The Image of the Beast
Time to leave Google.
From the thirteenth chapter of the Apocalypse:
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Usually, one would think of the Image of the Beast as some sort of vast statue brought to life by sly tricks of hidden joints and speaking tubes, or perhaps animated like a golem with some infernal arts of the darker sort.
I am not witty nor wise enough to attempt to interpret these deep riddles, which have baffled men better than I, but I will point out that Communism is a beast that was given a deadly wound when the Berlin Wall fell, and yet it apparently lives again, in the form of cultural Marxism and identity politics, political correctness and “Woke” social justice warfare.
This includes pretenses of opposition to it among the Alt-Right, which in truth is merely one head of a Siamese Twin mugging the other, even though they share a heart.
However you interpret the book of the Apocalypse, it would behoove you to recognize the spirit of Antichrist when you see it: namely, hatred of Christ, hatred of Mary, hatred of Jews. The one nation established expressly in liberty under God to be the place where all denominations can flourish is hated most of all.
In the modern day, the worship of EVIL is well on its way to supplanting every other religion.
And this image mentioned in the Apocalypse of Saint John? Perhaps it will not be a big statue but a small and convenient box that talks and shows us pictures, carries messages, helps with shopping, allows you to talk with friends. It will have its tentacles in every house, influence every election, create mobs, and make abominations seem normal, and make abnormalities seem abominable.
On a completely unrelated issue, it is time to get rid of Google.
TechSpotAnd, on an unrelated topic, Google was caught by Project Veritas admitting that they were using their pretense at being a neutral search engine platform to influence elections. Project Veritas was banned and booted, temporarily or permanently, from not just YouTube, but, in an unrelated coincidence, from Twitter and Instagram and Reddit and Vimeo and Pinterest as well.
Apparently, there was not the correct number worn on the hand or head to allow James O’Keefe to buy and sell.
And, on an unrelated topic, a video from Black Pigeon Speaks, speaking of Google:
In a completely unrelated story, Jeffrey Epstein’s wikipedia page within one day was edited to remove all mention of his many ties to the Clintons and other major Democrat party figures.
In a completely unrelated story, Amazon pulls reparative therapy books offering healing for those suffering unwanted same sex attraction, erases all reviews, deletes all pages.
At the same time, Amazon banned all books from anyone who was former LGBT, that is, anyone who has successfully left that lifestyle, if they dare mention in it in any book.
Please note, fans of Amazon, that Mein Kampf, the Satanic Bible, and the Communist Manifesto, however, are still for sale, and available in paperback.
Space Raptor Butt Invasion, by Chuck Tingle, a work of erotic literature famed for being nominated for a Hugo (the most prestigious award in the science fiction field) is also available on Amazon. His work is not considered unworthy of sales: but books by Catholics are.
Please do not repeat the shopworn argument about private industry being free to select with whom to deal and not to deal. We do not let sandwich shops segregate black and white clientele, nor bus lines.
Several of these companies receive the benefit of special laws, rendering them immune from lawsuits, which other publishers do not enjoy, not to mention the fact that fraud is still illegal, even when practiced on a huge scale.
Under campaign finance laws, making massive “in kind” contributions to help a candidate is also forbidden by law.
The whole libertarian theory behind the unhindered free market is that the natural competitive impulse for money will create an incentive among businesses not to cooperate in price fixing schemes over the long term, because it will cost them money.
This theory is silent on those businesses ready, willing, and able to burn away bonfires of money in the short run in order to influence elections, spread sexual abomination, undermine truth and justice, encourage mob rule, spread anti-semitism, and worship the Beast from the Sea.
Also, as a practical matter, when a business in theory is private, but in practice is a public utility, one with the power to ruin the finances of self employed men using their services to talk to willing customers, with the power to banish those customers, it is folly to adhere to the legal fiction when the stark reality threatens the overthrow of the Republic.
It is not technically censorship when private business silences defenders of Christian teaching, American civics, history, and science, and punishes them with financial loss and a loss of privacy and safety. But it is indistinguishable from censorship in its practical effect.
We do not allow those who build toll roads and highways to forbid traffic based on political or religious opinions. We do not allow the phone company to deny service based on political or religious opinions.
It is unconscionable that free men should serve and worship the Image of the Beast.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
