A plagiarization of The Most Dangerous Superstition, by Larken Rose. Buy it here.
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A Note About the Copyright ... A “copyright” is usually an implied threat (“Don’t copy this, or else!”). While I hope that anyone who likes this book will buy additional copies from me, if someone does copy this book without my permission, that would not make me feel justified in using force against that person, or, my own or via “government.” I copyrighted the book primarily so that no one else could copyright it and thereby use the violence of the state to prevent me from distributing it. |
A Note About the Plagiarism ...
Larken Rose's book The Most Dangerous Superstition is a terrific book. "I wish I'd said that." But it's a secular book. So I'm going to say it in a Christian manner. You can call me a "plagiarist" or you can call me a "commentator,"
a "talmudist" to Larken's "torah." Larken's words are on the left side of the page (with a pink background), mine on the right (with a green background). I have also taken liberties to change a few words in his text (instead of explaining the
change on the right-hand side). You can find my changes (if you're interested) by searching for the html font color code of black [<font color="#000000">] |
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About the Author Larken Rose, a self-described “enemy of the state,” lives with his wife and daughter in eastern Pennsylvania. The author of several other books, including The Iron Web and How to Be a Successful Tyrant (The Megalomaniac Manifesto), Mr. Rose is an outspoken, nationally known proponent of individual liberty, self-ownership, and a voluntary society. For more information, visit www.LarkenRose.com. |
About the Plagiarist |
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DEDICATION This book is dedicated to two people: |
KC: An Introduction to Idolatry
Part One: See the home page.
Part Two: State as Religion
A popular idol in the Bible is "Moloch." The word "moloch" means "king." Moloch worship is worship of the State
There are many idols in the Bible. We might think of a fertility god. Fertility can easily be a "national interest." The State wants fertility to increase armies and productivity. So a "fertility god" can also be state-worship. Under a totalitarian state, where the state claims total jurisdiction, everything is an act of state-worship. Americans live in a nation that was born out of a violent revolution against the government, under the banner of "Liberty Under God." It's hard for us to imagine life under a state which was both politically totalitarian and religiously totalitarian. Egypt is a compelling example of the Religious Totalitarian Empire. Rushdoony notes that
The Egyptian language had no word for 'state.' The word state is too limited to express divine order which their land, government and ruler expressed. What for us would be slavery to the state meant for them divine order and man's only hope. Man could not transcend that social order; beyond it or outside it, he was nothing. It was his life. A man might fret at his conditions, but anything outside of his life in the state was for him unimaginable. This faith was written by the vizier Rekhmire in his tomb: "What is the king of Upper and Lower Egypt? He is a god by whose dealings one lives, the father and mother of all men, alone by himself without an equal." The state was the expression not only of the will of the gods but of the power of nature. Religion being completely identified with the life of the state, man was man not in terms of a transcendental God but only in terms of a divine state and its social order. Man's happiness was in harmony with this order. (World History Notes, p. 13)
For them, the state was not one institution among many but rather the essence of the divine order for life. . . . Life therefore was totally and inescapably statist." (The One & The Many, p. 44)
The Pharaoh was a divine figure. The State was totally religious. In the Bible "gods" are political figures. Also religious, but not in the sense Americans think of it, as somehow separate from politics; a "spiritual" domain largely between your ears. Religion is not private in a totalitarian state. Religion was public, or civil.
There was no "State" in the Garden of Eden. It was invented by Rebels, like Nimrod. Then it was imitated by God's Chosen People, Israel, in 1 Samuel 8. It was completely repudiated by Jesus Christ. All of this Biblical history is summed up on our website, The Bible is an Anarchist Manifesto.
The three branches of the U.S. Government are seen in
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These "attributes of God" are attributes of every human "government." Governments
Governments claim to be saviors. The word "savior" in the Bible, related to the word "save" and "salvation," does not usually answer the question "do I go to heaven when I die?" "Salvation" answers the question, "Why did God put human beings on planet earth?" The answer in the Bible is "to exercise dominion" (Genesis 1:26-28) and build the City of God on earth (Revelation 2:7; 22:2, 14, 19 ). See David Chilton's book, Paradise Restored. The "paradise" theme is at the heart of the epic story of the Bible, infallibly recorded in the Scriptures. Human beings are hard-wired to understand "paradise," and all governments formed by man since man was kicked out of the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:24) have been dedicated to achieving "salvation" in the sense of restoring paradise. We are all trying to restore paradise -- either on God's terms or on our own terms. Forming a "Government" is not God's way, it was the way of Cain, Nimrod, and, ultimately, Satan. This is the story God is telling us in the Bible, as we are attempting to explain on our website The Bible is an Anarchist Manifesto. See more on the Biblical concept of "salvation" (as contrasted with the televangelist conception of "salvation") on our website www.JesusistheChrist.today.
Now we'll follow Larken Rose and Christianize his secular rhetoric.
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What you read in this book will, in all likelihood, go directly against what you have been taught by your parents and your teachers, what you have been told by the churches, the media and the government, and much of what you, your family and your friends have always believed. Nonetheless, it is the truth, as you will see if you allow yourself to consider the issue objectively. Not only is it the truth, it also may be the most important truth you will ever hear. |
The most important truth you will ever hear is the message of the Gospel: "Jesus is the Christ," where "Christ" is the divine cosmic emperor who brings blessings to the globe (Galatians 3:8). But a spin-off of that important truth is the fact that human "Government" is an idol and a false god, who also claims divinity and promises global blessings. To say that Jesus is the true King, the true Christ (Messianic King) is to say that human "government" is a "superstition," or an "idol" or a "cult." The two propositions are two sides of one coin. Larken Rose is giving us only the "superstition" side, not the truth side. |
| More and more people are discovering this truth, but to do so, it is necessary to look past many preconceived assumptions and deeply ingrained superstitions, to set aside one’s life-long indoctrination, and to examine some new ideas fairly and honestly. If you do this, you will experience a dramatic change in how you view the world. It will almost certainly feel uncomfortable at first, but in the long run it will be well worth the effort. | We have all been indoctrinated in schools run by the government. Even churches parrot the government line. You went to school for 13 years, then to college. You won't experience cult-deprogramming in just 30 minutes. I suggest taking an entire year to re-indoctrinate yourself. Our program condenses 12 years of colonial American Christian worldview education into just 12 months. www.YourBibleCoach.com |
| And if enough people choose to see this truth, and embrace it, not only will it drastically change the way those people see the world; it will drastically change the world itself, for the better. | It is not enough for people to see government as a "superstition" if every man continues to see himself as his own god. |
| But if such a simple truth could change the world, wouldn’t we all already know about it, and wouldn’t we have put it into practice long ago? If humans were purely a race of thinking, objective beings, yes. But history shows that most human beings would literally rather die than objectively reconsider the belief systems they were brought up in. The average man who reads in the newspaper about war, oppression and injustice will wonder why such pain and suffering exists, and will wish for it to end. However, if it is suggested to him that his own beliefs are contributing to the misery, he will almost certainly dismiss such a suggestion without a second thought, and may even attack the one making the suggestion. | |
| So, reader, if your beliefs and superstitions – many of which you did not choose for yourself, but merely inherited as unquestioned “hand-me-down” beliefs – matter to you more than truth and justice, then please stop reading now and give this book to someone else. If, on the other hand, you are willing to question some of your long-held, preconceived notions if doing so might reduce the suffering of others, then read this book. And then give it to someone else. | See Acts 17:11:
The Bereans questioned what they heard, even what they heard from the Apostles themselves. Read more about "The Berean Spirit." |