I get it. I've encountered them. In my experience there are 2 types: people who have been taken over by whatever you want to call it - evil will do - the Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden types or the drug addicts who stove their grandfather's head in for his coffee tin of cash (that happens, trust me); then there are the ones who are, in my exp…
I get it. I've encountered them. In my experience there are 2 types: people who have been taken over by whatever you want to call it - evil will do - the Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden types or the drug addicts who stove their grandfather's head in for his coffee tin of cash (that happens, trust me); then there are the ones who are, in my experience, not people - Something elemental is just not there. I've come across a couple in my time. You can't mistake them; you can feel it in your core. I don't care if that sounds crazy. I think for the Cali is suffering an overdose of the first type - the sell-outs.
You're alluding to the demonic, though without use of the term. It sounds completely uncrazy to me.
Why does a middle aged man visit a playground full of children, not to give them ice cream sandwiches, but to murder them? He actually had a reason which makes sense if you're as lunatic with syphilis as he was, but I have always been aware that there was the demonic in what he did. This actually happened to me. I survived, but my two best friends, another little boy whom we did not know but who was no less precious, and two gloriously heroic adults who tried to save our lives did not. Hundreds of lives were at best marred permanently, some left walking dead.
I wish that had been my only encounter with the demonic. It hasn't been. In my seventy - two years I have come face to face with three people of the kind you describe. Something elemental was just not there. Each was unrelated to the other two, yet each looked identical to the other two. All three had the most appalling smiles: lightless smiles, the smiles of those whose souls have been subsumed by unholy spirits.
C.S. Lewis was right. There are two opposite but equally assaultive errors which Christians are subject to in their thinking about the demonic. Either we think about it not at all or we think about it too much. Christians in the United States have tended toward the first error, but circumstances in the last few years have tended to yank our attention in the direction of the second.
If even half of what we have heard about the Diddy parties, Epstein Island, the rape/grooming gangs in Europe and particularly in England, and the hundreds of thousands of missing children in the United States is true, how can we deny the energetic presence of the demonic?
What are UAP? The scholar and writer, Diana Pasulka, says that there isn't anyone in the Silicon Valley/D.C. axis who has studied them who doesn't believe they are demonic in nature. Rod Dreher writes about this a lot.
The answer, always, is God Incarnate, The Lord Jesus Christ. For the believer there is nothing to fear.
Here is a recommended podcast and a book, the latter being for those with steely faith. The podcast is Lord of the Spirits. The book is Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil." The Martin book was published in the mid 1970s. As far as I am aware, no one has ever challenged the credentials or the credibility of Malachi Martin, who died many years ago.
@Bobby I remember Martin from Arr Bells radio show. I've read that book you wrote about and profound and scary is a word easily used and I'm not one to scare easily.
It scared me. I tried to read it in 1977, and couldn't. I gave it another try in 2008, and made it. I wanted to read it a year later and just could not hack it again.
And no doubt the sellouts attract other sellouts like magnets, as they realise they will suffer no setbacks if they are amongst a great many like-minded soulless ones.
In the end though, I truly believe it’s all just communism, something that has been around a very long time, not just since 1917. Ordinary, perfectly ok people are sucked into communist beliefs at a very young age because they think it means fairness for all. Perhaps it is those who don’t grow out of stupid beliefs who become the soulless ones.
I loved hearing this, PB. Truth is, if you have no faith then you will believe in something or anything. You will be an empty vessel only to be filled with some or all of the seven deadly sins.
I am not a religious zealot. I have faith and I believe God is our saviour.
California has been my home for over 30 years. It’s become satan’s den and it’s high time to end satan’s run!
We lived in the East Bay from 1989-95. It was a glorious and wholesome time for us personally, and I was heartbroken to move back to Houston (with my employer).
As we look back after 30 yrs, we are SO grateful to have been pulled out just before the entire state literally went to Hell.
I wonder if the question is: ‘is religion knocked into us, or is it knocked out of us? Or is it something we either have or not, no matter what the powers that be do or don’t do to our societies?
I believe that there have always existed those who believe in one or many gods, those who just pay lip service because of social or even legal or financial pressures and those who never believe in any religion - the ‘when you’re dead you’re dead’ mentality, no matter what external pressures there are. Some grow out of religion (most children believe what adults tell them); some grow into it - perhaps they meet someone so inspiring, so convincing that they have an epiphany. That person may be a conman, a charlatan, misguided but charismatic, but still… Perhaps some, like me, would like the comfort that belief brings but just can’t find that faith in their heart or mind. My sister is an evangelical Christian and has very great faith; I know the arguments.
I don’t believe being moral depends on one’s religious belief, we all know what is right and what is wrong. Do unto others as you would be done to is the golden rule for everyone, is it not? Some ‘religions’ preach otherwise - we should believe Muslims when they say they want to wipe all other religions from the face of the earth, they make a good job of it when they become a majority in a country, after all. So, having a belief in god isn’t everything in my opinion. All religions have killed in the name of god. I have decided all we can do is follow the teaching of Christ - perhaps belief in his resurrection will follow, perhaps not, would that matter? Would he forgive us if heaven exists and he knew we had lived a good life or would he send the innocent to hell because that final, supernatural step was beyond us?
God killed god to save us from god - this could sum up Christianity if we were to be cynical; it’s trite, but it resonated with me.
I have always felt that morality is based on good humility. I am no better (or worse) than the next guy; I have no right to treat him worse than I think I deserve to treated.
I’ve always believed in an “interested Supreme Being” that is timeless and infinite, but that Man is incapable of conceiving anything about that Being. It is beyond our imagination. I subscribe to Christian orthodoxy because (a) it’s a convenient way to express my faith, respect and love for the God who created every subatomic particle of all we will ever know, and (b) because its doctrines are the best way devised so far by which to run a civilization.
Some may express sorrow that I will not be “saved.” I appreciate that, but I can only express what I believe: That God exists, that he is interested, (he gave us a conscience, after all), and that as a human being I am incapable of comprehending his existence.
I think you are a very wise and thoughtful person who is more in tune with the true meaning of faith and spirituality than maybe you give yourself credit for.
Thank you so much for your “hug.” VERY much appreciated.
One thing I failed to mention: it’s very difficult for me to believe that God is exclusively focused on humans:
What happens when all the existing stars exhaust their fuel?
– All life depends on radiant heat from stars.
– All stars are driven by fusion, and there is a finite amount of “fusible” matter in the universe. Our own sun has a projected remaining life of ≈5B years.
– Yes, the residual material can agglomerate, but it’s not fusible, so will not generate star-like energy.
So what’s next? Or are we to believe that God’s corporeal influence is limited to 14B years?
These are not questions for you, per se, but inspire my thinking.
You think deeply. Your thoughts are profound and of a metaphysical nature. Please don't ever lose that - the world needs thinkers such as yourself. Also .. you are welcome :)
P.B - do excuse me for advertising myself, but I do have my own substack, and although I have only posted twice, I have posted a short story there (I’m a published novelist) about one woman’s faith.
Precisely. Communism attempts to separate the human being from their spiritual being. That tactic is now being employed across the West and in other places too: Paris Olympics opening ceremony; Christmas tree in Syria burned down; Buddhist statues in Afghanistan destroyed; the Orthodox Church in Ukraine banned. The Pledge of Allegiance in schools not being mandatory; Satanists being afforded the same rights as other religions; Churches being burned down; Churches closed during Covid. Too many examples to name but they all boil down to the same thing - to control people it is necessary to separate them from their higher power - to dilute or outright wash away their belief systems. And that is downright evil.
It’s not just the same tactic – it’s the same philosophical source – Marx and his intellectual descendants scheming to destroy society “in order to rebuild it.” I’m reminded of 2 phrases from “Animal Farm”:
“Four legs good, Two legs better!”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
There are 2 kinds of people who believe this line of drivel: the willfully naïve and the evil.
The “not people” exist. I met a couple during my time in the Army. They lusted after the opportunity to hurt people. The glee in one’s eyes as we lined up to practice with pugil sticks – he could beat on someone legally. The issue was not the willingness, it was the avid desire.
I get it. I've encountered them. In my experience there are 2 types: people who have been taken over by whatever you want to call it - evil will do - the Gavin Newsom or Joe Biden types or the drug addicts who stove their grandfather's head in for his coffee tin of cash (that happens, trust me); then there are the ones who are, in my experience, not people - Something elemental is just not there. I've come across a couple in my time. You can't mistake them; you can feel it in your core. I don't care if that sounds crazy. I think for the Cali is suffering an overdose of the first type - the sell-outs.
You're alluding to the demonic, though without use of the term. It sounds completely uncrazy to me.
Why does a middle aged man visit a playground full of children, not to give them ice cream sandwiches, but to murder them? He actually had a reason which makes sense if you're as lunatic with syphilis as he was, but I have always been aware that there was the demonic in what he did. This actually happened to me. I survived, but my two best friends, another little boy whom we did not know but who was no less precious, and two gloriously heroic adults who tried to save our lives did not. Hundreds of lives were at best marred permanently, some left walking dead.
I wish that had been my only encounter with the demonic. It hasn't been. In my seventy - two years I have come face to face with three people of the kind you describe. Something elemental was just not there. Each was unrelated to the other two, yet each looked identical to the other two. All three had the most appalling smiles: lightless smiles, the smiles of those whose souls have been subsumed by unholy spirits.
C.S. Lewis was right. There are two opposite but equally assaultive errors which Christians are subject to in their thinking about the demonic. Either we think about it not at all or we think about it too much. Christians in the United States have tended toward the first error, but circumstances in the last few years have tended to yank our attention in the direction of the second.
If even half of what we have heard about the Diddy parties, Epstein Island, the rape/grooming gangs in Europe and particularly in England, and the hundreds of thousands of missing children in the United States is true, how can we deny the energetic presence of the demonic?
What are UAP? The scholar and writer, Diana Pasulka, says that there isn't anyone in the Silicon Valley/D.C. axis who has studied them who doesn't believe they are demonic in nature. Rod Dreher writes about this a lot.
The answer, always, is God Incarnate, The Lord Jesus Christ. For the believer there is nothing to fear.
Here is a recommended podcast and a book, the latter being for those with steely faith. The podcast is Lord of the Spirits. The book is Malachi Martin's "Hostage to the Devil." The Martin book was published in the mid 1970s. As far as I am aware, no one has ever challenged the credentials or the credibility of Malachi Martin, who died many years ago.
Bobby, you are right. As a society, we are marinated in evil, disguised as angels of light.
@Bobby I remember Martin from Arr Bells radio show. I've read that book you wrote about and profound and scary is a word easily used and I'm not one to scare easily.
It scared me. I tried to read it in 1977, and couldn't. I gave it another try in 2008, and made it. I wanted to read it a year later and just could not hack it again.
You're very kind. I wish I had the ordained right to offer a benediction, but please know that it's in my heart, P.B.
And no doubt the sellouts attract other sellouts like magnets, as they realise they will suffer no setbacks if they are amongst a great many like-minded soulless ones.
In the end though, I truly believe it’s all just communism, something that has been around a very long time, not just since 1917. Ordinary, perfectly ok people are sucked into communist beliefs at a very young age because they think it means fairness for all. Perhaps it is those who don’t grow out of stupid beliefs who become the soulless ones.
I loved hearing this, PB. Truth is, if you have no faith then you will believe in something or anything. You will be an empty vessel only to be filled with some or all of the seven deadly sins.
I am not a religious zealot. I have faith and I believe God is our saviour.
California has been my home for over 30 years. It’s become satan’s den and it’s high time to end satan’s run!
We lived in the East Bay from 1989-95. It was a glorious and wholesome time for us personally, and I was heartbroken to move back to Houston (with my employer).
As we look back after 30 yrs, we are SO grateful to have been pulled out just before the entire state literally went to Hell.
Thank you for your response, P.B.
I wonder if the question is: ‘is religion knocked into us, or is it knocked out of us? Or is it something we either have or not, no matter what the powers that be do or don’t do to our societies?
I believe that there have always existed those who believe in one or many gods, those who just pay lip service because of social or even legal or financial pressures and those who never believe in any religion - the ‘when you’re dead you’re dead’ mentality, no matter what external pressures there are. Some grow out of religion (most children believe what adults tell them); some grow into it - perhaps they meet someone so inspiring, so convincing that they have an epiphany. That person may be a conman, a charlatan, misguided but charismatic, but still… Perhaps some, like me, would like the comfort that belief brings but just can’t find that faith in their heart or mind. My sister is an evangelical Christian and has very great faith; I know the arguments.
I don’t believe being moral depends on one’s religious belief, we all know what is right and what is wrong. Do unto others as you would be done to is the golden rule for everyone, is it not? Some ‘religions’ preach otherwise - we should believe Muslims when they say they want to wipe all other religions from the face of the earth, they make a good job of it when they become a majority in a country, after all. So, having a belief in god isn’t everything in my opinion. All religions have killed in the name of god. I have decided all we can do is follow the teaching of Christ - perhaps belief in his resurrection will follow, perhaps not, would that matter? Would he forgive us if heaven exists and he knew we had lived a good life or would he send the innocent to hell because that final, supernatural step was beyond us?
God killed god to save us from god - this could sum up Christianity if we were to be cynical; it’s trite, but it resonated with me.
I have always felt that morality is based on good humility. I am no better (or worse) than the next guy; I have no right to treat him worse than I think I deserve to treated.
I’ve always believed in an “interested Supreme Being” that is timeless and infinite, but that Man is incapable of conceiving anything about that Being. It is beyond our imagination. I subscribe to Christian orthodoxy because (a) it’s a convenient way to express my faith, respect and love for the God who created every subatomic particle of all we will ever know, and (b) because its doctrines are the best way devised so far by which to run a civilization.
Some may express sorrow that I will not be “saved.” I appreciate that, but I can only express what I believe: That God exists, that he is interested, (he gave us a conscience, after all), and that as a human being I am incapable of comprehending his existence.
I think you are a very wise and thoughtful person who is more in tune with the true meaning of faith and spirituality than maybe you give yourself credit for.
Thank you so much for your “hug.” VERY much appreciated.
One thing I failed to mention: it’s very difficult for me to believe that God is exclusively focused on humans:
What happens when all the existing stars exhaust their fuel?
– All life depends on radiant heat from stars.
– All stars are driven by fusion, and there is a finite amount of “fusible” matter in the universe. Our own sun has a projected remaining life of ≈5B years.
– Yes, the residual material can agglomerate, but it’s not fusible, so will not generate star-like energy.
So what’s next? Or are we to believe that God’s corporeal influence is limited to 14B years?
These are not questions for you, per se, but inspire my thinking.
You think deeply. Your thoughts are profound and of a metaphysical nature. Please don't ever lose that - the world needs thinkers such as yourself. Also .. you are welcome :)
P.B - do excuse me for advertising myself, but I do have my own substack, and although I have only posted twice, I have posted a short story there (I’m a published novelist) about one woman’s faith.
Thank you P.B.
Your native faith is calling you home, P.B. Probe a bit. :-)
Precisely. Communism attempts to separate the human being from their spiritual being. That tactic is now being employed across the West and in other places too: Paris Olympics opening ceremony; Christmas tree in Syria burned down; Buddhist statues in Afghanistan destroyed; the Orthodox Church in Ukraine banned. The Pledge of Allegiance in schools not being mandatory; Satanists being afforded the same rights as other religions; Churches being burned down; Churches closed during Covid. Too many examples to name but they all boil down to the same thing - to control people it is necessary to separate them from their higher power - to dilute or outright wash away their belief systems. And that is downright evil.
It’s not just the same tactic – it’s the same philosophical source – Marx and his intellectual descendants scheming to destroy society “in order to rebuild it.” I’m reminded of 2 phrases from “Animal Farm”:
“Four legs good, Two legs better!”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
There are 2 kinds of people who believe this line of drivel: the willfully naïve and the evil.
The “not people” exist. I met a couple during my time in the Army. They lusted after the opportunity to hurt people. The glee in one’s eyes as we lined up to practice with pugil sticks – he could beat on someone legally. The issue was not the willingness, it was the avid desire.