Sounds Like my TV When Kenneth Copeland is On

Coronavirus is spiking in blue states where Christianity is unfashionable but masks, vaccines, and lockdowns have near-sacred status. What’s going on?

When purple Florida got hit with a big spike, leftists piled on Ron DeSantis, claiming he caused it. DeSantis is a big proponent of vaccines, but he tried to allow parents to opt out of draconian mask laws for schoolchildren. Leftists started claiming, falsely, that he was banning masks in schools. He has also been instrumental in saving Floridians from blue-state-style mask laws and hard core lockdowns for adults.

Let’s go back over some facts. First of all, masks are ineffective as worn by nearly the entire general public, second, children are at very, very low risk of having serious problems if they contract coronavirus, and third, Florida parents have always been free to make their kids wear masks not just at school, but everywhere. Finally, lockdowns and mask mandates have not proven effective; they have often been followed closely by coronavirus spikes, as was seen recently in Australia.

It’s somewhat comical. When Florida spiked, it proved DeSantis, and by extension all Southerners, Christians, rural residents, and conservatives were backward and evil. Leftist journalists could not stop hammering these themes home. When blue states spiked, however, everything went quiet. Well, not totally. Some leftist journalists kept hammering DeSantis, exactly the way they didn’t hammer Cuomo when his isolation orders killed thousands of senior citizens.

People buy into anti-covid measures because it makes them feel better, not because they work. When a stubborn pestilence hits, everyone wants to feel a sense of being in control. When the Black Death hit, Europeans gave huge sums of wealth to the church because they thought God would heal them in exchange for money. Some people attacked Jews, believing they caused the plague. Doctors wore masks outdoors, just like humanists in Boston and New York do now. Many people flagellated themselves with whips, thinking they would beat God to the punch and divert his wrath. Others resorted to aromatherapy, which was just as useless then as it is now.

Lockdowns make us feel like we have control, even though they do not work unless they are extremely, extremely strict. Social distancing doesn’t work at all, but again, it makes us feel powerful. Ivermectin, vitamin D, famotidine, zinc, and azithromycin haven’t been shown to work reliably, but many people take them anyway. No intelligent person wants to die without trying every reasonable, harmless preventative and remedy, if there is any chance any of them will work.

I have taken ivermectin. I’ve tried vitamin D and zinc, but my usage has been spotty. I bought famotidine just in case. I got myself vaccinated, and I even got a flu vaccine because doctors reported that people who got flu shots were less likely to have severe covid. I will go so far as to admit that wearing a mask makes me feel safer, even though I am aware that it doesn’t help. Even pro-mask researchers tell us masks don’t protect the people who wear them; they’re to protect people around us.

I’m not immune to the irrational drive to take measures in which I have little faith, and I admit it, so I don’t feel bad about criticizing other people who behave similarly and refuse to admit they’re deluding themselves.

I’m getting a little sloppy here. Not all anti-covid measures are delusional. Taking things like ivermectin, which are backed by considerable, if inconsistent, evidence, is optimistic, but not delusional. Getting vaccinated is not delusional, because so far, vaccines protect most people to some degree or other. Pinning your hopes on a mask or on the types of lockdowns free societies can manage is delusional. Making people wear masks on jets, where the air is replaced every three minutes, is beyond delusional. Telling small children to wear masks, which don’t work and which will never be worn properly by most kids, is so delusional the word “delusional” is inadequate to describe it.

Anyway, blue state people appear to have way, way too much confidence in the anti-covid strategies which are currently available in America, and they are also way too scared of the disease itself.

A study showed that 41% of Democrats think over 50% of coronavirus patients require hospitalization. The real answer is below 5% and may be as low as 1%. And “hospitalization” is a broad term. My dad spent several days in the ICU because he had a nosebleed he caused with a Q-Tip. I required hospitalization to have a broken arm set. I wouldn’t dream of assuming that everyone who gets coronavirus treatment at a hospital is in serious trouble. In any case, blue state people are clearly SEVERELY deluded when it comes to the danger the disease presents. They think covid is much worse than it is, and they think preventative measures are much better than they are.

Blue state spikes are severe blows to the sense of control blue state people have inculcated in themselves through bias and stubbornness. One wonders how they will feel as things get worse. Last year, they showed themselves extremely fragile in the face of the corona threat. They posted videos of themselves, screaming. They cursed 2020 as though it were a person. This year, they are doing a little better, but their hatred of people who question anti-covid tools is rupturing their relatively calm facades like magma bursting through the earth’s crust.

Joe Rogan chose not to get vaccinated, and when he got covid, he took ivermectin and other remedies and recovered from his mild symptoms in a few days. His colleague and fellow mediocre comedian Howard Stern lost his mind over this. He said people like Rogan should go home and die. He said, “F___ your freedom.”

Here is some of what Stern, who used to hold himself out as a big proponent of freedom, said:

We have no time for idiots in this country anymore. We don’t want you. We want you to all either go to the hospital, stay home, die there with your COVID, don’t take the cure but don’t clog up our hospitals with your COVID when you finally get it.

Stay home, don’t bother with science, it’s too late. … We want you to go away, We want you to leave the country. Go somewhere where they have ultimate freedom, wherever that is, some bizarro world where you don’t have to take the vaccine. … I don’t know when nonsense became such a thing.”

Needless to say, Stern is campaigning for forced vaccinations, using shots which still have not been approved by the FDA.

His language is remarkable. It shows how Beast-think, the mindset of the Antichrist’s children, works. As I keep saying, the Antichrist isn’t just one man. It’s a body of people with one demon-sculpted mindset. It’s a hive mind. Stern doesn’t hesitate to show that he believes he speaks for the masses. “We” don’t want you. “We” want you to die at home. “We” want you to leave the country.

It’s a genocidal mob mindset. It’s about race, which is another way of saying it’s about family.

There are two races of human beings: the children of light, and the children of darkness. Throughout history, the spirits behind each group have been battling to rid the earth of the other group. The children of darnkess like to talk about inclusivity and cooperation, but it’s not what they want, any more than real Christians want to go on living in a world which has gotten too filthy and hateful to tolerate. They want us gone, and we look forward to a world without them. In the future, they will kill us in droves, like their spiritual leftist ancestors who delivered French loyalists, including an anointed king, to the guillotines in carts.

As plagues go, coronavirus is mild. It’s nothing like smallpox or the Black Death. We have to wear masks and endure some other inconveniences, but there is food on our tables, and the government is not nailing our front doors shut. Not in America, anyway. Yet. Look how crazy we are, though. Imagine how crazy we will get if things get significantly worse.

Leftists already fantasize about removing people from the world in order to create a corona-free utopia where everyone uses the correct pronouns. They take pleasure, publicly, when one of us dies. Many of them discuss the prospects of our deaths openly, with joyful anticipation. That’s how it is now, during a lackluster plague. If a new smallpox pops up, we will murder each other like rats. People will barricade themselves indoors with supplies taken from neighbors they have killed.

It’s going to happen. The Bible predicts it. What if it happens sooner rather than later? What if we don’t have to wait for another disease to bring things to a head? What if covid itself gets worse?

Right now, the vaccines are looking pretty good, so blue-staters still have one peg to hang their suggestive pink hats on, but the vaccines disappoint more and more every day, and there is no reason why something can’t happen to make them completely ineffective at preventing coronavirus from coming back like a brand new disease. What will blue-staters do then?

The new blue state spikes don’t seem to make sense. Blue states have higher vaccine rates, and vaccines seem to work fairly well, so what happened?

For a long time, THE SCIENCE has made predictions that haven’t turned out to be right. It looks like that is still happening. High-vaccination states are getting lots of coronavirus, including severe cases. Meanwhile, Zambia, with its sub-2% rate, no lockdowns, and poor social distancing, only had a tiny spike this summer, and it disappeared very quickly with no action at all from the government.

Leftists keep telling us vaccinations will fix everything, but that hasn’t happened in the US. Meanwhile, other countries with low rates aren’t having problems.

Imagine how leftists would be spewing if Florida’s shot rate were under 2%. They would literally froth at the mouth. We would be lucky if they didn’t come down in chartered buses to kill us. They would have to be driven off the streets with water cannons and rubber bullets. Florida’s shot rate is over 30 times Zambia’s.

Maybe it won’t impress leftists to see someone compare Florida with Zambia. How about Zambia and enlightened, far-left Massachusetts? The shot rate in Massachusetts, which is similar to Florida’s, is over 35 times Zambia’s. Zambia has about 3 times the population of Massachusetts. Zambia’s current new case rate is 45 per day, so divide by three, and you get 15. Surely Massachusetts has fewer cases. Maybe one or two per day, right? No. It’s 1539. At its very peak, Zambia never got much above 3500, which corresponds to about 580 for Massachusetts.

On a per-unit-of-population basis, Massachusetts is doing about 2.5 times as badly as a country where people ride around in vans with multiple strangers and almost no one has been vaccinated.

Maybe a leftist will read this and hope I’m cherry-picking. No such luck, chest-feeding comrade. It gets worse when you look at long-term stats. Massachusetts has had 4 times as many cases and 5 times as many deaths. That’s in absolute terms, not relative. Zambia should have had 12 times the cases it has had, and 15 times the deaths, adjusting for population. Throw in the lack of vaccinations and the general lack of a real response, and a good leftist who genuflects for St. Fauci would expect Zambia to have maybe 50 times the cases and 60 times the deaths Massachusetts has had. I would argue that Zambia is doing roughly 50 times as well as blue-state alarmists would generally expect. Or Massachusetts is doing 50 times worse.

It’s not lack of exposure. Zambia has had coronavirus for a long time, including the delta variant. It’s not race. Black people in the US do worse than white people.

I always say this: when something doesn’t make sense, there is generally a supernatural explanation. I think Zambia and similar countries were spared simply because they were not cursed with the same curses Florida, Massachusetts, Hawaii, New York, and other coronavirus hotspots received. What we are seeing appears to be the beginnings of the apocalypse, and God has said that during the apocalypse, human beings will not be able to fix their problems.

Why would God go easy on zany African countries while allowing relatively responsible Americans to be pummeled? I don’t know. I do know that Zambia is a Christian country, as stated in its constitution, and homosexuality is not promoted there the way it is here. Zambians openly oppose it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Plagues don’t just happen. They are punishments. America has been punished worse than any other nation, including the nation that released coronavirus on the world. Why is that? Could it be our status as the world’s leading exporter of homosexuality and other types of sexual sin? We actively punish countries that don’t go along with our weird new sexual morality, inside their sovereign borders. Africans talk about it all the time. They hate it. The Chinese tell them to side with China because China won’t force perversion on them.

We have done something to bring this on ourselves. That’s certain. We don’t acknowledge it. We don’t have national days of fasting and repentance. That must be why the disease keeps defying logic. Because we aren’t turning back to God, it will surely run its course. Whether that means dying out by an appointed date or clinging to us forever, I don’t know.

Right now, it looks like the current global wave is pooping out. Maybe we’ll never have another one. I hope we won’t. I’m not optimistic. Too many things point to the end of the age.

It looks like waves are hitting something like 8 months apart. If that is true, then it would be a very good sign if we didn’t have another one by the end of May. If something happens anywhere near the center of the interval between August and the beginning of April, it would seem to be a sign that things are worse than we think. If we get hit in, say, January, I will consider it a bad omen.

In unrelated news, today I experienced a remarkable attack on my marriage. I generally expect spirits that influence my wife or me to be the hostile agents. I need to get over that. Experience has taught me that my biggest enemies are Christians who are influenced by spirits.

I was granted persona non grata status at my last two churches because I stood up for what was right. While I served at these churches, nearly all of the people who made my life difficult were pastors and volunteers. No one else bothered me much. Now it’s happening again.

My wife went to church today, and her pastor told her I needed to join a church and start tithing. As if that’s not bad enough, he tried to get her to manipulate me. He tried to get her to stand with him, against me.

He belongs to a group of churches overseen by a man named Oyedepo. Oyedepo is a padawan of Kenneth Copeland, a vile, greedy, hateful liar who destroys people’s lives by sucking up their savings and turning them against God. Oyedepo loves the prosperity gospel. He has 4 jets, which is pretty good for a Nigerian who collects money from poor Africans.

The pastor believes Christians are supposed to tithe, and he believes in “seed offerings.” When you give a seed offering, you pay God to give you more money. You give him a hundred dollars, and soon he turns around and gives you a thousand. The bigger the seed, the bigger the harvest. Kenneth Copeland is very excited about that last bit. People have given him their homes and retirement accounts because they believed God’s big priority was to make them rich, not to transform them and fill them with the gifts and fruit of the Spirit. Generally, people who give such offerings die waiting for God to get back to them, not realizing he already has.

I’ve written about all of this before.

Paul told us the law had been fulfilled and that Christians were not under the law, and people like Copeland repeat this a lot, while insisting we are still under the law of the tithe, which has never, ever applied to gentiles.

I used to tithe and give financial offerings, and I never, ever got a return. I never saw anyone else prosper from tithing. I did see a lot of people lose their jobs and homes while tithing.

Rhodah’s pastor didn’t come to me like a man. He told my wife to teach me bit by bit, to bring me around. He said this to her secretly, sort of like Satan, making plans with Eve while Adam was busy elsewhere.

I don’t think he thought of himself as Satan. I think he has good intentions. I think he’s just ignorant and trapped by the spell of Kenneth Copeland.

The prosperity gospel is a pyramid scheme, and like every pyramid scheme, it turns every hopeful beneficiary into a salesman. Rhodah’s pastor hopes to get rich, so he sells the prosperity gospel to people who will give him money. Some of the people he convinces will surely become preachers, and they, too, will look for potential donors to rope in.

The Bible is very critical of conflicts of interest. Today I looked for verses saying not to take bribes because they pervert judgment, and I thought I would find one. I found a whole bunch. Preachers who hope to become prosperity gospel millionaires can’t think clearly, and God warned us about them.

Last night, before I heard about this, I started thinking about the roles of husbands and wives. I realized I could not think of a single male in the Bible who pleased God by listening to his wife. I could, however, think of a bunch whose wives caused problems.

Adam was cursed for listening to his wife. Go read it. This was the first sin God named. He mentioned the fruit later. Eve was the first drug abuser and pusher. She ate a mind-altering plant and pushed someone else to use it. What she did was very serious, and Adam’s primary sin was going along with it instead of doing his job as a husband.

Job’s wife tried to get him to curse God.

Sarah laughed when God said she would have a son, and she didn’t believe his prophecy. She goaded Abraham into sleeping with a servant and giving rise to a race that still causes the Jews great trouble today.

Lot’s wife didn’t want to leave Sodom. She thought she knew better than her husband, and as a result, he was left without his helper. God killed her. Then his daughters took on the role of wives in her absence, getting him drunk and having sex with him.

Leah deceived Jacob, pretending to be his wife so he would sleep with her. Because of her lie, he was forced to work 7 more years for Laban.

Potiphar’s wife accused Joseph falsely, and Potiphar lost his major domo because be listened to her.

Moses had problems with his wife, who refused to let him circumcise their son. God got so angry, he tried to kill Moses. Only then did the wife perform the surgery herself, to cool God’s anger.

Samson was betrayed by his wife and Delilah, who sided with other people instead of demonstrating a wife’s proper submission and loyalty.

Bathsheba tempted David, leading to the murder of Uriah. His wife Michal ridiculed him instead of honoring him, causing God to curse her womb.

Solomon served his heathen wives instead of God, and he died in disgrace. He failed as a ruler and a father, and he plunged the Hebrews into centuries of bloody division.

Jezebel ruled Ahab and turned Israel into a slaughterhouse for prophets.

Herod’s wife forced him to murder John the Baptist.

It’s a long list, and there are probably other examples. Abigail and Pilate’s wife are the only wives I can think of who had more sense than their husbands.

Rhodah told me about her pastor’s plan on the morning after I thought about these things. God was preparing me.

Rhodah did two smart things. She told her pastor my history and explained that I was not an ignorant person who needed to be taught about tithes, and she also told me everything he said.

I told her to inform him he was not to go through her again. If he had something to tell me, he was to come to me, not my wife. I also told her never to give him any of my money again. Not for prosperity purposes. I said she could give him a few bucks now and then to keep the lights on, but that was it. I said I did not want to be cursed for giving prosperity donations.

It’s surprising that a preacher would not see the problems I identified. You don’t talk to another man’s wife when you can talk to the man. That’s inappropriate. You never try to get a man’s wife to side with you against him.

If he has a problem with this, tough toenails. It would not be the first time I put a preacher in his place and got blowback, so I don’t care. The team is Rhodah and me, not the preacher and Rhodah. If our marriage tanks, he’ll be just fine. He’s not risking anything when he meddles. To me, it’s different. Rhodah is all the flock I have, and she can’t be replaced easily. We have a sacred relationship we are obligated to protect. The relationship between a preacher and a woman who sits in his church is nothing.

It would be nice to go to church, as he suggests, but the age of the church is over, and coronavirus has made attending church impossible. I guess he doesn’t know how things work here.

The more I thought about this demonic attack, the more revelation came to me. I remembered Albert Santiago, the crooked preacher of my last church. A convicted pedophile, he was known for breaking up friendships. If you disagreed with Albert, your friends were told to cut you off, and most would do it. I had another crooked preacher: Rich Wilkerson, of Miami’s Trinity Church. He ruined relationships by turning volunteers into slaves. I remember a sad tale of two young people who had a dream courtship and engagement, only to have it ruined because Trinity’s inner circle pressured the woman not to move to Los Angeles with the man.

Cults interfere with relationships between Christians. Santiago did it. Wilkerson did it. Rhodah’s pastor is doing it. But he is trying it on the wrong couple. He ran into the wrong husband.

Today I prayed for God to destroy and expose Copeland’s and Oyedepo’s foul ministries. I hope Rhodah’s pastor comes around and gives up their poison. I prayed for his correction.

It goes to show how vigilant you have to be. You have to pray in tongues so God gives you revelation, and you have to understand the way the world is supposed to work. God is a father, and one of a father’s functions is to prepare his children to deal with scammers and liars. People who don’t have fathers like that end up buying time shares. Or giving money to Kenneth Copeland.