I was doomscrolling the other day and came across this wildly disrespectful Jewish guy speaking on Christianity. He was mocking the belief system, saying “so what if we killed your god, if we could kill him, he wasn’t a god”. At the same time, he was also stating his opinion on why it is ok for Israel to manipulate the U.S. government. I reacted to that, and I believe my algorithm figured “ohhh okay, you have time today for more foolishness”. The ensuing foolishness was internet sleuths one after another criticizing how horrible Epstein was based on the piece of evidence they chose to highlight from those files. A bunch of sick, twisted stuff about child sacrifice and drinking blood and eating the bodies of these babies. Naturally, everyone in the comments were outraged, some condemning him to hell, others thanking Jesus for their children being safe. In that moment I exercised some restraint and put my phone down.

The idea lingered so I figured it would make more sense written out in one of these blog posts. In all honesty, I should probably exercise restraint again and just go back to doomscrolling, but nope. Instead, I’ll give a disclaimer now because I know what I have to say is not popular opinion, belief, or understanding. This blog post is the fully explained version of a quick thought that arose from observing outrage at Jeffrey Epstein. Yeah, that shit he was into is absolutely abhorrent to anyone with common sense or a modicum of decency. But I doubt folks realize just how aligned with him they really are. Keep this in your mind as you read…Doug knows the difference between literal and symbolic. I truly do y’all. I also know the power of faith…not the acceptance of a belief system, but the power in having faith.

Obey

I’m sure most parents have had a kid that asked the question why and we were without explanation besides “cuz I said so”. As a result, a lot of kids are conditioned to just say “cool” even when it doesn’t make sense. That possibly explains the strict adherence to Christianity for a lot of folks, at least the ones that were not afraid to ask questions in the first place. For the ones that wondered but were afraid to ask there seems to be implicit obedience. Personally, I didn’t ask a lot of questions outwardly as a kid, I thought them to myself but then openly asked those questions when I turned 21. When I tried to force myself to be a dedicated believer of Christianity I read and researched myself into being non-religious…but everyone has their own path, and for one reason or another, some folks keep their faith, even after researching it.

Parallels

The irony, to me at least, are the Christians that are disgusted by Jeffrey Epstein’s network of cannibalistic pedophiles. In my observations, the similarities between his sick ass rituals and Christian rituals are hard to ignore. Let’s start with the child sacrifice aspect. We were taught to believe God is a singular, omnipotent being, that throws temper tantrums, loves us unconditionally, created us with flaws, but will send us to eternal torture if we make a mistake “he” fully knows we’re gonna make because “he’s” all knowing. This God had the power to create the most complex systems in the heavens, and on Earth. Everything has an order to it, and this single being was the mastermind to all of it, but the only way “he” could remedy human creation was by forcefully impregnating a human, to have a child that “he” would later sacrifice…presumably to himself. That’s ridiculous, but this god known as Yahweh, had parents somehow, and his original purpose was being a warrior, storm god in the polytheistic systems that were around all those millennia ago. Storms symbolize chaos and confusion…and THAT’s who has been receiving praise and adoration for thousands of years. Now, there are probably dozens of questions that can be generated based on my synopsis of Jesus’ purpose but I ain’t done yet.

In every sect of the Christian faith that I’m familiar with, the practice of communion exists. The frequency varies, but they’re all doing the same thing. In modern day we don’t think much of eating crackers and drinking grape juice…but those two things are symbolic, and they represent the body and blood of Jesus. I know some folks might think that’s a reach but it ain’t. At least once a month Christians, the true believers, are expected to participate symbolically in the sacrifice of a child and cannibalistic rituals. Jesus was considered the “lamb of God” and the lamb symbolizes innocence and purity. So even though Jesus was supposedly a grown ass man when he was killed, symbolically speaking, he had the innocence and purity of a child. To be “closer” to God, and show allegiance to this belief, folks break up lil crackers, sip a teaspoon of Welch’s grape juice or sacramental wine and go on about their life.

Not Cool Doug

It’s some folks that made it to this paragraph that are feeling uncomfortable and some saying, “let him cook”. I understand both sentiments. In my experience, the people that fully understand the symbolism, have examined it critically, not faithfully and are still ALL in, those folks have all been a bit strange to me. The folks that still go along with the flow because the modern church is an institution that goes beyond these symbolically sadistic rituals are often relatively normal…but to my knowledge, none of them have really examined the rational in the rituals in this way. They’re not thinking of the symbolism at all. Usually, those were the kids that were implicitly obedient and now just rock with it due to habit, nostalgia, or networking. No matter why you’re still in, no judgment here, just observing and opining. 

The Takeaway

My goal with this is not to influence people to abandon their faith. If anything, I would hope that if you have not done so before, please examine your belief system critically without the “faith goggles” because there is a lot more to it than the surface level go along to get along practices. I think it matters what we as individuals and as a collective place our energy in. I’ve stated my stance before on many topics but I think it is critically important to question one’s beliefs. As we watch more disgusting shit come out from the Epstein files and you think “how did these people do this shit”, just know that the Abrahamic religions ALL promote or believe in the sacrifice of innocence for the greater good of the generally immoral. Whether it is because of ignorance, acceptance, complacency or tradition these practices have thrived in every pulpit for thousands of years. Just saying, we’ve been collectively worshipping chaos and confusion for thousands of years, and we’re amazed that the world is seemingly more chaotic and confused as the years go by. Maybe we’re misusing our cosmic energy. Just a thought.