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[felis_ultharus]

I'm now reading Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood's weird dystopia, which (like all good dystopias) is about the world we live in now.

I'm almost two-fifths through it, and parts of it are like a train wreck from which no one walked away alive -- horrific, but impossible to turn away from. And all the more horrific because so much of it is true already.

And I think the Blood and Roses video game in the novel is going to haunt my nightmares.

While I try to digest one Atwood dystopia, North America is beginning to look more and more like The Handmaid's Tale.

The Third-Wave, witch-hunting, Pentecostal-breakaway Christians (including sarah Palin) are freaking me out more and more. I read a blog post by one of their number yesterday warning the faithful that Obama's Kenyan relatives are using witchcraft to win him the presidency. Unlikely, but if it's true, I urge them to tell the world so that the 90% of it who prefer Obama can send you whatever supplies you need.

The blog posted went on to urge the faithful to "cover John McCain and Sarah Palin in the blood of Christ" to help them win. I wonder if that watered-down ketchup they used to use in slasher movies would be an acceptable substitute?

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[bronnyelsp.livejournal.com]

I've seen footage in a megachurch of people claiming Obama is hypnotising people.

I wonder if that watered-down ketchup they used to use in slasher movies would be an acceptable substitute?

Liturgically, grape juice should do the trick. You betcha.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

But isn't that more Catholic and Anglican? These people are off-the-deep-end Pentecostal.

And now I'm picturing Obama as a kind of Svengali figure, or a Mesmer, or a bad 1950s science fiction villain from another planet.

[em-fish.livejournal.com]

Madonna gave high-fives to two people wearing Sarah Palin Sucks t-shirts last night. It was resplendant.

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Cool. But not surprising at all :)

[rougemacabre.livejournal.com]

It is quite terrifying... having grown up around these people, I know how strange and violent they can get towards anything not their own. I remember once getting dragged to one very large church in town, to hear the choir singing for the death of Clinton, the antichrist - and that was one of the more tame places. :-/

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

The Antichrist would probably have been better at lying about Monica Lewinsky.

Lists of people identified as the Antichrist throughout history are fascinating. They're usually the more interesting people of their age.

[rlf-2583.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that watered-down ketchup they used to use in slasher movies would be an acceptable substitute?

Haha something tells me it wouldn't. ;)

[felis-ultharus.livejournal.com]

Well, it's always worth a try ^_^