False Prophets (Babylon, Five.)

The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. Thus all you that never passed under a great change of heart, by the mighty power of the Spirit of God upon your souls; all you that were never born again, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new, and before altogether unexperienced light and life, are in the hands of an angry God. However you may have reformed your life in many things, and may have had religious affections, and may keep up a form of religion in your families and closets, and in the house of God, it is nothing but his mere pleasure that keeps you from being this moment swallowed up in everlasting destruction. However unconvinced you may now be of the truth of what you hear, by and by you will be fully convinced of it. Those that are gone from being in the like circumstances with you, see that it was so with them; for destruction came suddenly upon most of them; when they expected nothing of it, and while they were saying, Peace and safety: now they see, that those things on which they depended for peace and safety, were nothing but thin air and empty shadows.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes, than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. You have offended him infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince; and yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment. It is to be ascribed to nothing else, that you did not go to hell the last night; that you were suffered to awake again in this world, after you closed your eyes to sleep. And there is no other reason to be given, why you have not dropped into hell since you arose in the morning, but that God’s hand has held you up. There is no other reason to be given why you have not gone to hell, since you have sat here in the house of God, provoking his pure eyes by your sinful wicked manner of attending his solemn worship. Yea, there is nothing else that is to be given as a reason why you do not this very moment drop down into hell. ~Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God, Jonathan Edwards, 1741

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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

I saw this when I got home from work this morning.

You know how I know Trump is in trouble, and knows it??

My ex-wife used to talk like this when things were going badly. As a Pentecostal, she'd literally try to curse people, and try to "Speak things into being." Yes, I know, anybody with two working brain cells is like "None of this works that way!" Well, she didn't have two working brain cells. So, let me explain; Basically, she was always trying to conjure what she thought she wanted by sheer force of will. In case you wonder why I think a lot of this shit is basically badly attempted Sorcery, and Witchcraft, as in trying to use religious-sounding mumbo jumbo to cheat and manipulate the universe.

The funny part is last I knew my ex-wife wasn't MAGA.

But MAGA is built on the same kind of foundation of emotional and spiritual manipulation as a lot of Pentecostal churches are, including all the ones I saw my ex attend.

It's a Christ-less Christianity, the people who practice and preach it are False Prophets.

As a gamer who plays various editions of White Wolf's RPG Vampire: The Masquerade, let me put it a little more simply; This bitch was trying to make Willpower checks to control the Universe and claiming powers she did not possess.

The Universe of course responded "LOL" the vast majority of the time.

It's the rare times coincidence or fate or raw ability to lie gave them what they wanted, that are what these fucking people hang onto forever.

Donald Trump doesn't even have the faith in Jesus that'd enable him to make such claims as my ex-wife did. Hell, at this point I don't think Trump has faith in Trump.

But, These Fucking People always gotta try that last-ditch stupidity, simply because they don't have anything else left.

I wonder how long it'll be before Trump says "God Told Me...?" or starts Speaking In Tongues at random.

That's these fuckers' very favorite cards to play in these type of situations.

See, once you've dealt with something enough, unless you're emotionally blinded by attachment to it, bad intentions or bad spirits, you tend to crack the code.

And as I've been saying, I don't know what's in the Epstein files, but I think it's bad enough to cause a Revolution all by itself.

Know who's telling me that? 

Trump is.

If it wasn't, he wouldn't be freaking out so bad about it, the government would not have been shut down and we wouldn't be threatening Venezuela with war. I'm serious. It's all distractions.

My newspaper guy at work thinks Trump is a Prosperity Gospel Pentecostal (or has at least bought into all that bullshit without actually accepting Christ) and I can't really say he's wrong, especially not now. 

Why?? Because that is exactly what Trump is acting like.

And here's Mike "Little" Johnson pulling the exact same bullshit.

Again, bro, Communism hasn't even been a thing since 1989. 

I watched the Berlin Wall fall live on CNN.

Reality and Truth happen, I was there, I've seen things with my own eyes. 

 You fuckers ain't gonna Mumbo Jumbo your way out of this one or point and shout "COMMIE!" At least not if you expect that shit to work.

Not least because "Communism" means fuck all to about anybody under 50 at this point.

Like I said yesterday, Sin can become an addiction.

So can religious heresy, which is exactly what the Prosperity Gospel and all this various creepy Dominionist bullshit is.

And these preachers and Republicans, like any petty drug dealer, know they can use addiction to bullshit to control people.

I've personally observed the FOX News bullshit be like a drug to people, typically middle-aged White men.

Only catch is now, they can't control enough people that way.

Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

These guys know they've been caught, all the distractions have failed. Now, they're hoping they can either normalize pedophilia or find some other way to get enough people to blame somebody else or not give a shit. 

It's not working.

Except on the people that Republican bullshit always works on or who might actually want to live like that.

Among other things, I have my partner and her daughter to worry about now, but that's not the only reason I don't want to live in that kind of world.

For one thing, that shit is wrong. It's disgusting, it's immoral, child sexual abuse scars people for life.

It's one of the few crimes I think is automatically deserving of Death. I'd refuse to execute a murderer under a lot more circumstances than I would spare a child molester, if it was up to me.

I don't know why this is so hard for some people.

And of course these motherfuckers are gonna try to either mimic skeevy religious behavior or use religiosity to try to get out of it...because if we're being honest the Church in America has way too much of a history of tolerating that kind of bullshit.

And then these assholes have the nerve to wonder why people are walking away from religion??

Patriotism and religion are the last refuges of the scoundrel.

In much the same way that macho horseshit is typically the coward's last redoubt.

Yeah, stop and think about that for a second.

You know, I'm starting to think that America is gonna go the way of the Soviet Union just because by the time these fucking people get done with the brand, ain't nobody going to be left that wants to participate in it anymore.

But if you want whatever comes next to be defined by something other than These Fucking People's perversions and insecurities, you're going to have to fight for it.

Otherwise America could go down like a goddamn Church scandal and resulting schism.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight for it, or you're not.

When the alternative is raising up and worshiping literal Golden Idols of Donald Fucking Trump I think I'd rather go down standing up, yo.

But then I was taught to have standards.

I was taught my Belief had to mean something in terms of my conduct and the real world.

Weren't you??

Which makes me wonder, what the fuck is wrong with all these other motherfuckers??

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I don't have to tell you, drugs ain't the only things to get addicted to. Some people mainline their work, some people... snort ESPN. Some people needle-pop gambling. There are those that shoot up junk foods, fine wines, Cohibas, baby. Some people get hooked on love. And like any fiend on the street, you always need another bump. Just one more bump, man! Just one more bump! ~Augustus Hill, from the HBO series Oz, S1.E5 "The Straight Life."

Four 

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

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.