Friday, December 30, 2011

Harry Potter isn't the witch you should be concerned about.

Rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the command of the LORD, he has rejected you as king. 1 Samuel 15:23

Whenever I would read this verse I always had a hard time relating witchcraft to rebellion. What on earth do they have to do with each other? Not that it really matters anyway, because witchcraft is a pretty uncommon practice in today's world, right? I mean I know that witchcraft is bad, but quite honestly I couldn't see the difference between the sorcery in "Harry Potter" and the same in "The Lord of the Rings", the former being derided as an evil that is being thrust upon our children under the guise of literature and the latter being a magnificent work of Christian fiction. Witchcraft? Rebellion? Harry Potter, bad. Gandolf, good. Isn't it all just fantasy anyway? I just didn't get it.

Then I was reading a Christian author by the name of Derek Prince who said that witchcraft is basically any attempt to control another person by manipulation and intimidation with the goal of domination. Prince’s definition of witchcraft in a Christian context opened my eyes:

"Witchcraft is the attempt to control people and get them to do what you want by the use of any spirit that is not the Holy Spirit and if anyone has a spirit that he can use, it is not the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God, and no one uses God."

It made much more sense when I realized that witchcraft does not consist of casting magical incantations and riding brooms, instead it is the setting one's self up as King in rebellion to God and demanding of others that YOUR will be done. Now I saw not only the connection between witchcraft and rebellion, but also that witchcraft is a very common thing.

As a student of liberty, and with my eyes now opened to the prevalence of witchcraft in our society, the controlling nature of witchcraft reminded me of the non-aggression principle. According to the non-aggression principle any unsolicited actions of others that physically affect an individual’s property, including that person’s body, no matter if the result of those actions is damaging, beneficiary or neutral to the owner, are considered VIOLENT when they are against the owner’s free will and interfere with his right to self-determination.

With this definition of witchcraft in mind please also pay close attention to how violence is viewed within the non-aggression principle. I typically thought of violence simply as brute force, but according to the non-aggression principle, violence is ANY unsolicited action that physically affects another person, even if we believe it may result in their benefit.

Putting these ideas together I came to this conclusion: The initiation of violence is witchcraft.

American Christendom is suffering from a dangerous delusion. We are ever so eager to applaud our own restraint as we abstain from Harry Potter novels in abhorrence of ungodly "witchcraft" while at the same time living (and voting) in such a way that condones statements such as this one:

"Don’t give me this idea — I hear this: ‘Oh, you’re a moralist. You’re trying to impose your values.’ Everybody’s trying to impose their values. That’s what America’s about." -Rick Santorum

The key word in the above quote is:

impose: to put or set by or as if by authority: to impose one's personal preference on others.

In order to impose you assume authority (set yourself up as king) and then demand that your will be done. This is witchcraft, and especially so when violence is justified in its application. For this statement not to be one of witchcraft the word must be changed to:

persuade: to induce to believe by appealing to reason or understanding; convince.

It must be understood that if violence is used then the persuasion is forfeited. With violence, the other party is not submitting because of an act of their will, but instead by an act of witchcraft.

The cartoonization of witchcraft via Harry Potter and the like have served as a convenient distraction and scapegoat to hide the blatant fact that we have become a nation of witches in rebellion to God. No longer do we appeal to reason and our respect for each person's individual humanity, freedom and personal responsibility when we desire to convince someone to change. Instead, like a coven of gaggling hags, we rally around a self-congratulating moral propaganda and in pursuit of our will have no qualms with resorting not only to unsolicited acts of “benevolent” and "preventative" violence, but even to the brutality of war.

We do not have a right to impose our beliefs upon others. It is witchcraft, it shows a disregard for human dignity, and it is also disobedience to the will and authority of God. When combined with a stubborn, prideful superiority what is created is a idolic doctrine that perpetuates itself through emotional appeals to patriotic platitudes as it marginalizes the “unrighteous” who become the target of its imposition. We may fool ourselves for a while by redefining words in order to create the illusion that we despise evil and that our actions are good, but sooner or later truth always becomes evident, and it also demands obedience.

Harry Potter is not the witch we should be concerned about. He, just like Gandolf the Grey, are sorcerer’s of fantasy, to be enjoyed within the realm of imagination. In reality our ignorance to the witchcraft we practice daily is wreaking havoc on our families, our communities, and the cancer of it spreads to affect even our nation’s polices toward other cultures resulting in bloody wars.

Jesus said in Luke 6:31, "Do to others as you would have them do to you." The Patriot and statesmen Ron Paul said, “If we believe strongly in our ideals, the best way to spread them is to set a good example so that others will voluntarily emulate us. Force will not work.” Have you been convinced that this statement is true? If so please do not let rebellion and stubbornness cause you to dismiss this sobering reality. Now is the time to really make a change, and the sooner we make it, the less painful will be the correction. Let us repent of witchcraft, turn back to our nation’s foundations, and from there emulate the goodness that is at the true core of who we are.