You got to love folks who worship their dead Leader. Out in Colorado police raided the clubhouse of the Love Has Won cult where the bereaved followers of Mother God had made a shrine of her mummified body, placed it caringly in a sleeping bag, painted glitter on her desiccated face and decorated it with Christmas lights. I don\u2019t actually know how you mummify a body these days, but I suspect these folks just let it dry out in the living room and tried not to notice the odor. <\/p>\n
I remember when Kohoutek, the comet, arrived in our little corner of the solar system, there were folks who believed the guy who claimed it was coming to take them to a better place. Just line up single file, folks, the spaceship has plenty of room, you don\u2019t need a ticket, you won\u2019t need a passport, no money no problem. Salvation was on its way.<\/p>\n
Some religions are crazier than others and some are truly batshit insane, but they\u2019re nearly all built around some kernel of whacky that flies in the face of logic or reality or plain common sense, the point evidently you have to let go of that to reach another plane, a higher plane, a better place. Folks just want to find God or heaven or \u2026 anything better thanThis, that\u2019s what I used to think. But now, living in the post-Truth era of internet crackpot conspiracies and nutty theories, I think people are just gullible idiots, not necessarily stupid but really what\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n
UFO\u2019s, Bigfoot, pizza parlor pederast cannibals, lizard people, the whole menagerie just howling for some acolytes, some believers, some cracked taxidermists to prop them up and decorate the corpse with Christmas bulbs. God Mother, why not? Maybe they\u2019re hoping for the Resurrection, maybe they\u2019ll write the Testaments, maybe this will be the next great world religion, good as any, better than some. I know this, I should\u2019ve gotten on that Comet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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