“Milton has told us that ‘devil with devil damned Firm concord holds.’ But how? Certainly not by friendship. A being which can still love is not yet a devil. Here again my symbol seemed to me useful. It enabled me, by earthly parallels, to picture an official society held together entirely by fear and greed. On the surface, manners are normally suave. Rudeness to one’s superiors would obviously be suicidal; rudeness to one’s equals might put them on their guard before you were ready to spring your mine. For of course ‘Dog eat dog’ is the principle of the whole organization. Everyone wishes everyone else’s discrediting, demotion, and ruin; everyone is an expert in the confidential report, the pretended alliance, the stab in the back. Over all this their good manners, their expressions of grave respect, their ‘tributes’ to one another’s invaluable services form a thin crust. Every now and then it gets punctured, and the scalding lava of their hatred spurts out.”
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A society built on lies and backstabbing cannot endure. This MAGA detour that our nation has taken is doing a lot of damage. So much anger, resentment and hate. It’s killing us.
And, worst of all, due to it’s link to Christianity, it can inoculate any seeker from ever considering the true faith, and confirm the atheist in their smugness.
It is anti-Christ.