Far Country (American Revelation XII, One.)

Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. ~Dwight Eisenhower

I just saw this shit. 

Are you fucking serious?

Today's White Christian Nationalist Republican Party is virtually indistinguishable from the far-right of the 1950's and early 1960's. People like the Dixiecrats, the cranks and crypto-cultists of the John Birch Society, and the McCarthyites, all of which Eisenhower (and most Republicans at the time) opposed.

For the record, these nuts didn't force their way in and take over. Oh hell no! Republicans let that shit in, courted it over decades for more votes, and when they got those votes, gave it more and more power within the Party and then were surprised when those fucking people took over and the Party almost instantly became dominated by conspiracy theorists and racists.

All it took for that shit to take over completely was a Black man running for President. Not even getting elected yet, just being a major party's candidate. I was there. It wasn't John McCain driving this bullshit, it was the Republican Base.

In 2008 Republicans finally got the voters they'd wanted since LBJ buried Goldwater with a simple ad featuring a little girl and a missile-launch countdown and on the strength of "In Your Guts, You Know He's Nuts."

Fuck, whoever came up with that line understated the problem by an order of magnitude. 

Hell, people I knew went off the rails to the point where I wondered if I'd ever really known them, and did it so fast that it boggled my mind.

And now these same motherfuckers are trying to call the American government "Antichrist?"

Excuse me? I was an End Times Prophecy guy. America and anything about America ain't in the Word. The locus of the End Times, the point around which the whole wheel turns is the Middle East (and Israel and its environs) for a damn reason. 

It's as simple as the fact that the Americas were unknown to the people who wrote this stuff down.

If anybody's "Antichrist" it's the global authoritarian, fascist movement...which mostly answers to or is supported by Vladimir Putin and that is something right out of the traditional End Times narratives...the same "Gog and Magog" that Pastors like Greg Laurie see in the Russia vs. Ukraine War. 

And I sure don't see these fucking people embracing the Anti-Netanyahu protesters.

Most of them are all in for Bibi. Funny how that works, isn't it?

They don't even care what a given authoritarian believes in or represents, because it's the authoritarianism in and of itself that's the drug for these fucking people.

Well, that and whatever cruelty results from it. Right, Marge?

Also, it's a virtual guarantee that these assholes will do a 180 and embrace the Ukrainians if they can bend that situation to their advantage or push it into whatever their "End Times" lies are now.

Remember, everything is bad faith with these motherfuckers. And I do mean Everything. They will, likewise, throw Russia under the bus or relegate them to a bit part if something "better" for their ambitions (Or more fitting of their biases) turns up.

Just like how in simply trying to keep that shit seeming "edgy" and sounding current so people will keep giving them attention and money, they've twisted the existing End Times narrative beyond recognition. I've written about this, hell, it's the point of this series!

(Seriously do you think I keep writing on the theme of American Revelation for the hell of it?)

And that, in and of itself, is because...as a younger me would and did at that time point out...they can't make a whole bunch of money off of the Truth.

So they turn Left Behind, the whole Christian End Times narrative and all the interpretations of chapter and verse into a shifting morass of lies. for money.

That is, in fact, what all of this shit is about and don't you forget it. The Cross of Christ has been appropriated by the cultists of Dis Pater and Mammon and far too often, the Christians are just fine with that shit. Again, the Christians...like the Republicans...often let these fuckers in for the sake of political power or popularity.

Camel, Nose, Tent. You do the math.

And then these same fucking people try and claim they all about Jesus.

If Jesus came back again, looking as He would have and did the exact same things, associated with the same kind of people, etc. etc. He could preach the Word verbatim out of the King James Version and these motherfuckers would still be shouting "Crucify Him!" in the streets and rioting about it and calling Jesus a Leftist and a Terrorist and every other damn thing you can think of.

Because He would still chase the Money Changers out of the Temple with a whip.

And these Money Changers? They don't like that. 

You think Franklin Graham wouldn't be the first one to get thrown over the first available object and flogged with a whip of cords by the Man From Galilee??

If not, rethink your shit, yo. 

Why? Because it's people like you that are why American Christianity fell to the Money Changers, the Politicians, and the cultists of various Chthonic Roman Gods.

All this shit is nothing more than the same never-ending quest to make bigotry, hatred and selfishness sound cool and holy and original.

Do y'all really think the Creator of the Infinite Universe is stupid?

If you ever believed a word of it, remember that there will be a reckoning.

I don't know that it's the "End Times" but American Revelation is coming soon.

Watch ye, therefore. For ye know not when the master of the house cometh.

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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.

...

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

 And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. ~Matthew 25:1-13