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March
1971
Paradc, a loud, public audio sct was
going up and down the parade routc.
Thousands heard it: "Turn on with
Jesus. Sin is the problem. We'vc got to
come out of sin. We've got to turn on
with Jesus. That's the way to solve the
problcms of this world."
The " Jesus Freaks"
Or they say, "Freak out with Jesus,"
or "Jesus is a good trip."
The ncw subculture takes on blatant
religious overtones. They talk
of
Jesus.
But
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hhh
Jesus?
The same one whose name adorned
thc barns and rocks of the '30's? T he
same "Jesus" who was adored by the
perpetrators of the Spanish Inquisítion?
Do they speak of the Chrisl of the Cru–
sades - the Jesus of the Jewish Pcr–
secutions -
which
Jesus?
Do they say the Jesus of the main–
stream of Catholic, Coptic and Protes–
tant faiths is the one to "trip" with -
or do they speak of sorne
other
Jesus?
Thc onc of whom they speak - the
one with long hair, flowing robes, ha lo,
sick expression, thin, aquiline nose,
petulant lips; the one who supposedly
died of a broken heart; the one who is
represented as a dropout from dogma, a
revolutionary, a lawbreaker, an estab–
lishment-hatee -
that
"Jcsus" is a
pusillanimous pansy; a putrescent put·
on; an historical hoax.
He never lived.
He's as fake as store-bought hippic
uniforms - as fallacious as fairy god–
mothers, glass slippers, and Rudolph's
red nosc.
You reject society, you say?
Then why accept its Christ ?
Why claim the only place society
never erred - never made a mistake,
was in its religious ootions?
Why seize on the central figure of the
professing "Christian" faiths with thcir
history of cr imes, sins, sickening barbar·
ism and hideous wars?
Which
Jesus?
Does it make sense to claim you're
rejecting society wben you accept the
very focal point of the historical devel–
opment of that society?
The older ones followed the kids in
clothes, hair, and music. Old-timc come–
dians can be seen sporting long hair;
newscasters, tclevision commentators,
T he
PLAIN TRUTH
actors, sports figures, all inevitably cul–
tivate curls, buy bellbottoms, and fol–
low the youths into the "swimming
pool pseudo-hip society."
Middle-aged men who deplored "mop
tops" when the Beatles first waggled
their hips and wowed thc lecny boppers
can now barely see bencath thc shaggy
shock of hair they wear.
Keep leading, kids, and the older
set will ioevitably follow - slowly per–
haps, reluctantly maybe - but they
will
finally follow. Unti l you stop
degenerating.
The minute you stop doing that -
society will call a halt.
Keep going
donm,
and you'll be
amazed at the compromises your own
parents, and the middle-aged, middle–
class, middle-Americans, will make.
They will surely follow.
They'll follow cvcrywhcre but in one
specific direction.
They will never follow you if you
follow the true Christ.
If
you
really
"turn on with Jcsus," the Jesus of the
BIBLE - you' ll look around behind you
in vain.
No one will be therc.
Want to know the way to become a
complete, utter, total outcast?
Discover the TRUE Christ of the
Bible.
T he Real Christ
Take a look at the young man who
looked like any ave rage Jew of His day
(that will make all the Jew-haters,
witch-hunters, and racist bígots seethe
with a hatred which would embarrass
Hitler), who was so commonplace in
His appearance that He cscaped out of
crowds time and time again, and whose
betrayer had to be paid a huge sum to
carefully single out which person He
was.
Discover the Christ who was utterly
unconcerned about saving thc world thcn
- who carne to deliver a vital mcssage,
not to convert men's souls - and you'll
succeed in turning off thc broad major–
ity of all religions who have ever pro–
fessed the Jesus of decadent society.
Find the Jesus who studiously obeyed
the Jaws, who paid His taxes, who lived
in His own home, who helped the
slaves of Roman officers, and who was
brutally murdered in an illegal tria),
S
and you'll find a Jesus Christ your par–
ents never heard of.
Find the Christ who was subject to
His parents, and who carne to
keep
and
MAGNIFY thc laws of His Father, not
destroy them; find the Jesus who com–
mands H ís fo llowers today to
KEEP
THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS (Matt. 19: l 7);
and you'll have discovered a Christ
totaily differmt
from the historical fake
professed by millions.
Discover the Jesus who was in a
house
when the wise men arrived, not
the mangcr (Matt.
2:11);
who said you
can worship Him all you please and do
it aJI IN VAIN (Matt. 15:9); who was
not
crucilicd on
a
Friday, and who
did NOT rise on a Sunday; the Jcsus
who was NOT born anywhere ncar
"Christrnas."
Read about the Jesus whose mother
had a large family (Matt. 13:55-56),
who is Lord of the
Sabbath,
not Sunday
(Mark
2:27),
and who did NOT come
to live a rigbteous life in your place
(l
John
2:tl, 6; T
Pet.
2:21),
and you'll
d iscover
a
Christ who will ENRAGE thc
establishment today, just as He clid dur–
ing His day!
Want to learn how to TURN OI'F
peoplc, how to LOSE friends, and DIS·
!LLUSION people? Then follow the
Jesus Christ of the BIBLE, instead of the
Jesus Christ of society and history! Do
that - and you'll REALLY reject society.
You' ll be FORCED to reject it.
Because IT WILL REJECT
YOU!
Make no mistake. The "turn on with
Jesus" idea of the hip set is as false and
meaninglcss as the values of the society
they reject. They've got the wrong
Christ. It's another "Christian cop-out."
One man's religion is another's booze.
One man's pot-induced daydream is
another man's pseudo-religious, self–
creatcd snnctimoníousness.
The Christ of the Bible was no
hippie.
And neither would He have fit into
the "straight" society of
this
day.
When the youth reject society - the
end product of a civilization led by the
"Judeo-Christian ethic" and
its
Jesus -
they are rightly rejecting "another
Jesus" - not the Jesus of the Bible.
But incrcdibly thc youth, wbile rejecting
that society, tucns r ight around and