THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ALEX JONES By Dawson Rebel ©2012

Everyone’s beliefs are based upon their understanding of reality. However, most never develop a systematic development of their thought, and an in depth understanding of their beliefs. Their ruling assumptions operate below the surface. This is true of Alex Jones. He appears to be just covering the news from a redneck Texan point of view, tempered by a Southern Baptist traveling evangelist mentality. Because the news is ‘real,’ people just assume that the underlying philosophy of Alex Jones is equally true. You may ask, how can a person who just reads the new laws and the documents have a philosophy which colors his beliefs? I do not think even Alex has slowed down long enough to understand his own unconscious beliefs. When asked to examine himself deeply, he replies that his philosophy is just him being his natural self. He believes that his inner self is real and will produce a real philosophy without systematic reflection.

As a Christian who has listened, almost every day since 9/11, to the Alex Jones show, I became aware that he imported beliefs into his interpretation of the events of the day. If the Christian is not aware of these beliefs, he can actually be seduced into a new form of Christianity. It is this new Gospel that I want to address. I want to compare some of the affirmations made by Alex with traditional theology. It is important that the reader understand that I am not debating the importance of the raw data that Alex reveals to his listeners. However, Alex organizes this data into a world view. It is this world view that the listener will come to think as true because the events that Alex’s predicts often come true. The danger is that Alex may end up deceiving himself, and ultimately, his listeners.

First-- Alex makes a very common mistake made by most Christians and church people. They believe, because God blesses certain aspects of my life, God has endorsed every aspect of my life. After all, God would not bless me if he were not pleased with my service to Him. This sounds logical, but it is not Biblical.

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Consider the book of Habakkuk in the Old Testament. The prophet of God had a serious problem. God had used the evil Assyrian nation to inflict God’s judgment upon His people. This bothered Habakkuk: even though the nation of Israel had some faults, it was far superior to the evil Assyrian Empire. And yet, if you were an Assyrian, you could easily get the impression that God was endorsing you and your empire over against God’s own people. Of course, that was not true, and as soon as Assyria had accomplished its ordained purpose, God disposed of them as God eventually judged them for their evil ways.

Or, consider the life of Peter. His worldview had to be rebuked by the Apostle Paul. Peter had imported some of his childhood views into his Gospel message. We all do this. We are not even aware of it. It often takes someone with a different background than ours to expose our ‘childhood’ insertions into our adult views. Often leaders become separated from this process. A leader is always attacked and there is the natural tendency to circle one’s intellectual wagons in defense against attack. On the other side, leaders are admired and even worshipped by their followers. The followers often accept the whole message and feel uneasy about criticizing their hero. It is like a ten year olds relationship with his father who considers his father a hero: Criticism in unthinkable.

Alex relates divine interventions in his life and special moments of communion with a divine force. Obviously, these experiences have been very real to Alex, and there is no reason to deny these. However, because of his upbringing, he interprets these experiences within his Christian background. I do not deny these, but there is no way to know the source of these experiences beyond what Alex states. There are two problems I have with this: all people of all beliefs, even atheists, relate similar experiences in their lives. (Alex’s listeners are well aware of the spiritual experiences of the neo-pagan David Icke.) There is something inside of us that looks for an experience similar to that of Jesus when He was baptized in the Jordan: we all want God to say He is pleased with our efforts and that He accepts us. For example, every sensitive person feels a sense of holy when watching a newly born child or being alone in the woods. The human has been created by God to experience the beauty of His creation and its

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operations. These experiences are of the natural and are not dependent upon one’s theology. They are designed to point us to the God of the Bible and its revelational content.

However, these experiences are not confirmations of our lifestyle or mission in life. I know many, who in the ecstasy of the human orgasm, have philosophized--How can their immoral sex be wrong when it feels so good? God must indeed be pleased or He would not have blessed the individual with such spiritual delights. For the Christian, all of our experiences must be evaluated in terms of the Bible and its stated doctrines. This is often how heresies get started: for example, a dynamic personality starts a church and thousands come to listen to his entertaining messages. The presence of the crowds is seen as God’s endorsement of the preacher and is interpreted as a sign from God. What the preacher should really learn from his situation is this: he would also be good selling vacuum cleaners on TV. Talent is confused with God’s approval.

Second--Alex does not understand the nature of the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. The garden marks the point of God’s first creation of mankind upon the earth. This original species rebelled against God, and sought to establish a Kingdom upon this earth that did not depend upon God. It was God’s purpose to teach mankind the reality of God’s Laws and the resulting culture. When man fell, it was because he did not want to be subject to God, but wanted to establish his own world with the knowledge of good and evil determined by ruling elites or by democratic processes. Man, it was felt, knows best and should not be limited by some distant divine dictator. This resulting fall actually destroyed man’s divine nature and polluted every aspect of his mind and body, and placed a divine judgment upon even his best efforts.

When Jesus died on the cross, something very dramatic happened in history. God was, in a sense, creating a new Eden. When a person accepts a Biblical view of reality and accepts the fact that Jesus died in his place, that person becomes a new creation. Yes, that is right. This earth is now populated by two species: those that are of the first creation and who are in rebellion against God; and the second creation, which seeks to live the life that God originally

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meant for Adam and Eve to pursue. The Bible also states that these two species are not only at war with each other, but this war will never stop as long as the earth exists.

Alex often talks about his desire to save the species or to unite the human species in opposition to the ruling elites and their New World Order. However, these two Species cannot be united except under some false belief that seeks to eliminate the fundamental differences and establish some one thing that the two species share in common. For Alex, his assumption is that everyone wants to be free and everyone wants to live the good life upon earth—raising kids with a wife, enjoying the outdoors, and associating with other good people like oneself. This basic understanding influences his vision of an order separate from the New World Order. However, this new order is not the Kingdom of God and it is not what the new, second creation of God is to pursue.

America was founded upon the desire to end religious conflicts (after the prolonged religious wars), and the Constitution was designed to be a peace treaty between the two species. A system was sought in which the conflict of the ages could be ended. The first creation species was actually attempting to seduce the second creation species into accepting the New Order of the Ages as being the true goal of mankind. This new American Order was based upon Freedom, Democracy, and personal sovereignty. The second creation people, who were at times tired of fighting God’s battles, also sought a Common Ground where there could be Peace upon the Earth—without having any national religious theology or revealed word to divide the new nation. Alex hopes to reestablish this original time of peace as the ultimate of goal when men have defeated the New World Order.

I cannot emphasize too much how important this mental image is to the Alex Jones philosophy and religious beliefs. The peace established by the original Constitution and to recreate the order of the American Revolution, is Alex’s goal. These were good times as both species united to create a nation with a manifest destiny to conquer the continent, and then the world. Recall this, one of the first acts after the West was settled, was to keep expanding, and fight the Spanish

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American war under Teddy Roosevelt to conquer the Philippines. This war signaled the founding of the American global empire. One species thought they were bringing the Gospel to the world through the American military and one species saw this as the start of one nation establishing the foundation for global control by secular man. Alex fails to understand that America was a divided nation even before the Illuminati gained control of the government.

Third--Alex believes his war against the New World Order can be operated on a secular level. He has talked about the petty disputes between religious sects which had led to the marginalization of Christianity. He is not a theologian, so he does not understand the real reason that leading Christians throughout history have always sought to express their beliefs in a systematic manner—and fought over these beliefs. Alex does not have a systematic philosophy. He reads a lot and reacts to this research. However, mere analysis is never enough. Merely opposing evil is never enough. Every true Christian leader must have a philosophy of the future and he must be able to define what the new society should be like. Remember this principle; you can never defeat one order without having a new and better order in mind.

The masses can only be attracted with hope and a vision of what will happen if they risk they lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor. Most people will accept the pains of the current order if the future is uncertain or unclear. The Bible teaches us that people desire not only a better life, but one that lasts forever. While Alex attempts to picture a future life based upon freedom, he fails to understand that most will not risk everything unless they feel they see a better world ahead, and that they are serving God and will ultimately be rewarded in Heaven for their honorable lives.

If there is no future reward—both now and forever, then the people will not be willing to risk everything. (After all, if I die fighting the old order, what good is that to me? For most, one good orgasm experienced now under a tyranny is better than death and non-existence.) The reason Alex gets so angry on his radio show is that he is attempting to motivate people and yet he cannot offer them any rewards. Why should the masses follow Alex into the desert, only to die

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of thirst? Losers, failures, the alienated, the frustrated, and the lonely will follow Alex. However, those who feel life is tolerable, these will not follow him. They have no reason to risk current satisfaction, however limited, for some vague goal of personal freedom.

Fourth--Alex fails to understand the nature of humanity and its creation by God as Sheep. Yes, most humans are sheep, and that is how God made mankind. Because Alex does not understand this, his attempts to turn sheep into wolves, only causes frustration. Alex is trying to create man in the image of Alex, rather than accepting that man is made in the image of God. Most men are sheep and are dependent upon having leaders in every governmental agency—the church, the school, the business, the civil government, and the trade associations or unions. During the ministry of Jesus, he attacked the evil rulers. He only had compassion for the masses that were left without righteous leadership and were left to wander aimlessly. Jesus wept over the masses in the city of Jerusalem as the sheep there had no shepherds. That is the nature of God’s reality.

Alex constantly rails against the stupid masses that are not willing to stand up and rebel against evil systems and leaders. That is not their role. For example, the people in the church are to follow their pastor and resist, not as individuals, but as a corporate body. Rebellion is not an individual movement, but is only to be done within legitimate corporate associations. Alex envisions a society made up of a million individual rebels. That will not work. People are sheep who are designed only to resist through Godly ordained institutions. Alex attempts to create a nation of angry people. In history, these rebellions have only resulted in anarchy.

Finally, a new tyrant is ordained to restore order to the anarchical rebellion. Modern rock music is designed to appeal to the solitary angry individual, but it does not have the power to create covenant institutions of rebellion. The Bible is designed to show how angry emotions are to be channeled into proper outlets. The Bible provides the foundation for establishing an effective world order: Not based upon personal freedom and personal sovereignty, but based upon working God’s laws into our daily life and culture.

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Fifth--The first creation (Sons of Adam) is, according to the Bible, spiritually dead. Alex assumes that the first creation operates on its level by choice and that persuasion can be used to wake up the dead. And, persuasion failing, yelling can induce a person to wake up to the necessity of opposing evil. Alex fails to fully understand the spiritual nature of reality. He sees everyone as being similar except for their level of awareness of the global situation. Alex sees his role as providing information that would enable those who are asleep to wake up. He assumes everyone wants to be free and given enough information, they will choose freedom.

However, true freedom is a spiritual desire. Those who are of the race of Adam only want freedom to rebel against God and His laws. In the broad sense of the word, they want the freedom to sin—to decide for oneself what is right and wrong. Those who are spiritually dead have a totally different idea of freedom. In Alex’s worldview, everyone wants the same things in life. No one would choose to live in dependence upon a central power and no one would choose to live under a tyrant. This is not true. The men who are of Adam desire a world in which the government protects their lifestyle from religion and church intrusions. Many gladly trade a little dependency for a life where one can choose his own lifestyles. The ruling elite always promise a better life—one guaranteed by secular laws, and financially subsidized by easy money. Men of the first Adam really do desire a form of dependency (slavery) in exchange for guarantees that a person can be protected from the consequences of his personal and sinful choices.

The goal for Alex is to picture a world where those of Adam and those of Christ can share common goals and a common view of the good life, i.e. “team humanity.” Alex has his own vision of a utopian world where everyone can enjoy the good things of life. Life on earth is good in Alex’s view, and there is no spiritual conflict of the ages. Alex’s utopia is secular and is confined to this world and ruled by the laws of nature. He feels that God created a very beautiful world and that this world is still very beautiful, despite the fact that not only has man fallen from his original standing, nature has fallen also, and reflects the sinful rebellion on this planet.

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This world, indeed, reflects God’s glory, but it also is frustrating because a sinful world can never satisfy the Christian and his spiritual nature. He enjoys earth, but he longs for a heavenly city. Secular life is similar to riding a roller coaster—it is fun, but in the back of one’s mind, the ride will end and one has to get off. That is frustrating. The Christian knows that life’s pleasures are a gift from God and moral pleasures will not end, but point to one’s heavenly and eternal existence. (In fact, moral sex is designed to lead us to understand the true nature of human/human, and human/divine fellowship.) A Christian knows he does not have to exit the roller coaster at the end. This concept is vital to the enjoyment of life and establishing any workable order.

Sixth--Alex has united his message with his own personality. Preachers in the past have often preached a message of theological personalism—that is, the preacher’s life represents the truth. Rather than copy the Bible or Jesus, one is induced to adopt the lifestyle of the preacher. Alex’s radio show is much more than a lecture about new laws and regulations. It is an autobiography of Alex’s struggle against the New World Order. When you listen to him every day, you would think true opposition started with his early public access TV shows. He does not see his views as having grown out of generations of resistors who have laid the groundwork for his radio show.

I grew up in a small farming town in the 1950’s. The town had one low-wattage radio station. It operated from sunup to sundown. There were many other stations on the dial, and even more at night when the clear channels became dominant. The owner switched the station to probably one of the early talk radio formats. Not only that, the station format was about exposing the New World Order as it was understood at the time. (One bit of trivia—back then, if you put a listener on the radio, you had to insert a loud beep every fifteen seconds. It was totally annoying and made long term listening difficult.) The FCC moved in and took the station away from the owner. They declared that he was not serving the public interest. There was no internet back then, and the story circulated that the owner was considered insane by the FCC—after all, no sane person would accuse the leaders of the United States involved in treasonous

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activities. And the station was returned to serving the ‘Public Interest’ by offering pop music!

This is just one example of those who have fought battles that made the Alex Jones Show possible. However, in the story of those who have or are fighting the New World Order, Alex sees himself as the hero and number one in this historical struggle. He is constantly telling listeners the price he has paid to achieve his current status, and he constantly reminds his listeners how he was first to proclaim assorted issues. While this may be true, he is obsessed with reminding everyone that the Alex Jones autobiography is the true story of America’s greatest resistor to the New World Order. Despite his claim of being widely read, he rarely, if at all, tells the life story of previous resistors who have paid the ultimate price and made the Alex Jones show possible.

Thus, daily Alex holds himself up as the example everyone should emulate. Not that he is a bad person, but he fails to emphasize how resistance entails a giant team who all serve different functions on that team. God created a wide variety of personalities who have a wide range of talents and callings in this life. (Jesus sent out his disciples always in ‘Twos,’ which helped prevent the elevation of one individual or one style.) The God who opposes evil has revealed his purposes in the Bible, and everyone is to seek His role in the grand order. The times and the seasons are determined by God. As is evident by many of the prophets in the Old Testament, we are called to resist evil, but not every age brings success in these endeavors. The frustration that Alex exhibits everyday reveals his obsession with success.

This autobiographical mission of Alex is passed onto his listeners who are to develop their own imitation of Alex’s utopian vision. I have no doubt that Alex is a Christian, but his Biblical knowledge is his weakest area of expertise. His view of Christianity reflects a Sunday School knowledge based upon traditional American Christianity. His theology closely follows the optimism of Norman Vincent Peale. He felt life was basically good, and a person who discovered the laws of life, would be able to enjoy the real pleasures of this life. The difference between the two is this: Peale feels the enemy to the good life is one’s failure to understand

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the importance of having a positive view of life, Alex feels the ruling elite is the enemy to the good life and this good life can be achieved by defeating this order.

Seventh-- Alex fails to understand the nature of sin and how the borders of a nation are related to its sin. Alex constantly rails against the failure of this nation to protect its borders, especially its southern border. However, the Bible states that borders are a gift from God. Modern man sees borders as merely a line on a map and something that man can draw wherever he wishes. This is a false view of mapmaking. Borders are God’s gift to a righteous nation. In the Old Testament, whenever Israel was faithful to God’s Laws, the national borders were secure. When the nation sinned, the borders were virtually meaninglessness: Foreigners and enemies crossed into Israel with impunity. Understand, armies do not protect borders, righteousness does.

You must understand all land belongs to God. No one owns the land. The tithe (a ten percent tax that supported education and the “church”) was considered God’s rent for use of His land. That is why governments are forbidden to tax the land. In order to tax something, it must be owned by the entity that receives the tax. That is why the Bible also forbids the income tax. The state does not own the person or the product of man’s labors. When the white man came to America, the land had been occupied by others for over a thousand years. But in that time, the people had become totally corrupt, evil, and indulged in the most unspeakable crimes. God only allows so much, and He allowed the Indian borders to become invisible. Good people are always given land occupied by bad people. This is God’s law of property and it is rarely acknowledged. Sin is never considered a factor in secular history. This is why North America had been occupied many times in history by Western Man; it was not ‘discovered’ until God chose to end the borders of the Indians in 1492.

While Alex acknowledges a Divine presence in life, Biblical law is excluded in his secular history. While Biblical history alienates a large number of people and radio listeners, it is not good to trade real history in exchange for mass appeal. In some respects, Alex lives in two worlds—the world taught in history books and a world created by God. History books are by their very nature, secular

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—i.e. God, if He exists, is beyond history and only observes the works of man. However, if God is real and He communicates with man and is active in history, then secular histories are mere ‘name and date’ books: historical interpretations are of no worth.

The sad thing is that no matter how much Alex acknowledges mystical experiences, real life is impossible without acknowledging and living by God’s Laws. By laws, I do not mean the ceremonial laws of the Bible, which ended with Christ. I mean the laws that God created into the fabric of the universe. Alex’s ecumenical vision of everyone-- regardless of creeds, beliefs, and goals—working against the Illuminati can only end in another form of tyranny. Any order based upon Man’s Laws will be a temporary order, fraught with disunity. The problem, proclaiming the sovereignty of God’s laws will never attract a large following.

In fact, it is said that modern society and culture are based upon open violations of God’s laws: where would Capitalism be without selfishness, and covetousness? Modern governments could not exist under the limited taxation allowed under Biblical Law: a nation’s taxes are never to exceed ten percent plus a three percent welfare tax. How could modern banking exist if the Biblical mandate that prohibits Bank-created money? As much as people moan and complain, they all want the free lunches provided by Man’s laws. How popular would Alex’s appeal be if he told everyone they would have to accept the consequences of their sins, without any help from the tyrannical State and Banking system?

Eight-- This is a tough one, Alex often proclaims his own messianic visions. His success and the threats upon his life have apparently made Alex feel that there is a divine mission in his life and death. His constant public obsession with his own death is rare among radio personalities and other public figures. History is filled with filled with personalities who have sought to have their mission validated by their death. For the Christian, there is comfort in God’s predestination and the hairs on our head being numbered. Everyone’s life and death are ordained by God and those who are of the second creation; their every action is an act of worship which finds meaning only in God’s eternal purpose.

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There is a continuous repetition by Alex about his past sufferings, his perseverance against incredible odds, his foreboding of his own arrest and torture, and his death by governmental forces. While what he says is true, there is an incredible lack of awareness of the thousands throughout history who have suffered much more and died terrible deaths. While no one welcomes death and suffering, it has been the lot of so many men of the faith. For one, read Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Life on earth for those who believe the Bible has been one of terrible pain and suffering. As Paul states, if there is no Heaven, then those who believe are the most foolish of all mankind. Alex puts his life on a pedestal above all others, both now and in history. (This may be just promotional hyperbole, but truth does not need to be likened to a new soft drink ad campaign.)

There is very little awareness of all the others who are struggling also, although not sharing his limelight. As stated, Alex Jones sees himself as The Leader of the Opposition—all others rank below him. When criticized, he confesses his evil teen years, and claims that he is just being his natural self. The humble person realizes that he is genuinely a product of a past and that he is attempting to move beyond his past. Our natural self is something we should be attempting to overcome. We are not to deny our God-given personality, but we are to not give into the weakness of our sinful perversions of our natural personality. I agree that this is a difficult task. This is what produces a natural humility, and makes one humble when confronting the failings of others--rather than yell and rant at other’s failings.

Ninth—Alex sees the foundations of society originating in man’s inherited past with traits passed on from man’s historical [Evolutionary?] development. Alex sees a close connection between man and other animals in creation. Man is seen as sharing many of the personality traits of primitive, cave man and intelligent animals. While he believes in some form original creation, Alex sees man evolving from primitive man. For example, Man is seen as being designed to be a hunter and part of modern man’s problems result from the conflict from hunter-man and city-man: God did not create primitive man; he created a Man for All Ages. It is sin that destroys life, not primitive and primal tendencies.

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Alex accepts the belief that man has more than one brain, with one part being reptilian brain which operates on the most basic sensate level. Alex does not understand the tremendous consequences of sin in both man’s soul and in his body. It is this cancerous sin that is the real killer and destroyer of man’s aptitudes and abilities. Sin (Primal Rebellion) is so terrible that even nature itself was affected by man. (Even nature longs for the restoration of the new earth. Romans 8:22.) It is sin that rebels against God’s image in man and produces animal-man that is separated from God. Animal-man is a man who has rejected that part of his self which was given to him by God. Animal-man is rebellious-man, but this animal-man is not natural to earth. It is a result of the Fall in the Garden of Eden.

The only real sin that Alex regularly rants against is the sin of being cowardly. While Alex tolerates many sins by his followers (Not that there is any wrong with….”), he does not tolerate those who are afraid to stand up to tyrants. In the Bible, when Gideon sought to raise up a mass army, God told him that a few good men is a better army than thousands of ordinary men. (Gideon was told to raise an army of three hundred. [Judges 7.] It is worth noting that the Illuminati have a committee of 300.) Alex is concerned with ratings, being number one, and gauging his effectiveness by the number of views on you tube. That is the Gallup Poll influence upon modern man. However, that is not how nations are defended, and that is not how righteousness is returned to the character of a people. Ten thousand Godly people working and dying for the truth, is always a majority. It is the source of one’s power that is the most vital consideration. Powerful effectiveness results from God blessing our efforts. Numbers can never replace the approval of God upon our endeavors.

Tenth—The Laws of God have not changed throughout history. When a nation rebels against God and sins as a corporate whole, the nation comes under judgment as the result sin and rebellion. As sincere as Alex is in his belief in assorted sins, he fails to understand that only repentance can defeat the new world order. Alex does recognize various sins, such as abortion, but he does not focus on true repentance by a people and its leaders. Repentance is never

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popular and the goal of Alex Jones is to create a popular uprising. The choice is between pleasing God and pleasing the masses. However….

Popularity is part of American culture. From the earliest days in school, Americans learn that one of the primary values is popularity. If you are not popular, it is a sign of personal failure. Those kids who have physical flaws know the pain of not being popular. The government school system teaches kids that those who are popular are good people. Unpopular people are always considered lacking in basic human qualities. However, there is a subtle piece of propaganda in this governmental schooling and its message. People who are trained from birth to worship popularity will not stand alone. They will not stand up against tyranny if it is not the popular thing to do. The popularity doctrine is perfect tool for those who would be tyrants.

The Bible talks again and again about the faithful remnant. (When Elijah felt all alone, God reminded him there were eight thousand others. Alex often feels all alone and fails to see the eight thousand who are fighting alongside him.) It is the power of this remnant that keeps a nation from straying. Remember, God created most people to be sheep. They are led by godly shepherds. The goal of any movement is the creation of these leaders, not the creation of a nation of leaders. That will always fail. A nation of a dynamic minority, driven with purpose, and used by God, can change the course of a nation. Alex gets terribly frustrated because he does not understand the power of well-trained, devoted, hard-working, and dynamic leadership. Jesus trained twelve disciples and he brought down the Roman Empire. (Of course, it took several hundred years. Too long for Alex.) Alex seeks to have a Revolution through the ballot box. It will not happen. True revolutions are never popular movements. The masses are led into change and endure hardships through the example of dedicated leaders only over a long period of time.

Political Ecumenism— The goal of Alex’s philosophy is to create a world order based upon the survival of the species. It is not an order based upon God’s laws or upon the Biblical Kingdom of God. The question of sin is not part of this order. The Bible is not part of this order. While not explicitly a Darwinist, Alex’s

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order is closer to that of an evolutionist than a creationist. This new order is inclusive in that it is designed to include, at least, all Americans. The war in Alex’s world is not between good (God’s Law) and evil (Man’s Law), but between a ruling elite and the common man. In fact, Alex goes out of his way not to offend anyone’s private morality by prefacing statements (quoting Seinfeld’s famous line, “Not that there is anything wrong with that!”) with a non-judgmental disclaimer.

I need to insert a few definitions. Most people talk about good people and bad ones. However, each person has their own definition of good and bad. Without a definition, it is impossible to understand and classify people. For example, a person raised in a Christian family, can absorb Christian values without becoming a Christian. This person may act on these values and attempt to do his personal best and be almost like a Christian with one exception: This person regards his own self as the final arbitrator or interpreter of real life situations. God and the Bible are not the primary source of truth, but one’s inner feelings and visions, as seen through one’s inherited dispositions. Because the church has become dominated by good people who are not Christians, it has been very difficult to sort the wheat from the tares.

This is why it is so difficult to build a resistance movement and I sympathize with the difficulties Alex faces in his recruitment of allies. In fact, it gets even worse: the secular world has good but non-Christian people, and the church is often dominated by evil people who are not even good. There are true Christians who have Biblical values; there are good people who have Christian values; there are self-centered people who have selfish values; and there are bad (evil) people who have demonic values. Alex is attempting to build a movement out of a mix of the above by importing new definitions of good and evil—good people oppose the illuminati and bad people go along with them. (While I am critiquing Alex’s movement building, I fully understand the difficulty.)

The Bible states that in the next life, the Lion will lay down with the Lamb. Of course, that is symbolic. In time, God will eliminate the historical struggle between the two creations. The two creations are to be united in Alex’s world in his opposition to the Illuminati. I understand that Alex is trying to avoid the petty

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struggles that ruin political movements. I really think that is a mistake. The Bible states that conflicts are necessary in any group in order to keep out those who would destroy the movement. However, the ‘bickering’ should be focused upon primary and central issues. Thus, the leader’s role is to direct conflicts into the issues that require the group’s focus. However, the minor issues should not be avoided if they are off shoots of the primary issues. For example, Alex will not take a stand upon many Biblical beliefs, i.e. the nature of a true Church, that for him are not part of his idea of political freedom. However, only a true church (i.e. true Christians living out their Biblical beliefs), not the American version, can stand up to tyranny over the long span and provide viable alternatives.

While the goals that Alex promotes—freedom, courage, stable money, strong borders, family, farming, hunting, fishing, and health—while being fine in themselves, basically appeal to the selfish individual. In Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, prosperity is produced by each person pleasing himself and thus serving the whole. Alex’s philosophy is similar. He appeals to the selfish desires of the masses and he thinks this is workable. However, the 21st shows the results of two centuries of selfish living—social and political corruption. Selfishness worked as long as people were still basically Christian. However, after several generations removed from Christianity and its teaching about restraint, then true unrestrained selfishness raises its ugly head.

While Alex attempts to appeal to the selfishness of the masses to rise up against the New World Order, the masses are too far removed from their Christian roots to understand the real purpose of life and its spiritual foundations. If the masses do rise up it will only be because their selfish desires are not being met. While sound money is a great goal, no one will rise up against the Fed as along as Federal Reserve Notes work in the marketplace. As long as medicines seem to work, no one will rebel against the medical establishment. As long food has some flavor left, the masses are content. The masses will never rise up until the old order collapses. The goal is to have trained leaders in place ready to lead the masses when that day comes. However, yelling (ranting) will not bring about this time any sooner.

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The Gospel of Alex should be to train a core of spiritual leaders, knowledgeable in the Bible, history, politics, and social order. However, their leadership will not be gained by appealing to the selfish desires of the masses, but having answers when the old answers fail. Christians did not cause the fall of Rome, but were there, ready and trained, when the corruption of the Empire brought about its inevitable decline. Alex, rather than rant at the spineless masses, should be teaching his devoted listeners how to be leaders in waiting. Preparation plus opportunity results in success. The United States global empire will fail. When that time comes, the masses will not have the answers, but some will. The goal is to train an army that has the right answers with the courage to proclaim the truth in dour times. Leaders are to live out their principles in every area of their lives. The Bible calls this the servant leader.

Remember, the masses will never rise up and demand change that is based upon sound principles with a thought out philosophy. Revolution is actually based upon cost effective analysis: The masses will not even consider joining Alex in his rebellion unless the costs of obeying the government exceed the cost of risking everything in open rebellion. As much as Alex, for example, may hate the TSA, until they disrupt a majority in their daily lives, the masses will not care. Even yelling at the “stupid masses” will not make them care. And never forget this: the masses only have the power to rebel against poor conditions, but they do not have a clue about what will work. They are dependent upon leaders. When the New World Order collapses, may there be an army of trained inforwarriors. If that happens, that will be Alex Jones’ biggest legacy.

The bottom line is that government and culture are not just based upon opinions, but upon principalities and spiritual entities. The masses are not just experiencing the consequences of their personal decisions, which they are free to change at any time; they have committed themselves to spiritual and demonic forces. Even though these entities disguise themselves, they are the spiritual and cultural equivalent of heroin. Demonic powers maintain a hold over the hearts and minds of a nation that does not acknowledge the sovereignty of God over every aspect of life. The Bible compares this addiction as being similar to death. Alex can no more transmute the masses than he can walk into a cemetery and

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rant people out of their graves. History is a spiritual story and battle: anyone who ignores this is living in an artificial world, at best.

My fear is that Alex is fighting a war he cannot win, as he has indeed brought a knife to a gun fight. He is involved in a spiritual war; and he is using rants and name-calling to raise the consciousness of the masses. Alex is not just asking the ‘hoi polloi’ to change their opinions; he is attempting to get them to change their religion. I am not sure he is totally aware of this and the difficulty involved. This is a religious war and must be fought as one, and a solution must be religious. To date, Alex is using his sharp knife to carve up the heavily armed Illuminati—like throwing stones at ghosts. Unless he changes, secular, wrecking-ball Alex will become a mere footnote in a future American history text. He is using and mobilizing the tools of destruction—great for destroying the New World Order—but he is not laying the groundwork for a new order. Once the unity based upon opposition to the Illuminati breaks down, there is no fundamental agreement on how nations work. In fact, Alex is preparing the United States for a post New World Order civil war. In time, a strong individual will appear and impose his order over the destruction of the New World Order—similar to the order imposed by Napoleon after the destructive French Revolution. This Man will bring a new law system (and hopefully, not on the back of a global war) to unify everyone, and all the churches will say, Amen!

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Postscripts: First, an example of Alex’s theological laxity is displayed when he discusses the early days of Obama. He mentions that Obama was raised a Muslim, and always adds, “Not that there is anything wrong with being a Muslim.” Huh! Has Alex read the history of the Muslims, or does he know their core beliefs? I would think that any movement that condemns its followers to eternal damnation has a few short comings. While some Muslims recognize Jesus as a prophet and good teacher, Jesus is not their divine Savior who died for their sins. While Alex does not want to offend any who might join his fight, in the end, this inclusiveness dilutes the effectiveness of having a group of committed believers, willing to work their entire lives for the truth of Christianity. If Alex

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believes Christianity is not only true, but the truth, then he must believe that not all ‘truths’ are created equal. Ecumenical groups are usually very short lived, as, in time, the lions get tired of lying down with the lambs—and besides, lambs taste good.

Second, Alex believes in freedom but not in free will. He calls for a renewal of freedom and he calls upon everyone to oppose restrictions upon personal freedoms. However, to those who do not want to join Alex World, Alex vents his anger. Apparently, people are not free to choose a view that does not agree with his views. Certainly I agree with the analysis of Alex, but the doctrine of personal freedom implies tolerance for those who might disagree. The Bible provides an insight here: people who are spiritually slaves enjoy living under tyrannies. Those who consider it their right to sin want a leader who encourages them to maintain their lifestyle. They want a form of government that subsidizes their inability to care for themselves. In a word, they want to live in tyranny world and not Alex World. That is their personal choice and their view of freedom. Alex fails to recognize this form of freedom and fails to understand why people are happy to live under a tyrannical government. It is their free choice, and they choose slavery in they same way they choose to reject God and choose sin.

Third, Alex has developed a Shtick which has brought him into prominence. It is vital to understand that Alex’s method of operating closely resembles that of a traveling Southern Baptist Evangelist. The street preacher and the evangelist love to gain attention by attacking ‘sins’ and making those who listen to them feel good about themselves. I grew up Baptist, and the evangelists would condemn the sins of those who had broken ‘Baptist Rules.’ You can pretty much imagine what sins were condemned, and the people loved to hear those outside the fold attacked. Alex attacks those who have given into the establishment and rants against those working for the controlling elites. The listener comes away feeling that he is glad that he is not blind like those Alex condemns. In the more than ten years of listening, Alex has not modified this very successful Shtick. Under the cover of relating the news, is a method that a core of insiders feel like they are special Believers. Just as the Illuminati copied the techniques of the Jesuits, Alex

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has copied the techniques of the Baptist evangelist and shows no inclination to change over time.

Fourth, Alex neglects certain basic Biblical principles of communication. When I studied to become a minister, I was told about the 80/20 rule: no matter how good you are, twenty per cent of the people will hate you. Accept that. Look at Jesus: He healed the sick, raised the dead, and gave away free food—and that twenty per cent still hated him. Jesus instructed that when people will not listen to our message, we are to depart, go onto others, and shake the dust, of those who refuse to listen, off our feet. We are not to waste our time on this core of unbelievers. Alex continuously attacks that twenty per cent that has decided to hook their rising star to the ruling elites. He then becomes very frustrated and angry at them when they fail to believe him and accept his worldview. Alex somehow expects more than the 80/20 rule of response, and feels offended when not everyone believes him. Hey, if they crucified the Son of God, can we expect any better from that evil twenty per cent?

Finally, it is never good to be your own boss. Many, in similar positions to that of Alex, have set up a volunteer board of trustees (often retired) to oversee the direction of an organization. This board is made up of diverse men who are successful in their endeavors, understand the pitfalls of leadership (with a lifetime of wisdom in legal, business, and ethical issues),and can keep an organization from getting off track or out of control. Certainly they will agree with the goals of the organization they oversee, but they are men of age and wisdom who have been there before, and been successful, and yet made mistakes that others can profit by and learn from. Alex gets frustrated because he is, not only the on-air voice of Resistance, he is the CEO of that organization: never a good thing. The whole weight falls on his young shoulders, and there is no one whom he considers his superior, let alone his peer, in this enterprise. In such a position, it is indeed, lonely at the top.

Comments welcomed at dawsonrebel@hotmail.com

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