Which adventist pastors preach warnings against the tides of hate?
The whole message of the end times is, “Prepare for your neighbor to report you— Prepare for your dear ones to give you up— Stay true to God— No matter what your family asks of you— Your children will turn on you—”
Our empire has become so all consuming and monolithic that even the smallest splinter raised against Christendom carries the weight of apocalypse.
In idolizing the one Apocalypse, we miss all of those that pass us by. Genocides and extinctions and forgotten ceremonies.
The child of the adventist, immigrant mother is stripped of their culture, the church has taken the cultural role of the mother country. They keep the secrets that will topple their mothers to the floor with ashen tears.
We’re stripped of our own worlds. What land are we living on? What were the names of the plants that grew here? How many graves are we living on?
As our oceans rise, the depths of our mythologies are made shallow. Our metaphysics as blunt as military history can afford.
Conservative Christians are complaining about feminized men as if their whole eschatology wasn’t created mystics demonizing their own erotic fantasies or educated in prophecy by eunuch soothsayers.
The Bible is a dark book of spells and spirits and we are ensorcelled and possessed by the wrong ones. The wizard of the Christian tradition, King Solomon, has been replaced by Robert Johnson, selling his soul to spirits that he could have compelled with less.
The suburban god of our parents has revealed its true colors. The theology that demonizes spirits of the wild is imperialism. As we have fallen out of relation with the spirits of the wilderness, our God has taken the shape of our anxieties, a paranoid despot wielding brimstone. Isaiah’s description of “Lucifer” better describes the God our churches worship— For you have said in your heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of El…
I don’t think there’s any going back. The God of American values is a Semitic storm god who called for the genocide of the worshippers of his goddess. Christ, an exorcist and energy healer (what do they call that nowadays— witchcraft?) treated like a hippie.
What is our inheritance? What is our response-ability to this worldview, to the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents?
Sorry for the moody vibe this week. It happens.
Thanks for reading.
This week for GUIDES:
The Men in the White Coats— A story of faith and church-approved human experimentation…