Babylon USA - post Waco musings

A lot of press has been given to Christian and other church congregations who follow the latest fad in religion - heading out to Israel to witness the Start of the Tribulation, or the Rebuilding of the Temple, or to watch Babylon burn from the safety of the Holy land. Hundreds of dim-witted Americans to date, and their shepherds, have been deported from that country and others amid well-grounded fears that they have come to Israel to coax along the millennial destruction and upheaval, which their leaders have predicted would happen for the last hundred or so years. You've probably seen some of these poor saps on television. You know, they're the ones who quote the scriptures with their eyes screwed shut and their chins high, and when their eyes ARE open, they are looking past you with a holy, cheerful, empty-headed expression, like nothing they see matters a whit to them anymore. Well, that assessment, unfortunately, is correct.

What do you expect? Rear a child in an environment that sits him/her in front of a box for hours at a time, convince him/her that the box tells the truth, and then introduce them to religion, American style. You know, the one that preaches 'fight for freedom from sin, we're the moral high ground, join the army of God, because we can bear arms here'. You end up with thousands of people who have the ability to do great damage as a collective force, but with no collective wisdom or understanding of their global consequence. They are spiritual infants. Brats. How many of them even know the local language in Israel? How much they have been lied to, or how this prophecy can (and probably will) only be fulfilled by their own, ignorant hands, as they stand back after the fact and say God did it? A great quote I heard was one of these folks telling the TV crew that Jesus gave them the phone number of their contact while they were lost in Jerusalem! Smart bunch. Not my first choice for the ranks of God's army.

Beware: these people wield collective power, unprecedented strength in numbers and not in wisdom. Their wisdom was replaced by faith in some charismatic fellows who have a southern accent, and represent a church that has built itself on a 'just you wait' attitude to spiritual growth. Now, just like many other rather poorly designed machines, a butt-load of these spiritual time-bombs just happen to run down this year.

A couple thousand years ago there was a man who saw the future and stirred up trouble, saying that the end was nigh, and then, when it looked really bad for his flock, he took himself out of the game and left the rest of humanity to clean up an unholy mess.

As these modern-day equivalents run from Babylon, content that they rest in the fabled Right Hand of God, I wonder whether they are following the right role model, for I believe that first fellow was named Judas.

A word of encouragement, all. After it happens, they'll be gone. And what we're left with, we can live with. It's worked before.
My two sense; feel free to pass it on, but I don't expect waves. These people were manufactured to act beyond reason, and I don't have a stinking southern accent, so why would they listen to me?


Happy New Year.


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