The Hippies.

The world hated the Hippies.

Because the Hippies challenged the materialism and corruption of the corporations and their political puppets.

Jesus said: "'If the world hates you, be aware that the world hated me before it hated you.  If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own.  Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world - therefore the world hates you.'"  John 15:18,19 (NRSV)

Generation X were the corporate bosses' most favored nation.

Because they were materialistic and worldly the world loved them as its own.

And they were allied with Fundamentalist and Evangelical Churches.

Ronald Reagan said: "Christianity contains unconventional weapons."

These were: Demonization, damnation, blaming and shaming.....

He called the Hippies: "Unconscious agents of the devil."

And he sought the help of Pope John Paul II who was a conservative and anti-communist Pope.

But who were Reagan's allies?

Billionaires, Hollywood studios, media-moguls.....

The mega-rich.

These are the powers of this world.

And they usurped the power of God to achieve their ends.

But nothing lasts forever.

The Hippies will be vindicated.

Jesus said: "'If they called the Master of the House Beelzebub, how much more will they malign those of his household*.'"  Matthew 10:24 (NRSV)

And they did.

(*NB. The Baby-Boomers were all baptized in the Church of Jesus Christ and the Hippies' campaign of non-violent Peace and Love was based on Christian principles as interpreted by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr. and the Kennedy brothers.)

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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