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.