The clear logic of this 'superstition'

Karl Marx was fond of calling it a superstition, so was Adam Weishaupt, so were the Templars and Masons, so are today's Woke, the so-called Rationalists too, those on the left fond of 'fact checking' as well - motley crew, eh?  Coat of many colours.

My attitude towards the Bible is mixed. Most of it is fine but I really don't buy this specific bit of Paul's Romans 13, 1-5:

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.  For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.

Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God.Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

... except it be satire, as one Bible site has it, or else he was attempting to curry favour in order not to be thrown to the lions before his work was done. I just don't know but it's so patently wrong, if taken seriously. The PTB are anything BUT a terror to evil, they are anything but champions of good works - they are evil personified, they are slaves to it.

Then we come to the various revisions to the books, over the millennia, in order to suit agendas, including the tacking on of the last bit in Mark ... and so it goes on.  In short, it is a book written by men, accounting for things which happened based on accounts which had come down to them at the time of writing or else personal witness.

Which does not mean in the least that the events, the eternal war, the falling from Heaven, were false, did not happen and it's sheer arrogance on our part to say that things from the mists of time just weren't. We can see the flaws in men's write-ups of those things, that's all.

There's one more reason not to immediately throw it all out as bunkum and it comes down to the first paragraph of this post. Look closely at who is pushing the Great Denial and the Great Reset, look at who it is who wants no devil to exist when something like that clearly does and thus its converse also has a sporting chance of being so.

Who turned Taylor Swift into a satanist in her songs?  Who turned Kate Bush into a witch, attested, not by the 'good side', but by pagans themselves in their literature.  For something which they heavily deny, publicly, they sure adopt a whole lot of the imagery.  I mean, one can't just deny this curious phenomenon - if none of this exists, then why did Bohemian Grove adopt all that Moloch claptrap? Skull and Bones?  The Masons' spitting on the Cross?

It's not unlike the Donald and the DemRats - why are they so fixated, even after the man is gone after the constant hounding for five years?  Similarly, why bring Jesus into anything at all if He was never what He claimed?  It's the opponents who are fixated and apoplectic that He may have been more than just an Essene troublemaker.

My first premise is this - I'm not going to engage in a pointless tit-for-tat over whether God exists or not, no doubt the apoplectic will make their categorical statements about it being a superstition and the stuff of myth and legend, which statements mean diddly squat in American parlance, and that then aligns them with the august company in paragraph one above.

My second premise is that there is an uncannily prescient thread running throughout Biblical prophecy, both pre-Christian, during and after that time period [also appearing in other civilisation's history and myths], which most certainly presages current events - not least the 'increase in knowledge', the loss of understanding and loss of morals - the great 'falling away', false prophets, etc. etc.  The bit about being neither able to buy nor sell is also relevant today.  

Plus some mightily august and intellectual people have 'fallen for this superstition' and I for one do not auto-bad-mouth them for it.  Remember the Hitchen Bros 'debate'?

My third premise is that there is an inexorable logic here - as humans themselves are entirely incapable of getting themselves out of their own troubles [see that man with the lint brush in that clip in the previous post], plus they tend to evil every time if unchecked by something like remorse and redemption, and as there is a dogma since the start of this era which says it's there if you want it, the comfort and strength, then that concludes my third premise.

It's there if you want it. The vast majority don't, ipso facto events will take on the inexorable, Chris Rea road to hell form they have and we will therefore perish - I'd say we're not that far from it now.

My fourth premise is that we must therefore look, primarily, to our own souls, our own families, our own quietus as Hamlet might say, something which has zero to do with the mockery of anyone who cannot see. Do not even bother engaging with such people - for what would you do that?  Waste of time.  They will either come to their own eventual realisations ... or they will not.  There it is.

You detect a certain calmness to me in writing all this?  As a person quite given to anxiety and feistiness by default, from where does this come then?  Think on't.  It comes from one source only.

And lastly - I can either operate in this manner ... or else I can put on sackcloth and ashes and go into the streets moaning woe is me, the world is ending, whatever shall I do, wherever shall I go? [Whilst wearing a stupid mask of course.]

Which of those is more conducive to mental health and going further, should it actually be true about the efficacy of this Biblical idea, then there kicks in the factor of comfort and protection.  

Not protection from the things happening but the strength to face them.  I don't buy that if you buy the ticket, it protects you from the rain by definition. It just authorises you not burn in hell later, that's all, with other spinoffs along the way.

Evelyn Waugh, when he was taken to task by Nancy Mitford about his appalling behaviour at a dinner party, said something along the lines that madam, had I not been Catholic, I'd have been many times worse than I actually am.  Didn't excuse him but he certainly would have been many times worse.  

What faith does is stop the runaway boxcar to hell, it's a spanner in the other side's agenda, it seizes up their gameplan.

Therefore, it is in their interests to snuff out the likes of people such as me, which brings us right back to the first paragraph in this post again.