Darkness hovers above us.
You can feel it but cannot see it. You feel it in your office, your classroom, your social media feed; you even feel it in your body, which shudders with fear at the thought of speaking what you believe to be true. It feels like the world has been turned upside-down. People are acting like they have no God but this is not true, because a God has been summoned: the Cancel God.
The Cancel God wants to cancel you. It wants to cancel everyone you know. It wants to cancel humanity itself. That is its nihilistic goal. It demands you serve or submit. If you do, it promises you will suffer less when everyone dies. You sense this is an ignoble lie, but you are too afraid to question it because you deem the consequences of being cancelled far too high.
So be a good boy. Be a good girl. Say the right things, at the right time, in the right way. Be very careful not to offend, because you are now inherently offensive. Delete your old comments, your old threads, your old self. Get on your knees, and start to apologize, and apologize, and apologize, and apologize …
from 'The Cancel God' by Peter Limberg and Lubimir Arsov.
If there's one thing that's certain to end you, it's apathy.
Westerns show that, time and again.
Just when you think you're safe - blam! - the gunman arrives, and takes it all away. Maybe that's why Westerns used to be so popular - they spoke to a reality that we have to keep in mind, even when we don't like to.
2020 has proven to be a little like the Wild West.
There's been the scourge that's nose-dived the world into hardship (and clearly, there's plenty of that coming), but worse, there's a new 'religion' on the block that knows nothing of compassion and demands total loyalty, and the scary thing is, that most just show the 'Wokeid 2020' virus total apathy!
How come?
How did we get in this rut?
It has to do with how we look at things.
It's really popular to think we need to solve external troubles with internal solutions.
Race, Rights, Rules - if we truly see that by becoming other than we are - tons of actual penance is usually required here and a robust, regular and passionate public espousing of the correct 'right think' -, we can begin to at least placate (but most certainly not appease) the furious demands of this new 'god', that things will be a little better, but there's a serious problem here.
What if our thinking is entirely incorrect?
What if it's a case of our key problem being internal, and until that is fixed, there can be no resolve of everything else?
If we evaluate what is "bad" as being something that really isn't "us" - it's just something we need to purge, like excess weight, incorrect thinking or a bad habit, then we can exorcise evil if we're 'directed' how to do so.
Wickedness, death - these are just 'natural', so if we behave correctly, penitently, we can dissolve these annoyances and become "socially acceptable" people.
Does this free us?
Does this really deal with our deep troubles?
In the opening of Romans, Paul tells us the truth is literally staring us in the face - it's evident that we're here with purpose! What exists doesn't exist for nothing, but that says we have to acknowledge we're the handiwork of another, not ourselves, and that's where the trouble really begins.
To give God His proper place, we have to move aside - to make reference to what's greater than what we think, and the fact that the real issues are much larger than we want them to be.
It's here we buy into our own 'woke-ness'. Rather than look that deeply into our actual needs, we make everything fix-able by our own determinations - our behaviour is fine, however crippled it leaves us and others, our thinking is fine, however foolishly it tries to mask the elephant (or Creator) in the room, because we're clearly not masters of our own fate.
Religion becomes everything to us, because life becomes too scary to face, head on.
That's how we got here.
That's why we now have a new religion that will murder us all.
Paul was right - after phase 1: denial, and phase 2: indulgence, comes phase 3: Apathy before closure.
It really isn't pretty - in fact, it's terrifying.
There is an answer - Jesus.
Look and see, whilst you can.
Before the coming cancel God cancels you!
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