Preparing for the Apocalypse

Different right-wing Christian sects have different ways of dealing with a series of insurmountable obstacles on a direct path to imminent disaster.

Some, like the Witchfinder Generals of the previous post, mount their spiritual counterattack, covering their charges with the sacrificial Blood of the Lamb.

Some challenge Yahweh to prove that he's the biggest baddest God of all, lest the heathens will think their God(s) are more God-tastic than the real One.

Some, like the long suffering Catholic blogger The Anchoress, will gather her wimple and her rosary, and repair to her closet for some prayer, some fasting and who knows? perhaps a bit of self-flagellation. She will diligently practice suffering to prepare her for the real suffering to come.

A friend of mine, noting the Buckley endorsement of Obama on the slimmest of notions, said, “there is a strange undertow of events, lately.” Yes. Things are so strange because there is disorientation - and this disorientation is because the supernatural is in play - it’s been in play for a long time, of course, but the painless coup is almost complete and there is almost an anticipatory frenzy on the side of the presumptive victors. Mistakes get made in a frenzy.

The Mad Hatter is fasting and praying for discernment, for the nation, for her own vote. I am doing this also - have been doing it since October 1.

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Right now, Nero is watching Rome burn. Right now, Peter, that city’s first Bishop, is being crucified and turned upside down.

Right now, in prayer and in fasting, one may penetrate the illusions of the world and, touching eternity, impact them.

Obama may win this election. Obama may lose this election. McCain may win this election. McCain may lose this election. No matter what happens, we are entering a new era, and I believe everyone knows it. With the prayer and fasting, I am “in training” making myself ready for whatever comes, because whatever comes is going to be very different; it will jar us from all of our complacencies.

You can say that again, sister...