The year is 303 AD. The sun rises in the sky as the great emperor Diocletian takes his seat in the theater. The emperor is a living god dwelling amongst men, he looks upon the stage ready to watch the drama unfold, a drama that occurs solely through the grace of this living deity. He knows that with a snap of his fingers, he could have the play stop or start, its actors made inconceivably wealthy or crucified along the Via Appia.
Genesius and his troupe of actors appear on the stage. He looks upon his Lord in the audience with reverence, and the talented pagan has quite a show planned for the emperor.
The play is to be a comedy, mocking the Christians and their ridiculous sacraments. He has done much preparation for this role, attending Christian ceremonies in secret, so he can perfectly mock and subvert their melodramatic rites. He plays the part of a catechumen. The act begins and he dances across the stage, imitating and exaggerating the hymns and cries of the Christians. At a certain point, the punch line is delivered.
Feigning to be sick, he lays down, begging his cohorts to relieve his suffering. He announces that he is soon to die, and wants to become a Christian and that they should >>> continue reading
Who are these stupids going long the market, aligning with the billionaires to widen the wealth divide, create more inflation, hurting the non-wealthy, and this besides the fact that the PE ratio for the S&P500 tends to around 7 ALWAYS in high inflation?
How’s the war going? Huh? Do you mean the war over in Ukraine? Or the US government’s war against its own people?
Well, the first one, the Ukraine War, is mostly destroying Europe — though, apparently, the denizens of Germany, Holland, et al., haven’t figured that out yet. Europe’s industrial economy is toast without affordable Russian natural gas supplies.
We turned off their pipeline for that in September and nobody in Europe objected. They just sucked it up and...
