"Babylon is falling ... and it's falling fast."

An excerpt from a sermon preached by Elijah Traynor at the Displaced Civilians Assistance Zone (DCAZ) outside Fort Lee, Virginia on December 6, 2000:

They call it "order," what them boys in the base are building. Steel walls, crisp uniforms, rifles at the ready, but it ain’t order they’re offering. It’s fear dressed up like law – a scarecrow stitched from scraps of the old world, strung up on bayonets, and fed with lies.

I’ve seen their kind before. Men who think a badge and a mandate makes them righteous. Men who'd sooner shoot than stoop. Tell me, what Gospel do they preach at Fort Lee? The Book of Logistics? The Gospel of Supply Chain Management? You can’t heal the soul with MREs and marching orders.

They burned Richmond to save it. That’s what they said, right? Rooted out the rot. But I ask you: who sowed the seed of that rot? It wasn’t just the ones who put on the New America flag. No, it was the whole rotten orchard – the lobbyists, the generals, the technocrats, and every last priest of Progress who bowed to Mammon and called it "freedom."

I ain’t blind. I know what New America is. A wolf dressed like a shepherd – all fire and thunder, no grace. Only folks who’ve never cracked open a Bible could mistake that kind of bloodlust for righteousness.

Babylon is falling, brothers and sisters, and it's falling fast.

Some of these folks here, they’ve put their hope in the men behind those walls. Others, well, they whisper different names. But me? I don’t put my hope in men. I’ve read the Book. I know what comes next.

Don’t trust too easily, brothers and sisters. The Beast don’t always wear horns.