Chapter Eleven – Some Men, and Religions, Just Want To Watch Their World Burn

It may not be “common knowledge” for all Americans, yet in certain extreme religious circles, as well as within diseased individuals or secular tribes of dysfunctional people, some men just want to watch their worlds burn. There are many examples in modern day world life where rationality and love have given way to murder and judgement.  The most recent compelling example was the Saudi state sponsored execution of Washington Post’s reporter Kashoughi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey in 2018.  There have been bombs appearing at CNN, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Soros residence, and other places around our country, mass shootings in synagogues, taverns and schools, and the promotion of the principles of Armageddon by intellectually, morally, and spiritually disfigured pseudo-Christian religious adherents.  These conditions are just the outward manifestation of an evil arising in the damaged soul of unhealed and toxic American men, who act with the tacit or outright encouragement of our President of the Divided States Of America.

“They had a very bad original concept, it was carried out poorly, and the cover-up was the worst in the history of cover-ups,” he said. “They had the worst-cover up ever.”

Trump, speaking about the Saudi operatives who killed Washington Post reporter Khashoggi

I have made a personal acquaintance with the American equivalent of the Hindu God, Lord Shiva, the god of Destruction. Of all the “gods’ that the human race consciously or unconsciously worships, this aspect of most American male egos needs some dissection and examination, so that the entirety of our human race will no longer be hypnotized by its apocalyptic spell.

The unconscious male, Christian, American, Russian, Muslim, Jew, or whatever label you like, is the seed bed for true terrorism in our world.  Our president, Donald Trump, carries this damaged archetype within himself, while much of the entire world continues to suffer from other nationalistic leaders and their sycophants who are coming under this toxic, dangerous spell..  A person just does not support or incite hatred, violence, or racism, without having some sort of unconscious death wish for self, and/or for others.  The forest fires that hate’s arsonists light up, end up torching the criminal’s back yard, as well.

Some men just want to watch their worlds burn.

I will submit a great series of exchanges between Alfred and Batman (Bruce Wayne), from within the Batman movie, the Dark Knight, showing how the writers caught the very essence of the “God of Terror” that lives within us:

Bruce Wayne: [while in the underground bat cave] Targeting me won’t get their money back. I knew the mob wouldn’t go down without a fight, but this is different. They crossed the line.

Alfred Pennyworth: You crossed the line first, sir. You squeezed them, you hammered them to the point of desperation. And in their desperation, they turned to a man they didn’t fully understand.

Bruce Wayne: Criminals aren’t complicated, Alfred. Just have to figure out what he’s after.

Alfred Pennyworth: With respect Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man who *you* don’t fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So, we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anybody who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: So why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with.

SOME MEN JUST WANT TO WATCH THE WORLD BURN.

Cue in Trump, Steve Miller, and Bannon’s white supremacist, pseudo-Christian apocalyptic visions and propaganda, and one can see a phenomenon that our culture rarely speaks about, because male patriarchy creates the propaganda that dominates and interprets what is the truth,  attempts to control and distort the discussions, and reaches and distributes the final conclusions to all those under their hypnotic spell..

Within all men lies the seeds of the destruction of our very planet Earth. It has been given many names over time, but the end result is that when men are stressed at a high enough level, we will consciously self-destruct, including other destruction, through wars, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, or religious persecution.  If we perceive others’ creations, or our own creations are imperfect, and no longer deserve our love, respect, and support, all manners of darkness is possible.  Also, we will self-destruct through unconscious means, through adherence to our lower tribalistic tendencies, and greed, lust institutionalized hatred and fear as we victimize and pillage the planet Earth, and all of its sacred inhabitants, to meet our selfish, self-serving agendas.

A rational, introspective, evolving human being would use our imperfection to hone our insight into unfolding a higher reality within ourselves, but for most men, such a change is threatening, and healing is regarded as a threat to our very being. I let “healing” chase me through the gates of hell, to Death’s actual doorstep, and only when I made a decision to change the way i look at life, could help come my way.

Yes, the collective insanity of the American male (perhaps the world male) is on display right now. Only those men in denial, or with limited awareness of self and other, would ever deny this fact.  Or men who full well know what is going on, and want to “get theirs while the getting is good”, at the expense of everyone else.  The President has called climate change a hoax invented by China and pledged to take the U.S. out of the Paris climate change agreement, while a recent U.S. government report suggests that global temperatures will rise by 4°C (7°F) – “and that there is nothing we can do about it, so we might as well carry on pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere”.

Cue in all of the murder/suicides, alcoholism, drug addiction, alienation, child abuse, homelessness, monetization of humanity for the benefit of the few, and, ultimately, insanity, global warming, extinction of species, and we see the dark aspects of the world we now live in. This unspoken internal terrorist is the ultimate bullying behavior that we consciously, or unconsciously, utilize as men, when we have had our egos threatened, our basic needs unmet, and no other safety outlets perceived.

Only desperate, disconnected human beings would place their faith in this century’s versions of the anti-Christ. Trump, Steve Miller, Putin, Pence, and Steve Bannon  have their plan for ascendancy after they deploy their self-serving, wallet fattening, Apocalyptic Insurrections.  Their alliances, direct and otherwise, with Russia, with American Christianity, and with the NRA, should make any American feel like it is time to revolt against the self-destructive corruption in our leadership.

Make America Great Again?

I am not an American Christian, I am appalled and disgusted by those in political power who profess a belief in Christian religious ideology, and go ahead and rape and pillage America in the name of their corrupt Gods of power, hubris, death, and greed. .I follow the directions that Truth and Love create for me in my life. I am not afraid to confront darkness, wherever it might appear, be it in the Church, in the NRA, Congress and in the White House, in our corporations, in my family, or even if it is within my own mind and heart

An American society dominated by the self-destructive and other-destructive fantasies of sick minds, including the ultra-conservative, cultural suicide promoting “Christian followers” who believe in Armageddon, and who are doing everything in their power to create the conditions for it, continue to promote this unsafe, upside down world where weapons of mass destruction are worshiped as tools of freedom and safety, rather than being seen for what they are, which are tools for murder, propagation of fear, bullying, and self-righteousness.

The NRA is a front organization not only for Russian propaganda, but far-right fanaticism and the movement towards collective self-destruction by the American male.  I will now make another quick diversion into the darkened American Male underbelly of guns and gonads  Toxic masculinity, toxic capitalism, toxic religion and the NRA’s ideas around guns, are filled with holes, BULLET HOLES. I have written extensively about toxic masculinity, and there is a direct relationship between the damaged American male, and the incidence of gun marketing, distribution, sales, use, and murder and terrorism within our country. Enough is enough, my fellow male (and supporting female) citizens who are hypnotized by the destructive potential of their weapons of war, and by the extremist hooligans that so effectively promote their value to our diseased society..

NRA prayer:  THE LORD’S PRAYER (corrupted)
Our father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily munitions, and forgive us our poor marksmanship,
While we plot our revenge for the real or imagined trespasses of others.
And lead us not into temptation to be at peace without automatic weapons,
But deliver us from evil with our sacred AR-15’s,
For thine is the kingdom, the firepower, and the glorious gore of death, forever.
Amen

Politics, Insanity, guns, and religions, is an open marriage made in hell.  Satan smiles at one of his greatest creations.
Why are these evil cults of hatred, or religions tax exempt, and supported by Trump and other toxic Americans?

The hypocrisy of it all, Donald Trump and his violent, gun hoarding and toting gang of NRA supporters, will not even attempt to control the spread of weapons of war and mass destruction within our own country, yet he vainly tries to control the impulses of other countries.

Trump says that Jewish synagogues should have armed guards at the doors.  What kind of insanity is this?  Trump saying that he would run into a “shooting situation” even if he did not have a gun after the Florida shooting sounds almost consistent to me. He runs into intellectually challenging situations all of the time, with half a wit and no sensibility at all.  His play is always to hate, deception, and demagoguery.

This is the same guy that avoided the Vietnam draft with a five deferments, one for a “foot disorder” or “bone spurs”. Little did anybody know that the “foot disorder” was just that he liked to put his foot in his mouth repeatedly.
Is there no sanity at all left in our leadership? Why are automatic weapons required for a sane society to operate effectively?. Age 18, 21, or 101, nobody needs weapons of mass destruction and murder PERIOD, except for our military, or spoiled gun hoarders, bullies, and murderers.

What is the true source of your fear, those who stockpile weapons and fear monger? Patriotism does not support terrorism, Christianity does not support gun violence and terrorism, and true patriots, be they Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, agnostics, or atheists do not get confused by this.  Jesus, in whatever form “he spiritually exists today” would take his “spiritual sword”, and hack the ideas behind 2nd Amendment hooligans to pieces. If you are seeking for guns, and for weapons of war, you are not seeking for peace.

Finally, this self-destructive Christian Armageddon theology — a literal belief that certain actions Trump has promoted since the beginning of his presidency, must happen before Jesus will return to reign on Earth — is called “dispensational pre-millennialism” and it is not the quirky opinion of some isolated church. Although the majority of Christians do not share these views, versions of dispensational pre-millennialism dominate American evangelicalism, and Mike Pence is riding shotgun on this collective stagecoach ride to hell..

It originated as a small movement in the 1840s, but by the 1970s, millions of evangelical and fundamentalist churchgoers had embraced some form of it. Dispensationalism was popularized in a best-selling book called “The Late, Great Planet Earth” by Hal Lindsey; and later, in the 1990s, it reached an even larger audience through the “Left Behind” novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. The theology spread via Bible camps and colleges, through theological seminaries and revival meetings, in films and videos, by Sunday school materials, and in daily devotional guides — all teaching that the end of the world was near, and that Jerusalem was the physical place where this apocalyptic drama would unfold. 

If you know evangelicals, chances are very good that you know this theology, whether you believe it or not. You cannot avoid it. And if you hear the President of the United States say something about Jerusalem, you take notice. Especially when that President won 81% of the white evangelical vote.  When the President issued his order, I was not the only person hearing echoes of dispensationalism. Robert Jeffress, one of Trump’s evangelical advisers, declared: “Jerusalem has been the object of the affection of both Jews and Christians down through history and the touchstone of prophecy.” 

Other evangelical pastors and teachers also praised the action as “biblical” and likened it to a “fulfilled prophecy.”  While that may sound benign (or perhaps nutty) to the theologically uninitiated, they are referring to the “prophecy” of the conversion of the Jews, the second coming of Jesus, the final judgment, and the end of the world — the events referred to as the biblical apocalypse. 

I doubt that President Trump could explain dispensational pre-millennialism. I doubt he knows the term. But his evangelical supporters know it. Some of his advisers are probably whispering these prophecies in his ears. Trump might not really care how they interpret the Bible, but he cares that white evangelicals continue to stand with him. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem is one way to affirm his commitment to these evangelicals — reminding them that he, Donald J. Trump, is pressing biblical history forward to its conclusion and that he is God’s man in the unfolding of these last days.

Some men just want to watch the world burn. 

When hatred gets redefined as love, cultural schizophrenia ensues. Welcome to the world currently being re-created by Donald Trump, some dark monied billionaires, backward elements of the Christian Evangelical movement, and many members of the far right conservative movement, and their propaganda, lying, and corruption of thought.

Why do we continue to try to paint the house, when the foundation is on fire?

Life is always a self-fulfilling prophecy, we just may not be sure whose “self” that is being fulfilled, however!.

What if our life is fulfilling just the prophecies of our religion and culture, rather than that of our true self?

While unenlightened forces dominate human consciousness, oppression and repression are born and nurtured, and indifference and hatred grow exponentially.