On The Dangers Of Unified Silence

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When I first realised that God was real, and that there was truth in the Bible, there was a part of me that wasn’t particularly happy about it. Christianity was just so uncool. My own judgements about Christians came back to me. I was worried about what people would think, how they would respond. I began writing about Christianity, with trepidation. I hadn’t even consciously thought about it, but something told me, ‘‘you can’t write about this.’’ I held back for a while and wrote very little. Then as I began to gather my confidence and wrote more, I noticed follower numbers going down, people commenting that they didn’t like mention of Jesus and then hitting the unfriend button. Wow, I thought. This is worse than I thought. 

When I was 25, I had what I thought was a writer’s block. I was trying to write a novel, but just couldn’t put pen to paper. Meanwhile in a journal I was writing reams and reams of thoughts about my life, my childhood. I eventually admitted to myself I wasn’t ‘blocked’ at all. I just thought I could be in control of what I wrote. And that’s how it’s been with writing for me ever since. I don’t feel like I choose what I write, (unless it’s paid work, which is a bit different), it just sort of comes out. So if spiritual deception and Christianity was going to be my topic from now, that would just be the way it had to be. 

There was something about this new path that felt horrendous to me, and it was the fear of losing a community that had built up in 2020, that online and offline community, rapidly growing new roots, and spreading off in all directions, as we tried to make up for the loss. The loss of the ‘old normal.’ The loss of old friends, and for some, even close family. This community was all I had in Italy, a country I was new to, where I’d only just started to make friends when I was barred from society. 

Seeing the unfriending, and reading the comments, I realised that some members of the ‘awake’ community didn’t see the irony in defriending people because they held a different opinion to them. It was as if for certain people they had learnt nothing in the last few years about loss and division, and would continue to perpetuate it with anyone that didn’t fit into their ‘tribe.’  In offline life, I felt people drift away, new friendships that were beginning just fizzled out, and I found myself caught between the strange facebook world where there is a platform to blurt out any opinion we have, and the real world of conversation.  

Luckily some people stayed. And I appreciated them even more. Luckily some lovely friends and I have had honest, open debate about these topics. Or just enjoyed good food and other subjects instead. 

Luckily I even found that becoming a Christian felt like a bridge back to all the people I’d felt so separate to during the COVID vaccine nightmare. As I jumped out of all the rabbit holes, and just went into the peace of faith in God instead. Some people have been so wonderful, curious and non-judgemental, and it’s been the topic of some fascinating conversations. 

Yet there are those who imply that I shouldn’t be speaking at all, just like those early fears I had that stopped me writing honestly for a while. There are two messages that I feel like I’ve received multiple times, over and over. One, is that it is wrong to claim that our beliefs are right, and another’s wrong. The second is a new age belief, that ‘truth’ is not objective, that we all have our ‘personal truth,’ and they vary from person to person. 

Here’s the thing. Most people reading this will agree that the COVID vaccines can be harmful. Many of us tried to warn people. Yet there are others who thought they were completely safe. We all have our subjective beliefs about them, but I am pretty sure, we also think that there’s an objective truth that they are fundamentally unsafe. We know the consequences of saying this about such a weaponized topic. The potential arguments, the loss of relationships, but many of us did it anyway, because we felt it was important people had access to the truth. 

I feel the same way about Christianity. I have a subjective belief that it is objectively true. That the reality we live in is as it is written in the Bible. And I write about it because I believe that many people are falling for a spiritual deception. 

I could be wrong. And I know I am wrong about some aspects of it. Why? Because we all get it wrong. There is much that is beyond human understanding and mere speculation. And I completely own the fact that I only have access to my own subjective experience. 

However, there is something that goes beyond subjectivity - hearing the testimonies of others, helps to grow truth into an objective picture. Factual historical evidence about the origins of the Bible, and Jesus’s life and death. At least in my subjective opinion! 

Naturally any belief about the objective nature of reality may contradict someone else’s objective belief about the nature of reality. Even if the person doesn’t say, ‘’I think this so you are wrong,’’ their belief might not be able to co-exist with the other person’s. 

But here’s the thing about the ‘my truth, your truth’ concept. It seems to reduce it all to subjective truth. All truths can happily co-exist in a seemingly peaceful, harmony, that accepts everything, and welcomes everything, because there’s no objective truth, so everyone is ‘right.’ (and it’s right out of the United Nations/Lucis Trust/Lucifer Publishing playbook). 

But here’s what’s puzzling me. Why is the spiritual reality any different to the material one? Why can’t we study it and share stories about it, and engage in all kinds of investigations, to get as close as humanly possible to an objective truth? 

Because Satan doesn’t want it. That is pretty much it. As long as we keep floating around, exploring the spiritual world, without getting down to the work of figuring out the objective truth, we are open to his deception. The ‘angels’ people see. The ‘aliens’ that abduct people. If everyone has their own ‘truth’ then these phenomena never get questioned and examined. The notion of ‘personal truth’ is Satan’s cover. We can all be perfectly respectful and kind, and not say a word, while people get dragged off for another horrendous alien abduction, or open up demonic portals in their lives. And it’s just not politically correct to say so, because ‘our truth’ might tread on ‘their truth.’ And there’s a message out there that to share our honest opinions about spirituality is a worse crime than trying to prevent demonic attack. It’s a very clever deception. 

Some members of the ‘awake’ community have said that having this discussion about false spirituality, ‘causes division,’ but going back to the COVID vaccine -  we warned people because we cared. We weren’t intentionally trying to cause division, but it happened, because that’s what happens when you disturb a ‘sacred cow’ when you enter a narrative that has been weaponised. Why is spirituality weaponised and who did the weaponising? 

The idea that we ‘cause division’ by sharing differences of opinion operates to silence us, when actually it’s my experience that emotionally intelligent, self-aware humans can have respectful dialogues on things they completely disagree on. 

I believe that the answer for unity is not that we all believe the same thing, but that we become more comfortable with talking compassionately, but honestly with those whose opinions differ from ours.