The hidden powers

According to this prophet, people like Mark Zuckerberg are actually following the orders of far more powerful people, especially in America where only certain things are known to the US public. But if everything’s known to God and sin finds anyone out, then it’s really going to be known to everybody around the world. Not to mention Facebook even censored its study about how and why social media usage can risk harming one’s mental health this way, that a forthcoming earthquake is really coming to America and why the end of America’s status as a superpower is soon. Which means the United States is really under God’s judgement for all the sins it has popularised and kind of justified, whether if this includes polyamory is up to anybody’s guess. But it’s really adultery or infidelity under a different guise, where somebody purposefully gets an affair for as long as their spouse willingly puts up with this.

And this is also where the US economy also gets destroyed real badly by this natural disaster, that if such a natural disaster were to halve the US landmass, then it will succeed in rapidly ruining the US economy for good. America will fall into a terrible civil war not seen in years, one that will be so terrible that it will result in a massive loss in lives. It will across political, economic and ethnic lines that it’s frightening to see America fall into such disarray, with its own allies like the Philippines coming to mock it for this. It will be fashionable around the world for America to be mocked due to its own failings, that even the Philippines gets into the act just the same. Add to that it’s been speculated that there’s an occult origin to the White House that makes one wonder which god America serves, which is definitely not the God of the Bible, rather it’s the Devil instead. Which means America has truly whored itself to every nation and ideology around.

America is Mystery Babylon in a way no other country qualifies, to the point of being revoked in the future.

They’ve been gone astray

When it comes to Nakita pointing out that Stray Kids’s own manager, JY Park, is a false teacher and he does a lot to lead people astray, it does make people wonder why he’d call this band as such? Pretending to be a pastor yet doing a lot to the contrary at times, even calling himself the Asian counterpart to P Diddy (who’s involved in human trafficking himself) and possibly molesting or abusing his own trainees even, what sort of man he really is and why he’ll be judged for this. Nakita went on saying that when the Stray Kids first appeared in public, they weren’t this muscular before. She went on saying that K-Pop is anti-Christian, because it promotes and propagates worldly values a lot.

For the longest period in my life, I listened to a lot of secular music. But as of late, the closer I get to God, the less time I have for secular music even when I felt like doing this at times. I’m still not there yet, getting it wrong even when I wanted to do right many times over, it kind of hurts not doing the good you want to do. He also made groups I have listened to before Stray Kids got big, something like Wonder Girls (I Got Nobody But You) and Miss A. The weird thing about K-Pop is that I listened to that sort of music before, but I never developed a strong fascination with any K-Pop band. Even more remarkable still is that at this point in my life, I have some interest in K-Pop but never particularly interested in any one K-Pop musician and band for long. Well I know some people who’re way more into K-Pop than I’ll ever be.

One wrote for various outfits like Teen Vogue, Rebellion (what a minute, does this tie into what K-Pop’s been doing all along?) and the like over the years, the other is also a Backstreet Boys whose very own JY Park is none other than Brian Littrell. Not so much that he’s the manager of the group, but in the sense of being an outspoken Christian who does a lot to the contrary. When Burk Parsons got interviewed by Tim Challies years ago, he said that Littrell was going to serve in ministry himself. He also said that he was going to be part of the Backstreet Boys himself, but by following God’s plan he dodged a bullet. Otherwise we could’ve gotten porn fanfics of Burk Parsons on somewhere like AO3, there was a time when these stories were called visuals during the height of the Backstreet Boys’ popularity.

It would be painfully horrid if all the Backstreet Boys have fans for mistresses, but it seems Littrell seems more wedded to the world than he thinks of himself as. It’s even odder still to think that his contemporary Zac Hanson is actually living out the dream he had before, who also came from the same background as he did. But once Hansongate happened to him, it was that pivotal moment that drew him back to God, and his walk back to him was certainly awkward since I also backslided before and come from the same background as he did. Just replace Eastern Orthodoxy with Roman Catholicism, even though I’ve yet to convert to Catholicism myself. But even then there’s something wrong with Littrell choosing to love the world, even though he’s a Christian that it seems he might be double-minded.

Or perhaps he might not be double-minded at first, but he never stops his bandmates from blaspheming God, abusing people themselves (especially Nick Carter over the years), so on and so forth that he practically enables them. Or that being around in their company for so long it has dulled his judgement of sin, but either way it seems Brian Littrell arguably got worse over time. It’s really oddly telling why Brian Littrell never really quit the limelight for long to focus more on doing church service in private, the way both Zac Hanson and Jenny Berggren of Ace of Base (also a contemporary of the Backstreet Boys) did or ended up doing, the Berggren siblings survived a stalker attack but got one of them traumatised for long as to retire from the spotlight in order to take time to recover and heal. This also got Berggren closer to God this way.

Even then it seems there’s something wrong about the Backstreet Boys where it’s telling that when somebody on YouTube insinuated that people like him are arrogant (I struggle with this as well) and a radio preacher insinuated that people like him are wicked, it’s telling why Brian Littrell ended up this way that if he did start out wanting to serve God in earnest but got off-track for long and never repented, never tried doing better in any way the next time comes and stuff, it seems he’ll die at any point along with all his colleagues. Or JY Park and his family for another matter for corrupting people, that ultimately both Stray Kids and Backstreet Boys are going to be doomed in the future and so will the entire K-Pop industry. Even more alarming is when the entire K-Pop industry collapses for good.

Never to be seen again in any form along with its counterparts on anywhere else in East Asia, including the Philippines when it comes to P-Pop.

Between holiness and unholiness

There’s a French phrase used to describe midnight called ‘entre chien et loup’ in the sense that not only are dogs a subspecies of wolves, but they’re practically indistinguishable at night. Thus making it harder to tell friend from foe, harder to know what to trust and what not to. The Bible also speaks of the Devil dwelling in darkness, deceiving others as an angel of light, and evil people being likened to wolves themselves, despite the odd verse of the wolf living in harmony with the sheep. One would wonder if this could also be used to describe the situation the Backstreet Boys in just as well, given somebody like Burk Parsons was going to join them himself at some point.

And even if Burk Parsons might’ve fancied the idea of joining them for a brief while, he ultimately conceded to his father’s advice, knowing his father wouldn’t approve of him joining such a group only to be sexualised in public. This kind of also spares him from being the subject of pornographic fanfictions, which a number of Backstreet Boys do write, these were known as visuals during their peak. Looks like it proves his father right, lest he get accused of rape and abuse by various women like Shannon Ruth. Another woman who had the misfortune of being around Nick Carter on a bad day like Kaya Jones, she said that he watched porn when she was around and was so angry he even punched a wall or something. In a sense the Backstreet Boys live in a kind of midnight, where it’s hard to tell if they’re good or not at first.

But if you can tell a tree by its fruit, then it seems the Backstreet Boys have kind of resigned themselves to darkness, one radio preacher insinuated that people like them are wicked. Or at least have unsound actions, as the heart is deceitful. The Backstreet Boys seem to be one of the spiritually least controversial bands around, although some criticisms of them did exist if I remember, they never seemed particularly that offensive compared to say Nine Inch Nails. But in reality both of them blasphemed God, just in their own respective ways, where Trent Reznor blasphemed God by crucifying a monkey. The Backstreet Boys blasphemed God by merely misusing his name, one would wonder when will they ever get further comeuppances. It’s a matter of time before they die, being too rebellious for their own good.

It’s even weirder still why Brian Littrell never forbade his band from using this song, but being a Christian he condones this in some way anyways. I struggle with blasphemy and it hurts me, but sometimes I blaspheme God in an attempt to calm down, sometimes it backfires and it makes me sad. It’s weird why Brian Littrell condones this song in some way, instead of revoking it altogether, knowing it’ll offend God in some manner or another. But I remember this pastor saying that people like him are proud (I do struggle with this from time to time, sometimes to my detriment as it did before). Or at least seems more wedded to the world than he is to the word of God, it’s shocking to think his contemporary Zac Hanson is living out his old dream of serving in church.

Well he and his band got too proud for their own good and lost sight of God that the Lord had to engineer something to get them back on track, you may know this as Hansongate and as of late, Zac serves in church as a deacon. Zac’s not without his own faults every now and then, but he seems more willing to cut himself off from the world more than Brian does, even if the road to obedience would’ve been awkward for him as he may’ve also backslided before as it is with me. I did backslide and lost stuff, my road back to God is awkward, I’m still in the process of getting sanctified, trying to reign in on my sins, even if they don’t always end well (I rely on my own strength). Zac Hanson’s on a similar path where it is awkward actually serving in church, whilst yearning for the world.

But if you can’t serve God and Mammon, then Zac Hanson learnt this the hard way and likewise myself at various points with sermons from different channels and the like, hard to admit it but it does feel this way. Or for another matter, Ace of Base just the same really. Even then doing a Zac Hanson’s preferable to doing a Brian Littrell, even if this means alienating the fanbase to end up serving God more. Tim Challies’s interview with Burk Parsons indicates that when it comes to serving God and the world, it seemed as if Brian Littrell made the conscious decision to serve the world more. If our choices affect the world around us, unfortunately Brian chose the world and faces scandals. It would be horrifying if all members have fans for mistresses, that it does make wonder if they love the world more than God. And why they turned out this way.

The show is over

Another person goes on prophesising that not only will Donald Trump actually get killed, but also the US economy will crash so badly due to hyperinflation, that ultimately America truly stops being a superpower from then on. It kind of points out at a kind of undoing of consumerism in American culture, that makes one wonder why would a self-proclaimed Christian nation partake in crass materialism, especially when these goods don’t last long? Although this kind of materialism didn’t originate in America, what America did (as a superpower) is to popularise and even normalise this. Like it’s not enough to be able to have a nice house and stuff, you have to have more of those. It turned out to be unattainable even for other Americans, that it seems to be a case of misplaced needs and wants for years.

Not that there’s anything wrong with a nice house and stuff, but there are other people who’re really in need of it despite not having much, to the point where you either invite homeless people to stay in your house for long. Or you could build a house from something cheap and readily available as it is with some people, you needn’t to spend an insane amount of money to get a nice house when you can learn to make a nice house from rubbish. This could be a very good solution for homeless people seeking a nice house to stay in, whilst it might be more tedious and difficult than a prefab house. But it’s something that’s doable by using what’s readily available in a way (rubbish in the form of plastic bottles), that although it took take time figuring out the logistics of making a house from plastic bottles when it comes to toiletry and sinks, but it’s helpful enough to give somebody a nice home from scratch.

The Bible speaks highly of helping the poor and needy among us, that anybody who goes against this will be judged for this. It may not entirely eliminate poverty, well not immediately, but it does help alleviate problems like these. It also makes it easier for others to realise their dreams, needs and wants, but this involves putting their desires above your own. The Bible speaks about having to serve others, however awkward it may be (as it is with me before), but in this case it involves helping out the poor and needy. In this case, it’s homeless people seeking good homes to be in without having to pay much. Even when people can afford to and stay in homes for long, housing problems still exist in another manner. This involves living in overcrowded, claustrophobic places (as it is in Hong Kong), living in rooftop slums as it is in Hong Kong and so on.

It should be noted that slums were a thing in the United States before, but I feel if the US economy were to crash again in the future then slums might return. In fact they’ll become the new normal from then on in a way, blessings become curses that the American dream has become the American nightmare. American poverty might grow in unprecedented numbers so quickly once the US economy crashes so badly, along with lasting power shortages, that the United States has kind of effectively regressed. Poorer than Nigeria even, which will become a newly industrialised country very soon (same with Ghana and others). Admittedly this is going to be kind of frightening, because I often peruse US online lectionaries and devotionals to pray to God with. The loss of electricity in the US would cut people off of certain websites, the more I think about it.

Unless if these ministries head elsewhere or if God provides substitutes in their place, it would be pretty frightening navigating a world where these don’t exist. That’s how I feel about sermons not getting played at expected times, that it’s hard warming up to a substitute when you want the real thing real badly, but you also can’t be double-minded (as I learnt). Sometimes it happens due to my misdeeds, sometimes it’s something I have little control over. It would be no different for other people in this situation, that it’s possible God will provide substitutes in their place instead. This could come from anywhere else in the world, like Nigeria, China, India or Vietnam; but especially China as it’s got a rising Christian population. It’s quite possible that if American ministries were to face loss in power, he might raise Chinese ministries in their place to reach out to many people instead.

There might be many more Chinese devotionals and lectionaries in the wings waiting to be used by many people around the world, that if lasting electrical shortages were to occur in the United States, that their Chinese counterparts would have to do to make up for a particular loss like these. It’s also possible for their Nigerian, Ghanaian, Cameroonian, Ugandan, Ivorian, South African and Zimbabwean counterparts to step in and do the same for other people, perhaps even those from Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia just the same too. It would be a kind of miracle for nonwestern ministries from both East Asia and Africa to step in and care for people’s spiritual needs when their American counterparts are unable to help out, due to a forthcoming prolonged electrical shortage coming over to the US. I’ve been listening to a radio broadcast about miracles, so God could provide something in an unexpected way.

That is by having Indian, African and East Asian ministries provide online lectionaries and devotionals for free to make up for a loss of US devotionals and lectionaries for those still wanting to worship God, and they will explode in huge numbers to meet these demands that Christian websites and the like that don’t usually have devotionals and lectionaries will have these by then. A case of God making good out of evil, making up for the losses American ministries may face in the future, especially in light of electrical shortages that either they rely on alternative sources of electricity to remain active in some way, or turn to substitutes to make up for it. But I feel these losses would necessitate some kind of alternative, however awkward it may be at first, even then America’s increasingly less powerful as a country. And being Mystery Babylon it might be far less powerful than it makes itself out to be by now.

There’s a prophecy of America getting hit by a meteor, which lines up with neatly with Babylon the Great getting hit by a stone. So the US truly is Mystery Babylon and why it’s overdue to get revoked and destroyed for all the evil it ended up doing for the years, never repenting and never trying to do better, it deserves to be wrecked.

Politics affecting fashion

When it comes to US Anglophone sources pointing out the influence of conservative politics on the US clothing industry, one would wonder what would happen if similarly culturally conservative countries like China and Russia would do the same to other countries, if they’re given the opportunity to actually influence them for good. Compared to China, Russia’s both economically and culturally conservative. Whilst it’s not known if Russia has its own version of the tradwife phenomenon that the United States does, it’s inevitable Russian fashion trends would make its way to Europe if it’s given the opportunity to get it (it really would if you believe the likes of Celestial). And if you believe certain characters on the Internet, America is Mystery Babylon (the future nation-state in the Bible said to corrupt the world as personified by a woman and then meeting its downfall).

Until lately to an extent, America being a major superpower means it would popularise things their originators never got around to. Something like certain fashion garments that even if they originated elsewhere in the western world, it’s America’s clout that enables it to popularise it more than their originators wished to. It’s like this with China nowadays since Tiktok comes from it, it didn’t originate the short-form video. If anything, it’s America that did through Vine. But what China did is to popularise and modernise it in a way America never got around to, that eventually things like YouTube and Facebook follow suit now. So logically if it were to actually heavily influence the Philippines in any way, there’s a possibility it could influence it sartorially. Maybe not immediately at first, maybe not entirely in a way I’d expect. But it’s going to be noticeable.

And if the Philippines were to adopt socialism as its predominant ideology, as anti-imperialism’s part of socialism, it might do anything to minimise any signs of western influence in itself as much as possible. As a way to truly cut ties to the imperialist west, though it remains to be seen if the Philippines will actually open itself up to the rest of the East other than South Korea. A more plausible situation is that a newly socialist Philippines might look up more to not only China, but also Laos and Vietnam thus forming the four socialist tigers of East Asia, even when there are really no tigers in the Philippines. So it’s also plausible that a newly socialist Philippines will take sartorial cues from these three more, though some of it’s my own wishful thinking regarding how westernised the Philippines is. It wouldn’t entirely get rid of it, it could be greatly minimised at the very least.

But with a prophecy of American influence getting immediately and deeply revoked everywhere and anywhere on Earth, that the Philippines might also lessen its ties to America over time and if America does fail to save it from China, that’s when the Philippines turns its back on America for good. That’s when American influence in the Philippines starts to lessen a lot in earnest, and more quickly than one would expect. To the point where many Filipinos alive today (even myself) would no longer be bilingual in Tagalog and English, but rather Mandarin and Tagalog instead. If Europe might eventually see the good in joining Russia, it’s likely countries like the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan will do the same with China eventually and awkwardly at first. If because America’s on its way to becoming a failed state, that should its economy worsen in the coming years and months, the Philippines might not see it as worthy anymore.

Even if China might not really invade the Philippines as one might realise, America might no longer be in a position to defend or support the Philippines. Especially should a civil war come to it sooner than expected that it would be too busy fighting itself, than fighting for the interests of its allies against its enemies that it would be too weak to support them by then. So this is when American influence will be completely undone in the Philippines, or perhaps earlier than that and even then it would make it seem as if it’s too late for a US company like Disney to start Disney stores in the Philippines. If because towards the 2030s is when the United States meets its doom, it might already be happening now but as it stands, America’s not going to last in its current form and may not get to influence the Philippines a lot this time and by tomorrow. It could be replaced by China or some other East Asian country that’s not South Korea.

But it’s clearly that if political ideology has some effect on one’s dressing, if conservative politics has made Americans dress more modestly then it’s logical that growing ties to China would have Filipinos adopting Chinese fashion trends and phenomena over time. Maybe not immediately but something that could happen in the future, it may not always be what I expected but a possibility that it could head in this direction. It’s still not known to me if Russia has its own tradwife movement the way America does, modest fashion’s definitely a thing there or at least it’s on its way towards it, given Russia’s also a superpower that if modest fashion were to grow there and if it does capture all of Europe, it might popularise it in a way its own originators don’t get to. In some regards, it would be like a continuation of the modest trend happening these ways.

But one with a Russian slant to boot as the American version of modest fashion’s largely rooted in nostalgia, I feel in order for the Russian fashion industry to catch up with its US and Chinese counterparts, it would take time to do so and it would be reliant on not only China, but also West Asian countries a lot (which are predominantly Muslim) to make up for the loss of US fashion chains. To the point where the resulting Russian equivalent to the US tradwife phenomenon would be nearly equal parts Russian folk costume and West Asian Islamic dress, if Russia does get the rest of the west then their version of modest fashion will follow their Russian counterpart more. Although Europe is closer to West Asia than the Americas by, that’s by merely sharing most of the same landmass together, it’s been under US sociopolitical and socioeconomic influence that it tends to follow America around a lot.

Like a pet begging for food, if Europeans see what Americans have they will want it real badly too. This includes music, technology, movies and of course, fashion, so if something like say grunge fashion trends in America, it will spread to other countries like Britain. If something like hip hop trends in America, it will also eventually trend in both Sweden and Britain too. These have already happened before in the 1980s and 1990s, that a number of European music producers have gotten their start in hip hop in some way. Though American influence still happens, it’s to a lesser extent these days. Reflecting America’s declining status as a superpower that anything America is anything outdated and out of touch with current global realities and preferences, which will grow in the future.

It’s kind of telling that American fashion brands like Forever 21 have found themselves bought by their Chinese counterparts (Shein) suggests that the tide was already turning when it happened a few years ago or perhaps more, one that’s turning in China’s favour and this will not be the last one so far. It’s possible other fashion brands and companies may follow suit in the coming years, especially should the US economy worsen beyond repair. Their best chance at survival is to be bought by a more powerful country’s company, like if some Chinese company like Tenmu buys something like say Urban Outfitters. Urban Outfitters might remain but it would have to cater to the international market more and with newfound Chinese sensibilities to boot, mind you Hollywood studios have already been catering to China before that.

Likewise if some Russian company were to grow big enough to buy something like say The Row, if because the US economy has declined a lot by then, there’s a chance this Russian company would do something about this brand as to gain a lot of traction in the Russian fashion industry. That is a quest for expansion to make up for quite a loss due to the west’s war against Russia, that if you have prophecies of Russia taking over Europe and North America, then it’s reasonable that Russian companies will grow big enough to buy newly struggling western fashion brands in this light. Even then with America’s declining stature that it would be wiser to forge new alliances, especially with countries that turn out to be more powerful than America will be in the future.

The Eastern Churches

With the possible exception of those in the Philippines and also South Korea, possibly Africa to some extent as well, a good number of churches throughout both West and East Asia are practically and truly countercultural. That just by merely practising and following Christ a lot, even if they sometimes get it wrong, they are going against the grain in which the dominant religions there are either Islam (the Arab states, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Krygyzstan and Azerbaijan) or Buddhism (China, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan). So they truly know what it’s like to be in the minority, simply because they follow a different religion altogether. The situation of Christianity in both Europe and North America as well as in Africa, the Philippines and South Korea to some extent is that most adherents are lukewarm, or if you will nominal Christians at that.

Like they are Chrisians simply because they were baptised in a church, follow Christian holidays, attend church and have Christian names, but that’s really about it. But there’s also the aspect of Christianity that’s kind of missed out even by other Christians at times is the constant struggle between the spirit and the flesh, having to stop oneself from sinning despite attempts being imperfect at times (as it is with me in an attempt to not get angry or lust). It’s not really a religion that makes you come as you are, but be better than you are, for God is perfect and you should be perfect too. I feel there’s a current strain in Christian thought where you just be yourself, but this kind of softens the Biblical stance on repentance or the willingness to actively stop sinning. It’s a feel-good Christianity that doesn’t demand much of people, regardless of how and why you have Bible verses demanding to let go of the old self.

I remember this video about how and why subsequent preachers soften the message in the Bible, though this was specifically about lust, it could be applied to any other sin. It’s kind of hard preaching repentance when others strongly insist on just being yourself, when at times they actively conflict with one another. One demands having to hold oneself to a higher standard by God, the other involves not much effort at repenting and stopping sin. I’m starting to think the current Christian obsession with self-acceptance is largely unbiblical, one that seems far worldlier than it makes itself out to be be and one that I experienced multiple times due to my sins, that there’s really a big limit to this sort of acceptance in Christianity. So in Christianity it’s more like 99% be better than you are regarding sin, 1% come as you are when you’re vulnerable or somewhat more than that. But I don’t think Christianity’s built for monumentalism at all.

Rather it’s a faith that thrives on flexibility in the sense of adapting to circumstances (relying on God in tough times, obeying whatever authority he puts in charge) and willingness to change (the whole repentance thing), whereas the world thrives on monumentalism in the sense of you are who you always were, which goes against the Christian thought in renewing the self. So the desire for repentance and the desire for self-acceptance will often conflict with one another, so they generally don’t complement each other much when they oppose one another to begin with. It seems western Christianity’s heavily influenced by western secular thought, one that’s more preoccupied with both individualism (the self’s put above the community) and monumentalism than with both collectivism (the community’s put above the self) and flexibility. It’s kind of hard to actively serve others, when it’s easier to please the self.

Not helped by that western Christianity strongly emphasies a personal (in fact, solipistic) relationship with God over being truly concerned over brothers and sisters in Christ, the whole body of Christ really, that it would be this easy to be selfish and unconcerned about others (admittedly my attempts at interceding for others, especially when trying hard not to lose my temper or lust, backfire). So it seems like both western and eastern Christianities don’t seem to read the same book, don’t worship the same God and so on due to their differing cultural circumstances. Because the west has been Christian-majority together as to take it for grant and grow complacent, whereas in the east Christianity’s a minority religion for a long time so there’s an awareness of being outsiders to the majority belief systems there. Sort of like the difference betweeng being a Christian in Britain as opposed to in Chnia.

It’s kind of makes for an interesting study in contrasts where western Christianity’s influenced by individualism and western laicity, but eastern Christianity’s fully aware of its outsider status. This is like the difference between Christianity in France and Christianity in Vietnam, the former is Christianity-majority longer than the latter and it’s not uncommon to find French people with Christian names like Victor, Paul, Jean and Matthieu, some of which relate to Christian concepts of victory and the like. People with those names are in the minority in Vietnam, though from my experience frequenting Vietnamese Christian webpages it’s less anti-Christian than one expects it to be. But with Buddhism being the predominant religion there that Vietnamese Christianity takes on an outsider character that’s alien to French culture, even if France is highly secularised at this point.

It still makes for an interesting study in contrasts between the two cultural regions.

Death Or Glory

Somebody had a prophecy of Christians getting persecuted again in the western world, a phenomenon not seen in millennia. Somebody else or more had prophecies relating to this, but where Islam has become the dominant religion in the west. It would be really politically incorrect to say that the powers in charge are out to deliberately replace Christianity with Islam, but with these same characters having desensitised Europeans to things like outright displays of LGBT activity and more, that if it’s not enough to undermine Christianity in Europe with unbelief and LGBT stuff then replacing it with Islam would further hurt this. Christianity was the dominant religion there for centuries that to be Christian is to be European, though this is increasingly no longer the case, now that nonwestern countries like Ghana and China either already have substantial Christian communities at this point or are beginning to have more of those in the years to come. There’s a lot more of these even in Sinophone Internet than one realises.

So it’s substantial enough to justify having these websites around to serve people’s spiritual needs in some capacity, that God may even either bring them back (as I did before with one of them) or keep them around for those seeking to worship him, even in tough times like in China and if persecution brings blessings, then it’s good news for China as it might be moving out of that atheist mire at this point. But it seems in the western world that even if a good number of Christian websites are around enough to serve the remnant that God holds, its Christian heritage has been eroded way that if it’s not enough to lose faith in the Christian God, then you might have to replace it with something else like Islam. But it seems as more Europeans reject him (I kind of resort to this, in an effort to not lose my cool and getting into trouble for it), they’ll be given over to their sins and even their enemy Russia one day.

It’s possible that Europeans might return to God when Russian invasion happens throughout Europe and possibly North America to an extent when it comes to both Canada and America, but between the two only the former becomes a Russian protectorate. (If because I don’t want Canada to end up like America, so this prayer’s been answered in a way.) Again it is really politically incorrect to imply that Europe’s in danger of losing its cultural heritage of those of immigrants, especially Muslim immigrants at that, no doubt prejudice occurs anyways. On the other hand, things like multiculturalism are widely suspected to be western values in both China and Russia, not that their own versions of multiculturalism are nonexistent. (Their own versions of multiculturalism would run in the lines of ethnolinguistic diversity instead, which is also true in Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.)

The western version of multiculturalism is multinational in nature, given western countries tend to house immigrants from the global south due to prior colonisation and the like. The African immigrants more likely to reside in France come from its ex-colonies like Cameroon, Mali, Niger and Morocco, hence why singers Yseult and Aya Nakamura are the daughters of Cameroonian and Mali immigrants respectively. The Asian immigrants more likely to reside there are from other ex-colonies like Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia with some Chinese people here and there as well, whereas in Britain the immigrants and their scions come from Ireland, Nigeria, Ghana, Jamaica, Barbados, India, Pakistan and Malaysia instead. In the Netherlands, you’d have Indonesians and the Surinamese in their place instead. Spain seems to be the exception, but because with the exception of the Philippines, Latin America’s much closer to USA instead.

So many Latin Americans are far likelier to immigrate to the United States, than they would to their actual coloniser Spain, that in the American mind Spansh speakers would have to come from America’s closest neighbours. If you believe both the Russians and Chinese, in an attempt to uphold multiculturalism Europe’s at risk of undermining its heritage. That’s not to say there weren’t any immigrants in Europe before, but most European countries differ from America in that the indigenous ethnicities are the dominant ethnicities in many ways (politically, socially, culturally, economically and numerically), with immigrants tending to occupy rather marginalised positions despite attaining a degree of influence over the majority cultures there. Especially in certain fields like entertainment and sports, though I suspect something like Wikipedia has its own biases at hand.

Even then the deChristianisation of Europe and the Americas is already there, though it might worsen in the years to come, to the point where the west’s Christian heritage has been effectively undone.

Food Desert

Wishing to go to a market

Too bad it’s not here,

It’s not there in town either.

Into the future we go

Imagine that this is the 2060s, 40 years since America stopped being a superpower. The major superpowers of the day are both Russia and China, though with India and South Africa rivalling these two in some way, if America were to remain in some way it would be a major has-been by then. Musicians like Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande aren’t completely forgotten, but will end up regarded in the same way as Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross are to 2020s youths. Not necessarily any less forgotten or influential, but as relics of a bygone era, one where to 2060s youths people like Lady Gaga epitomise a long-forgotten superpower. A world that they can’t completely relate to, because they’ve only known China and Russia as the big superpowers. It’s something they have an idea about and come to appreciate at some point, if they have living relatives who love these musicians themselves.

This is really how I feel about American musicians from the 1960s and 1950s, though as of late in late 2025 unless if I listen to my father’s music when the Internet’s either deliberately off or unavailable for a time being, I’d go back to at least some of the music I liked before when I was younger. These days I listen to sermons a lot with some Christian music every now and then, add to that there are prophecies of America being not only destroyed, but also nearly forgotten to time that most people in the future would think it’s made-up or something. Also with America being Mystery Babylon, the nation-state in the Book of Revelations said to corrupt the entire planet, that it’s truly up to no good for most of the part and thus warrant its removal. And even if America were to remain in any way, it would be a major has-been in the 2060s. Nowhere as powerful as it was before, nowhere as influential back then.

If somebody born in the 1990s would have difficulty relating to a time when Britain and France were major superpowers, this should give you an idea of how hard it is for somebody born in the 2040s to get an idea of how powerful America was before. They might like Lady Gaga but would see her as an artefact of a bygone country and era, whereas her 2060s Chinese/Russian counterpart would be far more relevant to either their peers or themself. Not necessarily entirely forgotten but that Lady Gaga is a product of her times, albeit a character who emerged during America’s prelude to its decline in the 2020s. Aretha Franklin emerged when America was truly at the height of its powers, one that seemed to be unstoppable in its ambitions and scope. It would be a full century since Franklin became a major star to witness a very washed up America, where 2060s youths would regard both Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga as artefacts of a lost era and a lost country.

They’d see these two as musicians pensioners (grandparents and the like) are into, whereas they prefer the Russian and Chinese equivalents to them in the era they’re in. It would be even more shocking if nearly all American influence gets revoked outside of Europe and Canada that by then, both Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande fly under 2060s youths’ radar a lot. Even then they’d still epitomise an America that they can’t relate to at all, because it’s a has-been for years in their time. And if American music stops getting played on the radio in the near future, then Lady Gaga’s on on her way to quickly becoming an artefact of an America that was.

The Mountain and The Mutant

I feel one reason why X-Men is more popular than say The Boondocks is that it’s far more palatable to white audiences in how it handles prejudice, especially if it’s conveyed through able-bodied white cartoon characters, combined with bouts of anti-black and anti-East Asian racism every now and then. The way The Boondocks handles racism, especially anti-black racism, is kind of realistic in the sense that even when you have well-intentioned characters like Cindy around, they still resort to racist preconceptions every now and then. It’s like knowing a lot about black people personally, but still resorting to racist ideas of them at the same time (it’s like this before). Or that white people may not be able to completely relate to what black people go through, especially in the western world, which explains Cindy’s cluelessness towards Jazmine’s feelings.

Characters like Jazmine and Riley struggle with internalised racism, but in their own respective ways, where the former denies her blackness and the one struggles to live up to such stereotypes from time to time himself. I don’t think the X-Men stories deal with this a lot, from my experience, but most X-Men writers like Chris Claremont are white. Add to that Claremont admitted he can’t relate to black people that much, to the point where it does explain why black characters are written the way they are in the X-Men canon, especially whenever he’s at the helm. Also in the X-Men canon you have characters like Emma Frost lashing out at South Asians for not understanding her, that and recurring themes of eugenics, where you have a guy named Mister Sinister doing a lot to engineer the perfect mutant. To the extent that X-Men could easily invite a white supremacist reading at any point.

With Storm being the good black woman who barely questions the white people she often hangs out with, Cheryl Lynn Eaton went on saying that she’s so disconnected from blackness that she should’ve been written as a weird black woman or something like this, though she’d eventually write a story featuring her as well. I’d say that she’s a good example of an exotic black person as written by a white person, where seems to be a kind of Orientalism aimed at black Africans that treats them as the antipode of white westerners. Albeit a black Africa that’s forever stuck in the past, whilst the west appears to be oh-so progressive (read civilised). Part of it has to do with that white westerners (until recently in Europe) aren’t really that constantly exposed to African media, let alone for a sustained period of time, as to truly know what else is going on in Africa itself.

White Americans’ exposure to African media is generally far more limited than in Europe, due to the latter’s closer association to Africa by prior colonisation. That’s why things like Afrobeats are popular in Britain, whereas this would be replaced by hip-hop and soul in America’s case. To think if Aaron McGruder had been British, the Freemans would’ve been from somewhere in the Caribbean, with Riley being really obsessed with grime and Jazmine would most likely have a posher name instead. And her father Tom DuBois would most likely be a recent African immigrant or at least the scion of one, someone who’d look down upon the unapologetically Caribbean Freemans to boot. But even then a British Boondocks wouldn’t be that massively palatable to white Britons the way the X-Men canon would for them just he same, despite the prominence of bands like Massive Attack and Lighthouse Family.

Ditto Shirley Bassey, Goldie, Morcheeba, Benjamin Zephaniah and the like. British or not, I guess black people can only succeed in the white mind if they’re into sports or music. But not truly relating to them as people, the way superpowered white cartoon characters do. Looking back more than a decade ago, I went about seeking nonstereotypical African representation in comics. Things might be better now in many ways, but it’s mostly not much different at DC and Marvel. There’s yet to be a Kenyan writer writing the adventures of Storm, the way there’s a Vietnamese American writer for a story featuring Karma. The Shujaaz magazines actually have comics in them, many Kenyans are bilingual in English and Swahili, one of them could’ve been hired to write a Storm story themself. But there are still no actual Africans at X-Men, much less writers, even if a Nigerian got to write a Black Panther story. Ditto making Kenyans write Storm stories themselves, even if they share her cultural background and experiences more.

Whilst The Boondocks might not be without its own faults at times, it does a better job at understanding antiblack racism. Cindy may not seem outright hateful towards black people, but that’s because she’s racist in another way. Meanwhile an X-Men story had a white woman like Emma Frost lash out at South Asians for not understanding her or something, where there are like only five actual Africans in the X-Men canon (Temper, Storm, Maggott and arguably both Apocalypse and his wife, Genesis, as they’re both Egyptians, Egypt is also an African country by the way) and stuff. Temper’s from Nigeria, Storm’s from Kenya, Maggott’s from South Africa and both Apocalypse and Genesis are from Egypt, whereas X-Men has a lot of white characters from actual western countries.

The Wolverines and Northstar are from Canada; the original five members plus the Guthrie family, Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, Dazzler, arguably Professor Xavier and Sage, Rogue, Gambit, the rest of the Summers family, Elixir, Mercury, the rest of the Hellfire Club, Firestar, Hellion, Cypher, Lorna Dane and Multiple Man are from the US. Moving onto Europe, characters like Rahne Sinclair, the Braddocks, Pete Wisdom, Quentin Spire and Chamber are from Britain, the Cassidys are from Ireland, both Nightcrawler and Mystique are from Germany, Pyro’s from Australia and if one argues, characters like the Rasputins, Omega Red and arguably Darkstar are from Russia. There’s a viral tweet stating that the most prevalent X-Men characters are white, able-bodied people. It’s kind of telling that white North Americans, white Europeans and white Russians significantly outnumber those from real African countries by a lot.

You’d really have to look in vain to find prominent Senegalese, Moroccan, Algerian, Ethiopian, Namibian, Rwandan, Tanzanian, Eritrean, Cameroonian, Ivorian, Malian, Ghanaian and Libyan mutants in the X-Men canon, because there are practically none at all and still none to this day. There’s really only one African Caribbean mutant that I think of and she’s Cecilia Reyes, a doctor and X-Men’s African Caribbean representation is also lacking, much less those from actual Caribbean countries to boot. So the tweet’s point still stands that white people from real white-majority countries significantly outnumber those from both real African countries and from the Caribbean, which means the search for more African representation is going to be hard unless if people turn to African media more instead.

But African media will feature African characters and mindsets by default, because they are made for African audiences in mind. The same thing can be said of Caribbean media, but African Americans are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They are highly influential in America, but they’re also marginalised and ostracised there. The Boondocks cartoons show this where there is white awareness of prominent black celebrities through the character of Cindy, but there’s not much real compassion for what African Americans go through. Then you have black people struggling with internalised racism that they either deny that they’re kind of visibly black (Jazmine in a way as she’s biracial) or struggle to live up to the stereotypes they’ve internalised themselves (Riley), then you have those who’re truly aware of the racist portrayals black people face like Huey, Riley’s brother.

I don’t think most X-Men writers (who are white) will get these themselves, if Chris Claremont’s any indication, so whenever they address prejudice it’s almost always directed at able-bodied white characters, and more specifically white Americans to boot. But it’s telling which is more palatable to white people and one which isn’t.