prepareforchange--2020-04-26--How Globalists Manipulated Christians to Push Secularism, Abandon Ultimate Truth

What do underground homosexual communities and Protestant Evangelicals have to do with each other ?
That was the question I asked while pursuing the back cover of a book called “ Putin ’ s Russia.
” Reading that the author , Anne Garrels , was an NPR correspondent , I knew that the book would have one once of reality for every pound of propaganda .
NPR has such a clearly liberal agenda .
The phrase on the back cover that got my attention was this : “ We discover surprising subcultures , like a vibrant underground gay community and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” In America , for what is called the “ liberal left , ” Protestant Evangelicals are generally treated like bad guys .
They are portrayed as narrow-minded “ bigots ” who oppose abortions and “ sexual rights ” ( homosexualism ) .
Yet , in the above phrase the reader is clearly intended to pity two conflicting groups .
So why would a liberal reporter want me to pity Protestant Evangelicals ?
Rather than simply trusting the small phrase quoted on the back of the book , I decided to read more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a chapter titled , “ The Believers ” .
Presently , my goal not to refute the chapter itself .
Rather , I want to point out a very important principle .
The chapter promoted a typical Western view .
Evil forces of government and religion — in this case the Orthodox Church — are banding together to oppress small groups of various Protestants .
The author ’ s view of Orthodoxy is painfully superficial .
My principle point is reflected in the paradox that , from the liberal view , Protestant Evangelicals @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Russia they are victimized groups to be pitied .
The reader will understand by the end , I hope , that this is indeed not a paradox .
Protestantism is one of the beginning stages of relativism .
( Once relativism morphs out of its beginning stages it no longer needs Protestantism , and then it turns upon it as an enemy . )
Before I proceed , I will first say : I was a Protestant .
I spent time in the 90 ’ s in the former Soviet Union as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ personal experience to draw upon .
Second , I recognize that there are numerous good and warmhearted Protestant persons , some who work very zealously .
Third , clearly Protestants get some things right .
Yet as St. Ignatius of Antioch points out , even just a drop of poison in honey will kill you .
I am seeking to address a system , one that claims to be Christian , but in reality it is simply the early stages of Western European “ rationalism , ” “ emotionalism , ” “ relativism @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Christian clothing .
This is why a majority of Protestants are resistant to the True manifestation of Christianity in the Orthodox Church .
Orthodoxy is not a product of “ late-medieval ” to present Western European worldviews , as is Protestantism .
Relativism is basically a rejection of ultimate objective Truth .
My Protestant friends will say , “ Wait !
We do not reject Truth !
We believe in Jesus and the Bible !
” Let ’ s see what that belief is founded upon .
To clear the way for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which may be called Subjectivism .
Subjectivism is soft relativism .
Moreso than its mother Rome , Protestantism subjectivized the Truths of Christianity .
( I believe the argument could be made that Rome first “ individualized ” truth in the person of the Pope , and thus Protestantism is simply a multiplication of this original error of Rome , but that is beyond the scope of this article at this point . )
In a very interesting book called “ The Unintended Reformation : How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , observes , Above , Mr. Gregory sums up the visible fruit of the ethos of Protestantism today .
What he describes in basic is subjectivism , for when “ truth ” is predicated on limited and fallible individual feelings and experiences it becomes completely subjective ( it also becomes something completely sourced from mere men ) .
In fact , truth itself becomes obsolete and the subjective individual becomes the real standard and foundation of supposed “ truth claims.
” Ultimately in such a paradigm truth becomes meaningless .
Ultimately , there @ @ @ @ @ @ @ individual ) Truth .
The standard of Revealed Christian Truth is swept away in the tyranny of the individual .
Protestantism is the quintessential religion of the individual .
How many times have I heard from Protestants , “ No one has a corner on truth !
” Well , then why Christianity ?
!
If there is no corner on truth and whatever an individual believes is “ true ” to him , then religions are just man-made structures , all of them — including Christianity itself !
This is the clear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has come to based upon Protestantism ’ s relativizing of truth .
Or , mostly in Charismatic Evangelical circles , one may hear the phrase , “ Well , that ’ s not what the Spirit is saying to me !
” Again the point of reference is the subjective individual – individualism – not actual Spirit or Truth .
The “ Spirit ” or “ Bible ” is simply used to shore up the individual ’ s own self-chosen and desired subjective “ truth-claim.
” Orthodoxy does not claim that one individual @ @ @ @ @ @ @ claims that the Body of Christ — the Church — does ( cf .
1 Tim .
3:15 ) .
It also clearly claims and substantiates that this Revelation is directly from God .
Thus , it is never predicated on “ mere men.
” This is an objective , real , and actual standard by which all persons , in all times , may equally and clearly gauge their “ Christian-ness ” .
A very interesting philosopher of the 20th century by the name of Rene Guenon in his book “ The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ critiques Protestantism ’ s role in crises in these terms : It is therefore in the realm of religion that we shall have to consider the revolt against the traditional outlook , a revolt which , when it had acquired a definite form , became known as Protestantism ; it is not difficult to see that this is a manifestation of individualism ; indeed one could call it individualism as applied to religion .
Protestantism , like the modern world , is built upon a mere negation , the same negation of principles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Consequently the modern outlook was bound to reject all spiritual authority in the true sense of the word , namely authority that is based upon the supra-human order , as well as any traditional organization … Protestantism denied the authority of organization … and in its place claimed to set up ‘ free criticism ’ , that is to say any interpretations resulting from private judgment , even that of the ignorant and incompetent , and based exclusively on the exercise of human reason … the door was left open to all manner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ; and the result could not but be dispersion in an ever-growing multitude of sects , each of which represents no more than the private opinion of certain individuals .
Guenon continues with these strong but pertinent words : Mr. Geunon rightly deduces that Protestantism is the spiritual foundation of the modern secular world .
Protestantism birthed a “ new christianity ” one that is firmly based in anthropocentricity rather than theocentricity .
Elucidating points about the development of the Western mind , Alexander Solzhenitsyn makes these point which are also equally applicable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fragmented , individualized , and divided existence Protestantism rather than repenting of its un-Christian ethos , adds insult to injury by rejecting any Christian claim to full and ultimate Truth .
This is the basis of the bad ecclesiology of Protestantism manifested in ideas such as “ the invisible church ” or “ the branch theory.
” Since no one group , it claims , has the “ fullness ” ( again absurd in the view of True Christianity ) , all of the countervailing opinions are brought together and mixed into an @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( ?
! )
.
Anti-unity becomes its basis of unity .
Thus , in history Protestantism is one of the first great attacks against Ultimate Christian Truth and Revelation .
If Christianity can not give a person full and complete ultimate Truth it is worthless .
The whole claim of true Christianity is that it is the full Revelation of ultimate Truth , in as much as we can bear it .
Picture a bunch of people all claiming to believe in mathematics but simultaneously claiming that no one can ever really @ @ @ @ @ @ @ answers have equal value !
For some 2+2 equals 6 , for others 8 , for some 1,338,245 ; and for others it equals -10 .
The nominal claim to believe in mathematics is refuted by the refusal to apply the objective standards thereof .
As objective standards are vital to true math working properly , so they are to true Christianity .
If wrong mathematical equations in the engineering field could result in the physical death of people ( thus the great importance of doing math correctly according to the proven objective @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the misuse of Christian truth result in the spiritual death of people ?
Subjective individualism is a vital foundation of secularism .
It is the ground upon which it grows .
Protestantism is religious subjective individualism .
There is an old saying , “ Boil the frog slowly.
” The move of the “ Western ” world from its clearly ancient Christian roots to its current “ secular ” state is a process that has taken hundreds of years .
Anti-Christian secularism could not just be born in a flash .
First , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had to have a religious context ( for the world of that time was inevitably religious ) , and Protestantism provided that context .
It is nascent secularism .
One example of the kindred relationship between Protestantism and Secularism , which I ’ ve pointed out before , is found in Elite American families such as the Rockefellers .
They understood that Protestant mission work orientated nations toward America and “ Western values.
” Once this happened it became easier for Western influence to take hold .
The Rockefellers therefore supported various Protestant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , so to speak .
They broke a path in which the Western secular market and influences could more easily follow ( all this is spoken about in the official biography , The Rockefellers : An American Dynasty .
Peter Collier & David Horowitz ) .
I noticed this very principle a bit when I was a Protestant missionary .
As we “ turned people to Christ ” we inevitably turned them to American authority and influence ( needless to say most of the “ leaders ” were Americans ) .
The center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Western ” and fragmented .
I hope it is clear now why the liberal left in the first-mentioned book is so concerned with Protestant Evangelicals in Russia .
They know that Protestantism will dutifully and zealously fulfill its role as a disintegrator of Ultimate Truth , albeit possibly unwittingly .
Once Christianity can be relativized it stands no chance against the aggressive force of final secular and godless relativism .
Protestantism is relativism with Christian clothing , thus it is easier to sell to more “ traditional ” cultures .
Thus , Protestant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ initial preparation of a culture to receive a full dose of “ Western values.
” This is why the West at first fights zealously for “ religious rights ” , which it will later seek to revoke , as it is doing in America and elsewhere .
This is why the West always sees true Orthodoxy as the enemy — because the Orthodox Church refuses to recant her God-given gift of Ultimate Revealed Truth .
This is also why both the liberals and Protestants think that Orthodox are arrogant .
— “ You @ @ @ @ @ @ @ !
” — See how the Protestant and liberal mindsets coincide to a certain extent .
This is why , in the first quote provided above , the liberal author is so sympathetic to Protestants and hostile toward the Orthodox .
Orthodoxy has nothing of secularism , whereas Protestantism is of the same cloth .
On one stage ( in “ non-western ” cultures ) Protestantism must be cultivated so that it may fragment and deconstruct Christian Revelation and Truth and local culture , and then on another stage ( such as in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its purpose , it will be turned upon to be destroyed because it refuses ( mostly ) to progress and extend the theory of relativism past the boundaries of “ Jesus.
” And by this point , this compromised version of Christianity is too fragmented to successfully resist .
For the end result of “ freedom from Truth ” and the festivity of amorality and immorality , Secularism patiently endures and even nurtures its beginning stage , which is Protestantism .
Without any intention of doing so , my dear Protestant friends are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ clubs to come out into broad daylight , to be celebrated and lauded .
And any who oppose will be told , “ How dare you think you have a corner on truth !
” That ’ s why two seemingly contrary groups can sometimes be lumped together in the same sentence , and it makes complete sense .
Why hold on to the errors which men such as Luther and Calvin set into motion ?
Why continue in a system limited by paradigms born in an already-falling West ?
There is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Orthodox Church .
I think the devil fears what would happen if all who claimed to be Christian truly repented and came home to the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ .
If you desire to save the West , there is no way to do it without the Orthodox Church .
A reset to Protestantism will only restart the inevitable process of godless secularization .
Fr .
Zechariah Lynch is an Orthodox priest in Pueblo , Colorado , at the Archangel Michael Orthodox Church .
He blogs at The Inkless Pen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Russian Faith .
Disclaimer : We at Prepare for Change ( PFC ) bring you information that is not offered by the mainstream news , and therefore may seem controversial .
The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help you determine what is true and what is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

What do underground homosexual communities and Protestant Evangelicals have to do with each other?
That was the question I asked while pursuing the back cover of a book called “Putin’s Russia.” Reading that the author, Anne Garrels, was an NPR correspondent, I knew that the book would have one once of reality for every pound of propaganda. NPR has such a clearly liberal agenda.
The phrase on the back cover that got my attention was this:
“We discover surprising subcultures, like a vibrant underground gay community and a circle of determined Protestant Evangelicals ….”
This is a curious combination.
In America, for what is called the “liberal left,” Protestant Evangelicals are generally treated like bad guys. They are portrayed as narrow-minded “bigots” who oppose abortions and “sexual rights” (homosexualism). Yet, in the above phrase the reader is clearly intended to pity two conflicting groups.
So why would a liberal reporter want me to pity Protestant Evangelicals?
Rather than simply trusting the small phrase quoted on the back of the book, I decided to read more. In the book, I read a chapter titled, “The Believers”. Presently, my goal not to refute the chapter itself. Rather, I want to point out a very important principle.
The chapter promoted a typical Western view. Evil forces of government and religion — in this case the Orthodox Church — are banding together to oppress small groups of various Protestants. The author’s view of Orthodoxy is painfully superficial.
My principle point is reflected in the paradox that, from the liberal view, Protestant Evangelicals are bad in America, and yet in Russia they are victimized groups to be pitied. The reader will understand by the end, I hope, that this is indeed not a paradox.
Protestantism is one of the beginning stages of relativism. (Once relativism morphs out of its beginning stages it no longer needs Protestantism, and then it turns upon it as an enemy.)
Before I proceed, I will first say: I was a Protestant. I spent time in the 90’s in the former Soviet Union as a “missionary.” I have some personal experience to draw upon. Second, I recognize that there are numerous good and warmhearted Protestant persons, some who work very zealously. Third, clearly Protestants get some things right. Yet as St. Ignatius of Antioch points out, even just a drop of poison in honey will kill you.
I am seeking to address a system, one that claims to be Christian, but in reality it is simply the early stages of Western European “rationalism,” “emotionalism,” “relativism,” and such, dressed up in Christian clothing. This is why a majority of Protestants are resistant to the True manifestation of Christianity in the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy is not a product of “late-medieval” to present Western European worldviews, as is Protestantism.
Relativism is basically a rejection of ultimate objective Truth. My Protestant friends will say, “Wait! We do not reject Truth! We believe in Jesus and the Bible!” Let’s see what that belief is founded upon.
To clear the way for relativism, first must come subjective individualism, which may be called Subjectivism. Subjectivism is soft relativism. Moreso than its mother Rome, Protestantism subjectivized the Truths of Christianity. (I believe the argument could be made that Rome first “individualized” truth in the person of the Pope, and thus Protestantism is simply a multiplication of this original error of Rome, but that is beyond the scope of this article at this point.)
In a very interesting book called “The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society,” the author, Brad S. Gregory, observes,
Christian truth claims vary greatly across different individuals, congregations, churches, and traditions. In countless ways they conflict with one another. As the doctrine analogue to the institutional variety apparent under the entry “Churches” in the yellow pages of American telephone books, Christian truth claims exhibit an extremely wide, open-ended range in terms of their content and status and importance among their respective proponents. What Christians believe about Bible, God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, church(es), collective worship, prayer, morality, social justice, ecumenism, the importance of theological doctrines, the significance of scholarships of faith, or believers’ relationship to the wider society, for example varies enormously. Somewhere, at some time, by some congregation or individual, almost anything has gone or still goes under the adjective “Christian.” Combined with this vast pluralism is the widespread (but not unanimous) view that whatever its particular content, religious conviction is a highly personal, individual matter, such that only each person can determine what is right and best for him or her. In matters of religious truth claims, each person is widely thought to be his or her own sovereign authority; this is in effect what freedom of religion means. Certainly it is what the laws of Western states protect.
Above, Mr. Gregory sums up the visible fruit of the ethos of Protestantism today. What he describes in basic is subjectivism, for when “truth” is predicated on limited and fallible individual feelings and experiences it becomes completely subjective (it also becomes something completely sourced from mere men). In fact, truth itself becomes obsolete and the subjective individual becomes the real standard and foundation of supposed “truth claims.” Ultimately in such a paradigm truth becomes meaningless. Ultimately, there is no objective (outside of the individual) Truth. The standard of Revealed Christian Truth is swept away in the tyranny of the individual. Protestantism is the quintessential religion of the individual.
How many times have I heard from Protestants, “No one has a corner on truth!” Well, then why Christianity?! If there is no corner on truth and whatever an individual believes is “true” to him, then religions are just man-made structures, all of them — including Christianity itself! This is the clear and right conclusion that the modern world has come to based upon Protestantism’s relativizing of truth.
Or, mostly in Charismatic Evangelical circles, one may hear the phrase, “Well, that’s not what the Spirit is saying to me!” Again the point of reference is the subjective individual – individualism – not actual Spirit or Truth. The “Spirit” or “Bible” is simply used to shore up the individual’s own self-chosen and desired subjective “truth-claim.”
Orthodoxy does not claim that one individual has a corner on Truth. It claims that the Body of Christ — the Church — does (cf. 1 Tim. 3:15). It also clearly claims and substantiates that this Revelation is directly from God. Thus, it is never predicated on “mere men.” This is an objective, real, and actual standard by which all persons, in all times, may equally and clearly gauge their “Christian-ness”.
Protestantism stripped Christianity of its objectivity.
A very interesting philosopher of the 20th century by the name of Rene Guenon in his book “The Crises of the Modern World,” critiques Protestantism’s role in crises in these terms:
It is therefore in the realm of religion that we shall have to consider the revolt against the traditional outlook, a revolt which, when it had acquired a definite form, became known as Protestantism; it is not difficult to see that this is a manifestation of individualism; indeed one could call it individualism as applied to religion. Protestantism, like the modern world, is built upon a mere negation, the same negation of principles that is the essence of individualism … Consequently the modern outlook was bound to reject all spiritual authority in the true sense of the word, namely authority that is based upon the supra-human order, as well as any traditional organization … Protestantism denied the authority of organization … and in its place claimed to set up ‘free criticism’, that is to say any interpretations resulting from private judgment, even that of the ignorant and incompetent, and based exclusively on the exercise of human reason … the door was left open to all manner of discussions, divergencies, and deviations; and the result could not but be dispersion in an ever-growing multitude of sects, each of which represents no more than the private opinion of certain individuals.
Guenon continues with these strong but pertinent words:
Nothing and nobody is any longer in the right place; men no longer recognize any effective authority in the spiritual order or any legitimate power in the temporal; the ‘profane’ presume to discuss what is sacred, and to contest its character and even its existence; the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets the bounds of its own wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the Divine, earth has priority over Heaven, the individual sets the measure for all things and claims to dictate to the universe laws drawn entirely from his own relative and fallible reason. ‘Woe unto you, ye blind guides,’ the Gospel says; and indeed everywhere today one sees nothing but blind leaders of the blind, who, unless, restrained by some timely check, will inevitably lead them into the abyss, there to perish with them.
Mr. Geunon rightly deduces that Protestantism is the spiritual foundation of the modern secular world.
Protestantism birthed a “new christianity” one that is firmly based in anthropocentricity rather than theocentricity. Elucidating points about the development of the Western mind, Alexander Solzhenitsyn makes these point which are also equally applicable to Protestantism:
Rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. It could be called anthropocentricity, with man seen as the center of everything that exists.
To justify its own fragmented, individualized, and divided existence Protestantism rather than repenting of its un-Christian ethos, adds insult to injury by rejecting any Christian claim to full and ultimate Truth. This is the basis of the bad ecclesiology of Protestantism manifested in ideas such as “the invisible church” or “the branch theory.” Since no one group, it claims, has the “fullness” (again absurd in the view of True Christianity), all of the countervailing opinions are brought together and mixed into an unintelligible cocktail, which will unite all (?!). Anti-unity becomes its basis of unity.
Thus, in history Protestantism is one of the first great attacks against Ultimate Christian Truth and Revelation.
If Christianity cannot give a person full and complete ultimate Truth it is worthless.
The whole claim of true Christianity is that it is the full Revelation of ultimate Truth, in as much as we can bear it.
Picture a bunch of people all claiming to believe in mathematics but simultaneously claiming that no one can ever really get the right answers and that all answers have equal value! For some 2+2 equals 6, for others 8, for some 1,338,245; and for others it equals -10. The nominal claim to believe in mathematics is refuted by the refusal to apply the objective standards thereof.
As objective standards are vital to true math working properly, so they are to true Christianity. If wrong mathematical equations in the engineering field could result in the physical death of people (thus the great importance of doing math correctly according to the proven objective standards), how much more will the misuse of Christian truth result in the spiritual death of people?
Subjective individualism is a vital foundation of secularism. It is the ground upon which it grows. Protestantism is religious subjective individualism.
There is an old saying, “Boil the frog slowly.” The move of the “Western” world from its clearly ancient Christian roots to its current “secular” state is a process that has taken hundreds of years. Anti-Christian secularism could not just be born in a flash. First, its “new” mindset and ideas had to have a religious context (for the world of that time was inevitably religious), and Protestantism provided that context. It is nascent secularism.
One example of the kindred relationship between Protestantism and Secularism, which I’ve pointed out before, is found in Elite American families such as the Rockefellers. They understood that Protestant mission work orientated nations toward America and “Western values.” Once this happened it became easier for Western influence to take hold. The Rockefellers therefore supported various Protestant missions because they were the ice breakers, so to speak. They broke a path in which the Western secular market and influences could more easily follow (all this is spoken about in the official biography, The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty. Peter Collier & David Horowitz).
I noticed this very principle a bit when I was a Protestant missionary. As we “turned people to Christ” we inevitably turned them to American authority and influence (needless to say most of the “leaders” were Americans). The center of influence for them inevitably became “Western” and fragmented.
I hope it is clear now why the liberal left in the first-mentioned book is so concerned with Protestant Evangelicals in Russia.
They know that Protestantism will dutifully and zealously fulfill its role as a disintegrator of Ultimate Truth, albeit possibly unwittingly. Once Christianity can be relativized it stands no chance against the aggressive force of final secular and godless relativism. Protestantism is relativism with Christian clothing, thus it is easier to sell to more “traditional” cultures. Thus, Protestant missions play a vital role in the initial preparation of a culture to receive a full dose of “Western values.”
This is why the West at first fights zealously for “religious rights”, which it will later seek to revoke, as it is doing in America and elsewhere.
This is why the West always sees true Orthodoxy as the enemy — because the Orthodox Church refuses to recant her God-given gift of Ultimate Revealed Truth. This is also why both the liberals and Protestants think that Orthodox are arrogant. — “You think you are the only right ones!” — See how the Protestant and liberal mindsets coincide to a certain extent. This is why, in the first quote provided above, the liberal author is so sympathetic to Protestants and hostile toward the Orthodox. Orthodoxy has nothing of secularism, whereas Protestantism is of the same cloth.
On one stage (in “non-western” cultures) Protestantism must be cultivated so that it may fragment and deconstruct Christian Revelation and Truth and local culture, and then on another stage (such as in America), once it has served its purpose, it will be turned upon to be destroyed because it refuses (mostly) to progress and extend the theory of relativism past the boundaries of “Jesus.” And by this point, this compromised version of Christianity is too fragmented to successfully resist.
For the end result of “freedom from Truth” and the festivity of amorality and immorality, Secularism patiently endures and even nurtures its beginning stage, which is Protestantism.
Without any intention of doing so, my dear Protestant friends are paving the way for those underground homosexual clubs to come out into broad daylight, to be celebrated and lauded. And any who oppose will be told, “How dare you think you have a corner on truth!” That’s why two seemingly contrary groups can sometimes be lumped together in the same sentence, and it makes complete sense.
Why hold on to the errors which men such as Luther and Calvin set into motion? Why continue in a system limited by paradigms born in an already-falling West? There is a home for all in true Christianity — the Orthodox Church. I think the devil fears what would happen if all who claimed to be Christian truly repented and came home to the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ. If you desire to save the West, there is no way to do it without the Orthodox Church. A reset to Protestantism will only restart the inevitable process of godless secularization.
Fr. Zechariah Lynch is an Orthodox priest in Pueblo, Colorado, at the Archangel Michael Orthodox Church. He blogs at The Inkless Pen, and is a regular contributor at Russian Faith.
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prepareforchange--2020-04-26--Fewer than half of working Americans will have a paycheck in May as devastating coronavirus layoffs

Fewer than half of working Americans will have a paycheck in May as devastating coronavirus layoffs persist, economist says

• Recent job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic could mean that fewer than half of working-age Americans will be earning a wage in May , James Knightley , chief international economist at ING , wrote in a Thursday note .
• Job losses have already contributed to slumps in consumer spending , seen in retail and housing sales reports .
Given that consumption makes up roughly 70 % of US gross domestic product , the effects on the economy will be severe .
• In an election year , the widespread unemployment will likely mean that the call for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , irrespective of health advice , according to Knightley .
• But reopening too soon lessens the chance that the US will see a swift recovery , he added .
The millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in recent weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating effects on the economy going forward as workers are left without pay .
Losses in April alone could push the unemployment rate to 16 % , according to James Knightley , chief international economist at ING .
If another 10 million Americans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would push the unemployment rate to 22 % , he said .
“ Thankfully this is below the 24.9 % peak experienced in 1933 , but we have to remember that one third of Americans aged 18-65 are not classified as employed or unemployed – they are students , early retirement , homemakers , carers or sick , ” Knightly wrote in a Thursday note .
“ This leads us to yet another sobering statistic – that less than half of working age Americans will be earning a wage next month , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a huge spike in unemployment claims driven by the coronavirus pandemic .
In the past five weeks , 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment insurance , a staggering record-breaking number that ’ s quickly dwarfed job losses seen in the Great Recession .
The effects of job losses to the broader economy could be devastating , as consumer spending makes up 70 % of US gross domestic product , which is set to fall as much as 40 % in the second quarter .
There are already signs that consumers are spending @ @ @ @ @ @ @ job losses increase — retail sales have slumped , consumer sentiment has plummeted , and home sales have also fallen in the past month .
Other economists agree that the fallout is severe .
Including Thursday ’ s losses , one in seven American workers has applied for unemployment insurance in the past five weeks , according to Heidi Shierholz , senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute .
Even though economists expect that unemployment-insurance applications will continue to fall from the March peak , they still expect ongoing job losses will add @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming weeks .
Given estimates for how much US GDP could slump in the second quarter , EPI projects that the net decline in employment — which includes how many workers were hired and how many quit jobs — could reach 30 million by the end of June .
In an election year , widespread unemployment likely means that calls for politicians to reopen the economy will grow , irrespective of health advice , according to Knightley .
But reopening the economy too soon could lower the chances that a V-shaped recovery , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ levels , is possible .
Knightley will be watching what happens in states that are reopening parts of their economy as soon as this weekend .
“ We would assume jobless claims will fall back sharply here , but if consumers remain reluctant to go shopping or visit a restaurant due to lingering Covid-19 fears , then employment is not going to rebound quickly , ” Knightley said .
“ It would be another signal that a V-shaped recovery for the US economy is highly unlikely.
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The opinions , views , statements , and/or information we present are not necessarily promoted , endorsed , espoused , or agreed to by Prepare for Change , its leadership Council , members , those who work with PFC , or those who read its content .
However , they are hopefully provocative .
Please use discernment !
Use logical thinking , your own intuition and your own connection with Source , Spirit and Natural Laws to help @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is not .
By sharing information and seeding dialogue , it is our goal to raise consciousness and awareness of higher truths to free us from enslavement of the matrix in this material realm .

By Carmen Reinicke,
Recent job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic could mean that fewer than half of working-age Americans will be earning a wage in May, James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, wrote in a Thursday note.
Job losses have already contributed to slumps in consumer spending, seen in retail and housing sales reports. Given that consumption makes up roughly 70% of US gross domestic product, the effects on the economy will be severe.
In an election year, the widespread unemployment will likely mean that the call for politicians to reopen the economy will grow, irrespective of health advice, according to Knightley.
But reopening too soon lessens the chance that the US will see a swift recovery, he added.
The millions of Americans who have lost their jobs in recent weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating effects on the economy going forward as workers are left without pay.
Losses in April alone could push the unemployment rate to 16%, according to James Knightley, chief international economist at ING. If another 10 million Americans file jobless claims in May, that would push the unemployment rate to 22%, he said.
“Thankfully this is below the 24.9% peak experienced in 1933, but we have to remember that one third of Americans aged 18-65 are not classified as employed or unemployed – they are students, early retirement, homemakers, carers or sick,” Knightly wrote in a Thursday note.
“This leads us to yet another sobering statistic – that less than half of working age Americans will be earning a wage next month,” he said.
The estimate comes amid a huge spike in unemployment claims driven by the coronavirus pandemic. In the past five weeks, 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment insurance, a staggering record-breaking number that’s quickly dwarfed job losses seen in the Great Recession.
The effects of job losses to the broader economy could be devastating, as consumer spending makes up 70% of US gross domestic product, which is set to fall as much as 40% in the second quarter. There are already signs that consumers are spending less as the coronavirus pandemic continues and job losses increase — retail sales have slumped, consumer sentiment has plummeted, and home sales have also fallen in the past month.
Other economists agree that the fallout is severe. Including Thursday’s losses, one in seven American workers has applied for unemployment insurance in the past five weeks, according to Heidi Shierholz, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
Even though economists expect that unemployment-insurance applications will continue to fall from the March peak, they still expect ongoing job losses will add up to millions of claims in the coming weeks.
Given estimates for how much US GDP could slump in the second quarter, EPI projects that the net decline in employment — which includes how many workers were hired and how many quit jobs — could reach 30 million by the end of June.
In an election year, widespread unemployment likely means that calls for politicians to reopen the economy will grow, irrespective of health advice, according to Knightley.
But reopening the economy too soon could lower the chances that a V-shaped recovery, or a swift rebound back to pre-coronavirus levels, is possible. Knightley will be watching what happens in states that are reopening parts of their economy as soon as this weekend.
“We would assume jobless claims will fall back sharply here, but if consumers remain reluctant to go shopping or visit a restaurant due to lingering Covid-19 fears, then employment is not going to rebound quickly,” Knightley said. “It would be another signal that a V-shaped recovery for the US economy is highly unlikely.”
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com
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prepareforchange--2020-04-26--565 Americans Have Lost Their Job For Every Confirmed COVID-19 Death In The US

In the last week 4.427 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time .
That brings the four-week total to 26.5 million , which is over 10 times the prior worst five-week period in the last 50-plus years .
And of course , last week ’ s “ initial ” claims and this week ’ s “ continuing ” claims… the highest level of continuing claims ever A breakdown of initial claims by state shows that the weekly devastation is easing , with the number of ( not seasonally adjusted ) claims in New York , California and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , while Florida and Connecticut still showing dramatic increases .
And as we noted previously , what is most disturbing is that in the last five weeks , far more Americans have filed for unemployment than jobs gained during the last decade since the end of the Great Recession… ( 22.13 million gained in a decade , 26.46 million lost in 5 weeks ) Worse still , the final numbers will likely be worsened due to the bailout itself : as a reminder , the Coronavirus Aid , Relief , and Economic Security @ @ @ @ @ @ @ March 27 , could contribute to new records being reached in coming weeks as it increases eligibility for jobless claims to self-employed and gig workers , extends the maximum number of weeks that one can receive benefits , and provides an additional $ 600 per week until July 31 .
A recent WSJ article noted that this has created incentives for some businesses to temporarily furlough their employees , knowing that they will be covered financially as the economy is shutdown .
Meanwhile , those making below $ 50k will generally be made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ unemployment benefits .
Furthermore , as families across the nation grapple with lost jobs and struggle to get meals on the table , The Epoch Times ’ Zachary Stieber reports that food stamp benefits are up 40 % , according to the Department of Agriculture .
The increase will “ ensure that low-income individuals have enough food to feed themselves and their families during this national emergency , ” Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a statement .
“ President Trump is taking care of America ’ s working-class families who have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the coronavirus .
Ensuring all households receive the maximum allowable SNAP benefit is an important part of President Trump ’ s whole of America response to the coronavirus.
” Families receiving food stamps can typically get a maximum benefit of $ 768 .
Through the increase in emergency benefits , the average five-person household can get an additional $ 240 monthly for buying food .
Families already at the maximum won ’ t get additional benefits .
SNAP normally costs the U.S. government approximately $ 4.5 billion each month .
The allotments @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Act , which President Donald Trump signed , is adding nearly $ 2 billion per month to that total .
The emergency funds are made available through waivers the Department of Agriculture makes for each state .
But , hey , there ’ s good news… well optimistic headlines as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he anticipates most of the economy will restart by the end of August .
Finally , it is notable , we have lost 565 jobs for every confirmed US death from COVID-19 ( 46,785 ) .
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By Tyler Durden
In the last week 4.427 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits for the first time.
That brings the four-week total to 26.5 million, which is over 10 times the prior worst five-week period in the last 50-plus years.
And of course, last week’s “initial” claims and this week’s “continuing” claims… the highest level of continuing claims ever
A breakdown of initial claims by state shows that the weekly devastation is easing, with the number of (not seasonally adjusted) claims in New York, California and Michigan declining notably over the past week, while Florida and Connecticut still showing dramatic increases.
And as we noted previously, what is most disturbing is that in the last five weeks, far more Americans have filed for unemployment than jobs gained during the last decade since the end of the Great Recession… (22.13 million gained in a decade, 26.46 million lost in 5 weeks)
Worse still, the final numbers will likely be worsened due to the bailout itself: as a reminder, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, passed on March 27, could contribute to new records being reached in coming weeks as it increases eligibility for jobless claims to self-employed and gig workers, extends the maximum number of weeks that one can receive benefits, and provides an additional $600 per week until July 31. A recent WSJ article noted that this has created incentives for some businesses to temporarily furlough their employees, knowing that they will be covered financially as the economy is shutdown. Meanwhile, those making below $50k will generally be made whole and possibly be better off on unemployment benefits.
Furthermore, as families across the nation grapple with lost jobs and struggle to get meals on the table, The Epoch Times’ Zachary Stieber reports that food stamp benefits are up 40%, according to the Department of Agriculture.
The increase will “ensure that low-income individuals have enough food to feed themselves and their families during this national emergency,” Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said in a statement. “President Trump is taking care of America’s working-class families who have been hit hard with economic distress due to the coronavirus. Ensuring all households receive the maximum allowable SNAP benefit is an important part of President Trump’s whole of America response to the coronavirus.”
Families receiving food stamps can typically get a maximum benefit of $768. Through the increase in emergency benefits, the average five-person household can get an additional $240 monthly for buying food. Families already at the maximum won’t get additional benefits. SNAP normally costs the U.S. government approximately $4.5 billion each month. The allotments made under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which President Donald Trump signed, is adding nearly $2 billion per month to that total. The emergency funds are made available through waivers the Department of Agriculture makes for each state.
But, hey, there’s good news… well optimistic headlines as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he anticipates most of the economy will restart by the end of August.
Finally, it is notable, we have lost 565 jobs for every confirmed US death from COVID-19 (46,785) .
Was it worth it?
Source: ZeroHedge
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