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Easter Morning Message of Death and Destruction

Roger Mitchell5 Comments

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP”

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414

“Praise be to Allah.” ???? Just two days ago, Trump gave glory to God in posting about his ultimatum to Iran over the Hormuz Strait. Either he can’t make up his mind which god he worships or else he’s covering all the bases. Which god does he actually represent? Certainly not Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, who teaches us to love our enemies, not kill them.

I am not a psychologist but I can read into this. Things are going horribly wrong and Donald Trump is at his wit’s end, pulling his hair out, over this Iran debacle which he foolishly injected himself and America into. No, wait! Let’s make that, himself and the United States1, not America, because the two no longer are synonymous. The vast majority of America is against this conflict and wants him to pull out–win or lose. Just get out!

Back to the point.

No one, including US presidents who can do whatever they want, who have no restraints placed on their power and will except their own mind, would talk like that if things were going their way. If Trump was getting everything he wanted out of this war to destroy Iran for the sake of Israel and Bibi Netanyahu, then he would not make threats and demands in such strident and crass language. These are not the words of a diplomat making attempts to resolve a critical situation. Instead, they reflect an understanding in his soul that his wants and desires are being thwarted and that his vision of a speedy victory of accomplishment is rapidly receding into the rear-view mirror. They are the words of a passionate madman, an extremely dangerous madman, and all of us should be concerned because of, not so much the words themselves, but the irrational, incoherent actions, orders, and consequences which they foretell, a potential Armageddon, so to speak. If you think I’m being too hard on the man, see these responses from far more prominent and powerful persons than I will ever be.

Consider one of these Armageddon scenarios, as mentioned in Ryan McMaken’s thoughtful article on Lew Rockwell.

“We possess several hundred atomic warheads and rockets and can launch them at targets in all directions, perhaps even at Rome. Most European capitals are targets for our air force. Let me quote General Moshe Dayan: “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” I consider it all hopeless at this point. We shall have to try to prevent things from coming to that, if at all possible. Our armed forces, however, are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that will happen before Israel goes under.’” — Martin van Creveld, a prominent Israeli military historian who spoke these words in 2003.

In layman’s terms, this is called the Samson Option.

“Strategic literature has long discussed what is sometimes referred to as the “Samson Option” — the idea that Israel could resort to nuclear weapons if faced with defeat. Whether or not such a doctrine formally exists, the logic behind it is clear. If a state genuinely believes its existence is threatened, the pressure to escalate dramatically becomes far greater.”

In van Creveld’s quote above, he referenced Moshe Dayan. “Israel must be like a mad dog…” Today, we can clearly see that Donald Trump is talking and acting like a mad person, virtually foaming at the mouth in his insane remarks and, considering the close relationship he has with the string-pullers who support and back Israel, it is not far-fetched to expect that the world will soon be bitten and savaged by this “mad dog” mentality. In the real world, rabies (the official term) is treated by a vaccine before the symptoms appear. In the political world, especially one in which Congress refuses to act as any kind of restraint on Trump’s behavior, it may be too late to “inoculate” the victim, which only leaves two options: remove him from office via the 25th Amendment or allow him to continue “biting” in a furious rage until everyone who is affected (the entire world) meets a logical, horrible end.

It’s the end of the world as we knew it and tomorrow will not be the same as yesterday.

Clearly, the most obvious rational move would be for JD Vance and Trump’s cabinet members to declare him unfit to rule and depose him with the assent of Congress. In this, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth would also have to be shown the door, shaking up the entire power structure and ushering in a new dynamic which might, actually might, restore a sense of balance to foreign policy.

However, being that this is Washington, DC, all bets are off and there is nothing to do except make noise, hope for the best, and wait to see what comes out of it.

  1. Defined as the entire government structure, the military-industrial complex, the mass media, the neo-con warmongers like Lindsey Graham, the major banks and money-changers, and the sycophantic, delusional believers in Christian Zionism. ↩︎

It’s Time to Make a Stand: Christian Zionism is a Dead End

Roger Mitchell2 Comments

“Within the Zionist lobby, everything is extremely rational and carefully calculated—up to the moment when the final act arrives: the coming of the Messiah. That is the promissory note on which everything is built. It is issued against a future event. If that future does not arrive, everything collapses. Christian Zionism is even worse: everything in it rests on pure hallucination (the Rapture, and so on), which cannot come to pass, no matter how much one might wish it.” — Alexander Dugin

I’m going to unload here. I’ve been carrying this for a long, long time and it’s time to shuck it completely.

I subscribe to Alexander Dugin and have a lot of respect for his insights, but I’m not quite sure how to take this. He calls (the Rapture, and so on) pure hallucination, therefore, it cannot happen and, while I agree that he is spot on about the religious belief, nevertheless, I’m not ready to put God in a box. God can do whatever He wants and, if God wants the Rapture to come to pass, it will, no matter the protest from Dugin. Granted, however, he might have just used poor wording and grammar to make his point and, if so, I’ll withdraw my protest.

Not that it matters greatly to me because I don’t think it’s going to happen the way that so many are hoping for.

  1. What happens to the Zionist movement if the expected messiah, Moschiach, does not show up on schedule?
  2. What happens to the Christian Zionist Rapturist Dispensational Evangelical movement if…ditto?

I was born into and grew up in a conservative Baptist family and became well-steeped in the pre-millennial theory that Jesus was coming back soon, real soon (it’s always real soon), to take the true believers out of here (Rapture) and punish the evildoers with a rod of iron for 1000 years. As I recall, we were pre-tribulation Rapturists, but I knew (still know) many people who held to the mid-trib and post-trib opinions. I read Hal Lindsey’s blockbuster book, “The Late Great Planet Earth” at least twice and, by the time I was in my mid-teens, pretty sure that I had it all figured out. I’m not ashamed to admit that for a little while, I considered the possibility that Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon might be the Anti-Christ and there were a few times when I found myself alone, wondering if the Rapture had occurred without me.

My parents encouraged us (siblings, myself) to think and question, so I did, and eventually in my late teens, became acquainted with the writings of dominion theology authors (Gary North, et al), absorbing the material like a dry sponge soaks up water. It didn’t take much “education” before I made the decision to leave the pre-millennial world behind and embraced post-millennialism whole-heartedly and with vigor. That was close on to fifty years ago and I have not looked back once, never regretted the change of direction, nor entertained any ideas about returning to the “fold” in the hopes of leaving Earth without dying.

One of the main tenets of pre-millennialism (pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib) is that the nation known as Israel must be present in the End Times (that period at the end of the world in which Jesus comes back physically). It is believed that world affairs will be orchestrated so that there will be an immense, ferocious battle between the nations in Israel, with the blood of the slaughtered humans rising as high as the bits in the mouths of the horses. How this would play out in an age of digital warfare where drones and missiles have become the dominant weapon is beyond me, but no matter. Armageddon MUST play out so that Jesus can return to prevent the total annihilation of His “Chosen People” and, by extension, save the Gentile believers as well. Once the battle is over and the Anti-Christ has been defeated, there will be an extended period of peace, 1000 years, after which all Hell and Mayhem will break loose once again, forcing Jesus to conquer Satan once and for all, condemning him and his hordes of demons to the Lake of Fire forever and ever, Amen!

This is a pretty simplistic explanation, but millions and millions of people actually believe this or some variant of it. I have no problem at all with calling it out, as Alexander Dugin did above, as a fantasy, a hallucination of the mind, a false religion. If this hurts your feelings and you want to respond in a Christian manner, well, I allow comments. Click on the button at the top of the page. Heck, if you want to unload on me in a non-Christian fit of rage, go ahead. I can take it.

There are any number of reasons why I reject the pre-millennial Rapture theory, but the main one is that it is a belief of hopelessness. I have heard this expressed untold numbers of times. Evil is getting worse and worse, the Bible guarantees that it will, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it until Jesus comes back to rescue His church from the mess which it is mired in.

“…I will build My church, AND the gates of Hades shall NOT prevail against it.” (emphasis added)

Apparently, the implication of the words in Matthew 16:18 have not been thought out to their logical end, because Jesus does not say that the gates of Hades will be broken down by Him, but by His Church.

This mindset, Rapture escapism, then, is used to excuse personal inaction on any given issue, abortion, for instance. If this issue (or any other) is ever raised in an attempt to galvanize Bible-believing Christians into some kind of action to put a stop to it, they will raise the argument that I just mentioned. Evil is getting worse, the news proclaims it, and this just confirms it, which means all we can do is pray and hope that Jesus shows up soon. Real soon. Does the term “circular argument” resonate with you? Did it ever occur to you to change your “news” source?

Pre-millennial Rapturism is a failed, deficient theology and it will be made evident when the State of Israel, which is the bedrock foundation of Christian Zionism, is beaten and destroyed, disappearing into the dustbin of history, joining other cruel, vicious, murderous empires like Genghis Khan and the Mongols, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, the Soviet Union, and, of course, the Roman Empire. Which brings me back to the question I raised earlier: When the expected return of the messiah (Jesus Christ, or the Jewish version, Moschiach) does not materialize, what are these people going to do, other than to watch their long-held, die-hard belief system crumble into dust.

Which, as far as I’m concerned, cannot happen soon enough.

Gary North had a saying. “You can’t beat something with nothing.” Since the Rapture theory is “something”, what that means is that, in order to beat it, I’ve got to have a superior philosophy, a better argument, otherwise, I have failed. I’m going to have to explain why I am so confident in my own beliefs and why I have an unbending faith in the future, in time and on Earth, without the physical return of Jesus Christ.

Let me just give you a taste, something to chew on.

“Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.” — Jesus Christ (John 16:7)

The Helper (Holy Spirit) would not come as long as Jesus was here, but has been present since He went away. What does it say about the power of the Spirit, Who is God, to overcome evil if Jesus has to come back to do the job Himself? If this is what you believe, then you are basically saying that the Spirit of God is not up to the task and must have help to finish the work.

Think about it.

I’ll be back.