Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Hollywood Babylon.

Did we ever believe that an industry built upon the packaging, promotion and slick presentation of SEX would fail to have sexual predators in the head office?
This week, Harvey Weinstein, one of Hollywood's icons of power and prestige, was exposed in full frontal as one of the worst perpetrators in Sin City.
After the New York Times broke news of his sexual predations of young starlets under his patronage, a whole line up of women have come forward to tell their stories: accounts of the most sordid and salacious type of abuse that have finished Weinstein's career, led to his firing from the company he founded and to the departure of Georgina Chapman, his wife of ten years.
These revelations should not surprise us. Two weeks ago Hugh Hefner, pornographer-in-chief was put in a crypt next to Marylyn Monroe, the sex symbol of the sixties.
Now another living incarnation arises to take his place.
I have chosen the fallen statues of the mighty moguls of Mount Nimrod  as my lead picture for this post.
Why? Two thousand years ago these were the giants that walked the earth; proud, unchallenged and monopolistic. They are now no more than headless relics with sightless eyes and broken feet, mouldering on a mountain top in Turkey. So it will be for all the godless, vain-glorious and arrogant who set themselves against the standards and rule of Almighty God.
Don't believe me? Ask Joseph Stalin. They just sold his bronze statue for scrap in Moscow. 
Jubilate.

Ian


Sunday, October 8, 2017

A Nation on Overdose.

Far beyond the numbers of deaths by gunshot or traffic accidents are the gruesome figures now listed for 2016: death by drug overdose.
An estimated 60,000, many coming from over-the-counter or prescription pain killers called opioids.
No longer does the packaged-poison have to be smuggled over the border from Mexico; the cursed stuff is manufactured and sold right here in the United States. 
I am talking about medications like fentanyl, morphine, methadone, palladone, hydrocodone, oxycodone and a whole lot more. Basically they have the same ingredients as cocaine with a slightly different D.N.A.  but all, when the user becomes addicted, have the same deadly effect.
Entire communities, especially in the Mid West and the North East are being decimated by hundreds of over-dose cases that have stretched hospitals and care facilities to the limit. AND THERE IS NO END IN SIGHT.
Last week 60 souls departed this life in the Las Vegas massacre. The whole nation is still in shock, but the far more frightening story is that TWICE that number (mainly young people) died of opioid overdoses in that seven day period.
A whole generation has lost it's way folks. Taught in public schools that they are no more than a cosmic-coincidence and little higher than the apes that swing in trees. Told that this life is all that there is  and that the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ is a fairy story  millions of young people have lost hope and direction.
Their response is "To hell with it. We will seek solace and solutions  in our own way even if it means dying in a back alley in Dayton or crack-house in Columbus"
Tonight I would ask you to remember America in your prayers.
She needs them.

Ian