Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The New Apocalypse



Humza Yousaf was confirmed as the first minister of Scotland on Tuesday, becoming the first person of color to head the Scottish government, and the first Muslim national leader in any Western democracy.
U.K. just got its first Hindu leader in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Britain’s capital city is headed by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, the son of Pakistani immigrants.

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When President Biden’s official White House Facebook account announced the suspension of J&J’s COVID vaccine, Facebook’s algorithm censored the account for encouraging vaccine hesitancy—an algorithm that had been implemented at the request of Biden’s administration.

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Is there some ambivalence about the judgment of the Nashville shooting, like that of Ted Kozinski?

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The New Apocalypse

It's nice to see that the environmental movement is continuing basic human themes and traditions.

"Greenism shares with its Biblical precursor an obsession with days of judgment, with vengeance upon the wicked, and the dream of a redeemed world. But there’s a vital difference between the Biblical apocalypse and its green iteration. Those to be judged today are not a portion of sinful humanity. No, they are all of humanity. And the redeemed world dreamt of by climate activists is not the kingdom of God promised by earlier apocalyptic narratives. Instead, it is a kingdom of nature, and it is distinctly opposed to humanity. In short, the green End Times amount to a very anti-human apocalypse.

At the forefront of the arms race in catastrophic prophecies is Extinction Rebellion. (XR)

XR co-founder Roger Hallam puts it in one blog post, XR members must ‘understand that redemption only comes through suffering and the only honorable life is to move into that suffering in an act of faith that there will be another side to come out of, into a state of grace’."--Crowley

One can only hope that those old tried and true judicial arms, like inquisitions, won't be necessary.

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