Voice Of The Martyrs (American Revelation VIII, One.)

Lost am I in my memories of my forefathers' legacy

I am one of you, you are one of me
Why don't we set the people free?
How I grieve to see fulfillment of prophecy
Naive of me to think things could change
While man remain the same, so war will be for me everyday
No peace no peace for the children of Israel
Gaza cries all the tears from her eyes
Will there be no peace for the children of Palestine?

Shalom salaam shalom salaam

Who will take the blame for the blood of my children
To who does vengeance belong? To no one, no one
We're dying from tanks and suicide bombs
The only answer is to live as one
And justice will come for my sons, and just will come for my sons. ~Ziggy Marley, Shalom Salaam.

I talked to a friend of mine the other night, who I'd not spoken to in several years. When I worked with this guy he was very religious, your basic Evangelical type, and one of several Native American Christians that I knew at the time. Our mutual circle of friends was pretty diverse, and skewed towards collectively being religious or spiritual in nature. Well, it turns out that my friend's now ex-wife and her family did him dirty, and he no longer identifies as a Christian or studies the Bible.

Nearly all of the people from our old group...from when I worked at the casino...are at least less religious than they once were. I feel like that's kind of sad, because I remember how we all drew strength from an often-unconventional shared faith in the adverse environment of an often-shitty job.

But ya know, I'm not sure that's a bad thing when the only thing stopping American Evangelicalism from slouching towards the deification of Donald Trump...

...Is the Evangelicals mad rush to deify Vladimir Putin, not in spite of but because of the atrocities the Russian Army has committed in Ukraine.

So much of American Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity has become a cult of Right-wing political and social beliefs...that they've forgotten their deity is supposed to be Jesus Christ, not a hoped-for American version of Francisco Franco. 

A lot of these people don't want to have a real leader who might call on them to be better people or do hard stuff for the greater good. No, they want to have an authoritarian father-figure that they "Connect" with emotionally...in a very childish sort of way...to "Tell them what do do" so they don't have to make hard decisions in life.

But it's really even worse than that.

Not only do they not care how they get to see those beliefs realized...they've realized that America's governmental and social systems and of course most of its people...by nature aren't going to be in favor of their project no matter how much political power they acquire nor how many of their own urges they slake at the expense of others.

And make no mistake about it, that last is the real objective of it all, the fulfillment of debased desire and the satisfaction of lusts. It's not an accident that the first and so far only thing Republicans have called another Republican out for in a very long time is Madison Cawthorn and his talking about cocaine-fueled sex orgies.

Because it's not about Christ or Christianity anymore, nor even about Conservatism...let alone doing anything simple like finding spiritual truth or maintaining peace of mind or strength of heard in a bad environment like it so often was for me and my co-workers back in the day.

It's about "What can I get." And people don't care who they have to hurt or what law or taboo they have to break to scratch that itch.

And a lot of these people claim to be Christians or other religious believers. You'd think they'd at least pretend to give a shit what God thinks, but they don't...which in my mind casts doubt on whether they really believe anything of the sort...or even anything at all.

From Putin and his Russian armies on down to so many of these American Trump Supporters it's really about simply wanting to kill and steal more than they want to be alive. 

In point of fact, not only the cruelty, but the ability to thumb their noses at God and Country alike seems to be the fucking point.

I saw this video earlier today where a Ukrainian soldier, hoping to score a new front plate for his body armor, reached in the center pouch of a dead Russian's vest and found...a stolen MacBook laptop! 

I'm a tech guy, I'm a veteran. I could have told the dude how replacing a front center plate with a laptop was going to work out.

But these fucking people never think this shit through. And this kind of thing is sadly typical across the board.

It's not an aberration or a one-off event or even some shitty opportunist. The murders, rapes, thefts and war crimes seem to be coordinated efforts...and in an authoritarian system like the Russian Army, well, this shit wouldn't be happening at all without official approval.

In other words, this is the future "Conservatives" want.

And they want it for America too.

If they get it, they'll try and cover it up with conspiracy theories and outright lies just like the Russians are doing.

I'm here to tell you, just today I've seen this kind of crap, American conspiracy theorists claiming the Ukrainians are killing their own people and blaming it on the Russians to "Try and make Russia look bad." You know, it's funny, I haven't even seen any obvious bullshit videos of Russian humanitarian efforts to help people in Ukraine...even just trying to help the ethnic Russians they claim they're there to try and save. No, instead of that I see obvious efforts by the Russian Army to target even Ethnic Russians who are Ukrainian citizens.

This is a coordinated effort to erase the Ukrainian people from the Earth, this is pure fascism, and these motherfuckers are claiming it's everybody else that's Nazis? Fuck all that. 

If they'll say that about Ukraine, they'll say that about the EU, Turkey, the UK, or the USA and if they conquer even one country...then they'll push on to the next one...and try to do the same thing, over and over. Russian state media is calling for exactly this.

It's probably a good thing for the sake of our world that Putin's New Soviet Union ran smack into the wall of reality and got their ass kicked over and over again the very first time they invaded another large, westernizing country. Ukraine may have given all the rest of us a shot at beating this problem, too.

The problem is that so many Americans absolutely refuse to learn the lesson. So many others, people like Tucker Carlson among them...want this kind of thing to happen here.

Americans are willing to prostrate themselves before the Hammer And Sickle, think about that one, will ya?

And when I have written about the concept of American Revelation, the fact that Americans support a literal (In their own words, mind you) Antichrist (Trump) in the hope that he will "Bring about Revelation" and then openly and consciously take the wrong side in exactly the kind of conflict that in ages past would've had the End Times preachers talking about the war of Gog And Magog...this is literally what I'm talking about. 

It might not be the End Times for the whole world, but it sure could be that for America if we don't start dealing with this mess.

Welcome back, to American Revelation.

 

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There's a man goin' 'round takin' names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reachin' down
When the man comes around
The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter's ground?
When the man comes around
… Hear the trumpets hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singin'
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettledrum
Voices callin', voices cryin'
Some are born and some are dyin'
It's alpha and omega's kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks. ~Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around.

Just remember one thing, this is how it ends, anybody tells you anything else is either a fool or a liar:

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