American Witchcraft

Post 281

Surprise of surprises; the boy that this week killed his mother, stole her guns, and went to an elementary school to kill 26 children and teachers in Newtown Connecticut before offing himself with a bullet to the head… was quietly reported to be on long-term, prescribed pharmaceutical medications.
Yet the instant outcry from government and do-wellers is to bring up the tormented topic of gun control as the always-ready immediate answer to violence.

It is a true marvel to me that we are so self-sophisticated that Uganda’s Kony style witchcraft is beneath us but we are utterly blind to our very successful replacement; Pharmaceuticals.
While Kony stole away the Ugandan’s children to “cleans” them with sacred water and “cure” them with incantations to make them killers, our American Demons are circumventing your Kony doctors as the pushers they once were, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers supported by our governments are now using our TV to push their witchcraft directly. Our own parents then run to their doctors as street-dealers from which to buy their latest fix, and then often drugged themselves they force it on their children who usually don’t want it. How completely backwards is that?!

Like the number of fatal vehicle accidents would plummet to almost none if you removed those related to alcohol, so would the accounts of mothers killing their children and children killing their parents, friends, and total strangers, if we removed those events that include people on pharmaceutical “medications.”
But the great champion illusion of these medications is “the great need”;

“My child is hyperactive, unruly, or A.D.D., I am under stress, I can’t sleep, I’m depressed…” the list of excuses is near unending and the promised fix is the designer drug, and hey; “the government carefully regulates the drug industry to make sure they don’t sell us anything dangerous.”

Really?~

As the many TV adds warn: “…Stop taking ____ if you have thoughts of suicide or feel nausea or…”
SAY WHAT?!
When did drug induced thoughts of suicide become a casual “side affect” like nausea!?
And if the government is so carefully regulating these manufacturers as to require the very long list of side affects that range from rash to death (another casual side affect), why don’t they require “strong thoughts of murder” in that list as well? Oh, I remember; it’s because you only get those feelings when experiencing withdrawals! A designer drug with a built in grave deterrent that ensures you never detox from it…; Brilliant!
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The word pharmaceutical comes directly from the Greek word:
5331 pharmakeia; from 5332; medication (“pharmacy”), i.e. (by extension) magic (literal or figurative):-- sorcery, witchcraft.

5332 pharmakeus; from pharmakon (a drug, i.e. spell-giving potion); a druggist (“pharmacist”) or poisoner, i.e. (by extension) a magician:-- sorcerer.

And although that is itself quite shockingly revealing, the bible translators actually used the English word “witchcraft” for the rightfully direct Greek word meaning a pharmaceutical medication:

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest (obvious), which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft( 5331), hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings [as in “letting loose”: Partying], and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” Galatians 5:19-21.

Yet while Christians don’t "Party like animals," commit fornication or join seditions, many, MANY, Christians drug themselves and their own children, ensuring that they do not enter the kingdom of God!
Do you actually believe in God and his word, or is that really just a comfortable religion to you that doesn’t actually translate into reality? Am I striking too close to home now?

“But what about the very real condition that ‘needs’ the drug to manage it?”

Am I denying the condition exists? Not at all; rather I am confirming the actual condition. But because we are already so doped up on our spiritual drugs that we cannot “see straight” to make right decisions; we simply cannot recognize these very real conditions as spiritual problems manifesting in the temporal; We simply don’t actually believe the two realms are actually that connected, so having prayed, we leave God at church and then run to the approved witchdoctor for real help. Yet somehow it’s the backward black Ugandan savages that should be pitied as so simple of understanding that they are hardly human and deserving of human dignity, right?

“…behold, to obey is better than (Jesus’) sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (7081), and stubbornness is as iniquity (205) and idolatry (8655). Behold thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee…” I Samuel 15:22-23.

Witchcraft 7081 qecem; [Hebrew] from 7080; a lot; also divination (including its fee), oracle:-- (reward of) divination, divine sentence, witchcraft.

Although the English translators used the same word “witchcraft” for both the Hebrew and the Greek words, they are not actually the same thing, though they result in the same condition; that is a sought out deviation from the way God intended but the fabricated illusion that this is what he wants. A false prophet is just such a pharmacist as is the whore prophetess that dispenses these “much-needed” medications;

“…there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts” Nahum 3:3-4.

Medications for these presumed exclusively temporal conditions are not God’s answer. How many more murdered innocents are needed before we see this very plain truth? The guns are merely the amoral means often used, as is the car. God tells us the actual issue is a stubborn persistence in denying God his role in solving our problems that present as “conditions,” and this stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry; meaning we make gods of our other answers and those answers are created from a mind that thinks only to foolish and empty ends of further destruction (Romans 1:21-22).

Iniquity 205 ‘aven; from an unused root perhaps meaning properly, to pant (hence, to exert oneself, usually in vain; to come to naught); strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol:-- affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners…

Idolatry 8655 teraphiym; plural from 7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol:-- idols (-atry), images, teraphim.

Sure, we can blame the pharmaceutical companies for their greed, and the governments for playing along for the same (though more complex) reasons, but when it really comes down to it the parents that refuse to turn to God in personal obedience, willingly turn to the family idols of pharmaceutical witchcraft to answer their children’s problems when God doesn’t come through for their own problems.
But ignorance of God is no excuse, just as ignorance of the drug does not negate the affect; God holds the parents accountable first for their own sin and then for those that they force on their children… But you can sure see how the Godless leadership that they have elected in ignorance has steered them to their committed destruction, and the resulting destruction of the innocent “collateral damage” (Genesis 6:5).
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Am I suggesting that medicine is never rightly needed? No, in fact there will be a tree in the restored kingdom city of Jerusalem-- which through it flows a new river-- whose leaves will be used for medicinal purposes (Ezekiel 47:12). But what I am saying is that long-term medication, especially one that alters the nature of the individual, is a violation of God’s design and intent; it is an alternative to God himself.

In a similar way we see Americans flocking to churches, lighting candles and saying prayers for the recently lost: Candlelight vigil (http://abcnews.go.com/US/connecticut-shooting-computers-home-gunman/story?id=17989753).
But honestly, what is the actual point? Is it an earnest clothes-tearing agony of heart and spirit begging God to show us our sin that has allowed this to come upon our land? Or is it rather a knee-jerk emotional expression that simply says to the hurting; “It’s the only way I know how to show my sympathy”?
What is the actual point of the sudden shrine built from a heap of junk placed reverently and ceremoniously at the place of bloodshed, as if we are guiltless to a meaningless tragedy that just must be suffered. The makeshift shrine itself is actually our way of agreeing with the hurting, but in the agreement comes the feeling of innocence; “I am a victim too,” "We're all victims here." Such a functionally useless reaction is too reminiscent of the Jews who likewise quietly and mournfully endured the Holocaust as just something that must be suffered on the innocent.

Where is the expectation that God should have kept this from happening? WHERE IS THE BEGGING GOD TO SHOW US OUR GUILT that has obviously disallowed that protection He wanted to provide? Where is national Repentance in recognizing this as a national consequence?

"We don’t need to repent we just need to outlaw guns and make better drugs."
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