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war - let us pray

If yours is the kind of god who listens to prayers, I suppose we should at least give thanks that the cabal currently in power in the US didn't hold sway during the Cold War, because we'd all be living in some post-Apocalyptic radioactive world if they had.

While you're at it Let us pray George Bush sees the light

For those of you just joining us: following an election of dubious legitimacy, a small group of madmen has seized power in the US. Their vision for US society appears to be a theocratic, capitalist, police state. Patriotism in this vision consists in equal measures of ceaseless consumption and unquestioning obedience. The economy is a tool designed to ensure that wealth continues to flow up to the wealthy, and all other economic considerations are irrelevant.

Their vision for the world is of the Triumphalist US sitting astride the globe like a colossus, using its unstoppable military might to ensure that the US consumer can keep on consuming, and that the rich continue to get richer, as is their God-given destiny.

If their actions cause a planetary apocalpyse well, wasn't that what the Bible plan was anyway? Plus which, the pure rich shining white folk are all going to ascend into heaven in the coming-soon Rapture anyway.

The future of America: bland rich Mormons in their giant houses busily consuming. And if the price is the occasional homeless madman who has somehow, inexplicably, become crazed by an irrational religion well, you know, enough prayers from Important People will sort that out happily and we'll all have Learned a Lesson About Life now, won't we.

This is the 21st freaking century, and people's greatest aspirations are to sit in a huge house watching shows about angels on a giant TV while elsewhere in the world, lucky children quickly get to see angels for real because they are starving to death? To sit in comfy chairs listening to sweet harp music played by the army of children they have produced, while in the rest of the world, children are drafted into armies, that is, if they're not too busy being enslaved.

Jesus Christ. posted by Richard at 15:27 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)