human sacrifice on the altar of the American god, economy

today's post is the conclusion to a homily by the same time as the title to this post. you can read the entire homily

here

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​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