Canceling Elijah (Babylon or Sodom? Two.)

So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 

And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. 

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men. 

Therefore let them give us two bulls; and let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it; and I will prepare the other bull, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire under it. 

Then you call on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God who answers by fire, He is God.”

So all the people answered and said, “It is well spoken.”

Now Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one bull for yourselves and prepare it first, for you are many; and call on the name of your god, but put no fire under it.”

So they took the bull which was given them, and they prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even till noon, saying, “O Baal, hear us!” But there was no voice; no one answered. Then they leaped about the altar which they had made.

And so it was, at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is meditating, or he is busy, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened.” So they cried aloud, and cut themselves, as was their custom, with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them. And when midday was past, they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice. But there was no voice; no one answered, no one paid attention.

Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come near to me.” So all the people came near to him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.” Then with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord; and he made a trench around the altar large enough to hold two cords of seed. And he put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the wood, and said, “Fill four water-pots with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood.” Then he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time; and he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time. So the water ran all around the altar; and he also filled the trench with water.

And it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, “Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that You are the Lord God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again.”

Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood and the stones and the dust, and it licked up the water that was in the trench. Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, “The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape!” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there. 

~2 Kings 18:20-40

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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.

I saw this over the weekend, in the Epstein Files drop.

Somebody wired thousands of dollars to an account with the name "Baal" on it.

Now for those of you playing the home game, who might have a church background or a decent knowledge of the Old Testament, Ba'al is one of the primary Canaanite gods, typically identified as a Demon in Christian and Jewish tradition.

Tagging something with that name, in this country anyway, feels like a deliberate act. Whether there was some arcane point to it in whatever mythology these freaks have constructed around themselves to justify their atrocities or if somebody was just trying to be edgy and heretical, I don't know.

But I can tell you from experience, Christian Fundamentalists love the stories of the Prophet Elijah, and the violent, bloody imagery thereof.

Somebody knew what they were doing.

And a lot of the shit I've seen about all the evil perverted shit these fucking people were doing feels pretty ritualistic, like the kind of stuff whack-a-nut Christian Fundamentalists caught up in all the "Satanic Panic" bullshit back in the 1980's liked to accuse other people of. 

Now that it's Republicans doing it?? 

Crickets.

Chirp Chirp.

Not a sound from so many of those assholes that are still around.

In fact, if the alternative is to Cancel Trump?? I'm quite sure These Fucking People are Canceling Elijah.

But I'm sure seeing a lot fewer of them with MAGA hats on or Trump signs in their yards lately.

Not because they're sorry, but because they wanna hide that shit now.

They still want to do it though.

I have been saying for awhile now that these motherfuckers would likely end up worshiping Demons.

I didn't think they already were, but the date on that file is 2009.

And if you look at the Google-generated summary up above, suddenly a lot of things from the last decade or so make more sense if looked at through the lens of "These Fucking People are worshiping some ancient Old Testament Bad Guy" don't they??

And again, speaking as somebody with unfortunate experience of the crazy parts of Fundamentalist and Pentecostal Christianity, the odd feeling that the only difference between "god" or "the devil" in these fucking people's minds was what side they were on also makes more sense when viewed that way.

Some people are so Lost they don't know the damn difference.

Or want to.

Hence the need for an American Reformation, as I've said in my other ongoing series.

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.

I don't make the rules, I'm not the one who set up this paradigm, it was like that by the time I was old enough to understand this stuff even a little for myself.

Now it seems like we've got whole countries in this world that don't know the difference between God and The Devil or his Demons, because all they see is Power one way or the other and they want it as quick and dirty as they can get it, without much care for what results.

Yoda: "A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger. Fear. Aggression. The dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow. Quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."

Luke: "Vader… Is the dark side stronger?"

Yoda: "No! No…no. Quicker. Easier. More seductive."

Luke: "But how am I to know the good side from the bad?"

Yoda: "You will know, when you are calm. At peace. Passive." ~From Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.

Think about that, for a second.

Complete amorality is making a moral choice.

There is no neutrality, no saying "I'm just here for the war, man!" or "I was just following orders" when it comes to this kind of crap.

When it comes to the Judgment Day, the Lord isn't going to care about that.

And again, the Nazis fucked around with the Occult a lot, too.

These guys know that, and they know exactly what they are doing. They just thought nobody was gonna find out, or that they would get away with it.

The only thing we don't know is how far down the rot goes and how widespread it is, but my guess is pretty damn far on both counts.

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

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

It's time to ask yourself that question.

Do we tolerate America trying to be Babylon or Sodom, or do we burn that shit up and build something different?

This is America, we get the choice.

Слава Україна! The clocks stopped at one seventeen. There was a long shear of bright light, then a series of low concussions. By day the dead impaled on spikes along the road. I think it's October but I can't be sure. I haven't kept a calendar for five years. Each day is more gray than the one before. It is cold and growing colder as the world slowly dies. No animals have survived and all the crops are long gone. Soon all the trees in the world will fall. The roads are peopled by refugees towing carts and gangs carrying weapons, looking for fuel and food. Within a year there was fire on the ridges and deranged chanting. There has been cannibalism. Cannibalism is the great fear. Mostly I worry about food. Always food. Food and the cold and our shoes. Sometimes I tell the boy old stories of courage and justice - difficult as they are to remember. All I know is the child is my warrant and if he is not the word of God, then God never spoke. ~The Man, from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (Film.)

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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

Also, seriously?? I can't believe people are still trying to blame somebody else when they just picked this team after all the Epstein drops.

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