Let me offer a word on my last my post. The whole point of that post was to underscore an evil and satanic reality that is undeniable. We have hard evidence in the case of Epstein and Maxwell, with more forthcoming (as long as Maxwell can continue to live, and if she talks). All one has to do is know how to correctly exegete cultural signs and symbols in the pop-culture; the demonic and ritualistic is splattered all over the place. Some have become so conditioned by its splattering that they are able to easily write it off as innocent cultural flare, or as artistic license. And yes, much of this occultic-satanic-ritualistic stuff was very prominent, in the evangelical world, as far as a focus on it and its penetration into the broader culture and even the churches. But it became sensationalized, and as such, many simply constructed a category for it, so that whenever they encounter this sort of “stuff” in the future, or presently, they simply and automatically relegate it to that category. The reality is, is that we have also done this with abortion. I remember growing up in the 80s (I’m 46) and early 90s (I even remember the culture in the late 70s, as the son of a pastor), anti-abortion was at a fever pitch; as it should be!! But over the decades Christians have learned to live with the reality of abortion. They know it’s there, “but what can we really do about it?” I think the same sort of mode holds true for the occultic-satanic stuff. People got burnt out on it from its emphasis in 70s, 80s, and 90s, and as such constructed a psychological category of relegating-it-away. This category has a normalcy bias shaping it, and it gets triggered whenever anyone wants to bring these things up. People who operate with this sort of bias use culturally-linguistic mechanisms like ‘conspiracy theory’ to help them vanquish these sorts of things (satanic pedophiliac cults, pedophiliac rings, satanic ritualistic happenings, so on and so forth) into their ‘safety-pin’ category that allows them to go on with their lives unabated; insofar as they have pursuits that don’t include contemplating and working against such evils. People want to believe that such evils, like those noted, are simply fringe, or only are occurrences that obtain among ‘weirdos,’ or lone-wolf perverts ‘out there.’ They cannot stomach the idea that what has come to count as ‘civil society’ might be colored by such evils in rather astonishing and pervasive ways.

The thing is: all you have to do is watch the movies, listen to pop-music (of any genre), watch music videos, and these themes are indeed pervasive; the case makes itself. But again, the person has to be willing to entertain that these things are much more normative than they would want or hope them to be. I have operated with this sort of ‘normalcy bias’ myself for many years. But the starkness of reality will not finally let me stay in this sort of normalcy and confirmation bias. There are too many emergent facts present, even in the formal legal arena that will not allow me to stay asleep while millions of children, every year are abducted, and sold into this wicked and evil world of pedophilia (and many are bred for and born into it). Clearly, not all of these children are brought into the ritualistic aspects of this, but many are. If you are prone to want to relegate this into the realm of ‘conspiracy theory’ then we genuinely have nothing to talk about on this front. I am uninterested in trying to persuade you, when the evidence is all around you and in your bloody face. You simply don’t want to look; not really.

Now back to the safe theology posts.

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