{"id":24945,"date":"2025-06-24T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T00:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=24945"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:44:41","slug":"is-religion-simply-a-massively-multiplayer-role-playing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/24\/is-religion-simply-a-massively-multiplayer-role-playing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Religion Simply a Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Game?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s obviously not about objective reality.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lance Wallnau says Trump&#8217;s strike on Iran is setting the stage for the Antichrist;<\/li>\n<li>With thoughts about what humanity is &#8220;for&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li>Trump confuses supercells with sleeper cells;<\/li>\n<li>Vox on how Trump&#8217;s actions aren&#8217;t actually very popular;<\/li>\n<li>Trump challenges AOC to a cognitive test &#8212; sure, bring it on!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div align=\"center\">&#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<\/div>\n<p>A follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s title item.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rww24jun25.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/rww24jun25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Right Wing Watch, Kyle Mantyla, 23 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplefor.org\/rightwingwatch\/lance-wallnau-says-trumps-strike-iran-setting-stage-antichrist-emerging\">Lance Wallnau Says Trump&#8217;s Strike On Iran Is Setting The Stage For &#8216;The Antichrist Emerging&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll only quote just a bit.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the supernatural side, Wallnau said that the strike on Iran was setting the stage for the End Times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus is coming back and I believe that this is all part of him setting the stage for his return,&#8221; Wallnau said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be an opening of the window through the State Department for the gospel of freedom to be preached into the Middle East, into Asia during these a couple of years we&#8217;ve got with Trump. We&#8217;ve got to move fast [to see] that this Gospel of the Kingdom goes into all the nations.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, this is nonsense; it&#8217;s people acting as if they&#8217;re in a demon-haunted fantasy novel, or game: an MMRPG, which I&#8217;m going to define as &#8220;massively multiplayer role-playing game&#8221; an analogy with MMORPG, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massively_multiplayer_online_role-playing_game\">Massively multiplayer online role-playing game<\/a>. Religions aren&#8217;t online.<\/p>\n<p>The RWW piece has this bio of Lance Wallnau:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A former oil executive turned right-wing evangelist, Wallnau is a self-proclaimed Christian nationalist and a leading proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, which seeks to place right-wing Christians atop the seven primary \u201cmountains\u201d that shape society: government, education, media, arts and entertainment, family, religion, and business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again we can step out to the big picture and wonder what humans are for. (But even that begs the question that humans are &#8220;for&#8221; something. Maybe we just *are*.) Are we servants to a creator who must be worshiped, as slaves worshiped their masters, and should society remain static in order to maintain this function? Or are we an evolved species, a product of the workings of an immense universe, a way in which the universe has become aware of itself, as Carl Sagan put it, and are only beginning our journey into awareness? If there&#8217;s anything like &#8220;progress&#8221; over human history &#8212; which I think there has been, in terms of human health and longevity, and in terms of humans understanding their place in the vast universe &#8212; it&#8217;s not come from religious movements seeking to maintain the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to be the central issue in the future of the human race.<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, our president, endorsed by those evangelists because he&#8217;s fulfilling their prophecies, supposedly, doesn&#8217;t know the difference between supercells and sleeper-cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JMG, 24 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2025\/06\/trump-says-biden-let-in-a-lot-of-supercells-audio\/\">Trump Says \u201cBiden Let In A Lot Of Supercells\u201d [AUDIO]<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBiden let a lot of supercells into the United States. He was an incompetent president. He had no idea what he was doing. It was gross incompetence. Among everything else, he let a lot of supercells in, many from Iran. But hopefully we\u2019ll take care of them. What Biden did to this country should never be forgotten.\u201d \u2013 Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One while en route to The Hague.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, Trump is the incompetent one, and it&#8217;s telling that his fans don&#8217;t care. (A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Supercell\">supercell<\/a> is a meteorological term.)<\/p>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Here we are. Buyer&#8217;s Remorse?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/gettyimages-2220645644.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vox, Christian Paz, 24 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/417577\/trump-paradox-poll-iran-economy-approval-number\">Trump keeps reminding the American public to dislike him<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;The public doesn\u2019t like it when the president actually does something.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">President Donald Trump is now the most unpopular he has been during his second term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">More than half of American adults disapprove of the job he is doing, and he\u2019s underwater on nearly every important issue of the day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">The polling averages show this net disapproval clearly: On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/economy\">economy<\/a>, he\u2019s down 13 percentage points. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/inflation\">inflation<\/a>, he\u2019s down 20 points. Even on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/immigration\">immigration<\/a>, he\u2019s down 2 points. (Those negative marks include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/polls\/approval\/donald-trump\/issues\/foreign-policy\">foreign policy<\/a>, though it\u2019s too soon to say how the public is reacting to Trump\u2019s decision to join Israel\u2019s bombing of Iran.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">Still, Trump\u2019s popularity decline has been a dramatic development: After entering office with a positive approval rating and popular support for his agenda, he\u2019s squandered much of it away through various political fights, policy decisions, and public spectacles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\\\\\\<\/p>\n<p>By all means, let&#8217;s do this.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Trask2-2-660x330.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>JMG, 24 Jun 2025<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joemygod.com\/2025\/06\/trump-challenges-stupid-aoc-to-cognitive-test\/\">Trump Challenges \u201cStupid AOC\u201d To Cognitive Test<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cStupid AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the \u2018dumbest\u2019 people in Congress, is now calling for my Impeachment, despite the fact that the Crooked and Corrupt Democrats have already done that twice before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we examine her Test Scores, we will find out that she is NOT qualified for office but, nevertheless, far more qualified than Crockett, who is a seriously Low IQ individual, or Ilhan Omar, who does nothing but complain about our Country, yet the Failed Country that she comes from doesn\u2019t have a Government, is drenched in Crime and Poverty, and is rated one of the WORST in the World, if it\u2019s even rated at all. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bring it on! Do it live on TV! But it has to be a real, legitimate test. Note again how Trump is obsessed with superficialities: IQ scores (which no one cares about once you&#8217;ve been admitted to college, if you have), and ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since it&#8217;s obviously not about objective reality. Lance Wallnau says Trump&#8217;s strike on Iran is setting the stage for the Antichrist; With thoughts about what humanity is &#8220;for&#8221;; Trump confuses supercells with sleeper cells; Vox on how Trump&#8217;s actions aren&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2025\/06\/24\/is-religion-simply-a-massively-multiplayer-role-playing-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,18,54,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-progress","category-lunacy","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24945"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25278,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24945\/revisions\/25278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}