And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she said in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. ~Revelation 18:1-10
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We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson...
We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley
Last week, Trump posted a fake AI image of himself as Colonel Kilgore from Apocalypse Now, basically trying to "Declare War" on Chicago.
Meanwhile, Paula White is literally trying to say that Trump is God.
Because
Anything but Love Thy Neighbor and
Anything but America has now apparently morphed into
Anything but
Jesus Is Lord, too.
Or perhaps it's more accurate to say that they've found themselves a secular "Savior" that they like better than Jesus.
Yeah, I have a church background, you wanna know how that's gonna work out according to what the Lord's Word says??
It ends with a lot of people having a spectacularly warm afterlife and wondering what the fuck happened.
I'm not saying that to be mean, I'm saying that because it's what I read.
You either believe in this stuff or you don't, and this is the fruit of too much Convenience Christianity.
But this isn't Christianity, not even the cafeteria convenience kind.
It's narcissism dressed up as religion.
This is how you go to Hell, and look like a fool while you're doing it.
Meanwhile, while America jerks off and does stupid racist shit, Russia attacked Poland yesterday.
This is how These Fucking People attempt to drag a lot of innocent people off to Hell with them.
Should note that Poland is one of the most Catholic...and thus most Christianized...countries in the world.
Yet in this, American "Conservatives" will end up firmly on the side of Vladimir Putin.
And not on the side of our Christian, mostly small-c conservative Polish allies...who are actually cool as fuck and fun to drink with and shit. I know this from when I was an Airman.
And that's wrong and it sucks.
But whoever Putin attacks, and whoever Trump shit-talks, MAGA's hate.
Which would also be true if Russia had attacked
America. Doesn't matter if it's Red State America or Blue State America where the bombs or the drones hit.
The goalposts are infinitely moveable.
You think These Fucking People wouldn't throw Texas under the bus??
Oh hell yes they would.
Yeah, I said what I said.
All that matters to these fucking people is having someone to Hate, the Power of rich white men, and some masturbatory fantasy of War as State policy.
Worse, these same assholes will call that shit Christianity too, and they'll do it with a straight face.
[after Burke is revealed as the one who set the face-huggers loose on Ripley and Newt]
Hudson: [aiming his rifle at Burke] I say we grease this rat fuck-son-of-a-bitch right now!Hicks: It just doesn't make any goddamn sense.Ripley: He figured he could get the alien past the quarantine if one of us was... impregnated - whatever you call it - and frozen for the way home. Nobody would know about the embryos we're carrying. Me and Newt.Hicks: Wait a minute. We would all know.Ripley: Yes, the only way he could do it is if he sabotaged certain freezers on the way home. Namely, yours. Then he could jettison the bodies and make up any story he would like to.Hudson: Fuck! He's dead! [aims his rifle at Burke again] You're dogmeat, pal!Burke: This is so nuts. I mean listen... listen to what you're saying. It's all paranoid delusion. It's really sad. It's pathetic.Ripley: You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over a goddamn percentage.
~From the film Aliens.
And the thing about it, is that there's absolutely fucking people out there who are
worse than that and Trump keeps either deliberately, negligently or both, stroking
them off too.
Whether it's various sorts of accelerationists, corporate greed-heads, racist supremacists or religious fanatics (and it doesn't really matter what religion or form of supremacism it is, just so it's destructive, at least to the average person)
While all these rich MAGA's are partying it up like First Class passengers on the Titanic...like the guy in the top hat literally asking for a brandy as the ship sinks.
Yes these fucking people are that short-sighted.
Stop and think about that for a second.
And note that they'll call that short-sighted stupidity "Christianity" as well.
Call it too much instant gratification for too long, people got too comfortable, and there's always just plain old nihilism.
None of those by themselves, or (increasingly) even all together suffice to explain all this crap.
These clowns are trying to burn everything down all at once, for their own profit, while partying it up.
(Including the land they're standing on.)They quite literally think the Accelerationist religious fanatics and Accelerationist white supremacists aren't gonna try to burn them down, too.
But the truth is, I think a lot of this mess is just the debased ennui of people who've had it way too good for way too long and they can't even imagine that anything could ever be any other way.
But it actually is even worse.
These fucking people think they have a right to live high off the hog while hurting other people for no reason.
And I'm here to tell you that all the Holy Books, not just the Bible, have a hell of a lot to say about what will happen to such people in Eternity...and very often, in this life as well.
Nobody...and I mean NOBODY...acts more like the Bible and all the other Holy Books are crap and they *Know* there is no God than rich American alleged-Evangelical Christians do.
And then it ends up falling to regular people to defend even basic principles and common humanity, because of course we're the ones getting most fucked over by this shit.
And one hell of a lot of so-called "Christians" will gladly try to kill us in the name of an oligarchy that doesn't give a shit about them, either.
Because all they really care about is being part of some bullshit hierarchy and having somebody be lower than them. Functionally, Slavery is the only thing they believe in...although some of them (Charlie Kirk for example) really get a hard-on off of "ideas" of incarceration and punishment.
But when push comes to shove they'd be the damn slaves if they had to, just to perpetuate the idea of Slavery.
And yeah, I blame religion...or at least religiosity...for that too.
Because for far too many people it's not about "He came to set the captives free."
It's about seeing how many captives they can take for themselves, and then justifying having them and treating them however poorly they desire to.
Yeah, I get it, a lot of my life experience has taught me that a lot of people are scumbags.
But the literal point of religion is you're supposed to try to rise above all that crap.
Trouble is some people just don't want to.
So now they're trying to sacralize their own Sin and call it Holiness.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
I wish I could tell you something other than "This is going to come down to a fight" but I can't.
Not if you want to survive, anyway.
But I know what happens to their False Christs.
It's their fault that they didn't pay enough attention to see that for themselves.
There's nothing wrong with being a Believer.
But you have to make sure that what you believe in is actually what's Right, too.
And that's the damn problem. So many people were so desperate for something to believe in, they accepted Trump.
I don't think God is gonna let that slide.
But it's not He who denies them the Kingdom of Heaven.
They've done that to their own damn selves, they have chosen separation from God.
That's the Point.
What's worse is they thought they were gonna get something out of it.
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
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Eli Sunday: Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston! Daniel Plainview: I'd be happy to work with you.Eli Sunday: You would? Yes, yes, of course. That’s wonderful.Daniel Plainview: But there is one condition for this work.Eli Sunday: All right.Daniel Plainview: I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet. I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet, and that God is a superstition.~From the film There Will Be Blood.
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Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?
Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?
Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.
Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.
Hess: Burnin Konn?
Mayfield: Mmm.
Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.
Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.
Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.
Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.
Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?
Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?
Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?
Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.
[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"