“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.
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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.
