Category: [Religion & esoterica]

Yea verily, JD saith unto us…

It wasn’t enough for Mushroom Cock to snark at the Pope; J. Divans felt someone more qualified should join in.

Vance is, of course, currently the most famous Catholic convert in the US, and we know he is because he’s written that book about it and kids will probably have to read it in school… so obviously someone who only became a Catholic in 2019 is far more adept than Bob Prevost, who was born into Catholicism and has been a Catholic for, what, over 60 years longer than Vance at judging matters of faith. I mean, the Pope’s statement could well be criticised cos it’s not like the church has been historically afraid of violence and war… but the warmonger and nouveau Catholique Vance is probably the last person to be making any such criticism.

And a lot of people have been judging him accordingly. Vance put out this bullshit at a Turning Point USA event where he was fairly roundly heckled and at which he already wasn’t a big drawcard:

Only about a quarter of the 8000 seats in this space had bums on them, apparently, and the crowd outside protesting him was pretty substantial too. Erika Kirk was supposed to be there with him but pulled out because of death threats or something. Apparently J. Divans could look after himself, though…

Indeed, I am reminded of the chihuahua that lives a few doors down from me. Lola is J. Divans, but she’s a lot funnier than him, and, though this is debatable, possibly less stupid…

Product placement

I’ve seen a few people commenting on this:

…a tweet from the US Department of Homeland Security marking the occasion of Easter with a picture of whatisname on the cross and the text from Luke 23:46 with a crucifix above it. And there is indeed much that could be said about this, particularly the inappropriateness of a US government department ignoring the whole church & state separation thing to the fact that the current regime likely wouldn’t even let their putative saviour into the US to begin with, but it was cartoonist Tom Tomorrow who pointed out on Bluesky the most… interesting thing about it; namely, the way the crucifix above the text was placed right over the Lord’s crotch. And… yeah, there it be. I don’t really know what else to say about it.

But which faith?

J. Divans has a new book:

This is the story of the First Bitch’s journey from atheism to Catholicism. Apparently there’s one slight problem, though, which is that the lovely cover art actually depicts a Methodist church. Apparently it is from somewhere in JD’s native Appalachia, but it is… not of his religion. I wouldn’t have known had someone else not mentioned it online, admittedly; I did do a quick Google search which suggests Catholics are less than one percent  of the Appalachian populachian, so it may just have been awfully difficult to find an actually Catholic structure… but surely there’s at least one? Something else for Pope Leo to snipe at him about, I suppose…

Loaves and fishes…?

Another book I spotted online. I don’t know what we can say about the diet of someone who may or may not have even existed in the first place, but, even if we assume that he did, Jesus’ diet didn’t make him, you know, live longer… unless, of course, you accept that he is still alive in heaven and/or has always existed as the second person of God, in which case(s) I don’t think his diet has had much to do with his longevity. And he certainly wouldn’t have been eating those tomatoes on the cover, given they didn’t make it to the middle east until the 1800s…

Remember the Rapture?

Cos evidently this guy hasn’t forgotten it like the rest of us:

This… possibly not altogether there chap, Tilahun Desalegn, stood out to me in the coverage of the non-event of September 2025 by virtue of being noticeably Australian (I alluded to him here before). And, well, yeah, per the video above, he’s got new evidence that the Rapture would in fact finally happen at Christmas. It’s a bit unfair to single him out, cos a quick search on Youtube reveals several dozen other channels there predicting the same thing, or at any rate it would apparently happen at Hanukkah. Seems all those prophets never predicted what did happen at Bondi at the start of Hanukkah… but hey, they were only Jews so who cares, not like they were fully human to the people posting this bullshit… Anyway, I think it’s safe to say the Rapture didn’t exactly come off as scheduled this time either, just like all the other times it’s failed and will continue to do so. Not, of course, that this has ever convinced these morons it won’t happen eventually so they’ll keep predicting it…

Merry Griftmas to all…

Look who’s found religion…

Daniel’s going to be weirdly disappointed if Edolf turns out to be Muslim now, eh? Needless to say, none of his commenters are buying it, and quite a few are speculating about what charges are coming his way that he’s going down this route so suddenly, or whether he’s just in another ketamine spiral… To be honest I believe Russell Brand’s conversion more than this; I’ve said before that I think Brand’s Christian beliefs might actually be genuine, but I do not think this of Edolf. I doubt the latter believes in anything except himself and his bank account; if I still feel Brand’s conversion was suspiciously timed (even if genuine), Musk’s putative conversion to something or other is equally suspicious and even less real. No season of goodwill to this character.

Talking of Tucker…

…I forgot to add this to that post I made about him the other day:

That’s a screenshot I took from Youtube of the most recent shorts posted to Fucker Carlson’s YT channel… one of Milo Hanrahan apparently explaining that the real reason you’re gay is that you actually aren’t (?), and four rather… Biblical clips that I gather come from another interview with someone called John Rich. Look at the titles:

The Antichrist’s Biggest Lie Exposed
Is the Mark of the Beast Real?
Diddy’s Demonic Ties Exposed
The Worst Sin According to the Bible?

John Rich is a country musician, by the way; he is not a theologian, he’s just hopped up on God in the way Kyle Kulinski speculates Carlson is hopped up on nicotine in that video. Also he’s got an understandable hate-on for pedophilia and child trafficking (hence the presence of that Puffy fellow) which… I don’t know, it’s the sort of thing I know I shouldn’t be cynical about because it is obviously awful, but… why do I not entirely trust him somehow? Is it just the number of times we’ve seen right-wingers being really vocal about things they hate, like, I don’t know, gay sex, trans people, etc, but then they turn out to actually be kind of into those things? Quite often they’re loudly professing Christians too. Not that I actually think John Rich is secretly into kiddie fiddling cos I’ve no evidence that he is, but I’ve just seen too many vocal hypocrites of the kind I described…

Oh, and…

…Did the world end for anyone yesterday? Cos you may recall it was supposed to… Indeed, there was supposed to be a months-long solar storm, ongoing since the start of June, and the world was supposed to explode or something. I don’t know, the prophecy didn’t seem entirely coherent to me at the time… Anyway, here we still are, it’s not quite midnight yet in… *checks* Hawai’i, so it’s still the 15th in Honolulu, meaning the world might still end in the next half hour or so and this post will look foolish indeed to anyone still alive to read it. Don’t think it will, though. I wonder if her majesty (vegan)’s message did inspire anyone to go vegan to save them from the apocalypse? If so, then those poor bastards improved their health and moral standing for nothing…

Iesous Inside

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’

In March, three months after being forced out of his position as the CEO of Intel and sued by shareholders, Patrick Gelsinger took the reins at Gloo, a technology company made for what he calls the “faith ecosystem” – think Salesforce for churches, plus chatbots and AI assistants for automating pastoral work and ministry support.
The former CEO’s career pivot is taking place as the US tech industry returns to the political realm as a major revenue stream. Some of its most prominent present-day leaders have funded Donald Trump’s re-election and renewed their pursuit of government contracts as the second Trump administration has revitalized religious conservatism in Washington DC.
Now Gloo’s executive chair and head of technology (who’s largely free of the shareholder suit), Gelsinger has made it a core mission to soft-power advance the company’s Christian principles in Silicon Valley, the halls of Congress and beyond, armed with a fundraised war chest of $110m. His call to action is also a pitch for AI aligned with Christian values: tech products like those built by Gloo, many of which are built on top of existing large language models, but adjusted to reflect users’ theological beliefs.
“My life mission has been [to] work on a piece of technology that would improve the quality of life of every human on the planet and hasten the coming of Christ’s return,” he said.

I feel like if you were wanting to make things better for everyone, you wouldn’t be doing it with AI… but you would want to hasten Christ’s comeback, cos if he waits much longer he won’t have much of a world to return to…