Criminal, crooked and perverse powerbrokers keep trying to terrorize people into robots of a cultural revolution. The failure of Israel’s encounter with law and prophets has not impressed the fundamentalist and conservative fronts. Are not Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome in tatters after God gave them authority over large swathes of humanity? Legislation and enforcement work for God because he is pure and absolute order. Divine harmony and balance expose the needs of all creatures. Principles, character and natural law need neither writings nor proclamation. Gravity and reward are evident in the Messianic revelation, so let the followers of Moses and all the neo-Pharisees commit suicide with their ball and chain religions, and pretend that their life is anything more than a name.
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.
Covering their tracks
Today’s law-abiding citizen in North America and the Caribbean is a descendant of the first century Pharisee. A massive con is their primary occupation. They vainly hope that God is impressed with their rituals, festivals, long robes, wordy prayers, recital of supposed sacred texts, and well-rehearsed dramatics. According to Jeremiah:
- They steal
- They murder
- They commit adultery
- They swear falsely
- They offer sacrifices to Baal
- They walk after other gods
- They go to their sacred gatherings
- They say, ‘We are immune!’
“Law and order” is a catch phrase used by governments for signaling that enforcing laws and policies take precedence over the will of the people, and often in defiance of statistics and the felt needs of the population. They talk about reducing crime as they plot the demise of the poor. They plot cruelty to migrants and refugees in the name of security and self-defense. They strain out flies and swallow camels. They massacre the starving, render hundreds of thousands homeless and then complain that they are under attack. Gaza, a Philistine city and stronghold, has entered the consciousness of 21st century people as a place where Jewish criminality goes to die. What are the odds that Israeli politicians did not know that the Philistines captured and detained an Israelite hero until his death at his own hand?
Criminality and vice abound in church and state
Only the fascist and nationalist mentality in the Israeli leadership and settler community could have prevented Israel’s depravity because they are responsible. Invoking the holocaust is close to becoming like the boy who cried wolf once too often. There is no excuse for denying people inalienable rights, and calling oneself a democracy in a sea of authoritarianism delivers little credit when democracy is merely a tool to cling to Western support. Democracy in some countries is merely an attempt to bring everyone to the table, essentially to the voting booth. However, there is no sense of the distance needed to be separate from the despicable ideologies held by the disparate groups. If it is only by having all viewpoints and political stripes represented in leadership that there can be genuine democracy then we are affirmimg solidarity with the perennial villains and despots. When a society descends to a level where males can drag a female to the city square we can conclude that gross darkness has enveloped the people. Wickedness in high places is neither strange nor infrequent.
“Law and order” is the cry of bankrupt people, all of whom will admit that law in its iconic and Jewish expression did not stabilize any society on the planet. Those who use law as the paramount divine demand will soon commit themselves to ending free speech, defend at all costs the subjugation of women, girls and children, and among them will be the cream of the crop of Christians, Muslims, Jews, and the ungodly.
Demoniac homicidal genocidal maniacs
People like the criminal heads of Israel and the United States are the international poster boys for people whose overwhelming delusion is they have to kill innocent people they have labelled as evil. Law and order as public policy never made a sustained contribution to genuinely strong leadership anywhere on earth.
People are reversing the meaning of human, public, private, citizen, patriot, felon, and migrant, and they are comfortable inventing alternate truths such as Israel is a chaste virgin, and Black people in America are the beneficiaries of the transatlantic slave trade. Religious people are in the same boat: the experts, the mediocre and the extremists are getting ready to announce the equality of Jesus, Moses, Muhammad Ali, and whatsizname! Talk about scrambling up the downside.
Life is Fun, But Not a Joke 