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Regarding Religious & Spiritual Posts

There has been, from time to time, discussion back and forth regarding posts by members referencing aspects of personal religious and spiritual beliefs.  Lyme Strategies board policy has since inception been simple and direct:

1.  Unlike other boards, there will never be a suppress or censure on personal religious or spiritual beliefs.  LS has indicated that empirically there suggests that physical illness, injury, accident, etc., often will have a spiritual disruption of some kind prior to these things, even precipitating them.  Even where seemingly unrelated, like a tick bite.  Therefore, logically, spiritual healing would and should be a key part of reversing adverse physical conditions.

2.  Members are free to voice faith and spirituality as it relates to their healing, how it has helped, to offer spiritual support to another member (prayers, etc.), and so on.  Members making such the crux of their post must put "OT:Spiritual" in the post heading, so others scanning messages can decide if they wish to read what's shared or not.
Members whose faith has as part of its precepts that the faith is the single ordained route to salvation and embraces a single Creator (whether God, Allah, etc.), are not to be denigrated or harassed.  Concersely, those of such beliefs should refrain from proselytizing or chastising those who have different deities or spiritual concepts (example: Buddhist, Shinto, Zen, Hindu, Native American, etc.).  

3.  Additionally, Members are to always keep in mind always the Goals and Purposes of the board (see Discussion Board Guidelines link in the links section), where the primary focus of the board is the Salt/C+ Protocol, and the other subordinate subjects, and clearly prioritized there.  Therefore, posts with spiritual reference should be mindful of the overall intent and focus of this board and align posts to this.  As an example, concerted efforts to evangelize or persuade others to one's beliefs, or discussions regarding interpretations of scriptural passages, etc., would be off-topic for this Board and meant for other boards devoted to this or private off-list discussion.  

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As a footnote, and one perhaps not easily embraced by some, is that the founder of LS personally holds a viewpoint that belies the above.

Not a small part of becoming free of the pernicious effect of Lyme, was to painstakingly research and sift through the falsehoods, blatant untruths and/or disturbing lack of attention and study to the Lyme pandemic.  Too many times things asserted as true or the "remedy" turned out to be false or inaccurate.

There are close parallels to these sorts of things and the recent (past couple decades) trend to denigrate organized bodies of faith in the public square.  And there is a lot of untruth and inaccuracies here too.

The whole "exception to" and "offended by" caterwauling of recent years to Judeo-Christian expressions, symbols, and so on in the public square has "devolved" only as a phenomenon associated with the "Baby Boomers".  This is the generation consists of those born in the '50s forward to about 1962 but one that has exerted heavy influence upon those born even as late as the '80s.  This is the "sex, drugs and rock n' roll" generation.

While the LS founder has his own spiritual concepts, he also is a keen student of history.  The Baby-boomers in their time have succeeded in "dumbing-down" the educational system (factually our own country now lags far behind other countries where once it lead), particularly in history, through rank revisionism and selective embrace of facts (censorship).  As a result, students in their wake have been cheated to their - and the nation's - extreme detriment.   Being a "Boomer", the founder considers his generation in large part to be being demonstrably myopic, self-centered, sophomoric, and believes - like parents feeling their kid's baby pictures are the only pictures - that history began this morning, with them.

This runs the gamut of the 9th Circuit Court trying to remove the Pledge of Allegiance, efforts to remove "In God We Trust" from money, centuries-old Spanish crosses from California hillsides and city/county flags, the use of "Christmas", nativity scenes, carols, parachuting in ACLU attorneys when a coach leads a team in prayer or a valedictorian thanks her Creator in a commencement speech, suspending students for carrying a Bible in their knapsacks, on and on and on and on, ad nauseum

The nine generation preceding the "Me Generation" would be dumbfounded at the unique and peculiar antagonism.

Despite so-called Baby Boomer "experts" claims to the contrary, the historical fact is:  this is a Judeo-Christian nation in terms of its origin and basis in law.  From its earliest origins, the pioneering groups coming here were essentially a "church relocation project", be it Pilgrims, Puritans, Quakers, etc.

A majority of the men who are the "Founding Fathers" were deeply religious men, and several were clerics.  They openly, in their writings and expressions held that religion was a crucial part of the American Experiment.

It is clearly seen in the writings of these founding fathers - Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, etc. - to the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln, to key Supreme Court decisions which have been shamefully obfuscated and ignored as regards the rule of precedence, such as 1844, Vidal vs, Girard's Executors, 43, US 126,132 and unanimous opinion to wit:
"Christianity...is not to be maliciously and openly reviled and blasphemed against, to the annoyance of believers and injury of the public...Such is not to be presumed to exist in a Christian country."
And 1892, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States to wit:
"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind.  It is impossible that is be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian.  No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.  This is historically true.  From the discovery of this continent to the present hour..."

A favorite fallacy (due to the deplorable "dumbing-down" in education and the overt censorship of history) often cited for current religious antagonism is the so-called "wall of separation between Church and State" phrase - which is not found anywhere in the Constitution.  it is a phrase quoted from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptists, assuring them the state would not impinge upon their religious activity - not the other way around.  In fact, following Jefferson writing this assurance, he could be seen heading off to Sunday Service - which was held in the Capital Building in Washington at the time.

Today's students are deliberately cheated from learning the truth regarding an numbers of significant facts and events like the abolishing of slavery initiating in the pulpits of the Northeast, to the writings of famous 19th Century French statesman, historian and social philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville, who traveled to America specifically to learn the 'secret" of the young country's extraordinary rise to prominence and prosperity.  

After careful study and extensive travel, he wrote:
"Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention;  and the longer i stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things...In the United States, the sovereign authority is religious... there is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility and of its conformity to human nature than that its influence is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth.

America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases being good, America will cease to be great...The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." 

Ironically, it is precisely the Judeo-Christian foundation that has provided for the practice of all religions in America since its inception.  Yet, the tradition of this historical "tolerance" here ironically has now become the butt of antagonism by the Baby-Boomers in our lifetime.  Yet, the tradition of faith in the ways described above are found here in a way not found in many other countries.  The recent burnings and murder following cartoons of the prophet Mohammad, the genocides in the Sudan regarding other faiths, underscore this.  It is being increasingly and openly denigrated, largely due to the "Baby-boomers" having ascended to the predominant, governing age group and because this religion is essentially pacifist with "love thy neighbor" and "turn the other cheek" as central precepts.

However, while the founder's own spiritual concepts are different, let it be known the current "Baby-Boomer" prejudice and antagonisms do not have a place at the LS Board. 

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