Timeline

This was the site of the Trade Towers three years after they were attacked on September 11, 2001.

The following timeline was taken from the end of my "Fairchild Genealogy and Timeline" blog and all references in relation to this timeline can be found there:

TIMELINE

33-312—The Church permeates the Roman Empire. Christians are persecuted through the emperors and Jewish leaders.

This is the ruins of Pompeii. Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. and the ash preserved the area in great detail for many years. Just recently the ruins are considered to be in a state of emergency from poor mainainence.

321—Christianity becomes the religion of the empire through Constantine, but the “patchwork” of Christianity, called Christendom, included many pagan beliefs and was not pure Christianity. (29; Foster)

500-1200—Barbarian Europe is converted—Europe, England, and Scotland.

625-1436—Islamic hoarders ravage Asia Minor, Africa and Europe.

1345—A plague descends on Europe; 30-50% die. John Wycliffe begins a grassroots revival which is countered by the humanism of the Renaissance and neoclassical paganism which permeates the Catholic hierarchy. (29: Foster)

1500s—Many Spanish ships crossed the ocean to the NEW WORLD to merely conquer and discover gold.

1517—The Reformation begins through Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox. This is countered by “the divine right of kings” and millions are killed in 100 years of religious wars.

1540s—The burning of religious heretics was still a way of life in Scotland. As the nobility and Cardinal took their padded seats to watch the burning of George Wishart, little did they know that Wishart’s bodyguard and friend, John Knox, would liberate Scotland in another decade. As the flames rose, Wishart declared to the Cardinal, “He who from yonder place beholds me with such pride, shall within a few days lie in the same as ignominiously as he is now seen proudly to rest himself.” Sure enough, not long after the execution, the Cardinal’s enemies broke into his chambers and ran him through. John Knox (c. 1505-1572) became Wishart’s successor, trying to bring true Christianity to Scotland, though he was an improbable leader. From obscure origins, a defrocked priest, ugly, undiplomatic, socially graceless and full of fire, John Knox seemed ill-equipped to face off a thousand years of Catholic rule. Before he could even get started, he was captured by the French and place in a French warship as a galley slave (oarsman). When he was released he was forced to flee to the continent where he spent four years strengthening his mind and soul in Geneva, under the teaching of the great Calvin at his school of reformers.

When Knox returned to Scotland in 1588, he was shot at and chased at from place to place, but he proclaimed Christ’s Lordship and, within two years, he defeated the Roman Church and the Godless Queen Mary herself. He had done so largely by preaching and converting the people to the truth, not just by the power of the sword. Under Knox’s influence Scotland became a “people of the book” and adopted Presbyterian church government. This Christian heritage that brought the government of God back to the people and elders, as opposed to the King and the Pope, became the major force for the founding of the republican government in America a century later.


The reformation of Scotland under John Knox resulted in the exile of Mary, Queen of Scots, to England. She was placed under arrest for twenty years as a danger to Queen Elizabeth’s throne (her cousin). As the Spanish Armada was threatening the destruction of Protestant England, Elizabeth was convinced to behead Mary. To cover her guilt, Elizabeth blamed her secretary, Davidson, for tricking her into signing the death warrant. He was thrown into prison, and his young assistant, who might have had a successful future at court, lost his position and went back to Scrooby Manor. This young assistant secretary to Queen Elizabeth was William Brewster. (29; Foster)


1588—The Bible is printed in the language of the common man, bringing revival to England. Unreached nations are left in darkness through ignorance of God’s Word and Truth.


1603—WILLIAM BREWSTER took over his father’s job as the postmaster of Scrooby in 1603 and started an underground church which met in the basement of the manor house. In that same year, a young boy from a dysfunctional family in a village 12 miles from Scrooby began to attend the church. He was 13 years old, and his name was WILLIAM BRADFORD. William Bradford was unofficially adopted by William Brewster and his wife Mary. He and about 38 others met secretly until about 1607, when King James I began to persecute them out of England. 1608, the little congregation moved to Holland and settled in Leydon. Here William started a clothing business at age 20, and married a young English exile, Dorothy. For 10 years they struggled to survive as exiles, as William moved into leadership of the church along with Pastor John Robinson and William Brewster. (29; Foster)


1492-1620—America is opened up after 5,000 years of isolation and Christianity is brought to its shores. The Gospel is deflected away from much of Europe as Christianity is countered by the Enlightenment, European rationalism and the French Revolution. Many people believed that reform was needed in England’s national church. It was a Protestant church run by the House of Bishops and the head was the English monarch. The rulers of England tried to force all of the people of England to believe the same things about God and those who disobeyed were persecuted. Many people wanted worship services to include Bible readings and personal prayers and they wanted to do away with many of the rituals. The Puritans remained loyal to the Church of England, but they wanted to purify it and the Separatists “separated” themselves and began their own worship services. The bishops viewed the separatists as a threat and many were persecuted in England so they left. (29; Foster)

1620—THE PILGRIMS (separatists) land at Cape Cod. Landing off course left them with the need to settle their own authority. William Bradford set up the elected form of government which was called “The Mayflower Compact,” this is the prototype for our national liberty. This was the first time that free and equal men had ever entered a covenant to create a new society, based on Biblical principles. One of these principles was that “all men are created equal in the sight of God.” A second was that “a government must only govern people who agree to submit to it.” These two principles became the cornerstones of America’s constitutional government. Bradford became governor of the Plymouth Colony for the first of 31 terms. He wrote the only complete history of the Plymouth settlement in a diary stretching 40 years. He turned the colony from Communism to free enterprise, insuring its prosperity. Threatened with starvation, Squanto helps the pilgrims survive and they celebrate their first “Thanksgiving Day.” (29; Foster)


1630—A group of about 1,000 settlers landed in Massachusetts Bay and founded the city of Boston. Within 20 years of the first Puritans arriving in America there were 20,000 English people living in Massachusetts. Some moved to Rhode Island and Connecticut.


1636—HARVARD UNIVERSITY is founded in Cambridge, MA. When the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower they brought history books and theology books and thought that it was all you need to start a university. Theology is the study of God and His Word and history is the study of God and His Word worked out in time and space.

1651—Goodwife Bassett tried and hanged as a witch, probably in May. (36; Knapp)

1662—Charles II signs Connecticut’s charter, includes New Haven, April 3.

1664—New Amsterdam becomes English New York.

1734-1820—In 1775 Kentucky was bought from the Cherokee Indians. Daniel Boone was chosen to mark a trail for the pioneers to go to Kentucky. He led 30 men by chopping trees with axes called the “wilderness road.”

1742-1796—THOSE WHO TOOK THE FREEMAN’S OATH: It was a period of 54 years in which freemen came before a justice of the peace and took the oath of fidelity showing to the world, and posterity, that they were willing to sacrifice, in defiance of principles set forth by the Declaration of Independence.

The oath of fidelity to which freemen were obliged to subscribe before they could exercise the rights that accrued to them when they had taken the freeman’s oath: “You do swear by the ever-living God that you will truly and faithfully adhere to and maintain the government established in this state under the authority of the people, agreeable to the laws in force within the same, and that you believe in your conscience that the King of Great Britain hath not, nor of right ought to have any authority or dominion in or over this state, and that you do not hold yourself bound to yield any allegiance or obedience to him within the same, and that you will, to the unmost of your power, maintain and defend the freedom, independence and privileges of this state against all open enemies or traitorous conspiracies whatsoever, so help you God. And no person shall have authority to execute any of the offices aforesaid after the first day of January next, until he hath taken said oath, and all persons who hereafter shall be appointed to any of said offices shall take said oath before they enter upon execution of their offices. And no freeman within this state shall be allowed to vote in the election of any of the officers of government until he hath taken the aforesaid oath in the open freeman’s’ meeting in the town where he dwells.” (41; Johnson)

1758—Noah Webster began writing the first American dictionary in 1807. He is also the writer of the first American textbooks for children.


1776-1783—THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. “At the time of the American Revolution, Bridgeport was composed of only eleven houses, two stores, and two wharves serving four ships at Newfield, site of the present downtown area. Much of the land was too marshy for settlement, so Black Rock served as a commercial center. Black Rock had the second deepest harbor in Connecticut. When war with England broke out, Fairfielders fortified Black Rock to guard this approach to their town. Privateering and smuggling by Americans were common activities during the war; in retaliation, in 1779, British troops landed and burned Fairfield, Norwalk, and New Haven. After the Revolution, Fairfield and Stratford again turned to the sea and established a profitable coastal and West Indian trade.” (38; Orcutt p. 15)

American colonists fought for their freedoms from England. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE was approved on July 4th, 1776. In this paper Americans said they were free from the rule of the king of England. (15; Pensacola)

Although some professing Christians were instrumental in colonizing the continent early on, the U.S. government was never formed to establish a Christian nation. In truth, many of the framers of the Constitution were at best Freemasons who were also church people, and at worst deists who denied the Lord Jesus Christ and even the very nature of the personal God. Yet, they wrote that document for a biblically-oriented people. Today the biblical ethic is no longer the guiding force for American society. But, in reality, every nation is always “under God.” (23; Dager)

1776-1783—Subtle strategies of compromise begin to spread as churches were infiltrated by half-truths and deception through Unitarianism, evolution, Marxism, and a classic revival of neo-pagan immorality. (29; Foster)

1780—Washington meets Lafayete in Stratford on September 19, then goes to Lebanon to meet Rochambeau, then on to Battle of Yorktown.

1790—THE FIRST CENSUS IS TAKEN IN THE UNITED STATES.

1861—CIVIL WAR begins at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

1862—THE HOMSTEAD ACT offers free government land and draws many settlers to the Great Plains. Many were not successful or did not survive the elements. Billy Sunday becomes a famous evangelist who left a promising career with the Chicago White Sox to win people to Christ. With the increase and success of industry, people had more time to spend. More leisure meant more time for sports. Basketball was first played in North America in 1891. Proper rules for football and baseball were also introduced. (15; Pensacola)

1863—Abraham Lincoln delivers the GETTYSBURG ADDRESS at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.

1865—SLAVERY IS ABOLISHED. Lincoln is assassinated. 1865—The United States becomes a world power.

1869—The FIRST RAILROAD LINKING EAST WITH THE WEST COASTS of the United States is completed.

1870—Congress passes the 15th amendment granting the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

1873—P.T. BARNUM OPENS HIS CIRCUS, “The Greatest Show on Earth,” in New York. Phoebe Fairchild married Philo Barnum. They had four children. Philo married Irene Taylor and their first son was P.T. Barnum. (41; Wyman)

1874—THE FIRST AMERICAN ZOO IS ESTABLISHED in Philadelphia.

1876—ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL is granted the first U.S. patent for the telephone. Dr. David Grandison Fairchild was a botanist in Michigan. He married Daisy Bell, Alexander’s daughter, and assisted Alexander in developing the first sign language for the deaf. (41; Wyman)

1876—THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN. The Sioux Indians, led by chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, defeat General Custer and the Seventh Calvary.

1877—The phonograph was invented by THOMAS EDISON. 1885—Stratford graded school opens September 4, replacing one-room schools. (36; Knapp)

1886—COCA-COLA appears on the market in Atlanta, GA and is advertised as a remedy for fatigue.

1891—BASKETBALL is first played in North America as the success of industry brought more time for leisure. Proper rules for football and baseball were also introduced.

1903—Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully fly a powered airplane in KITTY HAWK, NC.

1905—Albert Einstein formulates the THEORY OF RELATIVITY with the equation E=mc2.

1908—Henry Ford manufactures the first MODEL T automobile.

1909—LINCOLN-HEAD PENNY is issued. On the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth the Philadelphia mint replaces the Indian-head penny.

1912—THE TITANIC SINKS. The unsinkable luxury liner making its maiden voyage from England to the United States, collides with an iceberg and sinks, killing 1,513 people.


1920—During the economic boom of the “ROARING TWENTIES,” the traditional values of rural America were challenged by the Jazz Age, symbolized by women smoking, drinking and wearing short skirts. The average American was busy buying automobiles and buying household appliances “on credit,” and speculating in the stock market.

1920—Congress passes the 19th amendment guaranteeing WOMAN SUFFRAGE. In the 1800’s middle class women were expected to marry and obey their husbands. They had to know how to manage their servants so the house was run properly. They could not take a job because it was not considered respectable. God had ordained hierarchy of man being the head, but it was ordained without sin. It worked perfectly in love and sin is what has polluted it. There is still a hierarchy of headship in the church and the family, but when done in the love of Christ it is not abusive.


The term “FASCISM” was adopted in Italy during the 1920s by followers of Benito Mussolini. Later it was applied to Adolf Hitler of Germany. Fascism glorifies the state at the expense of the individual. It embraces and authoritarian leader, who embodies the state, and often involves racist ideologies, exalting one group at the expense of another. Unlike communism, under which all property is owned by the state, fascism encourages industrial and financial magnates. Like communism, it oversees individual and business activity, employing secret police to insure compliance with the state. Mussolini came to power with the help of a private army of thugs who beat up rival political candidates. In 1922 he led a successful coup d’etat and established himself as II Duce, the leader. Fascism’s only appeal was its ability “to provide order.” Adolf Hitler won a following with a similar promise. He charged that “the unpatriotic leaders had sold out his country at the Versailles conference.” Germany had surrendered to the Allies in WWI while German troops still occupied France. In 1923 Hitler tried to seize the Bavarian state government. After his revolt failed, he decided to gain power by lawful means by attracting voters by promising to make German people prosperous, to ignore the Treaty of Versailles, and to rebuild Germany’s armed forces. By 1933 Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor and he soon overthrew the constitution and began to create a dictatorship. He permitted only one political party—the Nazi Party. (20; Microsoft ’96 Encyclopedia)

1929--BLACK TUESDAY—on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed triggering the Great Depression. It spread from the United States to the rest of the world, lasting from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. More than 15 million Americans became unemployed. President Herbert Hoover, a strong believer in rugged individualism, did not think the federal government should offer relief. Focusing on a trickle-down economic program to help finance businesses and banks, Hoover met with resistance from the business executives who preferred to lay off workers. Most Americans were able to provide for themselves, and others received help from family, friends, and private charities. Certain leaders, however, began to convince people that the government should solve their financial problems and many people began to depend on it for their financial needs. By 1932, the Depression was at its worst, and many people were open to socialistic ideas of government control and economic planning. (15; Pensacola)

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office the Great Depression had reached its lowest depths. In the proposals that FDR made to congress, he followed the advice of a group of close advisors, mostly college professors, who came to be known as the “Brain Trust.” They urged the adoption of untried and unproven economic theories of John Maynard Keynes. Keynes was a British left-wing economic theoretician who advocated central planning and massive economic and social intervention on the part of government in order to bring a nation out of economic recession or depression. Keynesian economics and New Deal legislation were aimed at “spending the nation into prosperity.” This set a precedent for direct government intervention and involvement in the lives and property of the American people moving them away from Thomas Jefferson’s dictum, “That government is best which governs least.” (15; Pensacola)

On April 19, 1933, all privately held gold was to be turned into the Federal Reserve banks in exchange for paper money. Taking the country off the gold standard shook public confidence in the U.S. monetary system. This abandonment of the gold standard helped create a “managed currency” in the United States. In 1934, in an attempt to stimulate the economy by creating inflation, the federal government reduced the gold value of the dollar to 59.06 cents, or 59.06 percent of its former value. Now paper currency, which was already unredeemable, was only partially backed by gold. The American tradition of free enterprise and individual initiative, which had made the country great, was being replaced by an ever-expanding, paternalistic federal bureaucracy. The staggering cost and long-term inefficiency of the New Deal also brought it much criticism. The national debt soared upward and unemployment remained a problem. (15; Pensacola)

1946—In 1946, with the end of Soviet Communism, Winston Churchill had delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, MO, proclaiming: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Forty-six years later, on May 6, 1992, Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Fulton as the last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev had fostered the reforms that went beyond his own expectations and led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. (20: Microsoft Encyclopedia)

The ultimate weakness of Soviet Communism can be traced to many sources. Despite their ideological commitment to human equality, the Communists established a party elite in the Soviet Union, leaders who were, as George Orwell commented in his allegorical fable “Animal Farm,” “more equal than others.” As an economic system Communism was also found lacking. Allowing little scope for human initiative, Communists failed to draw out the best efforts of the Soviet peoples as producers and distributors of goods. Communism relied on “controlled press” that printed only what the government wanted the people to hear. ROMANIA EVEN REQUIRED ITS CITIZENS TO REGISTER THEIR TYPEWRITERS. (20: Microsoft Eyclopedia)

The Nazis called their government the “Third Reich” (Third Empire). The first was the Holy Roman Empire and the second was the German Empire. Many were attracted to National Socialism because it linked everything, or nearly everything, together—the workers “by brain and by hand” were no longer apart, employers and employees were no longer opponents, and town and country were merged in the nation. Romantic talk of Blut and Boden, “blood and soil,” and the simple life of the farmer…Folk dancing and the residential settlement movement…and “Strength through Joy” allowed many to join in and give them identity. Within the labyrinth of modern society the Nazi dictatorship opened up spaces where no law applied, except the Fuhrer’s command. The past meant nothing; at best it was a dark period that had to be overcome—the Hitler youth referred to old people as mere “cemetery vegetables.” (14: Sturmer)

The guardian state supplied universal care, but also intrusive supervision. Concentration camps, Gestapo, block wardens and Party bigwigs all existed, but it was better to look the other way. For those with doubts, there was a defensive mechanism in the phrase: “If only the Fuhrer knew…” The Nazis seized control of the nation’s courts, industries, newspapers, police, and schools. Many children were taught to spy, even on their parents, for the Nazis. Those who opposed the Nazi dictatorship were murdered, imprisoned in concentration camps, or beaten up by Hitler’s private army of hoodlums, called storm troopers. (12: World Book Encyclopedia)

COMMUNISM AND EVOLUTION: Goebbels (the Gauleiter of Berlin) recorded that the vegetarian Hitler “has little regard for homo sapiens. Man should not feel so superior to the animals.” Josef Goebbels was a pupil of the Jesuits from the Cologne region who became “Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.” (14; Sturmer)

Some people embraced Darwinism for philosophical reasons; they wished to remove God from their thinking. Others simply believed that it was scientific. But Darwin’s philosophy of evolution had little to do with science. In fact, one of Darwin’s first supporters was a liberal Anglican clergyman and socialist, Charles Kingsley, who worked hard to integrate the ideas of evolution into Christian practice—most scientists were skeptical because they realized that it was based largely upon speculation rather than scientific fact. The acceptance or rejection of evolution was not dependent upon one’s scientific knowledge or aptitude, but upon one’s readiness to find a materialistic explanation for life (one’s faith). This caused a dramatic shift away from the traditional Judeo-Christian worldview toward a naturalistic worldview. Instead of being a special creation of God, mankind became regarded as a mere animal, with no more worth than any other part of nature. Right and wrong became to be thought of as relative, defined either by the whims of the individual or by the will of the majority. (2: Sarfti)

Just 150 years ago, the evolutionary theory combined with societal circumstances drastically shifted our attitude toward time. Time was once arranged by families as in European history when we had the Stuarts, Hapsburgs, Bourbons, and so on. Now we speak of the sixties, seventies, and eighties. The industrial revolution brought a greater need for schedules with the railroads and factories. Greenwich, England became the prime meridian in 1884. This fixed the exact length of a day and divided the globe into 24 time zones. In the 1859 census, age was not yet included. Even birthdays were neither mentioned nor celebrated before the mid-nineteenth century. (23: Dager)

With the onset of evolutionary thinking, progress soon became synonymous with the passage of time and students were segregated by age. Students were now judged to be either “ahead” or “behind” their peer group. The one-room school house had been the norm since there was no impetus to segregate based on maturity level. At the turn of the twentieth century, Granville Stanly Hall used the social applications of Darwin’s work in Biology and suggested that individuals evolve through the same stages through which human history has evolved. Infants and toddlers were associated with pre-savage periods of human history; he counseled parents and teachers to leave their young children to Nature and encourage play which fosters motor development. Likened to the early pygmies and other savages, a crisis period of transition led to the pre-adolescent years of 8-12; these children could be drilled and disciplined in school. Then another period of crisis came at adolescence, which he deemed the most critical period in one’s life. In his greatest work, Hall developed this theory in which he called his “recapitulation theory” in a two-volume tome titled “Adolescence: its Psychology, and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education. (24: Hunt)

Rebellion was actually viewed as a positive thing as Hall taught that each generation is or should be superior to the previous one, and therefore needs to break free from those which precede it. Hall’s renowned follower, John Dewey, later applied these theories to the public school system. Dewey taught a generation of teachers and school administrators through his laboratory school for progressive education at the University of Chicago. He created high schools to segregate teens from other children and from adults. Within a generation after Dewey, an adolescent sub-culture immerged. By the 1950s, teens had their own music, language, and dress. The fifties’ James Dean’s movie “Rebel Without a Cause” contained the theme that the nobility of youth suffers at the hands of an evil older generation which lacks understanding. Elvis Presley would soon promote certain hair styles, dress, and attitudes that became legendary. Then, Dustin Hoffman would deal the final blow at parental authority and respect in movie “The Graduate.” Today the youth culture is the “dominant culture.” (24: Hunt)

Identical to the New Age Movement of today, the Nazi worldview also grew out of the same occultic root: theosophy. In fact, the New Age Movement could easily bring forth another Adolf Hitler as well as another holocaust. Joseph Carr, in his book “The Twisted Cross,” exposes that the Nazi’s worshipped pagan gods and the Gestapo conducted Mystery initiation rites and swore blood oaths to Satan, and the top Nazi leaders were dedicated students of the black magic arts and witchcraft. The Nazis also believed in evolution, karma, and reincarnation, which are all New Age concepts. (33: Bailey)

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Although occult literature calls the “New World Order” a “Golden Age,” the Bible describes it as a time of sorrow. Aurelio Peccei, co-founder of the Club of Rome, holds an occultic worldview, biases against Christianity, and believes that orthodox religious beliefs are primitive: “One of the greatest socio-political and economic differences between the future and the present is that the increasingly intertwined structures of the entire global system will produce ‘A Progressive Convergence of the Futures of all Peoples.’ All societies will be bound together even more closely by a network of vital interlinkages, which will condition their relationships with each other for better or for worse. Breaking these links will no longer be conceivable. It would throw the whole system into chaos—which no one would want.” If these links of which he speaks are truly unbreakable, individual freedoms are very much a thing of the past. Peccei also justifies the establishment of a new universal religion: “....Certain points of doctrine.... have been magnified, provoking schisms, apostasy,.. ‘Without A Sincere Spiritual Awakening, The Renaissance of our True Humanity Will Be Impossible.’” (35: Peccei)

The act of unifying underlies all of occultism. It is a false syncretistic unity instead of true unity in Jesus Christ. The dangers of trying to gain control over society should be self evident. Those who feel we should so will be receptive to a dictatorship that the antichrist will ultimately impose. Under the new world view, national sovereignty will be unjustifiable. National sovereignty is the right of each individual nation to act as an individual nation, making its own laws and executing its own laws among its people. To the internationalist, national sovereignty is the epitome of global selfishness. Nations need to share their wealth and resources with other nations to eliminate present problems of other countries. To the new world advocate, there is no other viable alternative to the future survival of civilization than of a new global community under a common leadership! (34: Carr)

1960—During the 1960s Americans desperately sought alternatives to their parent’s religious lifestyles. These religious seekers “looked within” for truth and wisdom. Meditation was widely incorporated along with witchcraft covens, communal gatherings, Zen retreats, and new movements like Transcendental meditation and Krishna Consciousness. Family relationships, diet, fashion, and exercise were all areas in which “good” and “bad” were measured by their effects on self-knowledge and personal growth. Whereas religious and political leaders once held back the occult in America, moral authority is now increasingly located in the self rather than in family, church, or nation. A morality-free society was pushed and the results were the ingestion of drugs, sexual experimentation, rebellion against conformity to society’s norms, and a gradual dissolution of differences between men and women. To a large degree, mass media promoted the rejection of the traditional morality. (28: Pensacola)

2000-- Today, both Communism and the Arabs are a threat to our society. Not only was 9/11/01 a wake-up call, but today we are aware, with the many mosques going up across the country, that some are secretly preparing jihad to the United States. http://www.citizensoldier.org/koranone.html http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/hell.html http://www.ldolphin.org/huntislam.html

Although we brought down the Soviet Union, the agenda of that corrupt system is alive and well in this country’s academia, media, governments and churches. Today, individual liberty means individual license to do as one pleases. “You can’t legislate morality” is their cry, in spite of the fact that most governments that have ever existed have based their laws upon a moral framework that distinguishes between right and wrong. Those that do not will fall into despotism, creating havoc and poverty for their citizens. (3; Mooberry)

The mere fact that sodomy laws existed in this nation from the beginning demonstrates the intent of the founders of the nation and of the various states. The new interpretation of the First Amendment has done away with all such laws, as well as others, that would protect society from its baser elements. Now that the moral authority is increasingly located in “the self” rather than in family, church, or nation, there is a renewed interest in witchcraft and supernaturalism. Occultism is always associated with immorality and sexual perversion. Even though secular studies have demonstrated that having sex before marriage increases the likelihood of divorce, today’s propaganda promotes exactly the opposite.

Homosexuality and lesbianism are one of the deadliest sexual practices and they are now promoted. Sadomasochism is practiced by 37% of homosexuals. A person who lives an exclusively homosexual lifestyle is one thousand times more likely to contact AIDS than a heterosexual. The median age of death for married heterosexual men is nearly twice that of homosexuals: 75 compared to 39. Only 1% of homosexuals live beyond the age of 65. The average age of death for married women is 79 compared with 45 for lesbians. Homosexuals are 87 times more likely to commit suicide and 23 times more likely to die of heart attacks. The facts are suppressed and politicians are cowed into submission by the voting power of gays and cater to them. Although concerned conservatives call for a “return to traditional values,” we need to ask “what tradition” and by “what authority?” By the mutual consent of a decent society? Who defines these terms? It is far more loving to reprove homosexuals than to “accept them.” One who truly loves others who are misguided will point them to the Scriptures which call their perversion a sinful abomination to God—and will urge them to cease from practice which can only bring premature and painful death. (24; Hunt pp. 330-31)

Colonials disapproved of blending Christianity and astrology and saw magic as evil and demonic. But after 1720 immigrants from Europe challenged the Protestant worldview and irrevocably changed the cultural landscape of America. People were encouraged to shape their own destinies and this optimism and emphasis on personal experience became a basic assumption underlying mid-nineteenth alternative religious movements. The reformist agenda was initiated by a transformed social and economic landscape and revivalism’s emphasis on the ability of humans to direct their own lives and to perfect the world around them. The Second Great Awakening (1800-1830) was also a time of spurred interest in many alternatives to Christianity.

The “psychic highway” followed the Erie Canal through New York west of the Catskills and the Adirondack Mountains. Rochester and Utica became known as the “Burned-over District” as religious revivals spread across the district. Early Mormonism was started there as well as Spiritualism, which eventually developed in different directions. During the years from 1812-1860, a “hothouse” atmosphere surfaced for social experimentation and religious creativity. As our country moved into commercial greatness, crowded cities staged popular speakers and held demonstrations were political and religious ideas were exchanged. (10; Pike) http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/civilwar/01/burned.html

Today, right and wrong have lost their meaning because, according to modern psychology, none of us is responsible for anything we do. We are all victims, driven to do whatever we do by the traumas we suffered as children, traumas which have created hidden motives and urges buried in the unconscious and are thus unknown to us and beyond our control. Before Freud, no educated adult could find a plausible reason to avoid responsibility for his actions. Left to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychology, man has become blameless. It is not done by covering his faults, but by tracing them back to his childhood, when he was morally innocent... (24; Hunt)

A “Reader’s Digest” article commented: “....Sin isn’t something many people spent much time worrying about in the past 25 years. But...sin...at least offered a frame of reference for behavior. When the frame was dismantled during the sexual revolution, we lost the guide wire of personal responsibility... The United States has problems with drugs, high-school sex, AIDS and rape. None of these will go away until people in positions of responsibility come forward and explain, in frankly moral terms, that some of the things people do nowadays are wrong.” (Reader’s Digest, May 1992, reprinted from the Wall Street Journal).

This is the UN.

On December 5, 1980, the United Nations General Assembly formulated the Global Education Project. Based on UN assistant secretary-general Robert Muller’s World Core Curriculum, a model for global education for every nation was set up in Costa Rica called the University for Peace. Stressing “thinking skills” rather than academics, it is designed to instill non-competitive group consciousness, critical thinking, and global citizenship. Muller is an evolutionist who believes man is about to take a quantum leap toward becoming a new species. He believes that the earth is going to be transformed into the “planet of God.” To him God is the “planetary age” or the “age of Aquarius.” He agrees with the Hindus in calling the earth God. This is the foundation of our radical environmentalists today. They are striving for a spiritual at-one-ment with nature—a unified world system where the individual is subordinated into the whole.

This is artwork displayed in the UN.

This World Core Curriculum promotes Eastern meditation techniques, including “guided fantasies into space,” which is also called “out-of-body travel” or “astral projection.” Muller’s concepts are actually taken from occultist Alice Bailey’s writings which were channeled the spirit guide Djwhal Kuhl, also known as the Tibetan. These channeled spirit guides are from an alleged group of evolutionary beings who have attained a high degree of evolutionary perfection which released them from bondage to the material world. This holistic view of life views the planet as interconnected, with no life form having any greater standing than any other life form. Imperfect while we are still man, our next stage is said to take us to a level that is psychologically, spiritually, and physically superior where we will be a true “planetary citizen.” (27; Dager)

The overall paradigm shift:

1) Patriarchal (Father God)----- Matriarchal (Mother Earth—Gaia)

2) Hierarchical Leadership-----“Decentralized”—Totalitarian in a Crisis

3) Accountability to God-----Accountability to fellow man/earth

Scripture tells us that man’s inward thoughts and intents of the heart are corrupt (Jeremiah 17:9). Scripture also tells us that the love of many will grow cold toward the end of the church age and that sin will abound (Matthew 24:12). Even in the Millennium Jesus and His saints will need to rule with a “rod of iron” against those who will rebel against His government (Rev. 2:27; 12;5, 19;15).

God always allows evil to exist in the world to test the hearts of men so that none will be without excuse. We are not to take for ourselves what He has not ordained. Western Civilization has largely been shaped by the esoteric philosophies of secret societies working through the influence of members in strategic political positions. Most secret societies are based on the basic philosophy of deism which is based on human reason rather than revelation (Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Illuminsim, etc.). They all plan to establish a one-world society based on human reason and personal freedom. A democracy can be easily changed into a world society, especially if wars can be used to persuade the masses to seek safety and peace in a world federation of states.