Worshiping The Dragon (Christmas 2025, Seven.)

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he speaks as a dragon.

And he exercises all the power of the first beast before him, and causes the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceive them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13, King James Bible.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

I saw this last night.

Apparently, now the #1 "Christian" song is AI-generated.

What in the Unholy Fuck?!?!

Look, I don't give a damn, 25 years ago when I was still at least somewhat in the End Times Prophecy Movement if somebody would have told me that there'd be such a thing as an AI in real life (rather than just Science Fiction) let alone that some crazy idiot "MAGA Rapper" in thrall to Donald Trump (who is the President, mind you) would collaborate with an AI to write the #1 song on the Christian pop charts I'm not sure if I would have punched you in the face or simply called the medics with the straitjacket to come get your ass.

This shit is crazy.

These are people who for much of my life were afraid of a barcode on a candy bar, but they have no trouble with putting a computer chip and barcode on the right hand of creativity and outsourcing *Checks Notes* Worshiping The Lord to *Checks Notes Again* Chud Skynet??

Did I mention, this shit is crazy??

Not just that, but it could certainly be argued even from the perspective of the Christian End Times Narrative that I was taught, that this ridiculous bullshit is not only right out of Revelation 13, but that the bumptious idiots somehow managing to pull this shit off could damned near fit in with the idiotic villains in the Left Behind end times novels.

Only thing that strikes to Y2K-Me as so completely wrong as to boggle the mind, is it's the Christians, not the Unsaved, who are the ones doing this fucking bullshit!

Like if any of the stuff I believed at that time or was taught is valid this should not be so.

I get it, Left Behind Is A Lie blah blah blah, I've actually written pretty extensively about this stuff over the years, in fact you could argue it's one of my main topics, but still. I see this and I'm like "What the fuck am I even doing this for? I point this shit out...AND IT GETS WORSE!!!"

You know, not only is it going to come down to a fight to stop this shit, but the longer it goes on the more convinced I become that the people who (If they're who they say they are) should be doing said fighting will be on the ground writhing in pain from the judgments the Lord has inflicted upon them 'cause they put the 666-Chip in they heads or right hands.

And, as ever, it'll be left to everybody else to clean up this mess because the lips of Evangelical Christians remain affixed to the jockstrap of worldly Power, and damn the consequences.

And then when the judgment comes, These Fucking People will have the nerve to ask why there's goats wandering around on their side of the crowd.

I could explain it to you, but you haven't listened so far.

It's Christmas, and the Christian pop-music crowd is ready and willing to convert as a corporate body to the Worship of the Image Of The Beast right out of Revelations!

All it needs is a cooler user interface!

That's how far we've fallen!

If you don't see anything wrong with that, you're Lost and I can't help you.

Look, you either believe in freedom or you don't.

Either you're willing to fight for it, or you ain't.

And this? This ain't it.

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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

Six

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those...moments will be lost in time, like tears...in rain. Time to die. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner.