Website owner: James Miller
For many years I have had in the back of my mind an
organization that I have called "The Christian Brotherhood".
The organization exists only on paper, only in my imagination.
A sketch of it is as follows:
The Christian Brotherhood is a conservative, non-denominational
Christian organization that emphasizes morality, chastity and
decency as core values of true Christianity. The emphasis is
on moral living and a wholesome lifestyle consistent with true
Christianity.
Christian Brotherhood in brief:
- members live under an "umbrella" of Brotherhood
institutions. The Brotherhood provides its own
schools, day care centers, care for the elderly,
jobs, churches, recreational programs, etc.. These
institutions provide a protective umbrella from a
godless world, with all its coldness, immorality,
violence and badness.
- schooling is provided for all from grade school through
college. Teachers are all Brotherhood members.
Learning through self-study is emphasized.
- the Brotherhood owns its own farms, businesses, and
enterprises. All Brotherhood enterprises are
staffed solely by Brotherhood people.
- Brotherhood people are encouraged to invest their money
in Brotherhood enterprises.
- the purpose of the Brotherhood is to provide a
wholesome, high-quality life for its people and to
provide a haven from a godless world.
- Brotherhood people are required to live a life of
discipline, free of bad habits. There is no
drinking, smoking, gambling, cursing, low language, or
use of drugs.
- in the schools, at all grades and levels, there is a
strong emphasis on the importance of serving God and
your fellow man; on the right priorities in life;
on moral virtue, character, living a life of
principle; on the importance of strict honesty,
integrity, honor, decency and goodness.
- the Brotherhood carefully censors what can be read or
watched on television. Any kind of pornography or
indecency is strictly censored and prohibited.
- the Brotherhood is a world within a world, a society
within a society, a culture within a culture, a
country within a country.
Key elements in the Christian Brotherhood outlook
- emphasis on the practice of Christianity and the
importance of morality, chastity and decency
- rejection of the modern 9-5 rat race in favor of a
simpler, slower, more wholesome lifestyle
- rejection of the modern school system
Christian Brotherhood Objectives.
- the pursuit of spiritual and mental health
- the quest for a wholesome, satisfying lifestyle
- the quest for a means of self-support that is healthy and
satisfying (an alternative to the traditional 9-5 job)
Main teachings.
Love of God. Upright, godly living. Obedience to
spiritual and moral law.
Self-sufficient living. Breaking free from the system.
Attention to physical health. Right diet and exercise.
Quest for Truth and Understanding.
Eight point message.
1. Repent and turn to God. Be faithful to him through
godly, upright living.
2. Pursue self-reliance and independence.
3. Pursue simplicity. Let your needs be few. Be content
with little.
4. Pursue good health through exercise and a healthy diet
(low fat, vegetarian or semi-vegetarian).
5. Avoid bad habits (drinking, smoking, drug use, bad
language, gambling, etc.)
6. Reflect. Seek wisdom, knowledge, understanding, truth.
7. Try to exit the rat-race, get off the treadmill. Avoid
competition. Pursue a slower, healthier way.
8. Avoid waste. Pursue the way of economy and frugality.
Brotherhood behavior. The Brotherhood places strong emphasis
on moral behavior. The following types of behavior are
strictly prohibited: drinking, smoking, gambling, teenage
dating, drug use, sexual misconduct, homosexuality; profane,
indecent or coarse language or humor. Attendance of movie
theatres is strictly prohibited. Watching of television is
either prohibited or severely restricted. Listening to
worldly music is prohibited, allowing only classical music
and some types of religious music. Women must dress modestly,
in accordance with 1 Tim 2:9-10. Courtship is not allowed
before the age of 21. Children are raised in a strict manner
and carefully supervised.
Brotherhood social activities. Wholesome indoor and outdoor
activities: Discussion groups, picnics, weenie roasts,
hiking, camping, fishing, canoeing, etc..
Retreat House
Retreat House, operating under the auspices of the Christian
Brotherhood, is a combination religious retreat and school
for self-sufficient living. The main themes that are
emphasized at Retreat House are the importance of the
following: faith in God; principled, virtuous living;
self-discipline; honesty; chastity; decency; modesty;
consideration for others; unselfishness; peaceableness;
self-denial; simplicity in living; solitude, quiet
reflection, and the quest for spiritual truth; looking to
God and conscience for guidance and striving to live true to
the highest that lies within you.
Topics of Study.
- Homestead living
- Homestead gardening
- Livestock care
- Food storage and preservation
- Carpentry and building construction
- Plumbing
- House wiring
- Homestead cooking
- Automobile repair
- Health care
Motivation for the Christian Brotherhood
We live in a sick, degenerate society. The society is awash
in drugs, alcohol, and pornography. The populace lives under
constant bombardment of moral lie from a Godless mass media.
Badness has a monopoly, filling the air with its subtle
messages glamorizing lust, immorality, profanity, and wrong.
Goodness and right has no voice and no vote. There has been
a moral flip, a moral inversion. The good are derided and
vilified and the bad are applauded. The spirit of Evil
rules. Sexual promiscuity, fornication and adultery are
everywhere. Millions of couples brazenly cohabit (everyone
is doing it, it is now socially acceptable, the old stigma
against it that derived from knowledge of right and wrong is
gone). One third of the births in our country are
illegimate. Sexual perverts, homosexuals, are in high
profile, everywhere shamelessly demanding their rights, with
the support of much of the public. The land is deeply
perverted. Lust, pornography, immorality, profanity and
sexual perversion is pervasive; it is everywhere, sanctioned,
accepted and glamorized. Crime and violence is rampant. The
populace doesn't know right from wrong. Knowledge of right
and good is gone from the land. The moguls of Hollywood,
television, the mass media, along with liberal religion, have
wrought their great work. The land is lost.
Our public schools are cesspools of evil influence. They are
ravaged by the drugs, violence, profanity and immorality of
the society as a whole. They have come to function more as
day-care centers than as places to learn. The old order and
discipline of the classroom has given way to chaos. Violence
is rampant. Children live in fear. They carry weapons to
school to protect themselves from other children. The
teaching has been gutted by the educational philosophies of
the liberals who, experimenting with new teaching ideas and
techniques, emphasize things like self-esteem, diversity
training and sex education instead of the old, proven basics
--- reading, writing and arithmetic. They employ methods
that are a teaching sham and shortchange both the children
and the taxpayer. Students are passed from grade to grade
whether they deserve it or not to prevent hurting their egos
(it is no surprise that children pass through without being
able to spell, write a grammatically correct sentence,
express an idea intelligently, or even read). In addition,
the youth are subtly indoctrinated in beliefs, views,
attitudes and values which are in deep conflict with those of
the Bible. A system supported by tax-payer dollars that is
theoretically non-religious is in fact dominated by a
religion (or philosophy) that is deeply at odds with the
teachings of the Bible (we are talking about Humanism). In
this new religion wrong is right and right is wrong. Part
and parcel of the student's education is indoctrination in
moral and spiritual lie to the peril of his eternal soul.
The schools echo the same lies being proclamated by liberal
religion, government and the mass media [our students are
being taught, for example, that sexual perversion (i.e.
homosexuality) is simply an alternate sexual orientation, to
be accepted and respected].
Not all of the problem with our public schools is the fault
of the teachers. Our schools are filled with children who
are disruptive and uninterested in learning (mostly children
from certain poor minority groups). Teachers are expected to
do the impossible. For teaching anyone not interested in
learning is impossible. You can take a horse to water but
you can't make him drink. So while our teachers are spending
all their time and energy trying to make horses drink who
don't want to drink, or, perhaps, spending a lot of time
with children who don't know our language (children from
foreign countries), serious children who would like to learn
are being neglected and shortchanged. So what can we say?
The system is just all clogged up and bogged down.
And if the above can be said of our public schools, what can
be said of our colleges and universities, where the leaders
of the new America are being trained? The most of the major
campuses of our country are hotbeds of liberalism. Instead of
representing some balance of conservative ideas and liberal
ideas, an environment in which all ideas are considered and
allowed to compete, only one outlook is represented (with all
their emphasis on "diversity" there is very little diversity
in the ideological, philosophical make-up of the professors).
And with all the emphasis that this liberal outlook places on
tolerance there is little tolerance for outlooks that don't
agree with theirs. Conservative, traditional ideas and
values are out --- and not well tolerated. The new morality
is in. True Christianity, with its outlooks and values, is
out. Humanism is in. And along with this new moral outlook
is the coed dormitory, where young men and women live
together, commingle, drink large quantities of alcohol, and
enjoy all those personal liberties given to them by an
outlook that is without God or morality.
The minds of our children and young people are being
engineered and molded. And what they are shaped into is what
our nation will become twenty or thirty years from now.
So this is the situation in our society at present. Nor is
the situation anywhere improving. In fact we have been going
downhill toward the present situation for at least the past
50 years. Is there any hope on the horizon? No. Is our
government going to solve these problems for us? No. Will
it clean up our society? No. Why not? Because there is no
will. Because we have a democracy that is run by the people.
The government only carries out the will of the people. It
only echos their own attitudes, outlooks and values. And the
problem is that the people are diseased. Their hearts and
minds are diseased. They are too much in love with their
wicked ways. Their vision is blinded by their own
corruption. So what is the answer? Can I suggest anything?
I can. There is no point in waiting for someone to solve
these problems. No one is going to. You cannot change the
system yourself. That is not within your power. But there
is something you can do yourself. What do I have in mind?
The Christian Brotherhood. That is my solution. It is the
only solution I can think of. You form a closed society, a
society within a society, as the Amish or Hutterites have
done. And you must do something. For the sake of your
children you must do something.
I have just mentioned some of the motivation for my idea of
the Christian Brotherhood. There is yet another one. The
day may come in this country when the climate is so anti-
Christian that the Christian will have a difficult time
surviving. In particular, the workplace may become so
hostile toward him and people of his outlook that he will
have a difficult time keeping a job. He may need to find
some alternative to the traditional job in order to survive.
The forces of evil are growing stronger and stronger in this
country. Atheists, homosexuals, and other such groups are
seeing their agendas and outlooks implemented everywhere.
Liberal judges and liberal court decisions are causing great
and profound changes in this society. The society is
undergoing rapid transformation. Right now new
antidiscrimination laws, made to legally protect homosexuals
from discrimination, can put Christians, both on the job and
off the job, into difficult moral positions. Christians are
increasingly being forced to choose between their job and
their faith, their job and their God. That is a difficult
choice because a person can get very hungry and cold without
a job. And it may not be just them that becomes hungry and
cold, but also their spouses and children.
NOTE. Many people feel the same way I do about our public
schools. As a consequence a great many people are now either
sending their children to private schools or homeschooling
them. Some prominent people are now endorsing an action
almost as radical as the one I have proposed: doing away
with public schools completely and getting the government out
of the business of education. See the following:
T. C. Pinckney. We are losing our children
Alliance for the Separation of School & State
Exodus Mandate
Homeschool World
Thomas Sowell - The Deterioration of American Schools
The calamity that is American Education
Evil, anti-Christian forces brainwashing children in our school system
Nov 1984
Later note. See the following:
Weyrich letter
Apr 2013
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