You know so much Caitlin. Your insights enlighten me often, but on this subject you are wrong.

"Anyone who thinks they've got life all figured out is suffering from a psychedelic drug deficiency."

A few people actually have life figured out. Who? The prophets of course. If and when one has had an encounter with the almighty creator of the universe, then the major questions in life are no longer a concern. Once you have met God, you no longer wonder where we came from or how we got here. It becomes perfectly clear. God answers all these questions and many more.

I understand, you might object. You might point out all the terrible ways men have used religion for evil. But I will point out that this is just another example of sociopaths usurping a genuinely good thing for their own ends. The same way any other genuinely good human movement has been hijacked for evil purposes, religions get hijacked too. You brought up the feminist movement as an example of this phenomenon just the other day.

Because of this, the ability for psychopaths to hijack religion, the message of God gets muddied, and it is pretty poorly understood these days. Most people seem to think it mostly has to do with regulating our sex lives and how much fun we can have at parties. This is a lie.

There's a reason the government killed Jesus Christ, and it isn't because he was teaching people to have less sex. It's because he was teaching people to take care of each other. It's because he was preaching truth against hate and violence and cruelty. It's because he was teaching people to turn away from the capitalist system and the love of money, and I to take care of others first. He was teaching that if everyone gives all they have, if everyone dedicates their lives to the welfare of everyone else, then there will be enough for everyone to be taken care of.

The truth is, what you preach most days in your blog is closer to the message of God than what you will likely find in a church on Sunday, because you preach the truth, and the truth is the light, and when the light shines on the darkness, the darkness cannot survive. But don't take it from me, here it is from the book of John and the lips of Jesus Christ himself:

19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God." (John 3:19-21, ESV)

Keep speaking your truth Cait. You are a light in the darkness, and the darkness cannot survive the light. You are a bright light, one of the brightest, but you're not alone in the world. I know you've seen Lee Camp's new comedy special. He's a light too, and a bright one. There are other bright lights popping up every day as well, and as more and more of us shine the light of truth into the world, the darkness will be burned up before us.

God bless you Caitlin Johnstone. Have faith that Good will triumph. And please, if you have some time, read an open letter I wrote to you. I know, it's kind of long, and I don't write as well as you do, but I sure wish you would read it.

-Chris C. (Eddison Flame)