The Brunch Table

A factoid from the evening’s dinner party, courtesy of Margaret, who some of you might remember from CMU (she certainly recalls some of you), and who is now doing interesting HIV research: there are apparently some people who are highly immune to HIV. These people have what is known as the delta 32 mutation of the CCR5 gene, which changes the shape of the receptor sites that the virus uses to bind to. If both of your parents have this mutation, you inherit strong immunity. (With only one, the infection is slowed, but not stymied.) What’s interesting is that this same mutation appears to have been effective against the bubonic plague as well—that the passage of the plague through Europe might have selected for the mutation, so that to this day, some close-knit European communities have an unusually high incidence of the mutation.

I just stumbled across this mind-boggling cult site–they have a curious explanation for the mysterious rashes that afflicted some children after 9/11:

The US school system, public and private, including Church schools, are under the power of Baal.  Girls are more susceptible to the influence of Baal than boys because it was Baal as the goddess of love.  Had it been Baal as the god of war, the boys would have been more susceptible.  When the children thought about the rash, it got worse.  That is exactly the same way scar tissue of the soul is manifest.  Thinking under the power of the Cosmic System aggravates the symptoms of scar tissue of the soul.  Rebound and thinking doctrine will remove the symptoms. It was no accident that President Bush was in an elementary school at the time of the September 11 attack.  The children in the schools were under the curse of Baal.  They had intimacy problems.  The rash began on Day 277, for reverse process reversionism, which is a problem with both adults and children.  But those responsible were the adults.  In other words, elementary teachers full of adultery bring Baal into the lives of their pupils.  The only way to protect children from Baal is to keep them away from the slaves of Baal, who may be adults or other children.  President Bush was right.  The schools do have a serious problem.  However, Baal is the problem - not reading skills.  When the rash hit Pennsylvania, it began around Reading, which was obviosly an angelic pun.

But wait, it gets better–the page explains how the woman who was killed at Kennywood during the storm that year was a freaking metaphor.

In West Mifflin, Pennsylvania a woman was killed when the roof of an amusement park pavilion collapsed due to the storm winds, and 54 others were injured mostly from storm driven debris.  The amusement park was on the banks of the Monongahela River.  The roof is a symbol of authority.  Having the roof crash down on your head is punishment for violating authority.  Spritual Rapport is symbolized by a roof on the Edification Complex of the Soul.  A woman killed by a falling roof represents the sin unto death for violating authority. With all these disasters beside lakes and rivers, the issue was Marriage Culture.  Lakes and rivers represent the female, and tornadoes represent the uncircumcised male.  In the area where Giuliani and Bush spoke, the weather angels blasted the region with vicious storms, hail, and tornadoes.  The residents of West Mifflin said they had never seen anything like it.  The thing New York and Pennsylvania had in common was terrorist attacks.  The weather angels were not impressed.  The only thing that can deliver this nation from Baal is the Church.  Christians with Bible Doctrine are the only ones capable of fighting the unseen enemy.

I’m speechless.

(I suppose it’s worth mentioning, though, that the best official explanation that I’ve found for the rash phenomenon was that it was psychosomatic and coincidental. I can see why some people might find the Hand of Baal to be a more satisfying explanation.)