Wednesday 9 February 2022

Watch and Weep

                                             Mad as a bucket of frogs in vinegar                                                    

It is probably a good idea to go to YouTube and search for: 'Kat Kerr describing heaven'. This will provide the necessary context to my erudite commentary. There are many videos for perusal. In fact, she never shuts up about the heavenly abode. There are videos out there that are 8 hours long. It all becomes repetitive and boring after a while but the devoted faithful lap this insanity up as if it was manna from heaven. 

Here is a link to a snippet of her bollocks.

Kat Kerr Sees Talking Dogs and People Fishing in Heaven - YouTube

What can I say? After viewing a few of these videos I am uncharacteristically speechless. I have come across Kat Kerr, the self-proclaimed prophetess of God before, however, on each occasion I'm left totally bemused.  

The videos are highly illuminating with regard to Kerr's worldview and psyche. I sincerely suspect that she is bamboozling 'simple believers' with this madness for nefarious reasons- monetary gain, anyone?  Could she be hallucinating or just using her vivid imagination to construct a heaven of biblical proportions?

For those fortunate souls who are not acquainted with this charming individual here is a little background information: Kat Kerr is an American prophetess who claims she has unprecedented access to heaven, Angels, Jesus, and God. She communes with God on a regular basis where he imparts various snippets of prophecy for distribution amongst the populous. Predictably she is very pro-Trump and with other religious pundits of the ilk, she predicted a second (second coming?) win for Trump in the last election. This did not happen. In the aftermath, she trotted out a series of lame and unbelievable excuses. It appears that she engages in frequent excursions to heaven and has a look around taking in the sights and experiences. All of which she is willing to share with the gullible masses. She has her own website, a simple Goggle search will whisk you (teleport) to this wondrous site.

Here is what heaven is like according to Kat Kerr: Heaven is a real place with geographical limits. It is very much like earth, only perfect. And of course, all people in heaven are perfect physically and mentally. There are no bald people in heaven- god does not like 'follicular challenged' folk. The bald are miraculously, cranialy hirsuite - what happened to free will? Everyone seems to live in mansions. There is no sex in heaven (I thought this was paradise). There will be food for us to enjoy even though we don't need to eat to maintain our ethereal 'bodies'. Fast food restaurants exist. However, the restaurants are very 'Eurocentric'. So you can get pizza but no mention of Chinese food and curries. Of course, you couldn't live the 'American Dream' without amusement parks and sports arenas. People can fly, but have to be taught, by who else but Christopher Reeves. The weather is perfect with no wind or rain. There is a place called 'Christmas Town' where it continually snows (not in New Zealand Town, though). Angels have wings and like to ride the roller coaster. Angels are described/depicted as you would find in renaissance art, cherubic and beautiful. This is interesting as the Old Testament describes Angels differently. They are frightening and monstrous to look at. Kerr, whilst in heaven, espied Jesus playing a round of golf. This is enough about heaven. She witters on about other details, but I'm sure you get the picture. Thus heaven is very much like an 8-year-old girl's conception of heaven. And that girl would be white and from middle America and called Stacey-Lynn.     

What are we to make of this insanity? First off, she seems so earnest in her description and portrayal.  She seems quite sane, therefore, I suspect she is 'making it up' for either personal gain or to enhance her popularity and 'celeb' status; or perhaps both. She has written several books about her description of heaven and these books have sold very well. She appears to be an astute, successful, and accomplished businesswoman. She is no fool and knows exactly what she is doing. Like all the 'evangelical charismatic' crowd she is well orf with a net worth of 8 million dollars. She is very popular with the American fundamental Christian believers of middle America and is a frequent guest on evangelical shows such as the 'Elija List' with Steve Shultz. Poor Steve is a simple soul and believes every word she utters. Mrs. Kerr is also a regular stage performer and espouses her views to a large audience. And the evangelicals lap this stuff up and soak up this pap uncritically.

It is hard for me to contemplate how sane, modern Western folk can believe in Kerr's mixture. Heaven is represented as a schmaltzy 'Dinsey Land' production. Tis a farcical rendition and yet a relatively large swathe of Americans take her description as true. The fact that she supposedly visits heaven and communes with God, on a regular basis, bothers them, not a jot.  

As for spiritual content...... God and Jesus are capitalist materialists. Everything is magnificent and panders to our dreams of acquiring amazing things and wealth. The deep spiritual stuff is not mentioned at all. Middle America's wet dream.

Tis interesting to note that she could only get away with this sort of thing in the US. I couldn't see the denizens of New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and Europe falling for this brand of madness. Anyway, let me know in the comments what you think.   

Hallelujah!






15 comments:

  1. I rarely get involved in debate with believers. It's unkind to debunk beliefs of harmless true believers, and pointless adding 'recognition' to the hucksters.

    However it's worth asking believers how heaven works. Who goes to heaven, what about non-believers and other faiths? What age do people look? Are the looks of terminal illnesses removed? Will all the wives become friend with all their husbands? What about pets? What do people eat? Do the still have bodily functions - if so what is the brand of toilet paper, or leaves, or sponge on a stick? I imagine even Kat Kerr is going to struggle with that one.

    And that is before you start asking what hell is like, how it works, and so on.

    Once you get into the details the whole after-life experience falls to pieces. And if you don't get into details then the after-life is just a pious hope.

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    1. Come on. You must believe something.
      Therefore you are a believer.
      Even if it is just that the Monkees existed.

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    2. Curiously enough I usually say 'I accept' (e.g. the Theory of Evolution) rather than 'I believe'.

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  2. Yes, but what is she like in bed?

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  3. PLEASE NOTE: ALTHOUGH THIS COMMENT APPEARS UNDER MY NAME IT ACTUALLY BELONGS TO DEVONSHIRE DOZER AS HE CAN'T GET PAST MY ANTI-VIRUS
    "I couldn't see the denizens of New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and
    Europe falling for this brand of madness."

    Really? Have you seen how they have accepted the covid religion? That's
    the one where entire populations clamour to be jabbed with an untried,
    untested gene therapy. And wear nosebags as a uniform signal of their
    beliefs. And perform all sorts of other rituals at the whim of the WEF
    global leader course graduate creature who now runs your country.

    As a retired scientist I'm amazed that you haven't written extensively
    about this racket. It's like the climate change scam - same shit,
    different toilet.

    See Dr Robert Malone, Dr Peter McCullough, Dr Mike Yeadon, Dr Tess
    Lawrie, US military adverse reaction to jab statistics etc. for
    starters. Unfortunately, it is only retired people who do this - along
    with a very few courageous & principled people who are then sacked or
    dishonourably discharged for doing so.

    Or, maybe (please) - you're being ironic. Yes! That's it! You're being
    ironic to avoid being censored or cancelled.

    'Flaxen', 'Saxon' & 'ironic' aren't usually words that I'd put in the
    same sentence. Things must be bad down there for anybody with a whiff of
    real science in their heads.

    DevonshireDozer

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    I must admit I'm a bit surprised that you, with your credentials,
    haven't published an educational piece on the widespread western rape of
    science, civil liberties and reason that has been going on for over 2
    years now. There was 'The Age of Enlightenment'. Is this 'The Age of
    Unenlightenment'? But I'm hoping that your silence is explained by fear
    of consequent draconian fines & punishment.

    Best,

    Devonshire Dover

    p.s. Thank the gods for Canadian truck drivers.

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    1. Thank you Sir for your frank response. You bring up so much, tis difficult to know where to start. Firstly, you are right to pick up on my non-ironical stance. I leave that stage unto others. You seem to be a serious man and therefore, as a mark of respect and fellowship, you require a serious answer. That said, I reckon the best response is via email, for you raise much fodder for thought. Mayhap a question and answer format? I could use the 'fruits of debate' as the basis of a post. Let me know how would like to proceed.

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  4. What is heaven? As far as I can tell - like hell - whatever else it might be, it's eternal.

    Like for ever and ever and ever.

    And again like hell, you can never check out.

    Strange concept infinity, mathematically at least. Infinity plus infinity equals infinity. Infinity times infinity equals infinity.....

    What is the most blissful, indeed heavenly thing you can imagine. Now imagine that going on for infinity, or infinity times infinity. Wouldn't oblivion be preferable?

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    1. Yea, good point and this underlines the problem. What the fuck are you going to do all day and forever? Yep give me oblivion every time.

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    2. I watched a few of her vids (shorter ones obviously!) Definitely away with the fairies.

      That said, stack her up against a panel of the most eminent clerics, philosophers, theologians etc and I suspect her fantasies are more self consistent than theirs.

      After all, she is offering an actual heaven - somewhere all the things you like and want go on for ever with no strife, conflict or anything else unpleasant.

      As for the "real" heaven/afterlife. Has anybody actually tried to describe it?

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  5. Ah, what benefits the Internet has given us!

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  6. Kat Kerr is not embraced by all in the 'fundamentalist community'. Most regard her as a charlatan and a grade A nutter- I wonder why?

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  7. I'll stick with Belinda Carlisle's "Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth". So many people trudge though their lives with gaze averted, not seeing the wonders of nature or the love around them - these are in Hell (of their own making). Then there are the few blissful souls, in love or whatever, who show the rest of us Heaven on Earth. Why wait until you're dead to find this out? It'll be too late then, don't waste another day as you only have a limited time left.

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    1. It's a ruse that suits the ruling elite and a weapon to control the poverty stricken population. Offer paradise but only when you are dead. How convenient.

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