Jesus Will Come Back With an AR-15: The UNAC
One of the folks on my email list gave some great feedback, and also bought up a point I expect to hear a lot of in various reviews:
“I did get the Lilium newsletter today and followed to the website. The art is awesome, the stories sound dark and disturbing.
My in-laws were medical missionaries and knowing them gave me a different take on religion. As a scientist, I am skeptical of much — but they truly lived their faith. They made the world better and people more whole by their actions (They did not preach. They provided medical services). I tell you this because if you think all religion is brainwashing of the stupid then you miss some important aspects of why religion endures (and ensnares).”
This is mostly true. I have nothing against most religious people, but you have to admit: there’s no crazy quite like extreme religious crazy – especially when you take it to the level of a national ideology. Ask the Mayans and Aztecs how that went, pre- and post- the Spanish invasion.
The opening quote of GOD HAS HEARD is a quote from a famous and still very popular sermon written in 1741 by theologian Jonathon Edwards. I find it to be a really horrifying look into the psychological double-bind which religion is capable of using to ‘ensnare’. One of its central tenets is that one’s good deeds are not enough to protect someone from being cast ‘at any moment’, into Hell. Only by being a part of the ‘in’ group, the ‘saved’ who are chosen of God, can you escape this awful, precarious, uncertain state. I dare say it’s devilish in its ability to self-perpetuate.
As for the title of this post: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-poli...
The UNAC is a post-apocalyptic version of the USA and Americas as imagined during a crazed Tea Partier masturbation session. While it may seem quite extreme, there are already people who think this way. People with money, and power. It’s quite horrifying. Combined with the increasing trend of people taking mis-information and satire sites seriously, 30% of Americans believing the moon landing wasn’t real, and the many hundreds of thousands of people who buy everything David Icke disgorges from his schizotypal imagination… the trend is concerning.
In due time, the history of the UNAC will emerge. And no: Christ hasn’t really returned in LILIUM… but wait until you find out why the Host thinks he has.
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