Hellfire II (Repent! Three.)

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.

And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound! 

~Revelation 8 (KJV)

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(In a classroom. The Homeboys are getting high.)

Wangler: Bitches. All women is bitches.

Markstrom: Yeah, man, we don't know Mavis is cheating, man.

Keane: I know.

(Kareem Said comes in.)

Said: That boy is 16 years old, he's in for twenty, which means he can be out in 6. He could be back on the street by the time he's 22. He can still have a life!

Keane: Get the fuck out of here, Kenny.

Wangler: What?

Keane: You heard me, kid. I said get the fuck goin'!

Markstrom: Come on, Kenny, let's give him some privacy. Later. (He and Wangler leave.)

Said: You wanna rage at the faith? You fear the fire, my brother. Fear the fire! I am done with you.

(Keane collapses, suffering a flashback)

Arabic Voiceover: Allah-U-Akbar!

Keane: Reverend. I do. I do feel the fire. Save me.

Said: No. You saved me. (Said places his Khufi on Keane's head.)

(Hill narrating.)

Hill: Some say finding God is a glorious thing. They're wrong. It's dangerous. You spend your whole life in a world of men, but when you finally see his power, his greatness, other men fall out of view. 'Cause you're so focused on him, you can barely see them from the corners of your eyes. You lose sight of them. 

~From the HBO Series Oz S1.E3 "God's Chillin.'"

These pictures are screenshots taken from a video I watched last night. TikTok via Facebook or Threads or some such, taken by the crew of a locomotive engulfed by fire somewhere in Northern Ontario. 

They made it out, but if feels like it was probably a close-run thing.

I took this one off my back deck on Wednesday morning. 

It's not any better today.

Like I just said on Facebook; I'm just sayin' if I was some hypothetical Unsaved non-Believer of Evangelical fantasy who'd never heard the Lord's Word before??

Between that video of damned near literal Hell-fire engulfing that train in northern Canada that I saw last night and the deeds described in what I've seen of the Epstein files, I'm pretty sure I'd at least think Hell and a fair portion of the Old Testament was accurate and true just from that.

 
Same with all the stuff from Daniel about Nebuchadnezzar because America has its own, now.

And, do you really think he wouldn't throw people in a burning fiery furnace if he thought he could get away with it??

Also, a certain percentage of right-wing Christians are still freaking in love with the guy. 

Think about that for a second.

Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?
Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
~Daniel 3:14-18

Just sayin' there's going to come a point where the only goddamned American thing to do is tell These Fucking People "No."

Thanks to the forest fires in Canada, I look out my window and see that there's a sickly Hades-like gray haze over everything.

Climate Change is working up some Biblical-grade consequences all by itself at this point.

Note: And the "Conservatives" want to ignore that, too.

And all the fucking President can be bothered to do is stand there and talk about nonsense and grievances and how he's still mad that he lost an election six fucking years ago. One that, if he really believed he'd won, he shouldn't be President NOW.
That's right, the world is burning and all our leaders wanna talk about is themselves. 

That and some of these people keep posting pictures or videos of themselves that it looks like they figure they're gonna beat off to it later. 

Come on now.

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.

Get the fuck with it and get over yourself, America. 

I don't think God is gonna keep indulging all this garbage much longer.

In the 1990's I was a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement, this started when I was in the Air Force. 

It's a long story and maybe I'll tell how it started sometime, or maybe I won't, but I've already written extensively about the overall sweep of things over the years.

Like what part of "And Hell followed with him" is so damn hard to read?

Kinda feels like we're there, except it's reality.

Not religion, not theology, I can look out my window and see it.

Same with all the conspiracy theories. I was a conservative and a member of the End Times Prophecy Movement in Bill Clinton's America. The gigantic fiasco that was the Y2K conspiracy theory cured me of belief in that crap but I was one of those fucking people long before it was cool and when it would definitely get you laughed at on a bipartisan basis.

That said, it kinda feels like all the bullshit conspiracy theories of 2017-2020 like Pizzagate and Q-Anon were actually These Fucking People telling on themselves, doesn't it??

And the thing is (and I've also written about this, too) I knew 30+ years ago that all the far-right Militia nuts and shit were fucking scumbags, I had a few altercations with them in fact, one while I was literally IN UNIFORM on my way back to the base, it happened not too far from here in fact.

When these guys don't wash their hands or wipe their ass and they're bragging about that...or they look like something that fell out of a can of Copenhagen Wintergreen Long Cut, even before the fact that every word that comes out of their damn mouths is a lie, that should tell you something.

When some billionaire or politician looks like a guy you wouldn't leave your Cat alone with much less your kid, that should in fact be a fucking clue.

Why the fuck do we tolerate this bullshit, America??

Why do we keep elevating the worst of us, and people who are by any conventional understanding both Godless and utterly fucking stupid, to positions of Power??

You either believe in freedom or you don't.

And pretty soon you're not gonna have a choice but to decide.

What's it gonna take to make people give a shit again??

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Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. ~Barry Goldwater

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~George Orwell, 1984.

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. ~Matthew 3:2