Curse of Cannan - The New Ensign

now undergoing treatment. They have a half million subscribers who pay at least $15 a month
to PTL, as well as a host of other enterprises. Bakker then resigned, calling in Jerry Falwell to
take over PTL, and hinting darkly of a "rival evangelist" who was trying to engineer a "hostile
takeover." Yes, it is big business, subject to all the intrigues of any profitable multimillion dollar
operation. Tammy had raised some eyebrows when she made a pathetic national appeal for prayer
to bring her dead poodle back to life! She and her husband had embarked on a whirlwind of
spending for such things as gold bathroom faucets, huge rings, and other stigmata of the true
martyrdom.
Bakker and his fellow operators ask no questions about how all this bounty flows to them. They
preach against "secular humanism" and Communism without any inkling that their evangelical
movement traces directly back to the very forces which they denounce. From 1830 to 1870,
Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian socialism dominated English legislation, while a simultaneous
program, Evangelicalism, was being promoted by the same forces to take over Christianity. Dr.
Dale is quoted by A. V. Dicey in "Law and Opinion in England," Macmillan, 1924, "The
Evangelicals must encourage what is called an undenominational church-it regarded with
indifference all forms of Church polity-it demanded common religious teaching and common
beliefs; it cared nothing for the Church as an august society of saints." In short, Evangelicalism,
the forerunner of our present crop of Canaanite propagandists, was first of all, ecumenical;
second, it cast aside the spiritual heritage of the Church in favor of a robust dedication to fund
raising and political propagandizing for goals rarely openly revealed. The Evangelical Alliance
was formed in London in 1846. A branch was soon formed in the United States which was first
known as the Federal Council of Church of Christ, and is now known as the National Council
of Churches of Christ, a leftwing propaganda group. Yet it shares the same origin as that of the
television evangelists, who claim to be "anti-Communist"! What is this origin?
The evangelical movement was sponsored by the same British Intelligence leader, Lord
Shelburne, who had directed the French Revolution. Shelburne imported a French radical into
England, Etienne-Louis Demont of Paris, who was the desciple of Count Saint Simon, the founder
of "social science." Dumont's principal English disciple was Jeremy Bentham, now known as
the "father of utilitarianism." Shelburne had become the power behind Britain's political scene
by lending William Pitt, the Prime Minister, large sums of money. After Pitt's death, the British
Treasury was obliged to payoff these debts, amounting to forty thousand pounds. Because of his
international intrigues, Shelburne was the most feared and hated man in England. Edmund Burke
called him "a Cat aline or Borgia in morals"; he was known publicly by a contemptuous nickname,
"Malagrida"; the press caricatured him as a Guy Fawkes preparing to blow up his own comrades!
Henry Fox called Shelburne "a perfidious and infamous liar." King George III called him "the
Jesuit of Berkeley Square." This master of espionage used his power to enthrone three men as
the intellectual dictators of English life, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and David Ricardo.
Mill was named after Sir John Stuart, a close associate of Shelburne, who obtained for both Mill
and his father James Mill high-paying posts with the notorious East India Company. Bentham
was the son of a wealthy London lawyer, and lived off his large inheritance. Ricardo was a dealer
in "consols" with-HIs friend Nathan Meyer Rothschild. All three were heavily influenced by
Dumont and Saint Simon's teachings. They worked to create in the nineteenth century the climate
in which collectivism was to flourish in the twentieth century. Dicey points out that "the
fundamental principle of collectivism is faith in the intervention by the State in every matter, to
be extended indefinitely." He also pointed out that collectivism meant the end of freedom of
contract. Dicey pointed out in his Lecture IX, "The debt of collectivism to Bentham-the
machinery was thus provided for the practical extension of the activity of the State." He pointed
out that Bentham's policies effected the transfer of power from the landed aristocracy to the new
middle class of merchants and bankers. Bentham taught a system of "Hedonic calculus" in which
moral judgments were to be determined only by physical pain and pleasure; he also promoted a
"psychological hedonism" based on the pleasure principle, which denied natural law. Bentham
wrote, "Every person is the best judge of his own happiness," presumably indicating
individualism, but his system of State control means that a bureaucrat decides everyone's
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