Fundraising for Social Change
I shop at the Goodwill store a few times a year. Especially on half-price Mondays. I’m not just a contributor, I’m a customer.
The latest thing I picked up was the book “Fundraising for Social Change” ( 3rd edition) by Kim Klein. $2.99.
Cha-ching! A socialist textbook for less than the 40 bucks Barnes and Nobles wants? In less than a second… Granted, I got the paperback with the ugly red matrix on the front instead of the nifty/artsy new green vine growing up from ..some oppression or other .. to represent Green on the latest edition’s cover.
I actually went in looking at the lamps, but when I saw the book I heard the thought: ( From the movie “Patton” : “Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I read your book!” ). I hadn’t. So I am.
When I first picked it up I was a bit surprised to see it in a GoodWill store. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I am a connoisseur of all things GoodWill. But.. Lamps? Okay. Clothes? Okay. Old shoes? Okay. Furniture? Okay. Socialist textbooks on how to corrupt whole nations and have them pay for it under the guise of charity, complete with a state by state index of The Foundation Center “an independent, national service organization ..to provide an authoritative source of information in foundation and corporate giving” for every cause? No.
But then, evil loves to see itself as good and giving the book away must have brought someone (chorus please ) …a lot of satisfaction.
Some insights: the book seeks to target “givers” by both analyzing their guilt complexes …
From “Why people give; appealing to self-interest p.22″
“People give because they feel guilty about how much they have or how little service they have done in their own life, and a gift relives that guilt.
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People give because the group expresses their own ideals and enables them to reinforce their image of themselves as principled people…”
( it follows then that for a Socialist/Communist, the ideal Socialist charity then would instill guilt as a pure means of growing itself as an organ of charity and insuring its own survival. Government as guilt-producer and taxer on the basis of the continuum of guilt on the people would then be the ideal “fundraiser” for that lie of what a charity ideally ought to strive to be: non-Christian and therefore Guilt based. “Class struggle” is just code for You Are Guilty. Taxation by the UN and Uncle Sam beats Direct Mail, eh?)
Sideboard: Would all those guilt ridden and vulnerable people seeking to relieve their vulnerability as individuals see their monies going to support a carnival atmosphere wherein one charity vies with all others for dominance in the “taking credit” portion of the give-away as success? A recent good of example of such would be “Experiences from a Refugee Camp (As we came closer to the camps one sight that struck me was the huge presence of the UN and NGO’s at the camp. Brand new Land Cruisers and off-road Toyota SUV’s crawled all over the perimeter roads of the camp. Workers wore shirts with their various NGO names printed on their shirts and hats. Names like UNICEF, OXFAM, Save the Children, Medicins Sans Frontiers and others all advertising for attention while providing services to the refugees. Trumping all others was a massive red banner with Save the Children Printed across it in white 8ft tall letters. It gave the camp an almost amusement park feel, that is until you looked deeper. Sitting nearby was a mountain of jerry cans wrapped in plastic and waiting to be handed out. Several hundred women with children on their arm or wrapped against their backs waited to receive their jerry can, blanket, and tarp. Medicins Sans Frontiers comes off looking the best..
And that does not even begin to describe the better-than-thou attitude ( brand new range rovers/suvs full of gas ..”My culture can afford to give to you because you are so ..weak and /or my ideology’s ideal Victim.” is the unspoken message..) by those giving to the people in need. Nor does it address the use of Charity to induce war and lack of industry among a populace that keeps that populace in dire straits… so the charity can run in and “save everyone..”
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The book also gives, for its day, a de facto view of the American monetary system and how to set up arrangements of continual support/giving by the most convenient means: banking systems, cards, clearinghouses, etc. This book has to be on the shelf of every destructive cause. Rick Warren and Osama bin Laden probably have copies.
Besides having studied Church giving and immediately compared ANY cause as at least the equal of the cause of Jesus Christ such that “church methods” have been supposedly married to the socialist scheme to get money in a generic fashion ( The Reply Device p. 74; The Psychographic Survey p. 234; Staying Legal p.246;) the book categorizes tithes to God in Jesus Christ as mere “money given to the private sector” and bemoans the fact that “religious organizations” get ” about half of all such monies”. The whole thrust of the book is ..how to get money out of people for whatever cause you espouse.
The book is really an intelligence report by those that are unwittingly a part of what they are analyzing as those deceived by the lie of free will — a study of the effects of that deception is used to defraud the people they target. It is a “how-to” go about playing on those deceptions to milk people for cash to oppress them while supposedly relieving them of guilt and instilling them with pride/vanity for being caught in the system they have helped to build around themselves. –and how to “stay legal” while The Cause continually does so.
Who might be playing from that same book?
Rick Warren for one. Today on tv he is bragging that “Saddleback” ( not Jesus Christ ) gave one point something million to tsunami victims “on a thirty second decision”. Good thing he was in charge to make such snap charity, huh? Taxation without representation replaces “the pledge” and ..there you go: charity as root guise of Socialistic lies and totalitarianism.
Not content to rest on “Saddleback’s” laurels, anti-Christ through Warren further opined that “a tsunami occurs every eight” ( minutes, as I remember him saying..) Now what do you suppose would be his ideal model of Fundraiser for those eight minute intervals of non-tsunami time to absolutely ensure that within thirty seconds he can give it away to the needy?
Socialism/Communism.
In short, the whole socialistic attitude and outlook on life can be easily seen in the one book “Fundraising for Social Change”. It is very plain that the writer and those that study it to use it against Christians genuinely see themselves as both wise and good and on have long considered themselves truth-proof.
In order to deceive a truly Christian people, all that is necessary is that God withholds Himself as Word and those not sent claim to be sent and carry with them:
1. a works based salvation that supposedly relieves the guilt it also instills
2. a simultaneous charity arm that makes as public a demonstration of the “happiness” it gives out as possible as advertisement for funds –that are given away by a mass of people deceived into feeling guilty over ..everything: the environment, earthquakes, wars, that they exist at all, etc..
3. a political movement that harnesses the church as said tool of deception to get the people to “give up their own freedom” ( a freedom defined by the one who wants to oppress the people that is not in fact real freedom at all…) and “does the charity for them” with the least fuss and inconvenience.
But God plainly Says as spirit and life to us:
Ecc 5:1-3 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few. For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool’s voice through a multitude of words.
Getting rid of poverty will never happen. Very many will burn in the lake of fire forever becuase of thier true poverty that is not having God as Word and not being new creature in Jesus Christ. God Says that plainly. The attempt to portray bankrupting everyone on the premise of “doing away with poverty” is a plain lie.
Mark 14:7 for ye have the poor always with you, and whenever ye would ye can do them good;
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen