“Religion is a
form of mental illness.”
----Quotations of
Chairman Joe
Religion is inspired and created by human conceit. It
is, in fact, a product of fear, indeed terror. Its motivation is a
result of an overpowering fear of death. It is whistling past the
graveyard.
It's power comes from the terror of death replacing it
with bogus promises of redemption and eternal life with a stiff drink
of purpose in the mix. It gives you a sense of belonging. It
reassures you in your perpetual terror, it teaches you to submit to
authority; foremost it implores you to check your head at the door
and not think. It has always served the interests of the rulers; it
has always been the handmaiden of every state on earth. It has
always been, in the very words of the religionist, about shepherds
and sheep.
Indeed, as a rough index, once can readily discern the
level of relative psychopathy of any given society by how religious
it holds itself to be.
In the United States, this has become worrisome.
Writing nearly a quarter century ago, the late Molly
Ivins cited the growing impact of the Evangelical Wrong upon the then
Bush-dominated ReSCUMlickan Party. “By the time Bush was
invoking God's name to order troops into Iraq, The New York
Times reported that 46 percent of Americans had identified
themselves in a Gallup Poll as born-again evangelical Christians; 48
percent of Americans believe in creationism, while 28 percent believe
in evolution; and Americans are twice as likely to believe in the
devil as in the theory of evolution.” (1)
Karl Rove, chief political strategist then known then as
“Bush's Brain”, followed “Dubya”, as they say in Texas”
down the rathole leading from a prayer group in Midland Texas to a
range of televangelists, bible thumpers and howlers, which included
the likes of “pastors Roloff, and Hagee and, eventually Robertson
and Falwell. (2)
The proximity of so much filth is bound to affect public
policy, which was entirely the point. But as it pertains to the
Middle East, Ivins summarized in ugly brevity:
“Hagee
is part of a virulent strain of Christianity Michael Lind traces back
to an Anglican priest who abandoned his church in 1820 to found his
own sect. John Nelson Darby cooked up the
pre-millennial-dispensationalism theory Hagee serves up to his local
congregation and to a worldwide TV audience he claims to include 120
million homes. Israel is central to the theory. As Lind describes
the theory in “Made in Texas,” Israel is re-created as a
nation-state. God intervenes repeatedly to save Israel. Then Israel
is destroyed in the battle of Armageddon, where an international
confederation like the U.N. Or the European Union is led by the
Antichrist—probably an apostate Jew. Most Jews are killed, except
for 144,000 who convert to Christianity. Jesus returns to deal with
the Antichrist. Then the Temple on the Mount is rebuilt (after they
clear away one of Islam's most sacred sites, the al-Aska Mosque).
Once all that's in place, Jesus establishes a theocratic world
government and rules for one thousand years.
That's
it in a nutshell.
This
“end times theology” requires Christians to cooperate with
Israelis—to hasten along the events that must occur before the
prophecies are fulfilled. It all has Hagee, Netanyahu, Perle,(3)
Bush, and Rove working for the same end—or at least the same
temporal end.
If
this is not the end times, it's at least strange times.” (4)
Indeed, as Ivins once pointed out, there are a group of
west-Texas cattlemen breeding the 'red heifer' needed for sacrifice
when the time comes.
For a quarter century or more this quackery has had a
strangle-hold on the ResCUMlickan Party. Hell, I remember this kind
of nonsense taught in Lutheran School 70 years ago. But it has
gained such currency that Rove opined that from this evangelical base
he would fashion a permanent ReSCUMlickan majority and rule
indefinitely. That's how powerful this bowel movement once was and
has, once again, become.
This leads us, by degrees, to our current Secretary of
War Crimes one Pete Hegseth, he late of Faux News.
In case you thought all this went by the boards with
Hurricane Katrina and the Financial Crisis of 2207-8, you are badly
mistaken. This crap has been floating for decades and is now back
with a vengeance.
Johnathan Larsen reported in March that U.S. Troops were
told that the Iran War is for “Armageddon”, and the return of
Jesus. (5)
The advocacy group “Military Religious Freedom
Foundation” (MRFF), reports complaints from over 40 different units
across at least 30 military installation. “A combat-unit
commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that
the Iran war is part of God's plan and that President Donald Trump
was 'anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause
Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint
by a non-commissioned officer.
The NCO wrote to the MRFF that their commander 'urged
us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God's divine plan”
and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of
Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus
Christ”.
Many of their commanders are especially delighted
with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all
this must become in order to fulfill and in in 100% accordance with
fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.
Hegseth has “enshrined evangelical Christianity at
the uppermost levels of the U.S. Military, airing monthly prayer
meetings throughout the Pentagon...(H)egseth attends a weekly White
House Bible study. It's led by a preacher who says God commands
America to support Israel.(6)
This is the madness in which we find ourselves mired.
Nitwityahoo has this country by the throat and is leading us to the
precipice. The combination of AIPAC and associated organizations
that compose the Israeli lobby, the collusion of U.S. And Israeli
intelligence (7), and the support of the fanatical evangelical
religious wrong has not only destroyed the ReSCUMlickan Party as a
legitimate representative of our national interests, but now
threatens the very existence of the once great American Empire.
Caesar Disgustus now finds himself on the horns of a
dilemma. On the one hand he needs peace in order to stabilize
markets and control inflation; he needs peace in order to stop the
hemorrhage of munitions; he needs peace in order to not further
antagonize the international community; he needs peace in order to
stop the exodus of allies; he needs peace in order to shore up
support for petrodollars. On the other hand he cannot accept a peace
that his base will not accept. And his base is populated by the
sheep, the know-nothings, by the paranoid 'American Firsters”, by
the Evangelical Wrong. Nitwityahoo knows this, and he knows he's got
Disgustus by the balls. 'The Donald' can be so easily manipulated
and now he is discovering, to his personal humiliation and the
detriment of the nation, what happens when you find yourself well out
of your league on the national political stage.
We find ourselves, quite literally, dancing with
Armageddon as this ship of fools sails headlong toward the shoals.
“An Br'er Putin,
he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach and Imprison
the Bastard.
________
Ivins, Molly and Dubose, Lou. “Bushwacked,
Life in George W. Bush's America” Copywrite 2003.
Vintage Books A Division of Random House. New York. Page 222.fo
ibid. For a more thorough discussion see chapter 13,
“God in the White House” pages 214-228.
Richard Perle, national security advisor to Bush and
renowned Neo-Con who subsequently helped engineer the debacles in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Op. Cit. Patge 224.
Larsen, Jonathan. Substack March 02, 2026.
Ibid.
The idea has recently surfaced of combining United
States and Israeli intelligence.