Apocalyptic fits

It's disturbing but possibly informative that millions of American Conservative Christians (note the placement of Christian AFTER Conservative, in contrast to their moderate and progressive counterparts) believe that any nation that protects Israel against the Arab and/or Russian hordes predicted to attack Israel in the End Times will be immune from prosecution, so to speak, when God's judgment swamps the world, and particularly the Middle East, with blood.

And yet, the Bible doesn't mention America by name. Will America be protected by God's warm, faithful blankie of non-wrath, or abandoned to face the famines, the plagues, the locusts, and the righteous, final genocidal ass-kicking by the Lamb of Vengeance, aka Jesus in his "manly" incarnation -- in contrast to the wimpy martyr who preached loving one's enemies as a pathway to heaven. This lamb is angry, not only because of rampant pork-eating on the Sabbath (although that would anger ME if I were a lamb) but because of homosexuality, drug use, promiscuity and disrespect for the flag. This lamb would make a biker-gangster feel guilty about setting a bad example. Bikers rarely kill lots of people all at once. They might have a few bodies in their basement along with the unused band gear and porn. But Apocalypse is mega-porn, a cosmic bloodbath of such epic proportions it's strangely disappointing that nobody has made a movie of it with decent CGI graphics and awesome, simply awesome three-dimensionally animated locusts with human faces and long hair like women. It's like you're THERE!

I'm done imagining the movie. Wow. So anyway, millions of Christians believe literally in this stuff, and by all appearances, there is great fear that America will sell out Israel just when it needs us most. And that would anger God, and so on, and before you know it, you're surrounded by painful (but not deadly) man-faced locusts who for some reason aren't stinging the gay couple across the street with the sign of the Antichrist in their foreheads or hands. Since they don't wear hats, you assume it's on their hands... you grasp your shotgun for comfort, and you know you're ready to be raptured or recruited for holy combat, one or the other.

And that means, Obama has a lot of very zealous souls to affect on the heart-and-mind level before they find some way to derail America's exponential descent into godless, amoral hedonism and even-handedness in matters of conflict. Can he do it? I suspect that depends a lot on you and me. Or God. I hope God is the good guy in all this, if he/she/them/it/us is there and is paying enough attention to Tweet CNN with some good ideas.