Screaming Into The Abyss (American Revelation VIII, Four)

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. ~Revelation 9:1-6

I saw this last night.

Some yokel declaring that he believes Vladimir Putin is his father. Seriously, dude, what the fuck is lacking from your soul that you would choose to identify yourself so strongly with people like Putin and Trump, at the expense of family and stuff?

How much time do you have to spend staring into the Abyss, screaming in madness, to come up with this bullshit?

Like, why would you even want to? Short of mental illness, I don't even get it.

Trouble is, it's not just that idiotic motherfucker. All type of EU far-right politicians, UK Conservatives and far-right and US Republicans still seem to have their nose up Vladimir Putin's ass in spite of all the war crimes and everything.

It's almost like this is the future "Conservatives" want, or something.

Oh, wait, no. It is that. Because the cruelty is the fucking point.

And anybody tells you anything else is a fool or a liar.

And this is what the fucking Russians are doing, literally raping children, of both sexes, and Republicans are still trying to call everybody else "pedophiles" as a political ratfuck?

These motherfuckers are losing the war against the Ukrainian Army, so they're taking it out on the civilians in what places they do control, genocide, murder, rape, theft, various other war crimes...and people like Josh Hawley act like the US is somehow wrong for trying to defend Europe and help the Ukrainians? Are you fucking kidding me?

It's hard not to conclude that this is the kind of world that "Conservatives" want to live in...so long as they're the ones doing the murdering and the raping.

And, lest anyone think otherwise, the Russian Orthodox Church is balls-deep in supporting this murderous bullshit.

Nationalism turns Christian churches into dens of Demons and houses of Devils, and don't you forget it. When hate is the only value you have, well maybe it's just me but I think that tends to have a corrupting influence on everything else.

There is a strong undertone of religious crusade in this genocidal war...although I'm honestly at a loss what the religion involved here even is, or how these fucking people square the rhetoric with the fact that most Ukrainians are also Christians, in fact with higher rates of religious observance, in many cases also Orthodox. And I can only conclude that Russian religiosity is a sham and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch is just in it for the political power...not to mention the actual behavior of many of the Russian soldiers. These fucking people sure don't seem to give a damn about the Word, or what's in it.

But the thing that most bothers me about this shit is...people like the guy at the top of the article, who are so desperate for some kind of authoritarian father-figure to tell them what to do that they'll support damn near anything.

Those people want what's happening to Ukraine to happen to the United States, too. They want their authoritarian father/god-figure to tell them it's Okay to shoot down their neighbors, and that's all there is to it. The Punisher Skulls are not comic book references or idle symbols, in too many cases...and most of these fucking people missed the point of that source material, too.

It's almost like the Hammer And Sickle...or the Swastika or any other symbol of totalitarianism is the only kind of "religious iconography" that these people...be they Americans, European far-rightists or Russians...even want to have in the first damn place.

And there seems to be little that These Fucking People hate more than other people who are supporting each other in the defense of freedom, well, other than governments and social policies that help people who aren't rich, or Constitutional and legal frameworks that allow people to do and dream as they want and make their own choices in life. I never thought I'd live to see the day when conservatives as a group...and on a global scale no less...became anti-freedom. But that's where we're at, isn't it?

And these sons of bitches have spent 30 years calling the European Union "Antichrist" and they haven't been subtle about this for about 25 of those years. 

I'm not seeing where the EU is committing genocide or war crimes, though. I'm seeing that the EU is giving Ukraine a billion Euros worth of weapons and another half-a-billion worth of other aid, in defense of freedom.

And of course, "Conservatives" and Evangelicals will call them the Devil for it and continue to figure the EU prominently in all their bullshit conspiracy theories...even though the Ukrainians are the defenders of the Free World, including These Fucking People's own freedom. It's like a whole bunch of these "Conservatives" want to be forced to convert to Russian Orthodoxy, have their cultures destroyed too, and have to learn to speak Russian. I just don't fucking get it. 

I mean, fuck, not a day goes by that there isn't some new revelation lately about January 6th, and still too few people have been held to account.

Meanwhile, I remember being taught not to refer to anybody other than God or my Dad as "Father." And yeah, I'm an Agnostic theist and I have been since 2006 or so but...goddamn, seriously, Demons from the Bottomless Pit seems as good of an explanation for this bullshit as any, at this point.

There's something wrong with These Fucking People, and it's reaching the point where I think it's not natural, like the bad spirits I've felt at times all went into these people who are the ones supporting all this evil shit.

If Revelation is true, when the Lord separates out the sheep from the goats, I think a lot of people are going to be surprised who's on which side.

Part Three.

Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit
But my hand was made strong
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly

Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
Have no fear for atomic energy
'Cause none of them can stop the time
How long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?
Ooh, some say it's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill the book.

~Bob Marley, Redemption Song

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27