INTRODUCTION
Man�s Hope Under Attack
What is the state of religion today?
In an American town, senior citizens were told they could not sing Gospel songs
or pray over their meals in their community center because it was a public building.
Only after an extensive lawsuit were their rights vindicated.
A child was told she could not give pencils to her school friends that had
the word, �Jesus� printed on them. Crying, she asked her mom, �Why does the
school hate Jesus?� Mr. Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the Liberty Legal
Institute, testified before the U.S. Congress�s hearing on religious expression
in 2004, �These young kids get the message. Their religion is treated the same
as a curse word. These children are being taught at an early age, �keep your
religion to yourself�, �it�s dirty�, �it�s bad.��
In March 2004, the French Parliament enacted a law against schoolchildren
wearing religious symbols in public schools, including the headscarves and veils
worn by many Muslim girls, crosses that are too large, and Jewish yarmulkes.
Obviously, attacks on religion are alive and well, but then they are also
as old as religion itself. However, reports of sexual perversion among clergy
that have stained the headlines of almost every country in the world, with multi-
million-dollar lawsuits filed and won against the churches involved, are something
entirely new. Here, churches face an insidious assault that is not only sapping
their spiritual and material strength, but in some cases threatens their very
survival.
While this type of deadly affront is new, its origins date back to the late
1800s. It was then that psychiatrists first sought to replace religion with
their �soulless science.� In 1940, psychiatry openly declared its plans when
British psychiatrist John Rawling Rees, a co-founder of the World Federation
for Mental Health (WFMH), addressed a National Council of Mental Hygiene stating:
�[S]ince the last world war we have done much to infiltrate the various social
organizations throughout the country � we have made a useful attack upon a number
of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession
and the Church�.� [Emphasis added]
Another co-founder of the WFMH, Canadian psychiatrist G. Brock Chisholm, reinforced
this master plan in 1945 by targeting religious values and calling for psychiatrists
to free �the race � from its crippling burden of good and evil.� Viciously usurping
age-old religious principles, psychiatrists have sanitized criminal conduct
and defined sin and evil as �mental disorders.�
In his book The Death of Satan , author Andrew Delbanco refers to the
disappearing �language of evil� and the process of �unnaming evil.� Until psychiatry�s
emergence, societies had operated with very clear ideas on �moral evil.� Today,
however, we hear euphemisms like �behavioral problem� or �personality disorder.�
Delbanco describes these as notions �� in which the concept of responsibility
has disappeared and the human being is reconceived as a component with a stipulated
function. If it fails to perform properly, it is subject to repair or disposal;
but there is no real sense of blame involved. � We think in terms of adjusting
the faulty part or, if it is too far gone, of putting it away.�
As a result of psychiatrists� subversive plan for religion, the concepts of
good and bad behavior, right and wrong conduct and personal responsibility have
taken such a beating that people today have few or no guidelines for checking,
judging or directing their behavior. Words like ethics, morals, sin and evil
have almost disappeared from everyday usage.
Delbanco further states: �The repertoire of evil has never been richer. Yet
never have our responses been so weak. � [W]e cannot readily see the perpetrator.
� [The] malefactors are harder to spot. � So the work of the devil is everywhere,
but no one knows where to find him. � [E]vil tends to recede into the background
hum of modern life. � [W]e feel something that our culture no longer gives us
the vocabulary to express.�
The consequences have been devastating for both society and religion. It is
not that evil itself has disappeared�evidence abounds of evil or destructive
behavior running unchecked in society�and it is as difficult to confront as
it has always been. Yet everyone wants to live in a society in which evil can
be defined and defeated.
Or do they?
For more than a century, mankind has been the unwitting guinea pig of psychiatry�s
deliberate �social engineering� experiment that was conceived in hell. This
experiment included an assault on the essential religious and moral strongholds
of society. It could not proceed while man could clearly conceive of, express
and deal with evil. It lies insidiously behind our current social disintegration.
And it is the epitome of evil, masked by the most social of outward appearances.
Until recently, it was religion that provided man with the moral and spiritual
markers necessary for him to create and maintain civilizations of which he could
be proud. Religion provides the inspiration needed for a life of higher meaning
and purpose. In this crisis, it falls upon religious leaders to take the decisive
steps. Men of the cloth need to shake off the yoke of soulless materialism spawned
by psychology and psychiatry and put religion back into the hands of the religious.
Indeed, religious leaders must take this responsibility, not only for the
sake of religion�s survival but also for the survival of mankind.
Sincerely,
Jan Eastgate President,
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International
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