Selling Jesus.

Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Lord. Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down; for the press is full, the fats overflow; for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. ~Joel 3:9-14

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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.

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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 some idiot Evangelical white lady thought we could *Checks Notes* bomb a nation into believing in Jesus. No, none of this works that way, and there's already Christians in Iran.

You can't bomb a Muslim nation into becoming a Christian one anymore than you could bomb America into accepting Atheistic Soviet Communism, just for one example.

Honestly I'd say that I was surprised these fucking people have such a low opinion of the entire concept of Faith...but the truth is I long ago figured out that a lot of these idiots don't really believe in anything at all and for them...if some other Whatever appeared to be advantageous for the social bonus points they think they get for being "Christian" yeah, they'd probably switch over. Such people will worship Baal if that Epstein demon worship shit ever goes public, and I'm not joking.

And such people maliciously assume that everybody else is the same way, although I suppose some legitimately do lack the imagination to think another person could really believe in something.

The question is, Why??

Because these fucking people look at shit like Trump's bullshit-ass Mar-A-Lago parties and gold-plated fuckery and that's their "god." Not Trump himself, he's extremely disposable. They imagine themselves being the rich vipers gathering in such places and that whole idea is basically the egregore that's what they actually "Worship."

There's a reason that until the whole Baal thing came out, I used the names of Dis Pater and Mammon for that shit. But of course the Roman Latinate ideals from which both concepts originated found the Canaanite/Punic pantheon of "gods" as antithetical as the Israelites also found it, to the point where both groups and the later Christian sects considered such to be demonic. On a very basic level all these fucking idiots really technically are only worshiping temporal Power and wealth. But if a better vehicle for that shit came along, they'd take it.

In the same way that they don't give a shit about Jesus, they don't want to obey Jesus Christ. They want to sell Him like a product, to get things like said power and wealth.

The thing is, whatever particular brand of Unga Bunga in particular that they tag the shit with, it's the bad intentions that create or draw in the bad spirits and that's what makes this shit Demonic.

You could argue most of these people are basically atheists, but actual atheists tend to be better people than that.

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.

The truth is worse. They don't care.

Like I said elsewhere last night, there's a reason I'd generally rather deal with an Immoral person than an Amoral person.

Like, even people in prison for sometimes terrible crimes have moral lines they won't cross.

You usually have to go to the privileged, rich white people in order to find somebody who really would murder another person for a dollar.

But then, when These Fucking People actually get consequences for their own actions they demand consideration, empathy and prayer. Which by the way, they are not willing to give to other people under normal circumstances.

And these people are what the Republican Party has turned into.

It's a bullshit MLM scam claiming to sell Jesus Donald Trump.

They don't care if anybody goes to Heaven, in fact they'd rather we didn't. They know or think they know that Hell has a hierarchy.

And this is what Republicans are now.

Actually, they're pretty much all that's left after they chased everybody else out..

Note I say that as a former Republican.

Tell me again, why the fuck do we keep tolerating this shit??

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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We have too many men of science, too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. ~General Omar Bradley