You gotta feel for those poor Alabamians, I’m telling you, especially those of the Evangelical (un)-Christian persuasion. My word, look at the tough call they have been called upon to make—no fault of their own, mind you.

On the one hand--we’ll call it the left hand, for the benefit of those evangelicals—they can choose an alleged and likely pedophile who has spent his life in camouflage, wrapping himself in sheep wool. On the other hand—the right hand—they can choose a man who possessed the moral fortitude to aid in the trial and conviction of cowardly racist thugs who bombed a church and killed innocent children.

Hmm. Let’s see. What would Jesus do? Pedophile or Defender. Hard to say. It’s nip and tuck, you know. A game of inches.

Kind of makes you wonder what all those evangelicals think Jesus was up to when he extended his invitation, “suffer the little children to come unto me.”

The absurd dilemma so many evangelicals face should come as no surprise. It is an outgrowth of their perverted faith. Jesus had hardly taken his place at the right hand of God before Christianity became obsessed with dogma, giving more weight to what one thinks than how one acts. It has been a Christian vice for two millennia. American evangelicals have taken the vice and turned it into an art form.

Ideology trumps behavior every time. Of course, one can control one’s ideology. Who can control their behavior? The evangelical solution is just another manifestation of the Pharisaical sleight-of-hand. Rewrite the rules to safeguard your perversion. Call evil good and good evil so you can call yourself good.

Just in case you missed American evangelicals’ wolfish canines during the 2016 presidential election, those good ol’ evangelicals of Dixie are unabashedly baring their fangs, red and dripping with the blood of children, for all to see.
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Don’t ask an evangelical, especially one from Dixie, what Jesus would do. They haven’t a clue.

I have been away on vacation, but Caligula’s madness has continued unabated, assisted and encouraged, of course, by his deplorable followers. It would be a full time job to comment on each of his moments of madness. One must pick and choose. Today, I choose this one.

We hear in the Isaiah passage that heads this post the prophetic voice. It is the voice of God heard from Zion. It is a voice of peace, a message of reconciliation. It is a voice of disarmament.

In Caligula, we hear the prophetic voice of a false prophet, an anti-Christ. Compare Caligula’s “prophecy” uttered this week, to that of Isaiah’s above.

“He [Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister] will shoot them [North Korean missiles] out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the United States… The prime minister of Japan is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment, as he should. It’s a lot of jobs for us and a lot of safety for Japan.”

Here, Caligula, like Reagan and Bush and Clinton and Bush and Obama before him, conducts himself more like an arms dealer than a head of state (was he wearing a plaid sport coat when he spoke these blasphemous words?). Here, Caligula encourages a nation that, half a century ago, turned its back on its previous warmongering ways and “retooled its swords into plow blades spears,” to now forsake its repentance, and, as a dog, turn “to his own vomit again” and as a “sow that was washed [turn] back to her wallowing in the mire” (See 2 Peter 2.22).

Of course, in addition to expanding the madness of war it has the added benefit of enriching the bank accounts (kept in tax havens where no government can get to them, of course) of the American Military Industrial Complex—indeed the biggest the planet has ever seen. Now, isn’t that something of which to be proud!

So, you tell me, to which prophetic word does Caligula give voice--the true or false; that of Christ or of anti-Christ? Make no mistake about it. Caligula is a prophet. He is a false prophet. He speaks nothing but “damnable heresies.” America has made its choice, and made his voice its own.
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We desperately need more true prophetic voices to proclaim boldly and loudly against his “damnable heresies.”