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Welcome to Jesus-Land, Where God Plans Terrorist Attacks and Speaks through Stocks

3/23/2013

12 Comments

 
I mostly leave alone wacky religious claims except where they cross into making historical claims since there are many people more qualified than I to opine on theology. However, yesterday I heard something that was so profoundly stupid—and also founded on a historical claim—that I was left dumbfounded. We’ll get to that in a moment, but first I want to share one other wacky religious idea I discovered yesterday.

You’ll probably remember that on America Unearthed S01E08 "Chamber Hunting" Scott Wolter claimed that a colonial era spring house (a stone building used for storing food) was a Freemason-Templar site for “ritual bathing.” Many of us wondered why he thought the Templars and Masons engage in ritual bathing, when this simply isn’t supported by evidence. Well, I found the answer. I’ll publish full details in the book version of my America Unearthed coverage, but the short form is this: He’s been reading too much Templar-Holy Bloodline conspiracy literature. I wasn’t familiar with this apparently vast subgenre, but many authors claim that the Freemasons are Templars and the Templars are really the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, who engaged in ritual bathing. Therefore, of course, so do Masons. This is based on the work of eighteenth century Prussian crackpot theologian, Freemason, and porn writer Karl Bahrdt, who proposed that the Essenes were a pre-Masonic secret society that worked with Jesus to fake his death in order to create a false religion through which the Essene-Masons could rule the world.

The disturbing part is that Wolter apparently has a master-narrative in mind that dictates how he views the sites he investigates. If they can be made to conform to the Essene-Templar-Freemason Holy Bloodline narrative, then they are in (like the Tucson artifacts, the Welsh Indians, and “ritual bathing” chambers), but if they do not support the Holy Bloodline narrative (like Norse giants, Viking swords, and the like) then they are out.

But enough of that; on to the really insane religious claims.

The former governor of Arkansas and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee has a radio show that is the first real competitor to Rush Limbaugh in the early afternoon timeslot in a generation. Huckabee bills himself as conservative but not confrontational, and it showed yesterday. (I do not listen to his show but was forced to do so yesterday thanks to another person's choice of radio station.)

Huckabee had on Jonathan Cahn, a messianic rabbi who has some extreme beliefs about God’s plan. Cahn believes that God speaks to the United States through the stock market, specifically the Dow Jones Industrial Average (a kind of burning bush-cum-Metatron), and he also believes that God planned the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington as a reenactment of events from the Book of Isaiah, a warning of the coming apocalypse as punishment for America’s sins. (This is a theme Jerry Falwell started when he blamed abortionists, feminists, and gays for bringing about 9/11 in the weeks after the attacks.)

Specifically, Cahn claims that Isaiah 9:8-10 is “reenacted” in the events after 9/11, which is recapitulated in Isaiah 9:11. (COINCIDENCE?!?!)

He provides details of these claims in a series of books, CDs, and DVDs under the title of The Harbinger that he sells for a small fortune. The DVD set is EIGHT discs, with a “condensed” three-disc set going for $45! Over the past year, Cahn has become wealthy as Christian audiences have flocked to hear his message that terrorism is part of God’s end time plan. Apparently, his message is confined largely to the Christian market since I had never heard of it and could find little written about it outside Christian websites and media. To tie this in to America Unearthed, some Christian groups wondered if Cahn’s theory that America was God’s new chosen land could possibly be true since it would mean God was ignoring the evil Freemasons’ control of America, especially their embrace of more than one religion!

Huckabee said he was “fascinated” by the “real proof” Cahn provided that God speaks through stocks, plans terrorist attacks, and is judging America for sexual sins.

On the radio show, Cahn provided the following “real proof.” He cites first Isaiah 9:8-11, which tells of Israel’s defiant response to God allowing Israel’s enemies to attack in response to apostasy in Israel:

8 The Lord sends a message against Jacob,
And it falls on Israel.

9 And all the people know it,
That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:

10 “The bricks have fallen down,
But we will rebuild with smooth stones;
The sycamores have been cut down,
But we will replace them with cedars.”

11 Therefore the LORD raises against them adversaries from Rezin
And spurs their enemies on…

From this, Cahn derives the following claims:

  • In giving the “official U.S. government response” to 9/11, Tom Daschle spoke the words of Isaiah that launched God’s judgment.
  • A sycamore tree was destroyed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and replaced with a biblical cedar.
  • The fallen bricks of the World Trade Center were replaced with a stone memorial as per Isaiah.
  • The stock market crashed in 2001 and 2008, a Biblical seven years at “exactly the same day and hour.”

This is just stupid. The New York Stock Exchange reopened on September 17, 2001, and it lost 7.1% (684 points) that day, closing, as usual, at 4 PM. The decline continued for a full week, so the “crash” was not a one day event. Somewhere near seven years later, when the 2008 financial crisis hit, the stock market lost 7.0% (777 points) on September 29, 2008 after the House rejected a $700 billion bailout plan. Again, the market closed at 4 PM, as it does every day it is open. Neither event ranked among the ten largest percentage declines in Dow history, all of which happened before 1987, eight before 1940.

Tom Daschle did quote Isaiah 9:10, probably without understanding its Biblical context. However, he was the majority leader of the Senate in 2001, which is not a constitutional office. (The only Senatorial constitutional office is President of the Senate, who is the Vice President of the U.S.) His speech on the Senate floor was not the “official U.S. government response,” as Cahn claims. That was delivered by Pres. George W. Bush, the head of state and government. It wouldn’t even be an official Senate response since it was not adopted as a sense of the Senate resolution, the official declaration of senatorial opinion.

While a sycamore tree was crushed by a falling beam at Trinity Church, it was not replaced by a cedar. It was replaced by a Norway spruce in 2003.

The World Trade Center was made of steel, glass, and concrete, not brick. The new Freedom Tower is similarly not made stone, though there are granite facing stones on the largely concrete 9/11 memorial.

The rabbi also claims George Washington "dedicated" America to God in New York in 1789, making it the "Temple Mount" for America and the proper site for God's wrath. He basis this on Washington's 1789 inaugural address, given at Federal Hall on Wall Street, now the site of the New York Stock Exchange. Here is what Washington said:

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station; it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official Act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the Universe, who presides in the Councils of Nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes: and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success, the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own; nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either. No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. And in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their United Government, the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities, from which the event has resulted, cannot be compared with the means by which most Governments have been established, without some return of pious gratitude along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me I trust in thinking, that there are none under the influence of which, the proceedings of a new and free Government can more auspiciously commence.

This was hardly different than the conventional appeal to the blessings of God given to the crowned heads of Europe, who after all believed that they reigned by divine right; it was simply part and parcel of eighteenth century rhetoric. Across the sea, after all, the Habsburg emperor still claimed to rule God's own kingdom, the Holy Roman Empire, as the viceroy of God himself.

Biblical code specialists (seriously) immediately seized upon the series of sevens in the 2008 crash as evidence that God was speaking to America, and this was added to the Isaiah prophecy claim, which had been floating around Christian sites since at least 2006, if not earlier. (I'm not going to wade through all the Christian conspiracy sites.) Cahn has merely repeated them almost verbatim from Christian conspiracy websites. (Even alternative religious authors recycle ideas without credit—ethics!) Cahn concludes that God is reenacting the prophecy of Isaiah, leading up to the captivity and disbursement of America, just as happened to Israel.

There is obviously a huge demographic of dedicated believers who badly want to believe that America is God’s chosen land and the He takes special interest in America’s spiritual development. This same impulse stands behind both the Templar-Holy Bloodline claims of America Unearthed and allegations of God’s 9/11 plan. Clearly, the attacks of 9/11 were a huge psychological blow whose ramifications are still being felt, and it is not surprising that many do not want to look at the geopolitical causes and consequences and prefer instead to throw up their hands and declare that it was all due to America’s insufficient commitment to Christianity, and a return to the true religion will fix all ills and bring God’s blessing back. 

This kind of revitalization movement is seen over and over again, including the classic example of Handsome Lake preaching that a return to true and pure religion could help the Iroquois overcome the cultural devastation of European contact. 

What astounds me is that there is a vast parallel culture of people seeped in religious prophecy, Templar revelations, and Freemason conspiracy theories who have a magical worldview that imagines America as God’s special chosen land (blessings end at the border; sorry, Canada) and who want desperately to find God and Jesus right here in the U. S. of A. 

I’ll be honest; this isn’t a subculture I’ve had a lot of contact or experience with, and I don’t think I want to. How do you even begin to have a reasonable discussion with people whose idea of a debate is deciding whether God truly blessed America or whether the Freemasons are faking it as part of a Satanic conspiracy? 
12 Comments
Lucie
3/23/2013 06:25:47 pm

*face palm* America. Doh!

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Clint Knapp
3/24/2013 04:01:45 am

Cahn was on Coast to Coast AM on 03-20-13 spouting the same story. I spend a lot of time shaking my head at the wacky claims folks make on C2C, but that one definitely takes the cake for the 9/11 conspiracy nonsense.

To confuse things further, he gave a story that one of the first 'official' photographers on scene found a blown-open bible in the rubble that pointed to Genesis 11:3-4's phrase 'Come let us build a tower' and equates that to the Isaiah 9:10 bit about the bricks falling and being rebuilt. So now, according to this almost certainly fabricated tale, America is both Babylon AND Israel- as the Genesis verse relates the story of the Tower of Babel.

I'm the furthest thing from a biblical scholar, but if that isn't stretching a concept thin and making irrational connections, I don't know what is. I wonder if anyone will realize the only conspiracy behind 9/11 is the one perpetrated by crackpots like Cahn to make as much money as humanly possible off of it.

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Byron DeLear
3/24/2013 07:01:07 am

Regarding the Essenes faking Jesus's death etc. Part of this canon is also Barbara Thiering's Jesus and the Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls published in '92. In that, she has ostensibly uncovered a technique to read between the lines of the Dead Sea Scrolls discovering a whole new narrative and reiterpretation of the New Testament.

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Gunn Sinclair
3/24/2013 07:09:13 am

This has provoked some rather heavy thoughts:

It looks to me like Michael Hayden, then head of the NSA, avoided sharing crucial information with necessary others just before 911. Also, it looks to me like the same could be said of Israel not adequately sharing information it knew. Question: did America have plenty of warning before 911? Answer: Truthfully, yes.

Upcoming: 50th Anniversary of JFK getting whacked. What happened? Now we know that the Mob did it, with elements of the US Government knowing it was going to happen. Then ensued an obvious cover-up to this very day. The longest pole in the cover-up still living: GHW Bush. I recommend googling Bill Lord to see W's potential involvement was.

What should surprise us now? Maybe the Dome on the Rock will be blown up. Who will do it, and will we be told the truth when it happens? Does it matter? Ultimately, the Show must go on, right?

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Christopher Randolph
3/31/2013 10:40:59 am

Lee Harvey Oswald did it, the same Lee Harvey Oswald who attempted to shoot retired Major General Edwin Walker, an outspoken John Birch Society member. Everyone always leaves that bit out. From the hard left perspective, LHO was the "ablest man in the party" (as once said of Trotsky) of his day.

That millionaire cold warrior/ MLK-ridiculer JFK is a hero to the American 'left' and LHO is rendered a patsy speaks volumes as to how this country has no real left, despite the protestations that every stop sign and guardrail in the country is proof of creeping socialism. In any other country young lefties would be wearing Oswald's face on a T-shirt.

The plain fact that America won't deal with is that a young American leftist and military veteran shot the POTUS in the head because we had (and have) a lousy and harmful policy against Cuba. Similarly 9/11 happened because we had (and yes still have) a lousy and harmful policy in the Middle East.

Americans can either A) try and understand blowback cause and effect-style, maybe learn something from it and change behaviors or B) make up fairy tales in which things happen for no reason anyone can trace because of massive secret conspiracies. Guess which paths we choose?

Disturbingly a belief system required for the conspiracy-mongering to 'work', at least given the constraints of its own internal logic, is that only rich white Americans can defeat rich white Americans. The Oswalds and al Qaedas of the world must never be ceded even a temporary victory. Only the Great White Chief can harm the Great White Chief. This is really the worldview of a petulant and likely racist child.

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Cathleen Anderson
3/24/2013 10:03:27 am

I am glad you are continuing to share your discoveries.

It is pretty obvious that Wolters is reading too much of that stuff.

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Jason Colavito link
3/24/2013 10:11:30 am

That's the thing: I'm well-versed in ancient astronaut material and lost civilization material, but I don't know much about Jesus Bloodline conspiracies, so this took me by surprise. I had no idea how many books there are about that--and from major publishers! All of that fake history makes my head spin.

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3/24/2013 12:31:39 pm

Yeah, my head spins too.

Gunn Sinclair
3/24/2013 04:04:27 pm

Hi Cathleen, your style of sarcasm is confusing. Well, I don't think Wolter is reading much of "that stuff," of mine whatever you're referring to.

I began looking into the Kensington Runestone about three years ago after going to see it and reading Scott's book about the hooked X. I agree with surprisingly little of what he has to say, but I do still see some credibility about the hooked X itself, since it is carved into the KRS and was carved onto several other runestones from the East Coast. (The state of Maine does not display their runestones, which have hooked X's on them.) The Larsson papers indicate that the hooked X was used as a secret code, and even Columbus used it. So I believe in the hooked X on the KRS possibly being associated with some remnants of the Templars or a related group. I'm not ashamed about believing in the authenticity of the KRS, and I'm not alone either.

I don't believe in the so-called holy bloodline at all, or the sacred feminine (sorry) or much else of what Mr. Wolter has to offer the world. In my personal opinion, he is in trouble with God. I have no relationship with him, and I have never met him. I found him to be a little bit repugnant in some of the emails I exchanged with him, and in the end he was insulting to me, over a stonehole of all things, so please don't mistakenly believe that we are friends.

However, in fairness, he did point me to stonehole rocks in his book, and I'm now happy up here with follow-up "discoveries" of my own, some of which I hope you liked reading about. The photos were put up for your enjoyment: www.hallmarkemporium.com/discoveries

While there, check out the Jason Colavito Stonehole. Man, is that sucker ever OLD, or what?

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The Other J.
3/24/2013 01:33:56 pm

With regard to the religious/Freemason/Templar parallels, one text to possibly consider as foundational is John Robison's 1797 "Proofs of a Conspiracy." Robison was a Scottish physicist who taught at the U. of Edinburgh, you can look him up on Wikipedia, and the full title off the frontispiece is suggestive:

Proofs of a Conspiracy Against All the Religions and Governments of Europe, Carried On In the Secret Meetings of Free Masons, Illuminati, and Reading Societies. Collected From Good Authorities, by John Robison, A.M. Professor of Natural Philosophy, and Secretary To the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Nam tua res agitur paries cum proxima ardet. The THIRD EDITION. To which is added a Postscript.

That edition was printed in 1798 in Philadelphia for a T. Dobson, and it's a 412-page hot mess of post hoc ergo propter hoc thinking (unfortunate, coming from a scientist). In many ways, it lays out the blueprint for how Freemasons become after-the-fact guilty of any number of political upheavals, revolutions and economic disasters, and it very much fits the "I don't know, therefore god/aliens" line of thinking -- the kind of thinking that says "What's happening here seems way to complicated to parse out, so maybe it isn't that complicated -- maybe there's a unified theory of evil behind it, which is more comforting because at least I'll have something to blame instead of seeming existential randomness."

Of interest is how the way in which Robison blames the Freemasons and Illuminati becomes a kind of template used against other (perceived dangerous) outsider groups -- Jacobins, the 19th C. Irish and later Italian immigrants in the U.S., communists, Jews, aliens, reptilians, etc. of course it's not the only origin of grand conspiratorial thinking, but it's one text that appears suggestive modern conspiratorial currents. However, you can find similar kinds of thinking pre-Enlightenment with regard to Jews, faeries, and elves.

The common element is a more or less homogeneous group (at least in how they perceive themselves) who feel, rightly or wrongly, existentially threatened by the presence of a new group that seems to represent something other than their own homogeneous group. The difference can be ideological, religious, political, ethnic, etc., as long as it's a difference that is difficult to clarify and/or discuss with that other group.

So the parallels you noted between people steeped in religious prophecy, Templar revelations and Freemason conspiracy theories may have a root in a common paranoid approach to perceived outsider groups, and no matter who that outsider group is, the paranoid thinking follows a similar pattern -- which is why person A can have a globalist conspiracy and person B can have a reptilian conspiracy, and you could nearly swap globalists with reptilians and the narrative won't change too much.

You can find the complete text on archive.org. Be prepared for a lot of impacted clauses and s's that look like f's.

P.S.: I don't even think it necessarily has to be racial differences; you'll find the same kind of thinking among Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and I defy anyone to look at two random faces from Northern Ireland and identify any particular ethnic difference. Similarly, there has been ethnic strife in some inner-city neighborhoods in Milwaukee between African Americans descended from slaves and recent sub -Saharan African immigrants who don't want to be associated with the more negative stereotypes of African Americans. That's necessitated town hall meetings where the groups can air their grievances and try to work out their problems. Skin color differences more or less just seem to be a superficial signifier for a variety of other perceived threats.

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Jason Colavito link
3/24/2013 01:58:22 pm

Thank you for that information. You're absolutely right that the conspiracy narrative is largely the same, with different groups under stress projecting their own favored enemy into the role of the conspirator. That's probably why David Icke was able to so easily segue from having Jews as the masterminds of the conspiracy to reptile people without having to change anything else.

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Phillip
3/24/2013 06:17:20 pm

I hate to spoil the party, But if Americans are Gods chosen people, then Gods chosen people are relatively naive and stupid......for believing they are Gods chosen people of course...............Ha!

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