I believe Piers and similar meatheads of the 'right' seem to (deep down) be so touched by the reality of the situation that at some level they may be starting to consciously fight cognitive disonance and question things.
Perhaps as you say on one level, and there are indeed some examples (how could one not be horrified). With someone like Piers pushing back on the Israeli official in the example above (5 minutes of repeating back and forth - where it seems clear the official sees Hamas and the Palestinians as the same, so no breakdown of statistics is known or needed), Piers needed that breakdown. In most cases, though, from what can be observed, the boogeyman must be Hamas at every turn (like Putin and al-Assad a finger must be pointed). So, the next talk, Piers takes it the other way depending upon who the guest de jour is, and how the interviewer has been told to handle them as an editorial/production/political network directive. It could also be considered that deep down, one can't ignore what is in front of their eyes, and then there are the contracts they sign that may get in the way of their consciousness (Tucker had contracts that in the end Fox tried to leverage against him and he stood his ground and bailed out). So, is it simply that to remain on the air and in contract, to one degree or another, Piers is told you can say this, but please don't say that? What he really thinks, don't know, yet his on-air words carry weight to his viewers.
Piers's brother is a 37 year British military veteran, so some of that line of force may have rubbed off on him.
Of course that support is kept high by devout Christians who believe that the final battle between good and evil is taking place there, unaware that they're programmed to be on the side of pure evil.
This is really something to observe, the devout can get many things, and yet in this they are driven to the absurd: nothing can take them off the rapture train. Moreover, the Christian radio networks are very powerful on keeping them on biblical prophetic message, including red cows:
Israel's red heifers and the looming sacrifice at Al-Aqsa mosque to bring about the 'messiah and end times' - CBS (call it anthropomorphic biblically prophesy, if it can't happen naturally, by god we we will make it happen in a lab)
Then there is Military itself, along with the MIC, which is steeped in the message that has served for a long time, certainly since after WWII.
If not for this rapture business, the Christian right could start seeing this differently, yet it can't be a question like this
minister had it:
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The Origins
Where did this idea or teaching come from? Has the Church believed this doctrine for the entirety of its nearly 2,000-year history? The answer is no, it hasn’t. In fact, this is a relatively new view for Christians to hold. It emerged in the 1830’s. John Nelson Darby was the first to teach and introduce this idea to his congregation. He is the founder of the group later known as The Plymouth Brethren. They were conservative, nonconformist Protestants who broke away from the Church of Ireland. Darby taught the view of a rapture out of the world. Many people believe he piggybacked off of the comments made by a young girl named Margaret MacDonald, who had a vision in 1830 of the end times and the Church being raptured from the Earth. However, there is no way of confirming if this was an influence on Darby’s teaching.
Darby’s teaching made its way across Europe and eventually to America. It gave rise to a theological view known as Dispensationalism. This way of understanding the Bible and God’s interaction with man divides history into six dispensations. God deals with humanity differently in each dispensation. These views were picked up and popularized by C. I. Scofield in the late 1800’s. He produced a Bible with references (even though he had no formal training in theology) known as the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909. It was distributed in England and America and became the primary source for Protestants to understand the Bible. This became the almost unquestioned view by many Protestants in America. This spread the idea of rapture teaching further and further. Scofield became a pastor in Dallas, TX and helped found Dallas Theological Seminary. It was popularized and spread further by D. L. Moody and his Moody Bible Institute. Moody invited many of the Plymouth Brethren to teach in his Bible schools. From these institutions, literature, and the preaching of these men and others, this dispensational, pre-tribulation rapture theology immersed itself in American culture.
If one moves to the words of Paul, seeing the unseen, it may make more sense.
Dec 2019
(L) Okay. I guess we should ask some general questions. Maybe I'll ask about this book I just finished about Paul and the Gospel of Mark. Have I pretty much laid things out as accurately as possible?
A: And more than that!
Q: (L) In this recent book I read about Paul, it basically exhibits what Paul was seeing or perceiving in his visions, or his conversations, or his channelings with Jesus I guess you'd call it. It's pretty much what we have received via this communication. Now, this guy interprets righteousness as absolution. I would like to ask about this absolution/righteousness issue. What did Paul actually mean?
A: Something rather like what you and others have experienced as "cleansing" or "opening" of the conscience as Gurdjieff described it.
Q: (L) So in other words, this getting "saved" or "made righteous" or having absolution or whatever is not necessarily an instantaneous thing?
A: Exactly. But it can be in rare instances.
Q: (L) But for most people, it would be more like what Jeanne De Salzmann describes in the First Initiation. First, you have to get to the point where you can really see yourself, see your lies, see how you have identified with your false personality, and grow that spiritual part of yourself which is the "spirit self" as Paul describes it - as opposed to the fleshly self. Paul says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. What he means is not necessarily that you have to die, but that it is that inner self, that awareness, that conscience, that spirit self that has to be brought to awareness and then grown and solidified, more or less. That is being "saved", so to say.
A: Yes
Q: (L) And that's pretty much what Paul says because he doesn't describe it as an instant process. He says you need to work out your salvation with fear and trembling. So it's something that requires work and time. And yet Christianity as it exists today has distorted this to where they say, "Oh, all you have to do is come down to the altar and say you believe" and that's it. That's just not the way it works.
A: Consider that much editing and confusion has entered the texts for impure purposes.
Q: (L) Impure purposes... You mean like people seeking power and control?
A: Yes
Q: (L) So am I right that the Book of Mark was an amalgamation of elements of Paul's Christ overlaid on Judas the Galilean, and the Judas the Galilean figure was completely stripped of his revolutionary character and that sort of thing?
A: Yes
Q: (L) So there was a Jewish Christ, and there was Paul's Christ. They were combined to make Jesus of Nazareth, the hippy who went around in sandals doing miracles?
A: Yes
Q: (L) Any other questions?
(Joe) Who was Paul's Christ?
A: Caesar!
Q: (Joe) Did Paul know that?
A: Yes
Yet back to the rapture business, the Minister above mentions Darby, tied to the
British Admiral Horation Nelson - godfather to John Nelson Darby who is said to have helped seed the rapture message in the U.S.? However, some say no and some say he did (at
25:20 Matt Ehret does - like this Minister above). Looking in the bible for real references is very sketchy indeed - biblical citations are listed
here, however how it was all stitched together to that message I've no idea, and yet sadly it is a dominating religious support power that has charted the course today.
So again, without these primary rapture biblical ties in the U.S., Israel would never have achieved what it did, it may never have reanimated in the first place when the British helped shape a new land in recognition to the biblical old land, and never would have been allowed to do what it does regardless.
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