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The Layered Foundations of Civilization and the True Meaning of Easter: Why Christianity Supplanted the Blood Cults of the World and Why Good Friday Is Indeed Good

I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll keep saying it because the evidence keeps piling up in every direction I look: civilizations don’t spring up out of nowhere like some secular fairy tale taught in modern classrooms. They build directly on top of previous civilizations, often literally stacking their cities, temples, and rituals atop the ruins of what came before. That’s why digging through the archaeological record to prove deep-time assumptions is so difficult—layers upon layers of human endeavor, each one trying to make sense of the same spiritual warfare that has raged since the beginning of recorded time. The same principle applies to our holidays, especially Easter. What we celebrate today isn’t some pristine invention of the early Church; it’s a Christian overlay on ancient pagan traditions, and that layering isn’t a bug—it’s the feature that makes the whole thing work psychologically and culturally for humanity’s long-term survival.  

This past Holy Week of 2026, as the world marked another Easter amid the chaos of our times, I found myself explaining this story over and over again to a new generation—mostly people under thirty—who are staring at the mess handed down by their parents and grandparents. Secular society led those older cohorts astray with promises of endless pleasure, moral relativism, and “progress” that stripped away any real foundation. These young people don’t like what they inherited. They’re drinking less, they’re not as sexually driven in the destructive ways previous generations were sold, and they’re turning to Christianity in numbers I haven’t seen in my lifetime. It’s not just some fleeting reaction to current events, though the assassination of Charlie Kirk last September certainly played a role in waking some of them up. Kirk and Turning Point USA had been reaching that exact demographic with a message of truth, responsibility, and American exceptionalism rooted in Judeo-Christian values. When radicals lashed out and killed the messenger, they didn’t kill the message—they turned Kirk into a symbol, almost a modern martyr in the eyes of many. That’s the danger of assassinating ideas: they don’t die; they multiply. But Kirk’s success wasn’t accidental. A whole cohort was already listening, already rejecting the secular void, and looking for something solid to stand on. Christianity is providing that anchor, just as it has for millennia.

Let’s get specific about Easter, because the question keeps coming up from these young seekers: Why the bunnies? Why the eggs? How does any of that connect to Christ’s resurrection? The answers take us straight back to those layered civilizations I mentioned. The Easter bunny and Easter eggs didn’t originate in the Gospels. They trace back to Germanic and broader European pagan traditions tied to spring fertility rites—reverence for the changing seasons where life bursts forth after winter’s death. Bunnies, with their legendary reproductive vigor, became symbols of vitality and new life. Eggs, obviously, represent rejuvenation—the perfect vessel from which new life hatches. Painting them was humanity’s way of imprinting our creative stamp on that divine process. These rituals migrated and blended across cultures, just as trade routes and migrations carried ideas from the Near East to Europe and beyond. The Christian tradition didn’t erase them; it baptized them, layering the resurrection of Christ—the ultimate victory over death—onto these older spring celebrations. That’s how holidays work. They evolve, but the core psychological need remains: to mark renewal, confront mortality, and seek meaning in the cycle of life and death.  

This isn’t some dilution of faith; it’s evidence of Christianity’s genius as a sustaining cultural mechanism. Look at the broader pattern. For hundreds of years—two or three centuries at a stretch, over and over—pagan societies rose and fell on the worship of planetary gods: Jupiter, Mars, Saturn among the Romans, borrowed wholesale from the Greeks, who themselves drew from Near Eastern deities. The same archetypes appear globally—uncovering similar pantheons and ritual cycles in Central America, South America, North America, Africa, and even ancient China. These civilizations kept collapsing under their own weight because they were psychologically tethered to blood cults. Human sacrifice wasn’t some fringe horror; it was the currency that kept the spiritual order supposedly in balance. The gods demanded blood—literal blood—to appease their hunger, to ensure fertility, to prevent catastrophe. Aztecs, Mayans, and countless others built entire societies around it. Temples like those of Artemis or Ishtar incorporated ritual prostitution and worse. Phoenician traders may have carried these practices across the oceans, with evidence of sophisticated pre-Beringia trade networks appearing in places like central Florida, near what’s now the Kennedy Space Center. The archaeological record hints at vast, interconnected systems far older and more advanced than the simple migration narratives we’re usually fed.

Christianity broke that cycle. It didn’t just compete with paganism; it psychologically supplanted it on a global scale. The crucifixion and resurrection of Christ presented the ultimate sacrifice—the Lamb of God offering Himself once for all—no more need for endless rivers of human blood on pyramids or altars. The body becomes bread; the blood becomes wine. Communion replaces the cannibalistic feasts that followed ritual killings. This wasn’t abstract theology; it was a pragmatic, world-changing intervention in the human condition. As I’ve explored in my upcoming book The Politics of Heaven, which draws heavily from Ephesians 6:12 and the ancient Book of Enoch, this spiritual war has been raging since the rebellion in heaven. Disembodied spirits—fallen entities hungry for the destruction of God’s creation—have whispered through dreams, drunkenness, hallucinogens like ayahuasca, or modern “possessions” that masquerade as progressive enlightenment. They crave anxiety, death, and the dismemberment of humanity because they are at war with the Creator. Christianity gave humanity the mechanism to say “no” on a civilizational level.

I’ve seen this truth play out personally. Years ago, my wife and I were in the Yucatan on Good Friday. We witnessed an entire town pour into the streets for a passion play—recreating Christ carrying the cross to His death. The whole community participated. It was profound. These were descendants of the very cultures that once cut out living hearts on temple steps and consumed the flesh in communal rites to appease gods who demanded blood to keep the sun rising or the rains falling. The Mayans and Aztecs didn’t do it for sport; they believed it was necessary for cosmic order. The Spanish conquest, whatever its flaws and whatever the secular historians scream about “genocide,” brought an end to that nightmare for the survivors. As I wrote about that experience in my reflections (what some have called Lockers of My Mind in my ongoing personal chronicles), it hit me hard: these people weren’t mourning lost heritage in that moment. They were liberated by it. Christianity replaced the terror with a single, sufficient sacrifice. No more pyramids running red. No more children or captives fed to the gods. Just bread and wine, remembrance, and the promise of resurrection. 

The critics—those secularists, progressives, and anti-human types who pine for “Earth worship” and indigenous revival—love to flip the script. They blame Christianity for slaughtering the Aztecs, Mayans, and every other group during the spread of Western civilization. “Look at all the bloodshed!” they cry. “The Crusades! The conquests! Christianity destroyed vibrant cultures! Peel back the layers, though, and you see the lie. Those “vibrant cultures” were built on industrial-scale human sacrifice. The Aztecs alone killed tens of thousands annually—estimates run into the hundreds of thousands over decades—to feed their bloodthirsty pantheon. Hearts torn out, bodies dismembered and eaten in front of crowds. The same patterns repeated worldwide: temple prostitutes in the cults of Ishtar, ritual killings in Phoenician outposts, even echoes in Roman and Greek practices before Christianity civilized them. The Jewish temple system itself pointed toward sacrifice, which is why tensions persist with some groups still longing for a Third Temple to resume animal (and, in some interpretations, fuller) offerings. Christ’s declaration—“It is finished”—shattered that—one sacrifice to end all sacrifices.

That’s why Good Friday is good. It marks the death that killed death’s dominion through blood currency. Easter celebrates the resurrection that proves the victory. We layer on the bunnies and eggs not to mock the old ways but to redeem them—spring renewal now points to eternal life in Christ, not seasonal appeasement of demons. This psychological shift was revolutionary. It toppled the Roman Empire not by sword alone but by offering a better story: humanity no longer enslaved to the whims of hostile spirits. Kings fell. Empires crumbled under the weight of this truth. And it continues today. Modern blood cults haven’t vanished; they’ve shape-shifted. Abortion clinics as modern altars, the desecration of the body through endless “self-expression,” broken families, and hedonistic pursuits that feed the same entities. Progressives who decry Christianity as oppressive are often the very ones seduced by these whispers, pushing policies that increase anxiety, death, and the consumption of innocence—whether literal or figurative.

I’ve written about this extensively because it’s not just history; it’s the present war. In The Politics of Heaven, I lay out the evidence of this vast conspiracy: giants, disembodied spirits, the ancient playbook from Enoch that explains the hunger for God’s creation. Jonathan Cahn’s work on the return of the gods captures the avatar-like reemergence of these entities in our time—possessing leaders, movements, and even individuals who surrender their integrity. From a quantum perspective, as I sometimes explore in my writings, it makes even more sense. Parallel realities, entangled essences, free will playing out against a backdrop that feels predestined because the spiritual architecture was set long ago. The stars the ancients charted weren’t superstition; they reflected a written order. Evil seeks to maintain its foothold, craving bloodlust because it is wild and destructive. Christianity provided the off-ramp.

Look at the young people today. They see through the secular lie. They’re not buying the narrative that Christianity “robbed” indigenous peoples of their essence. The essence of those cultures—the part worth preserving—was their humanity, which the blood cults were devouring. The heritage that needed eradicating was the one demanding hearts on pyramids. The survivors in the Yucatan that day understood it intuitively as they reenacted the Passion. They had a better life because of the Christian overlay. Pretty colors and sophisticated math in Aztec temples don’t excuse the horror. The same goes for every pagan system that required blood to function.

This is the productive, beneficial impact of Christianity that secular history deliberately obscures. It freed humanity from the cycle. It gave us moral judgment rooted in a single, sufficient sacrifice. It allowed civilization to advance rather than collapse every few centuries under spiritual exhaustion. As I detail in The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business and in my other works, such as The Symposium of Justice and Tail of the Dragon, the same principles apply to individual lives and enterprises: reject the appeasement of evil, embrace truth, and build something lasting. The overman—the Nietzschean ideal I’ve long admired but ultimately grounded in Christian reality—doesn’t bow to the old gods. He overcomes through Christ.

When people ask me why we celebrate Easter despite the “harm” attributed to Christianity, I point them to the Yucatan village, to the global archaeological record, to the undeniable decline of ritual sacrifice wherever the Gospel took root. We celebrate because we are remembering the sacrifice that ended the need for sacrifice. We celebrate bunnies and eggs because they now point to the ultimate renewal. We celebrate Good Friday because it was the day the currency of blood was retired forever for those who accept it. The evil spirits still lurk—they always have, and they always will until the final restoration. But Christianity armed humanity with the ultimate psychological and spiritual divorce from their demands.

The young people turning to faith right now are doing God’s work, whether they realize it fully or not. They’re rejecting the blood cults in modern dress—abortion, cultural suicide, the worship of self that feeds the same entities. They’re choosing life, renewal, and the Kingdom that was always meant to rule.

Easter isn’t just a holiday. It’s a declaration of victory layered atop the ruins of every failed pagan attempt to appease the dark. And in 2026, with the world still reeling from political violence and spiritual hunger, it’s more relevant than ever. That’s why it remains one of my favorite holidays. It reminds us that death was defeated, that renewal is possible, and that humanity is far better off because one perfect sacrifice broke the chains that had bound the earth for thousands of years. The bunnies still hop, the eggs still get painted, but now they point to something eternal. Christ is risen. The old cults are overthrown. And that is why we celebrate.

Footnotes

1.  See Jacob Grimm’s 1835 analysis of Eostre/Ostara traditions and modern archaeological confirmations of hare symbolism in Neolithic Europe.

2.  Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (731 C.E.) on the month of Eosturmonath and its assimilation into Christian practice.

3.  Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s eyewitness accounts in True History of the Conquest of New Spain detailing Aztec sacrificial practices.

4.  My own reflections on the Yucatan passion play, expanded in personal writings referenced as Lockers of My Mind.

5.  Jonathan Cahn, The Return of the Gods and related works on spiritual reemergence and avatars.

6.  Ephesians 6:12 and the Book of Enoch as foundational to The Politics of Heaven.

Bibliography for Further Reading

•  Hoffman, Rich. The Politics of Heaven: Evidence of a Vast Conspiracy Involving Giants, Disembodied Evil Spirits, and the Ancient Book of Enoch. (Ongoing project, excerpts available at overmanwarrior.wordpress.com).

•  Hoffman, Rich. The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business.

•  Hoffman, Rich. The Symposium of Justice.

•  Hoffman, Rich. Tail of the Dragon.

•  Bede. Ecclesiastical History of the English People.

•  Díaz del Castillo, Bernal. True History of the Conquest of New Spain.

•  Cahn, Jonathan. The Return of the Gods.

•  Smithsonian Magazine articles on Easter Bunny origins (2022).

•  Various archaeological reports on global pagan deities and trade networks (Phoenician and pre-Columbian contacts).

Rich Hoffman

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Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

The Sex Cults of Artemis: We need to choose a name that sustains not just the body of exploration, but the soul of civilization itself.        

Artemis is going back to the moon, and I’m really not crazy about the name. I didn’t like it when they first came up with it, and I still don’t. It feels like one more concession to a secular worldview that pretends ancient pagan deities are just harmless branding exercises—cool-sounding relics from a long-dead culture that “everybody can agree on.” But history doesn’t work that way. Names carry weight. They carry spiritual baggage. And when NASA reached for a name to replace the glory days of Apollo and send us back to the lunar surface, they chose Artemis, the Greek moon goddess and twin sister of Apollo. On the surface, it sounds clever, a neat mythological bookend. But dig even a little deeper, and you’re wading into the same fertility cults, temple rituals, and appeasement of dark forces that early Christian writers confronted head-on in the Mediterranean world two thousand years ago. I’ve spent years studying this pattern, and it’s the backbone of a book I’m finishing called The Politics of Heaven. What we’re seeing with the Artemis program isn’t just branding. It’s a symptom of a much older struggle between the human spirit and the principalities that have always hungered for our attention, our bodies, and our collective sanity.

Let me start with the obvious. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a massive marble edifice that dominated the city and the entire region. Built and rebuilt over centuries, it was more than a tourist attraction or a bank (which it also was—temples doubled as secure depositories). It was the epicenter of a cult that blended Greek mythology with older Near Eastern fertility worship. Artemis herself, in her Ephesian form, was often depicted with dozens of breasts or egg-like ornaments, symbols that modern scholars sometimes try to downplay as “not really about sex or fertility.” Yet the ancient world understood her differently. She was the goddess of the hunt and the wilderness, of chastity in some tellings, yet deeply entangled with the cycles of birth and reproduction, and the raw forces of nature. Her temple drew pilgrims, merchants, and locals who participated in festivals filled with processions, music, dancing, and—according to multiple ancient reports—rituals that involved the offering of human vitality, including sexual acts, to appease the divine.

Christian writers of the period didn’t shy away from describing what they saw. In Acts 19, the apostle Paul’s ministry in Ephesus sparks a riot among the silversmiths who made shrines to “the great goddess Diana” (the Roman name for Artemis). The city clerk calms the crowd by reminding them that Ephesus is the “temple keeper of the great Artemis, and of the image which fell from Jupiter.” That “image” was likely a meteorite revered as a divine gift, tying the cult directly to celestial forces. But Paul and the early Christians saw something far darker at work. They weren’t just opposing statues or tourism revenue. They were confronting a system of spiritual appeasement that had roots stretching back thousands of years to the fertility cults of Mesopotamia—Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, and their Greek and Roman counterparts. These goddesses demanded sacrifice, often in the form of sexual union performed in or near the temple precincts. Women—sometimes all women in certain cultures—were expected to spend time as temple prostitutes, offering their bodies to strangers for money that went to the temple treasury. It wasn’t “empowerment” or personal choice in our modern sense. It was a collective duty to the gods, a way to ensure fertility for the land, prosperity for the city, and protection from whatever malevolent forces lurked in the spirit realm if the rituals were neglected.

Secular historians and archaeologists today often dismiss these accounts as Christian propaganda or exaggeration. They point out that direct physical evidence—carved reliefs, unambiguous inscriptions—is scarce at Ephesus because the temple was largely destroyed, its stones carted off for other buildings after Christianity became the dominant faith of the empire. Digging seasons in Turkey are short; the site has been layered over by centuries of occupation, and hostile conditions (political, environmental) have limited excavation. But absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence, especially when you’re dealing with practices that were deliberately secretive or oral in nature. We have reports from Herodotus, Strabo, and other classical writers describing sacred prostitution in temples dedicated to similar goddesses across the region. In Babylon, for instance, every woman was reportedly required once in her life to sit in the temple of Ishtar (or Mylitta) and have intercourse with a stranger for a fee. Similar customs are attested in Cyprus, Phoenicia, and parts of Asia Minor. The early Church fathers didn’t invent these stories out of thin air; they were reacting to what they witnessed firsthand on the frontiers of the Roman East.

I believe we can trust those Christian reports precisely because the behavior they condemned persists. It just wears different clothes. Look at modern nightclub culture—the so-called “meat markets” that young people, especially women aged eighteen to twenty-four, are actively encouraged to frequent before “settling down.” Bachelorette parties where sexual impropriety is not only tolerated but celebrated. The progressive push for “sexual liberation” and “women’s rights” frames any restraint as patriarchal oppression. We send our daughters—girls who were playing with Legos and dolls just a few years earlier—into environments of throbbing music, flashing lights, alcohol, and physical grinding that would have been right at home in an ancient fertility festival. They dress in scandalously revealing outfits, present their bodies for public consumption, and are told it’s all harmless fun, a phase to “get out of their system.” The money doesn’t go to a temple treasury anymore, but the spiritual transaction is eerily parallel: the sacrifice of personal sanctity, the abandonment of the body to collective debauchery, the implicit agreement that youth and vitality must be offered up so the rest of society can enjoy peace from whatever unseen forces demand their due.

This isn’t hyperbole. It’s pattern recognition. Ephesians 6:12 puts it plainly: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” The apostle Paul, writing to the very church in Ephesus that had just emerged from the shadow of Artemis worship, understood that these weren’t abstract metaphors. The spirit world is real, and it competes for control of human bodies and minds. The body is the vehicle for the soul, but it’s a vulnerable one. When people impair their consciousness—through drunkenness, drugs, or ritual frenzy—they loosen the tether that keeps the conscious self in the driver’s seat. Competing spirits rush in. Personalities split, behaviors turn erratic, sanity fluctuates. Ancient temple prostitutes weren’t just performing an economic or social function; they were opening doorways. The same doorways we open every weekend in clubs across America and Europe. The music changes, the lighting gets fancier, but the appeasement of disembodied entities hungry for human essence remains constant.

My own explorations into these dynamics—through reading, observation, and reflection on how evil operates in human societies—have convinced me that we cannot separate the material world from the spiritual one. We are entangled. Secularism’s great lie is that we can neuter history, strip away the sacred (or the diabolical), and treat ancient gods as cartoon characters for mission patches and rocket fairings. NASA did exactly that with Artemis. After the Obama-era push to highlight “Islamic contributions to science” and diversify the agency with voices from every culture, the name was pitched as inclusive, neutral, non-offensive. Why pick something biblical when you could pick a “cool” pagan goddess that “everybody can agree on”? It’s the same impulse that led the agency’s early rocketry pioneers into occult territory. Jack Parsons, one of the founders of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was a brilliant chemist and engineer by day and a devoted Thelemite occultist by night. A disciple of Aleister Crowley, Parsons performed the Babalon Working in 1946 with L. Ron Hubbard—sex magic rituals involving masturbation onto magical tablets, invocations of the goddess Babalon (a Thelemic stand-in for the Scarlet Woman of Revelation), and attempts to incarnate demonic forces into the material plane. He saw no contradiction between rocket science and summoning ancient entities. In fact, he believed his rituals fueled his breakthroughs. NASA loves to celebrate the Apollo era’s clean, heroic image while quietly glossing over the fact that the foundational rocketry work at JPL had deep roots in Parsons’ dual obsessions. The cult origins of NASA aren’t a conspiracy theory; they’re documented in biographies like George Pendle’s Strange Angel. Parsons literally signed letters as “The Antichrist” and conducted black masses in his Pasadena home.

This brings me back to why naming the lunar return program after Artemis bothers me so much. It’s not just semantics. It’s a continuation of the same appeasement strategy humanity has employed for millennia. In ancient times, societies sacrificed their youth—virginity, vitality, individual dignity—to fertility goddesses in hopes that the “hungry gods” would leave the collective alone. Today we do it with our entertainment, our dating apps, our “hook-up culture,” and our refusal to draw moral lines. We tell young women that their bodies are theirs to offer freely in the nightclub meat market, that restraint is repression, and that any talk of spiritual consequences is outdated superstition. Meanwhile, the principalities and powers—those same competing souls and disembodied spirits that haunted the temples of Artemis, Ishtar, and Astarte—continue their work. They don’t need marble altars anymore; smartphones, social media, and Saturday-night fever vibes do the job just fine. The result is the same: fractured personalities, generational trauma, and a culture that robs itself of sanity in exchange for momentary collective highs.

I’m not suggesting NASA should abandon space exploration—quite the opposite. I love NASA. I want it to succeed. I want humanity to expand beyond Earth, to sustain life across the solar system, perhaps even outlive our home planet. But if we’re going to do that with any long-term credibility and moral foundation, we should draw from the best of our cultural inheritance—not the pagan underbelly that early Christians rightly rebelled against. Western civilization, for all its flaws, is rooted in biblical ideology. Why not name a program after a figure from Scripture that embodies vision, endurance, or divine favor? Something that signals we’ve learned from history rather than repeating its mistakes. The Artemis choice feels like a deliberate step away from that heritage, a nod to the “neutral” secular narrative that pretends spirit doesn’t matter. But spirit does matter. The body is the vehicle for the soul’s journey, and there are always entities eager to hijack the wheel when we let our guard down.

Archaeology may not have uncovered every detail of those ancient sex rituals—not yet, anyway—but the Christian eyewitness accounts from the period fill the gap. Paul’s letters to the Ephesians, the riot in Acts 19, and the writings of the early Church fathers all paint a consistent picture of cultures steeped in fertility worship that demanded human essence as payment. The temples are mostly gone now, reduced to a few pillars and scattered stones at Ephesus, but the underlying spiritual dynamic hasn’t vanished. It’s migrated into our secular rituals: the nightclub as temple, the DJ as high priest, the dance floor as altar. Young women (and men, though the pressure on females has always been more pronounced in these cults) are still expected to “do their tour of duty,” to offer themselves to the collective before committing to marriage and family. We call it empowerment. The ancients called it piety. Both are forms of appeasement.

In The Politics of Heaven, I unpack this at much greater length—how evil works through human institutions, how spirit and matter are inseparable, how competing souls vie for control of our bodies, and why yielding to animalistic impulses under the guise of “freedom” always leads to cultural decline. The book has taken years of research, reflection, and editorial effort, but the core argument is simple: we cannot outrun the spiritual realm by renaming it or pretending it’s mythology. NASA’s decision to invoke Artemis is a small but telling example of a larger societal failure to learn from history. We keep making the same stupid mistakes because we’re afraid of being called intolerant by the secular crowd. We’d rather appease the principalities than confront them.

If we truly want a sustainable future—one that includes permanent human presence on the Moon and beyond—we need to stop revering the old gods, even in name only. The cults of fertility and debauchery didn’t produce enduring civilizations; they produced cycles of excess, collapse, and moral exhaustion. Christianity’s radical break from those practices—its insistence on individual sanctity, monogamous marriage, and spiritual warfare against the powers of darkness—gave the West the moral framework that eventually launched the scientific revolution and the space age itself. Let’s honor that trajectory instead of reaching backward for pagan branding that sounds “cool” to focus groups.

I’ve seen too much evidence, both ancient and contemporary, to believe otherwise. The spirits that demanded appeasement in the temples of Ephesus and Babylon are the same ones whispering through our modern meat markets and cultural expectations. They thrive on impaired minds, abandoned bodies, and the sacrifice of youth. We don’t defeat them by pretending they don’t exist or by giving their old names new rocket programs. We defeat them by calling them what they are, drawing lines in the sand, and choosing names—and behaviors—that reflect the better angels of our nature rather than the demons we’ve never truly escaped. The Moon awaits, but the path we take to get there matters. Artemis might get us there faster on paper, but at what spiritual cost? I’d rather we choose a name that sustains not just the body of exploration, but the soul of civilization itself.        

Footnotes

1.  NASA official statements on the Artemis program naming, 2019 announcement by Administrator Jim Bridenstine.

2.  George Pendle, Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons (2005).

3.  Ephesians 6:12 (KJV).

4.  Acts 19:23-41, especially v. 35.

5.  Herodotus, Histories (on Babylonian customs of Ishtar/Mylitta); Strabo, Geography (references to temple practices in Asia Minor and Corinth).

6.  S.M. Baugh, “Cult Prostitution in New Testament Ephesus,” JETS 42/3 (1999), though I disagree with his dismissal of the broader pattern reported by early Christians.

7.  Stephanie Lynn Budin, The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity (2008)—a secular counter-view that I believe underestimates eyewitness testimony from the period.

8.  Richard Metzger’s accounts of Parsons’ Babalon Working rituals.

9.  N.T. Wright, lectures on Ephesus and the Artemis cult background.

10.  My ongoing research for The Politics of Heaven (forthcoming).

Bibliography for Further Reading

•  Bible (King James Version), especially Acts 19, Ephesians 6, and 1 Timothy 2.

•  Pendle, George. Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.

•  Herodotus. The Histories. Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt. Penguin Classics.

•  Strabo. Geography. Loeb Classical Library.

•  Baugh, S.M. “Cult Prostitution in New Testament Ephesus.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 42, no. 3 (1999).

•  Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

•  Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite. Indiana University Press, 1969 (for the Mesopotamian context).

•  NASA historical documents on Project Apollo and Artemis program origins.

•  Wright, N.T. Paul and the Faithfulness of God (relevant sections on pagan cults in Asia Minor).

•  Additional archaeological reports on Ephesus from the Austrian Archaeological Institute and related publications on the Artemision.

Rich Hoffman

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About the Author: Rich Hoffman

Rich Hoffman is an aerospace executive, political strategist, systems thinker, and independent researcher of ancient history, the paranormal, and the Dead Sea Scrolls tradition. His life in high‑stakes manufacturing, high‑level politics, and cross‑functional crisis management gives him a field‑tested understanding of power — both human and unseen.

He has advised candidates, executives, and public leaders, while conducting deep, hands‑on exploration of archaeological and supernatural hotspots across the world.

Hoffman writes with the credibility of a problem-solver, the curiosity of an archaeologist, and the courage of a frontline witness who has gone to very scary places and reported what lurked there. Hoffman has authored books including The Symposium of Justice, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and Tail of the Dragon, often exploring themes of freedom, individual will, and societal structures through a lens influenced by philosophy (e.g., Nietzschean overman concepts) and current events.

Armageddon as Process: From the Teacher of Righteousness to Modern Political Movements

For centuries, people have imagined the Battle of Armageddon as a climactic showdown—a single day when good finally triumphs over evil. But what if Armageddon is not a moment in time, but a perpetual struggle? What if the battle has been raging for thousands of years, manifesting in different eras, cultures, and movements? Today, as millions rally behind reformist causes like the MAGA movement, many wonder why evil seems so entrenched, why corruption persists even when righteousness gains ground. The answer lies in history: the fight against systemic evil is not episodic—it is eternal.

To understand this, we must look back to the crucible of Western civilization: the Holy Land during the turbulent centuries before and after Christ. There, in the shadow of empires, a small sect called the Essenes waged a spiritual and cultural rebellion against corruption. Their writings—the Dead Sea Scrolls—reveal a figure known as the Teacher of Righteousness, a man who defied the “Wicked Priest” and inspired generations of resistance. From Qumran to Megiddo, from the Copper Scroll to the mosaic affirming Jesus in a Roman garrison, the story of righteousness versus evil is a continuum that stretches into our own time.

Around 150 BCE, as Judea reeled under Hellenistic influence after Alexander the Great, a separatist sect emerged—the Essenes. Disillusioned by Jewish priests who compromised with Greek rulers, the Essenes withdrew to the desert near Qumran. They lived by strict purity laws, followed a solar calendar, and anticipated an apocalyptic showdown between the “Sons of Light” and the “Sons of Darkness.” Their writings—the Community Rule, War Scroll, and Damascus Document—outline a worldview obsessed with righteousness and divine justice.

Central to these texts is the enigmatic Teacher of Righteousness, a leader who clashed with the “Wicked Priest,” likely a Hasmonean high priest aligned with foreign powers. The Teacher’s mission was clear: restore covenantal purity and resist systemic corruption. His life foreshadows later figures like John the Baptist and Jesus, who also confronted entrenched elites. Without the Dead Sea Scrolls, we would never know this man existed—yet his influence rippled through history, shaping the moral architecture of Western thought.

Discovered in 1952 in Qumran Cave 3, the Copper Scroll stands apart from other Dead Sea texts. Unlike parchment manuscripts, it was etched on metal—suggesting permanence. Its contents? A list of 64 treasure caches, possibly Temple wealth hidden during Roman incursions. This reveals a critical truth: rebellion was not merely spiritual; it had economic dimensions. Control of resources meant survival for communities resisting imperial domination. The Copper Scroll is a silent witness to the material stakes of righteousness—a reminder that corruption thrives not only in temples but in treasuries.

Megiddo, perched at the crossroads of ancient trade routes, was more than a city—it was a symbol. From Canaanite stronghold to Israelite fortress, from Greek outpost to Roman garrison, Megiddo embodied the clash of civilizations. By the second century CE, it housed Legio VI Ferrata, a Roman legionary camp with 5,000 soldiers. Roads, amphitheaters, and barracks testify to imperial might. Yet Revelation would immortalize Megiddo as Armageddon—the stage for the ultimate battle between good and evil. In truth, that battle was already underway, fought not with swords alone but with ideas, faith, and sacrifice.

Among the most stunning finds at Megiddo is a mosaic floor dated to around 230 CE, discovered in a Roman military compound. Its inscription dedicates worship to “God Jesus Christ”—the earliest archaeological evidence of Jesus’ divinity. This predates Constantine’s Edict of Milan by nearly a century, proving that Christianity was infiltrating the Roman world long before it became state-sanctioned. The mosaic, displayed at the Museum of the Bible, marks a turning point: the empire that crucified Christ was slowly bowing to His name. This was not an overnight revolution but a gradual transformation—a testament to the endurance of righteousness.

Before Rome embraced the cross, it worshipped a pantheon of gods—Jupiter, Mars, Venus—and demanded emperor worship. Greek deities like Zeus and Athena lingered in cultural memory. Against this backdrop, Christianity’s rise was nothing short of miraculous. Persecuted believers faced martyrdom, yet their faith spread from catacombs to palaces. By 313 CE, Constantine legalized Christianity; by 380 CE, Theodosius made it the official religion. But the seeds of this revolution were sown centuries earlier—by rebels like the Essenes, prophets like John, and visionaries like the Teacher of Righteousness.

What does this mean for us today? The struggle between righteousness and corruption did not end with Constantine—or with the crucifixion. It is a permanent condition of human society. Modern movements like the Tea Party, the Reform Party, and MAGA echo the same impulse: to resist entrenched elites and restore moral order. Just as the Essenes defied the Wicked Priest, today’s reformers challenge systems that profit from decay. The hostility they face—from media vilification to legal persecution—mirrors the fate of ancient rebels. Why? Because evil never surrenders quietly.

History teaches a sobering truth: fighting evil is hard, slow, and often bloody—but it works. The Teacher of Righteousness did not live to see Rome fall, yet his stand against corruption helped ignite a movement that reshaped the world. The Essenes’ scrolls lay hidden for two millennia, only to inspire us today. The Megiddo mosaic whispers across centuries: righteousness wins—not in a day, but in the long arc of history. So when despair creeps in, remember: Armageddon is not ahead of us—it is all around us. And every act of courage, every stand for truth, moves the battle forward.

— Additional notes and reference —

Abstract:

This work examines Armageddon as a historical continuum rather than a singular event, tracing its roots from the Essenes and the Teacher of Righteousness through Greek and Roman occupations, Jewish revolts, and the rise of Christianity. It integrates archaeological evidence from Megiddo, textual analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and modern political parallels to argue that the struggle between righteousness and corruption is an enduring condition of human society.

1. Introduction

Armageddon is often imagined as an apocalyptic climax, yet history reveals it as a recurring process. From Qumran to Washington, the battle between systemic evil and reformist zeal persists. [Footnote: Collins, 2010]

2. Historical Timeline

– 332 BCE: Alexander the Great conquers Judea, introducing Hellenistic culture. [Footnote: Josephus, Antiquities]

– 140–37 BCE: Hasmonean dynasty asserts Jewish autonomy but succumbs to corruption. [Footnote: Schiffman, 1994]

– 63 BCE: Pompey annexes Judea; Roman rule begins. [Footnote: Goodman, 2007]

– 66–73 CE: First Jewish Revolt ends with destruction of the Second Temple. [Footnote: Josephus, Wars]

– 313 CE: Constantine legalizes Christianity; 380 CE: Theodosius makes it official. [Footnote: Brown, 1989]

3. The Essenes and Teacher of Righteousness

The Essenes, a separatist sect, withdrew to Qumran to resist priestly corruption. Their texts—the Community Rule, War Scroll, Damascus Document—reveal a dualistic worldview: Sons of Light vs. Sons of Darkness. The Teacher of Righteousness emerges as a prophetic figure opposing the Wicked Priest. [Footnote: Vermes, 2011]

4. Megiddo and Armageddon

Megiddo’s strategic location made it a stage for imperial clashes. Excavations reveal layers from Canaanite to Roman eras. Revelation’s Armageddon draws on this geography as a metaphor for ultimate conflict. [Footnote: BAR, 2015]

5. Dead Sea Scrolls and Copper Scroll

The Copper Scroll lists 64 treasure caches, underscoring the economic stakes of rebellion. Resistance was not merely spiritual but material. [Footnote: Allegro, 1960]

6. Greek and Roman Context

Greek philosophy and Roman law reshaped Judea’s cultural landscape. Emperor worship and Hellenistic syncretism clashed with Jewish monotheism, fueling sectarian movements. [Footnote: Hengel, 1974]

7. Modern Parallels

Reform Party → Tea Party → MAGA echo ancient insurgencies. Each arose to combat perceived corruption, facing vilification and systemic pushback. [Footnote: Skocpol & Williamson, 2012]

8. Conclusion

Armageddon is not a prophecy deferred but a pattern repeated. From the Teacher of Righteousness to modern populists, the fight against entrenched power endures.

References:

– Allegro, J. (1960). The Treasure of the Copper Scroll.

– BAR (Biblical Archaeology Review), various issues.

– Brown, P. (1989). The Rise of Western Christendom.

– Collins, J. (2010). Apocalypticism in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

– Goodman, M. (2007). Rome and Jerusalem.

– Hengel, M. (1974). Judaism and Hellenism.

– Josephus. Antiquities and Wars of the Jews.

– Schiffman, L. (1994). Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls.

– Skocpol, T., & Williamson, V. (2012). The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.

– Vermes, G. (2011). The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English.

Rich Hoffman

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People Like Jen Psaki Make People Like Robert Westman: Democrats and their ideas are dangerous to a safe society

To answer the question as to why the 23-year-old shooter, Robert Westman, killed two children and injured 17 other kids and elderly adults with a mass shooting at a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only appropriate answer is that the Democrat, anti-family policies of social destruction are to blame.  Mass shootings are happening, specifically recently within the transgender community, where the apparent problem of kids who fall for the scheme are finding it impossible to live in society as a whole.  There are a lot of shootings by trans people; Nashville comes to mind.  You don’t see mass shootings coming out of kids with religious backgrounds, two-parent homes, or NRA members.  They are happening from kids with broken homes, a relationship to drugs, and by those who are seduced by Democrat ideas of social victimization and gender neutrality, meaning that a person can identify not with the reality of their born sex, but can change it depending on their feelings.  And that emphasis on feelings is what looks to be triggering this massive and deadly social failure. In the case of this 23-year-old man, who changed his name to Robin in 2020, he obviously wanted to make a point by leaving behind a manifesto of anti-Trump beliefs, releasing a video on YouTube to drive home his point.  He wanted people to know his radical left politics and his anti-religious position, even to the point of painting statements all over his guns.  It looks like he used four different guns, saving enough ammunition in a 9mm to kill himself with a bullet to the head in the Catholic church parking lot where he conducted the mass shooting.  There were a lot of very troubling discoveries that followed, and many of them came from the media, which immediately dug in and avoided talking about the trouble with transgender mass shooters, where a tiny part of the population is turning to violence to express themselves by becoming killers. 

Robert Westman’s mother worked at Annunciation Catholic Church for five years, from 2016 to 2021.  And it would have been during this tenure that Robert Westman decided he wanted to be a woman, rather than a man.  His parents were divorced, with his dad living about a mile away from the church.  Thus, the church itself plays a role in all this, as well as in what it proclaims to those connected to it.  The reason that Democrats quickly move to gun bans after these shootings is that they can’t admit to the real problem that they cause in society, which Jen Psaki articulated really well with her controversial comments on prayer.  As a former White House press secretary and a current MSNBC host, it’s no wonder people like Robert Westman think the things they do.  She said about the prayers people were making in the wake of the tragedy, “prayer is not freaking enough.  Prayers do not end school shootings.  Prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school.  Prayer does not bring these kids back.  Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”  Essentially, what people like Jen Psaki are saying, which influences the thinking of individuals like Robert Westman, is that the experiments of replacing the family with government are failing.  That if only we took away all the guns, all their crazy ideas would suddenly work.  Without dealing with the psychological problems of gender neutrality that originate in broken marriages or drug abuse.  Or even learning liberal ideas in public schools or the broader mass society.  The anger directed at this church, as communicated by this mass shooter, has the same tone to it as what Jen Psaki said about prayer. 

These killers have a common theme to them, even if recently it has been transgender individuals conducting the violence.  Traditionally, it could easily be said that people who are taking too many drugs are the root cause.  But what you find is that well-adjusted kids who come from a healthy family structure are not doing these kinds of things.  They aren’t killing people.  They might have a bad day, but they don’t seek to destroy elements of society with such hatred, which Robert Westman clearly was trying to do.  The hatred of the church itself is part of this story, which Psaki actually says with disdain: “prayer isn’t enough.”  We must, according to her, and the killer, do more.  We must turn to the laws of men, of government, to make “parents ‘feel’ safe.”  It’s about feelings again. How do people feel?  Do parents feel safe sending their kids to school?  Do you feel like a man or a woman today?  We are supposed to make our society work based on feelings rather than logic.  And where do we get healthy logic?  From a good parental structure.  The government has not been a good replacement.  And the rejects of that attempt are kids like Robert Westman, who build up so much anger in their lives that they would seek to express it with a mass shooting, which is happening way too often by people who identify with left-winged politics.  And the evil at work here is something that churches are dedicated to managing, which makes them a target for killers and media personalities who essentially want to destroy their influence for good. Because if people are good and happy, they won’t turn to Democrats for parental care.  A government that indulges in feelings and forces a society through violence to accept those feelings as the foundation for all collective beliefs.  Only that premise stands opposed to the trajectory of the human race.

When violence is used as a means of communicating, the clear indicator of failure is not far behind.  When kids like these trans kids, who Democrats have told that their feelings about things will be respected by society, and yet they discover all too late, after they’ve changed their name to a woman from a man, that society rejects them as an abomination, it was the Jen Psakis of the world who lied to them to begin with.  The belief society expressed to young people, like this kid, during his mother’s tenure at that church as an employee, was that you could be what you felt.  It was a notable trend in left-wing politics, and it has turned out to be a disaster.  Anger at a mother who wasn’t there for him, or a society that didn’t validate his beliefs, where feelings were respected no matter what they were, leaves people very frustrated.  And the political left actually seeks to weaponize young people like this killer to advance their topics, such as removing guns from society, so that free will can’t be defended by the whims of collectivism.  The anger being expressed, whether it’s on television or through mass shootings, is that we should not turn to God for safety or guns.  We should turn to a parental government that will take care of us and shield our feelings from the harsh realities of life.  And when that doesn’t happen the way it was promised, people already on the edge of sanity fall off the cliff and turn into killers.  So it’s Democrat ideas that are the real problem, and the varying degrees of insanity that come with it.  And until we deal with that problem, Democrats will produce into society a lot more malcontents like Robert Westman.  Democrats have tried to remake society and replace the church as a foundation for goodness.  And they have attempted to replace the family with a parental communist government.  And those failures are evident in people like this killer.  And when society fails and people like this shooter come out of it, they can only blame themselves.  Democrats are dangerous, and the people who follow them are potential problems once reality becomes known to them in ways they aren’t psychologically prepared for.

Rich Hoffman

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The Bible is Making a Comeback: Democrats have been advocating for the spread of evil, but they are losing

It’s very impressive to see, but in 2025, the box office performance of King of Kings from Angel Studios and The Chosen: Last Supper has shown that people really want movies that resonate in value.  Even better, Bible sales are doing very well, and a new trend that is very good is emerging.  With Trump in office, people are feeling a lot less secular.  Probably the best thing that could have happened toward any Christian-based movement was the near assassination of President Trump on live television for everyone to witness.  It was clearly a miracle that Trump was not killed and was a great example of what putting on the armor of God really means, which is very specific to the Western civilization Bible as a general theme.  Do not worry about being outnumbered.  Fight anyway and don’t worry about being killed or punished by the mob.  God will have your back.  And when Trump survived the assassination attempts in 2024, people saw what they could only explain as the hand of God, so they are turning toward religion and away from secular influences now more than ever, which I think is a good thing.  Over the years, I have generally had tolerance for other religions and the people who come from them.  So long as people work hard to be good.  But this secular God hating movement that we have been dealing with in America has not been acceptable, and I have never liked it or supported it.  Being mindful of other places in the world that do not have the benefit of biblical scholarship is not the same thing as being anti Bible, and we have seen from God hating Democrats the truth of their position as hosts of evil, and people have been miserable because of it.  One of the most essential things that Trump has done so far as a president, both past and present, is restore to society a love of religion as a guiding principle and put his arms around celebrations like Christmas and Easter. 

Hollywood has been anti God for many years, but ironically, the best material they have produced has had great respect for the Bible, such as The Ten Commandments, and Little House on the Prairie.  I was surprised to see that mainstream actors gave voice to the Angel Studios film, The King of Kings, because typically, actors are afraid of being blacklisted by other studios, for religious involvement.  That’s how bad it’s been, so it is pretty remarkable to see the great box office performance of these Christian films get mainstream Hollywood support for a change.  It’s not just the impressive money that they are generating in theaters, but in the acceptance within the culture of Hollywood itself that has shifted.  It’s not an accident that Mark Wahlberg and Chris Pratt are openly praying to Jesus, both A-list actors who are purposefully not running from God, so these are significant shifts in culture that ultimately is the best way to fight the vast evils of the world that have been hiding behind polite society.   People are willing to pay good money to see a story about Jesus that they have heard repeatedly during the Easter season of 2025, which shows how much the shift in entertainment has moved in a positive direction.  It starts with a president not being afraid to express faith openly, but with people witnessing a miracle with the assassination attempts.  And for answers, people are turning back to the Bible for context, which is excellent for perpetuating American society.   America was built on the Bible, and to keep it sustained, religion has to be at the core of the belief system of a majority of the people. 

Even more, the Amazon Prime project House of David has been hovering around number two among all the streaming options on that very popular platform, and it has been a surprise hit for them.  It’s not a surprise that The Chosen director Dallas Jenkins has been an advisor for the story of the rise of King David and his season 1 fight with the famous giant Goliath.  People watching the show are surprised by the Game of Thrones level of political intrigue attached to King David’s life.  Only that is real; the Bible is part of history and not a fictional story like The Game of Thrones, so it has much more meaning.  People are finding that they love biblical stories.  It’s true, they are very compelling, even among all the world’s religious doctrines.  The Bible, which came from the Jewish and Christian faith, is very persuasive as a work of literature.  When Hollywood worked best, it used it as its storytelling foundation.  When they have been at their worst, they worked to undermine it in American culture with a desire to secularize the people toward evil intent.  And that has not been something that people wanted to experience.  People wish for lofty, value-driven characters in their stories and turn to these Bible films and streaming platforms for content far better than what the studio system of Hollywood has been giving them.  And theater owners are happy to see a little light at the end of the tunnel.  The central breaking point was COVID and the anti-Church lockdowns we all experienced.  Rather than break the foundation of religious faith, the crises drove people more toward the arms of God in day-to-day considerations. 

It also helps that there have been real commitments on the museum front with The Ark Encounter in Kentucky giving people a real amusement park experience with biblical content.  Then, of course, I was so excited about the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.  From many independent sources, we are seeing a replacement of the evil worshipping culture of Hollywood with a faith-based entertainment movement that is not running from God, but to him.  Now that there are good examples of how compelling stories can be told visually from the Bible, more and more creative types are moving in that direction.  After The Chosen is finished with Season 7, and Mel Gibson does his sequel to The Passion with The Resurrection, which I think will be fantastic, Dallas Jenkins is turning to the subject of Moses, which will be from his hand, incredibly powerful.  I would even throw in the very popular video game, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, in for good measure, which is a very mainstream game that is one of the most popular out there right now.  Its central story objective deals with the giants I always discuss and their relationship to humanity as Watchers before Noah’s flood.  So the Bible is undoubtedly making a comeback where it had been looking to be shoved out of every entertainment venue with a communist push to eradicate it from our culture.  But it’s not just alive and well, but thriving in ways many thought they would never see.  However, I would say that we are seeing just the tip of the iceberg here.  There are a lot of compelling stories in the Bible, and there is a lot for creative types to work with now that they have seen what success looks like with the examples mentioned here.  And I think Bible stories will become the norm, not the fringe.  And that the garbage that Hollywood has been producing will continue to be rejected at the box office in favor of more Bible stories and the sales of the most popular book the world has ever known.  A new generation is putting their arms around it, which is very good for the future of civilization.

Rich Hoffman

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Judge and Judge Often: Don’t get hung on a cross or be destroyed like the Indians–punish evil and make them pay

Here’s my thing: we’ve been too friendly to the Marxist movement behind much of our social interactions.  There are a lot of people upset with me over my recent smoke shop article and find my anti-pot stance intolerable.  Hey, I told everyone back in August 2023 how it would be before a bunch of losers and lobbyists worked to make marijuana legal.  And if there is an edge to me now that people didn’t notice so much before, it’s because of things like this.  I have watched the pot movement grow over the years by these hippie flower children forces that have been gaining ground since I was born, and I never liked them.  I treated them fairly, but their intentions were always to take and take more, no matter how much kindness we gave them, and now they are going for the destruction of our country, and they aren’t shy about it.  And now that pot has been legalized in Ohio, a place I call home, I consider it an act of war.  And anybody who has looked up my past and researched me already knows my position.  There is a lot of violence in my wake over fighting pot in my various communities.  I have been evident in my position, and I could tell stories all day about my long life fighting against it that have much more relevance to people now with the context.  There are lots of police, mayors, and commissioners who hear my name and know the trouble, and they’d rather forget about it.  These were not things done in secrecy; it’s all been well documented.  But this whole “you do you, and I’ll do me” libertarian nonsense isn’t going to work for me.  So the pot heads brought it on themselves; now that they’ve brought that stuff overtly into my community, pot is the new “Lakota Schools,” for me.  Locals in my community will understand what that means.

One thing you will never see in front of one of these smoke shops selling marijuana paraphernalia is a nice car.  People who do dope tend to be lazy losers who drive beater cars and look like the kind of people who can barely get out of bed in the morning.  Anybody who thought they could replace good business in all the vacant strip malls with these smoke shops and that it would be “good for our community” was not thinking straight.  When people say to me, “Who died and made you king,” here’s the deal: if people are free to rub pot consumption in my face, then I am free to cast judgments on it and the people who use it.  For me, there is no blurred line on pot consumption because it’s the sign of a society retreating to the primitive, to follow the Vico Cycle back to the village hut of compliance to a tribal council, and is the opposite of freedom.  Consumers of pot are weak, and they are seeking to justify it with a chemical substance that hides it from the world where they should be working to make themselves better.  So when people tell me I should be like Jesus and “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1), I say, look what happened to Jesus when he was hung on a cross crying for the Father not to abandon him.  Don’t end up hanging on a cross.  Humans can bring whatever meaning they want to religion, but I’m not OK with the teachings of Jesus if people think we aren’t supposed to judge lousy behavior or punish people for it.  I’ll stick with the Old Testament, thank you. I say, “judge and judge often,” and punish those who intend harm to you and your society.  And any advocate of marijuana is intending harm to our society.

I warned everyone of the old hippie notion of “live and let live.”  I’ve told everyone the truth about how the KGB and the CIA worked hard to import communism to our college campuses, just as they are now with the anti-Israel movement, to erode the foundations of our youth.  The concept of “let’s party” was revealed in the excellent Ayn Rand book We The Living, a youth movement meant to usher communism into their society in Russia.  Ayn Rand would know because she had to flee her homeland and her family to escape it.  And all that nonsense was brought to America in the 1930s with Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, and it culminated in the 1960s with all the campus riots.  And it’s still happening, festered on by people like George Soros, who fund a lot of this destructive behavior among people willing to take the easy money and bring chaos to our streets, to submit to communism.  And pot is one of those strategies of communism against America.  The intent was to weaken our youth and our Biblical culture of values and to fall to communism because everyone was too stoned to fight back.  That is why I have such a hatred for the stuff.  I’ve known this for a long time.  I feel this way because I read a lot.  And I don’t take attacks against my country kindly.  And all drug consumption, even alcohol, as far as I’m concerned, is an attack.  The legalization of pot is meant to destroy the concept of civil society and replace it with a bunch of stoned losers who won’t work, won’t lead their families, and are no good to anybody for anything.  Yes, I will judge others, and I will judge often. 

I ordered a margarita with some friends at a fancy dinner the other day.  People around me at the table were shocked because they knew my position on drugs.  Occasionally, I’ll drink something with alcohol in it because the texture of the drink makes it interesting.  I’ll occasionally sip on a wine as well.  But not very often, and never to get drunk.  In a long list of people who have known me over the years, nobody will ever be able to claim that they saw me drunk and disorderly.  I was always the one who was sober and had my head on straight, even when I spent time with some very wild and crazy people.  In my church, there was an epic battle between them, my congregation, and me over communion.  If not for the church, I likely would have never tasted a drop of alcohol.  I was never OK with the cannibal ritual of eating the symbolic body of Christ and drinking his blood, which is a Roman way of bringing all the religions of their empire under one roof of Christianity.  I’d rather not sacrifice people to the powers of the universe in any way.  And I’d always recommend staying sober to do it.  But with pot, there is no redeeming factor.  Like many people have said to me recently, “But the Indians did it.”  Yeah, that’s my point.  Most of them ended up dead and eradicated from existence, with their culture destroyed.  See a pattern?  There is nothing good about pot smoking, and anybody who is trying to sell it to you is trying to destroy your culture.  And there is no compromise with it.  If people want to bring it to my front door, they will get what they get.  Now that they have, I am much less tolerant of their other behaviors that I find objectionable, and they will hear from me about it often.  Because I will be doing what you should be doing dear reader, and that is “judging and judging often.”  And punishing those who have done wrong.  If you want to save your country and not end up destroyed like the Indians or hung on a cross like Jesus, try something different, starting with judging evil and punishing those who commit it.  And look at intoxication the way I do, as a slow way of killing intellect and, therefore, the person that houses it.  And punish it as attempted murder because that’s what intoxication, all intoxication, is.  The murder of a mind. 

Rich Hoffman

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Don’t Hide Behind the Robes of Jesus: God wants us all to fight evil, and to destroy it

I understand biblical scripture regarding fighting evil and going to war with the villains of God’s pantheon.  God says often in the Bible, through human interpreters, of course, but he expects people representing him on earth to fight for Heaven even when the odds look horrendous.  God spends much of the Bible angry at his chosen people who doubt him, waver away from the task, and do not conquer on his behalf.  As I say that, I think of the great prophet Elijah who fought in a dual the high priests of Baal, and at the end of the fight, goodness massacred the vile characters in a bloodbath.  God was not disappointed.  And, of course, we all know what happened to Jezebel.  She was eaten by dogs, torn from limb to limb for her commitment to worshiping Baal and steering Ahab down the dark ways of idol worship.  Remember the spies who were to take Israel into the promised land of Canaan but hesitated because they saw giants there and doubted that they could conquer such ominous villains?  God punished Israel with another generation to wander in the desert wilderness until younger people would trust him and do as he said, to attack and destroy every breathing creature of the Baal cult worshiping pagan losers of Canaan, utterly and without forgiveness.  God would protect them if they only did the task.    I have been through enough in my life to know that even when it looks hopeless, when you do the right thing, God does have a way of rewarding you.  I understand the lessons of King David, who had his faults.  When he sent Bathsheba’s husband away to war so he could seduce her, God was not happy. His favorite king had killed a rival for his affections even though David had a whole wine list of other wives and concubines to sleep with.  David had killed an innocent man to sleep with his wife.  Yet God still blessed David because he had conquered evil on behalf of the kingdom of Heaven, so God gave David the benefit of doubt. 

Yet I have often heard from various church leaders and other religious personalities who think they know better than God what should be happening in this current time, where evil is spreading rapidly, like weeds in a garden untended to, which is choking off goodness purposely.  And they are hiding behind the name of Jesus and using peace and a poor understanding of scripture to justify a lack of action.  They say on Sundays that the church should stay out of politics and not pick sides in the presidential election between Trump and Biden.  And that the purpose of religious study is to concentrate on the life ever after.  And not to engage and fight for what’s right.  Our focus should be on the afterlife.  That this life is corrupt and that we should not pursue material things, then to surrender ourselves to God and the gates of Heaven.  When we all get to Heaven, if God wants to be mad at me for the things I have done to bad people, I’m cool with it.  Because I don’t think God will be all that mad at me.  I expect more than a participation trophy from God.  What those Church leaders are essentially doing when talking about how to fight evil in our own time is surrendering before the fight even starts, and they are hiding behind Jesus as their justification, much the way the Israelites did under Moses when the spies returned to report on the giants who held the promised land, much to the frustration of God. 

God can forgive them. I won’t. Call me a sinner, I’m good with it.

What people who are cowards do when they don’t want to act is hidden behind something they think people don’t understand, like scripture; even though many people attend church on Sunday and profess to love and worship God, they never read the Bible.  In that case, your priest or pastor on Sunday becomes just as worthless as the average lawyer who does the same with our Constitutions and assumes that the people they are talking to haven’t read the text for themselves, leaving it to the corrupt to interpret the meaning.  To mask their cowardness, they hide their lack of inaction behind scripture and say that God wants them to surrender to evil to forgive their enemies instead of defeating them in bloody violence to fight to make Earth as it is in Heaven.  All this forgiving and forgetting stuff is for the birds.  Evil in whatever form it presents itself must be punished.  And yes, God will have your back if you fight for righteousness.  God needs humans to do his work, and when they refuse to do it because they are timid and don’t trust that God will be there when required, it makes God furious.  The Bible captures that frustration quite well and makes that religious document unique among others in the world.  God wants evil conquered and punished, not forgiven.  And to answer how I could know such a thing, I know from experience.  The purpose of evil, as God made it, was to test humans and to draw from them the character necessary for Heaven.  And to fight on behalf of Heavenly objectives as they relate to the universe.  Did you think you were born to bow at a cross and make a few gestures with your hands across your chest just to prepare to die?  No, God wants you to fight, and he is judging your character with every breath you take. 

I have been talking about religion more lately because many people think these are the end of times, that evil is making its push for global domination at the expense of us all.  And I keep hearing from these religious leaders who are scared that they need to follow in the ways of Jesus and allow themselves to be hung on a cross and killed as a sacrifice to the powers of evil.  But that was never the point of the Bible; God wants people to fight for goodness and justice on his behalf.  In politics, in our families, communities, everywhere.  When we see evil, God expects all those granted with the gift of life to fight on his behalf.  Because he is elsewhere doing what God does.  We are here on earth, and it is our task, until we take our ambitions into space, to fight evil, just as we were to do so in the land of Canaan.  And to fight against Baal and all his minions.  When Elijah won his duel, they didn’t sit around and share a coffee with the priest of Baal and talk about co-existing with them.  They killed the priests and slaughtered them ruthlessly.  And justifiably.  Fighting for God did not mean peaceful misunderstandings.  And for those who lack courage in this life, nothing makes God more unhappy than power-puff patriots and wishy-washy losers who hide behind the Bible and Jesus, hoping that nobody has studied the scripture and knows what it says about evil and the need to fight it.  In times like this, we should all take a page from the antics of the great Elijah and conduct our lives similarly.

Rich Hoffman

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Christian Nationalism is the Most Powerful Political Force in the World: And they are voting for Trump

Here’s the little con game they don’t want to talk about at Fox News and throughout the media that makes a lot of money off the election process through ads and consultant contributions: Christian Nationalism is far more powerful than they want to admit. After the New Hampshire primaries, where it was evident that Nikki Haley wasn’t going to win, which was her best place to succeed, the game plan for the opposition became quite clear. Keep the Republican Party from uniting around President Trump in a last-ditch effort to slow him down. It’s the same kind of strategy you see in college basketball games when a team is down 10 points at the end with under a minute to play, and the losing team switches to a full-court press, hoping to draw a penalty and go to the line to shoot points with no time on the clock. Of course, the fear is that the Deep State is about to lose all touch with someone in the White House, which will be a first for them. When Trump was president the last time, it was Mike Pence who was their representative, someone they thought they could deal with and who could control President Trump somehow. But before that arrangement, Reagan had his Bush. And George W. Bush had Chaney. Nikki Haley, for traditional Republicans, is their safety rail, and they were talking her up as if she could have some hold over President Trump, which is absurd. I have traveled to almost every corner of America and know it very well. I can tell you that the world’s most potent force in politics is Christian Nationalism. There are a lot of them, as the evidence shows, all across the landscape from sea to shining sea, there are a lot of nice white steeples from churches that reach into each community with the values of Biblical text, and they are more engaged in politics now than in any of the years past. And they are voting for Trump.

The media narrative that Republicans have to work harder to win anything against some vile Democrats and independents is a game of chicken I’m perfectly willing to play.  I would argue that Trump is already a Democrat enough to pull over votes from the other side, especially the union vote.  Trump will draw Democrats from concerned suburban women worried about putting food in the refrigerator; he will get immigrants chasing the American dream to vote for him, and he has a lot of minority support in general.  Then there are the classic Republicans.  Trump in a general election against an entrenched Biden is a blowout.  What the political forces fear is their lack of relevance.  And then there is election fraud, which has kept Democrats in power and is the real story behind the scenes with the donor class.  They believe they own elections because they control the money that feeds the media culture and, therefore, can control election messages and the world with it.  President Trump does not need Nikki Haley as a running mate.  He can afford to pick anybody he wants and would be wise to choose a successor, someone most like him.  I have stated my favorite pick would be Kristi Noem.  But Vivek Ramaswami would be great because of his youth and energy as an attack dog.  But this next Trump term, a revenge tour in a lot of ways, is about stopping the Deep State, as it is anything else, and Nikki Haley is their pick.  Not Trump’s.

If you have been paying attention, all the things that make America great have been under attack by these same people propping up Nikki Haley, even as a loser.  With strong families and strong faith in religion, when Ben Carson compared Trump to King David recently as an imperfect man picked by the hand of God to lead the American nation, the reaction was desperate.  The panic was evident on many fronts with that kind of talk.  And that’s how you know they know that people are seeing through their long-established scam, a divide-and-conquer strategy that they thought would always protect them from just this type of election with political people like Trump changing the game away from their control.  I believe the comparison between King David and Trump is a good one.  Trump does look to be the hand-picked agent of God, and that hand is at work with the power of the universe behind it to defeat the forces of evil that have embedded themselves into the American government as globalists.  And a lot of people who would have never otherwise voted are as good Christian soldiers marching as to war, and they are voting as if it was a war.  Engagement is much higher than usual, and Trump is poised in every state to blow Biden off the map in ways we have never seen before.  When Newt Gingrich recently said that the 2024 election was shaping up to be a return to the kind of blowout numbers that Reagan had over Carter, I think he was being nice, and that will essentially be because of Christian Nationalism.  America is a Christian nation, and so is much of the world, and they see in Trump the work of God that is a destiny.  And they are willing to play their part in it, one way or the other.  As I said about traveling around the country, America is not controlled by Democrats.  Most people are Christian Republicans, and the only reason they haven’t voted in past elections was because they didn’t have anybody to vote for. 

And that is the little secret that the Deep State would like everyone not to know, that Christian Nationalism beats them in every form they present themselves.  To win, not only do they have to cheat, as they have been doing for many years.  But they have to erode people’s foundations of value, so they have been attacking the church as one of their primary objectives.  It was not an accident that the ridiculously unscientific social distancing standards were trying to keep people from attending Church together during Covid.  The goal is obvious: the political left and the Deep State, in general, have been trying hard to subdue Christian Nationalism as a strategy for their takeover of global politics, and they have been working hard at it in America.  This only pushed Christianity’s influence to the back burner because there was nobody to vote for in the past.  But now there is.  And it’s a much more powerful political force than anything else.  It is the biggest rival of the United Nations attempting to take over global politics as godless heathens of polytheism and a return to the pantheon of Mesopotamian gods that have been around since the dawn of human intelligence.  The ideas of individualism are what they find objectionable, and there is nothing more individual than a God who runs the universe all by himself.  That is the enemy of mass collectivists everywhere, and they have been working hard to separate the world from such a relationship with God and nature in themselves, individualism, and the impulse of their spirit.  To serve the globalist and their United Nations political autocracy is to serve the polytheism of their ancient gods and return to the kings over their subjects, which is the fantasy of the World Economic Forum and communist governments around the world, especially socialists like Justin Trudeau and the lunatics at the European Union.  People get it; through Christian Nationalism, they can take America back and spread that influence to the far corners of the world, as we should.  And Trump is the means to do that, and people are going to crawl through broken glass naked to do it.  Nikki Haley has no role in that effort as the RINOs need to be crushed and removed from the Republican Party, and the media culture that has supported all these tyrannies be eradicated for the role they have played in America’s destruction.  Trump is just the start of it; there is a lot more to come on behalf of Christian Nationalism. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Cult of Ishtar: What’s behind the crazy sex beliefs of modern politics

The famous film by Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut with Tom Cruise and Nichole Kidman, is renowned for its crazy sex scenes featuring elite members of society hiring prostitutes for massive orgies in society mansions. It’s a peak behind many people’s belief systems and defies understanding of a traditional Christian-based society. But it’s not so strange if you understand what those elites are trying to achieve. They are no different than the ancient Sumerian farmer or even the Israelites who turned away from God because they worried their crops wouldn’t come. So what they would do was to go to a statue of the Goddess Ishtar, the ancient Sumerian goddess famous from the Epic of Gilgamesh; they would hire a prostitute and would have sex with them, hoping to appease the perverted nature of the deity in hopes that it might rain. Once that is understood then, a multitude of our modern mysteries starts to make sense. We have a lot of people in politics who do not trust in God for positive things to happen in their lives, and they have turned to the ancient gods of antiquity, just as people always have, for supernatural assistance. And that is what the Cult of Ishtar is all about; Ishtar was a sex crazed lunatic. The actual character from the pantheon of Sumerian gods was likely a creature with a few screws loose. That history goes back 450,000 years of chronology, so there is likely a lot lost in the translations, but Ishtar was, by the time the Bible was starting to be written, a very ancient figure, and people had a reason to believe that by appeasing her with sexual practices that good things might come their way. 

We would call such actions evil because anybody too lazy to do the right things could be said to be doing the work of evil. Turning to a goddess to make life easier for anybody is what I would call evil. And knowing the nature of politics and the people who are drawn to that profession, it’s all too tempting to take the easy way out. So embracing sex practices of perversion in the hopes of personal fulfillment of Ishtar into their lives is an all too tempting proposition. This is the surface point of Jonathan Cahn’s newest book, The Return of the Gods, which I think is fantastic, essential reading. For the sake of a book, he focuses on three main gods from Sumerian and Egyptian mythology that are trying to manifest into our modern world from ancient times. I would argue that they never went away. That the way these gods work is through quantum mechanics. They are competing lifeforms with our four-dimensional reality, which has the benefit of concealment. And many lazy people in our world are always looking for the easy way out, so appeasing the sex magic of the goddess Ishtar is very lucrative. We could easily then attribute the trans movement to that appeasement, the embrace of gay rights, abortion, easy sex, internet pornography, child sex trafficking, getting kids to have sex in public school as early as possible, high divorce rates, and broken marriages, all as a social, political appeasement of the goddess Ishtar the same as the Biblical period farmer who is struggling with his crops, and asks his wife what they should do. And they decide that having sex with a prostitute by the statue of Ishtar is the thing to do. In modern times, we see a massive commitment to this ancient goddess by lazy minds easily corrupted because they lack the intellect to contemplate any other reality than appeasement. 

Many people don’t know that the Pride flag of the gay movement, the rainbow, is the battle flag of Ishtar, and the colors all have precise meanings. When its argued that showing inclusion in our public schools of rainbow art made by the students is a great thing but that the cross of Christ cannot be displayed, we are dealing with massive hypocrisy. The rainbow flag is a religious symbol, just as much as the cross is for Christians. The rainbow flag represents the Cult of Ishtar, a sex cult meant to appease the goddess for all aspects of fertility. That fertility might be a new job promotion as viewed in a modern concept, increased GDP among losers in government who do not understand economics and have had their opinions shaped by Karl Marx, Keynesian notions, or even a sports franchise that hopes to win the next big game. Those who lack the confidence to live good lives and succeed with merit instead of supernatural aid are most susceptible to the Cult of Ishtar. Living as a Christian takes a lot more work, so to erase their guilt and weakness, they are openly seeking the destruction of the Christian judgement so to make their worship of the Cult of Ishtar more socially acceptable. And left unchecked, we see that it’s out of control in our politics today. It’s corrupting everything, our children, our businesses, even our beer cans. 

Ultimately, Ishtar was a prostitute, she could never stay faithful to one sex partner, and she was one who often embraced the ability to change her sex at will. This is why the trans movement we are seeing now has taken hold the way it is, and now all these media companies are openly embracing it, along with the powers of government. It’s an ancient superstition attached to pleasure, making it all too lucrative for the not-very-smart. Of course, the farmer will be happy that his wife will let him have sexual relations with a prostitute if it brings good things to their family. And in that way, millions and millions of modern people have been suckered into this Ishtar mess. When in truth, Ishtar, as a living creature, or now as a spirit residing in the 8th dimension, is likely insane and deranged beyond help. But the destruction of her ideas allowed for people to believe that perversion was merit, and since it fed their animal instincts with pleasure, they were all too willing to accept it. And that belief has gone on now for tens of thousands of years. But it’s not by accident that we see so much sex-based commitment by the modern political left. They are not very smart to begin with, leaving them to be very superstitious. They want to believe that if they appease some ancient goddess, their lives will be easier, just as they vote for Democrats to make a big and powerful government that can take care of their lazy asses perpetually. So they are tempted to bring great evil into the world so that they can avoid working too hard and thinking about things on their own. It’s much easier to hope Ishtar will reward them for perversions rather than to work hard to produce something unique from their intellect. Once it is understood that the Cult of Ishtar is behind much of the perverse sex in our modern culture, it becomes a much more manageable problem. I can’t recommend enough that people read Jonathan Cahn’s new book. He has created a great foundation of understanding so we can solve this very modern problem. I think the situation is much worse than he does; there are many Ishtar’s out there, and the politics of the gods are a real challenge when people are so willing to worship them and their menace so easily. But to understand many of our modern problems, understanding the Cult of Ishtar is essential to a solution that won’t come easily. Because that cult’s temptations are lucrative, it is easy for stupid people to follow while engaging in pleasure disguised as a sacrifice for financial benefit. 

Rich Hoffman

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Protect Lakota Kids.com and the Public Records that Show all the Evidence: Defending children from the extreme liberalism of Lakota schools

It’s not like the bad behavior at Lakota schools happened overnight. It took place over a long period of time. For those who have been wanting to see all the evidence from the Matt Miller divorce and the crazy sexual lifestyle of the superintendent of Lakota that has been much talked about, you can see it all down to the last public document at the excellent website Protect Lakota Kids.com.  CLICK TO Visit for yourself. I am proud of the great people who put that site together, and you better believe it; it was not an enterprise of a few lonely people. It’s a community effort; even better, over 600 people have signed the petition to protect Lakota Kids from the diabolical exploits of the radical progressives who work for all these government schools. This particular school is in our neighborhood, and it is challenging our values as a community, so it’s great to see people coming together to stand up to the vile behavior that has been on full display for quite a while now. The evidence of that behavior is reflected in the meeting segment shown below. A parent gave a very nice speech about the bad behavior of the superintendent, but additionally on the behavior of the school board members and other administrators. No wonder they didn’t see anything wrong with the superintendent’s sexual behavior because they are just as bad in many cases. What does that say about the people who run Lakota schools, especially when you can see for yourself just how bad that behavior has been for the superintendent? 

When the upset parent’s speech was given, I was working on getting new school board members elected. For me, that was the solution: to get better management on the board who would take the job a lot more seriously, not drink so much, and find themselves in compromising situations when they went to social events around town and out of town. The stories from some of these events have been horrendous and embarrassing to me. I like my community; I think there are a lot of good people who live in Butler County. I’ve been associated with Butler County most of my life. I could have lived anywhere in the world that I wanted, but I loved Butler County so much that I stayed in the area by choice. But these extreme leftist types who always come with more government expansion, especially in the public schools, do not represent the values of the community I have known for five decades. Many people moved to the area to be part of that kind of community. They did not move to Butler County to be embarrassed by the extreme liberalism of Lakota schools. For too long, they have put up with it to go along to get along. But after learning more about just how liberal and sexually reckless the people who run Lakota schools really are, there has been a very steady chorus of anger that has been building for several years now. To say the least, when Matt Miller was hired to be the superintendent in 2017, he reflected the values obviously of the people who hired him. And to understand what those values were, just read the voluminous public records on the Protect Lakota Kids website. We know the school board knew in 2020 just how bad things were, and instead of fixing the problem, they moved to cover everything up, which everyone should find alarming.

I had hopes that good management might fix some of these problems, but instantly the governing board gave the new school board members a fruit basket of friendship and worked to either bring them into the fold or to get rid of them. One of the newly elected board members seemed to like the fruit basket. The other one could care less, and instantly, Matt Miller and his partners on the school board worked quickly to get rid of her. And at that point, it was apparent that I had wasted my time trying to work with the board to have proper management at Lakota. Because the sexual deviants, the swingers, and the radical left loons who make up Lakota management wanted to protect their racket from the outside eyes of the holy rollers in the community and their pesky “Christian values.” They had no desire to listen to voters; they simply wanted to hide bad behavior from the public, and by reviewing the public documents at Protect Lakota Kids, it’s obvious that this was a common assumption, not an isolated behavior. With our tax money, we were funding the kind of behavior among the adults at Lakota that we wouldn’t endorse in our community otherwise except behind the innocent faces of our children. 

Yes, the title of that website, Protect Lakota Kids.com, is appropriate because if we don’t do it, who will? The school board certainly isn’t interested in helping kids find their moral compass in life. And if we aren’t teaching kids the basics of living a good, productive life, then what are we teaching them to be? If you leave it to the school, the role model they have in mind is Matt Miller. Obviously, the Lakota superintendent has serious sexual issues, as chronicled by the public records listed on the Protect Lakota Kids website. And you don’t have to live in Lakota to have an opinion about this matter. This is a problem in all public schools. Everywhere there are government schools, we see the same essential issues.

What is different about the school district of Lakota is that parents are taking control of their community. We have tried to elect good school board members. But the progressive types have rebelled against that notion. So, if parents can’t control their school board, they will create awareness with their own media, with websites like Protect Lakota Kids.com.   At that site, they are doing the job that the media should have been doing all along. But it’s not as if good people didn’t try to do things the traditional way. Speeches like the frustrated parent shown here have been going on for a long time. And it proves that the school board chose not to listen and to act to defend the bad behavior from the judgment of the public at all costs. And that isn’t acceptable. We aren’t paying all the money that we do in taxes to fuel this level of liberal politics. Butler County is a very conservative place in the world, and Lakota schools are a playground of liberalism that has embedded itself into our community in extremely unhealthy ways. It’s a fight worth having because, in the end, the product of the community is the children. Left to their own devices, the leadership of Lakota is intent on making kids into reflections of their own impoverished lifestyles, into the train wrecks spoken about by that concerned parent. I know that parent, and when she was talking about handpicking people from the GOP for the school board, she was talking about my work. She was frustrated with the results; she was ready to give up on the school way back then. I would say that it’s always good to try to fix something. But to her point, Lakota has been beyond gone for a long time now. And it will never get better if we allow them to govern themselves. Because given a choice, Lakota management will always pick the wrong thing.

Rich Hoffman

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