Immediately after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, I wrote that the election of America’s sociopathic Caligula was a revelation—several of them, actually. These revelations have guided much of what I have said publicly and written on this site over the course of the past three and a half years.
 
One of the revelations I mentioned then, and have repeated many times since, is that the days of the “still small voice” are past. Gone. Over. Kaput. We have entered a new era: an era of thunder and lightning.
 
Whatever they may be in their individual and private lives, in their public lives a disturbing number of Americans have become, as Mormon lamented of his people, depraved, without order, perverted, unprincipled, and an offense in the sight of God. They have shown themselves to be “past feeling.” They are no longer capable of hearing any “still small voice.” If they are to hear, they must be spoken to with “thunder.” The day of parables, carefully measured responses, subtlety, even temperance is over.
 
If Americans now begin to show early signs of turning on the American Caligula, it is only because they have heard the clap of lightning and the roar of thunder in an unmanaged Coronavirus pandemic. If they finish their turn and reject him, I will have been proved correct. If even the lightning and thunder doesn’t do the trick, we are lost.
 
Too many still do not seem to understand the new day we are in. Too many religious leaders, too many politicians, too many media personalities continue to hold to their old, measured, “objective,” and temperate ways. As a preacher, I once lived there too. Hell, I lived there for 40 years. Now, I am ashamed of my cowardly ways. Priestcraft, scripture calls it. It is safe. But it does not save. Not in this environment. But I have repented. So must all if they wish to be heard, and save a nation in the throes of early collapse.
 
Still, some remain perplexed when I level such complaints against “opinion makers.” “But,” they complain, “people are speaking out against tRUMP, his corruption, his lying, his abuse of power, his dismantling of America Democracy, his undermining of social norms.”
 
Yes, some are. But, let’s have a look at one example. I apologize ahead of time to this particular reporter. I don’t mean to pick on her. I could have chosen any one of thousands of pieces.
 
“The Trump administration is rebuffing House Democrats' effort to hear testimony from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield on safely reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic.
 
“House Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) sent Redfield a letter last week asking him or a CDC designee to testify at a hearing on how K-12 public schools can reopen for in-person classroom instruction this fall. But on Friday, Scott said his panel had been informed that the Trump administration would not allow CDC testimony at the hearing planned for next week.
 
“‘It is alarming that the Trump administration is preventing the CDC from appearing before the committee at a time when its expertise and guidance is so critical to the health and safety of students, parents, and educators. This lack of transparency does a great disservice to the many communities across the country facing difficult decisions about reopening schools this fall," Scott said in a statement.
 
This reportage is wholly inadequate to the challenge Caligula represents. It is old-style reporting. It attempts “objectivity.” Strives to be “temperate” and “measured.” In so doing, it treats the times we are now in as normal.
 
They are not. There is nothing “normal” about what is happening in America today.
 
First, she writes, Caligula “rebuff[s] House Democrats' effort to hear testimony from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield on safely reopening schools during the coronavirus pandemic.”
 
“Rebuff”? Really? That’s all you got? “Rebuff”? What Caligula is doing is denying congress information necessary to its governance, and, more importantly, necessary to keeping innocent children and dedicated public servants safe. It is criminal. And all our report has by way of description is that the crime represents a wimpy little “rebuff”?
 
Criminals do not “rebuff.” What the criminal in the White Outhouse is doing here ought to make every head spin; make everyone sit up on the edge of their chair. “What? He will not permit someone with information that can save innocent children’s lives to share that information? What the hell is going on here? He is going to get people killed!”
 
O.K. Fine. She doesn’t get it. She has lots of company. But it gets worse. This next bit of “worse;” this next bit of wimpyness is not on the reporter. It is on another official—one who ought to know better. What is his response to Caligula’s crime? Yip, you guessed it, treats it like a “rebuff.” Writes he,
 
“It is alarming that the Trump administration is preventing the CDC from appearing before the committee at a time when its expertise and guidance is so critical to the health and safety of students, parents, and educators. This lack of transparency does a great disservice to the many communities across the country facing difficult decisions about reopening schools this fall.”
 
“It is alarming.” 
 
“Now there’s some intensity adequate to the danger.”
 
Hardly.
 
Not even close.
 
Not unless he follows it up with about fifteen other negatively descriptive nouns.
 
It is “alarming,” to be sure. But it is so much more than this. For God’s sake, the “rebuff” is going to get people killed! It is positively murderous. Let’s call it what it is: “Premeditated Murder.” It is a crime against other human beings: a “Crime Against Humanity.”
 
But in the mouth of an old-fashioned prophet, useless in our new age, “Premeditated Murder” and a “Crime Against Humanity” becomes a “lack of transparency.” In the official’s desire to “rebuff,” Caligula, we are informed, “does a great disservice.”
 
I guess if allowing someone to needlessly die is a “great disservice” this useless prophet is a genius. But, what I hear is someone who doesn’t understand the evil that he is facing. Either that, or he is a coward.
 
“Communities, across the country,” this measured prophet states, are “facing difficult decisions about reopening schools this fall.”
 
Oh, really. You think? “Difficult decisions”? Yes, I guess “life and death decisions” are “difficult.” But come on, Bobby. Say it like it is:
 
“Communities, across the country, are facing life and death decisions about reopening schools this fall. The tyrant sitting in the White Outhouse is blatantly and criminally denying us the information we need to save innocent children. When children and teachers die of the plague, as they certainly will; when children and teachers take the virus back home to their family members who then die of the plague, as they certainly will; the blood of innocents will be on Caligula’s hands, and the hands of all those who support his despotic ways.”
 
Then, let us pray to God that we are not too hardened, too unprincipled, too perverted, or too depraved to round him and his fellow henchmen up, strap them to uncomfortable chairs, and shoot them full of the most deadly and slow-acting chemical concoction we can conceive.”
 
The people are hardened. They are past feeling. Their ears are stopped—stuffed with the materialistic stuff that they love above all else. Preachers, apostles, prophets, politicians, journalist—watchmen and shepherds all—need to step up our game if we are to be heard by our depraved sheep. If we are to be instrumental in saving a corrupted flock from the ravenous wolf and the destruction that he is so wantonly bringing down upon them, we must learn to speak with thunder and lightning. If not, it is we who will hear thunder and lightning, and then find blood dripping from our fingers.
  
“My sheep wandered through all the mountains,
   and upon every high hill:
yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth,
   and none did search or seek after them.
Therefore, ye shepherds,
   hear the word of the LORD;
As I live, saith the Lord GOD,
   surely because my flock became a prey,
      and my flock became meat to every beast of the field,
because there was no shepherd,
   neither did my shepherds search for my flock,
but the shepherds fed themselves,
   and fed not my flock;
Therefore, O ye shepherds,
   hear the word of the LORD;
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
 Behold, I am against the shepherds;
   and I will require my flock at their hand,
and cause them to cease from feeding the flock;
   neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more;
for I will deliver my flock from their mouth,
   that they may not be meat for them” (Ezekiel 34.6-10).

When pressed on why he had not issued a mask order, Mississippi’s clownish governor, Tate Reeves, responded, “If I believed that was the best way to save lives in my state I would’ve done it a long time ago.” 
 
We learn much from this nonsensical response. Here are a few truths we can extrapolate.
 
1.    Mississippi’s governor has beliefs
2.   Mississippi’s governor believes mask orders are not “the best
     way to save lives.”
3.   Mississippi’s governor believes mask orders are an inferior
     “way to save lives.”
4.  Mississippi’s governor believes that he has some sense concerning “the best way to save lives.”
5.   Mississippi’s governor believes that masks get in the way of
​      saving lives.
 
This leads us to the logical question, “What, dear, stupid governor, is this mysterious “best way to save lives?” How, exactly, is NOT wearing a mask a “better way to save lives”?
 
We can extrapolate another truth. Mississippi’s governor, like his idol in the White Outhouse, is an idiot. 
 
The idiocy of the two morons (and all their like-minded Republican governors/ lawmakers) should be called out and highlighted.  These two men, and all others of their ilk, should be subject to ridicule, censorship, and impeachment. They should be made laughingstocks, a hiss and a byword. They should become the very definition of base ignorance and corruption. They should never again be trusted with any position in either the public or private sector. But this is not enough. They should be tried, convicted, imprisoned, and left to rot for crimes, i.e., stupidity and corruption, against humanity. 
 
And that, ladies and gents, is “the best way to save lives” in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Oh, and wear a damned mask…
 
Unless, of course, you are a tRUMP supporter, in which case, since you are suicidal, please go maskless, drive without a seatbelt, pay no attention to any traffic lights, and if, by chance, you arrive safely home, drench yourself in gasoline before you strike a match to light up your cigarette—oh, and don’t forget to remove the batteries from your smoke detectors and be sure all fire suppression systems are securely locked in the off position.

The evidence is overwhelming & irrefutable. There are two Americas. One America, comprising some 80-90% of the population—serfs, peasants, indentured slaves, all—are OWNED by the other 10-20%, comprising a population of the wealthiest, dominantly white Americans—an uncaring, unscrupulous, immoral & homicidal class of Homosapien if ever there was one. Proofs of two Americas? They are everywhere. Here are but a few.

 
- Proof -
This week, the Democratic-controlled House Armed Services Committee shamelessly and quietly passed, without rancor or vigorous debate, a $750 billion military spending bill that included amendments of the most grotesque kind. The bill will without doubt pass the full house and senate, then be signed by the White Outhouse in the same harmonious manner. This without even a hint of military threat upon America’s sovereign borders, and while most of the world’s nations increase spending to secure the health of their citizens in the face of the very real threat COVID-19 represents.
 
So, who are the beneficiaries of this bipartisan largesse? Some of the wealthiest companies in America--the Satanic inspired military industrial complex--with their overpaid CEOs, who, themselves, rake in their 10s of millions of unearned benefits. Large sums of this military spending and CEO bounties will come right back into the pockets of these congressional bi-partisans in the form of campaign contributions and cushy after-office positions on boards of directors—that’s after all the insider trading tips they get while in office. Talk about money laundering! Congress is little more than a legalized money laundering corruption racket.
 
Don’t talk to me about job creation. This is no way to earn a living: creating weapons of mass destruction meant to main and kill, as often as not innocent people. America’s rich ruling elite is a class determined to reign with blood and horror over every corner of the earth. A job market built on blood and horror only succeeds in corrupting the morals of the peasantry slaving away for the plantation owners. Proof of this, too, is everywhere.
 
Meanwhile, congress remains too mean to provide renters and homeowners with rent and mortgage relief. Talk about twisted priorities. But, then again, renters and homeowners don’t line lawmakers’ pockets with money. They only vote, stupidly, if they are lucky enough to escape the GOP voter suppression conspiracy, i.e., if they are white wealthy suburbanites.
 
This is but one example of the two Americas. One for the rich power brokers, and one for the masses.

 
- Proof -
Then there is the stock market—little more than a casino in which America’s rich vultures play roulette—a market that, notwithstanding its recent ups and down, is nearly completely recovered since the early days of the COVID epidemic. Talk about black magic. Any stock market that can go up by hundreds of points a day at the same time that millions of working Americans are jobless and states are shutting down once more, producing yet millions more unemployed, is utterly divorced from the real life of all but the tiniest sliver of America’s citizens.
 
Here, as everywhere else, there are two Americas… two economies. In one America, working people lose jobs and health care. Renters are forcibly evicted from their rentals with the assistance of ‘law enforcement.” Homeowners are dispossessed of their homes, while all the money they have paid into their mortgage goes to wealthy banks and, of course, their immoral CEOs. In the other America, the rich play roulette in their Wall Street casinos while they covet and complain about the stale cake crumbs given to their toiling serfs. These crocodile tears, lawmakers hear, rewarding the insatiable yapping of the rich with tax breaks, while these same leaders, feigning “work ethic” moralizing, turn a deaf ear to the very real insecurity and pain of average Americans.
 
- Proof -
Many of the right’s unmasked death-cult vampires demand that innocent children go back to a traditional school day. Great. Or it would be if the sociopathic deviant, tRUMP, and his corrupt and inept administration had not lied about and ignored the pandemic from the get-go while, at the same time, refusing to provide local and state governments with accurate information and the financial resources necessary for testing and tracing their infected citizens. tRUMP and his mobocracy have done nothing to lessen the pandemic’s impact—unless, of course, one counts irrational and delusional magical wishing. Now, the ever-wrong right, having adopted tRUMP’s asinine magical world view that the virus will simply disappear and, short of that, it’s a hoax anyway, is prepared to sacrifice innocent children to its rapacious and blood-thirsty capitalistic god.
 
But not all children will be tested in the burning furnace. Only the 80-90% of children that come from the homes of American serfs with be subject to the flames and the unknown future consequences of COVID infection on children. Children of the wealthy, power elite will safely learn at home under the indulgent supervision of expensive private tutors.
 
Additionally, when the question of funding American schools to make them safe for our children in the face of COVID-19—the most dangerous threat America has faced since WWII—comes up in the unhallowed halls of congress, there is and will continue to be no end to the hand wringing rancor and debate. “The cost is too high.” “The deficit!” Save the CEO’s pay, but let the peasant teachers suck air from intubation tubes. Let the children die of multiple organ failure. It’s the price we pay for capitalism’s gods.

 
- Proof -
Oh, and while we are on the subject of COVID-19, America, like some two-bit, second-rate, half-baked, “shit-hole” country, to use the stable genius’ language, leads—soon to double the #2 nation—the world in infections (over 3 million) and deaths (approaching 150 thousand). Republicans, especially those of the non-mask-wearing intellectual types, are now killing America citizens at just under a 911 pace every day, day after day. The vast majority of the dead come from the 80-90% serf population—a population that does the real work of America. Meanwhile, the privileged rich, who haven’t earned an honest dollar in their life, “work” safely from their comfy, theft-filled palaces on the speediest of computers with their highest speed internet.
 
- Proof -
Roger Stone         verses           George Floyd
                                                 Atatianna Jefferson
                                                 Bothan Jean
                                                 Alton Sterling
                                                 Eric Garner
                                                 Etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,
                                                 etc., etc., etc……..
 
Michael Flynn       verses           Breonna Taylor
                                                 Stephon Clark
                                                 Philando Castille
                                                 Freddie Gray
                                                 Akie Gurley
                                                 Etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.,
                                                 etc., etc., etc…….
 
In one America—that of the 10-20% privileged, wealthy, nearly-always-white America—a criminal commits blatant crimes, often impacting the lives of millions of the world’s population, and pays no price, suffers no consequence, but is found innocent or has his or her sentence commuted in besmirched court rooms bought by and sold to the highest bidders. In the other America—that of the 80-90% serf population—a innocent victim commits no crime other than not being white and yet dies at the hands of and under the knee of a racist “law enforcement” system that has not advanced beyond its origin charter as slave catchers.
 
Welcome to the two Americas. Unequal in every way imaginable. One class possessing. The other possessed.
 
Now, to be fair, America did not invent inequality. One 19th century leader of the LDS Church, George Q. Cannon, made these astute observations.

 
“… I saw the rich reveling in luxury, crowding upon the poor, crushing out their lives; the poor living in squalor and misery, their lives a burden to them, not having, in many instances, enough food to eat, or raiment to wear, or a shelter, and when winter approached dreading it with feelings indescribable. In society in the world there is a large class of people having more means than they can spend for their comfort and convenience. They have the finest houses, abundance of food, every convenience, troops of servants to wait upon them to do their bidding, and have all the wealth they desire, every luxury they can conceive of. At the same time there are living in the same community thousands of poor creatures destitute of the necessaries of life. My heart has been pained within me in visiting the large cities of Europe, at seeing women degraded like beasts of the field, and their lives continual burdens to them, their existence almost joyless. It has been a wonder to me how people could keep from committing suicide in the midst of the want that was everywhere apparent. I have thought, how can God bear with this people, and the cries of the poor ascending to him continually…
 
“There is an expression used in the prophets, which I have often thought of, about the rich grinding the faces of the poor. It is a most forcible and significant metaphor. The tyranny and oppression that are practiced upon the poor are terrible….
 
“Men who have reflected, who have read and made themselves acquainted with the histories of other people, know full well that when once wealth increases in the midst of a people, when class distinctions make their appearance, when education is promoted and aspired after by certain classes which other classes cannot reach; when refinement, the refinement of education and culture, has its effects, creating distinctions among a people… and luxurious habits come in to foster these differences, then the strength of former communities has disappeared, and nations which have been noted as possessing the strength and the union of iron, have fallen into decay and have lost their power and have been broken into fragments and have eventually disappeared” (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 17, pp. 232-234).
 

Too bad modern ”Christian” leaders, allowing themselves to be scandalized by the new-fangled “sexual revolution” of the sixties, became obsessed with all things sexual, and have ever since ignored the far more deadly and millennia-long scandal (one instituted by Cain and reveled in by such deviants as tRUMP) : societal inequality in all its varieties.
 
Nope, America only dressed the old whore up in new fashions, utilizing new justifications. It only perfected this art of whoredom. “Capitalism,” she’s called today. Of course, prostitution requires “Johns.” Sadly, America’s aroused John’s were encouraged and empowered by those who claimed the name of Jesus. These sat silent, offering no objection to the whoredom. Actually, come to think of it, like cats in heat, they were too busy humping the whore to offer any critique.

​In this homily, we have briefly reviewed Biblical texts—texts from a book that “Christian” America claims to hold sacred—that report the practice and effects of human sacrifice in the ancient world, including that of ancient Israel. We have seen human sacrifice used by individuals such as Mesha and Jephthah in hopes of assuring the survival and continuity of their respective failing and failed nation’s way of life (read, “fertility”). We have seen that these sacrificers of human life chose vulnerable individuals, including children.
 
Perhaps unexpectedly, we found that these human sacrifices worked, at least in the short term. The human sacrifices achieved their stated objectives, not because a god acted, but  because of the ignorance and wickedness of human beings.
 
We also witnessed the life of Father Abraham, and the choice he made to reject human sacrifice. Rather than sacrifice others for his own advancement (again, read “fertility”) or for the advancement of his descendants, Abraham chose a non-sacrificial life. This obligated him to sacrifice himself and his own advancement for the advancement of others. He was to be a blessing in the lives of others.
 
We have suggested that the spirit of human sacrifice is very much alive and well in today’s America. America’s ruling elite—those I call the high priests of America’s idolatrous god, American Economy —have chosen to sacrifice American citizens, especially the most vulnerable, to this idolatrous god for the purposes of fertility and in hopes of maintaining the nation’s degenerate way of life. Even as Caligula, the chief high priest of American Economy, leads this charge against the American people, he, like Jephthah before him, psychotically thinks of himself and presents himself as the true victim.
 
America’s present resort to human sacrifice is not surprising or unheard of in its national history, as we have seen. From one point of view, there is a certain logic to it. As we have seen, it has been known to work before. So, who knows, it might just work now. While it may or may not work in the short term, it will most certainly not work over the long term. Caligula and his wicked supporting high priests of Baal will find themselves victims indeed—this time victims of an eternal justice that will feel like an everlasting and burning fire.
 
I say, “Make it as hot as you can,” O Lord.”
 
We’ve all heard the saying, “The Emperor has no cloths.” It has, of course, been used in relation to the current occupant of the American White House. But, in relation to him, it is entirely too kind and far too light-hearted.
 
The coronavirus pandemic of 2020 has put a spotlight on a far uglier sight than a buck-naked emperor. It has highlighted what has always been apparent to those with even the smallest degree of discernment: The emperor has no soul. He is death, itself. He has always been a bottom feeder. He has always feasted on human flesh. In his obsession with and care for American Economy over the health and life of real people, he is simple acting out of his pre-existing sick, twisted, deranged, and satanic mind. 
 
Every day, he and his like-minded soulless high priests of the American god, American Economy, preach their blasphemy: “It is life or economy,” they preach. “You can’t have both. In order to save the economy; to appease the voracious appetite of our beloved American god, American Economy, we must sacrifice the life of our vulnerable fellow citizens. And every day, ever larger numbers of the nation’s citizenry buy into the false and blasphemous theology of American’s vile and wily high priests of American idolatry, and call for humans to be sacrificed to the one god, American Economy, to whom alone American has always offered fealty, and for whom they have shed rivers of human blood.
 
In all their life-defying illogic, the would-be-emperor, his idolatrous high priests, and their willing acolytes reveal themselves to be more zombie than human. A pack of mentally, emotionally, and spiritually dead flesh-eating zombies. In true zombie fashion, these walking dead seek more death through human sacrifice so that they can feed off the rotting flesh of their fellow citizens.
 
“And I said,
   Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob,
      and ye princes of the house of Israel;
Is it not for you to know judgment?
      Who hate the good, and love the evil;
who pluck off their skin from off them,
   and their flesh from off their bones;
Who also eat the flesh of my people,
   and flay their skin from off them;
      and they break their bones,
and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
   and as flesh within the caldron.”[1]
 
These cannibalistic zombies refuse to look down at their own emaciated self, crawling with maggots feasting on puss-filled self-inflicted wounds. They simply will not repent, even in the face of a deadly virus. Every day, one witnesses with growing frequency a reenactment of history as Americans in larger and larger numbers act more and more like storied Nephites.
 
“their sorrowing was not unto repentance, because of the goodness of God; but it was rather the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin. And they did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die…. and I saw that the day of grace was passed with them, both temporally and spiritually; for I saw thousands of them hewn down in open rebellion against their God, and heaped up as dung upon the face of the land.”[2]
 
“My soul,” Nephi confessed, “delighteth in the words of Isaiah.”[3] “Great,” recommended our Savior, “are the words of Isaiah.”[4] Both, of course, are correct. It is a book to be highly prized. I am not sure what, exactly, they made of the book’s final words; what they heard upon listening to the work’s final dissonant notes. But, I, for one, like to think that these final words reflect the final disposition of today’s wicked brood of zombie Anti-Christs, who preach their blasphemous and entirely false doctrine that humans are to be sacrificed to America’s idolatrous god, American Economy. May my hopes be granted, sooner rather than later.
 
“And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”[5]


[1] Micah 3.1-3

[2] Mormon 2.13-15

[3] 2 Nephi 25.5

[4] 3 Nephi 23.1

[5] Isaiah 66.2

​   introduction

I refuse to watch the insanity of Caligula’s daily snake oil sales pitches live. They provide no information except to confirm the twisted state of the man’s mind, heart, and soul. I do everything in my power to keep from having his voice or image projected into my home… thank God for the remote control. Though I am not watching live, I do keep up on what the carnival barker is saying and doing. Often, as I catch up on the day’s madness, I am really, really tempted to say, “See! I told you so. I told you the man was insane. To say nothing of being evil as hell.”
 
But more than making me want to say, “I told you so,” the daily madness that is Caligula and his hordes of medieval thinkers has lately turned my mind to the comfort that Isaiah offered ancient Israel. It has comforted me. Maybe it will serve to comfort you too: “This too will pass.”
 
“In the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve…”[1]
 

 

   sweeping away the refuse

The past three years have been truly horrific. The very worse and most hardcore of pornography. It is difficult to express the disgust I have for the man I call Caligula or the sorrow that I have at times felt for my country, indeed, for the entire planet.
 
“How art thou fallen from heaven,
   O Lucifer, son of the morning![2]
 
Caligula’s is a truly Pharaonic kind of bondage. Deeply Babylonian. Utterly Satanic. He is not alone, of course. All the nations of the earth are in open rebellion against God. But he is a leading figure in the rebellion. He is the best example we have of the wicked rebellion against God in which the nations of this world are engaged.
 
“Why do the nations raise such a ruckus,
      and entire populations make a fuss that will come to nothing?
The world’s kings offer resistance;
      world leaders form a united front
   against YHWH
      and against his Messiah.”[3]
 
Of course, much to his chagrin, he is not a king. This is not a monarchy. So, unlike as was the case in the ancient world, the electorate who put him in power are the power behind the throne. The catastrophe is, ultimately, their fault. It is they who should bear the brunt of any catastrophe. One wonders “Given the depth of the nation’s perversion, can any catastrophe be too large, too severe for this people?”  
 
At times, it is all almost too much to bear. If not for the Savior,
 
“my feet were almost gone;
   my steps had well nigh slipped.”[4]
 
But, as one may have sensed from my recent posts, my feet are now firmly planted. I am done feeling sorrow for my country. It does not deserve my pity. Not anyone’s pity. Certainly, not heaven’s pity. It did it to itself. Willingly and willfully.
 
No, as my latest posts reveal, it is time to offer up complaint to God. It is time to execrate. It is time to curse.
 
It is time to speak truthfully, boldly, and joyously of that which a microbe has revealed: the nation that deems itself to be exceptional in and essential to the world is abjectly powerlessness. Its false god as helpless as the nation that humiliates itself by groveling at its lame feet.
 
It is, indeed, time to look to and hope for the end of this modern-day Babylon. And more, it is time to pray, not for this beastly nation, but against it, as I am now actively doing.
 
The Psalmist has taught me how to execrate, as I have shown in previous posts. Isaiah, on the other hand, has taught me how to rejoice—how to rejoice and taunt the deluded and powerless serpent—and remember, this was spoken long before the actual demise of ancient Babylon. “Thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,”
 
How hath the oppressor ceased! 
   the golden city ceased!
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked,
   and the sceptre of the rulers.
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
   he that ruled the nations in anger,
      is persecuted, and none hindereth.
 
The whole earth is at rest,
   and is quiet:
      they break forth into singing.
8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee,
   and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since thou art laid down,
   no feller is come up against us.’”[5]
 
It does seem that we have heard, if we know what to listen for, nature breathing a sigh of relief during these past weeks of human “self-distancing.”
 
No, this exaltation at the serpent’s demise is not cruel. It is not inappropriate. It is long overdue. It is long past time to break the back of Babylon and its harsh sceptre.
 
“Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming:
   it stirreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones of the earth;
   it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
All they shall speak and say unto thee,
   ‘Art thou also become weak as we? 
      art thou become like unto us?’”[6]
 
What will the Egyptians, the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Greeks, the Romans think when they see America descending just like everyone before it? Now you know. Not so very exceptional, America, now is it?
 
“Thy pomp is brought down to the grave,
   and the noise of thy viols:
the worm is spread under thee,
   and the worms cover thee.
 
How art thou fallen from heaven,
   O Lucifer, son of the morning! 
how art thou cut down to the ground,
   which didst weaken the nations!”[7]
 
Yes, that’s right. This “superpower,” having spent most of its career. Satanic-like, weakening the nations of the earth, causing them to abandon the one and only true God for its tired old god, filthy lucre, will find itself a lunchable for maggots.
 
”For thou hast said in thine heart,
   I will ascend into heaven,
      I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
   in the sides of the north:
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
   I will be like the most High.”[8]
 
Who in their right mind, or with an ounce of discernment—spiritual or otherwise—can read these verses and not see Caligula arrogantly prancing about behind his lectern, his biblically condemned bama, threatening, bullying, boasting, lying, corrupting… destroying.
 
The unworkable formula of wickedness that Caligula has applied to American governance is so old and so tired. It has been tried over and over again. The Apostle Paul warned members of the church in his own day to be on the look out for such socio-political hacks, wanna-be-gods far more sociopathic than divine, or even human.
 
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”[9]
 
Not once, has this been fulfilled, but, over and over again. Caligula and his America are but the latest permutation. A mutation. Mutants. A nation of mutants.
 
But, not to worry. He will soon—if not soon enough—be made mute.
 
“Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,
   to the sides of the pit.
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
   and consider thee, saying,
 Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
   that did shake kingdoms;
That made the world as a wilderness,
   and destroyed the cities thereof;
      that opened not the house of his prisoners?
All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory,
   every one in his own house.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch,
   and as the raiment of those that are slain,
thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;
   as a carcase trodden under feet.
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
   because thou hast destroyed thy land,
and slain thy people:
   the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.”[10]
 
Unfortunately, he will take others with him, not least those who have branded MAGA on their foreheads. Time to take out the broom. Sweep away the refuse.
 
“Prepare slaughter for his children
   for the iniquity of their fathers;
that they do not rise, nor possess the land,
   nor fill the face of the world with cities.
For I will rise up against them,
   saith the LORD of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon the name,
   and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water:
   and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith
      the LORD of hosts.”[11]
 
We could just end here. Let “the LORD of hosts” have the last word. But, this isn’t his final word on the subject. Babylon is a persistent son of a bitch. Keeps popping up out of its bottomless pit. Therefore, God taught another generation how to taunt the wart infested, and putrid smelling dragon.
 



   alleluia

The 17th chapter of Revelation reveals the depths of Babylon’s wickedness. It is whorish—a selling of the soul for a bit of lucre. It is monstrous—a blood sucking vampire. Fortunately, the author of the Book does not make us remain in the belly of the beast for long. He announces its demise in the 18th chapter. He does this with a series of seven laments/taunts. When these laments/taunts are found in the mouth of angels, they are true, direct, full-throated taunts.[12] These glory in Babylon’s demise. The other laments/taunts come from the mouth of those who had previously been Babylon’s most ardent supporters: merchants and politicians, their erections thrusting deep inside the fornicating beast.[13] These co-conspirators lament the disappearance of their sugar daddy (a mixing of metaphors, I know): “Alas, alas.” “Alas, alas.”[14]
 
“And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, ‘Alas, alas’…”[15]
 
But their laments are presented in such a way as to expose the fornicating co-conspirator’s foolishness and insincerity before God. They only lament the fact that they are no longer profiting from their wickedness; no longer do they “live deliciously;”[16] no longer are they able to “buy and sell;”[17] no longer are they being “made rich.”[18]
 
 By means of these foolish laments, the author of Revelation turns even these laments into a kind of taunt.
 
“Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.”[19]
 
These laments/taunts are followed in chapter 19 with a series of “affirmations”: statements that show the rightness of God’s devastating judgments against Babylon.
 
“Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God. For true and righteous are his judgments.”[20]
 
These affirmations are full of praise and repeated full-throated expressions of ultimate joy at the demise of the whore: “Alleluia.” “Alleluia.” “Amen; “Alleluia.” “Praise our God.” “Alleluia.” “Blessed.” “These are the true sayings of God.”[21]
 
Yip. I am done with lamenting. No more “alas, alas” from me. It is time for affirmation. It is time for the high Alleluias of God.
 
Again, we could end this homily on this high note. But, God has had to repeat himself in these most recent days—otherwise known as “the latter.”
 



   setting forth clearly and understandingly the desolation of abomination

The anxious anticipation of Babylon’s fall is one of the great overlooked features of the latter-day revelation found in the Doctrine and Covenants. Is it overlooked, I suppose, because we don’t much care for such a message? Babylon’s fall represents a major inconvenience, nay a disruption to our comfortable lives. We quite enjoy the marbled palaces of Babylon, even if they do stink of a cesspool.
 
Be that as it may, the Doctrine and Covenants has no use for Babylon’s blasphemy. The tone is set within its first dozen verses.
 
“Wherefore, fear and tremble, O ye people,
for what I the Lord have decreed in them shall be fulfilled.
 
Wherefore the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth,
that all that will hear may hear:
Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come,
for the Lord is nigh;
And the anger of the Lord is kindled,
and his sword is bathed in heaven,
and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.”[22]
 
Have those of us with access to this book, those who have read it, been preparing? Or have we been happily swimming in the cesspool with the dragon? Humping the whore? We were warned about this danger.
 
“And my vineyard has become corrupted every whit; and there is none which doeth good save it be a few; and they err in many instances because of priestcrafts, all having corrupt minds.”[23]
 
Certainly, the “preparation” is spiritual. But it is more than that. The Book, itself, is clear about this. The preparation was also to be economic, at both the individual and societal level. Consecration. Socialism. But that’s a long-over-due story for another day—a story our prophets have refused to speak.
 
But this Book—a latter-day revelation, a latter-day recapitulation of Babylonian’s whorishness, and its welcome demise—kept at to the bitter end.[24]
 
“And the servants of God shall go forth, saying with a loud voice:
Fear God and give glory to him,
for the hour of his judgment is come;
And worship him that made heaven, and earth,
and the sea, and the fountains of waters--
Calling upon the name of the Lord day and night, saying:
O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down,
that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.
And it shall be answered upon their heads;
for the presence of the Lord shall be as the melting fire that burneth,
and as the fire which causeth the waters to boil.
O Lord, thou shalt come down to make thy name known to thine adversaries,
and all nations shall tremble at thy presence--
When thou doest terrible things,
things they look not for…”
 
In which missionary discussion was that found, I wonder?
 
So, we have looked at preface and conclusion. What does the heart of the work have to say about Babylon and its joyfully anticipated collapse?
 
“For a desolating scourge shall go forth among the inhabitants of the earth, and shall continue to be poured out from time to time, if they repent not, until the earth is empty, and the inhabitants thereof are consumed away and utterly destroyed by the brightness of my coming. Behold, I tell you these things, even as I also told the people of the destruction of Jerusalem; and my word shall be verified at this time as it hath hitherto been verified.[25]
 
“But without faith shall not anything be shown forth except desolations upon Babylon, the same which has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.”[26]
 
Sounding more and more like Isaiah and the Revelator by the minute, wouldn’t you say?
 
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth,
and gross darkness the minds of the people,
and all flesh has become corrupt before my face.
Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth,
a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning,
and of lamentation;
and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth,
saith the Lord.
And upon my house shall it begin,
and from my house shall it go forth,
saith the Lord;
First among those among you,
saith the Lord,
who have professed to know my name and have not known me,
and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house,
saith the Lord.”[27]
 
“Mine indignation is soon to be poured out without measure upon all nations; and this will I do when the cup of their iniquity is full.”[28]
 
The preface had also warned that the catastrophes leading to Babylon’s final denouement would be “without measure.”[29] The reader might want to give a little thought to that “without measure;” consider what it means and why it would be so. Perhaps because Babylon’s blasphemous sins are “without measure”? I, for one, certainly find it difficult to keep up with, fathom, or adequately depict the vile oppression of America, but one of the beast’s many heads.
 
In just the past few days, America, the great whore that she is, has added to her inhumane treatment of her own citizens and demonstrated her willingness to engage in the human sacrifice of her own children. Concluding that Americans were already suffering enough by being asked to stay home—gasp, horror, oppression, incarceration!—the mad emperor has demanded that meat butchers be forced back to work to die so that the rest of us can engorge ourselves in gluttony as we enjoy our fatted calves.
 
Tell me, why should such a nation be allowed to continue! How is America one iota different than ancient Egypt with its task masters oppressing the poor to build “treasure cities.” God Damnit. Fools. Wake up and smell the poop.
 
“For behold, and lo, vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly as the whirlwind; and who shall escape it? The Lord's scourge shall pass over by night and by day, and the report thereof shall vex all people; yea, it shall not be stayed until the Lord come; for the indignation of the Lord is kindled against their abominations and all their wicked works.”[30]
 
“Put upon thy servants the testimony of the covenant, that when they go out and proclaim thy word they may seal up the law, and prepare the hearts of thy saints for all those judgments thou art about to send, in thy wrath, upon the inhabitants of the earth, because of their transgressions, that thy people may not faint in the day of trouble….
 
We know that thou hast spoken by the mouth of thy prophets terrible things concerning the wicked, in the last days—that thou wilt pour out thy judgments, without measure [there it is again!]; therefore, O Lord, deliver thy people from the calamity of the wicked; enable thy servants to seal up the law, and bind up the testimony, that they may be prepared against the day of burning.”[31]
 
“Behold, I send you out to reprove the world of all their unrighteous deeds, and to teach them of a judgment which is to come….For I, the Almighty, have laid my hands upon the nations, to scourge them for their wickedness.”[32]
 
“And verily I say unto you, the rest of my servants, go ye forth as your circumstances shall permit, in your several callings, unto the great and notable cities and villages, reproving the world in righteousness of all their unrighteous and ungodly deeds, setting forth clearly and understandingly the desolation of abomination in the last days. For, with you saith the Lord Almighty, I will rend their kingdoms; I will not only shake the earth, but the starry heavens shall tremble.”[33]
 
Poor world. Those who were to be its servants, those who were to lay the cards on the table have, instead, sat at the blackjack table gambling away their blessed heritage. The world never stood a chance with such slothful watchmen, eating, drinking and being merry on the job. And still, to this very day, with a monster defiling the white house, turning it into a the vilest of cesspools, they remain silent, mute.
 


 
   conclusion

Well, there you have it. Quite the picture, isn’t it. But we seem unwilling to look, let along step up close and examine its individual brushstrokes. Notwithstanding the many testimonies which have been given, we will not face either the filthy whoredom of our nation, or the unescapable ruin that the nation so richly deserves. Our only interests is to save our own necks, at any price.
 
Once, we sat on our padded pews in our beautifully adorned churched and smiled indulgently while our beloved children snacked on Cheerios. In our contentment, we engaged in what was little more than self-righteous self-congratulation. We offered half an ear to those who spoke of that which they had little understanding. And we sang. We sang the songs of Zion. Today, we have transferred all of that, at least temporarily, into our equally comfortable and well-adorned living rooms. Still, one wonders if we hear a word of what we sing as we sing the songs of Zion. If we did hear, would we want to continue… singing?
 
“Israel, Israel, God is calling,
Calling thee from lands of woe.
Babylon the great is falling;
God shall all her towers o’erthrow.
Come to Zion, Come to Zion
Ere his floods of anger flow.”[34]
 
“When the ungodly are fearing and tremble,
We’ll watch for the day when the Savior will come…
 
“In faith we’ll rely on the arm of Jehovah
To guide thru these last days of trouble and gloom,
And after the scourges and harvest are over…”[35]
“When the earth begins to tremble,
Bid our fearful thoughts be still;
When thy judgments spread destruction,
Keep us safe on Zion’s hill.”[36]
 
Israel, Israel, did you hear the call? Did you leave the whore behind? Did you issue the warning?
 
No. No. And no.
 
Israel. Mute.
 
Babylon. A maggot’s lunchable.
 
Alleluia. Alleluia and Amen.
 
 


[1] Isaiah 14.3

[2] Isaiah 14.12

[3] Psalm 2.1-2, author’s translation

[4] Psalm 73.2

[5] Isaiah 14.4-8

[6] Isaiah 14.9-10

[7] Isaiah 14.11-12

[8] Isaiah 14.13-14

[9] 2 Thessalonians 2.3-4

[10] Isaiah 14.15-20

[11] Isaiah 14.21-23

[12] 18.1-3; 4-8, 21-24

[13] 18. 9-10, 11-17a, 17b-18, 19-20

[14] 18.10, 16

[15] 18.19

[16] 18.9

[17] 18.11ff

[18] 19.19

[19] 18.20

[20] 19.1-2

[21] 19.1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9a, 9b

[22] DC 1.7, 11-13

[23] DC 33.4
 
[24] DC 133.38-43. Keep in mind that just as Section 1 was the Book’s “appendix,” Section 133 was originally the Book’s “conclusion.”:

[25] DC 5.19, 20

[26] DC 35.11

[27] DC 112.23-26

[28] DC 101.11

[29] DC 1. 9

[30] DC 97.22-24

[31] DC 109.38, 45-46

[32] DC 84.87, 96

[33] DC 84.117-118

[34] LDS Hymn # 7, “Israel, Israel, God is Calling

[35] LDS Hymn #3, “Now Let Us Rejoice”

[36] LDS Hymn #83, “Guide Us, O Thou Great Jehovah”

​Those protesting to “reopen the country” should, by all means, be encouraged to continue their suicidal charge up Mount mammon. While this tenth-of-one-percent of the American population should be encouraged to gather—the more tightly packed together the better—their small protests should not be covered by any actual news services—FOX, of course, will cover them, but, then, they are not actually a news service.
 
Real news services should, however, most definitely cover the burials-sans-funerals that result from the protests. They could also keep a Vietnam era style body count, keeping a running total of the number of voters Caligula will not be able to count on to vote for him, because dead people can’t vote. Go, Red States, Go! Go back to business.
 
I say that these protesters should not be taken serious. Why?
 
Well, first, they’re idiots. Idiots should not be reported on. They are not news. They are a dime a dozen as can be seen by the number of voters who continue to support Caligula even as he lines them up on America’s avenues and kills them.
 
Second, they are idiots too stupid to know that they are being manipulated by conservative corporate interests. These capitalistic marauders and rapists have been fucking and killing Americas for more than a generation now. Having had their consciences seared with a hot iron, they think nothing of adding a little more raw and rotten human flesh to the heaps of rotting corpses they have already piled high.
 
Third, their numbers simple do not justify the coverage.[1] They are beyond being outliers. They do not even represent a significant percentage of idiots! Covering their protests is akin to reporting on individuals who have a half dozen genitalia. It is just an obscene 19th-century-style freak show without the entrance fee.
 
Having said all of that, they could become dangerous, not only to themselves, but to others. How?
 
Well, first, the obvious. The virus is not very discriminating. It is not picky about who it infects. It likes idiots just fine. And it will jump from an idiot to a non-idiot the first chance it gets.  Individuals infected because of their idiocy in anti-intellectually humping each other during protests can infect other people. So, we need cages, not cameras surrounding protest sites.
 
Second, humans are animals. Smarter than your typical animal, true, but still, irrational, oversized monkeys, we are. But with our monkey brain, we are extraordinarily adept at mimicking each other. Human monkeys take their cue from other monkeys. We only learn what to do and why to do it by watching others. We then mimic them. Monkey see, monkey do.
 
So, by reporting on the protests of a statistically insignificant number of idiot monkeys, news services run the risk of infecting the greater pack of monkeys with more idiocy. TV addicted monkeys, seeing other monkeys act like idiots assume that idiocy is normal. They mimic their deadly idiocy. More bodies pile up in the morgues, upon which the corporate elite, safely tucked away in their bunkers/mansions engorge themselves.
 
The left has refused to acknowledge this mimetic reality. The right has not been quite so dense. The right has not only acknowledged this reality, they have masterfully, if cynically, used it to their advantage. Silverbacks are smarter than your average monkey.
 
FOX, being a creature of the right, understands the mimetic impulse. It knows what it is doing when it reports on idiocy—the protest to “open America” being only the latest example. It knows that by reporting the lunacy, it is growing it, spreading it virus like. Mimesis will have its way.
 
The fact that real news agencies report on the idiocy without understanding that in doing so they only serve to spread it, is evidence that they do indeed represent a left-of-center worldview. In being so obtuse, they only make the left-of-center worldview less likely to endure the mimetic power of idiocy’s example.
 
This is, by the way, one of the reasons that I have said the press should stop covering Caligula; whether it is his life, his tweets, his press briefings, etc. By reporting on his idiotic shenanigans, the press is not creating, as it fools itself into thinking it is doing, an informed public likely to act more rationally. Rather, they are showing a bunch of mimetically driven monkeys how monkeys act. They are assuring that more monkeys will act like the big orange one who stands before the camera, puffs out its chest, pounds it with his little hands, flashes his canines, and snarls out incoherent yaps, and snorts, and grunts and barks and babblings. If these real news agencies do not wake up and smell the monkey urine, they will, blinded by stars and stripes, only succeed in turning America into a zoo, not a republic And it will not be the pleasant sort of zoo called, “petting.” It will be one in which actual humans are eaten by wild animals posing as humans.
 
Monkeys see, Monkeys do.
 


[1] Poll after poll demonstrates this. According to the latest ABC/NORC survey, “Only 12% of Americans say the measures where they live go too far. About twice as many people, 26%, believe the limits don’t go far enough. The majority of Americans — 61% — feel the steps taken by government officials to prevent infections of COVID-19 in their area are about right.
“About 8 in 10 Americans say they support measures that include requiring Americans to stay in their homes and limiting gatherings to 10 people or fewer — numbers that have largely held steady over the past few weeks.”
 

​Not for the first time, we must pronounce Caligula a war criminal.
 
He says we are in a war against the coronavirus.
 
So be it.
 
Make no mistake about it, he intends to sacrifice his soldiers by sending them into a suicide charge up Mount Mammon: “Open America back up to business”… the business of death. This from a man who did everything in his power to avoid going into battle. Bone spurs, my ass. Some even volunteer for the mission. Zombies. Spiritual zombies.
 
But this order to storm Mount Mammon is only the last of his many coronavirus war crimes.
 
His first coronavirus war crime was committed when he refused to admit, nay, when he out and out lied about the fact that an enemy was at the gates. For weeks. A month. A month and a half. “It’s under control.” “One day it will just be gone. A miracle.” During this period of criminal lying and vile fraud, he allowed the enemy to strengthen its positions outside the gate, resupply its forces, sharpen its blades, and perfect its strategies.
 
This coronavirus war crime was compounded by his refusal to arm his soldiers for combat, killing thousands in the first wave, when soldiers were sent charging up Mount Mammon without the necessary weaponry. No ability to detect the enemy’s positions. No shields. No masks to protect against the virus’ poisonous gases. No triage for its innocent victims.
 
And still, he refuses to arm the troops. Just plans this suicide charge into mammon infamy.
 
If he has such disregard for his own troops, one can only imagine how he feels about other troops. Uh, no, one needn’t imagine it. Make no mistake, his attacks on the WHO, his threats to strip funds from their war effort is not about what they have or have not done in the past. It is about the future. He is currently in a bidding war with the WHO over the services of companies that can be enlisted to assist in the war effort. He wants all their efforts devoted to putting back together all the king’s men. Doesn’t want any wasted effort on saving non-Americans. “America First.” “Don’t care how many Germans, or Italians, or Koreans die, so long as I continue to have my own soldiers whom I can send charging up Mount Mammon to die.”
 
If this isn’t yet another act of a true Anti-Christ, I don’t know what is. Jesus suffered and died that others would not have to suffer and so that death would not have the final say. In Caligula’s world, everyone must die so that he and his fellow black hearted capitalists don’t suffer even the mildest of inconveniences.
 
And wonder of wonders, American “Christians,” having been overcome by this Anti-Christ, continue to love and support this man with the most perverted, sick, and twisted of souls. No, a man who is soulless. A ghoul.
 
But, even this soulless man will die. And I will be there, standing humbly to the side as he stands before the judgment bar of God. I will, as I do today and every day, set aside my humility long enough to raise high my voice in condemnation, offer my own curses against him, bear my solemn witness of his crimes, not only crimes against humanity, but against all that is good and holy. Crimes against the God of Heaven. Happily will I utter, “Amen.” “So let it be” when he is cast into the burning flames of a hell that is far, far too good for him.

​If the reader is squeamish about, sensitive to, or offended by strong language, I suggest that they stop reading now, leave this site, and go stick their head in the sand…. maybe watch a nice meaningless Disney movie… for the cry of pain and the howl of rage the reader will witness in this post is louder and deeper than any other expression of pain and rage that has previously found its way onto this site.
 
People of my faith are fasting, again, on this Good Friday, because of the virus. I am sorry. I want the virus gone too. I don’t wish to see one more person—health care worker, surviving family member, or patient—suffer or die due to the virus. But this fasting and prayer feels like the meaningless prayers we offer every time some maniac goes on a killing spree with his assault riffle. Too little too late. Where were you yesterday? I want to ask. What the hell have you been doing? It was action not prayerful words that was needed yesterday, before the damned thing attacked!
 
People of faith should have had their heads out of the sand, their minds on something other than mammon, their actions rather than their prayers and fasting focused on the devastation being wrought by the damnable sorcerers—right wing politicians and their supporting right wing media personalities—who were actively and openly raiding and pillaging the federal government for the benefit of the wealthy until that government “instituted by God” could no longer protect its hapless citizens against a silent, predicted enemy.
 
Now that the enemy has entered our windows, killing our fellow citizens, the rightwing media sorcerers intend to add shit to their vomit. They now ask us to question what our eyes can plainly see.
 
“Several media figures who are sympathetic to the president have started to question the official death toll, claiming it is being distorted for political purposes, by including in the statistics people dying of other causes.
 
“Fox News’s Brit Hume, who has previously tweeted that New York’s ‘fatality numbers are inflated’, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s late-night show on Tuesday to claim that any person with the virus is being counted as a Covid-19 death ‘regardless of what else may be wrong’. Carlson responded by saying, ‘There may be reasons people seek an inaccurate death count,’ adding: ‘When journalists work with numbers, there sometimes is an agenda.’ [I think he just told on himself]
 
“The rightwing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who received the presidential medal of freedom from Trump, previously dismissed Covid-19 as similar to the ‘common cold’ [if the thing not come to pass, he is a false prophet] but changed tack recently to claim: ‘It’s admittedly speculation, but … what if we are recording a bunch of deaths to coronavirus which really should not be chalked up to coronavirus?’”[1]


These damnable deceiving white men and despicable human beings, along with their fellow witches and warlocks on the right, are saying things that they know full well are false. They know, these false prophets of Beelzebub, that what they say is false. They know that those counted as having died of the coronavirus would be alive today had they not contracted the virus. They know it. They know that, in fact, the number of those who have died as a result of the virus is HIGHER than the count suggests. They Know it. They Know it. They know it. They know, know, know it, these sorcerers of blackened soul who serve Satan and do his bidding.
 
These lying bastards have, however, managed to do one good thing for me. They have stripped away one blind spot. I have always been adamantly opposed to capital punishment. But now I see that my problem with the death penalty is not the penalty itself. Rather, my problem is with our corrupt legal system’s immoral selection of victims. So, count me all in, if these sorcerers are the first to be strapped into the electric chair and jolted with 20,000 volts of white hot electricity. Or, burnt at the stake… I’m all in on that too. Maybe they should be buried alive in coffins like those found in the following drone footage.

Coronavirus deaths are being overcounted, my ass. Any honest person can see from this footage that this is not business as usual, as these foal deviants would have us believe. “Nothing out the ordinary here!” they lie. “Leftist propaganda intended to hurt our dear Messiah,” they falsely proclaim.
 
As completely despicable as this is, it gets worse, still. For, they will pay no price for their delusions. Their acolytes who watch and listen and gorge themselves on the putrid excrement that they discharge will continue to gleefully feast on their filth.
 
And so, I say to and of these damned human viruses who have, do, and, unless stopped, always will spew their Satanic lies, as well to their acolytes who prop them up… to them I say, “Damn you to hell”!
 
Understand you sorcerers of the dark arts, and those of you who worship at their unhallowed feet. When I say, “damn them to hell,” I am not being rhetorical. I mean it. This is my curse pronounced upon you. You had better hope there is no God in heaven who hears the righteous plea that the wicked and their evil machinations come to a screeching halt; for this will be my request to God during my Good Friday fast. 
 
“Oh, God. Damn them to hell. Today. Let the plague feed on them. Gnaw at them body and soul. Let their faces grimace, let their teeth grind, let them drown, alone, in their own putrid bodily secretions.”
 
I can hear the shocked and offended response now.
 
“Oh, what a terrible thing to feel and say on Good Friday. What a horrible prayer to offer. This is a day when we should focus on Jesus and his love for us—a love he proved through his most horrific pains and suffering and death.”
 
Indeed. I do see Jesus. I see him up there, nailed to that cruel cross. 
 
And I see the men at the foot of the cross. The men who put him there. I see the mob that encouraged them with their support. And I see that such vile specimens of human beings are very much alive today, legislating corruption from congress, arrogantly prancing about in the White House, spewing filth from their chairs on FOX, uttering blasphemous lies from behind their high tech microphones… and the mobs, eating it up. Wizards and witches. Sorcerers, all.
 
Set the pyre on fire. Roast them alive.


[1] “Fauci dismisses 'conspiracy theory' of overstated US Covid-19 death toll,” Oliver Milman, the guardian.com

   introduction

On Sunday, people of my faith, I suppose by the millions, conducted a day of fasting and prayer. They fasted and prayed that a merciful Father in Heaven stretch forth His mighty hand and allay if not outright halt the devastating worldwide spread of the coronavirus.
 
I have asked myself, “Do I believe God can do so?” Yes, I believe He does possess the capacity.
 
“But,” I wonder, “should He?” “Does He have the right?” Or, put differently, “Would doing so be the right thing to do?” Perhaps we could ask, “Does He possess the will?” These last questions are more difficult, and ones that are above my paygrade. In the end, I can do no more than plead, submissively, “Thy will be done.” I am tempted, I admit, to rebel against this final solution. I am tempted to play God.
 
I have asked myself these questions in light of another question that I asked and answered long ago. “Do I believe God ‘causes’ disasters?” “Does he bring disasters as a call to repentance?” Bringing the questions up to date, I could ask, “Did God ‘cause’ the current pandemic as a call to repentance?” These questions elicit a resounding, “No!” Notwithstanding scriptural rhetoric, I do not believe that God causes disasters in order to call his children to repentance. I do not believe that God has a huge “punishment console” in front of him with buttons he can push when a call to repentance is needed.

Does He have a console to stop them? I don’t know.
 

 
   cause and effect—outlining a process

Now, to be clear, I do not believe that anyone “caused” the pandemic. The Chinese did not cause it. Caligula did not cause it. The electorate’s disastrous decision to elect such a sick and perverted man did not cause it. It was coming no matter who governed where. It was coming to America no matter who was sitting in the white house. Health officials have been vainly warning of this for years—years before Caligula was even a twinkle in the electorate’s eye. The virus is simply part of the natural world. There is no need to blame anyone, no man, woman, child, group, nation, or God for the virus or the pandemic whose charge it leads.
 
Having said all that, I do believe that the severity of the current pandemic is “caused.” The severity of the pandemic is, in large measure, a result of human choices. The choices, decades in the making, in preparation for and response to the pandemic have been pathetic. These choices—preparatory and responsive—have been infused with sinfulness. There can be no doubt. Sin has made the pandemic more severe than it might have otherwise been. I’ll not argue about this assertion. I’ll not hear any arguments against it. Any argument against it is less that a puff of air.
 
My stubbornness might lead the reader to stop reading right here and now. So be it. But, if the reader is curious, I will try to explain. I will do so as simply as I can, for that is the only way I can understand it myself. I am going to outline, in reverse,[1] a process of “cause and effect” that leads to our current predicament. I am going to use my own country, the U.S, as it is the one with which I am most familiar. It may look different in different countries.

Ÿ A pandemic sickens millions of Americans,
killing tens of thousands more than would be the case under a moral and competent leadership[1] Ÿ
 
Ÿ The president and his administration, more concerned with the settling of scores,
propping up the president’s pathetically fragile ego and the ungodly profit margins of the wealthy for purposes of his reelection continues to dawdle Ÿ
 
Ÿ The president and his administration,
more concerned with propping up the president’s pathetically fragile ego,
and propping up the ungodly profit margins of the wealthy for purposes of his reelection
refuses to act early when warned by health and intelligence agencies of a looming crisis[2] Ÿ
 
Ÿ The nation elects an unquestionably and demonstrably
immoral and unprincipled man as its president as he gives voice to their self-induced frustrations Ÿ
 
Ÿ The nation grows dissatisfied and frustrated with its government Ÿ
 
Ÿ Consistent with the new political and religious ideologies,
individual greed, and rejection of community (including racism),
public officials systematically starve government of needed financial resources,
thus reducing government’s capacity to function appropriately.
Agencies so starved include those related to human health and pandemic response Ÿ
 
Ÿ The nation elects public officials who, discerning the nation’s mood,
run on platforms that are hostile to government and contrary to good governance[3] Ÿ 
Ÿ Greedy for more materialistic vanities,
chaffing at the restraints community places on induvial appetites,
less inclined to help others through government tax-based programs,
and heeding idolatrous ideologies and false religions,
the nation’s citizenry calls for less government Ÿ
 
Ÿ Making virtue of vice, calling good evil, and evil good,
secular economic ideologies are developed and “Christianity” corrupted
in order to justify the nation’s appetite for and addictions to materialistic consumption[4] Ÿ
 
Ÿ The nation, addicted to consumption, demands more and more and more. Ÿ
 
Ÿ The nation grows rich Ÿ


[1] At this point, it seems this is the best case scenario. Health officials today warn that the deaths could add up to 100 to 200 thousand. Of course, for too many Americans, “experts” of all strips are not to be believed. After all, it is from the gut that all true thinking and truth comes.

[2] This is beyond rational dispute

[3] “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.”

[4] Economic Neoliberalism and Prosperity Gospel among them.

​Note: Please don’t get me wrong. Notwithstanding scriptural rhetoric ascribing such things to God, I am not saying that “God sent a pandemic to call a generation to repentance.” I do not believe in any such god—little g. But a pandemic can certainly serve to turn one’s heart back to God and the principles he has given us.
He has given us ethical principles by which to live. In his infinite wisdom, he has given us principles that he knows make for stable, healthy functioning societies. Because we have ignored these principles, selling our souls for vanities of all kinds, built up churches and abusing our more vulnerable fellow citizens in the process, when a challenge to our society naturally comes, we are unprepared for the challenge. We have been too busy sinning to build and upkeep the watchtower. So, the enemy has come upon us unawares.[1]
 
 
“After this manner do I write concerning them.” This is how Enos ended his lamentation concerning the impervious hardness of his people. There is not the slightest doubt that Enos would say much the same if he time-traveled into American society as it has devolved today.
 
No matter how much evidence has bombarded them on a daily basis over the past three years, somewhere between 30 and 35% of the American electorate have been impervious to warnings concerning Caligula’s deeply immoral, profoundly dishonest, and grossly incompetent governance.
 
As I, from my self-isolation, watch the coronavirus pandemic unfold, I fear that the day of “exceeding harshness” in “preaching and prophesying”—a day in which I and many others have been raising a warning voice—has come to end. Because the preaching and prophesying has gone largely unheeded, it may just be that the real thing is now upon us. The “preaching” may come from the “voice of pestilence.”[2] One fears that it is just this kind of lamentation that we will now hear far too often.
 
“Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women,
      and let your ear receive the word of his mouth,
and teach your daughters wailing,
      and every one her neighbour lamentation.
 
’For death is come up into our windows,
      and is entered into our palaces,
to cut off the children from without,
      and the young men from the streets.’”[3]
 
I am reminded of another nation that were brought to lamentation after repeated warnings and unheeded calls to repentance. This lamentation was heard through thousands upon thousands of open windows.
 
“And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.”[4]
 
Jeremiah did not wish the lamentation for his fellow citizens. When it came, it brought him no pleasure.
 
“Oh that my head were waters,
   and mine eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
   for the slain of the daughter of my people!”[5]
 
Moses did not wish this upon the recalcitrant Egyptian empire. He warned thrice, thrice more, and thrice again. No, none hopes for any such repeat performance today.
 
Yet, nothing has penetrated the impenitent hearts of Caligula’s disciples. One hopes that it will not take a deceased friend, grandfather, mother, father, sister, son, or daughter to awake their sense of decency and decide that this evil Caligula is unfit for governance and must be removed from office—removed for the health and safety of the body politic. However, with news today that a sizable number of Caligula’s advisors have reprehensively advocated for more aggressive military actions against an Iran reeling from the coronavirus almost brings one to despair, fearing that the day of repentance has passed a stubborn nation by.


[1] Actually, it was not “unawares.” The dastardly evil man in the White house was warned months ago, but he would not take heed, sinfully being more concerned with his own prestige and stock portfolio than the lives of his fellow citizens.

[2] See DC 43.25

[3] Jeremiah 9.20-21

[4] Exodus 12.30

[5] Jeremiah 9.1

​I am going to be perfectly honest. Say things as I see them. For many, my observations and, finally, my prayer will not be pleasant. The truth can be a brutal thing.
 
First, we need to understand this.
 
There is not a single individual who lived in “Biblical Times” that would not identify Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and all the other pundits on right-wing radio or over on FOX—or, as I call it, WOLF—as prophets. These ancients would do so based upon their observations of the speech of these opinion makers and the ‘reverence’ with which their audience, or disciples, hear and follow them.
 
In very point of fact, while not using such “sacred” language as “prophet,” the audiences/ disciples of such “news sources” possess an attitude toward these societal vampires that exactly parallels the ancients’ attitude toward prophets.
 
Unfortunately, they are false prophets.
 
I do not understand for the life of me how these vipers have survived; maintained their power over their audiences as long as they have. They have repeatedly been caught in one lie after another. Their survival, I suppose, can be credited to their audience’s enjoyment in having their ears itched.[1] Now, once more, in real time as it were, we are witnessing their lies and deceptions. Their dishonesty and lack of integrity. We have seen it most recently in the abrupt shift in their rhetoric on the coronavirus pandemic. Ten days ago, aping their idol, Caligula, in his lying and irresponsible rhetoric, they refused to acknowledge it as “pandemic,” and prophesied that it was a hoax—one of Caligula’s favorite words, rivaled only by the equally unjustified “witch hunt” and “fake news.” Caligula and his pack of lying scoundrels—and this is being far too polite—might just as well have lived in Jeremiah’s Jerusalem.
 
“For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them
   every one is given to covetousness;
and from the prophet even unto the priest
   every one dealeth falsely.
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
   ‘Peace, peace;’
      when there is no peace.
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? 
   Nay, they were not at all ashamed,
      neither could they blush:
therefore they shall fall among them that fall:
   at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down,
      saith the LORD.”[2]
 
As it turns out, it was the false vision infecting the hearts of FOX’s wolves’ that was the hoax. The deadly threat of the virus wasn’t a hoax after all. Certainly, no Democrat conspiracy. So, what do we hear from them now? It’s an emergency of the first order. Why the shift? Their god, Caligula, has spoken a new word, and his wish is their command.
 
Unfortunately, their shift has come too late. Lies have consequences. No matter how much they change their tune now, people will die because of their previous lies and the delays those lies caused in a wise and sane response to the threat.
 
Yes, a wise and sane society would have long ago gotten rid of these false prophets of false profit. Is it too late? For some, yes. Some will die because of the lies they told, and Caligula’s lies that they passed on. But I have to hope it is not too late for our society.
 
However, measures must be taken to defeat the FOX virus.
 
I have quoted Moses warning before, but it is particularly appropriate in the present circumstances.
 
“But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. And if thou say in thine heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?’ When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.”[3]
 
Make no mistake about it, right-wing radio and FOX’s vipers have been speaking in the name of a god. In the view of far too many “Christians,” they spoke the thoughts and words of their God, Jesus. But American Christianity’s god is no longer Jesus. It has become the substance of an idol. Nothing more or less that an adulterous Moloch.
 
The unholy ministry of the right-wing prophets must be ended. I am fine with the fact that we no longer stone adulterers and adulteresses—good thing, really, least our population be about half of what it is today. And so, I would not advocate a literal stoning of any of the right-wing wolves in sheep clothing. But their ability to poison the airwaves must be severed, once and for all.
 
In a democracy, we worry, legitimately, about protecting the “freedom of speech.” But protecting the systematic—dare one say, Network—“freedom of lying,” does not protect democracy. The sudden about-face by FOX’s false prophets is evidence of their previous lies.[4] They will, of course, hide behind the defense that they genuinely believed one thing and then had a change of heart. Penitents, they be! Just in time for Easter. In the spirit of the Hebrew prophets: Bullshit! Such practitioners of priestcraft always play this faux card.
 
“Nevertheless, this did not put an end to the spreading of priestcraft through the land; for there were many who loved the vain things of the world, and they went forth preaching false doctrines; and this they did for the sake of riches and honor. Nevertheless, they durst not lie, if it were known, for fear of the law, for liars were punished; therefore they pretended to preach according to their belief; and now the law could have no power on any man for his belief.”[5]
 
FOX’s wolves never believed a word they said. They only said it because it earned them big contracts with their employer and glory in the eyes of their disciples. They “went forth preaching false doctrines”—which they pretended to believe—“for the sake of riches and honor.” Oh, yes, their success, like that of Korihor, may have led them on occasion to “believe” a lie.
 
“But behold, the devil hath deceived me… And I have taught his words; and I taught them because they were pleasing unto the carnal mind; and I taught them, even until I had much success, insomuch that I verily believed that they were true; and for this cause I withstood the truth, even until I have brought this great curse upon me.”[6]
 
But this is no more an excuse for them, than it was for the great anti-Christ, Korihor.
 
“Behold, I know that thou believest, but thou art possessed with a lying spirit, and ye have put off the Spirit of God that it may have no place in you; but the devil has power over you, and he doth carry you about, working devices that he may destroy the children of God…. But behold, it is better that thy soul should be lost than that thou shouldst be the means of bringing many souls down to destruction, by thy lying and by thy flattering words; therefore… God shall smite thee, that thou shalt become dumb, that thou shalt never open thy mouth any more, that thou shalt not deceive this people any more….
 
“Now Alma said unto him: This will I give unto thee for a sign, that thou shalt be struck dumb, according to my words; and I say, that in the name of God, ye shall be struck dumb, that ye shall no more have utterance.”[7]
 
May it be so, even now!
 
Nuff said? Well, then, I will end with a prayer. I will pray the words of the Psalter. May he hear my complaint and act in his righteousness to bring deliverance from the ravening wolves at FOX and other right-wing outlets. May he change the many poisoned minds and hearts. May he, too, heal the virus racked bodies that will surround us over the coming weeks and months.
 
“I was envious at the foolish,
   when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For there are no bands in their death:
   but their strength is firm.
They are not in trouble as other men;
   neither are they plagued like other men.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;
   violence covereth them as a garment.
Their eyes stand out with fatness:
   they have more than heart could wish.
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:
   they speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens,
   and their tongue walketh through the earth.
“Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
   then understood I their end.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:
   thou castedst them down into destruction.
How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! 
   they are utterly consumed with terrors.”[8]
 
“Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? 
   why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
“For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,
   and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
   will not seek after God:
      God is not in all his thoughts.
His ways are always grievous;
   thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
      as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, “I shall not be moved:
   for I shall never be in adversity.”
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
   under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
   in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
      his eyes are privily set against the poor.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den…
“Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:
   seek out his wickedness till thou find none.”[9]
 
“The transgression of the wicked
   saith within my heart,
that there is no fear of God
   before his eyes.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes,
   until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit:
   he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
He deviseth mischief upon his bed;
   he setteth himself in a way that is not good;
      he abhorreth not evil.
“There are the workers of iniquity fallen:
they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.”[10]
 
“They are inclosed in their own fat:
   with their mouth they speak proudly.
They have now compassed us in our steps:
   they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,
   and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.…”[11]
 
”For the sin of their mouth
   and the words of their lips
let them even be taken in their pride:
   and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Consume them in wrath,
   consume them, that they may not be:
and let them know that God ruleth in Jacob
   unto the ends of the earth.
And at evening let them return;
   and let them make a noise like a dog,
      and go round about the city.
Let them wander up and down for meat,
   and grudge if they be not satisfied.”[12]
 


[1] See 2 Timothy 4.3

[2] Jeremiah 6.13-15

[3] Deuteronomy 18.20-22

[4] One can witness for themselves the tiniest sliver of their vile conspiracy against truth at the following link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-coronavirus-supercut-video_n_5e71ac69c5b6eab7793e9bf6

[5] Alma 1.16-17

[6] See Alma 30.53

[7] See, Alma 30.42-49

[8] From Psalm 73

[9] From Psalm 10

[10] From Psalm 36

[11] From Psalm 17

[12] From Psalm 59