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Hi there!
Well, since I am still sitting here, in my Great Green Recliner at the Center of the Universe, drinking a tall, cold Killian's Irish Red, and seeing all that is to be seen throughout the Galaxy on the Vast Widescreen of Everything, and since you are out there in the blogosphere reading this monoblogue, then I can only assume that THE WORLD DID NOT END!
That's right, disciples, all the cries of Satan's return, the Anti-Christ's rise, and the End of All Things went for naught. With the exception of the odd volcano, a duffel-bag of lopped-off heads, and the usual murders and mayhem in the big cities of this Big Blue Marble, nothing Earth-shattering, Heaven-opening, Horn-blowing, or Venom-spewing happened. Satan did not rise up from the pit of the fallen World Trade Centers in an all-consuming eruption of fire and brimstone, Osama. The Anti-Christ did not rise up and bring down the Holy Roman Church, or any other church for that matter, Pat. The ground did not open up and devour all the sinners, televangelists, or politicians, Hillary.
NOTHING HAPPENED!
Damn.
I kinda hoped something would have, you know. Instead, all we got was the opening of a lame remake of a classic horror movie. Thanks, Hollywood. You did it again.
You know, 6 - 6 - 6 is the Number of the Beast, not the number of the date all Hell was suppose to break loose. Too bad so many of you out there don't know enough about the Bible to know that little fact. Come to think of it, much of what you God-fearing mortals out there fear cannot be found within the bounds of the Sacred Scriptures at all.
Did you know that the fire and brimstone Hell so many preachers describe within the walls of their churches does not come from the Holy Bible, but from Dante's Inferno? That's right. A work of fiction written by a disgruntled, exiled Italian writer in 13th Century Europe. Dante wrote his "Inferno", part of the greater work entitled "The Divine Comedy", as a warning for the people of his native Florence for the evils which awaited them for their misdeeds and the confusion and corruption of their government. He created the most dire visions of Hell and used those who had exiled him from his homeland, or wronged him in any way, as the suffering characters of his story. He imagined the worst possible ways for them to suffer throughout eternity, and put them to paper.
After his death, the images contained within the "Inferno" were used by the clergy to scare their flocks onto the straight and narrow, and to obey the Church without question, or suffer at the hands of Satan within the Infernos of Hell. No such place is described, or even hinted at, within the Bible. But so many of you "Good Christians" out there believe it to be true. Blind Faith for the Blind Sheep.
For the past, oh, two-thousand years, men have been shouting warnings of the coming of the End of the World. For two-thousand years these warnings have been listened to. And for two-thousand years NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!
And what's up with people taking these damned movies, fictional works of art, as factual? "The DiVinci Code" is a work of fiction, the same as "The Omen", and yet people veg-out over movies depicting Biblical controversies and not over movies depicting Satanic overtures. Both of these movies contain roughly the same amount of Biblical fact. Very Little! Yet one has people protesting, signs screaming for its destruction out front of churches, TV specials digging into its truths and lies, and the other is a bad remake of a classic thriller that everyone back in those days knew was fiction. Too bad you prudes are so dumb as to think Satan is at work here. Geez.
The "Date that Comes but Once a Millennium" has come and gone, without the Bad Guy's return. The Anti-Christ doesn't exist, I guess, otherwise...
Well, you know.
Many happy Days and Nights, my Minions!
Well, since I am still sitting here, in my Great Green Recliner at the Center of the Universe, drinking a tall, cold Killian's Irish Red, and seeing all that is to be seen throughout the Galaxy on the Vast Widescreen of Everything, and since you are out there in the blogosphere reading this monoblogue, then I can only assume that THE WORLD DID NOT END!
That's right, disciples, all the cries of Satan's return, the Anti-Christ's rise, and the End of All Things went for naught. With the exception of the odd volcano, a duffel-bag of lopped-off heads, and the usual murders and mayhem in the big cities of this Big Blue Marble, nothing Earth-shattering, Heaven-opening, Horn-blowing, or Venom-spewing happened. Satan did not rise up from the pit of the fallen World Trade Centers in an all-consuming eruption of fire and brimstone, Osama. The Anti-Christ did not rise up and bring down the Holy Roman Church, or any other church for that matter, Pat. The ground did not open up and devour all the sinners, televangelists, or politicians, Hillary.
NOTHING HAPPENED!
Damn.
I kinda hoped something would have, you know. Instead, all we got was the opening of a lame remake of a classic horror movie. Thanks, Hollywood. You did it again.
You know, 6 - 6 - 6 is the Number of the Beast, not the number of the date all Hell was suppose to break loose. Too bad so many of you out there don't know enough about the Bible to know that little fact. Come to think of it, much of what you God-fearing mortals out there fear cannot be found within the bounds of the Sacred Scriptures at all.
Did you know that the fire and brimstone Hell so many preachers describe within the walls of their churches does not come from the Holy Bible, but from Dante's Inferno? That's right. A work of fiction written by a disgruntled, exiled Italian writer in 13th Century Europe. Dante wrote his "Inferno", part of the greater work entitled "The Divine Comedy", as a warning for the people of his native Florence for the evils which awaited them for their misdeeds and the confusion and corruption of their government. He created the most dire visions of Hell and used those who had exiled him from his homeland, or wronged him in any way, as the suffering characters of his story. He imagined the worst possible ways for them to suffer throughout eternity, and put them to paper.
After his death, the images contained within the "Inferno" were used by the clergy to scare their flocks onto the straight and narrow, and to obey the Church without question, or suffer at the hands of Satan within the Infernos of Hell. No such place is described, or even hinted at, within the Bible. But so many of you "Good Christians" out there believe it to be true. Blind Faith for the Blind Sheep.
For the past, oh, two-thousand years, men have been shouting warnings of the coming of the End of the World. For two-thousand years these warnings have been listened to. And for two-thousand years NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!
And what's up with people taking these damned movies, fictional works of art, as factual? "The DiVinci Code" is a work of fiction, the same as "The Omen", and yet people veg-out over movies depicting Biblical controversies and not over movies depicting Satanic overtures. Both of these movies contain roughly the same amount of Biblical fact. Very Little! Yet one has people protesting, signs screaming for its destruction out front of churches, TV specials digging into its truths and lies, and the other is a bad remake of a classic thriller that everyone back in those days knew was fiction. Too bad you prudes are so dumb as to think Satan is at work here. Geez.
The "Date that Comes but Once a Millennium" has come and gone, without the Bad Guy's return. The Anti-Christ doesn't exist, I guess, otherwise...
Well, you know.
Many happy Days and Nights, my Minions!
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