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She tries to keep her

Cool, but he loses his

Cool, never close to her.

Trying to keep

Trying to keep cool to

Avoid angering God

And her earthyl father.

Something shocking really

I still think it’s kind of shocking why there’s not much Christian ire against the X-Men stories, even when they’re just as odious as their Harry Potter counterparts are, given it contains some of the same things Christians hate that it should be logical to chastise the former just the same. This includes a character who repeatedly gets into fights with her elders (Kitty Pryde for some reason manages to escape consequence free for doing the same thing John Proudstar did to Professor Xavier, which is also racist because she’s white while he is Native American), disrespect towards God’s word (Apocalypse, his wife Genesis and his own Horsemen), negative depictions of Christians and especially Protestants of all people (thus leaving Rahne Sinclair as the lone sympathetic Protestant and even then she gets brainwashed twice, like as if X-Men writers insinuate that such people readily fall for those kinds of things), flaunting LGBT, flaunting openly demonic characters like Illyana Rasputina who’s even a heroine there and so on.

It’s just as shocking as realising why not a lot Christians go after Discworld since it’s written by an outspoken atheist, but as what someone on Reddit said that the double standard exists because a lot of Christians are worldly and allow things that should’ve never been allowed due to their rather low standards for what’s edifying. Take no part in darkness but expose it for what it really is, whether if it’s X-Men or Harry Potter, but most especially X-Men as it’s something most Christians don’t seem to actually care to realise how ungodly it really is. Or for another matter, Daredevil because there’s something questionable about making an ostensibly Christian character dress up like Satan, it doesn’t make sense why would a Christian be shown to openly dress up like the enemy. It’s like Christianity’s fine for as long as it’s questioned and defamed endlessly, whereas other religions are usually portrayed more respectfully. It’s one thing to say that X-Men portrays Jews well, it’s another if it’s Protestant Christians in the same.

Either that they’re massive bigots who deserve to be killed like the entire Orchis group getting killed by Kitty Pryde in a fit of rage (she always has anger issues so), they’re massive bigots who’re out to kill people like Reverend William Stryker (this got toned down outside of comics) or they’re very misguided people like with Rahne Sinclair. Actually I don’t think it’s any better with Catholicism at times where for some reason within the Marvel canon, devout Catholics are almost always portrayed as kind of demonic looking. This risks sending a bad message that Catholics have been struggling with for years due to misinformation being spread about this denomination, where if you actually expose yourself to Catholic media it’s not exactly always the case. In Catholicism there are feast days or days dedicated to a saint, there are Bible scriptures getting recited before the sermon, but it’s not that anti-Christian. Online Catholic websites include both devotionals and lectionaries, which some Protestant websites do just the same. In a sense, it’s not much different.

(It’s not much different if one makes an idol out of Protestant preachers that it’s going to be the same thing anyways.)

There’s still something wrong about the Marvel canon’s treatment of Christianity where it’s either aligned with evil in some way or another, or questioned and defamed openly that it’s shocking why not a lot of Christians went after this. It’s even worse when Marvel itself has other openly demonic heroes like Satana and Damian, Son of Satan that it’s terrible why Christians don’t seem particularly concerned about this until recently, and even then it goes to show you how worldly Christians are and why others are in the right to suspect them of having double standards when their concerns don’t extend much to other things. Not a lot of Christians care about Discworld, much less the fact that it’s written by an atheist. It’s easier to complain about witchcraft in Harry Potter, than to complain about a Christian like Matt Murdock choosing to dress up as the Devil for some unknown reason, even when the latter’s just as questionable. I guess the Devil succeeded in getting their guards down when posing as a superhero, well literally in this case.

It’s harder to question idolatry with superheroes because it feels innocent even when the problem risks being the same thing really, but it’s harder to admit this outright because I feel it’s easier for Protestants to complain about things like Catholicism and Harry Potter, than something like DC and Marvel even when they do many of the things they hate (in theory). There are those who chastise DC and Marvel for having gay characters, but not much realise that they have a lot of openly demonic heroes like Blue Devil, Kid Devil, Lucifer, Daredevil, Illyana Rasputina and Nightcrawler in their echelons that it seems they’re never going to be on God’s side for real. It’s likely the real reason why there are so few truly Christian superhero stories out there, there was something like Power Mark and at any point where the character could’ve beaten up his sister for going evil, he forgave her instead.

Compare this to Marvel’s Kitty Pryde who has a habit of either killing people out of revenge or threatening people just the same, where if she doesn’t face any consequences for her actions, it risks sending a message that it’s okay to wallow in grudges because it’s alright if she does it. It’s alright to make fun of Christianity if Marvel does it, though it’s been covered before by a few people. But they’re unfortunately a minority because it’s more common for people to complain about Harry Potter this and that, over DC and Marvel having a lot of demonic heroes around. There are those who complain about witchcraft in Marvel, but there’s yet to be complaints over how and why there are even openly demonic heroes like Blue Devil and Damian among them. If Harry Potter inspires people to be anti-Christian, it would be no different if Marvel does the same to others.

I have a relative who’s like this where he watches Marvel and he despises Christianity a lot, as if he drank Marvel’s anti-Christian beverage so hard he internalised its message a lot. There’s something wrong about the way Marvel presents Christianity outside of lip service to popes every now and then, especially within its own canonical body of work that it’s more likely to be negative and suspicious, than glorifying and edifying. Or DC Comics for another matter, since it does more of the same thing. It’s not wrong to like superheroes but unfortunately both DC and Marvel indulge in such worldly things as to be judged for this, but this is unfortunately rather rare to encounter. I even struggled lustful thoughts for awhile because of getting back into a character like Supergirl to be honest. But the more corrupt DC and Marvel turn out to be, the more they’ll be judged for corrupting people to the point of being revoked from the planet for good.

It’s even shocking to think that secular DC and Marvel fans show more critical thinking than most Christians do, especially towards DC and Marvel’s problems not only frequently but earlier as well. This is to be expected when it comes to things like sexism, racism and ableism that they do deserve to be called out for these, It’s like when it comes to things like the sexualisation of cartoon women, from my experience Christians would think it’s a mistake on their part, but among a good number of comics fans it’s got to do with the cartoonists being misogynistic perverts that it shows in the way they portray them. Whether if they’re sexual fantasies depicted out in the open for all to see, demeaned when they shouldn’t be given their status and so on. That seems more honest and it’s unfortunate to think that secular fans show better media literacy than Christians do here.

As in being more aware of their publishers’ shortcomings earlier and more often than Christians do, maybe not always for reasons they immediately realise, but it does say things about the way a number of Christians lack real critical thinking. It doesn’t help that anti-intellectualism is openly encouraged in some Christian circles that makes it harder to critically analyse and evaluate whatever problems other stories may pose, especially if it’s something that seems innocent enough for them to not appear threatening or suspicious even when they should. This is also partly the real reason why not a lot of Christians seem concerned about the anti-Christian messages Marvel writers like Chris Claremont pose over the years, that they’d rather complain about Harry Potter than to be concerned about the anti-Christian messages other writesr harbour. Which makes for a depressing situation where it’s secular fans who have better media literacy here, or at least more likely to from my experience.

Can’t Fight This Feeling

I feel it’s kind of unpopular and controversial to say this out loud, but I feel one possible reason why Japan has such difficulty fighting the sexualisation of minors on its own soil, especially when it comes to its own ACG media, is that it relies a lot on its own strength whilst rejecting God a lot, leading to problems it wants to solve but can’t truly defeat. The thing with self-control is that it’s a lot harder than it looks, especially when it comes to solving your own problems, like it’s going to be real hard not to be proud only to commit another sin and so on, as it is with me many times over. The struggle to control oneself is much harder than one assumes it to be because you’re practically fighting against yourself that trying to do right is a lot more agonising than it should be, not to mention forcing yourself to do what’s right is going to be harder than it appears to be.

I have difficulties paying attention in school, learning Tagalog and doing maths that what comes easily to others is harder for me to achieve and succeed, to the point of stressing myself out a lot in school when doing these alone (I had tutors by my side before). Struggling to control sin is going to be harder than it appears to be, but I feel more people like the results more than the efforts put into work. Like they expect it to be nearly effortless but don’t understand struggling to do what’s right because sin is inherent in humanity due to the fall, even Paul himself said this that the good he wants to do doesn’t always go as expected. Sometimes it’s hard for others to understand, especially if it’s a sin they don’t personally struggle with themselves. But it’s still agonising to try to do right, whilst relying on God as well, given the struggle will always be there with us until death.

It’s probably no different with Japan in a collective sense given its people are aware of such problems going on, to the point of making a strong effort into combating those when possible or plausible. But to make matters worse some of those in the Japanese ACG scene are weirdly and inappropriately defensive of what they do and enjoy, particularly if it’s rather sexualised at that, even if it puts off other people and especially Japanese women to their cause. The moe style is really the familiar anime style, since the word anime in Japan is used to describe any kind of animation. The difference between geek pandering art and ordinary art in Japan’s much more pronounced if you look at the sort of illustrations produced by people outside of the ACG subculture, it’s very different in looks and scope. It would be more shocking if the Japanese ACG industry were to collapse at any moment.

But I feel even if not all Japanese animators, game developers and cartoonists necessarily condone or enjoy these things themselves, the Japanese ACG industry would really be judged for condoning and enjoying such vices for so long that inevitably a downfall will happen. Admittedly its US counterpart will face the same thing but for being a part of Mystery Babylon itself, Mystery Babylon being assumed to be the same as the United States by other people. A good number of anime risk appearing kind of perverted to some people, even when the authors themselves may not have intended to. But it does risk leaving a bad taste in someone else’s mouth, coupled with a lack of awareness of those problems (media illiteracy if you will) that makes it harder to confront this problem not only openly, but also early on.

It can’t be a mistake if some animators and cartoonists deliberately set out to sexualise cartoon characters, it’s even long suspected with a number of US cartoon superheroines like Wonder Woman before. There are people who say that the sexualisation of young girls in Japanese ACG media may go back earlier than one realises, it may even be more rampant than one realises if Miyazaki Hayao’s guilty of this just the same. But I feel this has to be said because of how off-putting a good number of anime unfortunately are, they tend to sexualise things that aren’t needed or weren’t there before. Or if it’s there in the source material, then the well’s been poisoned before. Which makes it harder to cut the hand without injuring the wrist, even when it’s needed to do so.

It doesn’t help when Japan has had a recurring porn animation industry for years, in some regards more consistently than that of America until recently, many of them also working on less sexualised productions at that, then it’s going to be hard separating the wheat from the weeds. It’s bad enough that the things that historically appeared in porn also show up in kids’ programmes and stories, it’s bad enough that perverts get to work on kids’ shows and films without repercussion until now, it’s shockingly prevalent that many anime fans are desensitised to it. To the point where finding genuinely clean anime becomes a game of finding a needle in the haystack, it shouldn’t be the case especially for those seeking to go against the grain to introduce something to others, but there’s something wrong about the Japanese ACG industry and why Japan will also be judged for this.

The Japanese ACG industry could collapse for many reasons, including this first and foremost, that it might be no more in the future. Or at least it might still be around but as a shadow of its former self, even if other East Asian countries might not be any better either, they could rise to the challenge to make up for a profound loss. However awkward it may be given some people are so attached to Japanese productions that it’s going to take time getting used to it, seeing how they want the real thing real badly. But even then it’s going to be shocking to realise that the Japanese ACG scene will collapse in the future, alongside Japan’s own comeuppance by the Lord that it’s terrifying to behold.

It’s gonna happen

Somebody else has a prophecy of America getting halved into two, albeit horizontally and with an incoming meteorite strike to boot (isn’t that a reference to something in Revelation where Mystery Babylon gets hit by a millstone?). Given that America has often been compared to Mystery Babylon, albeit not in polite company, maybe getting hit by an asteroid kind of lines up with that Biblical passage of Babylon II getting hit by a millstone. It’s even more shocking to think that this natural disaster’s much sooner than expected, one that might succeed in killing a lot more Americans than one realises. That other countries will do onto it what it did to others is a disturbing comeuppance, but one that others suspect that America may have been up to no good at all.

Always causing wars where there’s no need for those, destroying the lives of innocent bystanders. Ruining entire cultures even, though this is going to be controversial. As for South Korea, it should be noted that for the longest period of time, it was one and the same country as North Korea. They’re divided by ideology and politics, even when they’re actually one nation together. South Korea was created to contain the spread of socialism onto the rest of the Korean peninsula, to the extent that it could essentially be a US colony but not in polite company. There’s a book called ‘How To Hide An Empire’ which is about America keeping its colonial empire a secret or something, as to appear as a proper republic. When in reality it’s really anything but a republic, because it effectively and practically acts like an empire.

It has colonies in the Asia Pacific, colonies that were taken from other empires. South Korea should ought to be included because it was created to keep socialism from spreading throughout the Korean peninsula, otherwise the entire Korea itself would’ve ended up more like either Vietnam, China or Laos really. It’s really telling that America created South Vietnam to do the same thing, only it didn’t last for long and all of Vietnam became socialist instead. South Korea is practically so dependent on America for its ideological and economic existence that it should ought to be seen as an American colony just the same, but given the prophecies of it reuniting with North Korea, that its days as a US colony might be over this time around. Another Vietnam really and one that America may’ve dreaded the most.

America might even lose both South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines to China forever, but I feel if America is Mystery Babylon then China should be seen as a tool of indignation. Not just against the US but also the sins of its neighbours just the same, the Philippines and South Korea for falling into sin despite being Christian countries, Japan for blasphemy of the Holy Spirit and so on. This leads to its own version of either the Soviet Union or the European Union, though in reality it would be in the middle in a way, thus forming Greater China together all in all. Taiwan would become another Hong Kong, whereas the Philippines becomes a near-facsimile of China as to undo much American influence here. Given China used to influence much of East Asia before, this is a sign that God’s giving it back greater than it did before.

Albeit where the African and Oceanian countries form a new Eastern Bloc, thus leading to a global east given there’s already a global west composed of both Europe and the Americas. The global east would involve both East Asia and much of Africa (north to south), as lead by China against America and eventually Russia over Mongolia. Countries like India, Iran and Turkey would be neutral superpowers at this point, not wanting to take sides between Russia and China. Even then this is a changed world where America’s been made irrelevant, redundant and be tossed aside altogether, to be gone forever and this is a word from the Lord. In the interval America will get physiogeographically destroyed, just as it’s on its way to witnessing more civil unrest in the months and years to come.

The things that make America a superpower will be revoked due to its sins, that ultimately these will be undone and its own allies like the Philippines will be made into near-facsimiles of its enemies. Canada will be no different from the Philippines, only replace China with Russia and whilst Canada may arguably not be a near-facsimile of Russia, it will be Russified over time the more it becomes either a colony or commonwealth or protectorate of Russia. But American influence will be further lost there when Canada does come under Russian occupation and jurisdiction in some way, where America will ultimately be forgotten in the future, or remembered as a footnote in everybody’s book.

Not as pristine and clean

When it comes to what became of Taylor Swift over the years, she started out as having this girl next door persona she cultivated and strove to live up to early on, but the more she turned out to dump one man after another over the years, the more it seemed too unattainable to keep up with in any way. Taylor Swift even developed a habit of dressing in a more sexualised manner, something that was unthinkable in the early days of her career. It’s weird to think that the person championed as the opposite of her more sexualised peers when she started out in the late 2000s ended up joining them in a way, something that would’ve been unthinkable even to Taylor Swift herself at some point. But it’s also true that the image she cultivated turned out to be unsustainable in the long run that by reinventing herself, she’s trying to shed that wholesome skin off her body.

It’s like how I feel about Nick Carter is that there’s a difference between the persona he cultivates and how he acts on a really bad day, if you believe people like Kaya Jones and Shannon Ruth. Or how and why I believe Harry Styles might be much more mild-mannered than his public image suggests, like a Freudian slip the mild-mannered version sometimes shows through in ways he never intended. But I don’t know much about Mr Styles so this is pure speculation, even then there’s a possibility that entertainers themselves don’t always live up to the public personas they cultivated over the years, that unwanted versions of them slip through. Nick Carter might not be that nice in person, Taylor Swift turned out to be not that wholesome, Harry Styles might not be much of a bad boy in person. It’s truly obvious that Swift can’t consistently live up to the persona she cultivated early on.

Not only did she turn out to be rather flirty, she also became more openly potty-mouthed in her songs. It would be darkly ironic to think that there might be somebody out there who might out-Taylor Swift Taylor Swift herself, not just in music but also in personality themselves that it would be shocking if people found out about them. In the same way people like Gerard Way are nearly everything fans make Nick Carter out to be, given how and why Nick’s been accused of rape over the years, coupled with him allegedly having affairs with women other than his wife that it seems if Nick Carter had never joined the Backstreet Boys and went on with his misogyny, he would’ve been more inclined towards the Alt-Right instead. Like if he was a young man in the 2010s and never joined a boy band, he would’ve gravitated towards Gamergate and would actively harass any feminist he finds. He’d make a lot of videos complaining about feminism, essentially a white Eric July by then.

Given Nick Carter’s an avid gamer and video games themselves have frequent issues with sexism over the years, that these would have a bearing on the way he perceives women to be. Especially those that sexualise women a lot, even if video games don’t always influence people for the worst. But when you have people getting into game development because of having played video games at some point, writing fanfictions based on games like Mortal Kombat and Super Mario, creating fanmade characters based on these two games and so on, then video games are going to impact people anyways. Not always for good or ill, but it’s going to be there anyways. Nick Carter likely played more risque games at some point, so there are going to be things fans don’t know about because he himself keeps it private to not spoil his public image to people. There are things Taylor Swift wouldn’t show to her fans, for fear it might ruin their perception of her. It’s debatable whether if Swift practises witchcraft herself.

But it’s also true that she’s nowhere as wholesome as she made herself out to be early on, her reputation as a role model has been questioned before. It seems the image Taylor Swift she cultivated for herself early on turned out to be utterly unsustainable in the long run, that it seems there was a gap between Taylor Swift the real person and Taylor Swift the persona. They seem to blur because it’s clear she’s not everything she strove to be at the start, perhaps celebrities in general aren’t who they make themselves out to be. To the point where the very faults they suppress shine through in unexpected places and times.

Go Away Babylon II

There are actually prophecies about America being not only destroyed from both the outside (things like nuclear bombs and natural disasters) but also from the inside due to incoming civil instability and economic collapse as a punishment from the Lord, but also getting forgotten over time that it’s going to be shocking to realise that this country existed. Not to mention WWIII will actually erupt in Europe first and it’s going to be a short-lived war, though one with massive consequences to boot. All environmental, political and economic ones at that, giving way to a significantly defeated Europe that becomes a complete Russian pawn. Canada may also join in as one of many Russian protectorates, but of all the Russian protectorates in the future it’s Canada that will harbour a new America movement.

The Canadian Saddam Hussein would be seen as a lunatic for attempting to revive a forgotten nation-state on Canadian soil, that like his Iraqi counterpart his attempts to recover American civilisation and glory will fail because this country had been euthanised before his time. Sort of like how the real Saddam Hussein failed to revive Babylon in present-day Iraq because God already finished (destroying) it for all its sins and evils, both Europe and Canada would be next in line for a sort of destruction. Maybe not necessarily resulting in utter annihilation the way America will be getting, but rather a destruction of their ties to America where it eventually gets replaced by ties to Russia instead in some way or another. Unsurprisingly for a long period of time, both Europe (west of Russia) and Canada were longtime US allies.

They are or perhaps were longtime NATO allies as well, though it’s increasingly not for long due to US’s blunders now. I suspect if Donald Trump’s unable to make America great again, as much as he tried to before, he’s going to get removed and be replaced by somebody else. He might even die this time around, as it had been prophesised before. As for American institutions and the like such as Disney, they could also be forgotten to time and be revoked just the same. There are actually some people like Analia Campbell who allege that Walt Disney made a deal with the Devil to get to where he was at the peak of his powers when he was alive, that if this is true then the most obvious smoking gun is ‘Hell’s Bells’ which features Satan and his cronies in Hell. If you can tell a tree by its fruit, then Disney’s anti–Christian from the get–go.

Somebody else going by the name of Mark Pinsky said that Walt Disney didn’t want any mention of Christianity in his productions, even if these sometimes slip from time to time, and he was even glad that a film featuring Saint Peter bombed. Even if there were instances where Disney did appear to condone Christianity and have Christians in its echelons, but when its namesake founder made a deal with the Devil and said company attracts suspicious characters and also condones witchcraft, so it’s never going to be truly on God’s side for real. Though there are Christians who’re rightfully distrusting of Disney for these reasons, but from my personal experience they’re more likely to come from America and the western world in general. Most Filipinos seem less spiritually critical of Disney, based on my experience with my own relatives.

Sort of like they’re kind of attached to something they think is nice. But it seems Disney’s getting less and less wholesome over time, or rather it’s getting to be more out in the open, as Disney had attracted perverts and other dubious characters before. It should be noted that cartoonist and animator Carl Barks did racy, sexist cartoons for a certain magazine before working for Disney, another Disney animator named Toby Bluth actually did porn cartoons and he’s the younger brother of the better known Don Bluth. Let’s not forget that Disney also attracted paedophiles over the years, whether if it’s director Victor Salva or more recently animator Bolhem Bouchiba, that it seems not all is right in the House of Mouse. CS Lewis even questioned Walt Disney’s upbringing at some point, wondering what would happen if he had been raised right.

To answer the question why many Filipinos and oddly enough Filipino Christians have little issue with Disney the way their American Christian counterparts do isn’t always a matter of culture war politics, but on the basis that it’s wholesome enough to fly under the radar coupled with nostalgia makes it easy to give it a halo effect. This might not be unique to the Philippines itself but I guess if a good number of anime productions are graphic that even riskier Disney animations would look more wholesome in comparison, though it wouldn’t be the case if the latter were to be judged by a country with more stringent, judicious standards like Russia they’d look less wholesome instead. I remember Celestial saying that Russia is more righteous than the United States, to the point of eventually unseating it as the centre of western civilisation as we know it, or at least strives to abide by God’s word, despite getting it wrong at times.

It seems with the United States and its allies, there’s a kind of anything goes atmosphere that proves Karl Popper’s tolerance paradox thing right, in the sense that to be tolerant of anything is to be intolerant of something. This is something that the US and its allies have done, tried or do or come close to doing multiple times over, especially regarding matters like LGBT, polyamory and multiculturalism. There’s a reason why these stances are considered quinessentially western in both Chinese and Russian circles, the two countries poised to overtake the United States and defeat it together. Further proving Popper’s point right is how there’s a rising extreme right wing movement in both America and Europe that wants political clout real badly, it even happened in the US and some European countries to a shocking extent. Again America and its allies tend to have a strong anything goes mentality.

Free to be gay, polyamorous, so on and so forth that over time a less intolerant ideology will emerge, especially if the wider western society lets it slide that it’s going to find a way to overrule things and undermine what the west strove to stand for. It has already happened in a number of western countries that it seems to also epitomise the Bible verse of if in grace, should we sin againand being slaves to sin, maybe it doesn’t appear to be this way at first. But it does show you why the west’s anything goes mentality is turning out to be its biggest drawback, perhaps it helps to have a more stringent ideology to keep things in check. American culture is a good deal more anything goes than both China and Russia are, that the things American culture deems wholesome might not be wholesome elsewhere.

I feel American animation generally feels more wholesome than Japanese animation is, because Japanese animation is relatively more graphic. But contrast American animation to something coming from a country with a more rigourous standard for what’s acceptable to show to children, then the former will be less wholesome in comparison. Kind of makes you wonder why some Nigerians won’t let their children watch something like Dora the Explorer, if because the heroine goes out and about unaccompanied by either a parent or a guardian. It seems like when there are countries that are more censorious with what they allow in their fictions, like China, Nigeria and Russia, that it does make one wonder if American ACG media is actually less wholesome by their standards.

This is very much the case in the Philippines but in reverse because it’s been Americanised for quite a while that we tend to evaluate what’s wholesome by American standards, well for most of the part when it comes to Disney in particular from my personal experience. It would be shocking to somebody if you dare point out that Disney films might contain inappropriate scenes, even if it has been suspected before in some Christian circles, as it was with my late mother before but then again it shouldn’t even be surprising if some productions like Bambi and Fantasia may traumatise some children just the same. It’s still weirdly telling that some countries like China, Russia and Nigeria have much higher standards for what can and should be shown to minors, that reflects their cultures being less anything goes than America and its allies are.

It’s not a coincidence that all three countries ban LGBT activity, whereas it’s been legalised in America and the like for some time ago. It’s also not a coincidence that they actually have rising Christian communities, that on some level these do serve to moderate things even if these aren’t given credit for nor particularly obvious, even if all three countries might still have their own faults every now and then. Maybe not Nigeria in the future but I still think Nigeria shouldn’t be short-thrifted when you have a good number of ministries there being able to broadcast their sermons and publish either devotionals or lectionaries for free online, but this is based on my experience perusing such media. Even then America is definitely Mystery Babylon when its entertainment products aren’t wholesome by another country’s standards.

It still houses abominations just the same when other countries and communities see them for what they really are, sometimes without being aware that God feels the same way about them. It doesn’t help when a number of American animators and producers feel compelled to include adult innunedo in what are ostensibly children’s stories, coupled with them actually producing porn to the side, that it seems these productions pretend to be wholesome and clean. Though there are some truly wholesome animated productions out there, a number of them being Biblically based, they aren’t the norm in American animation. Which means a good number of American children’s productions feign wholesomeness, to the point where one would suspect them of being adult programmes in disguise.

This is the case with Spongebob Squarepants with one of my cousins. Upon watching a certain episode of it where Patrick talks to his false parents about Spongebob not being barrel-chested, but rather being box-chested instead that the humour style feels more at home in an adult programme, than something actually aimed at children. Not helped by suspicions of some Spongebob voice actors actually swearing in some unreleased recordings, or how other situations in the Spongebob canon feel like it’s full of things adults and particularly married adults would relate to more. There’s this episode where both Spongebob and Patrick raise a baby clam together, but the problem is Patrick doesn’t want to help the former out. It’s kind of implied that Patrick watched something inappropriate.

And with him preferring to stay in his own house to do this, instead of helping Spongebob out with the child, that it feels like something married adults with children would relate to more. Small children may know why either one of their parents do this, but they don’t have the life experience to better understand this more fully. An earlier Nicktoon called Rocko’s Modern Life has a number of allusions to masturbation and extramarital sex, given Filbert is married to Dr Hutchens but one of their children looks more like Heffer instead and the restaurant there was called Chokey Chicken. It’s possible to handle them in a way that doesn’t glorify the subject matters in question, but it’s something these authors don’t bother doing for some reason. Actually this treatment would also be inappropriate for adults, because it glorifies these vices just the same.

(Another instance had Beverly Bighead, Ed Bighead’s wife, seduce the titular character Rocko.)

So America is Mystery Babylon in how it popularises really inappropriate and immoral stories, even if they appear to be family-friendly at worst. It doesn’t just begin and end with productions like Big Teeth, Rocko’s Modern Life, Spongebob Squarepants and even Disney movies themselves, but also with the staff’s intentions at hand that it seems they were likely never concerned about or preoccupied with making edifying media to begin with. Even stories aimed at adults glorify many vices condemned in the Bible, which means it doesn’t make sense to know the Bible condemns these things when you peruse media that glorifies the same, like why on earth would you continue watching something like NCIS whilst knowing female immodesty is wrong?

I actually struggled with certain evil thoughts upon reading stories involving female characters in miniskirts that the only way to minimise these over time is stop reading those things, so if you reap what you sow you end up with either what’s good or what’s bad in my case. Cut off things that make you sin, however awkward the process is to be honest, even if this is going to reduce the likelihood of falling into any sin you struggle with. I feel when it comes to the realisation that the US is Mystery Babylon, it does make one wonder if there might be something wrong in what appears to be right. To paraphrase what others said about the cartoonist Dan DeCarlo, America makes anything immoral look holy and anything holy look immoral. The latter’s what’s been done to nuns many times over.

The former’s been done to things like LGBT, polyamory, witchcraft (as it’s related to rebellion), plain old arrogance and idolatry (something I constantly struggle with, but it’s obvious when it comes to celebrity culture and fandom culture), ad infinitum that it is deserving of the moniker of Mystery Babylon. Mystery Babylon is no longer a far-futuristic country (especially when John of Patmos was given a glimpse of it by God in the New Testament) but already a reality, albeit one that exists on North American soil that’s neither Mexico, Jamaica, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador nor Canada, thus leaving the United States as the likeliest candidate for this nation-state. Mystery Babylon’s described as sitting on multiple waters, well America faces both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Australia may come close, but it’s much closer to East Asia than to the Americas.

Britain’s confined to the Atlantic Ocean, New Zealand’s confined to the Pacific Ocean. Given Brazil never became a hegemon the way the US did, so the US is still the likeliest candidate for Mystery Babylon. It’s unique among all the known countries of the world to become a hyperpower, a step above a superpower in that it had unipolar dominance around the world. No longer the queen of kingdoms, not the empress of empires anymore it’s going to be destroyed, both by external and internal forces. Be it civil war, nuclear attacks, natural disasters and more, it’s going to be finished sooner than expected. If a thousand years is a day in God’s eye, then America’s rise to power is really a flash in the pan. America as a civilisation is both recent and brief, given how its influence is being rapidly undone as of now.

Its rival China existed for more than 5800 years and the next one Iran existed for over 7000 years, so they’re rather ancient and are witnessing a kind of resurgence in geopolitical and cultural clout, especially China which may be poised to create its own version of the European Union but with all the East Asian countries in it (including the Philippines, South Korea which is to be reunited with North Korea, Japan, Taiwan as part of China proper in a way and all the other Southeast Asian countries), with the African countries and Oceanian ones being its satellite states. China did influence East Asia before to varying degrees but if God can give back more than one lost, then it’s already on its way to be the case for it. America is the hammer of the world that gets broken apart.

Not just by an earthquake and also by growing civil tensions tearing the nation apart (literally with the former), but also its former allies and territories being given over to its enemies instead. The Philippines, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan will be permanently given over to China, Canada and all of Europe will be permanently given over to Russia. Odder still is that America will be given over to Russia, but an extension of itself whereas Canada ends up as a Russian protectorate or commonwealth instead. An example of God using evil to deal with evil, so be it for countries that willingly give themselves over to Babylon will be given over to Persia instead. Just as Babylon’s influence got to be largely revoked throughout West Asia since Iran used to write in cuneiforms like it, America’s influence is already in the process of getting revoked globally.

But a less Americanised Philippines would be a severely sinicised one at that, if because the Philippines is also knee deep in sin as to be given over to China forever. I remember sermons pointing out that it’s preposterous for the Philippines to call itself a Christian nation when it barely consistently acts like one, it refuses to actively die to self or at least try to stop itself from sinning. So it’s going to be permanently and deeply sinicised because it likes to be of Babylon, similar things can be said of all of Europe and Canada when they’ll be given over to Russia for good just the same. From now on, America will be over for good.

Return to sender

I remember writing this that much of American influence will be revoked around the world, saving some that continue to exist in the future, but by then much of it will be undone. Maybe not all but a lot to the point of being kind of half-forgotten in some manner, perhaps made less popular over time which is likely happening by now to some extent. But given some people say that America is Mystery Babylon which makes its ability to influence others for the worse all the more shockingly potent, because it has the ability to popularise and refine things others don’t get to, whether if it’s cultural and technological innovations, or even vices like infidelity when it’s repackaged as remarriage and polyamory. Especially the polyamory part as others see it as an attempt to glorify infidelity, where at some point the other woman in a polyamorous relationship would’ve been someone else’s concubine.

It’s even telling that polyamory’s made synonymous with polygamy, in the sense of both going against God’s mandate for monogamy. Polyamory isn’t necessarily identical to polygamy but it practically functions as such, in the sense of a man having multiple female partners at once if possible enough to fit that definition. Monogamy might as well be severely underminded when polyamory does get popularised with a lot more people, which is already is on its way to, that perhaps America is in a kind of polyamorous relationship with ungodly beliefs and ideologies by now. Proclaiming itself to be the bride of God, whilst keeping a lover at the same time. Truly the whore of Babylon. If God’s out to revoke most American influence, it might be a good thing because not only is America there for a season, but that its influence is mostly no good for us. A nation that started out as a Christian colony ended up popularising many vices, thus coming to house abominations over time.

And ultimately it will be destroyed by its enemies and the rock (a meteorite) that angels will send over to it, return to sender by then.