Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Eyewitness Whistleblower: COVID Was Intentionally Released Worldwide By The CCP To Kill Millions

NATO Agrees to Plan for Ukraine to Become Member State

 

NATO Agrees to Plan for Ukraine to Become Member State

Former US Swimming Champ Jaime Cail DIES SUDDENLY! CPR performed and FAILED! It happened again!

Another "Conspiracy Theory" Proven True: U.S. Government ADMITS Covid Likely Came From Lab

‘The Name Is Bond. James Bond. My Pronouns Are…’

 

From Robert Spencer:

All the way back in that simple, innocent world we lived in on Feb. 19, I wrote: “They started with Roald Dahl, perhaps because no one will be too concerned about the works of an author of children’s books. But make no mistake: the bowdlerizers are by no means finished.” It took less than a week for this prediction to be proven true: it has been revealed that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, which holds the rights to the novels that gave rise to the never-ending James Bond movie series, has given the master spy a woke makeover in new editions that are set to be published this April. Once again, make no mistake: Woke Bond won’t be the end of this madness, either. The censors are just getting started.

The UK’s Telegraph reported Saturday that the bowdlerizers have shredded, pureed, and reformulated the James Bond novels in order to shield the dwindling number of millennial snowflakes who actually read books from “racial references” that don’t suit contemporary Maoist sensibilities.

It’s certainly understandable that some of the Left-fascists who control the culture and almost everything else these days would think this had to be done. Ian Fleming, the creator of the James Bond character and author of the novels, was an Englishman who died in 1964. He couldn’t possibly have foreseen how sensitive we have become, or how fragile, how vulnerable to “microaggressions,” how mired in “systemic racism” we are. He was part of a generation that lived through two world wars and was made of sterner stuff. A few quips, a few jibes, a few chuckles – so what? Sticks and stones and all that, old man! But those days are gone. Long gone.

It seems that Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, seeing the writing on the wall in terms of how restricted the freedom of expression has become these days, actually brought this on themselves by commissioning a coterie of what are known as “sensitivity readers” to give the Bond books a once-over and deep-six the offensive archaisms. “Sensitivity readers” are actually genuine human beings who make a living by weeping over imaginary slights done to imaginary people by the words of works of fiction, and who oversee the revisions of those works to remove the slights so as to suit the ever-changing sensibilities of today’s supremely intolerant Left.

The new, toothless, Leftist Bond books will carry a small disclaimer that packs a large wallop: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace. A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”

Just In: FL Governor DeSantis Signs Bill Stripping Disney of Self-Governing Status

 

Just In: FL Governor DeSantis Signs Bill Stripping Disney of Self-Governing Status

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Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)

Monday, February 27, 2023

2nd Video of Woody Harrelson Blasting Big Pharma Appears Online, This Time with Bill Maher Agreeing

Actor and comedian Woody Harrelson upset liberals and the establishment media this weekend with comments he made during his fifth hosting gig for “Saturday Night Live.” During the spot, Harrelson went after Big Pharma profiteering and the Orwellian lockdown measures that the Biden administration enforced during the pandemic, comedically comparing what the American public went through in 2020-2021 to an outlandish dystopian Hollywood movie script that became a reality. It wasn’t the first time Harrelson has publicly voiced his distrust of these medical and political entities. On Sunday, conservative actress Gina Carano posted a viral clip of Harrelson appearing as a guest on HBO star Bill Maher’s podcast, “Club Random,” back in September.

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Macron says it is the end of 'water abundance' as he opens French Agricultural Show

Healthy 13 Year Old Boy Has a Stroke While On Vacation With His Family

These Things Happen 

A 13 year old healthy Canadian boy died suddenly while on holiday with his family in Mexico

THERE'S ALSO THIS:

Another Innocent Child Died of Stroke in Massachusetts

Welcome the Eagle, aka Albert Benavides, sent me a VAERS report of the death of a 12-year-old girl today because I asked him to send me any new Massachusetts deaths suspected to be vaccine-caused. The record he just sent me was entered only ten days ago February 15, 2023, but the death apparently occurred on August 29, 2022, which I found in the Massachusetts Death Certificates. The VAERS report has the wrong date of death and onset of symptoms by one day. Why did it take almost six (6) months to enter the report, especially when it involves the death of a child?

The Death Certificate is, coincidentally, certified by one of the named Defendants in my federal lawsuit against agents of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Another child died of a stroke and instead of investigating, they covered it up and waited half a year to enter it into the VAERS system that they don’t even look at. I wonder if the authors of Brianna’s Brief Report in the Neurohospitalist journal will still say that these are “extremely rare.”

Inorder to sidestep author biases, below are the VAERS record and the Death Certificates of five(5) 12-year-old girls, who died in 2022 in Massachusetts.

Tennessee Passes Law Outlawing Sex Re-Assignment Surgery, and Puberty Blockers for Children

CNN: Hundreds of newspapers drop ‘Dilbert’ comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams

CNN — Newspapers across the country dropped the “Dilbert” comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a “hate group” and suggesting that White people should “get the hell away” from them.
GRTWT.

Now, here's the segment that got Scott Adams cancelled:



AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Veteran Baseball Pitcher Dies From Heart Attack At 31

Matt Pobereyko, a former minor league pitcher in the New York Mets organization, died over the weekend. 
"Former Mets minor league pitcher Matt Pobereyko passed away at the age of 31 due to a heart attack. He had pitched in the Mexican League and Dominican Winter League this offseason," Hector Gomez tweeted. 
Our thoughts are with Matt's friends and family members during this difficult time.

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Listen To The Music

Sunday, February 26, 2023

America Is IMPLODING & A National Divorce Is Inevitable As Culture War Escalates To Civil War

GAME OVER: Medicare data shows the COVID vaccines increase your chance of dying

In this article, I publicly reveal record-level vax-death data from the “gold standard” Medicare database that proves that:

  1. The vaccines are making it more likely that the elderly will die prematurely, not less likely

  2. The risk of death remains elevated for an unknown period of time after you get the shot (we didn’t see it return to normal)

  3. The CDC lied to the American people about the safety of these vaccines. They had access to this data the entire time and kept it hidden and said nothing.

If there is one article for you to share with your social network, this is the one.

Executive summary

Isn’t it a shame that none of the world’s governments make the vaccination-death records publicly available? My claim is that if they did that, it would end the debate instantly and prove to the world that the vaccines are unsafe. So that’s why they keep it locked up.

But apparently there is one whistleblower who is interested in data transparency.

Last night, I got a USB drive in my mailbox with the Medicare data that links deaths and vaccination dates. Finally! This is the data that nobody wants to talk or even ask about.

I was able to authenticate the data by matching it with records I already had. And the analysis that I did on the data I received matches up with other analyses I have received previously.

The nice thing about this Medicare data is that nobody can claim that it is “unreliable.” Medicare is the unassailable “gold-standard” database. It’s the database that the CDC never wants us to see for some reason. They never even mention it. They pretend it doesn’t exist. So you know it is important.

Do you want to know what it shows?

It shows that these shots increase your risk of dying and once you get shot, your risk of dying remains elevated for an unknown amount of time. And that’s in the very population it is supposed to help the most!

Now you know why the CDC, which has always had access to the Medicare records, has never made them publicly available for anyone to analyze to prove that the vaccines are safe. Because the records show the opposite. That’s why they keep the data hidden from view and it’s why they NEVER talk about it.

GO READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE WITH IT'S - WHAT LOOK TO BE - IRREFUTABLE CHARTS AND GRAPHS.

Woody Harrelson Calls Vaccine Companies The “Biggest Drug Cartel” On SNL

SNL throughout the last several years has left its roots as being one of the funniest tv shows on Saturday night but has instead become a platform that mostly pushes far-left propaganda. 
Actor Woody Harrelson however in his recent appearance on SNL didn’t go by SNL’s usual playbook but instead called out vaccine manufacturers for being the “biggest drug cartels.” 
Harrelson stated in his opening monologue: 
“The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes, and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over.”

GRTWT

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"THERE'S SOMETHING REALLY DARK HERE": Pandemic Post Mortem with Dr. Robert Malone

Pfizer can't hide this anymore, the EU data doesn't lie

Global Sperm Counts Declining At Accelerating Rate: New Meta-Analysis

Global Sperm Counts Declining At Accelerating Rate: New Meta-Analysis

The article, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update in November 2022 by an international team of researchers, reviewed 2,936 scholarly abstracts and 868 full articles and analyzed data from 38 sperm count studies done on six continents, updating their landmark study of 2017.

The 2017 study found sperm counts had fallen in North America, Europe, and Australia by over 50 percent in a fifty-year span. The current study updated this data as well as added data from South/Central America, Asia, and Africa.

“The aim of this study was to examine trends in sperm count among men from all continents. The broader implications of a global decline in sperm count, the knowledge gaps left unfilled by our prior analysis, and the controversies surrounding this issue warranted an up-to-date meta-analysis,” said the authors.

The analysis found that while sperm counts had declined at the average rate per year of 1.16 percent between 1972 and 2000, the rate of decline since 2000 has increased to an average of 2.64 percent per year.

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Saturday, February 25, 2023

James Lindsay on Lysenkoism

Only Conspiracy Theorists Would Believe Such a Thing ...


My background is in Marketing and Advertising. As such, I have always believed that "truth" is a Public Relations battle.

It is not that I believe there is no truth. It's just that I know for a fact that people believe what they want to believe, until presented with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. 

And, even then ...

Most situations do not present themselves in congruence with some mechanism of "evidentiary clarity." Most things happen out of the sight of human beings and their cameras. And, in such a case, we can only collect evidence which presents itself after the fact. And then we have to infer what actually happened based upon evidence.

This is what has happened with COVID. 

We have to film of the virus being released. 

We have no film of TomasPueyo meeting with whatever handler gave him the idea to write the Medium article he wrote. 

We have no film of the handler that gave Neil Ferguson the order to write his influential paper. 

We have no film of the backroom meetings between Fauci and the DOD, the NIH, and the WHO on how to control the narrative, shutting down Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, how to run "Operation Warp Speed", when to release it to the public (since the vaccine had already mostly been developed), what kind of "treatments" should be ordered for "COVID" ("should we kill them with ventilators, or drug cocktails, or both?"), do you think we can get away with. calling a car accident a COVID death? Sure we can

Etc.,  etc.

We have no film of any of that. 

And we never will. 

But. all of that happened, and we saw the evidence that happened in a million individual instances. 

But only conspiracy theorists believe that it was plotted and planned out as some sort of immense worldwide Psyop to introduce and test lockdowns, and population control methods, for "the future stability of the Earth's ecosystem."

Only conspiracy theorists would believe such a thing.

Dr. Naomi Wolff: Have the Ancient Gods Returned?


Is a Seemingly Far-Fetched Premise, Unfolding After All?
These days, to my surprise, people want to talk to me about evil. In a Substack essay from last year, and in my book The Bodies of Others, I raised a question about existential, metaphysical darkness. 
I concluded that I had looked at the events of the past two and a half years using all of my classical education, my critical thinking skills, my knowledge of Western and global history and politics; and that, using these tools, I could not explain the years 2020-present. 
Indeed I could not explain them in ordinary material, political or historical terms at all.

This is not how human history ordinarily operates. 

I could not explain the way the Western world simply switched, from being based at least overtly on values of human rights and decency, to values of death, exclusion and hatred, overnight, en masse — without resorting to reference to some metaphysical evil that goes above and beyond fallible, blundering human agency. 

When ordinary would-be-tyrants try to take over societies, there is always some flaw, some human impulse undoing the headlong rush toward a negative goal. There are always factions, or rogue lieutenants, in ordinary human history; there is always a miscalculation, or a blunder, or a security breach; or differences of opinion at the top. Mussolini’s power was impaired in his entry to the Second World War by being forced to share the role of military commander with King Victor Immanuel [https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/fascist-king-victor-emmanuel-iii-italy]; Hitler miscalculated his ability to master the Russian weather — right down to overlooking how badly his soldiers’ stylish but flimsy uniforms would stand up to extreme cold. [https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/hitlers-winter-blunder/]. Before he could mount a counter-revolution against Stalinism, Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City in his bath. [https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/leon-trotsky-assassinated-mexico]

But none of that fracturing or mismanagement of normal history took place in the global rush to “lockdowns”, the rollout of COVID hysteria, of “mandates”, masking, of global child abuse, of legacy media lying internationally at scale and all lying in one direction, of thousands of “trusted messengers” parroting a single script, and of forced or coerced mRNA injections of at least half of the humans on Planet Earth.

I reluctantly came to the conclusion that the madness we saw unveiled since 2020 could not have been brought about by normal history or by ill-intentioned individuals. Human agency alone could not coordinate a highly complicated set of lies about a virus, and propagate the lies in perfect uniformity around an entire globe, in hundreds of languages and dialects. Human beings, using their own resources alone, could not have turned hospitals overnight from having been places in which hundreds of staff members were united in and collectively devoted to the care of the infirm, the prolongation and salvation of human life, the cherishing of newborns, the helping of mothers to care for little ones, the support of the disabled, to killing factories in which the elderly were prescribed “run-death-is-near (Remdesevir)” at scale.

Also look at the speed of change. Institutions turned overnight into negative mirror images of themselves, with demonic policies replacing what had been at least on the surface, angelic ones. Human-history change is not that lightning-fast.

The perception of the rollout, the unanimity of a mass delusion, cannot in my view be explained fully by psychology; not even as a “mass formation.”

There have been other mass hysterias before in history, from “blood libel” - the widespread belief in medieval Europe in the that Jews were sacrificing Christian children to make matzah [https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/blood-libel], to the flareup of hysteria around witches in Salem, MA, in 1692, [https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1098/salem-witch-trials], to the “irrational exuberance” of Tulipmania, also in the 17th century, in the Netherlands [https://www.history.com/news/tulip-mania-financial-crash-holland], detailed by Scottish journalist Charles MacKay in his classic account of group madness, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841).

But all of these examples of mass frenzy had dissidents, critics, and skeptics at the time; none of these lasted for years as a dominant uninterrupted delusional paradigm.

What we have lived through since 2020 is so sophisticated, so massive, so evil, and executed in such inhumane unison, that it cannot be accounted for without venturing into metaphysics. Something else, something metaphysical, must have done that. And I speak as a devoted rationalist.

I concluded that I was starting to believe in God in more literal terms than I had before, because this evil was so impressive; so it must be directed at something at least as powerful that was all good.

At the time I wrote my initial essay, I knew that “Satan” was, at least for me, an insufficient explanation for the evil I saw. One reason that I felt that “Satan” was an insufficient name for what we were facing, is that I am Jewish, and we don’t have the same tradition of “Satan” that Christian Western culture inherits and takes for granted.

In Jewish tradition, this entity’s role is not so much that of the rather majestic adversary of God who appears fully- fledged in the Christian tradition — an elaborated character who was developed subsequent to, as some scholars point out, the influence of Zoroastrianism on Judaism, and then on Christianity, in the years leading up to and after Jesus’ life and death.

In the Old Testament, in contrast, “the Satan” or “ha-Satan” — “the accuser” makes a number of appearances; but “ha-satan” is an adversary or opponent, rather than being the majestic villain of the New Testament, and of course of Dante’s and Milton’s characterizations, that so influenced Western ideas of “the devil.”

The way in which the Hebrew “ha-satan” differs from the Christian Satan is important: “Likewise, in Old Testament Hebrew, the noun satan (which occurs 27x) and the verb satan (which occurs 6x) are often used in a general way. If I “satan” someone, I oppose them, accuse them, or slander them. David uses it this way in the psalms, “Those who render me evil for good accuse [שׂטן (satan)] me because I follow after good” (Ps. 38:21). If I act as a “satan” to someone, therefore, I am their adversary or accuser, as the messenger of the Lord stood in the way of Balaam “as his adversary [שׂטן (satan)]” (Numbers 22:22) or as Solomon told Hiram that he had no “adversary [שׂטן (satan)]” who opposed him (1 Kings 5:4).

Thus, in Hebrew, the noun and verb שׂטן (satan) can have the non-technical meaning of “stand opposed to someone as an adversary.” In the case of Balaam, even the Lord’s messenger was a “satan” to him, that is, a God-sent opponent. That is the first point to keep in mind: unlike in English, where “Satan” always refers to a malevolent being, in Hebrew satan can have a generic, non-technical meaning.” [https://www.1517.org/articles/the-devil-in-the-details-of-the-old-testament-is-satan-in-the-hebrew-bible].

Because our (Jewish) tradition of Satan is more impressionistic than the character who appeared later under Christian narratives, I felt that “Satan” was not sufficient to explain fully the inexplicable, immediate mirror-imaging of what had been our society, from ordered at least on the presumption of morality, to being ordered around death and cruelty. But I did not at that time have a better concept with which to work.

Then I heard of a Pastor named Jonathan Cahn, who had written a book titled “The Return of the Gods.” [https://www.christianbook.com/return-of-the-gods-jonathan-cahn/9781636411422/pd/411429]

The title resonated with me.

Though I don’t agree with everything in his book, Pastor Cahn’s central argument — that we have turned away from the Judeo-Christian God and thus we opened a door into our civilization for the negative spirits of “the Gods” to re-possess us — actually feels right to me.

Jonathan Cahn is a Messianic Jewish minister. He is the son of a Holocaust refugee. Formerly a secular-atheist, Cahn had a near-death experience as a young man that led him to accept Jesus — or, as he refers to this presence by the original Hebrew name, Yeshua — as his Lord and Savior. Pastor Cahn has a ministry based in Wayne, New Jersey, which brings together Jews and Gentiles. [http://bethisraelworshipcenter.org/about%20Us/AboutJC.php]

In The Return of the Gods, his improbable, and yet somehow hauntingly plausible thesis, is that ancient dark and metaphysically organized forces, “the Gods” of antiquity, have “returned’” to our presumably advanced, secular post-Christian civilization.

Pastor Cahn’s theme is that, because we have turned away from our covenant with YHWH — especially we in America, and we in the West, and especially since the 1960s — therefore, the ancient “Gods”, or rather, ancient pagan energies, that had been vanquished by monotheism and exiled to the margins of civilization and human activity — have seen an “open door”, and thus a ready home to re-occupy, in us.

He argues that they have indeed done so.

Pastor Cahn makes use of a parable in the New Testament to make this case. I cite the King James Version:

Matthew 12:43-45

“43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation”. [https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-12-43/]

Pastor Cahn makes the case that the ancient “gods” were initially, in essence, put on the defensive, as the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) recounts, first by Yahweh, and by the introduction of monotheism and the revelation of the Ten Commandments, and then that they were vanquished altogether and sent into outer darkness, by the arrival to humanity of the being whom he sees as the Messiah, Yeshua.

One might right away resist such a phrasing; what do you mean, “the Gods”? But Cahn is both careful and accurate in his translations and his tracing of four millennia of religious history through a set of phrases.

Cahn accurately points out that the Hebrew Bible refers to what in Hebrew is rendered “shedim” or negative spirits (in modern Hebrew, this word means “ghosts”). Cahn correctly points out that these spirits, powers or principalities were worshipped in the pagan world in many guises — from the fertility god Baal to the goddess of sexuality Ashera or Ashtaroth; to the destructive idol, Moloch. He rightly points out that the ancient world was everywhere consecrated to these dark or lower entities, and that worshippers went to the point of sacrificing their own children to propitiate these forces. He correctly reflects the central narrative of the Tribes of Israel as alternately embracing Yahweh and his Ten Commandments and ethical covenant, and finding it all too taxing, and thus falling away to whore after these pagan gods. He notes that the gods of the Old Testament world descended in updated guise into Greco-Roman life, taking on new names: Zeus, Diana, and so on.

He correctly notes that the Septuagint, the early Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, rendered “shedim” as Daimones. This word is rendered also as “spirit personifications”; we receive this word in English today, as “demons.”[https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/personifications.html]

Having correctly traced the lineage of pagan worship and pagan forces, Cahn makes the case that they were never simply overcome by the embrace in the West of Christianity; but rather that they were simply pushed to the margins, the outskirts of Western civilization; weakened by our covenant with God or with Jesus, depending on whom we are.

He argues that these negative but potentially powerful forces have been dormant or suppressed for two millennia, by the Western Judeo-Christian covenant. [https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/personifications.html]. And that they have now taken this opportunity, of our turning away from God, and returned.

We, thus, are the house that has been cleaned — by the covenant with the Judeo-Christian commitment. But that we subsequently abandoned the house, he maintains, and left it vulnerable; open, for negative energies to re-enter.

Though it is unfashionable now to talk about our Judeo-Christian founding and heritage in the West, it should not be. It is simply an historical fact. I do not think one needs to be dismissive of or insulting to Buddhism or Islam (which is also part of the Judeo-Christian lineage, but that’s another essay) or Jainism or Shintoism, to acknowledge the fact that the West’s civilization for the past two millennia has been a Judeo-Christian one, and that our Founders in this nation, though rightly establishing religious freedom for all, absolutely believed that they were consecrating and founding a nation in alignment with the will of, and in commitment to the principles of, God as they understood him; the Biblical God.

Cahn cites Puritan Minister Jonathan Winthrop in warning that America’s state of being blessed by God, will last only as long as we hold up our end of the Covenant.

It is worth returning to Pastor Winthrop’s famous speech and to his clear invocation of the covenant that undergirded the foundation of America:

“Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered into covenant with Him for this work. We have taken out a commission. The Lord hath given us leave to draw our own articles. We have professed to enterprise these and those accounts, upon these and those ends. We have hereupon besought Him of favor and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and bring us in peace to the place we desire, then hath He ratified this covenant and sealed our commission, and will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in it; but if we shall neglect the observation of these articles which are the ends we have propounded, and, dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace this present world and prosecute our carnal intentions, seeking great things for ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against us, and be revenged of such a people, and make us know the price of the breach of such a covenant.

Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God.”

[https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/colliding-cultures/john-winthrop-dreams-of-a-city-on-a-hill-1630/]

Why do I share all of this? Because while it would be easy to dismiss Pastor Cahn’s theory as wacky and fanatical, I have reluctantly come to believe that his central premise may in fact be right.

In the Old Testament, it is not “ha-Satan” who is the most consistently fearsome, treacherous, dangerous figure. It is rather, “the Gods” — that is to say, the ancient, pre-YHWH, pre-Mosaic, pre-Christian gods: our old adversaries in the Hebrew Bible — YHWH’s adversaries. That is to say: Baal, Moloch (or Malek), and Astarte or Ashera. 

Those are “the Gods” that traduced, lured, hounded, bedeviled, and seduced my people — again and again. Those are “the Gods” about whom this extraordinary innovation in the human story — the monotheistic God of all - continually, specifically warns us, the Children of Israel. 

Those are “the Gods” to whose sacrifice the Children of Israel constantly stray, disappointing and enraging our Creator. Those are “the Gods,” with their child sacrifice and their graven images, against whom our father Abraham rebelled and taught his descendants to rebel. Those are “the Gods” whose acceptance of child sacrifice - a real thing, a barbaric, culture-wide practice that continued for centuries in the tribes and civilizations surrounding the Children of Israel — was supplanted by animal sacrifice, a change and evolution in human civilization that is represented by the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac, when the child on the altar is replaced miraculously by a ram provided, at the last moment, by the Lord God.

Those are the “gods” - the sheer amoral power of Baal, the destructive force of Moloch, the unrestrained seductiveness and sexual licentiousness of Astarte or Ashera — that indeed do seem to me to have indeed “returned.” 

Or at least the energies that they represent — moral power-over; death-worship; antagonism to the sexual orderliness of the intact family and faithful relationships — seem clearly to have ‘returned,’ without restraint, since 2020. 

There may well, I concluded, indeed be negative forces re-appearing that, after two millennia of Judeo-Christianity, we have literally forgotten, in Western civilization, how to identify. It may well be that these negative forces are highly complex, extraordinarily powerful, and stunningly well organized. 

It may indeed be the case that they have swept themselves back into our “house” in the West, especially in the past two years.

I do believe that they were able to do so because we dropped our own end of upholding a basic covenant with God. 

After having gone back to the Old Testament, it is clear to me that YHWH warned us that this could happen — that we could easily lose his protection and break the Covenant. 

He warned us, indeed, of this risk, over and over, in the Hebrew Bible.

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.