Pat Dollard

Down through history, whenever leaders of religious cults felt they needed to grab better control of a situation, whenever they were afraid that their followers may be lending an ear to the voices of dissent, whenever they felt the god-like power and control of their followers threatened…whenever it became absolutely clear to them that the reins of their power were slipping from their grip, and that they may completely lose the omnipotence they had once wielded over their followers for a given period of time, they would pull the “I am speaking for God” card out, and lay it on the table.

So today Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei tells the Iranian people that Allah will punish those who do not rise up in support of their nuclear ambitions.

When a religious leader has to tell his followers that the “Will of God” is Divine punishment for those who do not support the decisions of the human leadership, they officially fall into the same category as all of the Jim Jones’s and the David Koresh’s and all of the other false prophets and false messiahs that have reared the ugly head of oppression and domination in the name of “God” throughout human history.

Such declarations are followed by the sometimes swift, and sometimes not-so-swift downfall and demise of such leadership.

It is utter lunacy. It is completely ridiculous.

It is the ultimate human betrayal.

He has officially eaten the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

God asked Adam and Eve, “Who told you that you were naked?”