Thou Shall Not Lie

In the eighties I lived in a little town in Wisconsin about sixty miles north of Madison. I used to go to this dinner on highway 51 to drink coffee where in the corner James Wickstrom used to sit, holding court, recruiting for the Posse Comitatus, a pre cursor of the militia patriot movement.

They believed in the threat of a New World Order led by a cabal of the usual suspects, bankers, and politicians, the U.N. They held that all federal authority was in cahoots with, or were at least unwitting goons controlled by the cabal and therefore enemies of the people, i.e. the Posse and like-minded individuals. They called on all God fearing patriots to rise up against this insidious plot. They particularly didn’t like the DNR (Department of Natural Resources) and judges, particularly the ones that their members came up against in a court of law and found them guilty of various crimes, or the ones that had a liberal civil rights record or pro DNR rulings.

I remember a mimeographed flyer in particular showing a judge lynched from a light pole and something about citizens rising up in righteous indignation. The Posse also had connections with some group called The Order, if I recall, advocating the use of black people as farm animals and killing Jews out right. The thing that all these New World Order nut jobs had in common was the belief in the Jewish bankers behind it all.

Do I have to say it? These Hutaree people are whacked. God does not call anyone to arm themselves for the coming end times.
Thou Shall Not Kill. There are no exceptions made in the command. There is no arming one’s self just in case God changes his mind. Plea self defense, plea anything you want, but it is not a Christian act to arm oneself with assault rifles and practice killing in the name of God.

Please, beloved, do not be silent about this, about some one on Facebook playing lip service to the idea that this is God fearing, that the idea of a Jewish cabal behind the destruction of the World Trade Center is anything less than racism, that it was an inside job is anything less than right wing paranoid propaganda. God does not call us to shoot abortion doctors or excuse people who do. We are not called to vilify our political opponents. Quit listening to these blow hard radio people who exhibit the opposite of Christian values. Baring false witness is sin. Spreading unfounded propaganda is baring false witness.

You who call yourselves spiritual, leaders of the church, or at least your congregations, call sin a sin, be a light in the darkness, do not listen to false prophets and say nothing.