The Lady Who Said I’m Complicit in Child Sacrifice

If You Go to a Halloween Party, Are You Anti-Christian?

On Halloween, John and I went to a Halloween party, dressed as Rajit and Reshma. I confessed on Facebook that I got these costumes well before the world went 100x woke, beginning in the George Floyd campaign of April 2020, and I said that I expected some insanity in the comments.

People don’t disappoint. One lady told me I am complicit in ritual child slaughter, because Halloween is a “satanic festival.” (She said compliant, but I believe she meant complicit.)

Another said John and me dressing as Rajit and Reshma (after I said I‘d not be remotely offended if a person of a different culture dresses up as my culture) — “doesn't make you edgy or funny, just a bad person.”

A lady on Telegram demanded to know if I’m on Satan’s or God’s side because I said I would be going in costume to our friends’ home to BBQ and accommodate trick-or-treaters. 

She said, “You never talk about your relationship with God.” My reply was “Matthew 6:5-6.”

(Also — “never?” Really? Wouldn’t you need to have read every word I’ve written, to make that claim? I don’t think a single one of my 16 books doesn’t contain faith and scripture.)

Others replied: “Hey, uh, she does talk about her faith pretty regularly, actually.”

Fact is, I was raised in a religious tradition that keeps what it considers sacred rather quiet in public. “They have their reward on Earth” comes to mind — 

— the point is, there's not just one way, to “do faith.” Trumpeting your relationship with God on a public figure platform is only one of them. It’s just a tradition of some people, rather than “the right way.” 

Plus, frankly, I’m still learning, studying, and praying, to know precisely what I believe. And that’s my own private journey.

Honestly, I cringe when my colleagues use their Christianity to sell. (I won't name names. You see it, too.)

I’m not collecting grievances — because my career is an exercise in getting the thick skin of an elephant — but rather, I’m making a point:

Christians give themselves a black eye when they behave in these ways. 

Does being a Christian give us an entitlement to judge? Does it make us superior?

I think it does not. In fact, I think the core tenet of Christianity is that we are all sinners; we can never be “good enough” without forgiveness and the Atonement.

What did Jesus do? He welcomed all; He forgave the woman taken in adultery; he blessed those who cursed him; and he said at the bitter end, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Would he accuse strangers he didn’t know of promoting child slaughter because they went to a party? Of being a “bad person” because they violated a woke culture decree with “cultural appropriation” (a pseudo-intellectual nonsense word I do not subscribe to)? This wins no converts to Christianity.

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Speaking of Culturally Sanctioned Nonsense ….

And while we’re on the topic of nonsense, I’ll mention that the multiple (obviously engineered) global calamities of the past 2.5 years have catapulted my already-healthy BS meter into overdrive. 

As I’ve watched otherwise sane, intelligent people swallow ridiculous false narratives created out of whole cloth, I’ve found myself investigating a range of cultural orthodoxies that have been shoved down our throats over the years.

And I find myself questioning a number of mainstream narratives that don’t actually add up (once you take off your blinders and put on your thinking cap). Here are a couple:

Do you really believe a round globe badly photoshopped by money-laundering NASA represents all the truth — only the truth, and nothing but the truth —  in astronomy? (You’re just supposed to repeat NASA’s claims, and the rewritten astronomy of the last 100 years, even though many ancient cultures referred to the Earth as a flat stationary (not spinning) plane with a domed “firmament" above? 

Yeah, that's it: “The TV said it, and so did my 8th grade Earth Sciences teacher, so it must be true!”

But is it? 

Oh, dear. I already hear the "science denier!” screams, for even raising the question. Like when I mentioned what appears to be a tin-can landing on a fake moon in a studio in Burbank, in 1969.

Perhaps you’ve never run across the eyebrow-raising videos where one of the Apollo “astronauts” evades interviewers who ask them to talk about their “moon walk”? Those men stared at their shoe laces, looking like they wanted to crawl under a fake moon rock, rather than talk about their crowning “achievement.” Hmmm … 

(Disclaimer: I am not making any particular claim about whether we did or did not go to the moon, nor what the Earth really is, if not a globe. You can dive into some interesting content like I have, if you want to, though. You may end up with more questions than answers, but I find such questions less preposterous than I used to — because one thing is obvious: we've been lied to about a lot more things than most of us realize.)

If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider asking, learning, and listening, instead of name calling and insulting anyone who doesn’t parrot the pseudo-science gibberish coming out of CNN.

To that end, here’s a really amazing documentary I think you’ll enjoy: What on Earth Happened?  I got a lot more out of it than I did watching Season 4 of Yellowstone.

8 hours and worth every minute! Put in on 1.5x to make it shorter — but you do have to watch, not just listen. It’s highly visual.

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