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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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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.

Why the Museum of the Bible: To understand good government you have to understand what “good” is

Why the Museum of the Bible?  Well, that’s a long story, but as I always say about good government, whether managing a family, a business, a community, or a country, you have to understand what good is.  And there has been no more extraordinary human achievement than the Bible emerging out of Western Civilization to define goodness as it applies to mass society and personal integrity.  I’ve read all the significant works of the world’s religions and studied them in some detail, and I am pretty confident in saying that the Bible and its history have achieved more along the lines of defining good government than any other work to emerge from human culture.  So, once Trump was elected back to office, my wife and I wanted to return to Washington, D.C., and give it another chance with fresh, knowledgeable eyes.  I have never been a no-government guy or an anarchist in any way.  I would say that I have always loved government.  But what I didn’t like were the people who were drawn to it.  And years ago, during the Clinton years, I took my family to a literary conference at the Smithsonian, where I was a big part of their presentation, and the trip was a disaster.  Everywhere we went, there was some horrendous evil that ruined the trip for my wife and kids.  So any interactions I have had with Washington, D.C. over the years had to be without her because she refused to give it a chance after the city let her down so badly in the past, which was unfortunate for me. After all, once I saw the Museum of the Bible open in 2017, during Trump’s first term, I really wanted to go and check it out.  But I did not have a cooperative spouse willing to go and see it. 

But once Trump won in 2024, before his speech was done acknowledging his election victory late on election night, my wife turned to me and said that we should celebrate by going back to Washington D.C.  That’s all I needed to hear, so I started planning and we decided to go once the weather broke in early March of 2025, so we could walk around in comfort.  Since that first Washington trip, we have been to some of the world’s biggest cities and seen plenty of evil in all of them.  But what hit home regarding Washington, D.C. was that it was our city and our government, and we couldn’t stand to see how corrupt it all was.  So it was a lot more personal; other cities were other people’s places.  But with Trump back in office, a key constitutional element had been fulfilled: we did have a Republic that could correct evil by merit of votes, and the system could work and did.  Looking at the city itself from a long perspective, we see that it had the mechanisms to do everything it was designed to do, and we had survived a significant challenge never yet achieved within the human race.  And that deserved a celebration.  So for me, that means something that involves lots of books and time to read about topics many people find boring.  But I get very excited about it, which is the foundation of all law and order.  Specifically, one of the Bible’s main themes is how government should be set up. In the Book of Judges, the Israelites were supposed to have self-government, but the judges kept letting everyone down, leaving the people to cry out for a king.  So God eventually gave them one, and they let everyone down too.  And God became so angry with them that he allowed their destruction by their enemies.  A lot like what had occurred in the American city of Washington D.C. 

The Founding Fathers, especially Washington himself, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, a whole host of characters were trying to create in America a restoration of the Book of Judges, in my view based on the reportings of their voluminous studies, which I think is a very noble effort and one that does take many thousands of years to figure it out.  I felt that the election of Trump during this second term was the first real opportunity for that lofty idea to take hold.  And I think the Green family had a sense of this early in the last decade as Trump was still doing The Apprentice television show and thinking about running for President when they were looking for a place to put their idea for a museum dedicated to the Bible.  The place for it to be would be Washington D.C. along with all the other fantastic museums they have there.  But this one would be the most important because the Bible is the foundation of all Western civilization and the pursuit of good government.  The Bible is the foundation of all law and order, starting with the Ten Commandments.  Such a concept has been successful, and Washington, D.C. was the direct result of that long-established pursuit.  So, if you are thinking about such things, which I do very frequently, when there is a Museum of the Bible, I must see it.  So, upon our visit to America’s capital city, we made the Museum of the Bible our first stop for a long week, and we ended up spending two days there because there was so much to see.

I’ve been to many museums, including some of the best in the world, such as the British Museum and the Louvre in Paris, and I consider the Museum of the Bible to be among the best there is.  It’s right around the corner from the Capitol building itself and was exceptionally well done.  The whole place was put together with much love and passion for the topic.  It was very scholarly and was the perfect way to start a trip to Washington D.C. because once you understand what our government is supposed to be doing, you can’t avoid the Bible in that discussion.  So, a museum dedicated to the history and value of the Bible in human culture is the first criterion for understanding the need for good government at any level.  I could write an entire book about the value of the Museum of the Bible, but to sum things up as concisely as possible, I knew it was a special place when I entered a traveling exhibit they had called the Mosaic of Megiddo which came straight from Israel and was a large floor found in an early Roman building acknowledging Christ as a god around 200 A.D, over 100 years before Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.  To see something like that outside of Israel and so significant only established how vital the Museum of the Bible was in the scheme of things.  As I always say, my favorite thing in the world are my Biblical Archaeology Review magazines I have read since I was a little kid.  And going to the Museum of the Bible was like stepping into that quarterly magazine and living in that world three dimensionally.  It is an incredible place, and I don’t think it will be the last time I go there.  My wife and I are members and must find more reasons to return.  It is a fantastic place worth multiple visits, and a lot of time spent there each time.  It is undoubtedly one of the world’s best and most significant museums on a topic that is the foundation of all good government, and because of that, it is infinitely important to the human race. 

Rich Hoffman

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The Empire of the Snake: Why Islam will always be at war with the Bible

It’s almost comical to see modern science tell us that the Serpent Mound in Ohio was built by Indians when they could barely get up each day to eat food.  About an hour east of Cincinnati, the Serpent Mound is one of the most mysterious places on earth and is revered archaeologically as high or higher as the Great Pyramids of Giza.  What makes Serpent Mound so astonishing is the very advanced mathematics and knowledge of the stars that it would have taken a culture thousands, if not millions of years, to develop.  Admittedly, I have been to the Serpent Mound site lots of times.  I have even gone there to think and get away from the world’s chaos on really bad days.  If I’m having a terrible day, don’t be surprised if you find me there reading a book, or looking at some crop circle that sometimes happens across the street from the park entrance.  When I go to Serpent Mound, I think about many things, but it’s never about Indians.  The site was never intended to be a burial mound for a ceremonial culture.  But a reference to the stars and, specifically, the constellation Draco.  It truly has an ancient feeling to the place that is bizarrely intelligent, not the sentiments of a hunter-gatherer culture.  Even more mysteriously, the entire site is built on the edge of a massive crater left over from a crypto explosion many millions of years ago.  So, how did they know where to put the Serpent Mound when there isn’t any evidence to the naked eye of this explosion?  The people who pay reverence to the site with the construction of Serpent Mound would have had to know what the geology under the ground would eventually show, and that is the alarming part of the place and the peek back in time toward an entirely different global civilization that nobody has yet figured out because they are asking all the wrong questions about the evidence that we do have.  We had a global civilization of star worshipers who used to build earth effigies that contained very advanced mathematics.  And something happened to them that was very traumatic. 

It’s coming up a lot lately because of the recent terrorist attack in New Orleans from a radical practitioner of Islam; what is the primary difference between the Christian Bible and the Muslim Quran?  That’s an interesting question because both religions have many of the same characters, so how could they have such a radically different approach to the world?  One pronounced difference is that Islam and Christians have almost the same Adam and Eve story, except in Islam, the Devil is the villain.  In the Jewish and Christian faiths, the snake gives Eve the apple and tells her to eat from the knowledge of good and evil.  The more you dig, the more it is realized that the religion of the Arab people, the same descendants of Mesopotamia, and the original antagonizers from the Land of Canaan were these same people.  And that Yahweh’s fight against them traces back to this essential difference.  In Islam, the snake could be a jinn, a helpful or harmful spirit.  This view of snakes traces back to an Empire of Snake worshippers who had an obsession with star worship and traumatic crises culturally when it comes to the memory of the constellation Draco, Sirius, and many others.  Things get wild when we consider that Thuban, the pole star, lines up with Serpent Mound from approximately 3942 BCE to 1793 BCE.  And if that was the only case with those dates, we might assume somebody made a mistake.  But this same kind of math can be found in the Pyramids, Stonehenge, and even at another giant earth effigy just to the south of downtown Hamilton, Ohio, at the Fortified Hill complex, which during the same period lines up to the constellation Pleiades.  If you want to check it out for yourself, just visit Pyramid Hill Park, and you’ll get a fascinating perspective on the scale of our subject. 

To Islam, the snake is beneficial, just as it is viewed in most cultures of the world with ancient reverence, especially in the Orient, where serpents, dragons, and all species of snakes are seen as helpful entities, not enemies.  But to Western culture, dragons are to be slain.  Snakes are the embodiment of evil.  And to this very day, at the center of conflict between Christianity and Islam is the reverence of the snake and what we should or shouldn’t be doing with them.  For the same reasons that modern archaeologists can’t figure out the Serpent Mound’s relationship to the constellation Draco, they are looking for Indians who would evolve even to begin to understand those kinds of things. What they miss is a clear understanding of the kind of rebellion that Yahweh was advocating for, which is clearly expressed in the Bible as a crisis against the global power of snake worship that inspired the conquest of the land of Canaan to begin with.  And that’s where things really start to get interesting, especially when the most common theme that emerges from the use of psychedelics in religion shares a relationship with snakes as one of the primordial terrors that come from visits to the spirit world today.  Practitioners of the ayahuasca experience that shamans from South America utilize and have become very popular, know what I’m talking about. Most all experience snakes as dominant figures in that hidden kingdom.  And it looks like it was primarily psychedelics in the form of mushrooms or other plant-based agents that helped form the basis for the world’s religions.  And Yahweh was rebelling against the Empire of the Snakes, not submitting to them. 

Therefore, we had an entire world that traded with each other for obviously tens of thousands of years.  Probably much longer.  They did not behave as modern scientist lazily concluded, and that is as hunter and gatherers who migrated to North America from the Jomon people emerging out of Japan and crossing the Bering Strait without any advanced knowledge of the greater heavens that wasn’t at the center of their worship, a crisis for them in great turmoil yearning for celestial bodies.  I have also been to many Jomon sites in Japan, dating from 14,000 BCE to around 300 BCE. Many of their artifacts can be found buried offshore when sea levels were over 400 feet lower during the Ice Age.  All this matters in understanding the vast difference in Western civilization, how it works, and why the East is and will always be at war with it.  Islam is a religion of the East.  Their concepts of the jinn, evil spirits, are almost identical to the Japanese kami and the spirits of the Indians.  And they all stand, just as the land of Canaan did, against the advancement of Western civilization and its blaming of the snake for all that went wrong in the world, as opposed to an artificial Devil as Islam does.  And with that straightforward distinction, we see the root cause of much of the trouble.  The Empire of the Snake is old and global.  It took a rebellion to stand against it and overthrow it, which was captured in the Jewish stories about the conquest of the Land of Canaan and why that was necessary.  It also explains why those who still worship the snake have so much trouble in the world and why Western civilization can be said to be so much better.  Because the anxiety of snake worship never took that global civilization to a healthy psychological place.  We will find the same crises once we land on other stars, such as Mars, and find ourselves homesick to beliefs that resonated from those faraway places.  Only to have a religion come along and fight against that ancient reverence and deal with what is before us in a psychologically healthy way.  At the heart of that, we can then understand why Islam will always be at war with Christians because, for them, the snake and its old empire is a cry for home, a sense of belonging that they will never have again.

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I Understand Why God Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah: The mob outside Lot’s house were not worth saving

The city of Sodom

I’ve been thinking a lot about Sodom and Gomorrah this holiday season, 2024, and going over into 2025.  Not just in the usual things, like where they were as cities along the Dead Sea in the time of Abraham.  But I’ve been thinking a lot about Lot and his wife and daughters being warned that God was going to destroy the city and that his family needed to leave.  Because God couldn’t find one good person to save, he sent a couple of angels to retrieve Lot so he could destroy everyone else.  I honestly understand God’s frustrations and anger, and I have been thinking a lot about just pushing the button and erasing the whole thing.  I believe that, in my case, I know more than ten people in my life who are worth saving.  But I can understand Yahweh’s predicament.  I would say I am a very positive person. Extremely positive.  I have a personality that can carry risky relationships, so I have allowed in my life people here and there over the years who are very self-destructive in the hopes of pulling them up off the mat and giving them psychological access to a good life.  Wealth is measured in many ways, so I consider such an opportunity much better than handing someone millions of dollars.  A bankrupt personality will blow through money like hot butter right out of the microwave.  So before you can attempt meaningful wealth-building, you must fix what’s wrong with people deep inside themselves.  So, my policy for over four decades has always been to give a few wild characters a chance to do the right things and have access to a better life than they would ever get.  And to show them the way to a righteous existence. 

The angry mob that wanted to rape God’s angels. Driven by lust, greed, and animal motivations

This year, for whatever reason, I had to associate with a more extensive sampling of people during the Holidays, which was very tiring.  I tend to give myself a lot of time to think. I usually read three books a week, but through the Holiday season of 2024, I was having a hard time completing only one because the demands for my time were very intense between family engagements, professional contacts, and random chaos.  I saw more people than I cared too, which didn’t allow for a lot of room for me to have the patience to carry out some of the diabolical reform projects that I usually do without them impacting me personally.   And while all this was going on, I felt I could hear the voice of God whispering in my ear, “Stop wasting time on these losers.  Dump them and free yourself from the shackles of their pathetic existence.”  And I kept thinking about the losers who saw the two angels go into Lots house to warn him of what God planned to do.  And they gathered around it and demanded that Lot send his guests out into the street so that they could have sex with them and rape them against their will.  Lot, trying to be the peacemaker, instead offered to send out his two virgin daughters.  But these were homosexual men who gave the name to the process of sodomizing victims because of the debauchery of Sodom, the destroyed city.  And they wanted to rape the two beautiful angelic men.  There is a lot wrong with all of that, from the mob that wanted to rape the angels to Lot offering his virgin daughters instead.  I would never do that.  People have asked me what I would do in Lot’s case. Well, I would have made it so that every one of those mob members would never sit at a dinner table again.  Sending my daughters to a mob of rapists would never happen under any circumstances.  No threat of violence can’t be overcome with superior methods of aggression, to be nice about it.

The angels had no choice but to blind the aggressors working against Lot
And God eradicated the city because not one person was worth saving turning it all back to dust for which it came

The people I am referring to just wore me out were people who might otherwise be in the mob that Lot had to defend himself from.  If you know the story, the angels, seeing Lot’s predicament, took pity on him and just turned on the mob and blinded them so that they could all escape, which they did and joined Abraham in the desert before God destroyed the place.  Along the way, of course, Lot lost his wife because she looked at the destruction.  Then Lot was sleeping with his daughters, so there were other problems.  But the moral depravity of society, in general, is what we’re talking about here and whether or not members of the mob could have been reformed if only someone had tried to find the good in them.  And this hasn’t been a come-lately project for me.  I have done this as a policy, trying to help people who are just bad and rotten to their core; I’ve wanted to give them a seat at the table and teach them how to thrive there.  But in most cases, if not all, they always let me down.  And we’re not talking about a person here or there; we are talking about many hundreds, and in some cases, many thousands.  After many interactions with those types of people in my life in 2024, I had to reflect and ask if there was one worth saving or trying.  Or were the angels right about everything, and the only way to move forward is to blind everyone and leave them to ultimate destruction, and that we should never do like Lot’s wife, we should never look back, lest we destroy ourselves in the process.

Sodom before
Sodom after

I’ve never felt that trying to help these kinds of people took much away from me that I couldn’t replace with my upbeat personality.  And that’s the only reason I haven’t just pushed the button and dropped all those people from it.  I get to a point where I move on when people disappoint me.  And I try to help someone else, hoping that one or two good people can be found and reformed somewhere along the way.  But truthfully, once people are broken, they don’t come back.  They stay broken and try to destroy whatever is good around them.  And there is no way to help them, no matter how hard you try.  I think the tipping point for me occurred during the subway story of the woman who was lit on fire by an illegal immigrant.  I was sitting at a table in a nice restaurant with a party of people who were personal projects of mine, some working out well, some not so much so, and I caught that news story on the television over the bar.  I looked at the table before me, thinking about all the evil on display, and I realized that the Angels had the right approach.  In many cases, the people I was dealing with were already blind; I was trying to help them see.  But I decided that night to let them stay blind and stupid and leave them to their misery.  And I was going to move on from those people that history has known as the mob outside of Lot’s house.  And rather than trying to save them from desiring such depravity, God had the right idea when he planned to wipe them all out.  Because there was no way to save them, these were the same malcontents of Ham who laughed at Noah’s nakedness when the other children sought to save their father’s dignity by covering him.  There was no way to save such evil.  And that is an admission that is sometimes necessary.  I certainly understand why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and even to this day, nobody knows much about the ancient cities because they were so bad that there wasn’t anything left worth knowing.  And that is the same case with most people.

I get it

Rich Hoffman

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The Evil of Sandbagging: Why a $359 Steak is good and well worth it

For many reasons, the problem of sandbagging came up over this last week on several fronts, and as I say in my book, The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and everywhere I go, all the time, one of the most evil things you can do in life is under commit and over perform, or at least, intend to.  Even under the most optimal conditions, people never end up overperforming once they realize their efforts’ expectations have been removed from them.  In short, this practice is called sandbagging, which I have never done as a person, and I never will.  Even under conditions where I was the only person doing the work, just good enough, or putting forth a lackluster effort was never acceptable.  This topic came up as people were telling stories of my past and why I used to ride bicycles to work while sick, through the snow, and under all kinds of horrendous conditions.  And from their point of view, it might have looked a little wild.  There are a lot of stories from my past that people like to tell because many of the things I do and have done are considered excessively pro-work.  So, of course, this provoked biblical reference because people seem to understand them as a common source of information, and I went on a long explanation that seemed to explain things well to those listening.  Keep in mind, the reason I hate organized labor so much is that they come from communist backgrounds, and, of course, they have a very anti-Christian view of the world.  Their practice as a communist organization is to withhold work from an employer to gain leverage for their financial position, and that is what Marxism is all about.  They are God haters and withdraw work to get some advantage in negotiating their terms.  This is why I call it evil; a lack of work is detrimental to the human race. 

I think a lot of people go to church, and they read the Bible.  But I don’t think they understand the point of many stories.  They learn the basics and believe that Jesus died on the cross for their sins so they can do whatever they want and still get into Heaven.  Which, of course, isn’t true.  It’s a fantasy for bad people to continue to be lazy slugs.  Most people do not understand the story of Cain and Able, the first kids of Adam and Eve, and why God was so insistent that the land of Canaan, named after the son Cain and all his descendants, why God wanted to punish the kid so emphatically.  It all started with two sacrificial offerings.  Able was a shepherd who offered God the best of his flock.  And God saw that he put that extra effort into what he dedicated to God and that Able was good.  On the other hand, Cain threw together just any old sacrifice as a farmer.  And what he gave to God was not the best of himself.  Sure, he gave what he was required, but he withheld his sacrifice, and that angered God immensely.  Something he never got over, as Yahweh of the Bible.  Now, God wasn’t mad because he wanted more.  He was the creator of the universe; he could have anything he wanted.  What he was angry at was the effort between the two boys.  One gave everything he had.  The other held back and sandbagged the efforts, keeping the best for himself.  Of course, Cain didn’t like being shown up by his brother Able, so he killed him, and this is something we see even today.  People who sandbag their efforts seek to destroy those who want to work hard and do well in the world.  And from this straightforward sentiment, most of the evil in the world is born.

Even in sexual practices, much of the evil in the world comes from the basic notion of sandbagging.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to have a wife.  So he hires a prostitute or goes to a strip joint.  Or develops a porn addiction.  A man doesn’t want to work hard to earn a woman’s attention, so he drinks too much and seeks to get her drunk so that she lowers her standards of him.  A person can’t deal with reality because they shrug away the pressure of responsibility, so they turn to drugs and alcohol for relief from social judgment.  Essentially, most of the evil done in the world comes from a sandbagging mentality.  And this is why each time God had to deal with the vile evil of the original sin, from Adam and Eve and their kids, it is the efforts of Cain that Yahweh sought to destroy.  Because Cain was lazy and a sandbagger, all his descendants had the same trait, which led to the massive amount of evil in the world before the flood came and tried to wipe them all away.  But then again, they would rise into Sodom and Gomorrah, the Tower of Babel, and even the Giants in the Land of Canaan that God told the Hebrew people to destroy completely.  The evil God was mad at was the lazy, sandbagging nature of the descendants of Cain.  Jesus, on the other hand, was born from the line of Seth, a third child that Adam and Eve had to replace their murdered son, Able.

That is always how I have seen work and why I say that lazy people who sandbag, those who hold back their good work for better pay or some social leverage, are evil.  I’ve never been a sandbagger in any way, and I find the trait repulsive in people.  Those who withhold their effort are like the descendants of Cain, and I don’t like them.  I may put up with them in the world.  But I don’t respect or enjoy them as people, and I think of them like Yahweh did in the Bible.  I understood the story of Cain and Able as a very young person and took it to heart, and I have always worked hard because there is goodness in the effort.  But people who like the bad guys in the world are the sandbaggers, and they defend their position by withholding good work for leverage in the world that is essentially evil and leads to most of the bad things humans do to each other, some of which have been described here.  Sandbagging leads to evil.  People who don’t like good work tend to desire to be bad and sell it like cheap cologne at a flea market.  And justify its cheapness as a bargain.  Rather than enjoy something at full price because they worked hard for it.  They are always looking for a way to give as little amount of something as possible, which makes the effort evil. 

This particular story of Cain and Able came up while I was dining with friends at the excellent restaurant Son of a Butcher at Liberty Center in Butler County, Ohio.  There are a lot of great steak restaurants in the city of Cincinnati, but many are saying the steaks at this place are the best.  These guests were well-traveled as we discussed nice restaurants in India, London, China, Paris, and Japan.  These people traveled everywhere and were used to the best. They told me that the steak they had at The Son of the Butcher was the best they had ever had.  I recommended one that cost over $359 each, and we bought a whole table full of them.  So we talked about why that steak was so much better than other steaks in nice restaurants worldwide.  And if you’ve ever been to the S.O.B. restaurant, you would know it’s a pretty crazy place.  But what it all comes down to at that restaurant is that they work hard in the front of the house and the back, in the kitchen.  The food shows they do a good job and give their best.  It’s worth $359, and a check for around $3k instead of a trip to Dollar General and a hamburger at Burger King.  It’s all food, but some comes from hard work, and some from just doing the basics and barely getting by.  So I told them the story of Cain and Able, and they understood, even if they hadn’t been thinking about hard work in quite the same way.  In many ways, it all comes down to embracing evil to make the least effort in the world.  Or to put forth the best and to expect the best, not because it’s expensive or fancy.  But because it is moral and sound, it represents God’s good intentions in the world and a people worth making an effort to do work in the world that everyone can and should be proud of.  Evil people, like Cain, would hear that people worked hard and went to a place like S.O.B. for a $359 steak, and they would plot a way to steal from them, just as Cain killed Able for making him look bad instead of giving their best and earning their right to get a nice steak dinner.  They would put more effort into plotting and scheming for collective bargaining contracts to do the least work to get as much for nothing as possible.  And they would do that because they are the bad guys in the world.  And for me, they deserve to be wiped away just as Yahweh has done in the past because they are worthless hindrances to the perpetuation of the human race. After all, they are evil sandbaggers.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Women Run Off With Bad Men: How evil comes into the world

Probably because it’s the Holiday season, and it’s on people’s minds, Bible references have come up a lot, and some of the conversations I’ve been in have been interesting, especially on the topic of evil and how it comes into the world and why so many people would like to be good but act in such an evil fashion.  It often rocks us off our center when we have to confront it because we don’t understand how it arrived there in the first place.  So this provoked a rather detailed conversation with me that ended up being one of my long, hour-long utterances about some interesting topics, one of which was why women are the vehicles for evil in the world and what we can do about it.  Now, keep in mind that this is a psychological conversation, not one built out of woke politics and leftist social sentiment.  The needs of human beings are not aligned with political power plays, social construction, or reconstruction.  To that point, I would argue that feminism was never created to free women of a slave relationship with men but to destroy the very foundation of family building because governments in the world have radical beliefs about how many humans should be on earth, and they want through abortion, contraceptives, and family planning to discourage as many births as possible, for all kinds of reasons, most of them not sane.  So, just because there are rules that came up with what we can discuss regarding feminine roles in the world, it doesn’t mean that those rules were ever justified or constructive.  And that there is a good point to the original sin and the long history in the Bible of women who turned to evil and gave it a foundation to destroy the world. 

There is a reason that most women are unhappy with their nice husbands, and I would say that it’s not their fault.  God made them that way, and God shows throughout the Bible that he’s very mad, perhaps even at himself, for making human beings the way they are.  Women are being taken from Adam’s rib to serve him as a companion.  She is physically of weaker sex to fulfill her roles in the procreation of new human beings.  If she’s too masculine like Adam, the motivations for procreation aren’t as robust.  So, there is a balancing act genetically that is the problem behind all sexual interplay.  What makes people want to have sex with each other is not the same thing that might make them want to form and run a country.  So, in the Garden of Eden, the young couple of Adam and Eve are told not to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  But of course, Eve does so because the snake seduces her, and all humanity is thrown into a tailspin of perpetuating evil for which Jesus Christ has to come along to wash away the original sin through his sacrifice.  But why did Eve eat the apple from the forbidden tree?  Well, for the same reason that most people do evil things, out of a sense of personal security.  Rather than fight evil, people, men, and women seek to appease it out of self-preservation.  When a woman has a man she does not think can fight evil off, out of their sense of security, they seek to appease it.  So, in the original sin, Eve listened to the snake because it was a strange force of evil that she wasn’t sure Adam could protect her from. 

This is undoubtedly the case of one of the great villains of the Bible, Jezebel, who was known for turning the people of her kingdom to Baal worship at the expense of Yahweh.  God, all through the Bible, was constantly upset that his people, the Israelites, would turn to the temptations of other gods, specifically Baal, and Jezebel was one of the worst, who ended up being tossed out of a window and into the mouths of dogs below who ripped her to shreds, which we are supposed to applaud in reaction as the audience reading from the text.  But what made her so vile? Why didn’t she honor her husband, King Ahab?  Well, because he didn’t make her feel safe.  Women often seek the shelter of a monster to protect them from other monsters because they think they can control the beast with sex.  It’s the classic Beauty and the Beast scenario.  When a woman doesn’t think the man in her life can protect her from the many monsters of the world, she will, most of the time, pick a monster she believes she can control for her own self-preservation.  Her man might be fine with making children, cooking, cleaning, and talking to them.  But if he can’t protect her from monsters, out of her need for security, she will seek out her own monster to protect her from other monsters.  This is why Jezebel was so evil; she tossed away the protection of her husband and of God himself to seek refuge in the ultimate monster, Baal, a rival of God in the pantheon of the Divine Counsel.  This is the ”bad boy” complex that many women go through.  They might marry the nice guy who can hold a good job and raise good kids, but they seek to run off with the bad boy covered in tattoos, smokes, drinks and is a social wreck because she thinks having one of those monsters of her own will protect her from a world of other monsters.

When we look at a beautiful woman and she is with a disgusting man, we wonder why, after all, she could have anybody in the world that she could want.  Why that guy?  It’s because she doesn’t feel safe in a world full of monsters, and she thinks she can use sex to control her own kind of monster.  So, she seeks to appease one for her own protection.  And this was the problem King Solomon had.  He was married to a lot of women from all over the world, and God became very mad at him because he built temples for them to appease their gods, as they rejected Yahway.  Solomon had all the power and treasure on earth then, but it wasn’t enough for his women to honor and worship him as their husband.  So he found himself chasing after their attention to make them feel safe and secure.  He could at least build a temple to their gods.  This is the same kind of problem Mary Magdeline had with her seven demons until she found a good guy in Jesus to give her some temporary relief.  Jesus was a rebel that the authority figures wanted to kill, and he was removed from her life before she could abandon him for being too nice of a guy.  And through death, he gave her a purpose that would last well into history.  Most women aren’t so lucky.  They attach themselves to a good man either by accident or default and fall out of love with them because they aren’t beastlike enough.  But when the world’s beasts kill off their version of the beast, there is at least a crusade to pursue, and Christianity was born, which has been great for the human race.  But you don’t find that a good woman marries a good man and they live happily ever after anywhere in history.  Certainly not in the Bible.  There is always evil coming into the world, and it comes through the front door that women let in because of the need for safety and security that women have as the weaker sex.  And God, even though he created the universe and everything in it, is perpetually frustrated by the notion.  He tries over and over again to solve the problem through apocalypse after apocalypse.  But evil is never appeased, and the world is often overrun by the beasts of the world who take women for themselves without any level of respect and destroy the world through their bad conduct because other men never quite figure out that the best way to keep a woman is to be a bit of a beast themselves.  And to walk that fine line between being a good guy and a bad guy is a very fine line.  And the only way to make everything work out properly.  Which many never figure out in their lifetimes.

Rich Hoffman

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The Elohim and Plight of the Divine Council: Fighting the great war that spans eternity

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we are being played in a kind of chess game with some basic patterns of thinking that are precisely how marketing motives are revealed. To say that the Jewish people are all one way or another is utterly ridiculous. That is like saying that Joe Biden and I are both American. But the next question about Republicans and Democrats, traditionalists and progressives, ends the conversation. There are no more similarities between Joe Biden and me than in saying that we live within the same borders of the same country. It has come up a lot over the Holiday season where people have been asking me a lot about the Bible, why and how I can support the Jewish people, and the creation of Israel at the expense of the Palestinians the way I do, even knowing what I do about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. So, of course, that opens up many explanation opportunities, which I’m happy to divulge. But to put it nicely, if you have allowed yourself to be marketed into foolishness, then you will be a little upset to find out all the ways you’ve been suckered, including most of the translations of the Bible. I think most people, including some of the most vigorous religious studies, get their interpretation of the Bible all wrong, and I often turn to Psalm 82 for the entire purpose of the Bible, which I would argue runs counter to everything people believe. 99. 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of everyone gets the Bible wrong. They have allowed their worldview and their religions to be shaped by institutional aggressors who are prone to mischaracterizations and influences of scandal that reside in the hearts of most translations, on purpose or by accident.

The Elohim is the proper word for God

There is quite a movement looming in the background that has figured some of this out and has been gaining momentum over the last few decades, which I would attribute to the nature of mass communication and having so many cultures interact now in ways they never could before. The old game of keep-away isn’t working like it used to, of pitting various sides against each other. I love the Jewish people because they are the oldest surviving group on earth. They are an ancient people, and with them and their rituals comes a window into the past that I find fascinating. Why do they believe the things they do? And why have so many groups, including those of today, want to eradicate them from the face of the earth, yet they are still here after many such attempts? And regarding any references to the Jewish people running all banking and controlling the world in the way that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion have chronicled, I would use the Joe Biden comparison, too. We both might have white skin. We both might live in America and be called American, but the differences end there. Otherwise, I’m nothing like Joe Biden, and regarding the many conspiracies, the Jewish people are not like the Rothchilds and various globalists who try to hide their tendency to want to control the world by hiding behind a religion, a region of the world, or the sentiments of history. Those who try to put everyone into these neat little categories are part of the problem, and their antics should be revealed for what they are: the actual manipulations of the Elohim and the Divine Council politics that work their way into our lives daily but reside far beyond our reach materially, into the chess games of Heaven that are very much a part of our daily life.

An amazing book compiled over a tremendous amount of time

In that wonderful passage, Psalm 82, we find the proper word for God, Elohim, used by the Jewish people in their Hebrew Bibles, particularly before the modern era of progressive impact on the publishing industry began tampering with words, that the Hebrew names for things are essential.  God calls on the Divine Council of Heaven to pull it together and judge wickedness righteously.  Even though God spoke about here as the singular Elohim, he has trouble keeping his Divine Council together even as creator of the universe.  They are plotting and scheming always to undercut all civilization for their political purposes.  We tend to think of Heaven as a relief from the concerns of Earth, but reality indicates that things are on Earth as they are in Heaven.  Politics is a creation of Heavenly existence; our motivations are similar everywhere, including on the other side of the universe among all living creatures.  The idea of a utopia where everyone gets along is the fantasy of those who don’t have the will to fight and understand politics as living things interact.  I have many different Bibles that I use for study, and one of my favorites for this very reason is a Complete Jewish Study Bible that has gone to great effort to put its original Hebrew words in it to translate the true meanings of biblical passages.  One of my Bibles, my study Bible for the King James version, is wonderful, but purposefully, the translation from the original Septuagint in Greek is very much watered down.  These last few decades, It has been challenging to find a Bible with the correct term for God, the Elohim, in it for the context of meaning.  And even then, there has been a lot lost to time and translation by minds not entirely up to the task of wrapping their minds around the concept of a “divine council” that is always rebelling against God and using the plight of humanity for malicious purposes. 

The wars we are fighting are instigated by many of these same forces who jump into the minds of the stupid and weak willingly for purposes that cannot be understood until the context of the entire Bible is conceived as an attempt over many thousands of years to see this big picture of politics among the Divine Council for what it is.  Psalm 82 was likely written around 1450 BC, so it predates the building of Solomon’s Temple by 500 years and the birth of Christ by over a thousand.  So, to put together this story as the Jewish people had by being one of the only civilizations to be together still after such an ancient past is quite remarkable and worth preserving.  Another interesting fact is that Jewish people, by heritage, can all trace back their genealogy to one common ancestor 140,000 years ago, which makes sense to me.  To all those who want to think about the entire history of the world starting about 6000 years ago, I believe that is because the translations are off.  That doesn’t cheapen the religious experience but is driven because the context of history is off in translating ancient material.  Such a consideration gives the Adam and Eve story a lot more merit.  If the Middle East didn’t have so many wars all the time, we would likely be able to confirm all this, but then perhaps that’s the point of all the political turmoil.  To keep us from figuring it out, the political mechanisms can be applied for reasons that extend well beyond the concerns of the Earth.  And that is my answer on the Jewish people and religion in general.  I like to understand politics and am very interested in why people do what they do.  But saying all that, I am very interested in the Elohim in the plural sense and their politics so that we, too, can play the big chess game and win it on the side of goodness and righteousness.  And to not be victims as Job was, or many other characters who were caught up in the political antics of the Elohim.  But to fight back against them in ways they aren’t prepared for, and to win.

Rich Hoffman

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Why We Should Eat Unleavened Bread: Keeping corruption out of society starting with food

It’s a good practice to have some mechanism in religion to remind you of important things, and as ridiculous as many might think, that eating leavened bread as the Jewish people have rituals against, remember one crucial thing, the descendants of the Hebrew people, of the inherited land of Israel have been around longer as a group of people on planet earth than any other groups.  They have been beaten up, killed, and spread all over the planet in displacement, but as a people, from one specific region of the world, they have remained so longer than anybody else.  So, their rituals have worked for them in many healthy ways, even if eating or not eating puffy bread is directly attributed.  In general, having some basic rules to live by from whatever religion you might happen to be is a good practice.  Not for the direct mechanisms but in that they get your mind focused on the real important things.  As it is stated often in the Bible, in consideration of many Jewish holidays, leavened bread or unleavened bread is an important ritual to invoke in their society an essential distinction between a healthy and unhealthy society.  This is certainly the case with the Jewish people and the Christian people who emerged from the kind of thinking that was quite in rebellion at the time, against the tides of the world which are playing out dramatically on the world stage today.  To surrender to the forces of nature and appeal to the sensibilities of corrupt gods and demons who plague our subconscious.  Or to rebel against those forces with deliberate laws, such as the Ten Commandments, the presentation of sexual organs, such as circumcision, and eating food at certain times of the day or year. 

Over time, in many societies, leaven came to signify corruption.  So, the feasts of unleavened bread were designed to remind people in the covenant community that they were supposed to purge sin as they celebrated redemption.  By the first century AD, the Passover and Unleavened Bread feasts were celebrated simultaneously, and their sustainability has helped the Jewish people stay organized as a community around the globe.  The actual health benefits of eating bread that has a rising agent in it or not are less the point than the psychological benefit from maintaining personal conduct with such commitments, which are obvious anywhere in the world where they are practiced.  When people from any place follow firm rules of conduct, they tend to be a much healthier society.  The question is not essential about whether God cares if we eat leavened or unleavened bread as much as we care about how we conduct ourselves and why we do what we do.  Making a purposeful decision not to do something or whether to do something has a direct connection to our success or failure as a species.  And even down to the kind of bread we eat, the proof has been observed over time that these Jewish rituals and overall, Christian views of the world have worked well against the heathen behavior of the pagan sense of sacrifice that permeates cultures that rebel against such rules and practices.  That is why we see ritual bread in religion as a little wafer, flat, and featureless consumed instead of a puffy sampling of bread.  The rising agent is supposed to represent our sense of ego.  The way to avoid corruption is to avoid applying lifting agents to the food we consume and to remind ourselves to function without such cosmetic utterances. 

Of course, it didn’t work very well in removing corruption from Jewish society; there was mass corruption from their political leaders and people in general over their long history, just as in any organization.  But the rituals at least force them to think about such things as opposed to hedonistic societies that never explore the problems that come from corruption.  A healthy culture that at least recognizes the dangerous nature of crime tends to function better than a society that ignores it, which is the entire point of unleavened bread.  Suppose there are a few times a year when an organization thinks about whether or not corruption is acceptable. In that case, it tends to impact a portion of civilization that may not fall to such temptations, and they might avoid some act of corruption when it is needed most.  And good moral conduct might save the day when other societies have no such restrictions.  Over time, the survivability of the Jewish people, no matter what anybody might think about their concept of good or life in general, can be said to have a world outlook that contributes to a prosperous society.  It may not stop evil from raiding and seeking to destroy them.  But it might keep them from killing themselves by having a way to remind their culture not to behave by embracing corruption, a lofty sense of self that can only be filled by the appeasement of others, which ultimately takes control of personal management from themselves and places it toward group consensus.  Corruption starts by seeking rising agents into your ego, a compliment from one person, or a gift from another, something that might sway you from making the best decision without inflationary considerations to alter your judgment. 

Once you can say no to unleavened bread, you can also start saying no to those who might want to bribe you or whisper sweet nothings to you to pull you away from good judgment and into self-governing, which is the key to American civilization.  In order to have self-government a person has to be able to do so, without outside forces blowing temptations that might alter the course of the individual.  The practice of not eating certain foods at certain times to keep on the top of their minds the dangers of corruption in society, in general, is an important, empowering mechanism to resist the temptations of darkness and social collapse. A community without an excellent governing philosophy will not stay a society for long, and that is certainly the mode of attack that we see being applied to America presently from lots of outside forces who want to exploit temptation for the benefit of social destruction.  Many of our current politicians, from school boards to the presidents of countries would do well to eat unleavened bread on purpose to remind themselves of the practice of avoiding corruption in their lives.  Such a position starts even with the kind of food you eat.  Once you’ve consciously made such a decision, then it becomes easier to resist that bribe from a co-worker, a donor, or a member of the media that throws enticements toward their egos to inflate them toward corruption and the appeasement of such forces at the expense of morality.  If such things could be utilized for the productive health of society in general, then we could say that things are good and value is at the core of what we do, from eating to management.  When we make purity a priority, we tend to get much better results than when such things are not recognized.  In such a fashion, any society that goes to such an extent as to eat unleavened bread to remind themselves not to fall to corruption in their lives is serious about maintaining themselves well into the future, which is where most people hope to go, but because of their personal decisions, find they too often, can’t. 

Rich Hoffman

The Rich Hoffman Definition of Good and Evil: How to Make Heaven on Earth and Defeat the Bad Guys

It’s that time again; over the next year or so, many things will make you question life itself and whether or not all this is even worth it.  The temptations of evil are and will be overwhelming, as they always have been, and many people will fail to arrive intact to their eternal satisfactions.  I talk about good and evil a lot, which I am very interested in discussing.  And I always intend to stay true to do good in the world, no matter the temptations.  Yet to do that, you have to have a perfect definition of what evil is and what it isn’t so that the good work of good can be done.  To that point, the old movie The Never Ending Story, I have always thought, did the best job of talking about the nature of evil.  Because without good definitions for things, it is easy to become lost in chaos, and evil proliferates under those conditions.  So, what is it, and why should we not like evil and fight for good?  What’s the purpose of any of it, especially since it’s so hard.  Well, the eater of everything in the movie Never Ending Story was the “Nothing,” sort of an all-encompassing consumer of everything, like a black hole in the imagination.  Something that “doesn’t exist.”  At all.  And the Bible is nearly entirely dedicated to this examination, the fight for good against the temptations of evil.  The pantheon of gods that Yahweh is fighting and trying to save humanity from is quite a vicious struggle that often gets lost after the opening pages of Genesis.  Why was god so furious with Baal and the gang of Mesopotamian deities who inhabited the land of Canaan explicitly?  An even better question is, why should people care if a public school board turns the other way when pedophilia is on the minds of the administrators and other employees?  Or care about the massive crimes of the Biden administration?  Without a good definition of evil, evil grows and consumes everything, which of course, it wants to do.  The only thing that can stop it is righteousness rooted in a desire to do good.  And the first thing evil does to destroy good is to destroy the definitions of goodness, which is undoubtedly the problem of our modern times.  But to put it simply, evil cannot exist without good to suck off of for its own sustenance.  In the beginning, there was no evil.  Evil only arrives as a byproduct of free will and the decisions of thought to produce or destroy.  Something has to exist first to have any consideration, so evil will always be a parasite of good.  Not an entity onto itself. 

So I’m happy to provide the Rich Hoffman definitions of evil because it works and will do quite a lot to destroy evil in the world, which is a hobby of mine.  I don’t think I enjoy anything more than destroying evil.  I do sincerely love it.  I wouldn’t want to do anything else.  But that is because of my definitions of good and evil and the nature of evil.  So essentially, going back to the Book of Genesis, God said let there be light, so there was, and our story begins.  Something was created, and it was good.  Good, by definition, is a value judgment given to something that is created.  The intentions of the powers of creation in human culture could be said to be good.  Now relative to other people, they may not like the product or have different opinions on its value.  But in essence, creating something with the imagination of human intellect, we could say, is to mimic the acts of God at the beginning of creation, and the universe views the process as “good.”  Evil is committed when something attempts to undo that creation or hinder that creative process.  Evil is all about destruction; it is the anti-creative force.  Something that tries to destroy that which is created. 

The ultimate form of evil in the world is laziness.  Someone who doesn’t want to create and desires to destroy the creations of others because they don’t want to live up to a high measure set by the excellent work of others.  To me, it is evil to do bad work or not work at all because they deny the world the acts of creation from the human intellect.  Drug use is wrong because it seeks to blunt the effects of human thought.  Financial scams are bad because they seek productive enterprise rewards without the actual effort of wealth creation.  And AI is wrong because it seeks to think for people who otherwise should be performing the work of a feeling being.  When someone wants to cheat because they are too lazy to do something, under my definition, they are committing evil because they don’t want to do the work of thinking.  And at the most primal stage of existence, the review was the purpose of creating human beings in God’s image.  We were meant to do on earth what was in heaven.  We were told to make heaven in the world and expand God’s kingdom.  The fall in the Garden of Eden was a tragedy more about the nature of free will than what the temptations of a snake could provide through eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  To do so was to be like the Gods, and that was not the point; the various forces that conspired to work against Yahweh in the Divine Council since before the beginning of time itself, which was a creation in and of itself to the excellent work of good in the universe, against the forces of nothingness too lazy to do anything else but consume the world around them for their sustenance.  Adam and Eve were supposed to know better and maintain heaven on earth to continue good.

With that definition in mind, then why am I against public schools?  Isn’t that trying to destroy something made by the government to educate children?  That is the mask of evil in how it tries to contort reality.  Public schools are designed to eliminate the mind of children and make their natural ambitions toward goodness unachievable, and, hinders their creative process making them agents of evil by the time they grow up.  Which I consider reprehensible.  And along that line of thought, why should we care about pedophilia, especially in public schools?  It is a very evil thing to do to a new and growing mind to rob it of its individual will toward goodness, to grow up to be productive and creative, and to expand the fruitful nature of the universe through heavenly output.  A ruined person in the form of an adult who has made many mistakes in their life has no right to rob a young person of their full potential.  Evil has no right to destroy the efforts of creation from the mind of the good. Suitable as a product might be relative to the beholder, but the process itself is good by the needs of an ever-expanding universe and is the point of all existence.  And the lazy way out of a troubled life is to consume from others what they couldn’t do for themselves, either by stealing virtue or innocence before a mind is fully formed and can act on its own accord.  That is why pedophilia is evil, public schools are wrong, drug dealers are horrendously bad, and a lazy employee is detrimental to all existence.  That is why we should all fight for good and destroy evil wherever it presents itself.  Then, of course, the world will be a much better place.

Rich Hoffman

The Cult of Baal: Worshiping nature is the whore of evil

Mother Nature is a whore that has seduced many to her plight, and we see her work in our modern times by way of climate change worshippers, who defy righteousness in favor of the lazy, yielding to the mysterious forces of antiquity. I see the Holy Bible differently than many people do; for me, it’s not just the word of God interpreted through mankind for the understanding of a ransom that Jesus paid to die for our sins, but it’s a key to suppressing the nature of sin itself. And in the case of our subject, the worship of sin as a moon god from Babylon and other references of antiquity, it’s not enough for me to say that we are all prone to sin and that to earn God’s reverence, we must acknowledge Jesus and turn a focus on the afterlife as the goal of our existence, surrendering our lives to the forces that have always plagued it. Even if God made heaven and earth, good and evil, I see the task of the human being and the evolution of Western civilization to be a champion for righteousness that is unique in the universe. And the creation of America as the product of that philosophic contemplation. Suppose the forces of existence are at war with each other, and God set them against each other purposely. In that case, it isn’t enough to just yield to them and hope for eternal life, but to conquer them in the classic battle of East versus West, with the West being the creation of an entirely new religion and philosophy that is very much at war today. But the forces of old have always wanted to conquer Western civilization and beat it back into the ground from which it sprung forth, and it’s just as alive today as it was before the creation of the Christian and the concept of righteousness that was born from that rebellion of Yahweh against the forces of an ancient religion that predates the cultures of Sumer and Egypt. 

The Bible is a miracle of human intellect. It was a divorce from the blind nature worship that permeated all existence for many thousands of years before its contemplation from the Hebrews into the organized texts of the Council of Nicaea. And among the pantheon of the known gods to our mythology of existence is the war between Yahweh and the Zeus-like God Baal. Before there was anybody else on earth, there was this classic struggle between East and West civilization embodied in these two rival factions. And a careful reading of the Bible will show clearly that it wasn’t Satan or Lucifer that were the primary villains of the Bible, but it was Baal worship and his pantheon of gods who were devoted to the worship of conditional nature as the universe presented it. Not the domination of nature as the Lord, God Yahweh intended, chronicled through the rebellion of his chosen people after the antics of Noah and the conquest of the promised land. Why was the land of Canaan promised? Yahweh intended to conquer Baal and show that a society with his Ten Commandments would be superior to the societies that worshipped Baal with sacrifices and a yielding of intellect to the forces of nature. Over time the names of these gods would change a bit depending on the culture, but the personalities would not change, and they are with us today in the same kind of classic struggle. Baal very much has worshippers in globalism, especially the core beliefs of the World Economic Forum in every reference toward climate change and the politics of the Left. It’s a classic problem that never came to a proper resolution as our interpretation of history has ignored the core issue, and that collision is very much the theme of our modern times. 

I think Jonathan Cahn has done a great thing in his most recent book, The Return of the Gods. I have a long history with Sumerian chronology and their gods that I recognize going back 450,000 years. And the worship of Baal, Ishtar, and Moloch are just a few of the maniacal characters that have always been working in the background toward destructive intentions for the human race. I think many millions of these evil forces live in the realms of quantum mechanics and whisper to us all the things that aren’t good for us and want to see our consumption and destruction for their own rival purposes. By the time Yahweh came along with his rebellion against these forces by segregating his people, his family lineage of chosen people, there had already been a prehistory that largely did not survive analysis that predated the great flood. I think Jonathan Cahn’s work with his book in capturing those three main deities as a threat to our modern world is perfectly valid and all too true.   Baal, or whatever name anybody wants to give him, is the threat he always was, and the spirit of his menace is alive and well in modern politics. The same villainy that drove the events of the Bible is precisely the same as we see today. And God would be just as frustrated with our reaction as he was then. God often viewed the antics of the Israelites as cheating whores who turned from him to return to the worship of Baal and the other gods of the region. 

But there is more at stake than just the salvation of all humanity. Western civilization evolved from the rebellion of Yahweh, and it has shown itself to be far more effective than anything the worship of Baal came up with. And that same challenge is at the center of everything political now. Baal is still the God of much of the world, no matter what name they give him. And the war against Christianity is a very real menace. Global forces are conducting the destruction of America in the same way that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem after the people of Israel had turned to Baal worship over Yahweh’s Ten Commandments. And knowing that there is no reason to wait for Jesus to return and defeat the forces of darkness in the last battle of Revelation. Only what is needed is for Americans to regain their pride in righteousness and to live their lives in such a way that rejects Baal worship and rubs the faces of evil in the dung heap of their sin and their loathing lives. That is the path to Baal worship when it is said not to judge, lest ye not be judged. I would say, judge, and judge often and be more righteous than the enemy because the enemy is real. The enemy is ancient. And the enemy is before us now in the form of climate change and radical leftist politics. There is nothing new about them, they have destroyed many millions of lives over tens of thousands of years, and they are on our nightly news now. It’s Baal all over again; he never went away. We lost focus on defeating him because we assumed that just by acknowledging Jesus Christ, we were doing all that was required of us. But then there is the game between Western and Eastern civilizations and the need to win one way or the other. To play the game of fighting evil with good and destroying the enemy that all future generations require. Baal is still the threat that he always was. But our yielding to the forces of evil is what must change, perhaps for the first time in history. America was created to destroy evil, and it’s time we play that game to win instead of letting evil ruin the lives of all it touches. And to understand that, we must understand that Baal is still a threat and defeat him with righteousness. Then to apply Western civilization to cast light on all the shadows of evil that permeate through the communist movement that is worldwide and is hard at work to evoke our personal destruction.

Rich Hoffman

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