I believe that many Americans are currently worshipping satan.

The polarization of America has reached an extremism never before seen in our life times. This polarization is largely due to both sides of the political spectrum truly believing that they are the true morality, the followers of the intent of God, and that the opposition has fallen into craven evil ways. Politics in America has no longer become an issue of how to best direct the beast of civilization in an generally agreed upon direction but rather a desperate tug of war strangling the poor thing while both parties yell that the other way is certain death.

So why and how has this happened? In classic films, the “bad” guys know they are the bad guys, and while I believe that is certainly still true for the elite navigating this ship, the average American believes reverently that they are the only good. This is of course a complex issue that has themes of culture, poverty, education, and religion intermixed. I want to focus on the religious aspect as I hear both sides stating that they follow the true Christian way. How can both sides possibly follow the same religion, the same doctrine, the same script, the same God, and yet say so contrastingly different things?

The answer is simple, it’s because they are not. The types of churches and sermons attended by the two groups are radically different. Republicans tend to be strictly evangelical, Mormon, or Baptist - all sects with strict adherence to a certain doctrine, while Democrats tend to have a general theme of being non-dominational, agnostic, atheist, or of personal beliefs. This creates an isolation effect in Republican religious teaching where religion becomes very isolated with a “correct” and “incorrect” way of teaching that is strictly guided by the specific church attended. In opposition democratic religious teaching tends to blend many different religious sources and preaching methods or relies heavily on self education of the Bible rather than direct preaching.

This bipolarity has unfortunate consequences where authority, hierarchy, and obedience is paramount to republican religious doctrine and considering outside religious views or questioning the function of the church is equivalent to being sacrilegious and possible damnation. It’s an affront to God himself to question the church which represents God’s word - is God. There’s heavy themes of damnation of the wicked, punishment, and guilt built into the doctrine which pushes this narrative further. It also reinforces the idea that it is a moral imperative to be obedient to authority and that being resistant to authority is representative of a moral and religious failing. However this means that corruption can take hold within an isolated, or even non isolated, church. Should it become punishable to question doctrine, to question the devine authority of the church, to seek outside religious views, then should the doctrine become corrupted no one would be able to know or act against it.

This comes to the apex of my assertion - I believe that many Christian’s today are not worshipping God at all but rather the devil. I believe many fundamentalist churches have acted as seeds of corruption against God by manipulating the vulnerability created by the isolated and loyalist nature of these churches. This is no new story or great revelation for the Bible speaks heavily of it:

1 Peter 5:8 (ESV): "Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour". John 8:44 (ESV): "When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies". Ephesians 6:11 (ESV): "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil". 2 Corinthians 11:3 (ESV): "But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ". 2 Corinthians 11:14 (ESV): "And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light".

It is through this that those that are corrupt come into religious and political power as the two are deeply married in ideology. 2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 (ESV): "The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing".

So I want you to truly stop and think, armor yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of the Bible as it is written and not spoken. Are the leaders, the preachers and politicians, the ones “telling” you the doctrine of God and the country, have they been found to be deceitful, have they made promises to save or fix the country of the despairing which have turned to be false hopes, have they excused or justified evil deeds, have they told you to do things that are in direct conflict with the messiah Jesus’s word? Have they done this all while telling you that they are the light, the only good, the representatives of God, and all others must not be listened to? This is not the word of light or good, it is the word of satan. It is satans word being followed, satan being worshipped. It is his and those like hims delight that the people are being misled and betrayed, that the country is darkening, and it will continue to be so until their hold is firmly broken.