Sodom Lives! (American Revelation V, Twelve.)

And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord. And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

And he spoke unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake.

And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there.

And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake.

And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake.

And the Lord went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.

~Genesis 18:20-33

I saw this last night.

Sodom lives.

And as usual it has nothing to do with the gay people.

Now, I'd heard about the Trump administration muscling the Romanian government into giving the Tate Brothers (R-Flight Risk) their passports back when I got up yesterday morning. But it was Russell Moore's explicitly Christian framing of the event that I was waiting to see if somebody did and why I decided to write about it.

On break at work last night I saw that several "Young Republican" clubs (apparently known for both White Supremacy and advocating rape) have invited either Andrew Tate or his brother Tristan to speak. 

Now, mind you, there's no proven-to-exist society on this Earth that I've ever heard of that actually thought this kind of shit was Okay. You have to go back to mythos, to Sodom and Gomorrah (and this story occurs in all of the Abrahamic faiths, Gnosticism and Middle Eastern traditions all of the above draw upon) to places not even proven to ever have existed, to find anything different. 

Like, I don't give a fuck how Conservative or Patriarchal a people are, Children deserve to know who their parents are, fathers deserve to know their children are actually theirs, whom issues from whom and thus who inherits what or is entitled to what are often contentious issues when everybody's on the up and up and...if you'll pardon the momentary crudeness...everybody knows where everybody else came from. Knowing who's who and what's what is part of what determines who a people are. That's why stuff like sexual violence is used as a weapon of war and considered to be a war crime.

Back in the ancient days and honestly even in traditional (especially Islamic and traditional African) societies today, issues like this can cause blood feuds and wars all by themselves. In a lot of the world, particularly the global "Other Half" this stuff is still No Shit. I'm ugly serious here.

Like, rape wasn't considered evil or a Sin or a societal wrong because of stuff like Empathy or any kind of Wokeness (in fact it was the total opposite of that) but because of things like bloodline and inheritance and yes, Patriarchy. There was only even a slight side of "Well, family feuds are bad for everybody."

How bad?? Google the level of power that family patriarchs traditionally had in the Ancient World, particularly in Rome. Go, see for yourself, I dare you.

There were layers upon layers of tyranny involved in just...functionally maintaining the basics of civilization and keeping things from going full Darwin every couple of hours or so...because literal Barbarism was not, in fact, that far away. I'm not saying that's good, I'm not saying that's right, I'm just saying that's how it was and "Conservatives" have forgotten how shitty it was.

Rome was more fortunate than many such societies (as America is or at least was also up until a few months ago) in that they generally made the Barbarians want to become Romans.

It's for reasons like that that knowing history, mythology and theology are important.

For example, unlike a lot of these "Young Republicans" I can't just pull a pro-Nazi "narrative" out my own ass, because my Grandfathers and Great Uncles fought against Fascism and Japanese Imperialism and Nazism...and while I'm at it both of my grandfathers served long enough to retire from the military and that meant they stood up against Communism as well. I heard the stories. They made sure I knew what was what and why it mattered. Words have meanings.

When I say that Republicans are attacking Civilization down to the level of the family or the idea that words have meaning because they're a Death Cult, this is what I'm talking about.

I was taught in the military that you get what you tolerate. Is this kind of bullshit really a thing people think should happen??

Like, again, I'm not a born-again anything and I'm sorry but I kind of feel like we as a civilization can only tweak God's nipples so many times before He gets mad and fire starts falling out the sky.

I have basic reading comprehension and it's what I read.

And if we don't stop this now, it's going to get so if you want your Daughter or your Mom or your Sister or your Wife to be safe...not to mention the words that come own damn mouth to have any meaning or the knowledge of history or theology or tradition to know what people are even talking about when they say a word like "Conservatism" or "The Bible" you're probably going to have to fight for it. 

If you want those things to mean anything other than "Political Power Says..." you're gonna have to stand up.

Because when it gets bad enough that other countries decide to start coming in here and straightening our shit out for us, then you're not going to be able to control what the narrative or situation is either.

Let alone deities...remember, fire falling from the sky is bad for your health.

And I saw that James Carville is predicting Federal governmental collapse within six months, so yeah, somebody is gonna have to fill that vacuum just to keep our asses from going full Walking Dead (but with idiots instead of Zombies) on each other.

And it ain't gonna be Elon and the Billionaire Cabal, they're going to profit from the Fall and get the fuck out.

As ever, these fucking people know they're going down...indeed, they want that. Call it a side-effect of believing in the End Times and all that "Left Behind" crap...but they're also now plotting to take you with them. This is what happens when your idea of "Culture" is putting stickers that say "Alone in a lost and dying world" on things. Christianity and End Times belief has turned into utter Nihilism.

No, they don't care who dies.

And Republicans literally figure the lucky ones, or the "strong" who survive will end up bowing down to some Tyrant somewhere, as if that's somehow a good thing. They think they'll get some kind of a thrill out of being slaves to tyranny, instead of a boot in the mouth like everybody else.

My guess is coalitions of states will have to try and put things back together with some help from the international community, if it comes to that, and whether that's in the middle of a Soviet style collapse or a full-on Civil War, you can bet it's going to suck!

 Especially when the Other Side thinks this is some kind of bullshit action movie and will probably specifically try to get guys like Andrew Tate to train whatever fighters they come up with.

Yes, idiots like Kash Patel want "MMA fighters" to train FBI agents. In the real world, mind you, the best training for an FBI agent is a freaking Law degree, and many agents are in fact trained as lawyers. As an FBI agent your job is not to try to be some kind of bullshit Chuck Norris knockoff, nor to bust common criminals. It's supposed to be a serious job.

But the Trump administration is full of people who think all those bullshit Steven Seagal cop movies from the early 1990's weren't complete garbage.

Because they think Kickboxing and MMA shit matter in a world where Brimstone missiles, drones, Leopard 2A7 tanks and STEYR-AUG bullpup 5.56mm rifles freaking exist and where even Mexican Narcos are likely to be coming at you with an M4 Carbine and double drum mags.

This is not going to end well.

But resistance to it might well determine how you get judged or not.

You're either one of the 50 righteous people in Sodom or you ain't.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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“‘Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen." ~Ezekiel 16:49-50

Eleven

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan