Baal's Prayer Breakfast (Babylon Or Sodom? Four.)

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

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

I saw this earlier today.

Trump, at the National Prayer Breakfast, effectively trying to declare Himself the the Abomination Of Desolation and/or God while all these idiot Evangelicals clap like trained seals and laugh awkwardly along, oh, and he actually took the time during this to bash Little Mike Johnson for wanting to pray.

It was Baal's Prayer Breakfast.

I'm a tap the sign again.

Nobody believes that there Is No God and it's all bullshit more than these Evangelical "Pastors" and shit do.

For them, belief in Christ is little more than a bullshit cover charge to get into politics so they can make money and lie their way into political power. Fuck all that.

You think the Lord won't know the difference??

Among other things, Matthew 25 says explicitly that He does.

Now it may be that Jesus was just the head of one of many Elysian mystery cults at the time, people trying to bullshit their way into the good parts of the Afterlife like a lot of the real histories imply, and you can't shit a shitter...but that's what the Book says.

Either way I'd hardly call somebody like Nayib Bukele a Christian or some kind of role-model of Authority.

Let alone Peter Theil.

I'm tired of hearing these idiots talk about Antichrists and Apocalypse when they're the ones bringing back the worship of Ba'al and threatening to bring God's wrath on America like some literal Old Testament flame war where the fire only comes down and old Peter Pan ends up turned into a pillar of salt because he couldn't stop staring at where his money used to be.

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 (NIV)

When I say These Fucking People don't know if they wanna be Babylon or Sodom I'm not saying that because Peter Pan is gay, 

I'm saying that because that ain't the Sin of Sodom, not if you've ever read the whole story.

And Trump himself, much less MAGA Americans, seem hell-bent on convincing God that the only way to deal with all this bullshit is to burn it out the Old old-fashioned way like He did with Sodom and Gomorrah.

And then all these idiots, most of whom have no care for the future...not even their own...are surprised when nobody else, especially the young, wants anything to do with any of this crap.

Where's the benefit for anybody but super-rich perverts at this point, for one?

Like I said it was a bit over two weeks ago when me, my partner and the kid sat down for lunch and I heard that little girl rant about the biological family members being "Trump Dick Riders" with a creepy power fetish.

I'm not 100% sure but I get the vibe from my partner and the kid that a lot of her family members aspire to be some kind of super-rich perverts, and that's about as far as that goes. But, the Epstein Cabal pricks wouldn't have them, except for lunch...apparently quite literally.

Shit like that makes me wonder why we keep seeing old guys try to pick fights with young people on behalf of Trump and his Ba'al worshipers. Of course it's a cult but it's pretty much the stupidest and most contradictory cult imaginable.

It's all a game to These Fucking People...especially Trump.

Like I said I can't even talk how these people talk anymore.

We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. "Why you ain't where you is go." I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with "why you ain't…". You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this? Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out. ~Bill Cosby, the "Pound Cake" speech.

These fucking people want to claim Christ and the alleged infinite forgiveness He represents.

But they also want to worship Devils.

You cannot have that both ways.

They want to turn Christianity into some kind of American Imperial Cult, never mind that the worship of the Caesars as gods is pretty much anathema to any damn thing that Jesus or even Paul ever said.

These assholes want to claim all the Protestant doctrines, not least of all Calvinism, with the one hand. But then they wanna pull the old "Between the Stirrup and the ground, if mercy's asked than mercy's found" doctrines of the goddamned Crusaders, too.

None of this works like that.

Not a bit of it.

It was a lie in the 12th Century, too.

The truth is most of these morons don't know the damn difference between God and the Devil or all the Demons of the Abyss.

All they see is Power. Power that they'd like to try and get a taste of for themselves.

They don't care how they do it or what it costs them, or how petty their exercise of it is.

Deep down, it's ultimately the Cult Of The Dopamine Hit and frankly I blame Pentecostalism and its infiltration of so much of the rest of the Protestant side of things for that.

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Trouble is, when your dopamine hits come at the expense of somebody else, sooner or later you shouldn't be surprised when they get mad and do something about it.

But of course consciousness-expansion or in fact anything but living in their own small miserable little world where everything sucks...so you might as well worship them...just plain ain't the world Republicans want to live in.

And then these idiots wonder why nobody else wants to live like that??

I know why.

Note I say that as a former Republican.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And you're either willing to fight for it or you ain't.

The alternative at this point, is to live under people who'd mock their own God while bowing before men who worship His adversary...and then have the balls to call that the natural order of things.

I don't know about you, but I don't wanna live in that kind of world.

Just because you outsource your bad intentions to somebody else does not mean that God will not see them and judge them accordingly.

But also, just because they want to choose between Babylon or Sodom doesn't mean you have to accept those parameters for yourself.

But you do have to choose something.

And it is going to come down to a fight.

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[Jyn proposes to the Alliance Council a raid on Scarif to get the Death Star plans, but runs into objections]

Tynnra Pamlo: If the Empire has this kind of power, what chance do we have?

Jyn Erso: What chance do we have? The question is what choice? Run? Hide? Plead for mercy? Scatter your forces? You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission. [Rebel personnel grumble in agreement] The time to fight is now! Every moment you waste is another step closer to the ashes of Jedha. ~From the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shined in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. ~John 1:1-5