Thread by @KrisAtLarge

we've played this music a few times a day, routinely, for a long while now. Kajiura Yuki's theme music for #FateZero: "Back to Zero". it's one of my favorite pieces.

we've used it for grounding ourselves—it is, after all, right there in the name.



(1/x)

"Fate/Zero" is fiction. our present-day world may have magic in it, for surely magic is as eternal as anything that's woven into the Beatific Vision; magic, I tell myself in hope, can never completely die. but it has no magic like that of the mages of the "Fate/" universe.

(2/x)

it is perhaps well that this is so. one of the lessons of the "Fate/" universe ought to be that humanity perhaps ought *not* to have magic, because magical crimes are truly nightmarish in scope and scale. a little handful of mages almost bring about the end of the world...

(3/x)

...it may well be the unhappy truth that humanity can *never* be trusted with "true magic", magic that is capable of effecting what we could only call _miracles_.

this does not mean that our world is safe from magical conflict. far from it—we're *in the soup*, right now.

(4/x)

we have been for a long time, in fact. #Christianity, in one form or another, has been at war with the rest of human religion and human spirituality for a *very long time*. the current-day gang of Christofascists of the @dalepartridge / @PastorMark stripe are not new.

(5/x)

it's been a real war with real casualties, for as long as #Christianity has *ever existed*—for Christianity grew by colonizing the violent and oppressive and slavedriving Roman _imperium_, which means that Christians have always had a taste for tyranny. it's never stopped.

(6/x)

I've put it to my friend Kaylin in these terms: #Christian civilization has, in a sense, never left its "Sengoku Period". Japan's famous _interregnum_, its chaotic period of constant civil warfare, lasted about a century and a half.

*our* Sengoku Period is still going.

(7/x)

it's *never ended*. "the West", if we use "the West" to mean post-Roman European civilization, has never known stability.

it's *always* been at war with itself and the rest of the world for #Christianity has always a friend to the warlike and bloodthirsty. it's the truth.

(8/x)

the truly zealous modern-day #Christian regards themself as a soldier for Christ; millions of Christians are daily indoctrinated and drilled in martial fashion, being endlessly prepared for spiritual battle.

the @SalvationArmy is a *real army*—a band of killers for Jesus.

(9/x)

you don't need to watch #anime to be involved in a merely fictional spiritual battle. we're not living #FateZero or #FateStayNight, but we're in wartime all the same. unless you're *that* sort of #Christian, you didn't start the war—the #Christians declared it ages ago.

(10/x)

and there's real-life priests who are every bit as rotten with spiritual corruption as the fictional Kotomine Kirei; @dalepartridge, @PastorMark, @PastorJohnHagee, @Franklin_Graham, @JerryFalwellJr, @RickWarren, @JoelOsteen are all as rotten and untrustworthy as Kirei.

(11/x)

@dalepartridge &c. are people who will break any rule, tell any lie, steal anything they want, betray anyone they want, assault anyone they want, *murder* anyone they want—or, at least, have someone else do the murdering for them. preferably someone in a spiffy *uniform*.

(12/x)

"God" and "Jesus" tell them it's all right. how do we know that @dalepartridge &c. are talking to anyone real? we don't. they don't know it either, but they _believe_ in their spiritual experiences. they put their faith in their direct perception of "God" and His Son.

(13/x)

what matters is that these warlike and *desperate* #Christians are people who act upon their impulses. they might be restrained by cowardice and spiritual weakness, but nevertheless these are people who do real crimes and real murders _frequently_. they're not all talk.

(14/x)

@ThisIsKyleR *murdered for Jesus*, although he's cowardly enough to stick to the pretence that it wasn't real murder but some other thing, some _permissible_ thing.

the police and soldiery are undoubtedly full of killers for Christ. that's scary, but also it's the truth.

(15/x)

it's a real war we're in. we've been in this war as long as any of us has been alive on this Earth, because the Christians have never stopped warring both on themselves and everyone else.

it's high time we all grasp it: #Christianity wants most of us *dead*.

~Chara of Pnictogen

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