Why does God permit boastful fornicators to prosper? Why doesn’t the Lord visit swift destruction upon the wicked and godless?

My friend Pete Da Tech Guy is a devout Catholic who thinks we should pray for God to save feminists from their satanic folly, but I have difficulty imagining that someone as far gone as Laurie Penny could ever repent. My attitude toward genuinely wicked people — and Laurie Penny is pure evil — is that we should pray their folly soon destroys them. We know that all feminists are eternally doomed to Hell. What we need is for these fools to suffer such catastrophic earthly consequences of their own hatefulness that they can no longer lead others to destruction.

That’s just my opinion, of course, and I’m not sure it’s theologically sound. Maybe it’s even sinful to think that way. However, there may be hope to redeem those lost souls inside the feminist death cult:

Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness. . . .

She said that radicalizing ideologies may soon be viewed not as being of personal choice or free will but as a category of mental disorder. She said new developments in neuroscience could make it possible to consider extremists as people with mental illness rather than criminals.

She told The Times of London: “One of the surprises may be to see people with certain beliefs as people who can be treated. Someone who has for example become radicalized to a cult ideology — we might stop seeing that as a personal choice that they have chosen as a result of pure free will and may start treating it as some kind of mental disturbance.” . . .

In 2006, she wrote a book about mind control titled “Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control,” in which she examined the techniques that cultic groups use to influence victims. . . .

She notes correctly that “brainwashing” which embraces all the subtle and not-so-subtle ways “we make people think things that might not be good for them, that they might not otherwise have chosen to think,” is a much more pervasive social phenomenon than we are willing to recognize.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Indeed, most victims of brainwashing — Gender Studies majors, for example — seldom realize they have joined a cult. Some people become so brainwashed they take Laurie Penny seriously.

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”

— The Exorcist (1973)

Of course, we should take Laurie Penny seriously as a manifestation of demonic influence, but otherwise, she’s just a pathetic joke.













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