The Post-Partisan Emporium

  MGM’s New Robin Hood: Blatant Anti-Christian, Anti-History Propaganda Thoughts from the Shire The Frustration Begins I sat down the other night to watch the new Robin Hood series from MGM. I thought it would be an easy family evening. A bit of medieval drama, some bows and arrows, a sheriff to boo at, something simple, and of course to see how Sean Bean dies in it. Within a minute I found myself pointing out historical nonsense like a man possessed. My daughter, who has been away from home for some time, burst out laughing. She had forgotten what it is like to watch anything vaguely historical with me. The frustration was not about costumes or swords or accents. If it was just a 19th century dog or a Victorian Cockney accent wandering around the 12th century, I could let it slide. Countless shows get things wrong. What drove me mad was something very different. This new Robin Hood is not just sloppy. It is not just stupid. It is ideological. It rewrites the entire religious and c...

  The Greatest Show on Earth 2,000 years in the making Radio Far Side Terence McKenna famously said,  “The truth doesn’t need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist.” Joseph Farrell, one of my favorite thinkers, says,  “The fulfillment is the deception.” I’ve spent my whole life in show business, in one form or another. When I watch a show, I only see the wires, lighting, and blocking. I see sets and transitions. I see camera movements and depth of field. When I look around these days, I see only a big show being staged. I am of the opinion that the events laid out in the Book of Revelation (a.k.a.  ἀποκάλυψις  or  apokálypsis ) were fulfilled in the years between Pentecost and the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70. Halley’s Comet in January AD66, and the Blood Moon of AD 68 fit the celestial signs. The Roman-Judean War took place between AD 66-70, culminating in...