Romans 1:21
"Great and sustained destruction requires great ambition. It must be conceived as the means toward achieving a new order, and although the idea behind that new order may be criminal and objectively very stupid, it must also be compellingly simple and at the same time absolute. The ideology of genocide is all of those things. The problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
Philip Gourevitch, Tomorrow We Will Be Killed, 1998
"For he sacrificed to the gods which had defeated him, and said, 'Because the gods of their kings helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.' But they became the ruin of him, and the downfall of all Israel."
2 Chronicles 28:23
"Then, on the slightest pretext, men will begin shedding blood for them [ideologies] and piling up ruins in their name, without effectively grasping anything to which they refer. As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers, with approving smiles. Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, or even a duty. Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself, without grace [God's love]."
Simone Weil
“Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.”
Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudon
"Neoliberal capitalism appears to no longer need the legitimacy garnered through its false claim to democratic ideals such as free speech, individual liberty, or justice—however tepid these appeals have always been. Matters of life and death are removed from traditional modes of democratic governance and made subject to the sovereignty of the market. As corporate power is consolidated into fewer and fewer hands, ideological and structural reforms are implemented to transfer wealth and income into the hands of a ruling financial and corporate elite."
Henry Giroux, Days of Rage, Truthout, August 28, 2012
"All the world marveled at this, and gave their allegiance to the Beast. And they worshiped the dragon for giving such power to him. as they also worshiped the Beast. 'Who is as great as the Beast?' they exclaimed. 'And who is able to resist him?' And the Beast was allowed to commit great blasphemies against God."
Revelation 13:3-5
"If heaven is seeing and in turn being seen, transformed and made new, by the beatific face of Pure Love in resplendent glory, then hell must be seeing, at the last and forever, one's own dark and miserable soul, as it really is, alone."
Jesse, Death By Overdose, 24 February 2015
Stocks traded weakly and choppily most of the day, but recovered somewhat into the close.
VIX fell.
The Dollar rallied.
Gold and silver sustained further selling as the powers that be continued to hammer down the open interest in the Western precious metals futures.
It's what some people do, when they cannot or will not create things of real purpose and value. They are the adversaries and despoilers of all that is good.
They create false idols, and use them to inflict their lawlessness complexities in the name of their gods, money and power.
When you hear 'there are no innocents' to justify the oppression and slaughter of the innocent, of women and children, the weak and the poor, for worldly ambitions, you are hearing a prayer to Moloch, the god of wealth and child sacrifice.
God's hand is moving, and will be seen by those who will see, and heard by those who will listen.
Have a pleasant evening.
