And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
And the smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receives the mark of his name.
Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, says the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. ~Revelation 14, King James Version
Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced by people of all colors and races here in this ancient Holy Land, the House of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other Prophets of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed all around me by people of all colors...
With racism plaguing America like an incurable cancer, the so-called "Christian" white American heart should be more receptive to a proven solution to such a destructive problem. Perhaps it could be in time to save America from imminent disaster -- the same destruction brought upon Germany by racism that eventually destroyed the Germans themselves.
They asked me what about the Hajj had impressed me the most. . . . I said, "The brotherhood! The people of all races, color, from all over the world coming together as one! It has proved to me the power of the One God. . . . All ate as one, and slept as one. Everything about the pilgrimage atmosphere accented the Oneness of Man under One God.
I saw this yesterday.
Some idiot Republican made a meme celebrating the effective disestablishment of USAID.
And they used the meme of those dancing pallbearers from Ghana that was popular way back in 2017 to do it.For the record, Ghana is a very Christian country, one that's in comparatively good shape for that part of the world, and it's a very religious country where the majority of the population is Christian, and most of the rest is Muslim. The same energy that made these guys from Ghana do what they do flows through African American Christians in the South, particularly around New Orleans and those kind of places.
Oh when the Saints, oh when the Saints, oh when the Saints come marching in...
It's not just an idle line from a meaningless song. These fucking people are basically disrespecting Christianity and mocking the Lord, on top of their normal abominable behavior, and don't you forget it.
And yet these fucking idiots have the nerve to accuse others of hating Christians, basically for no better reason than those people *Exist* and cannot be forced to become bitter-ass White Republicans talking only of the glories of *Checks Notes* Donald Trump.
You want to know why, fundamentally, I think this whole mess will end violently...and much sooner than in 2029??
I think that because they want it to.
These fucking people want a fight...because they somehow think they have all the guns (which they emphatically do not) and they think they'll win by the strength of their White Conservative Purity...which by the way has fuck all to do with Christianity at this point.
(Or, failing that, that they can somehow make things so bad that Republican Jesus will come and Save them-and only them. And that they would not get punished for this.)
And then they think they'll spend Eternity in Peace and Blessedness with Donald Trump. Goddamn, talk about how even if you win, you really lose.
And that's basically why these motherfuckers are acting like such priggish assholes and basically daring somebody to punch them in the face, so they can claim "Persecution" or some shit.
And they don't give a damn if it's *Does Double Take* Erick Erickson that does it.
'Cause right now, apparently if you don't have Donald Trump's Wang jammed so far up your ass that he's urinating out of your mouth, you're not a real "Conservative."
Note: I used to be a conservative, that's not what conservatism is.
And Erick, Son of Erick, got himself voted off the island a long time ago, along with anybody who had any morals and political or religious beliefs that were not somehow relative to Orange Caligula.
If this seems nonsensical to you, well, that's the state of things.
Under the radar, it's been that way for a very long time.
And I'm here to tell you, as a former Conservative Christian moderate Republican Air Force Veteran, that the level of woo woo bullshit driving this whole mess has only gotten worse since I got out, a little at a time, back in the Aughts.
In point of fact, they've basically kicked Jesus Christ out of His own End Times narrative and replaced Him with Antivaxxer Woo, Donald Trump, and Racism, all of it slathered over with an excessive, gaudy coating of fake American nationalism and Trump's ubiquitous spray-on gold bullshit...all that while they openly destroy America, it's standing in the world, and its own state capacity.
Like, if Trump wanted a fascist dictatorship, this is the wrong way to go about it. Those things require more State capacity and power, not less. Don't get me wrong, it's what they think they're trying to do...while outsourcing all the real work to El Salvador.None of this even works that way. That simply isn't how you do this.
Based on my observations over the last decade or so, these idiots don't just think Donald Trump is America, they think he's God.
This is going to end badly, not just, but mostly for this fucking cult.
They don't understand anything, least of all themselves.
And all that this tariff bullshit is going to do is (further) impoverish MAGA and Red States in particular, I wonder if these poor redneck assholes will notice when all their little creature comforts and distractions start getting priced out of their reach??
I mean, for the record a pack of Marlboro Reds is already over ten bucks, and most of our tobacco is grown in the South (and yes, the price has gone up since November) so you'd think that would be a thing people would see.
But I'm here to tell you, one hell of a lot of them don't.
A fair number of these fucking people are blinded by the same fart-huffing politics-as-sport-ball bullshit that'd lead people from Alabama to think a Football coach would be a good Senator.
Most of the rest are just stupid or so hopped up on political partisanship that they'd vote for the Devil if he ran as a Republican...or both. Yeah, think about that for a second.And these fucking people hate anybody they imagine is on whatever real or imagined "Other Team" which is starting to include most of the rest of the world and even a plurality of MAGA itself as those fucking people start to realize they're losing out too.
A lot of Republicans, and I use that word deliberately here, don't care if they lose.
They just want somebody else to lose worse.
I'm here to tell you, just like a lot of Tea Party people were horrified and turned against Trump once MAGA got going, there's going to be more levels of this and MAGA will end up looking like moderates if not fucking voting for the other team come the next time there's an election where they live.
But for a lot of These Fucking People it's a combination of narcissism, nihilism, and bored rich-kid self-destruction as a political philosophy. Throw in a hundred-some years of Capitalism and Movement Conservatism being taught AS Christianity and on top of that, These Fucking People being told that they were alone in a lost and dying world and everyone but them was going to Hell, just in case you wonder how Republicans got so fucked in the head.
Basically the only things these fuckers still believe in are their own greed, hate and rage, and that somehow things should be as shitty as possible so they can get some kind of "reward" in the afterlife and justify their own selfishness and stupidity in this one.That's their religion, basically, Trump is just a tacky gold add-on. Some of them were always like this.
They simply don't care if they drink the Wine of the Wrath of God.
More to the point, what they actually think is that if they can make you suffer by them drinking it, they should guzzle that shit like Bud Light.
They don't care if they got to Hell, just so they think they'll have company.
And I'm warning you, again, that it's probably going to come down to a fight to get rid of these assholes.
Prepare yourself.
Soon.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sits upon many waters:
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
The beast that thou saw was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
And he saith unto me, The waters which thou saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
And the ten horns which thou saw upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou saw is that great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth. ~Revelation 17, King James Version.