JM White
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It’s not only Putin. Everyone seems to be talking or writing about an elitist religion that worships Satan. We hear that he has his own followers in high places in our own societies, and that these Satan worshippers are advocating the very opposite of what we were brought up to believe was good and true.
Once upon a time we all knew that Satan was the Evil One. We knew he ran his own domain, a place called Hell, where we would go if we did bad things. We knew Satan was once beautiful and good and was called ‘Lucifer, Light of the Morning’, but then he did something bad and went to Hell and in spite and malice all he did was try to make other people do bad things so that he could seize the immortal soul and take it down to Hell with him and torture it forever. Stories that gave me nightmares of dying with an overdue library book are now, apparently, simply not true. Satan’s bad reputation has been cleaned up and he has some powerful people working for him.
How good was life really when the foundations of our society were patriarchal Christian? You know, back in the day when we had religious rituals because we believed they kept us safe from Satanic influences – black imps, dictators, buyers of souls, blood suckers and the like. Well, it seems the rituals didn’t work. Perhaps they were meaningless and developed purely as a result of a primal fear of the dark left over from our cave dwelling days, but many of us are still not willing to go out on a limb and say ‘God strike me dead if…’ It’s a phrase even the most atheistic of us avoid saying – just in case. Many of us continue to practice our faith in an empty, mechanical fashion, believing that it doesn’t hurt to acknowledge something we aren’t sure about. But, in truth, we are full of doubt. Is a return to religion the antidote to the scientism and materialism we are confused with? Is such a return to faith and tradition even possible now?
Today we have the most un-Christian societies of the past 3,000 years. New gods have risen that are not at all related to the Old Testament God who threatened us with hellfire and brimstone if we disobeyed His commandments, and to reward us with eternal harp playing in Heaven if we obeyed. These new gods are, oddly enough, very much like the old pagan gods. We worship the Climate Gods of the sea, the sky and the weather through their High Priest Gates. Gates, an amateur eugenicist, tells us the Climate Gods see the family as nothing more than a breeding ground for making more of us and so it must be done away with. This obscenely rich man, this Savonarola of the 21st century, tells us we are a scourge on the Earth and must be fewer, poorer, hungrier and more obedient, and then the Climate Gods will love us and everything will be OK.
We worship a new God of Life and Death – the World Health Organisation – and its High Priest ‘Thanatos’ Tedros, who tells us what we must do to stay alive. Mostly this means being injected regularly with experimental liquids. Ghebreyesus isn’t a doctor. He hasn’t even got a first-aid certificate, his previous track record as health minister reeks of incompetence, but he is now the High Priest of Health for eight billion people. Those deniers who disobey him will be thrown to rot in a Schwabklausian oubliette run by the Priest of the God of Money. Actually, we will all end up there in the end – even those prepared to go along with the most outrageous health demands in the belief that they are being ‘kept safe’ – because population reduction is the plan and it is working very well so far.
Bezos and Harari and other Priests of Technology tell us of the possibility of becoming godlike ourselves by inserting chips in our bodies. We will become cyborgs, they say, and then our being poor and obedient will no longer bother us. Is that a renunciation of all that makes us human? Of course it is. But surely we gain by giving up poverty and hunger, pain and suffering and sickness and death in return for a mechanical existence? Nobody ever came back to tell us how wonderful heaven was – or of the sufferings in hell. We always had to have faith that living a miserable life was going to enable us to win the eternal sunshine jackpot. Maybe being a cyborg is a better way.
We do penance by giving up the many things we are told hurts Gaia, our planetary Goddess. Our children crusade against us: we, the planet destroyers, and look forward to their brave new world without us and without understanding how anything works. It’s a toss-up whether they will freeze or starve to death first. For the sake of the children at least, we were better off with the old traditions to protect us in our ignorance, and them in their innocence. Who will care for them now?
Nature hates a vacuum and when something is thrown out, be assured something else will rush in to fill the gap – and it has. We do fear and obey them, these new gods. They are vengeful and destructive and their High Priests are as cold as corpses and I think they are all working for Satan, who might have a new image but who hasn’t changed a bit. Love him or leave him, you have to admit, if there is a religion in reverse and it is pure Satanism, his worshippers have truly done their job well.
