Published Monday, April 29, 2024

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AMERICA's CHRISTIAN CREDIT UNION

BOB LINN

Global Impact of

Unsettled Theology

From Columbia University

to Chaos in Oklahoma

In lumine Tuo videbimus lumen is Columbia University’s motto.  It is a Latin translation of a Hebrew text. In English, Psalms 36:9 says:

In Thy light do we see light.

THE SEAL OF

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

Yahweh, one of the names of God, adorns the very top of the Columbia seal.

At the bottom of the logo is I Peter 2:1,2:

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.  Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it, you may grow up to salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

The banner flowing to the left contains a Hebrew phrase:

The Light of God

Columbia University graduate, Dr. Joel Chodo, was fascinated with all the Biblical allusions in the seal of Columbia University. In 1979, he wrote a detailed article on its details. Find it here.

Eight of Columbia’s Presidents have been Christian ministers.

Though not a minister, Columbia’s 17th President (1980-1993) stands in sharp contrast to the student militants who now occupy Columbia.  Dr. Michael Sovern was of Jewish descent with an honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University. 

Columbia’s students have brought Columbia to its knees and touted themselves as the university's financiers.  They are ignorant of the economic provisions set in place by this Jewish President who brought the university into solvency by quadrupling the endowments to Columbia during his tenure.  They can thank not themselves, but a Jew for the financial undergirding of the ground they occupy.

In addition, they could learn some humility and appreciate the work Dr. Sovern did for humanity and civil society by developing practices eliminating racial discrimination through his achievements at the Twentieth Century Fund think tank.

These students, by threatening the safety of Columbia’s students of Hebrew descent, have turned the very essence of Columbia University’s founding ideals on their head. 

As Oklahoma’s own Dr. Everett Piper wrote this weekend:

Their slogans are little but window dressing for a brutal form of dominance that accepts no dissent. These self-styled advocates of “freedom and peace” are interested only in tyranny and power.

Noting the ironies at play given the ideological roots of Columbia, Dr. Piper went on to say:

These are times when students at schools such as Columbia University, whose motto is the Jewish psalm “In Thy light shall we see the light,” proudly vilify Jews and align with those who deny their holocaust, rape their women, behead their babies and call for the destruction of the millenniums-old Jewish state . . .

Third Reich antisemitism is now elevated to the status of virtue, to our places of work, where ordinary Americans can be put out of business for advocating the wrong causes in their private life, no place is safe from the vindictive rage and perpetual adolescence of this new Red Guard.

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Of the eight pastors who served as president of Columbia, six of them served during the seventy-five-year span from its founding in 1754 through the end of the tenure of Rev. William Harris in 1829.

In the nearly 200 years since,

only two of the Presidents of

Columbia have been pastors.

The ideological drift of Columbia parallels the drift of America.  The troubles which accompany the departure from Biblical foundations have manifested as a national cancer.  It has spread across the nation as represented in the headlines of our news.

Columbia’s ideological drift is Oklahoma’s drift. Our own universities have hosted the racist protests of the Palestinian Liberation Movement. We have accommodated their shouts of hate for Israel, and their list of demands to the universities.  Watch them demonstrate last October at O.U. here.

Last month the university’s Student Coalition for Palestinian Liberation demonstrated on campus at O.U. Find it here.

Anti-semitism has been part and parcel of Soviet propaganda since Lenin. In 1953, Stalin publicly accused members of the Jewish medical community of a conspiracy to murder high-ranking members of the Soviet government. The story was promoted by Pravda.

For a more complete history, see National Review's January 2024 article the Soviet Roots of Anti-Zionism. Read it here.

Our college campuses, including those in Oklahoma, are ablaze with Soviet propaganda. American youth appear defenseless against the leftist rhetoric sowing unrest in our midst.

We recently hosted Xi Van Fleet, rescued from Mao’s Stalinist Revolution in China. She endured 18 years of the savagery of communism.

In both her book Mao's America and in our January meeting, the stated:

Only Christianity,

not multiculturalism,

will defeat communism.

The pulpits, board rooms, and halls of government of Oklahoma must understand what eighteen years of suffering taught Xi Van Fleet.

Like Solzhenitsyn’s Russia, America has forgotten God.  So has Oklahoma.  A return to our Christian foundations is the only path to solving our bleeding borders and the fragmented political, social unrest, and campus insanity.

A Swedish Immigrant who never forgot God

The great American poet from Illinois, Carl Sandburg, son of poor Swedish immigrants, a hobo early in life, a barbershop porter, a brickyard hand, and a farm laborer, in time, discovered his gifting as a writer late in life. At sixty-five, he began his first novel.

His poem, Prayers of Steel, reflects his desire to be an instrument in the hand of God, as he wrote:

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me.

Sandburg also wrote to encourage us in our civic duties. He said:

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from … They lost sight of what had brought them along.

He admonished all Americans to not loose heart in the divine purposes God has for America. In an interview published in This Week Magazine on January 4, 1952, he said:

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us. I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. 

I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

We must commit our lives to be the instruments God uses to mold history in the anvil of his divine providence.  That means choices as to how we spend our time and our wealth.

Closing thoughts from Robert Frost

The great American poet, Robert Frost could not have put the roles we play in history's destiny better than he did in his 1951 poem, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.

He read it in 1961 at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy (JFK).  The poem is called and ends with these famous lines:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Much earlier, in 1915, he had written the lines which calls all mankind to choose the pathways life presents wisely.  The poem titled The Road not Taken says, in part:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both . . .

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

America has never been so divided as to what our future path should be than it is today.

If we are to continue to be the world's hope of political liberty, it will require bold action on our part if we are to reverse America's trajectory toward tyranny at all levels of government and society.

In December of 1952, The New Yorker magazine published the review of a Robert Frost television interview where he articulated one of his most famous quotes. With much conviction, Robert Frost said:

Freedom lies in being bold.

A part of that boldness is simply not acquiescing to the lies which enveloped old Russia. The lies of the tyrant never vary and it is our duty to articulate Christian ideology to contradict the lies.

We meet again next week (May 8) at the History Center to be introduced to banking opportunities enabling us to avoid the tyranny of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) inherent in the major sectors of the financial markets today.

If you missed what our very bold Todd Russ is doing, be sure to view his presentation to us below.

God bless.

IF YOU MISSED . . .

TODD RUSS

This was a very special meeting.

Watch Todd Russ speak here.

Watch the entire meeting here.

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MAY 8, 2024

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