The catechesis method is essentially teaching by means of an oral repetition process. It is mass-programming. Teaching is accomplished through oral instructions which are echoed by the students, so the imprinting of the doctrines takes hold very quickly.
The instructor “calls” orally, and the group “echoes” the required response, resulting in a very strong “programming” or imprinting of the thoughts of the whole group. Drills in the military services, as well as some responsorial chant in worship liturgies continue to reflect this method for instructing large groups. Thus, the “communion” or group is programmed together, and this process forms an emotional bond of cohesion and unity. All believe the same things, behave the same way, and outsiders are quickly identified because of their lack programming. Xenophobia, class envy, and anti-Semitism are logical outcomes from such a programming/teaching method. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, was a Jesuit operative. He was the chief architect of the Kristallnacht attack on the German Yahudim (Jews), which historians consider to be the commencement of the Nazi violence culminating in the Holocaust.
The truth is a threat to those who “program” the masses.
Here are a few of his quotes:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
“Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character.”
Catechesis is a process of teaching or programming masses, and has defined psychological goals. Here is a statement from the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia concerning the oratory skills employed by Joseph Goebbels:
“He openly acknowledged that he was exploiting the lowest instincts of the German people – racism, xenophobia, class envy, and insecurity. He could, he said, play the popular will like a piano, leading the masses wherever he wanted them to go. "He drove his listeners into ecstasy, making them stand up, sing songs, raise their arms, repeat oaths – and he did it, not through the passionate inspiration of the moment, but as the result of sober psychological calculation." Psychological behavior was studied by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov using dogs, and physiological responses could be controlled and predicted using oral commands and other audio stimulation.
Catechesis is therefore a very powerful tool, and people should be alert to it being used on them, or against them.
We should point out the fact that the process itself (Catechesis) is quite effective, and could be used for either good or bad.
The important point to keep in mind is that there are psychological processes that are employed against populations, and we see them in operation in the media constantly to slant popular opinion. Agendas may be good, bad, or neutral, but people need to be aware of what is being done to them. Obviously, Yahuah wanted us to use repetition to learn His Torah, and teach it to our children:
Deu 6:4-9: “Hear, O Yisharal: Yahuah our Alahim, Yahuah is one!
And you shall love Yahuah your Alahim with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might. And these Words which I am commanding you today shall be in your heart, and you shall impress them upon your children, and shall speak of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up, and shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. And you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.”
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