The Iranian Mullahs, America's Christian Nationalists and Israel's Orthodox Jews are at war. They share an unerring faith in a punitive god. Let's hope they spare the rest of us
Thanks Paul for another excellent article about that Black Hole in most Status Quo “End Times” Minds, ugh.
Did you know about this?
Study reveals how end-of-world beliefs shape Americans' response to global threats. March 3, 2026
"Belief in the end of the world is surprisingly common across America, and it's significantly influencing how people interpret and respond to the most pressing threats facing humanity," says Matthew I. Billet, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine Department of Psychology and the study's lead author.
We are living in a culture awash in apocalyptic imagery," he says. "What we found is that apocalyptic thinking isn't reserved for radical or fringe movements. These beliefs are held widely across diverse populations, and they have real consequences for how we confront global risks."
The study, which surveyed 1,409 religiously diverse Americans, found that about one-third agreed that the world would end within their own lifetime.”
This quote from a favorite and today not much known book The Mature Mind by E.A. Overstreet expresses my sentiments:
“The most dangerous members of our society are those grownups whose powers of influence are adult but whose motives and responses are infantile. G.B. Chisholm has said, ‘So far in the history of the world there have never been enough mature people in the right places’. Never yet have enough people come to their adulthood with such sound linkages between them and their world that what they choose to do is for their own and the common good.”
I note you hold Hamas and the Israeli government have continued these seemingly religious Crimes Against Humanity today in the Gaza Genocide but it seems your quote on Hamas “slaughtering some 1200 civilians needs correction. I suggest you go to The Last American Vagabond https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ for more objective information on this topic. Ironically, it seems the Zionists who are most behind the Gaza Genocide, many are atheists.
But I am pleased you are mainly, as I am, an equal opportunity offender of the Global Predators wherever they may reside.
Thanks Jack, as always, for a feast of information and links to fresh material. I shall follow them up. What I find most unappealing about religious zealots is their certainty. How do they know? They're entitled to their views, of course - however apocalyptic, solipsistic or plain mad. It's when they take up arms to impose their views on us all that we should run for cover...
That is what all governments, religions--all coercive collectives--do: initiate physical force when the sheeple dare to disobey. As my favorite Voluntaryist scholar Robert Higgs penned:
“The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you. The mass belief in the general beneficence of democracy represents a kind of Stockholm syndrome writ large. We shall never have real, lasting peace so long as we give our allegiance to the whole conglomeration of institutionalized exploiters and murderers we know as the state.”
Great essay! Unfortunately no one seems to have taken project 2025 seriously, yet trumps following it like a checklist. Christian dystopia unless democrats acknowledge their theocratic opposition!!!
Thank you Leslie. Tu as raison! The Democrats don’t seem to understand the forces that oppose them…
Thanks Paul for another excellent article about that Black Hole in most Status Quo “End Times” Minds, ugh.
Did you know about this?
Study reveals how end-of-world beliefs shape Americans' response to global threats. March 3, 2026
"Belief in the end of the world is surprisingly common across America, and it's significantly influencing how people interpret and respond to the most pressing threats facing humanity," says Matthew I. Billet, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Irvine Department of Psychology and the study's lead author.
We are living in a culture awash in apocalyptic imagery," he says. "What we found is that apocalyptic thinking isn't reserved for radical or fringe movements. These beliefs are held widely across diverse populations, and they have real consequences for how we confront global risks."
The study, which surveyed 1,409 religiously diverse Americans, found that about one-third agreed that the world would end within their own lifetime.”
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-reveals-world-beliefs-americans-response.html
This quote from a favorite and today not much known book The Mature Mind by E.A. Overstreet expresses my sentiments:
“The most dangerous members of our society are those grownups whose powers of influence are adult but whose motives and responses are infantile. G.B. Chisholm has said, ‘So far in the history of the world there have never been enough mature people in the right places’. Never yet have enough people come to their adulthood with such sound linkages between them and their world that what they choose to do is for their own and the common good.”
I note you hold Hamas and the Israeli government have continued these seemingly religious Crimes Against Humanity today in the Gaza Genocide but it seems your quote on Hamas “slaughtering some 1200 civilians needs correction. I suggest you go to The Last American Vagabond https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/ for more objective information on this topic. Ironically, it seems the Zionists who are most behind the Gaza Genocide, many are atheists.
But I am pleased you are mainly, as I am, an equal opportunity offender of the Global Predators wherever they may reside.
Thanks Jack, as always, for a feast of information and links to fresh material. I shall follow them up. What I find most unappealing about religious zealots is their certainty. How do they know? They're entitled to their views, of course - however apocalyptic, solipsistic or plain mad. It's when they take up arms to impose their views on us all that we should run for cover...
That is what all governments, religions--all coercive collectives--do: initiate physical force when the sheeple dare to disobey. As my favorite Voluntaryist scholar Robert Higgs penned:
“The beginning of political wisdom is the realization that despite everything you’ve always been taught, the government is not really on your side; indeed, it is out to get you. The mass belief in the general beneficence of democracy represents a kind of Stockholm syndrome writ large. We shall never have real, lasting peace so long as we give our allegiance to the whole conglomeration of institutionalized exploiters and murderers we know as the state.”
Great essay! Unfortunately no one seems to have taken project 2025 seriously, yet trumps following it like a checklist. Christian dystopia unless democrats acknowledge their theocratic opposition!!!