{"id":24519,"date":"2023-09-08T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2023-09-08T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:34:19","slug":"elites-burning-man-paganism-the-flood-and-the-need-for-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/elites-burning-man-paganism-the-flood-and-the-need-for-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Elites, Burning Man, Paganism, The Flood \u2014 And The Need For God"},"content":{"rendered":"

By<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Ben Shapiro<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s rare to see actual Biblical-level events taking place in normal, everyday life. But that is what is happening over at Burning Man.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn unusual late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a sloppy mess with tens of thousands of partygoers stuck in foot-deep mud with no working toilets in the northern Nevada desert.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When a hurricane hits Florida, the Left acts as though it\u2019s because of the great sin that we have all committed in driving cars and running our air conditioners.<\/p>\n

So now, I get to joke about how a bunch of morons decided they were going to jet-set into the desert, in the middle of nowhere \u2014 where it\u2019s 115 degrees \u2014 to screw each other. Then there\u2019s a giant, Biblical-style rainstorm and flood and no one bothered to bring enough wood to build an ark.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Burning Man revelers said Sunday their spirits remain unbroken.\u201d\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n
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Unfortunately, their toilets do remain broken. And so they are just sitting there in their own poop, screwing each other. It sounds like the height of human experience.<\/p>\n

The elites there treated it as though they escaped the beaches at Normandy. You wonder why people don\u2019t trust the elite. You wonder why there\u2019s a giant cultural gap between the Left Coast and the East Coast on one side and everybody in the middle of the country on the other.<\/p>\n

These morons went out in the middle of the desert to worship their pagan selves and then got stuck in the mud? Well, that\u2019s a rough ride for you.<\/p>\n

You have an entire elite strata of our society that hates itself and that is constantly seeking to signal to everybody else how much it hates itself by doing things like going to Burning Man. They don\u2019t seek to exemplify the behavior that everybody else should engage in. And if they do, they believe their behavior should be this hippie garbage and we should all just laugh and giggle along with them as they go to their Sodom and Gomorrah-style pleasure dome.<\/p>\n

The principles of Burning Man look like a religion. Burning Man\u2019s 10 principles declare:<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone may be a part of Burning Man. We welcome and respect the stranger. No prerequisites exist for participation in our community.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a lie. If you show up as a Bible thumper, I guarantee you you\u2019re not going to be welcome over at Burning Man, where no one has a shower, but they\u2019re all having sex with one another.<\/p>\n

Burning Man\u2019s principles also state:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur community respects the environment. We are committed to leaving no physical trace of our activities wherever we gather. We clean up after ourselves and endeavor, whenever possible, to leave such places in a better state than when we found them.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That is wildly untrue. It turns out that Burning Man has had a bad history over the past few years of leaving garbage strewn along the highways as people careen out of there as fast as possible.<\/p>\n

Contrast the Ten Commandments of Burning Man with the actual Ten Commandments, things like respect thy father and mother, remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, don\u2019t commit murder, don\u2019t commit adultery, don\u2019t commit idolatry. One of these sets of rules has built a civilization that has lasted for literally thousands of years. The other set of rules lasted until a heavy rainstorm.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that\u2019s the real story of Noah\u2019s Ark, that the rain wasn\u2019t all that heavy. Maybe the society was just not durable. In the absence of God, paganism rules. It is not that there is no God, it\u2019s that there are many gods. And these gods typically involve self- worship, which is where things currently stand. This idolatry is idolatry of the self.<\/p>\n

We celebrate a holiday in Judaism that\u2019s coming up shortly called Sukkot. You build a hut outside your house and you are supposed to live in it for a week. The purpose of it is to remind you that you are at the mercy of God. You\u2019re supposed to build the hut so you can see the stars through the roof. It\u2019s open to the rain. The whole purpose of it is to remind you that while you are a physical creature, there is something more spiritual to you than that.<\/p>\n

The idea is that when you decorate all the physical surroundings around you, that\u2019s not the essential you. So then, what is the essential you?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unity with God. That\u2019s the part that matters.<\/p>\n

Read more at: dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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