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Revelation 19:17-18
I then saw an angel standing on the sun, and he shouted to all the birds flying in the sky, “Come and join in God’s great feast! You can eat the flesh of kings, rulers, leaders, horses, riders, free people, slaves, important people, and everyone else.”!

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  1. 1

    David!

    NOW you get it!

    I am that I am … no discrimination. When the sun goes NOVA, that will be MY will.

  3. 3

    Better yet, look down as they pass overhead.
    Better to get poop in your hair than decorating your face.

  4. 4

    God DAMN! That was some good acid.

  5. 5

    What’s wrong with a little mysticism? It’s not like there’s any shortage of it in secular culture. Harry Potter, Gnomes, Hobbits, Led Zeppelin lyrics…

    The Catholics had mystics. They mostly got purged lately, but The Hold Steady seem to have taken that ball and run with it on their (amazing) album Separation Sunday.

    Do you want me to tell it like it’s boy meets girl and the rest is history?
    Or do you want it like a murder mystery?
    I’m gonna tell it like a comeback story
    ‘Cause when we left we were defeated and depressed
    and when we arrived we were ripping high
    We had a gun in the glove box
    We had some sweet stuff tucked into our socks
    And Jesus Christ in all His glory

    The Hold Steady
    Charlemagne In Sweatpants

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_Sunday
    Separation Sunday is the second studio album by The Hold Steady, released on May 3, 2005 through Frenchkiss Records. A concept album, Separation Sunday follows the stories of Craig (the narrator), Holly (short for Halleluiah), a sometimes addict, sometimes prostitute, sometimes born again Christian/Catholic (and sometimes all three simultaneously); Charlemagne, a pimp; and Gideon, a skinhead, as they travel from city to city and party to party. (All three characters made appearances on the band’s previous album, Almost Killed Me, and reappear in “First Night”, and “Same Kooks” on Boys and Girls in America, and then again in “Ask Her For Adderall”, a bonus track from Stay Positive.)
    Separation Sunday is lyrically dense, full of Biblical allusions[8], intertextual and self references (e.g., in “Don’t Let Me Explode,” when Holly is asked about Charlemagne, “she just smiled all polite-like and said something vague”; in Almost Killed Me’s closing track, “Killer Parties,” the narrator instructs listeners, “If they ask about Charlemagne/Be polite, say something vague”), word play, and puns (“Stevie Nix”: “She got screwed up by religion/she got screwed by soccer players”). Vocalist/songwriter Craig Finn typically delivers these lyrics in a distinct flavor of sing-speak.
    Musically, Separation Sunday engages Classic rock motifs — guitar solos, riff-based structures, use of piano and organ, and guitar harmony. Structurally, however, most songs eschew the standard “verse-chorus-verse” song structure, frequently foregoing choruses or refrains altogether. In a review of the album, Blender described The Hold Steady as “sound[ing] like the best bar band in the world.”[9]
    The album received an 8.7 on Pitchfork Media, and ranked at number eight on the 2005 Pazz & Jop critic’s poll.[10] The album was named the number ten album of the year by Spin.

  6. 6

    I am fascinated by your denial.

    Goldy has … for once … cited My simple truth.

    Mysticism? Bird shit? acid trip?

    No, just reality.

    … take global warming! The unbelievers are hastening the awful event and making it worse for all of you.

    All I can do is offer truth. Use it as you will.

  8. 8

    There is no “truth” in this verse or the entirety.

    Poorly constructed allegory maybe.

    Clearly written under the influence of some intoxicant. Likely frenzied self-flagellation and release — endorphins are powerful, mind altering, addictive substances, not to mention the likely physical basis of “religious” experience.

    And “God” is apparently already intoxicated @12:08 in the afternoon. Sad.

  9. 9

    What’s wrong with a little Mysticism?

    Mysticism ( pronunciation (help·info); from the Greek μυστικός, mystikos, meaning ‘an initiate’) is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.

  10. 10

    Goldy is thematically “fleshy” today. Here’s the verse he chose @slog:

    Deuteronomy 28:53
    And you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

    Basically: You’ll be forced to eat your children if’n you don’t follow the rules therein.

    You just have to wonder at the sheer insanity / inanity of people who profess to believe this shit is “inerrant”.

  12. 12

    You just have to wonder at the sheer insanity / inanity of people who profess to believe this shit is “inerrant”.

    Christian Mysticism has been around from from the very start, the Gnostics were big on it. So, to think that this is all inerrant literal truth is just nonsense. It’s myth, it’s mysticism, it’s parable, and allegory.

    I think the important thing is to understand that the counter to people who believe all this stuff as literal truth is not atheism, but to point to their own Christian traditions and history with things like Mysticism.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_mysticism

    Same goes for politics; the counter to the Christian right in politics isn’t secularism, but the Christian left.

    I’m still working on how we can counter cries of socialism by the Christian right with Distributism

    Distributism (also known as distributionism, distributivism) is a third-way economic philosophy formulated by such Catholic thinkers as G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc to apply the principles of Catholic social teaching articulated by the Catholic Church, especially in Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum[1] and more expansively explained by Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quadragesimo Anno[2]
    According to distributism, the ownership of the means of production should be spread as widely as possible among the general populace, rather than being centralized under the control of the state (state socialism) or a few large businesses or wealthy private individuals (laissez-faire capitalism). A summary of distributism is found in Chesterton’s statement: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”[3]
    Essentially, distributism distinguishes itself by its distribution of property (not to be confused with redistribution of wealth). While socialism allows no individuals to own productive property (it all being under state, community, or workers’ control), distributism itself seeks to ensure that most people will become owners of productive property. As Belloc stated, the distributive state (the state which has implemented distributism) contains “an agglomeration of families of varying wealth, but by far the greater number of owners of the means of production.”[4] This broader distribution does not extend to all property, but only to productive property; that is, that property which produces wealth, namely, the things needed for man to survive. It includes land, tools, etc.[5]

  13. 13

    This isnt meant to be taken literally. This isnt an actual invitation to feast on flesh of the dead. The purpose of this verse is to show that nobody will be able to escape and that there social standing is irrelevent. The “kings rulers and leaders” can not command there way out of this. And the horses and riders can not escape by riding away. The slaves and important people are equal here. I think it is a commentary that our lives on earth, regardless of our social standing, will not permit us a way out of this.

  14. 14

    @8 Why shouldn’t “God” get drunk like the rest of us? Being omnipowerful, He can do whatever He likes.

  16. 16

    This isnt meant to be taken literally.

    Exactly, but unfortunately we have people in high places, like your beloved Michelle Bachmann, who do exactly that.

  18. 18

    Rabbit,
    Of course, God likes to knock one back now and again. And, being timeless, God doesn’t need to worry about whether it be morning or evening or whatever before fishing through the liquor cabinet. Personally, I’m guessing that God best likes a smooth small batch bourbon over ice. I could be wrong about that, though.

  19. 19

    Why is Revelations in the Bible in the first place? It was written 90 years after the Romans killed Jesus by some reclusive hermit living in what is now Turkey. I’ll wager the author never even knew anyone who knew Jesus first hand, yet the author’s ramblings make up the last chapter of the Christians’ “holy book!” What a load of crap!

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