Peace of Mind News

Yesterday’s article hasn’t yet let go of me.

The aspect that haunts me the most is how Christian religion, the one I lived within for the first forty or so years of my life, is so effective at making its followers comfortable with the idea of a blood sacrifice.

This isn’t an off-hand comment.

I am an expert in this discipline. Prior to following another path, I taught classes weekly and studied daily while working within the business of this particular brand of Christian religion. Sometimes I was paid for my efforts. More often, I did the work as a volunteer. It was my passion.

Even today, I continue to interact with those who follow this path.

They easily and flippantly talk about the justifications for taking life as a form of severe punishment, what I call blood sacrifice. They call it war or capital punishment or self-defense.

I often wonder if they hear the words they are saying.

As I have mulled over this phenomenon, I have to wonder why humanity would willingly fall prey to such self-destructive and counterintuitive behavior.

Thom Hartmann asks similar questions in his book Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink. He provides a historical perspective of previously peaceful societies and attempts to determine why they turned to war. There is evidence that, in many cases, war may have been the direct result of the illogical thinking that comes out of mental illness.

Initially, it seems war became a solution for the problem of a scarce food supply. Instead of pooling resources and jointly solving the resource problem, groups killed one another to acquire food, including human flesh.

Hartman explains that once humanity became comfortable with killing other large mammals for food, this opened the way to slaying humans for the same reason.

Today, we think we are more civilized about our blood sacrifices. We generally don’t harvest human flesh from war. We depose of it. (A certain “Stranger in a Strange Land” would call this “wasting food.”) In doing so, we prove we are no longer fighting war for survival.

Instead, we practice the mental illness of war because “we have always done it this way.”

Obviously, something outside of survival instincts drives our passion for war.

Closer investigation shows the role of religious programming, especially religious music, plays a major role.

This is startling… and it has purposely been going on for centuries.

This article reveals how J. S. Bach’s Baroque period music may have played a role in this process.

In it, Belgium Professor Baron Baretzky “explains that this discovery could have several ramifications as it ultimately deals with sound and using sound as interception of the mind in order to achieve a hypnotic state that then could be used to introduce anything from belief systems to war propaganda.”

I have a degree in music education. Some of my religious work was as a church musician. I agree with professor Baretzky. Music is a great tool to set a mood or program the masses.

I remember singing Christian war songs, under the guise of spiritual warfare, that focused on slaughtering God’s enemies, the blood of Jesus, and numerous other subjects that pointed to blood sacrifice.

This careful programming through religious music prepared the religious masses to fight yesterday. It is claimed that Churchill used Christian soldier tunes to encourage Roosevelt to join World War II.

The same technique is used today. The masses are carefully programmed through religious techniques, including music, so that once a politician uses the correct buzzwords, such as “terrorism,” “evil,” or “Satan,” the religious masses will follow him anywhere.

They will go to war, support a war, and defend a war.

As our society claims progress on the road towards peace, this underlying programming for blood sacrifice remains in place

This is by design.

And, religion isn’t the only culprit.

I’ll look at other areas of this programming tomorrow.