In the excellent film The Sound of Freedom, actor Jim Caviezel, starring as former special agent Tim Ballard, delivers one of the greatest lines ever spoken on film. Asked by another character why he fights against child sex trafficking, Caviezel replies, “God’s children are not for sale.” It was a devasting line. You could hear dozens of people in the theater start crying when he said it. You can see the line about 30 seconds into the official trailer.
People cried because it is absolutely true. Every child that goes missing. The ones we hear about, and the ones we don’t. The ones kidnapped by strangers, and the ones sold by their own families. The ones raped and violated. The ones harvested for organs. The ones forced to labor in awful conditions. All of these precious ones are God’s Children.
It’s a great line and a noble sentiment – God’s children are not for sale. Only, it isn’t true. As the movie and the world around us make very clear – God’s children are for sale, and we are doing nothing about it.
We may not know all the facts, but every one of us knows that this abomination is happening. We may not know that human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar a year business ($34 billion estimated in just children), bigger than the illegal arms trade and soon to outpace even illegal drugs. Even so, all of us know that there is a lot of money in slavery. We all know about Epstein running a profitable sex trafficking ring in plain sight for decades, catering to a corrupt elite clientele. We know he died under mysterious circumstances that were never properly explained nor seriously investigated. We know his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted of trafficking underage girls to…. no one. Not one customer has been officially identified or prosecuted. We know that a joint investigation by academics and The Wall Street Journal showed that Instagram’s algorithms promoted networks of accounts sharing child sexual abuse material. Everyone saw that story.
Most Americans don’t know that as much as 60% of the unaccompanied minors crossing the US-Mexican border are sold to cartels as sex workers or slave laborers, after relocation within the states. Even so, who doesn’t know that the US border with Mexico is a hub of human trafficking? Even legacy media’s sloppy reporting will tell you that much.
While we might be short on the details, we all know at least some of the basic facts about human trafficking. There have been documentaries, press reports, even a few high-profile cases. Up until now, a widespread awareness that there is a massive problem has changed nothing. Epstein’s client list is still protected by federal law enforcement. The resources dedicated to fighting human trafficking are still woefully inadequate. Tim Ballard, the real-life inspiration for this movie, had to quit his job with the Department of Homeland Security to continue a rescue operation for trafficked children. This horror is allowed to grow and grow, right before our averted eyes.
Evidently, facts alone aren’t going to make a difference.
But this movie can. This movie shows you the humanity of the children behind the facts. You see and hear the small children crying as they are locked into a cargo container, shipped to a foreign country, and sold into sex slavery. The movie puts you in the same room with a little girl as she cowers on a huge bed, waiting to be raped by a drunken American sex tourist. You see the terrible fear on her little face. You see the utter disdain and cruelty with which the pedophile looks at her. Worst of all, you see how tiny and vulnerable she is compared to the grown man who is about to use her little body for perverted sexual gratification. That scene was more heart wrenching than anything else I have ever seen captured on film.
Trafficked children in a shipping container on their way to a life of sexual slavery
This movie uses a story narrative to take you inside the suffering of trafficked children in a way that is not possible for any news program. You will not forget what you see. The movie breaks your heart. But it also gives you hope, because at least some heroes have been called by God to actually do something to save the victims of these unspeakable crimes.
Very few of us have the skills and financing to find and rescue trafficked children. That does not mean, however, we should just ring our hands in helplessness. Here are some things I am asking you to do right now.
1. See the Movie
You need to see this movie on the big screen. It is the best way to fully absorb the movie’s message. In this case, there really is no substitute for the cinematic experience. Everyone should see this movie at least once in a theater.
Plus, the more financially successful this movie is, the more attention it will draw to these horrific crimes. The movie made $14 million at the box office on July 4th, its first day of release. That is more money than the new Indiana Jones movie made on the same day, even though it was playing in over 2,000 more theaters. The financial success is creating serious buzz around a movie that had a small budget, and almost no advertising. The cause of helping trafficked children needs the success to continue. So go see the movie!
There are no excuses.
Don’t think you can afford the tickets? Concerned people have bought tickets to give you for free. Go to this link and claim your free tickets today. Afraid the movie will upset you? Good. You need to be upset about child sex trafficking. Already upset about this nightmare and think you know what you need to know? You are not nearly upset enough. You need to see this for yourself. Pictures, reviews, clips, articles – none of that will ever replace sitting in a theater and seeing this film. Don’t like cheesy Christian movies? Fair enough, but this movie isn’t one. The film is top-notch. The script, acting, cinematography, sound track, and plot are all excellent. It has an 87% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 99% audience score. This movie is more than worth your time.
Maybe you are one of the people who thinks the whole “child sex trafficking” story is an overwrought conspiracy theory. Fine. Go see the movie anyway. You can even go for free. Then do all the research you can to debunk all this as Q Anon conspiracies. I look forward to reading your efforts.
Forget the excuses, and just go see the movie.
2. Pay it Forward
If you can afford it, be one of the Angels who pays it forward. Go to this link to buy tickets for others who can’t afford them, but need to see this movie as well. Until enough of us truly, truly understand the enormity of what we are facing, nothing will change.
3. Promote this Movie
If this movie were about stopping terrorists or rescuing adult hostages, then Hollywood would be promoting it relentlessly. Only, the movie isn’t about that. The movie is about child sex trafficking. The entertainment industry is a demonic nest of sexual predators. The perverts do not want stories like this to be told. The movie was actually made 5 years ago and kept on the shelf all this time. If a small studio had not valiantly intervened, this movie might never have reached the public.
We cannot let this story die in silence. For it to have the impact God wants and the children need, we must be the marketing campaign Angel Studios cannot afford. Post a review of the film on social media. Encourage your friends to see the movie. Better yet, invite them to go with you. Tell your pastor, your youth group, your Sunday school class. Ask your pastor to talk about the movie in his sermon, or as an announcement. Tell people at coffee hour after liturgy. Organize a night to go see the movie as a church.
Do everything you can to get people to see this movie. We need everyone to fully come to terms with the evil surrounding us.
4. Pray for the Victims
We must fervently pray for the children (and adults) who are subjected to slavery. While we have heretofore focused on sex slavery, the predominate theme of the movie, that is not all there is. Former special agent Tim Ballard, in multiple interviews, has recounted cases he worked on involving slave labor, organ harvesting, and ritual Satanic murder. All these victims deserve and need our prayers.
Within the Orthodox Church, St Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra and Lycia is known as the “Protector of Children”. St Nicholas is a good choice for prayers for the salvation and protection of children. The Most Holy Theotokos is a good choice for prayers for anyone of any age. She is the mother of us all and her love knows no bounds. May they entreat the Holy Trinity for the protection and salvation of all slaves kept anywhere in the world for any reasons.
For now, we must say our own prayers as best we can. Hopefully our priests and bishops, once fully aware of the great needs of all these victims, will write prayers we can all say together.
5. Teach Everyone About Christ
In this fight against human trafficking, particularly of children, Christians have the greatest responsibility. What most people, even Christians, tend to forget is that classical (Greco-Roman) “morality” was a hellscape for women, children and slaves. Women were considered less than men. Sex was all about dominance with violence, rape, pederasty / pedophilia considered normal. Unwanted infants were openly murdered via abandonment or smothering. Rampant promiscuity (on the male side) was normal. Sexual abuse of slaves of any age was perfectly acceptable.
Before Christianity, children were considered nonpersons. Adult men could do with them as they saw fit. What we now call the crime of pedophilia was to the ancients perfectly licit:
And the most profitable way for a small child slave to earn money was as a sex slave. Brothels specializing in child sex slaves, particularly boys, were established, legal, and thriving businesses in ancient Rome. One source reports that sex with castrated boys was regarded as a particular delicacy, and that foundlings were castrated as infants for that purpose. Of course, the rich didn’t have to bother with brothels — they had all the rights to abuse their slaves (and even their children) as they pleased. And, again, this was perfectly licit.
Into this pagan misery came the Apostles bearing the Good News of Christ. The teachings of Christ, through His Church, created personhood. In Christianity, each and every person (regardless of status, sex, race, tribe, nationality or age) is made in the image and likeness of God. Christ, though God, had come to Earth as a baby. He had grown through all the stages of childhood. His example meant that children were as equally made in the image of God as adults. Therefore, everyone is of infinite value, even the weakest and smallest among us.
Jesus had also said, “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” Children were welcomed at the feet of Our Lord. In the Church, even babies were baptized and given communion alongside the adults. Children were no longer possessions to be disposed of as the father of the family willed. They were of equal value to adults.
Living according to such teaching, Christians radically diverged from their pagan neighbors. Christian couples loved and cherished each other. The dominance and brutality of the surrounding world was replaced by mutual respect. Christian couples lovingly raised all of their children, male and female, as abortion and abandonment of infants was forbidden by the Church. In fact, Christian couples became known for adopting the unwanted babies cast out by the pagans. Christian masters were counseled by the Church to treat their slaves well. Abuse was forbidden, particularly of the sexual kind. Eventually, Christianity provided the moral foundation for abolishing slavery altogether. Legally, that is.
The Christian social revolution has been so successful, for so many hundreds of years, that even non-Christians take most of our moral precepts for granted. This includes the idea that using children for the sexual gratification of adults is wrong. Even the non-religious reject the pleas of pedophiles to be considered just another “sexual orientation”.
Unfortunately, however, this Christian consensus is fading. Paganism is reasserting its ugliness into the world. With paganism comes power and dominance as the basis of society. There is no God in whose image we are made. Thus, there is no intrinsic worth to human beings. Humans, children included, become commodities to be bought and sold. Sex becomes all about personal gratification. The weak serve the strong, who take what they will. Souls become coarse and corrupted, incapable of kindness, love, charity, or empathy.
There will be policy debates on how to combat trafficking. There will be time to lobby Congress for more money, more resources, tougher border restrictions, and other needed reforms. There will be time to donate to charities fighting human trafficking. There will be time to volunteer for those charities. All of that is needed. All of that is good.
None of that will matter, however, if we allow our society to slide so deeply into demonic paganism that no one is shamed by the images of grown men raping children. By winning souls to Christ, our Christian ancestors transformed pagan societies. We must do so again.
See the movie. Expose the horror. Preach Christ.
Nicholas – member of the Western Rite Vicariate, a part of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese in America
https://www.bitchute.com/video/xDmMgU87cUZF/
What blows my mind is how prevalent trafficking of children really is. That means a whole lot of “average Americans” are engaging this right under our noses and, no doubt, are hiding out even within our sphere of associations. Look around you at all the folks you associate with. How many are providing the money that drives this? Evil flies under the radar, wears a suit and tie, even vestments, hiding in plain sight.
With the GOA (Gomorrah Orthodox church) going full steam into LGBT, no doubt there are channels of trafficking within that hierarchy, laity, and nearby. Evil never goes public–like Elpi et al–until they are confident enough their tracks and the butts are covered. They never make their move until they are double sure they can pull it off. Make no mistake; what you see is the tip of the iceberg.
Two things drive this: of course, sexual abuse, then Satanic Ritual Abuse. Do you have the stomach for the truth? Even when I just think about it, my soul turns away unable to bear the horror many children–and even some adults–live with, because they are trapped, through traumatic mind control.
Who are the customers? Often its that faithful husband who gets hooked on porn. Porn–like any drug–rewires the brain and its primary driving force is the LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURN. This means, it’s never enough. First it’s soft porn, then hard core, then children, bestiality, and every perversion, then snuff films. The drive of all excessive compulsive sex, is to go younger.
Rome had gone that route, without film, it was sport in the local colosseum.
Too many end up doing what they never thought possible of themselves, because evil works one step at a time and becomes a vortex into a black hole. The only defense is a ZERO TOLERANCE of porn.
In late 2020- early 21, I had a series of short visitations. The first was flying on Christmas day. A couple in front of me had a toddler not yet walking. Holding the child up, the mother was making the typical silly gestures. When the child smiled back, I saw the glory of God in the child so bright, I was forced to look away, out the window. Every time I looked back at the child, it was painful to see; mine eyes were opened to the Glory of God in the innocent human frame.
A few weeks later, while attending liturgy, I saw the Holy Mother of God coming toward earth. In the icon, was the brightness of her presence so strong, again, I had to look away. By revelation, I knew she was visiting earth to take back her children. She was fierce, on fire, for the children. Then another time, I sensed her remarkable brightness again, with some sort of appointment for me—we’ll wait and see what that’s about.
That this movie has hit the mainstream, means, God has taken notice and will be bringing the force of His fierceness to bear. Everything done in secret will be announced from the house tops.
Yes, I’m talking to YOU!— perpetrator of evil (“I see you, you cannot hide”). Your days are numbered, and every sin against the innocent will soon be made an accounting of. What will a man give in exchange for his own [eternal] soul? If I were you, I would be looking for an exit strategy and a safe private place to make many tears and supplications before the hour glass drops its sand on you and your eternal destiny is forever cast. It would be God’s mercy for you to get caught, be exposed, and made a shame of, rather than wait for the final judgment. Having stuck your head into the mill stone, it will take you to the bottom to join leviathan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN9jdQFSc
I have a good impression of Ministry Watch. Its leardership team seems to have good credentials. https://ministrywatch.com/leadership-team/ Ministry Watch has done some digging regarding Ballard’s ministry “Operation Underground Railroad” and has come up with some serious issues regarding (1) how donations are being spent, and (2) credibility and effectiveness. I won’t be going to the movie or supporting the ministry. “So if you’re looking for a good yarn, “Sound of Freedom” may be your cup of tea. But if you’re looking for the truth about Operation Underground Railroad, you should probably look elsewhere.” https://ministrywatch.com/sound-of-freedom-doesnt-tell-true-story-of-operation-underground-railroad/
Tiresome. The movie begins in the early 2010’s when Ballard was a federal agent. Having seen the film, we cannot remember a single time that “Operation Underground Railroad” was mentioned in the movie or the post-credit message delivered by Caviezel. MinistryWatch itself states in the article you linked: “MinistryWatch began reporting on Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), the organization Ballard founded and on which the movie is based, back in 2021.”
That is 8 years after the raid at the heart of the movie, years after the movie was written, and 3 years after the movie was filmed. Ballard’s organization should not exist. It exists because of exactly what was said by Caviezel in multiple interviews, we are not devoting law enforcement resources to this issue. These are the future keys to success – better enforcement (including border control), community involvement, and development in the Global South.
Now, this Ministry Watch article is troubling. Was the movie lying about either the original sting, or the scope of the problem? Because Ministry Watch stated in the article that Ballard’s group is “stimulating demand”. The article also called the film a “yarn.” That reads like a way of claiming that the problem is overblown and the film is a lie. We did not, in our coverage, tell people to donate to Ballard’s group. We encouraged people to see a movie that dramatically illustrates as serious problem. One that Ministry Watch does not appear to be concerned about in the slightest.
Which makes us wonder, why? If you want to encourage people to not donate to OUR, that is all well and good. But to join Rolling Stone, Vice (a Christian group quoted Vice Magazine), CNN and other mainstream media in attempting to downplay child sex trafficking by insinuating that the original sting did not happen, those 122 kids were not rescued, and perhaps this is all just a “moral panic” is a totally different thing.
Here’s a follow up article by Ministry Watch
“Sound of Freedom,” the independent film about Tim Ballard, who founded the anti-trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (OUR), is a big hit in theaters. But Ballard, OUR’s former CEO, quietly left the nonprofit before the film was released amid an internal investigation, according to Vice, which was first to publish the news.
“Ballard has done extensive publicity for the film, which opened July 4 and has earned a surprising $100 million at the box office. But he never mentioned or explained his departure from OUR. Vice has since reported that Ballard has also left The Nazarene Fund, the anti-trafficking organization founded by Glenn Beck where Ballard was also CEO. Neither nonprofit has explained when or why Ballard left.”
https://ministrywatch.com/tim-ballard-gone-from-two-nonprofits/
To be clear, our recommendations were:
1. See the Movie
2. Pay it Forward
3. Promote this Movie
4. Pray for the Victims
5. Teach Everyone About Christ
Orthodox Reflections did not mention Operation Underground Railroad, encourage donations to that organization, or actually encourage donations to any organization. We support the movie and awareness of the issue. Just making that clear, because it is not clear why this comment and the previous one were deemed important enough to submit to our site concerning a topic we have not covered.
I don’t know what evidence you have that the raid really happened or that the events depicted in the full near any resemblance to the truth. Are you sure those victims were actually rescued, or were they just released without aftercare to be trafficked again, like the victims of offer Ballard raids?
My wife and I have worked in anti-trafficking operations for 20 years, at times or had been our full-time occupation. Literally everyone we know in the anti-trafficking world thinks Ballard is a fraud who does more harm than good. He is incredibly adept at fundraising, self-promotion, and creating hero narratives for himself, and he reads the culture well and plays to whatever is hot at the moment. But he’s not telling the real stories, he’s not helping kids in the long term, and he’s obscuring the truth about how most trafficking really happens and how to prevent it.
https://americancrimejournal.com/o-u-r-s-origin-myth/
https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/05/sex-trafficking-raid-operation-underground-railroad.html
Always interesting to get this type of post. You’ve worked in anti-trafficking operations for 20 years? Then shouldn’t you be happy for the movie’s publicity of your cause? Shouldn’t you capitalize on it and say, “Hey, this organization deserves your support!” and give us as link to an anti-trafficking organization. But you don’t post that. Instead, you come to a Website that does not promote Ballard, has never promoted Ballard, that only promoted the film, in order to attack Ballard while posting no alternative. You have worked in anti-trafficking for 20 years, and you aren’t raising money for the organization you have been working as part of?
Authentic footage of the raid in question was part of the film. What happened to the kids afterwards? No clue. But then again, there is no link on this site to Ballard’s organization. No link on this site asking people to donate money anywhere, except towards movie tickets. Anyone involved in anti-trafficking activities should be riding this wave of publicity for their cause. It is a golden opportunity to get donations, to get meetings with law enforcement, bookings on talk shows, etc. That instead of doing that, you would chose to simply attack Ballard, is more than a bit curious.
I ended up here by accident, it wasn’t part of some grand strategy for carefully planned influence. I don’t expect to come back in the future.
I’m not going to post a specific organization because I don’t want anyone’s name to be tied into fights or controversy. Ballard is very good at self-promotion and has cultivated an intense network of supporters who aren’t exactly kind to those who call into question his accounts, organization, and strategies, and I’m not going to drag my own organization or anyone else’s into those fights. If you want to know who to actually support, then speak to those in your community who have a long track record of direct work with vulnerable children (not someone who came into the issue just in the last few years and has no real background to learn from yet), and ask who they recommend.
If you’re interested in learning about the real problem, I can recommend the book “Not For Sale” by David Batstone. This is not an endorsement of the Not For Sale Campaign, which I have no experience with, or of David Batstone himself, who I know nothing about. But I have read the book carefully, multiple times, and its narrative matches my own experience with human trafficking which spans several countries in both hemispheres.
And no, those of us who are actually in the lives of trafficked girls and boys don’t appreciate Ballard’s “publicity for our cause”. He distorts how trafficking happens and how it is addressed. His followers get gassed up to worry about strangers kidnapping other people’s children, a scenario that almost never happens, and thus lose sight of the actual ways women and children end up trafficked – runaways, lover boy schemes, bait-and-switch work offers, and being trafficked by one’s own family. Often, but not always, driven by extreme poverty or other hardship. Sometimes, but not always, with the initial consent of the trafficked person. Actually addressing those issues is far more complex than throwing a bunch of money into raids and guns and thinking violence will be the solution, but such raids build upon the American desire for a hero image and a quick fix solution, and so that’s where people’s money ends up getting thrown. Organizations are pressured to make their rescue operations look dramatic, to advertize based on # of rescues rather than length of care or success of rehabilitation, and thus the field becomes more and more superficial. Actual safehouses providing actual care for such girls are underfunded and understaffed, and efforts like Ballard’s don’t seem to increase their funding because they don’t have exciting raid videos and don’t let random American volunteers run in alongside men with guns. And the absolute most important work, trafficking prevention, is completely invisible to these people. How do you actually reduce the supply and demand for trafficking, rather than simply playing into the revolving door like Ballard’s raids do? Like I said, I’m not going to drag anyone else’s name into a fight with already emotional people who aren’t going to be rational about it, but google trafficking prevention work and you can find some good people out there doing their best to tackle the true root issues of children’s rights, women’s rights, disempowered communities, and God’s love that actually needs to be brought in to change things for the better. Not a bunch of men with guns.
If you think I’m some sort of fringe case, I suggest you get some experience in the world of anti-trafficking efforts, because my perspective on Ballard aligns with the vast majority of organizations in this field. If you want an analogy, I guess you could compare it to the Left Behind novels. Would you be grateful for the attention that Left Behind brings to the Christian faith? Or would you see it as an unhelpful distortion of what faith and God are about, likely to lead far more astray than actually shining light on the truth? Ballard’s stories have about as much in common with real human trafficking as Left Behind has with real Christian faith.
thanks for giving us a better perspective.
This comment makes me wonder if you even saw the movie, which was not produced or directed by Ballard. You say this, “bait-and-switch work offers”. That is exactly what happened to the two kids at the center of this movie. It was not a stranger abduction. The dad dropped the kids off for what he thought was an audition. For those of us with family and personal experience in Eastern Europe, this was also the case. Usually, a girl shows up for an audition for a “modeling” job or a waitress job or a childcare job in Germany job and just goes missing. They are not even always underage. Some are 30’s or older.
God alone knows what is happening in Ukraine, given what many of us have seen in the past in Poland, Czech, Bosnia, Slovakia, Romania, pre-war Ukraine, Croatia…
Our contributor Alex served as an interpreter for UN forces in the Balkans. There girls and boys really were just kidnapped and sold by militias and mafia. Families sell kids too, everyone who has dealt with crushing poverty has seen that. Local officials are usually in on it.
So mistakes like you made in your comment makes one wonder if you even know the film you are criticizing. This is a huge and sprawling topic, with many aspects. Your opinions are noted, but wow are they suspect on a lot of levels. You belong to an organization that is doing great work but won’t name it or recommend it? Is it non profit? Because who met a person who works with a non profit who wouldn’t take every chance to recommend leaning about it and giving to it?
As for the comparison to “Left Behind”, not at all comparable to this film which, again, was not made by Ballard or starring Ballard. Left Behind teaches heresy from an Orthodox perspective. This is a problem if it misleads our people, but we do get a lot of converts who get interested in Eschatology but then study further and find Orthodoxy. We also publish alternatives to the Rapture theology, which people looking for information find.
Human trafficking is not dogma, is it? Doesn’t it happen in different ways? Is it combatted only one way? The movie revolves around two kids who were trafficked after a single dad was tricked by a fake job offer. The girl is sold repeatedly to Western men who travel to the Global South for sex tourism.
That is all possible, right? No one is relying, or should be relying, on a work of fiction for policy solutions or to cover every potential scenario in which trafficking can occur. That would be what we would rely on experts like you for. Not a movie. But in two posts on this site, you have offered criticism of an individual and no solutions, save a book recommendation.
You probably could do a lot of good by educating the public if you weren’t fixated on Ballard and you actually watched the movie you are criticizing. Everyone involved in human trafficking has a bully pulpit right now. If you can’t see the potential, maybe others are smarter.
And, at the risk of repetition, no author on this site recommended Ballard’s organization or linked to it. We recommend a movie on the topic.
Thanks Nick.
The goal of occult work is the splitting of the personality through traumatic events; it is a form of initiation whereby so much trauma is inflicted–pain, sexually, embarrassment etc–, the person must totally disassociate from the event/s that they sequester within their personality a dark side. The clinical term for it is Disassociation Disorder. It is “divide and conquer” at its most damning effectiveness where a person is divide and fully under somebody else’s control.
It produces schizophrenia but not in all is this overt. Many go about “normal” lives but are always on a short leash to whoever inflicted the trauma. Once the personality has been split, the person is forever at the beck and call of the overlord. At the very same time, they will lead an otherwise very normal life. I have seen this in real people, real “Orthodox” Christians. It is a truly damning situation.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. When a person has be subjected to SRA, satanic ritual abuse, they become unavoidably divided and without any strength to fend off the demonic control of their handlers. This is all by design. This disables any fight back mechanisms, and these people cannot get free without help and a miracle from God. Obviously, there are many layers to this dynamic and of course, children are primary targets. but make not mistake, adults can also be inflicted and many are among us as spiritual zombies unable to sort anything for themselves.
Those who abuse, will abuse others, it just works that way. All homosexuals have been traumatically initiated into something they have no control over, and they are all around us.
Beware of the neo-nicolaitans, they are back. Actually, they have never left even the ranks of the Church as St John points out in Revelation.
What is the antidote to the “terminator” (cyborg, trans human, transex)? It is none other than the “Revelator” St John the Divine. Time to learn the lesson of the eagle and ascend unto the holy mountain of the Jehovah.
Every wound, is a womb, is a portal to the unseen realm (this is why Satan chose Eve to approach first). Every wound or portal must be portered by someone who can close it to evil and allow only good to come through. Your wound–my dear friend–can be an opening of evil (if bitterness towards somebody is allowed to take root), or with proper grieving through the cleansing of tears, become an avenue of blessing from God, when one turns the face/heart/mind toward a smiling Father, Who causes His face to shine upon you. BE FREE!
We all will go through wounding one way or another because it is Satan’s way. Only through the proper processes can we come out better rather than bitter.
If you bury your pain, it will create a splitting of your person, you must properly process this wound by:
If there is a counterfeit, there is a genuine. We are all to overcome the “trans….(whatever) of our generation, by TRANScending into the heavenlies with St John who was called to “come up here!” into God’s presence to see many things which are, which have been, and which are to come. Without transcending there is no escaping the evil unleashed through the gates of hell nor the mark of the beast.
[1] Years ago I read a book—don’t recall the name—but it said that plastic surgeons know that an incision will scar if the tension is not removed. By alleviating the tension in the wound, there is no scaring. The book said, this is true in the personality, that unless the tension/bitterness/inforgiveness is not worked out it becomes personal scar. By pushing the pain down, secures a scar that must later be dealt with.
BEWARE THE SHADOW PEOPLE!
I heard of an urban legend which supposedly has been happening for centuries. Apparently some “El-itist Groups” who, along with members of secret societies, regularly conduct strange experiments and rituals on schoolchildren without the parents’ consent or knowledge.
THEY may be occultists who one day will dress up like a rabbi, another day they’ll wear the costume of a Catholic priest or Muslim cleric etc.
You get the picture so long as these psychopaths gain access to children.
It’s MKULTRA programming at schools, where children are given drugs like a cocktail of scopolamine and LSD, while the kids are subjected to trauma based mind control and ritualistic abuse.
This is done to create automatons who in future would fight for these “El-itist Groups”
It’s similar to the Ottoman Janissary guard, except the kids no longer need to be kidnapped, and taken away from their families for years.
Nowadays the process only takes hours to break a child and rebuild them as a Golem automaton.
All while parents believe their kids are safe at school.
This apparently happens all over the world!
What do you think, is this just a story, or could there be some truth to this?
In addition to what is very well expressed in this article, there is one more disturbing thing. Many people care more about cats and dogs than kids. The animals receive more attention and even better funerals than humans. Women who aborted their kids would treat the animals like the love of their lives.
The depravity of the society is fueled by videos and graphic materials for a mental anesthesia. Pleasure and the sensual gratification are the final result without children in mind. I wonder what kind of mother would be a woman, after having many partners, adopted an animal to fill the void, and later, somehow, had a child.
It is nothing worse than a nation with a damaged generation raising another damaged generation.
You pegged it exactly, Dan.
The mothering instinct is part and parcel of our humanity. To abort a child, is to give up a part of that humanity and step toward transhuman. LGBT, transhuman, etc are just steps in descent into hell that started with the fracturing of the home, divide and conquer by Satan. What will our society look like without mothers doing what they do best, bearing and rearing children?
In the story of King Solomon parsing the situation between the two prostitutes we have a clear picture by way of contrast what losing humanity does in a woman. Nothing could be more modern, than this story as it speaks about women losing their humanity, contrasted with those who refuse to give it up.
In the story, both women were prostitutes, so all things were “being equal”. Yet, the one would give up her child with any possibility that it would live. This is the mothering instance, that a woman would sacrifice anything and everything for the wellbeing of her children.
Logically, to give the son to the other woman would bring the child’s death, but, King Solomon knew this and with the revealing of the true mother, that woman—with mothering instinct intact—would be left to raise the child; which meant much hardship and sacrifice, but, would in the end provide for her old age when her body could no longer prostitute. The offending woman gives up the future for current convenience. This is the sure sign evil is afoot, when current pleasure trumps future felicity.
Feminism is the destruction of the mothering instinct. When that goes, so does all sense of beauty, love, mercy, and everything wonderful; she becomes a brute, something other than what she is. When that leaves a culture, it becomes the height of depravity and child sacrifice—in all its forms—in a downward spiral; and God’s full judgement thereafter.
Yet, to see this as purely a woman’s problem is to be short sided. According to creation, women always follow men (in one way or another), her desire is always toward a man or men in general. If a man does not want the child he conceives, neither will the woman who would bear the child. If men stage their lives to ascend the corporate ladder, then women will follow. When men go home—put their hearts back into their family—, then at some point so will women.
The losing of the mothering instinct brings about a hatred for children—as an inconvenience. It marks a living for the now and ignoring the future, the hallmark of a terminal society. This is only a reflection of men who refuse to father their children, refusing to grow up, still trapped in silly adolescent obsessions with being a sports spectator only, never a participant.
The most damning change in human culture was to take wealth creation outside the home. Under the agrarian system, the whole family went work—not away—but in the home/farm/business, and not just the dad leaving the home. To have a healthy family it is nearly impossible without bringing it all back home—having a family owned business.
The most damning half-truth of all time is, “A woman’s place is in the home” because it assumes a man’s place is not.
Nevertheless, to take a woman’s skill sets and confine them to child rearing for a lifetime may not be the best thing. If human fathering holds the goal of emancipation, a woman’s duty in raising the children ends and shifts to their father, then to the Heavenly Father. Is she to be bored out of her mind? No, this leads to becoming a busy-body, nosing into other people’s affairs.[1]
Yet, the model put forth in Proverbs 31 brings an interesting formula for life. It is the wife who runs the family business and the husband attends to the needs of the overall community by sitting at the gate of the city porting the community, discerning things of greater import. Indeed, women are store houses of resourcefulness that must not be ignored.
During industrialization, the industrialists overlords figured out real fast the best man for the job, was nearly always a woman. As it turns out what made women trustworthy wives, mothers, and home managers, made them much better suited for the industrial complex. They will work for much less than a man, with the implementation of a few accolades as they had done for centuries in the home raising their young. Most all employment in the modern technocracy is tailored toward women and for men to fit in, they much be conditioned to become lady-like. We have had transgenderism for decades in the workplace, why would it not be in every other way.
On a whole scale level, most men are really girly-men. Public schools treat boys as broken girls. If you want boys to grow up without gender confusion, and girls grow up fully affirmed in femininity, they you must raise them different. In the transgender movement, we have no body to blame but ourselves for not keeping things distinct from an early age. We riot over the LGBT agenda, yet we refuse to do well by our children.
We are hypocrites. If you want to bring about a reversal, start with women putting the head covering back on, and not just wear it, but live fully its meaning in being submitted to her husband. Message to women: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. The foolish woman destroys her home—even if unintentionally. The evil prostitute in Solomon’s story, was just care—less.
[1] 1 Timothy 5:10-6
Seems that it’s a simple reason that “pet parenting” is everywhere and is a huge economic market these days (pet outfits, pet spas, pet accoutrements, etc.) — pets provide comfort to humans but don’t require much in return… just feed them, take them out, but they can go in a crate when you’re out of the house…. Plus, pets are usually OK for folks who find intimacy difficult. Many folks have a lot of emotional damage for a ton of reasons, and to be able to “do” the intimacy that’s required for a successful marriage requires a lot of work.
Contrast “pet parenting” with raising a child…. Children require 24/7 care. It’s impossible to be selfish and to be a good/attentive parent. Good parents must learn to put their needs behind the needs of their children. As I understand it, this is one of the reasons why parenting is a huge piece on our path to salvation in the Christian life…. It’s also biological and God-designed…. sexual/romantic urges kick in, and – voilà – young men and women become parents. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work :/
God expects us to push our selfish desires to the back burner and put our children first. For women/moms, this is very obvious in terms of delivering and nursing the baby and being the foremost caregiver and nurturer. For men/dads, this process usually involves providing a safe framework/structure/”fortress” where his wife can be safe and protected while she nurses the baby. This design is not “oppressive” to anyone – in fact, Christian men and women who embrace this design in real life often say that in the context of this framework, they feel the most fully “masculine” and most fully “feminine,” truly as God designed us.
It’s not just an accident that the only two states in life that have been historically blessed by the Christian Orthodox Church are the married state and the monastic state. The idea of huge percentages of adults who are neither married nor monastic was unknown in the Church until about 30-40 years ago, when these percentages skyrocketed, mostly in the secular West. This is why there is often a big black hole and deer-in-the-headlights response of how to deal with 40-50% unmarried adults in the Church who are not monastic either — this is a modern phenomenon which the Church is learning how to deal with real-time.
Fr Josiah Trenham gave a talk once on the demonic nature of “pet parenting” and how the secular world views it as equivalent to “human parenting,” but of course it is not. Yes, puppies and cats can be cute (I don’t think cats are cute (I’m not a cat person….)) but God did not design us to be pet parents. For those of us who had pets before we became parents, once the babies come, pets go to the far back burner. End of story.
Awesome article on Jim Caviezel and his movie…. “God’s children are not for sale” – how well put! In a Christian culture, this truism should be downright obvious – it’s sad that in modern times we have to try to convince others of the validity of this statement. Says a lot about the sorry state of our Western secular societies.
Jim Caviezel is not an Orthodox Christian – he’s a strong Latin Catholic as I understand it – but he’s a tremendous role model for masculine Christianity in the 21st century…. God knows that we modern Christian men need good role models, particularly among Christian men who are not called to the ordained clergy. I admire and look up to Jim Caviezel a lot.
Interested readers may want to listen to Shawn Ryan’s podcast where he interviews Jim Caviezel about this film, about his faith, and about the evil child trafficking networks that are everywhere – it’s the July 3, 2023, epsiode of the Shawn Ryan podcast — a deep, moving, and haunting episode.