Indiana Jones and the Temple of Scientology

Steven Spielberg's latest movie, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull," manages to deliver a key component of the Scientology creation myth in an entertainment package that provides so much action that no one except this writer has noticed that the movie could be a Scientology evangelistic vehicle created by L. Ron Hubbard himself if he still occupied this carnal sphere and if he held copyright on the "Indiana Jones" brand. Read on and this article can help you understand the nature of the battle everyone who is in Christ should be fighting today.

(Christian Gallery News Service, May 26, 2008) This article assumes you have some real understanding of the way mythology operates in our world today. Otherwise a book is required rather than a movie review. In other words, to make sense of the evidence that follows, you need to have at least a scant knowledge of the foundational human reengineering strategy of the 20th century, the project most clearly defined by Joseph Campbell, the reengineering strategy that can increasingly be seen in virtually all the federal government allied communication vehicles like network news programs, educational curricula at every grade level, and the mass entertainment industry. If you don't know about that project, then I don't see how you can understand this article, much less this century. If you need documentation that the myth-making duo of Steven Spielberg and George Lucus have spent their record-setting movie making careers implementing what Joseph Campbell defined as the goal for all humanity and all time in the final book of his four-book series called "The Masks of God," then you have simply missed the decisive story of the 20th century. If you don't know about Campbell and his ilk, you might as well stop reading now and go study Joseph Campbell and his fellow "mythologists."

But for those in the know, I'll recap the salient facts. Campbell's book was named Creative Mythology and it challenged all communicators, but especially artists, to define a new mythology that would once and for all eliminate the ancient "mythologies" (read Christianity) that Campbell believed had not only enthralled mankind but created most of the human misery during what Campbell called "the dear childhood of the brain"--the period most of us refer to as recorded history.

L. Ron Hubbard, the artist who has the clearest claim to the title of "Best of Breed" among the disciples of Joseph Campbell, created the religion of Scientology.

At the heart of the Scientologist's myth is the idea that space aliens came to earth and provided both the good and the bad impetus for mankind's transformation from cavemen to what we see today. To be more specific, central to the Scientology myth was the idea that space aliens provided our species with the knowledge that allowed us to morph from cavemen (cavepeople) to the agrarian technologists who provided the non-cave and non-predatory foundation upon which we ascended to our present plateau.

Now here's the point of this article. Pay close attention to the dialogue in the latest Indiana Jones movie and you will hear Indiana tell everyone watching the movie that all our fore bearers got out of their caves and learned to be so cool because space aliens from a far-advanced civilization came and taught us the things we needed to get out of our caves. Not only do you hear Indiana explain that story, the rest of the movie provides "evidence" that proves the space alien story is "true" in the "scientific" manner required by all Scientologists.

SO WHAT?

Here's what. The theme of the Holy Bible is a message about A Creator, an invisible Spirit, who revealed Himself to mankind in diverse ways, and through whose revelation came all the life-giving guidance that brought mankind to this present condition. The Bible does not talk about space aliens but instead talks about the Holy Spirit of The Creator as the source from which mankind derived all the wisdom that provided all the good things, not only on earth, but throughout the universe of space and time. This message about The Creator is the foundation, not only for all human understanding but, most especially, for the gospel of Jesus Christ as well. And this message about The Creator is the most important message that can be delivered to our species.

This preceding analysis about The Creator is validated by the things the Apostle Paul was recorded saying in the Acts of the Apostles:

Act 17:22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Act 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Act 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Act 17:25 Neither is worshiped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Act 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Act 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Act 17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

When The Creator Has No Rights

Where do we stand today in the competition between The Creator and the other myriad creation stories vying for the minds of mankind? Think what happens when people grant equal credibility to the "Technology from Space Aliens" story and The Creator account specified by Paul.

If you don't believe that is what is happening in the USA, you have not read any of a string of US Supreme Court decisions about The Creator's role in this nation over the last 15 years. The idea that there is a A Creator who created each and every person who has ever lived, and appointed the precise time and place where they would be born (...And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation), has been decreed by the highest federal government authorities to be simply another myth, one that has no Right to be believed any more than the creation account defined by the Scientologists, or by Steven Spielberg, for that matter.

If you want to know why Western Civilization is easily seen today to be a "post-Christian" culture, study the latest Indiana Jones flick. It really should have been titled "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Scientology" because it contains all the ingredients that explain how Christendom itself has become simply another "myth" from "the dear childhood of the brain."

The US Government Creates A New Religion

This story would not be important if artists and other communicators like them were the only characters in the story. But we live in a nation whose central government has committed itself to destroying the Rights of The Creator. When that happens, the worst case scenario for Christians has come full circle. We might as well be back in the time of Caesar when the God of the Bible was seen to be an enemy of Caesar.

How could such a revolution have occurred if all the millions of people who call themselves Christians actually believed what their Bible teaches about God?

It's easy to understand how Christendom was persecuted and driven underground during the first three centuries after Christ. Christendom was being born; there were comparatively few Christians in a Roman Empire that forced people to worship Caesar or die.

But that's not the case today. There are untold millions of Christians in the USA alone. And all of us who call ourselves Christians have impotently watched the world enter a "post-Christian" phase.

How could such a revolution have happened if Christians actually believed what the Bible teaches about God?

We live in a post-Christian culture because the Christians in the USA have literally been brain-washed into thinking they were obligated to support the "religion" defined by the federal government of the USA. In fact, vast numbers in this generation of Christians have created a new "Christian" theology that falsely teaches people that the message in the Bible all along required Christians to believe that everyone has the right to believe anything they want to believe about God.

Nothing could be farther from the truth, and nothing could be more dangerous to the nation that officially teaches such a lie.

To see what I am talking about you need to examine what happens when the central government of a nation--the government that provides the peace and prosperity upon which people depend for their very survival--decrees that the citizens of that nation have the right to believe anything they want to believe about God. In such a scenario, the highest authority on earth--their earthly government with all its guns and soldiers and Weapons of Mass Destruction--takes the initiative in teaching people that what they believe about God is not a critical component in the survival of either the individual or the nation. But actually such a government goes much further than that: the logic of such a government decree about "religion" teaches its citizens that what is important to survival is people's ability to believe whatever they want to believe about God. A government that teaches people they have the right to believe whatever they want to believe about God does not help people "seek the Lord" if "the Lord" is the Being described by the Apostle Paul. In fact, such a government implies that seeking after One, True God is simply wrong. The government, by default, teaches people that the path of wisdom requires each and every person to believe that there are many gods, each of whom is exactly equal to any other, and no matter what a person decides to believe about god, they will face no consequences that government is obligated to tell them about.

When a government that has committed itself to teaching its citizens that they have to right to believe anything they want to believe about God has at its service mass communication channels like the news media and the arts and the educational establishment and then such a government literally creates the train of thought filling the minds of virtually every inhabitant of a nation, Christendom cannot be sustained. That much is obvious. When the people who run that mass communication media have embraced the "survival strategy" defined by Joseph Campbell, a strategy that requires the destruction of Christendom, each and every citizen in the nation becomes like putty in the hands of the mass communicators...or to take a Biblical metaphor, becomes like clay in the Potter's hands.

And we begin to see what is happening around us today: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Scientology being only one of myriad examples.

Maybe it's too late for old folks like my generation. But it's not too late for young people to wake up and begin to defend the Kingdom of Christ on Earth.

But unless you become very sensitive to the brain washing techniques described here, you will find yourself being conditioned to think that each and every model of god and each and every creation story and each and every salvation account has the right to be tolerated just as the government has decreed.

To see how evil such a government policy is, imagine that there is a Creator like the One we earlier heard the Apostle Paul describe.? What if the One, True Creator of all things wanted, as taught by the Apostle Paul, all people on the earth to know about Him so that each individual "...should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us..."

Unless Christians defended that precise God, such a Christian culture as the one we have around us today--a Christian culture in a "post-Christian world"--we would make that Creator our mortal enemy. And consequences would begin to be obvious. Consequences like these:

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

If you read the newspaper, or watch the news programs, you will see that this nation has been experiencing the things defined above in an ever-growing tsunami of sin and crime and perversion. The Judgment of God that carries the wrath of God has been being revealed for years against we the people of the United States of America, but we've managed to deny the truth about this nation into our minds. That is coming to an end. We the people of this generation have been spending all the good will capital and resources accumulated by this nation over 200 years of being a light to the nations. We are nearing bankruptcy. The next time you are in rush hour traffic, look around you and imagine what will happen when we realize we have squandered all God's good will and have made our nation His enemy.

By God's grace it ain't over 'til it's over. We still have time to repent. I'm doing my best to show what repentance looks like. How about you?

If you are in repentance, please contact me. I have a plan to show the nation what defending Christendom looks like in word and deed.

Learn about it here: http://www.tcrp.us

Neal Horsley

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