katzenjammer

On Katzenjammers and the Abomination that Maketh Desolate


By John Taylor; 26 July, 2004



“... and they shall profane the sanctuary, even the fortress, and shall
take away the continual [burnt offering], and they shall set up the
abomination that makes desolate." (Daniel 11:31, WEB)


I want to talk about abomination today. The dictionary defines the word
as "something one dislikes intensely," something "immoral, disgusting,
shameful." What is abominable is repugnant, offensive, of very bad
quality, unpleasant to experience. The crisis the world is undergoing
now is replete with abominations.

The air is filthy; we spill contaminants into God's pure earth and into
our own bodies and minds. Last week I tried once more to regain my
health by going for a walk in the morning, the time when studies show we
burn off the most fat. I found that even a very short walk of a few
minutes blew me away for the rest of the day. I could not think, I could
not write. I missed three days work. Last night I belatedly found out
why, the air pollution index was soaring on those days. With present
levels of ozone, my habit of pushing the kids to go outside and get some
fresh air was in fact endangering them. What kind of a world are we
living in?

Worst of all, we voluntarily pollute ourselves. I just read a truly
staggering statistic, that marijuana users in Canada have soared in the
past decade to as high as forty percent of young people. These potheads
we have to share the roads with! And the hash of today is not just
several times stronger than it was in the hippy generation, it is
hundreds of times more refined. Since study after study has found that
this habit severely reduces intelligence and vitality we can expect
quite literally a dumbing down of just about everything in coming years.

And what is the government's response? An emergency health education
campaign? No. Proposals are restricted to liberalization of drug laws,
to increasing tolerance for this practice. Some things we may dislike,
some differences can be tolerated, but not this. The human brain is our
most precious commodity. We are already plagued enough by folly,
lassitude and stupidity. The mind is an essential, frittering it away
cannot be a "lifestyle choice." We cannot afford to allow people at the
start of life to induce dumb laziness permanently with chemicals. This
kind of pleasure seeking cuts them off from already scarce mental
abilities. If this is not an abomination, I do not know what is.

Returning to the Bible citation that we opened with, Daniel predicts an
abomination that makes desolate, that is, the introduction of impurity
into the main hope of humanity for eternal salvation, religion. As we
all know, the burnt offering that began the abomination that maketh
desolate was a symbol of personal sacrifice to God, of purification of
the soul. Fire, or sacrifice, burns off our personal desires and stupid
follies before they can escape in the form of polluting thoughts, words
and deeds. When that symbolic fire died the corruption of all
corruptions set in. For when religious leaders smoke up on their own
power, the drop in our collective spiritual IQ is just as severe and
permanent as is a pothead's burnout. Daniel predicted that this
abomination would last 1260 years, until the coming of the Lord of
Hosts.

We know that the coming of the Manifestation is the great purification
of the human race, in spite of the inevitable rejection by those in the
know in affairs of religion. Religious professionals miss out because
their own inner fire went out long ago. The filthiness is obvious to
all, though the cause may not be understood. Where there is smoke there
is fire, isn't there? Others follow the bad example of religious
leaders. The effluent of a hidden spiritual problem ends in blatant
physical expressions.

All breathe the same air that is being polluted by those unwilling to
give up a jot or tittle of their own profits for the purity of the
planet. With vast wealth, they corrupt government regulators rather than
clean up their act for the good of all. Those without vast wealth, well,
they seek consolation in the bottle (95 percent of Ontarians drink
alcohol) and, increasingly, in reefers. And what right have we to tell
them to give up what they find pleasant? The end result of the
abomination? It does not take a genius to see it, desolation. Death.

The abomination that maketh desolate, then, is about a condition that is
ugly and repulsive in itself and that has fatal, desolate consequences
in the end, yes. But desolation is more than that, it implies being
totally alone. What, can we not do when alone? We cannot reproduce.
Desolation is impotence, inability to grow and prosper. Which is why the
prophets repeatedly compared Israel's inner, hidden spiritual betrayal
of truth and faith to whoredom. A prostitute betrays long term goals of
family to fleeting profit and pleasure. A pimp panders to men and
exploits women for similar selfish ends. The religious rivals to Judaism
did just this, they hired pimps and prostitutes to frequent their
temples. They made themselves pimp's pimps by grabbing a percentage of
the take. This gained for them great popularity for a time.

But this sort of competition did not worry the prophets so much. The
truth easily overcomes such obvious popularity grabs. What concerned
them most was an invisible whoredom, a hidden pandering that was
overcoming both the leaders and followers of Judaism. Their giving in to
temptation made the whole of Israelite society spiritually desolate. If
the priests put their own good first, why shouldn't I do so too? As
predicted, everybody became selfish, the nation lost social
cohesiveness, became politically weak, eventually was defeated. Finally
the temple fire was extinguished. Rather than conquering the world with
its monotheistic innovation, Isreal became a sad remnant.

Now I have gone into this little history lesson in order to be prepared
to introduce the following Biblical use of the word "abomination," this
time in a sexual context. The law of Israel forbade sexual perversions
using this and another word, "confusion."


"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith:
neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is
confusion." (Leviticus 18:22-3, KJV)


I will go on tomorrow with homosexuality as an abomination, but let us
conclude with a brief discussion of bestiality as confusion.

We use confusion today to describe a mental state, but the word means
fusing together, in this case trying to fit together wholly different,
incompatible species. There is good unity and bad unity, and the
confusion of bestiality is definitely the wrong kind of unity.

We have already seen what the fervently atheist founder of
psychotherapy, Sigmund Freud, thought about homosexuality. His theory
about bestiality was similarly "value neutral." He held that we all
start off with sexual desires characterized by what he called
"polymorphous perversity," that is, sexual attraction for just about
anything, humans, animals, warm rocks and radiators. In direct
opposition to the teaching of the Bible, though, he did not judge this
as beneath our dignity, much less defilement. It is natural to sate the
sex drive; what is unnatural and unhealthy is to suppress it. As we grow
into children we narrow sexual urges down to more appropriate objects,
humans, be they of the same or the opposite sex.

Freud's ideal of science was that it is objective, detached, not
directly concerned with what is good or bad for humanity. This was every
bit as opposed to the ideals of the early founders of science, the Royal
Society in England, as his ideas about sex were in opposition to the
teaching of religion. They saw science as very committed to the common
good. His misconception unfortunately has spread until today science,
especially the life sciences, has become one of the greatest threats to
human survival, a truly unspeakable evil beyond conception.

That is why in my opinion this law in Leviticus should be applied today
to a great deal of experimentation in science today. Genetic engineering
has given way to nano-engineering, with the very real possibility of
some interspecies combination between human, bacteria and robot escaping
the lab and unleashing destruction that makes even an atomic bomb seem
minor in comparison. Judging by experience, escape is almost inevitable.

For example, one recent discovery is that nano-engineering effluent is
small enough to pass directly into the brain through the nose. And we
thought ordinary pollution was harmful! Worst case, a doomsday bug could
escape and all life on earth would be turned to goo. What, I ask you,
could be more evil than this? Governments should be quaking in their
boots right now. When scripture says all men will be on their knees for
terror, it is not just awoofin, to use my father's expression. Such is
the danger that a great scientist was recently reported in the press as
giving the human race only a 50/50 chance of making it to the end of
this century. If anything should be utterly taboo, it is bestiality, and
its scientific extension in genetic manipulation, a complete
katzenjammer if ever there was one, confusion taken to the n-th degree.


John Taylor
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