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The revelation of the book of Revelation
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John Perkins
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Dec 07, 2003 22:47 PST
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I was going through my bookshelf and found an old copy of the New
Testament. I have had a long-standing aversion to reading books like that
so I have never read them. But I thought now perhaps I would browse
thorough it. Flicking through the book of Revelation it seemed so weird I
went back and read all of it.
What a horrible, gruesome, sadistic, vengeful and pathetically absurd story
it is! Full of fantastic composite animals, mass killing, seas of blood,
mass destruction, the seven seals, the seven trumpets the seven angels with
seven plagues etc etc. It can only have been written by a deranged
psychopath. How can anyone possibly take this stuff seriously? Apparently
most Americans believe it!
I thought the ending was a fizzer. The exalted Lamb with seven eyes and
seven horns (a throwback to ancient amimal worship?) was about to get
married. But to who? It doesn't say. All the saved souls, the twevle tribes
of twelve thousand were all men! The only woman was a whore an she copped
it. I presume the Lamb was a Ram. So would it be a bestial marriage? Do
dead souls have babies? The probem for the "Revealer" was that after the
last trumpet is blown, the last non-believer finally punished on the Final
Day, what happens next?
How about this for an idea. Revelation could be made into an animated film,
Lord of the Rings style! It would seem like a pathetic B grade sci-fi
flick, but which would be an excellent parody. It could be hugely comical,
without trying to be. And because it could follow the text exactly as
written, the zealots could not complain about it! Or has this been done
already?
John
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