same old, same old.

Listened to an amazing podcast about the founding of the first megachurch (in the 20’s) and oh boy, it’s a fun one. Affairs, cover-ups, power grabs, you know… the usual... but this clip really got me.

America needs a tidal wave of the old time religion. America needs to be taken down to god’s bathhouse and the hose turned on her. And the time isn’t far distant when the wheels of god’s judgment go sweeping through this whole god hating world. I want to take a pledge and this audience to join me in a pledge that you will never rest until this old god-hating, christ-hating, whiskey soaked, sabbath breaking, blaspheming, infidel,  bootlegging old world is bound to cross of Jesus Christ by the golden chains of love.

That’s from 1926. Billy Sunday.

Holy shit, it’s just the same exact script for 100 years.

No wonder we’re all so exhausted from it.

Which oddly makes me feel better somehow.