How the Book of Revelations Proves Christianity is Planned to Fail

 Have you ever noticed how the Book of Revelation, if it is interpreted as a prophetic vision of the end of times on earth, only demonstrates that Christianity is a plan that God "intelligently designed" to fail?

 This is obvious when we consider that as the last book of the Bible - spoiler alert! - it tells us that God knows his best efforts to "save" humanity are ultimately doomed to fail, leading God to lose his holy shit and utterly destroy the whole of humanity just to start over with a "new" and better plan. 

Why didn't God just START with the'New" and better plan to begin with? Why do we see a trend of God repeatedly destroying cities, wiping out creation with a flood, and eventually opting for an apocalypse? Is that NOT what he did with the flood, yet nothing improved? In fact, humanity seems to have even gotten worse, and used Christianity to justify acting like the God of the OT to do so!

 Why does God repeatedly punish Humanity for the "sins" He not only ensures we are born predisposed to committing, but then chooses to be so angry about, sins that God could but chooses to never intervene in to prevent or mitigate because we have "free will," but never bothers to simply direct all of that anger toward the devil himself rather than the devil's victims - us - until the bitter end of time? 

IN FACT - ISN'T THE CHOICE TO DESTROY THE PLANET WITH FLOODS OR FIREBOMBS OR EVEN AN APOCALYPSE ALL "MIRACLE" INTERVENTIONS BY GOD TO INTERRUPT PEOPLE'S "FREE WILL" TO SIN?!?! 

How can God justify interrupting people's "free will" to sin through an apocalypse but NOT interrupt the free will of Catholic priests raping children?

Ask a Christian these questions, and they'll tell you it's just a mystery of faith. And the greatest miracle of Christianity is how it conditions its "faithful" flocks not to notice, nor to ask, nor to care. Wow. That is the true power, and miracle of denial, that Christianity has. That's how you measure the strength of a person's "faith" in such a story: it's proportional to the degree to which they refuse to question what they "believe" to be infallible truth.

Miracles of miracles is that these very same questions would be the FIRST questions Christians would be FIRST to ask, and demand answers to - answers they would demand must satisfy their standards, not those offering the answers - if they had to do with any other religion or any other God but their own. In other words, tell them the God you are talking about is Apollo and Zeus, and they will reject subscribing to it because these questions cannot be answered to their satisfaction. Tell them the God you are talking about is "God" and Jesus, and suddenly it's a "mystery of faith" and if you don't like that you deserve to burn in hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 In a previous post, I explained how the Immaculate Conception undermined the need for Christianity. According to the Roman Catholic Church, Mary's immaculate conception and her bodily assumption into heaven are "infallibly true." Yet both of these "infallible" claims undermine the idea that Jesus is in anyway necessary for fixing the sinful condition Christianity claims we are all born suffering from. After all, surely a God who can do anything, including create the cosmos from nothing, can easily do for every human ever born what that God did for Mary.  He just chooses not too. And Christians have been conditioned to be perfectly fine with that, even if their own children end up in an oven like a Hansel and Gretel fairytale, and never ask "why?" And they treat anyone who does ask "Why?" as if they peed in their coffee. 

Like the immaculate conception undermining the need for Christianity, so the Book of Revelations also undermines any idea that God created Christianity as a religion to succeed in actually helping or saving the majority of God's children from the fires of hell. In fact, it serves as "inerrant" evidence that God designed the Christian religion to not only fail, but fail in both a predictable and spectacular way at that. Indeed, its like a father putting together a road trip to the grand-canyon in which he actually hopes and plans for most of his children to die along the way. WTF?!

In simple terms, Christians believe that Jesus was the Son of God, who died on the cross to atone for humanity's sins (against God or each other?) and that through faith in Jesus, people can be reconciled with God and achieve salvation (eternal life). By "faith," Christians mean you must simply "believe" that this story of Jesus is infallibly true. The only real obstacle to salvation, as such, is the nagging thought that maybe - just maybe - the story isn't true, or it isn't infallibly true anyway. Like the telephone game illustrating that stories change the more they are told, Christians are obliged to believe, and must resist all doubt to the contrary, that their story is the one story in human history that has never changed. And while some degree of doubt is encouraged by Christian leaders, they all assure you that too much can lead to you being thrown into an eternal torture chamber that makes Jesus being crucified look like a three-day vacation at Club-Med. 

The point is that Jesus, who is the human incarnation of God, came to save the world. The problem is that, despite God being able to do anything, He couldn't offer his most prized creation, humanity, a better plan than one that ultimately result in most of God's children being cast into a furnace, and a cataclysmic failure of divine cosmic proportions, even though God fighting with Satan is like Godzilla fighting a bowl of jello. In other words, even though Christians are obliged to believe their story of Jesus has never changed, they are also obliged to believe that God either could not have come up with a story that could've been more effective in "saving" souls or that if He could, He had damn good reason for choosing not to do so, reasons that are none of our damn business to know about.

 But how can we know with complete confidence that Christianity is designed to fail at saving most people from the bowl of jello that threatens to drag them all into the eternal fires of hell? Because God even says so, in the most cryptic, Lord of the Rings. epic dystopian sci-fi fantasy good-versus-evil dragon lore imaginable, in the Book of Revelation. 

The Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse of John, is the final book of the Christian Bible. It is a symbolic and prophetic vision written by John of Patmos, traditionally dated to around 95 CE, during a time of persecution under Roman rule. By 400 CE, the tide of persecution in the empire shifts 180 degrees after Christianity is enthroned as the official religion of Rome, and Christians begin persecuting pagans with far greater zeal and ferocity than pagans ever persecuted Christians. 

Here is a summary.

John receives a vision from Jesus, who tells him to write letters to seven churches in Asia Minor. These letters praise, warn, or correct the churches, preparing them for spiritual struggles that Christianity had ultimately failed to alleviate. He then sees God on a throne and a scroll sealed with seven seals, which only "the Lamb" (Jesus, the Redeemer) can open.  Opening the Seals releases war, famine, plague, and death (the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” or today what we would describe as a "a can of royal whoop-ass"). Then, to the sound of trumpets, God opens more cans of royal whoop-ass on the "children" he'd sacrificed his own son Jesus for, knowing fully well it wouldn't actually save most people from the fires of hell anyway, in the form of natural disasters, spiritual torment and more destruction. 

What's important here is to understand here are two things. The first is that the degree to which such divine ass-whooping is needed or justified is equal to the extent God knows Christianity will fail to "save" people from such ass-whooping. And the second is to understand why Christians do not see this contradiction, and flatly reject it as a flaw of their "faith." That's because, rather than blame God "the Father," Christians blame humanity on the whole, of which they are the exceptions. Whenever a child is abused by a parent, the child never thinks the problem is the parent, and always interprets that abuse as meaning something must be wrong with themself. Christians always respond in the exact same way whenever they interpret the "meaning" of the abuse their "father, who art in heaven," abuses his "children." 

 Knowing how Christianity will ultimately fail, God finally writes about how He, much as He "had to" during the days of Noah when His human claymations had failed to "obey" His commands that He had yet to give them, will have to pour out a whole bowl of whoop-ass in the form of a final judgement, more plagues, darkness, and global catastrophe. Good times!

But that ain't all! God is just warming up. All of this is merely to set the stage for a cosmic war between a dragon (Satan, or a bowl of evil jello), beasts (said to symbolize empires and rulers who worship that bowl of evil-jello, which everyone thinks is anyone but themselves) and "the people of God" (which everyone thinks they alone are). 

The faithful claim to be marked with "God's seal" (of approval, like most manufactured consumer products), while others follow "The Beast," who's jersey number is 666.  It mentions the ancient city of Babylon, which is said to represent corrupt earthly power, which many scholars feel is likely a reference to Rome. Babylon falls violently, symbolizing the collapse of worldly empires opposed to God (which is a hell of a plot twist, since Rome was the first Christian Empire, thanks to Constantine, who killed his own son like Abraham).

Then, there's a Final Battle and Judgment, where Christ returns in glory to defeat the evil bowl of jello; Satan is bound (placed in tupper-ware); the dead are resurrected (zombie-apocalypse); and the Final Judgment takes place (God reveals who he knew he would save and who he knew he would roast forever in ovens). Anyone not written in the Book of Life are cast into the Lake of Fire, which are God's own Auschwitz ovens that burn you for all eternity (and for no other reason than that God can, and you must surely deserve it if you end up in there).

Finally, God creates a new heaven and earth. Why he didn't just START with the very same "new" earth he intended to make only AFTER all of this death and destruction is a "mystery of faith." Clearly, God could've just created a better world in the beginning, as such, and dispensed with the need for the flood of Noah, the sacrifice of Jesus, or the apocalypse. But what fun would that be? The New Jerusalem (God’s perfect city) descends from the clouds (is imposed from above).  After doing so, there is no more suffering, death, or evil—God dwells with humanity. And they all live happily ever after! 

You probably have questions. Apparently, this whole orgy of death and desolation was written to encourage persecuted Christians to remain faithful, assuring them that good would triumph over evil. But the focus of the story, rather than being mostly about the paradise Christians should hope for, is mostly about assuring those Christians that those they feel have persecuted them for their "faith"  - which for many Christians is done whenever someone rejects their "faith" as merely the repacked versions of religions and gods that preceded Christianity - will be tortured and massacred by God Himself. More than a tale of encouragement, in other words, the story assures Christians that they will be avenged in the most sadistic of ways they could imagine. 

What does the whole story even mean, and how should it be interpreted? Well, it depends on who you ask. Few people think the story should be interpreted literally, as if it is God's version of "Lord of the Rings." The Futurist thinks the events describe the end times still to come. The Preterist thinks it mostly refers to 1st Century Rome or the fall of Rome. The Historicist, who thinks like a spiritual Marxist, thinks it outlines the whole course of Church history. And the idealist sees the story as symbolic, a timeless allegory of the struggle between good and evil. This last interpretation is the one Catholic priests and bishops use to justify all of the genocides and other horrendous acts of pure evil God orders his "chosen people" to repeatedly engage in in the Old Testament. 

All interpretations assure "the faithful" not to worry, for it merely depicts the predicable battle between God’s goodness and the badness in the world, which God knows Christianity will surely fail to eradicate. While each seal showed things happening on Earth, like war, hunger, and sadness, the Christian is expected to feel comforted by the fact that all such horrors are by divine design, for their "loving God" is still in control, and intends to viciously punish anyone who dares to want a better plan. 

Put another way, the Christian is expected to read the Book of Revelations as merely a Controlled brush burning, also known as prescribed burning. That is the practice of intentionally setting fires under specific, controlled conditions to manage vegetation and reduce wildfire risk. These burns are carefully planned and executed by trained professionals to achieve specific land management goals, such as reducing wildfire fuel, improving wildlife habitat, or controlling invasive species (in this case, "sinners"). 

The problem is that, everyone on the planet is basically killed again, must like the flood of Noah, only this time with fire and other horrors rather than just water. And rather than saving a single family, God saves 144,000 people. Yep, that's it: 144,000 people. That's the size of about three mega churches. 

Of course, many Christians, maybe even most Christians, do not think that the 144,000 is the actual number people God intends to save at the end of time, out of the over 8.2 billion people who live on planet earth today, and counting. Instead, they think this number is symbolic, representing the saved, those who can expect to be raptured into heaven before God unleashes hell on earth. Even still, there are currently 2.6 billion Christians around the world today. Even assuming that the 40,000 different versions of Christianity to which they all belong are all capable of getting Christians to heaven, this means that - after 2000 years! - God's "plan" to save humanity will only result in saving less than 1/3 of all the 8 billion people in the world today. 

What the hell kind of planned cure, from an "all powerful God" no less, takes 2000 years to produce a survival rate of less than 1 in 3 patients ?!!!! No doctor would be praised for coming up with such a cure, and no hospital would ever jump at the chance to implement such a plan. In fact, the doctor would be fired, and possibly investigated, maybe even institutionalized. And any hospital that operated on such a policy, or any daycare center that advertised that "nearly a third of our children survive!" would be closed, and sued for criminal negligence. And in the times of Jesus and Moses, anyone advocating such a "plan" would most likely be executed, maybe even tortured to death - just like Jesus! 

Are we supposed to "believe" that humans are sooooo sinful that even God could not devise a better plan to "save" the vast majority of us from an eternal (after)life sentence in hell, even though 99% of those same sinners are somehow able, despite our flaw moral compass and the majority being anything but Christian, to keep themselves out of jail while here on earth?