My mouth speaks what is true, For my lips detest wickedness. All the words of my mouth are just; Not one of them is crooked or perverse. - Wisdom, in the eighth chapter of Proverbs Gather 'round, all you clowns, let me hear you say... - From "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away"

This song by the Beatles tells of a man's visceral response to a girlfriend's rejection. The reason it is so meaningful to me is how much I really want to love others, but wow, is it hard. Even more than that, when you reach out sharing authentically true and just and just truly true things, just because you know it may just help people understand things better, people don't want to hear it. "Go away with that, it is scary. You've got to hide your love away."

 I know so well. I'm a teacher, I've been one for a little over 30 years now, and I've taught mostly secondary school Civics and Economics in both public and private settings. Dozens of quite sobering events have occurred in my professional career, some of which involve experiences sharing starkly truthful things with my students, even biblically truthful things in private Christian schools, and I've been severely reprimanded and summarily dismissed as a result of all of them — even from the Christian schools, three different such institutions. I've been gracious and respectful in every single one of them, with every student, parent, and administrator, in every single interaction whether in the classroom or administrative office.

Still...

Much of why I've been so savaged simply relates to the very few viciously vocal parents who protested biblically truthful things shared in a classroom. They are intractably captivated by the humanist, materialist, globalist, socialist, racialist, sodomist, and yes, atheist agenda woven into the mainstream — not unlike the yeast of the Pharisees Jesus warned about. I could mention several specific things about this reality and how much it is now steeped in society today. All I want to ask at this point is a question that I've sought to answer quite comprehensively in this webzine effort.

How did all of that get there?

I find it interesting how people like to celebrate anniversaries, especially those with year lengths ending in "0."  I've noted that Disney always goes crazy with it, and this year is the 100th anniversary of the whole Disney enterprise, what with Walt officially starting the company in 1923 showcasing Oswald Rabbit for a bit and introducing Mickey Mouse in "Steamboat Willie" just five years later.

Parenthetically as you may well know, this 100 years later the Disney company is reeling from allowing itself to be so consumed by the abject ugliness of that yeast, this virulent "woke" dominion that has infected what was once an institution that took pride in being pretty morally wholesome. Now the discomforting erotica and occultism elements Disney elevates are just too pronounced — in its films, in its parks, in its entire company milieu.

All of society is smothered in it.

Again, the question, how did all of this get there?

So then in honor of Disney's 100th, how about this year we celebrate one of the most important years ever in world history? The 250th anniversary? Lessee, 250 years ago is, umm, 1773? Ah yes, definitely the year of the Boston Tea Party! That's a really good guess, it did happen in December of that year, but no, that's not it. Lessee, there was a modest Ottoman revolt during the Russo-Turkish War, but nah, that's not it either. The introduction of the Viennese waltz that year! Uh, yeah, no...

Something much more significant.

It was the official Disestablishment of the Jesuit Order by the Roman Catholic Church, July 21 to be exact, by order of the Pope in the Dominus ac Redemptor Noster. This is Latin for "Our Lord and Redeemer," in a most twisted way telling the Jesuits "We want to be free from you insisting everyone bow to the Pope." The more standard reasons were that the Order simply did too much subversively sneaky political meddling, it featured all kinds of icky esoteric rituals, and its members were just too danged clever for their own good! 

As much as everyone thought they were free from its grip, all of this was perfectly fine for Jesuits because now being non-existent they could more easily compel their subjects to do their bidding under the conviction they didn't have to believe anyone but themselves — never mind whatever the "self" was saying was fed to them by these World Ops now driven into a very comfortable obscurity.

Long before the Disestablishment many countries had already kicked them out, and the Church was pressured by the vox populi to just do away with the whole thing. I mean, it did seem 1773 was the height of dread among American colonists over the threat of an Anglican bishop coming across the Atlantic to start busting parishioners' balls, indeed busting those of any religious persuasion. How about we just put everyone's fears to rest and tell everyone that terribly bothersome papist army is no more! Have some fireworks and flag-waving and barbeque — let's go!

We're free from all that! FREEDOM RULES!

Huh, how come there are still Jesuits around?

After a few years of this faux elimination, the Church realized too many people were enjoying a bit too much freedom of conscience, and, well, there was this Protestant thing weaving its way through Europe, so it needed the services of the smartest guys in the room. In their phenomenal ingenuity, the Jesuits moved the Church to do what all good healthy rackets do, make each nation an offer it could not refuse.

A century earlier the Jesuits quite publically went crazy with their policy of Ultramontanism, the demanding of papal obedience by everyone. I believe they deliberately marketed it with such vigor implicitly to generate the desired antipathy. Makes sense, after all, people say they want freedom, but they just want someone very powerful to let them do what they want and squash anyone who gets in their way. The Church is just a stodgy moralistic killjoy. We really like the grand performance art every Sunday, but don't be all judgmental about things unless you're beaming about how marvelous I am.

In the mid-1700s the policy of Gallicanism started winning the day, with the European monarchs whining about not getting their measure of power. So of course they went to the Church to ask permission. Eventually the Church said, "Well, okaay, we'll let you do this and that, but you still have to do this and this and this we still get to do." Deal! As much as those countries thought they were all that, the Church still dominated.

The Jesuits were needed to make all of this work, so sure enough, in 1814 the Disestablishment ended and the Order was re-established — huh, that sure didn't last long. Of course much of this was because after Napoleon was giving the Pope a really bad time the Pope went squawking to those deft enough to help him out — the timing couldn't have been more ideal with Waterloo convincing Napoleon it'd be good to head off to his nice retirement digs at St. Helena.

But again, all this would only work if potentates could make everyone believe their rulership would offer their subjects all those things they wanted particularly that thing freedom. In fact it is kind of funny that in Russia the Jesuits were not disestablished at all! Catherine the Great thought them delightful, and even assigned them their own Superior General. After all, the Jesuits were educating their people, they were super nice to everyone, and they were successfully using their exploitive political machinations to ensure compliance of the citizenry.

The Jesuit suppression/restoration jig is merely a necessarily intricate part of the much more interminably lethal chic-authoritarian/heroic-anarchist dance. Indeed the whole marathon ballroom competition is the Order's very raison d'etre. Countries have had this love/hate relationship with these guys for centuries, as they have with any of the deepest-state ops who must carry out the quite often exceedingly gruesome business of effective governance if any potentate is going to succeed. The Jesuits were jettisoned from a number of countries again around the time of the Revolution of 1848, which only tells us that people rage and rant and holler about the feeling they aren't getting enough freedom and democracy and limited government and they simply must convulsively enjoy a violent bitchfest about it for about the 87-thousandth time in all of history. Then again they only actually want their chosen leader-bully to crack heads on their behalf — and yes, it requires those with the skill of a Jesuit to make that happen.

I believe the last country to officially have some kind of official declaration that the Jesuits stay away was Norway, which ended that disestablishment as late as 1956! It is truly Jesuit genius, really: Get people to be more faithful to Rome by making them believe they were not doing anything Rome wanted them to do. Interestingly Ultramontanism got its most impressive traction in the late 1800s, until the movement fell out of favor leaving much of the world as Catholicized as ever.

Notch another major victory for the Company men.

The Re-establishment of the Order and along with it all the Jesuit designs for the bestest nicest global hegemony has always come with the idea that those Jesuits are necessary because of their educational acumen. This has always kept them in good favor, so much so that today just about every institution of higher education is overrun by the humanist materialist dogma. I kind of liken it to tech companies now doing the same thing, but getting all the cred they need because they promise utopia through its "A.I."

Jesuit Order: "You can never really take us out because we're teaching your kids math and writing!"

Meta Apple Microsoft Alphabet Amazon: "You can never really take us out because we've started to get the remarkably beneficent 'A.I.' going real good!"

 What is and always has been bilged into the pedagogical mainstream, however, is not rigorous, righteous, Bible-based instruction. Instead it is strictly secular and fiercely anti-clericalist Epicureanism ultimately leading to the codified substance of the preeminent civil religion to which every good Catholicist belongs: Moralist Therapeutic Deism. Moralist ("I'm really a good person!") Therapeutic ("Somebody make me feel good!") Deism ("God really has nothing to do with anything, much less me.") It has been around for millennia, each generation has some variation of it, and it is always the World System's ministerial showcase managed by those in the Order.

It is simple: You can't have potentates do potentate things without the populace expressing their freedom and doing the most wickedly immoral things with some kind of faintly promised impunity. All the latest, trendiest, more imaginative gyrations related to all of this originate here... well, perhaps in a place a bit lower than the Gesu. The mighty twin towers of academia and media provide the exhilarating service of robust dissemination, and while thoughtful people through the ages have been justifiably concerned about what those World System deep-ops do they are either resigned to it or just plain celebrate what they authoritatively must do as Cain's Legacy.

As always, all of it leads to death. Every bit of it. That is the whole point.

Last week a tragic incident nearby was a terrific example of the product of all of this.

A police standoff with a gentleman served with a warrant at his house lasted all afternoon and ended in a fiery inferno during which the man was shot dead while trying to escape. This kind of thing always brings up the why why WHY? questions.

If you even modestly peruse Scripture you'd know. It was shared quite succinctly by Benjamin Franklin actually, in one of his most profound aphorisms.

"Nine men in ten are suicides."

All the Order needs to do is tinker with the innate evildoing within the political and social infrastructure and you get men prosecuting themselves. Sure it is a tremendously grisly operation, but that is part of the genius of the Jesuit's exquisitely Sun-Tzuan enterprise. Get it to look quite sweet and luscious, because if you aren't going to live by the precepts of Christ and Gospel, then you've got to live by the ways of The City.

It is either Christ or Rome. Kingdom or World. Life or Death. Rome has hundreds of spiffy Jesuses, and Jesuits are experts at making them — they are after all The Society of Jesus. Every person on the planet believes in some form of any one of them. Go further and you'll often catch the most observant and strident detractor speak about the Bilderbergers or the Skull & Bonesmen or the WEF Great Reseters or the George Soros people or the highest ivory-tower bankers funding both sides and on and on ad nauseam, or you'll soak up the revulsion of those who can't stand seeing things out there that just plain get in the way of their CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOM, or you hear from the pulpit ministers who rail against some kind of devil-worshipping thing or nasty apostate thing or some kind of weird churchy thing they don't like — ::ho-hum::...

They don't get it. Very few of them do.

It isn't that there isn't a place for sharing these things. Some are indeed important and relevant. We should know about them. It is just most every one of those things is just another Jesus Rome has invented and showcased for you to either revile or embrace. A pathetic obsession with them is a form of worship and as such idolatry. Roiling and resisting and rebelling against any of them is just as much a part of the gourmet banquet they gorge upon.

The only thing one may do from the Kingdom is to sorrowfully gaze upon it and keenly understand what God is doing with it, a truly harrowing desolation that, again, must happen. It shouldn't, but God allows it as an act of mercy so we can behold the consequences of our sin, otherwise we wouldn't grasp the significance of His perfect judgment and even more the meaning of His bountiful mercy.

The Kingdom dweller may then humbly but boldly invite those who want out by encouraging them to leave all of those things behind and accept the abundantly gracious offer of Christ Who with nail-scarred hands stands at the skinny, splintery, blood-stained old door to Real Freedom — the only way in.

This is the reason I mentioned hiding your love away, there at the beginning of this piece. Love is hard. In fact the only way one can love is by doing it the way the Only One Who Can Truly Love does it.

It requires a life-giving God to do it.

As I've shared before, I'm so drawn to Jeremiah. He so much wanted to tell people about that God. He so valued His commission by God Himself to do so, but it was hard. He loved people who shunned him and wanted another Jesus who'd commend them for their Moralistic Therapeutic Deism — they wanted Egypt, where they felt that could get that. Jeremiah said wait, no, don't do that, God will care for you. They didn't want that. Off on their own they got death.

Jeremiah, meanwhile, got dropped in a deep pit. Literally, a pit in the ground, left there to die.

Ironically there was a public official who somehow, someway respected his own law and knew this was wrong. Maybe it was God inspired — maybe he just had something of an appreciation for the truth Jeremiah was sharing — Ebedmelech was his name, mercifully pulling Jeremiah from that pit. Again, God was using the distressing things around as a footstool for His purposes.

But I can't imagine Jeremiah didn't still want to visit that lodge — to hang out and hash out bountifully meaningful Heaven things with good, wise, thoughtful Kingdom compatriots.

Deep in the wilderness far away from all the World ugliness.

No worries. It'll come on the Last Day. We'll get to be there. Until then, we journey with the faithful, millions of them, who came before. From the eleventh chapter of the letter to the Hebrews: "God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us..."

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Final note: There is so much more to the history of Jesuit machinations, much more than a very modest home page piece can cover. I am blessed to read and discover from those who bravely put it all down, particularly those followers of Christ in the 19th century who truly identified who the Jesuits were and what they were doing. Now that material is distinctly hard to find, it has in many ways been profoundly "shadow banned" because the image of Jesuits as nice smiley college professors who are the only ones who really like you has been so propagated that to bring any of it up is to compromise their sworn activity in running World political affairs. Of course with very few grasping these truths the Order doesn't have to do much.

I have been immersed in reading as much of it as I can, and wow, there is a surprising amount of it in just regular reliable accounts — it's there if you just look. There were a dozen other things I'd have loved to have added; maybe I will in future writing efforts. The historically veritable material is there — as I usually do I heartily encourage to read Tupper Saussy's Rulers of Evil. Think you know all that went into the establishment of our beloved U.S.of A? Even Tupper couldn't get into all of it. But again, being fully engaged in the current education world it is easy to see why very few know about it. No one wants to really look. Young people in particular simply don't have a clue, and don't seem to care to.

Any official disestablishment of the Jesuit Order? Silly. Don't need one. It is already in place by default, and again, that is perfectly fine with them. That they are now doing everything they did before 1773, after 1814, and every other time is a testament to their brilliance. In fact because so many don't give a rip about it but still do the wretched things they do is plain evidence of it.

One last thing that should be noted. Over the entirety of my teaching career I never shared a single definitively Catholicist Nation item in the classroom. The only time Rome was addressed was in the most clinically acceptable way. Even so, the things I graciously and respectfully shared in the classroom — mostly just things like marriage is only between a man and woman and pre-born babies are full human beings — were unacceptable to those whose administrative duties must be regulated by those authoritative operatives. Excommunication is not fun, but it has been a God-thing since I may better grasp what happened and share those things with someone who may come across this and learn a bit more about The Kingdom.

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The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; Their feet are caught in the net they have hidden. The Lord is known by His acts of justice; The wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. - From the ninth Psalm   The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. - Kahlil Gibran

One of the most trenchant threads in any motion picture is this one from Monty Python's Life of Brian. Through a couple of key scenes we take in the blistering satire perpetrated by that splendidly valiant revolutionary organization The People's Front of Judea. They share so very much, so very simply.

The People's Front is led by a proudly demonstrative man named Reg who inspires an upright and mild-mannered people who just want things in life to be better for everyone and hold as the most significant activity to reach that goal getting rid of that pesky ugly imperialist Roman Empire patriarchischmarchy.

We are first introduced to Reg and his three cohorts enjoying a fight at the arena, and our hero Brian asks to be included. After an inquiry about his motives, Reg asks him, "Okay, but how much do you hate the Romans?"

He answers with profound conviction, "A lot."

Reg thinks for about half-a-second, and replies, "Okay, you're in."

A bit later they are holding a secret meeting of the group's rank-&-file, which pitifully numbers barely a dozen. To generate some enthusiasm Reg asks them a strictly rhetorical question, "What have the Romans ever done for us?"

A member meekly answers, "The aqueduct." Reg reluctantly concedes and repeats the question. Another comes back with "The roads." Others add things like sanitation and public safety, until some ten or fifteen very fine things are mentioned. So Reg then repeats the question with "Besides the aqueduct, the roads... [all are cited], what have the Romans ever done for us?"

The film contains much more fun from The People's Front of Judea, they could very well be the best thing in the movie.

I've spent my web ministry life hoping to elucidate the distinction between the World and the Kingdom as simply, boldly, and clearly as I can. This simple montage does quite well with this, to be honest — one comment added to one YouTube posting of a film's scene puts it well. "40 years later it is still hilariously on point. Millions of 16-21 year-olds on the Internet fighting and talking like this daily. It's amazing."

But, alas. If that is so...

People are still not getting it.

So I will give it a go again, with some thoughts here in this season's home page piece.

My wife and I recently spent our anniversary weekend in Solvang, a quaint little tourist trap in a beautiful part of California known as the Santa Ynez Valley. The town is best known for its cute overbearing Danish look and feel.

Our first morning there we strolled on a trail outside of town to get there, and were surprised to find ourselves running right smack into one of the California missions, named of course Santa Inés — and I have no idea why the difference in spelling. There it was, in all its majestic glory, as they all are now pretty-much grand museum pieces — its gift shop stocked with all the idolatrous Catholic paraphernalia one may purchase.

Still, it does stand as one of those powerful symbols of Roman Ecclesiocratic dominance in the region. Just like the performance art so exquisitely exhibited inside during services, the large pronounced edifice still bellows to all the stark reality of who rules the World System.

Out on my morning walk the next day I thought about and prayed for the apocalyptic revival, in contrast to beholding this monument. I thought, huh, for that to really happen it would have to come down. The Romanist System is only about enslavement — to shame, to guilt, to condemnation... there is no real freedom there.

But then I thought, oh, if I were to, say, go take a wrecking ball to the mission building, indeed to Rome, I'd be doing nothing other than what the French Revolution iconoclasts were trying to do. Remember what happened when they took over Notre Dame? When they thought ridding the world of the incessantly irritating Romanist scold would bring niceness and utopia and everything nice? Those heroic sans-culottes (I'm sure they were really BIPOC in some way — hat tip to the brand new historically accurate Google Gemini "A.I." image-generating service) tossing out all those ponderous saints and biblical heroes, replacing them with busts of the ultra-enlightened shining halogen lamps of Voltaire, Rousseau, and even Benjamin Franklin (and certainly a few BIPOC famous people, you know, we can't be any less anti-racist) you know, so the waaay better Goddess of Reason would reign.

Reg would be so proud.

The problem too is that whatever ruling elite is in power, it is indeed there by God's hand. Grasping the truths illuminated in Scripture, most pointedly for this treatise those in the fourth chapter of Genesis, goes a long way to understanding what God did with Cain, what his present-day minions do with all ordained potentates, sectarian or secular — and then what happens with just about any other political thing that racks our brains far too often.

Any organized rebellion against those powers, even my own sometimes stirred desire to bring Rome down, is a part of the Ministry of Sin. In God's divine wisdom He established the Ministry of Condemnation to keep that ministry in check, requiring Rome to employ great evil to combat the evil that humans routinely do. Me, Reg, the rabid leftist sporting some kind of Che Guevara-like t-shirt getting paid good money to rage in the crusade by, say, splashing tomato soup all over some really valuable painting and then gluing hands to the wall — the most courageous iconoclasts!

Ahem.

Who will free us from this body of death?

Rome has so many options for System salvation, but it does so to keep us all hypnotized by the Romanist mandarins, visible and not-so-visible. It will blare that it is really doing something about the evils it provokes, but it does need those evils in order to do its virtue-signaling about how wonderful it is fighting them, and it does it with seven times the force any of the very best detractors have. Think your own special brand of maniacal agitprop fervor will do anything about that? In fact you're just part of it, just doing their bidding while they gleefully sneer at your insidiously manipulated true-believer sentiments.

That's the beauty of the People's Front of Judea. They delightfully show us how pathetic those efforts are. This one and that one and that one and this one, over and over and over again — they've been happening for centuries before the People's Front and for centuries after. All so imaginative and entrancing and engaging. Today's quite elaborate social control innovations are really just no different. I hear them now, can you? The brilliantly contrived excuses, proudly bleated but exasperatingly sorrowful.

Trying to be stupifyingly simple many have taken to a twisted version of deconstructionism. "Well I've looked carefully at this Christianity thing and it's just no good!" Ahh, a complete bastardization of a mostly silly philosophical pustule anyway, tweaked a bit it becomes the latest Jesuit concoction now so woven into the religious landscape ultimately to transform more young people into the most imperious sodomists, racialists, and socialists.

The final product is an inevitable rejection of what was once a supposedly vibrant faith in Christ, when all that's happened is the realization that their peculiar Jesus was merely an impotent System-assembled one. Well then, ahem — if that's the case, then really: Deconstruct away! Go ahead and comprehensively expose the magnificently ornate window-dressing Jesus for what it is, a genuinely weird distasteful simulacrum invented to keep people pounding out interminable penances, or at some point jettisoning altogether as worthless religious folderol.

There're so many more ways the System Ops keep its charges enslaved and worshipping their Jesuses even if it means sticking them in an endless loop of rejecting one and embracing another in the name of so very smartly and courageously DECONSTRUCTING.

So many hapless blitherings to try to rationalize away the simplicity of the true liberating gospel.

That one comes through The Savior and The Kingdom by way of the Ministry of Reconciliation. It is a trillion light years from any of the sin-condemn-death sin-condemn-death sin-condemn-death that consumes World inhabitants. The Kingdom is only mercy-salvation-restoration-life-joy-peace-insight-contentment-freedom.

The only way this is manifest across a community is when worship assemblies become ungrafted to the System. "Abjure the realm" as it was once called long ago. Churches that remain obligated to the World through their contractual incorporations and registrations with that World are merely subdivisions of that Roman Catholic dominion. I just can't see how people who say they're Christians can ignore the plain proscription all over Scripture, viscerally shared there in the letter to the Galatians: "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be obtained from the law, Christ died for nothing!"

What would happen if genuine worship communities of people who do actually have the name of Christ on their lips were never grafted, never tied to Rome even to begin with? The sheep of His Pasture would then by prayer, fellowship, worship, and real vibrant communion with Him — oh my how much more would there be miracles and healing and deliverance and rapture and mountains being moved...

Jesus said as much.

It is quite simple.

How then does all the institutionalized evil continue to still metastasize all around us then?

For one, people are so wickedly inured to doing everything the World Ops have told them to believe they must do no matter what it is. "Hey, the Roman Catholic Church is just as Christian as anything." It is a virtually routine trope to conflate the two, and its entrenchment one of the clearest successes of the Jesuit Order in its never-ending objective to extirpate Protestantism. This simple conception moves so many to vehemently censure or actively protest some thing a relevant ruler has do, but still rationalize the value of most things he or she does.

The well-schooled Catholicist will also consider a firm ingratiation with the System their salvation, especially from the dread facing all the evils they don't know it has generated to begin with. "Don't bother asking too many questions because they'll hurt you."

Yes, they might hurt you, and often do, they're sworn to — sounds like the behavior of a racket to me. Jesus said this too very clearly: He knew it was supposed to be that way. "Be the Kingdom instead! Be the Kingdom even the midst of all that!" He insisted, then urged us to acknowledge the World will pass away but only after it's done its legitimate duty now.

Another reason it continues to thrive is because the worst of it happens at the deepest levels of the System's machinery, and no, it isn't from the ones you think are pulling Joe Biden's strings. It is coming from those who labor quite fastidiously to install the potentates and instill in them with the enduring mentality needed to make it all happen. It is much more intricately arcane, murderously manipulative, and painfully political.

There is indeed a deep-state with which we're most familiar — more identifiable bureaucrats, academics, think-tank thinkers, or even whole countries like Russia, China, or Iran. Another level down are more insidiously clever deep-state actors — the Trilateral Commission and the Committee of 300 and the Rothschild family and all the other usual suspects.

Oh so complicated!

No, just the presentation is complicated.

Again, the truth is simple.

The deeper level of deep-state elements has the most influence of all. If you really want to look, you may see beyond all the apparent complexities and find it too is quite simple. Their main goal is to get people passionately devoted to System sentiments any way they can, whether by shaming them into pusillanimous obedience, stirring the most ferocious remonstration, or anything in-between. One of the best is handing the smartest of them the cushiest jobs somewhere so they'll comfortably settle into a benighted state of perpetually oblivious preoccupation.

It is fun to hear a quite pertinent remark from the recent acclaimed motion picture Oppenheimer, even though it does only go as far as that first level deep-state. At one point in the midst of his explanation of the machinations required, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss whispers

"Power stays in the shadows."

Note it isn't just that the power resides there, it is that it stays there. It is carried forth from there, though it does originate from an even deeper state — you can check out a bit of Dante to learn more about that level. With the advances of video and communication technology, especially the new gods "The Algorithm" and "The A.I." it is so much easier for its purveyors to stream the essential propaganda unfettered into susceptible hearts and minds.

As you can see in the screenshot of yet another of John and Nisha Whitehead's tediously droning expositions of the product's impact, it will always involve the most ruthless prosecution of those who request it — after all they are paying good money for it — and it will always employ the most extreme prejudice accompanied by boasts of how not-prejudice they all are.

How far down that rabbit hole do you want to go? Sadly most just stay around close to the top, where some light still seeps in.

Not far enough.

Doesn't mean you can't go farther down.

It does mean you'll need His eyes and His light to guide you.

Doesn't mean you can't understand it all with His mind, knowing He has allowed it since the dawn of civilization explicitly to draw people to Him after they actually see the consequences of their own part in the horrors there.

As you go down there even deeper than you've ever gone before, be sure to grip His hand tightly. You don't want to get lost down there.

Especially since without Him they will successfully trap you there forever.

One final note. It is a brief but sobering metaphor for the death that is the Roman Catholic Hegemony and the World it governs. And please, it will be simple.

 Just outside the Santa Inιs mission is a vineyard, or at least a batch of grapevines. I say that because to look at them you can't help but feel grave sadness.

They're all dead.

There you go, you can see it in my photos. Not only is it all completely bereft of life, but the plaque displayed to describe what should be that life is so faded it is illegible.

No life.

No words.

No anything.

Just decay, despair, death.

Jesus is The Vine.

The Kingdom is The Vineyard.

There is life there, and only there.

That we get to be branches...

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