No Human Trace At All

 
It becomes my duty now to talk to Christians about Christianity, I who have not been allowed to pray in peace in a Christian church for over 30 years.
 
It would be more easy, I think, to talk to snakes about shoes than to Christians about Christianity.
 
I have, however, been asked to do this, and I have been asked with insistence rarely encountered in my life-long friendship with God.
 
If I understand what I am being told, I am being asked to do this because American Christianity is in such a dire state of sin, and it cannot see this error in itself.
 
As best I can I always do what God asks of me, so let's begin with one of the central themes of Christianity, a theme wherein can be found the common flaw of Christians.
 
"God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
 
I suggest there are two important concepts in that statement which Christians would do well to contemplate prayerfully.
 
First, it says God so loved the world; it does not say God so loved the human being.
 
Second, what constitutes belief in Jesus?
 
I suggest here the reason Jesus was born, taught and was crucified was to save this Earth from the calamity now rushing toward it, the calamity human-bourne; and if people say they believe in Jesus and do not live up to the message of Jesus, they are not Christians relative to this calamity.
 
What was the core of the message of Jesus?  Obey the Ten Commandments and also the Eleventh Commandment Jesus added, Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself.  Thy Neighbor is me, though I live a thousand miles from you; Thy Neighbor is Muslims, though they live across the sea.
 
Christians overwhelmingly fail these Commandments, and have done so since the blood was scarcely dry on the cross.
 
The Jews and the Christians are the same in this, and in this the Christian apple does not fall far from the Jewish tree.  Both set aside the basic laws they were chosen to follow, and both tattooed upon their brows their status of "chosen".
 
Had the Jews followed the Ten Commandments they would have established utopia on this Earth four thousand years ago; and they would have become so famous around the world that even in far off China, even in far off Peru, wise men would have been sent by emperors to the Holy Land to know the cause of their success.
 
That is, the entire history of the world would have been different.
 
And so too the Christians, with their history so blood-thirsty it would make a cannibal blush.
 
Have you Christians ever thought for a moment about the murders and enslavements committed by so-called Christian nations and so-called Christian cultures?
 
If you have not you are deliberately blind in your mind's eye; and if you think Jesus was there with those murderers and those slave-masters even though they claimed to be his own, you are out of you God-damned mind.
 
In current terms, if you believe it is within the framework of Christianity to slaughter innocent Afghanis and Iraqis as you American Christians do every day, you are not true Christian no matter how well you can quote the Bible, no matter how calloused you knees may be from kneeling.
 
Further, if you believe it is within the framework of Christianity to have tortured and enslaved me for over 30 years, well, you might as well pack your bag and hop the next freight train to Hell.
 
God so loved this Earth that he sent Jesus Christ to save this Earth, and the contract made with Christians, which Christians always smugly misinterpret, was if you do what Jesus told you to do you will save this Earth from the darkness of the human spirit which is Satan, and you shall have everlasting life.
 
Well, in some two thousands years relatively few Christians have lived up to that code.
 
At the start of America's torture-enslavement of me, when I was still a young man and America had not yet stolen my life from me, I got a glimpse of the fate of the human being, and I said to God (as if my view meant so much), "No, this race is better than that".
 
And God said, "Virgil, you think that because you are of that race", and then God gave me the gift of audible telepathy so I might better know what the human race is, and it has been torture, torture, torture ever day since; and I have come to understand what God meant.
 
And way before, when I was very young and was given this commission to write The Obituary of the World, the first words I wrote about the death of this Earth in Osaka, Japan, in 1965, were about the legacy the human being would leave behind.
 
In fact, when this world dies it will die because of the human being, and there will be no legacy, no word written waiting to be read, no monument built left standing, no memory remaining of the human being; so angry is God at humankind's murder of this Earth.
 
This is what I have been asked to tell you today: you will be forgotten, lost and forgotten, and all traces of you swept away, Christian, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and all the other religions of Mankind, if you do not pull back from the murder of this Earth.
 
If this world dies, nothing will be left of the human being.
 
There will be no Michael Angelo, nor memory of him; there will be no pyramids, nor memory of' them; there will be no America, nor memory of America; no Rome; no Athens; no Paris; no London; no Shanghai; no town called St. John, North Dakota, where I was born; no place now named upon this globe will continue to exist.
 
The Universe will be as if the human being never was.
 
Christians think they are exempt frm this, and some of them even wilfully hurry the death of this Earth because of that sinful vanity.  They are not exempt because they do not live up to their contract with Jesus, they clutch the name of Jesus to their breasts, like a treasure guarded, but they do not walk the walk of Jesus.
 
This will be God's judgment of Man, and Christian Man too:  nothing worth having, nothing worth remembering; and even the walled City of Jerusalem will fall into the fire, and the fire will fall into the sea, and the sea will fall into the void of Space.
 
I think the thing to understand at this point, as the ice mountain of Truth awaits its sinking of your Titanic-Everything, is that God, so capable of Love, is capable of not loving at all; and God is not stupid; and God will not transplant the poison fruit.
 
This is what I was asked to tell you today, and my addition to it is this:  If you claim to be a Christian you should seek to be Christ-like; not Paul-like, not John-like, not Mathew-like, not Luke-like, not Mark-like, not Mary-like; only Christ-like.
 
That said, let's return to the subject of space war.
 
What are we looking for now, we lookouts in the lookout tower?  What are the road signs we are looking for along this Road to Hell? 
 
We are looking for the Alaska Disaster preceded by a thrown stone; and yet more proof of the damnation of George W. Bush; and the continuing trimming from its top the human being's Pyramid of Power; and the footprints of Invisible Doom clomping around the planet; horrible signs and horrendous wonders; disasters compounding disasters; and as is Pakistan the survivors left to freeze; and as in New Orleans, the survivors set adrift and stolen from; mankind watching mankind suffer until all of mankind suffers, too.
 
And what is the reason for the mass damnation of the human race?  It is humankind's murder of this Earth; nothing less, yet something more.  For now, call that something more the near-universal human talent for evil and disdain.
 
Damnation is more passive than active.  God does not damn the human being, the human being damns itself.
 
Salvation, that is active; that is the plucking of flotsam souls from the hole in the Universe where this Earth used to be.  But...but...but...but for the human being this Earth would not perish, not in this way at this time.
 
Considering that, and considering how God so loves this Earth, how many planet-murdering human beings do you think God will pluck from Hell's Sea?
 
God saves those who save this Earth.