If your church is not against Orwellian tyranny,
it is not against tyranny!Orwellian “Church”
It is Leveraged by Levitical Tradition
I’ve rationalized, at least for myself, that there are TWO threads to be acutely aware of that run through the Bible and “Judeo-Christianity.”
One thread is about “life after death” which embodies Jesus, the Cross, the Resurrection, Heaven/Hell, etc.  It contains the spiritual aspects that must just be a “matter of faith.”
 
The second thread is more temporal.  It is often a structurally hidden thread in religion but is still an historically evident pattern.  This second thread is about the sly leveraging of “religious authority” to help bolster despotic “authority” by covertly implying that obeying “government” is paramount for “correct spirituality.”  By such tyranny, much valid “doctrine” has been deceitfully obscured, such as: (1) Exodus-based doctrine that focuses on freeing slaves and keeping them free, (2) doctrine that focuses on honesty (especially by government), and (3) doctrine that focuses on explaining Orwellian-styled tyranny.  In exchange for their cunning “religious authority,” a cabal of Judeo-Christian “ministry” and “ministers” have received protections and benefits from multitudes of tyrants and governments that have profited from coveting and stealing.
Only Exodus-like events such as the Magna Carta, the Reformation, and the American Revolution have thwarted and blocked religious officials from effectively using “religious authority” on behalf of despots and their oppression – oppression that has often been quite “Orwellian.”  The drama continues…
 
 
P.S.  The Levites were evil (Genesis 49:5-7).  Nothing in scripture concretely signals that their demeanor changed by becoming ancient Israel’s “Priesthood.”  If anything, the Levites became shrewder with their new found “authority” after the Exodus.  The “40 Years in the Desert” resulted by their rule, over which time the Levites originated a paradigm of cunningly cooperative “authority” between religion and government that would become “standard tradition” for Judeo-Christianity.  Ever since, religious officials have been seduced by their own sly “doctrine” to be oppressors – as evidenced by their “legion” of Orwellian silence concerning much tyranny.
 
Therefore beware.  As it was the Levites who “managed” what Scripture says about both themselves and “obeying authority,” beware especially of what has been written post-Exodus about both the Levites and the obeying of temporal “officials.”
 
Authors like George Orwell, Ayn Rand, and Frank R. Wallace
are highly recommended for more insights.
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Thank Goodness for John 7:24!
Seriously though, would Jesus have caused people to think deeply in many ways but then not analyze their “authorities” with the brains that God gave them?
Given the long line of despots in “Judeo-Christian” history, various Biblical admonitions about “obeying authority” need to be taken with “a grain of salt.”  No better “grain of salt” likely exists for this purpose than John 7:24 which says “Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. (NKJV)”
Therefore, given John 7:24, the various Biblical admonitions about “obeying authority” should be seen, at best, as hopeful exuberances about “authorities” or, at worst, reflections of plots for appeasing the “Establishment” authorities during the times they were written.  Either way, as the author of CLERGY SECRETS, I’m just saying that it is possible to embrace Jesus for salvation but to also judge “Establishment Authority” with your own brains, especially when such “authority” has been trying to act more like the Pharaohs of Egypt.  –  Warren Vitcenda

Assange on Dishonest Government
“The overwhelming majority of information is classified to protect political security, not national security.”
– Julian Assange of Wikileaks

Wikileaks could include and investigate “religious authority”
as a dishonest “protector of political security.”
 

Your time, your money, and – most importantly –
your honesty are all at stake!

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