Molotov Mitchell: Punk Dominionist
A limited world view combined with a misplaced desire for tradition has caused the Church to be splintered into a thousand factions, all claiming to be keepers of the "true Faith." Now we stand in the wake of schoolyard massacres, no-fault divorces and infant genocide with nothing to offer but dead tradition and books about the rapture. In other words, rather than wait for the "rapture" to take Christians into heaven, Christians need to take charge here and now: ...We are children of the Sword, the face of Truth on a dying planet. We are the worldwide tribe and at the feet of our King the nations will bow. We are the pure and royal priesthood. All that we put our hands to must prosper. We are servants to man, relentless in our toil, driven by love of the Greatest Servant. We are the Brotherhood of Christ. Our family does not break like those of the fallen world. We are the enemies of injustice and defenders of those without defense. Our eyes are the coals of righteousness and our hearts burn with hatred for all that is evil. We are the warriors. We are the fearless. We are the Zealots. That's from a Xanga website belonging the "Zealot Leader"; no name is given, but there is a photo of a bared tattooed torso which appears to belong to Mitchell. The same material appeared on a "Zealot Movement" website in 2001 that is no longer active. This Zealot Movement website also carried a quote attributed in the Bible to King Jehu, "Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD"; that's in 2 Kings 10:16, and the way that Jehu demonstrates his "zeal" in the following verses is by killing the family of Ahab and then massacring the followers of Baal.
Mitchell gives some background to his philsophy in an interview here: Straight Edge made me feel great physically, and cleared my mind of the drug-induced haze of my teen years, but when that happened, I realised that that was the end of the ride. My body was whole, but my spirit was sick. Straight Edge couldn't help me when I wondered why I was here; straight edge was great for my body, but useless for my soul. I faced that, deep down, and began to study religions with the new clarity straight edge had given my mind. I studied Buddhism, Islam, and Mormonism. I came very close to becoming a Hare Krishna follower, before finding many glaring inconsistencies in the Vedic texts and their hierarchy of gods and demigods. Ultimately, I began to read the Bible as much as I hated the idea of reading the Western world's propaganda, when I stumbled upon a Scripture that intrigued me. "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6) Now, most world religions can all hold hands and say, "we all serve the same God; we just do it in different ways," but this quote from the Man all religions credit as divine and the greatest of teachers was a shockwave for me to read. I thought it was profoundly arrogant, at first, but then I considered the possibility that he could be right. If that was so, then I was in trouble, and so was just about everyone else. C.S. Lewis made a powerful suggestion that Jesus could only be a Liar, Lunatic or Lord. So I began to study the life of Jesus against the lives of the other prophets, the accounts of Josephus, the archaeological evidence behind Scripture, etc. and ultimately saw that there was no other option-Jesus was indeed, Lord. Mitchell also dislikes Wiccans and pagans, whom he also accuses - with thudding inevitability - of being Nazis; as he explains back on the Xanga site: The occult and paganism are indeed separate entities with different theologies, practices, etc. but only as much as Hitler's S.S. and the German regulars were separate. Semantics. They're both antichristian in their belief system, which is to say that they both oppose the very foundation of Western civilization and submission to spiritual authority. Goddesses and earthen worship, Lucifer and hedonism, it's all in the same category- "do as thou wilt." And the deeper you dig, the more ugly connections you will find, between Norse mythology and wicka, earth worship and survival of the fittest, ultimately culminating in what Hitler called "a brave religion founded in the worship of Nature and not the effeminate pity ethic of the Jew Christ." Call it what you will, humanism, hedonism, wicka, Odinism, race supremacy, the Occult- only one base principle dictates their doctrines- "Do as thou wilt." "Black Metal" also gets the thumbs-down; returning to the interview: Black metal represents liberalism's logical destiny. The black metal practitioner and the ACLU both hate the concepts of the moral majority, the Ten Commandments on a court house, prayer in school, and anything else that would dare suggest absolute Truth, but the black metal-head has the spine to carry his beliefs out to their logical end, and openly attack. They all subscribe to Nietchzeian philosophy, the ACLU, NOW, the homosexual community, the black metal scene, and they are all out for the same thing: the total annihilation of Christian law, as it is the only obstacle they can not seem to surmount. In 2005 Mitchell's "Illuminati Films" made a documentary on musical subcultures, entitled Dark Planet: Visions of America. A 2007 review in Black Oak Presents by Robert Benson (p.11 of this pdf) calls the film "imformative and imaginatively compiled", but he complains that it "grossly exaggerated" the cultural significance of these groups and has "many fatal flaws". In particular, he complains that the "zealot" segment, in which Mitchell's wife "DJ Dolce" is interviewed, is baised to show members as "happy and charitable", and that the skinhead segment dismisses the reality of a "white power" grouping. The black metal segment, meanwhile, "spouted the usual rhetoric about Satanism in American society". In February, Mitchell treated WND readers to a particuarly bizarre piece in which he mocks liberals for believing in evolution so that they can avoid moral responsibility, but being inconsistent because they don't follow the logic of "survival of the fittest", which should mean support for capitalism, militant Islam, and discouraging homosexuality; the larger point he is attempting to make, if there is one, remains obscure to me.
Molotov Mitchell: Punk Dominionist | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
Molotov Mitchell: Punk Dominionist | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
|
||||||||||||
|