Abomination (Reason For The Season 2025, Ten.)

I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

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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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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14

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The wind whispers of fear and hate. The war has killed love. And those that confess to the Angkar are punished, and no one dare ask where they go. Here, only the silent survive. ~Dith Pran, The Killing Fields

I've seen this a few times now.

Supposedly, Barron Trump is This Close to "Putting His Faith In Christ." Yeah, right.

I'm here to tell you, people like that don't do things like that.

I mean, you shouldn't need me to tell you that, the Bible says it.

And what are all these "Christians" doing??

Aside from the same old "Christian" clout-chasing and trying to "Influence" the secular world so they can be "popular?"

Pontificating about marrying virgins, plotting to spread "Christian Nationalism" to Canada, and the Canadians clearly don't want that shit, and causing viral racist incidents in Cinnamon Roll shops. It's Christmas, for fuck's sake!

I'm honestly a little curious what the fuck any of that crap has to do with Christianity and this "revival" these idiots like to claim.

Then yesterday I found out that somebody that I sort of know effectively rejects modern medicine...in favor of conspiracy woo woo...which is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

It's all bullshit.

ALL OF IT.

Now I'm gonna let you in on a dirty little secret.

Suppose that, one way or another, Faith in Christ or in any particular Christian denomination suddenly became antithetical to Right-Wing political goals, or became seen as "Liberal" in the same way that (for example) modern Medicine became seen that way during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Yes, it can happen, it can happen in the space of a couple of weeks in fact. I saw it happen.

It's already happening again.

Don't you think people who are wildly obsessed with the appearance of religiosity but effectively don't believe in free choice or free will or that one's soul is in one's own keeping (mainly this is just a bullshit excuse for control but bear with me) would flip a bitch if their political movement or religious leaders or their government (especially the government of one of several US Successor States that might claim to be "Conservative") suddenly switched gears and decided that Christianity was a bad thing, or had become politically inconvenient, or whatever?

By the way, if you're Catholic, mainstream Protestant Christian, any sort of non-MAGA conservative Christian or pretty much any non-Christian religious believer or really anything other than a Calvinist or other Christian Nationalist or Prosperity Gospel Pentecostal type this is already happening to you.

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? "No," says the man in Washington, "it belongs to the poor." "No," says the man in the Vatican, "it belongs to God." "No," says the man in Moscow, "it belongs to everyone." I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality; where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

And I'm here to tell you they're just waiting for...oh, I don't know, Elon Musk's prototype Mark Of The Beast, or the unveiling of Dis Pater or Mammon as the true "gods" of the Prosperity Gospel, or the declaration of secular Republican Party politics or the worship of Donald Trump as God as the One True Religion or whatever.

It doesn't matter what it is, really. What they're waiting for is to be formally told they don't have to "Love Thy Neighbor" anymore by some Authority or other.

And it will come to exactly this, likely soon.

What they're waiting for is to be told that Hate is the new Opiate of the Masses, and they don't have to hide it behind anything else anymore.

I think we're gonna see these fucking people become the most anti-Christian and in point of fact anti-religious movement you can even imagine the second they think they can get away with it.

And remember, these fucking people's ideal world (at least since 2020) is nothing less than the Killing Fields of Khmer Rouge Cambodia, but with a Mall or some such shit.

These are people who think Elon having to pay a relatively small fine to the EU is some kind of Crime Against Humanity, but that Crimes Against Humanity are just things you do for clicks and likes on social media, or for fun or political profit.

If you're not willing to fight for it, take the word 'Freedom' out of your vocabulary. ~Malcolm X.

Do you think they're gonna give a fuck about you??

The answer to that question is "No."

And the truth is, these motherfuckers really just wanna kill people, they wanna fly off the handle like the Splicers in Bioshock and KILL. They don't care who, plenty of MAGA's will die with the rest of us because that, uh, political philosophy is already being eclipsed by the Groyper bullshit and at that point I'm here to tell you Those Fucking People hate conservatives more than anybody.

I traded You, oh Lord, for Mammon, and what did it get me, huh?! ~Splicer, Bioshock

I'm serious.

And even MAGA "Conservatives" (in fact, especially them) are blindly walking into a trap regarding this shit.

When ye therefore shall see the Abomination of Desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so reads, let him understand)

Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

Behold, I have told you before.

Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shines even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:15-27

People have the right idea to start fighting back against this shit but I don't think most people realize how bad it will get.

Not because these savages are viciously effective, they're not, but in fact as much as anything else because they're both cowardly and stupid.

Stupid people make mistakes, among other things.

You want an enemy with even a small degree of intelligence and moral courage, or at least the expectation of obeying basic rules simply so that said rules will be obeyed towards their own people at least some of the time.

These Fucking People don't care about any of that. And they don't really care if they get killed, either.

Just so they can have fun terrorizing people before they die.

They don't care about anything else.

As for you? You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You're willing to fight for it or you're not.

And it's going to come to that.

Soon.

Слава Україна!

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

Nine

When I was sixteen I won a great victory. I felt in that moment that I should live to be a hundred, now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end really, or what hand will guide us there. A King may move a man, a father may claim a son. That man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that how so ever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say "but I was told by others to do thusly" or that "virtue was not convenient at the time." This will not suffice. Remember that. ~The Leper King, from the film Kingdom Of Heaven.