The Christian Nightmare will surely unfold in reality soon, won’t it? When “God’s ambassadors” realize they have captured not God nor Jesus, but someone of a very different ilk? Somewhere not so long ago I read that the fastest growing religious folks were the new Christian immigrants, but I couldn’t find it again..
A growing Christian supremacist movement that labels its perceived enemies as “demonic” and enjoys close ties to major Republican figures is “the greatest threat to American democracy you’ve never heard of,” according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The SPLC, a civil rights organization that monitors extremist groups, released its “Year In Hate And Extremism 2023” report recently.
A significant portion of the report, which tracked burgeoning anti-democratic and neo-fascist movements and actors across America, is devoted to the New Apostolic Reformation, “a new and powerful Christian supremacy movement that is attempting to transform culture and politics in the U.S. and countries across the world into a grim authoritarianism.
“Emerging out of the charismatic evangelical tradition, the NAR adheres to a form of Christian dominionism, meaning its parishioners believe it’s their divine duty to seize control of every political and cultural institution in America, transforming them according to a fundamentalist interpretation of scripture.”
NAR adherents also believe in the existence of modern-day “apostles” and “prophets” — church leaders endowed by God with supernatural abilities, including the power to heal. In 2022, a handful of these “apostles,” the report notes, issued what they called the Watchman Decree, an anti-democratic document envisioning the end of a pluralistic society in America.
The apostles claimed they had been given “legal power and authority from Heaven” and are “God’s ambassadors and spokespeople over the earth,” who “are equipped and delegated by Him to destroy every attempted advance of the enemy.” Re Christopher Mathias in Huffington Post
Airlines, health care systems, banks and scores of other businesses and services around the world began to slowly recover recently from severe disruptions caused by a global technology outage. But issues persisted throughout the day with no clear end in sight, as businesses manually updated their systems and airlines struggled to get crews and planes to where they were needed. The outage was attributed to a software update issued by CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm whose software is used by myriad industries around the world. The disruption, which reached what some experts called “historic” proportions, was a stunning example of the global economy’s fragile dependence on certain software, and the cascading effect it can have when things go wrong.
The incident strengthens my concern–correct or not–that folks who have grown so dependent on the internet and destablized education (“dumbed down”) will be fodder for the more powerful, here/or abroad.
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We came, we tried, we fought
and ate each other up.
We lived and died by our own hand.
If 2 survived and met on a plain,
would we hug one another
or kill again? –Nan
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