“A whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
United States President, Donald Trump.
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“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – JUST WATCH!”
United States President, Donald Trump.
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The weight of a word is often measured not by its volume, but by the shadow it casts over the future. In the theatre of modern geopolitics, where rhetoric can be as volatile as the munitions it precedes, the language of total destruction represents a unique kind of threshold. To threaten the erasure of a civilisation or to promise the descent of “Hell” upon a nation is to step outside the bounds of traditional diplomacy and into the realm of existential threat.
If we look at the concept of accountability through a philosophical or spiritual lens—drawing from the world’s religions and Near-Death Experience (NDE) accounts—we find a recurring theme: the “Life Review.” In many spiritual traditions, the final accounting of a soul is not based on national interests or strategic victories, but on the impact one’s actions and intentions had on human life. From this perspective, the words of a leader carry a weight far greater than those of a private citizen.
For a president to threaten “Hell” upon others is not just the act of a loudmouth (though Donald Trump is clearly an uncouth loudmouth), it an act of utter evil. When a person in power uses such language—promising that a civilisation “will die tonight, never to be brought back again”—they are behaving demonically. They are engaging in the rhetoric of the Devil. They are wrongly claiming a divine prerogative over life and death.
To suggest that the United States military could wipe out a whole civilisation in a single night is to ignore the inherent sanctity of life. Such threats are not made by spiritually mature individuals, but by evil, immature, egoistic fools.
Many religions, along with the voluminous evidence gained from Near Death Experience researchers suggests that Hell does indeed exist. A significant proportion of people who have died and then been resuscitated have reported having encountered Hellish experiences, in which they encountered terrifying demons, as a direct consequence of their earthly conduct. Trump may act with the bravado of one who doesn’t believe in an afterlife judgement, but disbelief won’t spare him.
To create a “hell” on earth for others—through war, through the starvation of sanctions, or through the terror of annihilation—is paradoxically to damn one’s own soul.
The halls of power in Washington are temporary landscapes. But the actions taken within them are etched into what some call the “Book of Life.” Whether or not the world’s evil tyrants believe in the existence of a higher justice or a final reckoning, they must nevertheless eventually face just such a terrifying afterlife reckoning.
When we then consider Donald Trump’s terrible threats, in light of what can be found in religious texts and NDE research might we not reasonably conclude that it’s far more likely that having started an illegal war which has killed thousands of innocent Iranian people that it is he himself who should take more care, lest he be destined for Hell?
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