All the Wrong Gods Part I: Vampires & the Death of the Blue Church

*The blue church refers, essentially, to the power structure in place over the past 50 years or so. This involves the ideologies of our universities and the centralized biased narrative of the majority of mass media outlets. The blue church is in contrast to the “red religion,” which we can see manifested in phenomena such as the intellectual dark web, decentralized media and online learning, etc.

Vampires used to be evil — now they are becoming gods in the consciousness of the public.

The vampire is another symbol full of depth. These bloodsucking demigods are a creature pre-dating their modern vampiric retellings by about 1,000 years. Finding its possible origins in ancient Greece, the vampire has been a symbol of violence, death, evil, seduction, and sex — the final two especially true in the modern era.

This brings us to the portrayal of vampires in modern entertainment.

The Vampire Diaries, True Blood, and most famously Twilight tell romantic and sexy stories of vampires bearing little resemblance to their ancient Hellenistic counterparts. Even I have found myself rooting for the vampire now and then, perhaps also placing their importance above their on-screen human counterparts.

But what we’re seeing unfold here is twofold, and I think it’s actually really worth trying to bridge the gap between the following (perhaps, seemingly unrelated) subjects.

(1) The inversion of the divine image in 21st-century Western culture and (2) the death of what deep code thinker Jordan (Green)Hall calls “The Blue Church”*.

Let me see if I can make sense of this.

Vampires in the modern era aren’t just tolerated; they’re celebrated. And with thousands of teen girls declaring they’re “Team Edward,” coupled with middle-aged women pouring over romance novels telling of steamy suckers with six-pack abs, and even men attempting to style their hair in that cunning Cullen fashion, the vampire has become a symbol of sex and sophistication.

Even as far back as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the vampire is portrayed as a sophisticated and cunning bachelor that seduces young maidens (or all of damn Transylvania, apparently) to their demise. And while this actually paints a right image of the manifestation of sin in our lives (think the allure of pornography and satan as the light-bearer), it also speaks to something strange and startling happening in the world of post-post-modernism, if you will.

The words of the prophet, something like, “Woe to him who confuses light for dark,” come to mind. It seems there is a growing trend in the modern world to call that which is evil, good (think about the ever-increasing radical left ideology of intolerance in the name of tolerance).

So, why is this?

Well, it seems we’ve elevated all of the wrong gods in our desire to reclaim our divinity. We threw out our old, primitive religions — and, as prophesied by Nietzsche — we’ve been spinning into nothingness ever since. But man cannot live (let alone thrive) on the bread of skepticism alone. Without systems, without religions, without life’s ligaments (which is what religion is in a very technical sense) we are perpetually floating into nothingness. So, in this never-ceasing pursuit for the supernatural, we’ve chosen the vampire as one of the lower powers to elevate — and it’s always only a matter of time before elevation leads to deification (the preternatural praised as the supernatural).

If you parade something long enough, you will trick yourself into thinking it’s actually something worth marching for. And while I don’t think most people consuming vampire fiction are doing so with the awareness of what I’m writing about, that’s precisely the point in some ways. We, like our undead friends, are staggering into this undead worship as if we were possessed by all the wrong gods (and we very well could be, in the Jungian sense of ideas possessing people).

But how does the vampire relate to the blue church? Well, I’m not going to explain the blue church as well as Jordan. But I do want to talk about these two phenomenons and how they’ve been growing in similar trajectories. The blue church is dying, and those in favor of this way of being are groping in the dark and living in an undead fashion. Basically, their bloodsucking tactics are getting thrown into the abyss. They’re aware of this, and they are quite literally fighting like hell to claw their way back to power.

(Back to bloodsuckers)

Here’s one way to make it simple: it’s best to think of vampires not as having eternal life but as eternally undead creatures possessing consciousness. You could say a vampire has become what those who live in opposition to the Divine Logos are always becoming — dead.

(Blue church)

You can also think of the Blue Church in this manner — it’s dead (or at least dying), and it’s aware (it has consciousness) of this fact.

(Back to vampires, again)

Even though a vampire is dead, it chooses to keep existing in its dead state. I mean, it could just kill itself. It could just end its existence for good (literally).

But it doesn’t.

It decides to keep going, and the only way to exist in this undead state is by feeding off the innocent, the beautiful, the ones still possessing the spirit of the vein — blood. This is precisely what the blue church is doing. Instead of offing itself and letting the new and organic take over, it’s sucking the life out of everything and everyone it can. It is, as a vampire, the complete inverse of self-sacrifice. It seeks to make a sacrifice out of the other. America is the new Valley of Hinnom, and our shining city on a hill appears to have been a high place in disguise for a long time. We, with relative ease, pass our children through fire. And resting them in the seductive hands of Molech has never been so easy.

Time will tell if the red religion will prevail — or in what form precisely it will do so. Admittedly, this is something well beyond me. But the decentralization of education and power coupled with the deconstruction of those traditional forms of indoctrination have thrown the current powers into a frenzy. The thirst for blood is going stronger, and it’s getting difficult to discern which crimes are committed out of a desire to live and which ones are a result of mere bloodlust. More difficult to distinguish is if there exists a difference between those two.

But all of this is not to suggest the red religion has it completely together. As (Green)Hall mentions, it may be a strong toddler capable of beating its predecessor, but it is still a toddler. Furthermore, the red religion may not be the Van Helsing of this story. Perhaps, it’s playing the part of Jonathan Harker, introducing us to the evil in the shadows. And, while incapable of defeating the beast itself, it does — at the very least — reveal to us an evil that’s been feeding on a whole population for a long time.

Regardless, symbols point us to a deeper reality.

The death of the blue church and the vampire speak a subtle but profound truth to us in the 21st century.

Are we the undead?

Are we chasing eternal life or feeding off the people around us to preserve our continued undead existence?

If the Eucharist defeated Stoker’s Dracula, can the blue church be fought with the same substance? Additionally, how are we to distinguish the wheat from the tares in the red religion?

Original Source: I Might Believe in Werewolves — Medium