My Beloved Turkey

Just a little about my love for and views on a country which at the moment is in turmoil.
It was 1996 the first time I went for a holiday to Turkey with my Mom and Uncle, it was one of the best experiences of my young life.
I had been to places in Europe before that but this was the first time in my life that I felt the world was a much bigger place than I had thought, full of variety and promise.
There was not even an airport in Bodrum then and we had to travel for four hours across the country to arrive at our destination.
For the first time I saw an actual live tumbleweed, the place we stopped at to get refreshment and respite on our journey was little more than a shack with a Coke sign and a no flushing toilet.
That was a shock!
When we arrived at our hotel finally it was a relief, the pool, the white family run hotel was beautiful, they were so welcoming and by the end of my holiday I felt like one of the family, playing with the owners niece teaching her how to swim.
I look Turkish as I am of mixed heritage and so it was very easy for me to blend in, I felt so at home. A few years later when came the time for me to venture off on my first holiday as an adult I was in no doubt as to where I wanted to go. Turkey! I said to my BF, Bodrum specifically, remembering the boats and the smell of grilled meat in warm air.
By sheer coincidence he managed to book the very same hotel I had stayed at so many years before. It was 2004 by then and when I got there again it smelled the same, the hotel looked the same, the welcome was the same and that feeling of being at home was exactly the same.
But things were different, the few bars and restaurants coupled with late night markets, provincial and sweet were now slicker and in greater numbers.
But they still had the best ice cream (lemon is my favorite) I had such a lovely two weeks.
Whenever I think about escaping England for sunnier pastures its always the place I dream of.
A place where I have witnessed the same stray Dog outside of the same shop every year and he gets fatter and fatter and no-one I repeat no-one, makes him move, even though he sits in the road and not on the curb, such a fixture that locals drive around him as if he is a curve in the road, he is one of so many animals that despite belonging to no-one are looked after, fed and watered by the locals without a second thought.
Since 2004 I have visited Turkey six times, the last time was 2 years ago, and I was thinking that I would try to go again this year until I turned on the news to see my favorite place in turmoil.
The last time I went to Turkey it became apparent to me just how much Turkey has changed in all those years, it was so different.
Firstly it has become the British holidaymakers number 1 holiday destination and rightly so with its beautiful beaches, friendly people, great food and until a few years ago reasonable prices (which have steadily risen to the point of things costing the same amount as they do at home) but you can't blame them can you?
For a lot of the people who run restaurants and bars have to make as much as they can before they go back to whatever part of Turkey they came from, when the season ends and live on the proceeds until it all begins again.
There was even a Starbucks in Bodrum last time I was there and that for me was when I knew that the old Turkey I had loved so much was changed for good.
More and more young middle class Turkish men and women were coming to Bodrum, not to work but to party, that was a huge change also, the culmination of the strong economy of the last 10 years could be seen in the University age Turkish girls and boys, living their lives like the English.
More beautiful Turkish ladies for the packs of young Brit boy's to ogle.
I have to acknowledge that I have seen the county become so rich under the current Prime Minister Erdogan, that it is hardly recognisable to me from the place I first saw all those years ago.
£10 before you even pass the threshold to get in and if you want to eat on the way home in the airport at least the same amount for a tiny slice of pizza (yes £10 for a piece of pizza)!
So to the nitty gritty why are Turkish people acting this way???
According to Erdogan the people gathering are 'extremists' 'looters' etc...
I have to say from the small amount of coverage I have seen on UK news channels the mix of people involved makes that explanation sound quite laughable.
Young, old, poor, middle class, women of all ages, religiously and ethnically diverse.
Although Turkey is a 99% Muslim county and 87% of the population are teetotal I have never in all my times there suffered a single comment about the way I have dressed, the fact that I drink, I have never been privy to extreme conversations of any kind.
As I have said that is not down to the fact that I am a tourist because I'd pass for a Turkish girl without incident anytime guaranteed.
I do not claim to have any knowledge of the politics of the country on a day to day basis and so I am no expert but I do understand the culture and the lives of the people I have met.
They work extremely long hours (12-16) for a small wage (average of £400 a month), but are wise and as living costs such as petrol and food are low much of this money is saved and industrious Turks are making businesses and buying property.
Every time I go there are more buildings and roads being built.
As far as the character of the people I know they are logical, fair minded, opinionated but willing to listen, giving and hospitable.
They respect one another in a way that we perhaps don't in the UK, older men and women are addressed with the proper greetings as are the young children, polite to a fault.
I think that the Turkish people with their long history with democracy, having been ruled by and being part of the Greek empire and the eternal meeting place of Europe and Asia where cultures have melted into a tapestry of epic and beautiful proportions are a rare breed of people, proud and humble at the same time.
They have such a strong identity as a nation of people and of course religion plays a big part in that providing morals and structure.
The separation of state and religion I think is a great thing and so do most Turk's.
God gives free will to us all so whatever we do is between him and us on a one to one personal basis, no other will answer for my or any other's sin so the state does not need to look after the soul of it's inhabitants, only safeguard the rights and freedoms of all of it's citizens.
And this I feel is where the problem lies, after so many years of this being the case the population, strong as it is, is not going to take any change to that precarious balance lightly.
Erdogan also wants to make changes to the Turkish constitution and to the powers that the elected Prime Minister/President (which of course in his mind means him) will have, taking him closer to being a 'dictator'.
As he won by a purported %49 of the vote maybe the other half now realise that if they do not act now in future they will not get the chance, it's huge youth population acting as the catalyst for the 'unrest'.
The heavy handedness with which peaceful protestors were met serving only to ram the point home to the rest of the masses about just how little they seem to matter to this former working class boy done good.
Ironic he accused those who have an occasional tipple of being drunkards when he himself seems to be the one who is drunk on that old Moonshine called power.
When Julius Caesar tried that even after all the achievements he had accomplished and the reverence he was given, he still died on the steps of the Senate at the hands of those who had put him in that position.
Power is a seductive mistress and I fear Erdogan has left his wife, the question is will he realise he has made a mistake and go home quickly or will he buy an apartment and a sports car and be an embarrassment to his children (the people).
The fact that he is friendly with the Americans, is acting against Turkey's neighbour Syria in a way that is different to what the majority of the population want, the chasing of evermore power, the changes to state and religious separation have all collided to make a very powerful bang!
I am sure for Erdogan it is a very rude awakening.
I was in Turkey once when Fenerbache won the league and I thought the Gog and Magog had finally come from behind their walled prison. The ground shook!
Couple that experience with the knowledge that every man over the age of 21 is a trained soldier (conscripted by the Government for a non paid 18 month service) and I think Erdogan is going to change tact at some point in the near future or he might just end up on the steps of the Senate.

LIFE

Life is bitter,
Life is sweet,
Tainted and blessed by the people we meet,
Thanks for the one's that help you back on your feet,
Life is short,
Life is precious,
Foretold,
Seven pounds inside you worth more than any diamond,
Any gold,
God is real,
So is he,
Your choices decide, so shall it be,
The guilt you feel,
Proof of the truth,
Life is a test,
The one's who seek knowledge,
Are the one's who are blessed,
Life is love,
Love is pain,
Here's to the lost one's,
Once met, never the same,
You're heartbreak is your loss,
Someone Else's gain,
Curses on those who play games,
Evil is real,
Life is wild,
Life is tame,
Shame on you if you pray in his name,
Life is ours,
Allotted hour's,
Thoughts are powers,
Plot's are dream's,
Of mice an men,
Death to your scheme's,
Hope is faith,
Once found never replaced,
You're grace.

Missbehaving Marines

Today's top story is the breast implant scandal, hundreds of poor vain, vacuous women are having to decide whether to remove hazardous breast implants made of industrial silicone, cue images of said women groggy from surgery. And in other news Marines in Afghanistan have been caught pissing on dead bodies of 'Taliban fighters' as if that makes it OK and considering the amount of civilian casualties they have notched up in this war how do we actually know that to be the case? They are already dead what more can they do? Oh yes I know... 

Yet more (if any were needed) proof that these 'hero's' are mostly a pack of blood thirsty animals just as barbaric as those they claim to be at war with, and why have we ever been 'at war' in Afghanistan?

Can someone give me a definitive answer on that? Please?

Just another despicable incident to add to the pile, from the female soldier on top of a human pyramid in Abu Gharib, to the soldiers shooting civilians in helicopters thank you Bradley Manning who is now facing charges of treason (for what showing people the truth of what is going on)? 

If England or America was invaded by brown/black people who raped women, killed civilians for sport, maimed children, killed your children, disrespected you dead and alive what I ask you do you think would be the response?

For example when Mel Gibson rescues his daughter or anyone in a film and has been wronged by the baddie, when he kills that person we all feel that it is justified correct?

He raped his daughter, beat her up, kidnapped her, so his actions in killing the person in the most violent gory and satisfying way possible restores the balance. At least half of all movies ever made show you this time and time again right? Even Denzel Washington a African American man can go to those extremes in movie and it is accepted as the right moral out come, (a very recently acceptable outcome let us not forget).

The point I am trying to make is that if you are brown/black/white and Muslim and from some place that you only see in your television and you are dead being pissed on in the streets by soldiers who's wages are paid by your taxes including those of Muslims, it comes second to some white/black/Asian woman who's boob's she purchased have been found to be faulty. Sound right? 

We are drip fed news by 'journalists' who only report what they are allowed to report, and fail to bring to the attention of the masses things like this that are happening every day. 

But because some Muslim men blew up a tower 11 years ago it's OK to piss on (or humiliate in various ways) someone totally unrelated to it apart from the fact that he is brown and Muslim. 

OK then, that's the kind of world I live in, I guess I should refrain from procreation as I am an olive hue and I would like my children to have a modicum of respect from their fellow man. 

What kills me the most is that this will be condemned, swept under the rug and in a few months the person responsible for leaking the images will be in some military jail facing charges of treason and branded a 'traitor' to his fellow soldiers where as if he hadn't have had a conscience and remained a traitor to the human race he would have come home hailed as a 'hero'.

I am a pacifist, a contentious objector, a lover of peace and my fellow man who ever you are where ever you come from, to all men and women of a similar mind frame God bless you and may you never change.

To all the people who think that such action's are warranted against 'terrorists' (anyone brown/Muslim) ask yourself why the IRA and large swathes of the Irish population are not hobbling around maimed, their wives raped, their children slaughtered?

I can tell you the fact that they are white and can sit around a table in suits and join lodges is the reason, they during their 'campaigns' killed more people than died in 9/11.

I could go on a and on and on about these heinous war crimes, the incidences of complete hypocrisy that our 'democratic' leaders constantly are involved in, the rise of hate crimes assisted by the media, this climate of 'need to know' news for the masses. But what's the point? I guess I just have to accept that while some women need pieces of plastic removed from their chest's my worries for all of humanity will have to wait.

Happy Eating...

Caesar Salad 
1 Chicken breast (cut into 'steaks', sliced into 2 through the middle length ways).
1 Romaine Lettuce (If large 2 if small, or greedy!).
Fresh Cobbler loaf.
Tex's hot Chicken seasoning.
1 egg.
2 tbls of vegetable oil.
3 tbls of Olive Oil.

The Dressing
1 tin of Anchovies.
1/4 of a standard jar of good Mayo.
1 large clove of garlic.
1 tbls of red wine vinegar.
1 tsp of Worcestershire sauce.
1 tbl spoon of good Olive Oil.
Parmesan cheese.
1 Lemon.
Pepper.
1 tbls of Dijon mustard.

In a food processor add four Anchovy fillets, the Mayonnaise, the Garlic clove crushed, the Mustard, Olive Oil, Worcestershire sauce, the juice of 1/2 a Lemon a good pinch of pepper and 15-20 grates of Parmesan, blend until completely smooth.
Place 2 tbls of vegetable oil on a baking tray and put into the oven on a high heat (gas mark 7).
Cut of a 1/4 of the loaf and rip out the bread, place in the food processor, add a pinch of salt and pepper and a 1/2 tsp of  thyme, add the zest of 1/2 the unwaxed lemon, make into a small crumb by pulsing in the blender.
Dip the chicken in a whisked egg, then flour the chicken in the Tex's chicken seasoning and roll in the breadcrumbs. Repeat the process if you like a thicker coating.
Once ready lift the tray out of the oven carefully and place on top of the stove, with the hob on the lowest heat and place the chicken in the oil, let cook for a minute and turn and then put in the oven for 20mins at gas mark 7.
For the croutons cut two large slices of the bloomer and cut into large cubes, pour 3 tbl spoons of Olive Oil onto a baking tray, sprinkle the tray with sea salt and cracked black pepper and dip the pieces of bread into the oil until covered all over. Add to the oven when there are 10mins left to go on the chicken.
Cut up the lettuce into bite size chunks squeeze some lemon juice over, a pinch of pepper and a few gratings of Parmesan.
Once the cooking time is up remove the chicken and croutons onto kitchen towel to remove excess oil and allow to cool a little then slice the chicken, place on the lettuce and add the croutons.
Cover with as much dressing as you like, it keeps for around a week in a clean jam jar.
If you would like more veg variety add grated carrot, spring onions and grilled, blackened corn for a more substantial meal.
Happy eating!

Justice and the legacy of Stephen Lawrence...

I was nine years old when a young black teenager was brutally stabbed to death, because of his colour in the streets of London. For a girl of dual decent living on a housing estate on the outskirts of Birmingham town centre which was comprised of families from all walks of life this, even then was an issue close to my heart.
Many of my friends were black, Asian, Chinese and mixed race and though race was an issue at times, we were the makings of the Hip Hop generation.
Every car and house was pumping out it's music on my estate, a soundtrack to my formative years, Summertime (Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince), Aswad, UB40, Mary J Blige, Tupac and Dr Dre were reigning supreme.
I loved that time. Despite issues people were coming together.
The death of Stephen Lawrence bought me back to a nervous reality, "Why"? I asked myself, why do people hate me because I was in the oven slightly longer (my Nan's gentle and hilarious explanation when I asked her why I was brown and she was white) bless her!
I remembered going to a Catholic school for the first three years of my school life which was predominantly white (by that I mean I was one of only two people of colour in the entire school), two years in and my best friend Dawn had been gotten to by other girls who realised they could use the colour of my skin against me.
Soon after the chants of go back to Jamaica where you come from (completely geographically incorrect) followed and the girl who I had shared two joint (we shared the same birthday) parties with was gone, fearing ostracization because of me I suppose.
That was followed up by my Dad despite being one of at least 30 parents outside the school in the car on double yellow lines to pick me up being dragged round the corner by two white police officers.
It was while my Mom was screaming expletives aimed directly in the police's direction that I had this sinking feeling in my stomach that has never really left me.
Needless to say I left that primary school and attended one where not being of colour was odd, still the black majority became tormentors of the Asian and Chinese minorities, does this ever I end I thought?
Maybe because I am two races I get a unique insight to racism as I see it from more than one side and let me tell you I have in my short time of 27 years encountered racists of all colours.
Some say it, some think it and you see it flash behind their eyes, but it's there just as prevalent as ever, hate.
Based on what? Something none of us have any say over, I don't remember being consulted which vagina I came out of do you?
I have watched over the years the many developments in  the case of the vicious murder of Stephen Lawrence, the double jeopardy issues the family faced when they took suspects to court themselves which failed to gain a conviction and the heartache as new evidence came to light at which time they could not use.
The inquiries which went on to brand the MET inherently racist, "tell me something I don't know" I thought.
And even now with the conviction 18 years later I can't get rid of that feeling inside, because there will always be racist thugs of all colours who will perpetrate these disgusting ignorant crimes of hate.
As long as parents pass on their putrid opinions to their subsequently ignorant offspring this will never end.
We are not born racist, people are made that way by having poison dripped into their ears before they are old enough to form their own opinions.
Now for a bit of science, sorry to tell you this if you are ignorant and white but we all come from Africans, before you jumped on a boat and evolved to suit the climate you were black too hahaha, and that goes for the rest of you too brown or black we come from one another.
As for me I have been told I look Brazilian, Jewish, Spanish and Greek to name a few and I have the last laugh while those white girls who took away my best friend at primary school run around orange and streaky trying to look like me, jealous bitches!
Rest in peace Stephen, and just because two vile idiots who had the cheek to say they are innocent and that they were not racist "because they have (correction had) black friends" can rot, no doubt feeling sorry for themselves, may you never be forgotten.
I feel no pity, not one iota, two less animals for me and mine to worry about, by that I mean all of you in your wondrous and beautiful variety. God made you, no one else gets to have an opinion!

Happy New Year Everyone...

The New Year makes most happy for a shiny moment in time, the communal countdown, that drunken feeling of togetherness and belonging when the clock strikes it's final chime of the year that was. 

Marriage breakdowns, financial troubles, arguments with friends, family rifts put aside for one night of fun, expectation in the air like the smell of warm cookies.

"This year I am going to..." What? Finish that sentence? Loose weight, get that man, win the lottery, get that promotion, spend more time with family, get that business idea off the ground? So many choices! 

There has been cynicism in recent times regarding New Year's resolutions. 

"They never last" they splutter pouring dirty dish water over all your shiny dreams, and while I have never been one for resolutions, I am having a change of heart! 

Don't let the cynics ruin that moment tonight because it's just like that feeling you get when you are a kid and you say "when I grow up" and believe it, why should we give up on that because we get a few knocks?

"Danny boy I get knocked down but I get up again" thanks Chumbly Wumbly and not just for tipping that ice bucket over John Prescott, for that truly is a motto for life.

So go on dream about all the things you are going to do this year, hold on to that feeling and take it with you, believe in your power to make things happen, to change, to be better.

That way when things do come along you will be ready to greet them like it's New Years Eve.

No More Prophets

No More Prophets

There was a long ago, a time when the oral traditions telling of one creator faded from the mouths and minds of the progeny of the first man and woman. It was in this time of darkness that Magic was born.
Originally a way of man trying to exercise some control over the elements on which he was so dependent, what started with worship of nature turned into something abhorrent.
One need only to look back at ancient civilizations, of amazing wealth and ingenuity whose remnants still dominate the lands on which they were built, but whose people are vanished to see that their ways were not accepted by the higher power.
There may have been those who had forgotten God's name but there were always amongst them men who felt in their hearts unfulfilled by the pagan practices, who found the ways of their society evermore putrid.
These were men pure of heart, men more greatly connected to themselves and their nature due to their lack of participation in things which were unclean.
These were the men of God they contemplated the meaning of their lives, caring for others as they cared for themselves. They wanted their brothers to have whatever they had and could not abide the injustices they witnessed. They did not want power and it was because of this that they were chosen to wield it.
There is no place upon the earth which has not bore witness to such a man, such is the grace of God.
Any man who does not love God does nothing to hurt the creator, but only hurts himself as he one day will come to know just as we all will the power of the almighty.
The birth of these rituals being created, signaled to the Devil and his legions an opportunity which they seized upon, to mislead and spread false doctrine to these people who had forgotten the teachings of their ancestors.
From it's inception paganism was infiltrated by the Devil, it was he and his legions who became the deities worshiped around the world, these creatures whose likenesses were carved in stone were demons that appeared through the rituals devised by men, they opened portals to the other plains of existence where these demons were lurking waiting for an opportunity to mix with man, to influence and confuse them, just as he pledged he would…
"Oh Lord thou hath mislead me and so I will make wrong fair seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong except thy servants among them sincere and purified by thy grace."
These are not mythological creatures they are simply more of God's creations who joined the Devils ranks of dissension due to the biggest sin known to any creature of free will, pride.
This is the biggest of all sins, as it is the original sin and not the eating of the apple as we are taught, the Devil was a creature of free will, created of a smokeless flame of fire, he belonged to a race called the Jinn, of which there are many types, diving, flying and travelling, as they possess the gift of free will there are both good and evil Jinn, just as there are good and evil humans.
The Devil was no "fallen angel" as manipulators of the truth would have you call him. This could simply not be the case angels cannot disobey God as they were not created with free will.
It was his rebellion against God's command to prostrate before his new creation (man) that saw him cast out of heaven, and why did he refuse to prostrate? When asked why he sited the materials from which man was man created as the reason.
"They are made of clay and I of a smokeless flame of fire."
We can see here that racism or any reason used to denigrate, alienate, ostracize or subjugate a race of people, has its roots in this moment and therefore is not of God.
Where do these ancient representations of "the God's" come from? They resemble nothing which exists on our plain.
The Jinn knew that they were forbidden from revealing themselves to humans so those that did and became deities broke the rule of God's law and were declaring their allegiance to the Devil.
Those creatures took paganism from the worship of nature to the depths of depravity, human sacrifice, sexual orgies and all that is unclean in the eyes of the creator.
The Minoans, the Aztecs, the Celts and the Etruscans are amongst those who perpetrated such crimes against humanity. And where are they now?
When all this began God was enraged, this was not what the gift of free will was to be used for, and but for the intervention of the Demons would not have evolved into such depravity.
Before the Devil was cast out of heaven like a lightning bolt he asked God to reprieve his judgment until the day of resurrection which was granted, if God were unjust would this have been so?
It was then he said that he would mislead human kind to prove himself right to God about us mankind.
And so when he slivered into the Garden of Eden in the guise of a serpent and suggested Eve should disobey God and eat from the forbidden tree and she and Adam both partook of the fruit the battle for our souls began.
Some say if there is a God why does he allow such awful things to happen?
This question demonstrates ignorance at the basic level of the religious teachings of the people of the book.
God gave us free will, based on his faith that we would choose to follow him and do what is right, we were made in his likeness and he imbued in us a sense of what is wrong and right, this is why and how we feel guilt.
If God were to open the heavens and say to us I am the creator of the heavens and earth, Lord of the Universe, and went on to show us the bountiful splendors and glories of heaven then shook the ground to reveal hell and all of its abject misery and punishment, where would be our free will? Where would be our faith?
Surely anyone who witnessed such a thing would find his rebellion utterly quashed.
The Devils misleading of men is ultimately about the Devil redeeming himself in the eyes of God.
He cares not for those who do atrocities in his name, they will receive no recompense from him in the here after, he will not save them from their punishment. He cannot save himself.
They will however receive worldly goods, possessions, power, and riches.
They are short lived, trinkets, finite and useless.
These men will find reserved for them a place lower in hell than that in which the Devil himself where they will languish for eternity.
His only hope of escaping purgatory and redeeming himself to God is if he is right.
To do this he has devised many plots.
The creation of false religion (paganism) the temptation of souls through worldly rewards, the lie that he does not exist propagated by those who follow him, the whispers of suggestion he implants into our minds.
He is referred to as the deceiver because he will tell the soul he wants (and he wants them all) anything they want to hear in order to misshape their path.
What he desires more than anything is a way back into the grace and favor of God he knows more than any mortal soul the pains of hell.
The only way he believes he can achieve this is at our expense, ALL of us.
Those who follow him and do his works are the most foolish men on earth, if they choose to follow him they must also accept that God does exist, surely the Devil cannot exist without him?
And yet they choose to serve him a creature as dependant on God as you or I.
God has planted in their hearts a sickness, which makes them blind and deaf to the truth of their existence, they cannot be saved, they are cursed.
God could not let the Devil mislead us without intervention, but because of free will he would not interfere directly. And so the fate of mankind was to be handed to men.
He sent them forth to spread the way of life he intended for us to lead; every nation was sent such a man, as to be an example to others.
Men so exemplary of character we still talk of them and despite the wishes of some always will.
So powerful is what comes from inside us that we change our world
Through the gift of free will we can destroy or save ourselves such is the blessing of our gift.
And so for such very long time now there have been those that worship him, in secret even as there were those who walked the earth in service of God.
Who knows why they choose to follow him, it has been said he is beautiful, with a body made of precious stones, so much so his presence is blinding. Like the morning sun. Maybe they believe if enough people follow him and he is proved right they will all be unaccountable for their sins?
I cannot understand it.
What I do know is this.
Those who follow him have risen to the highest ranks; they are the ones in charge now. We live in the time of no more prophets, it has been this way for over a millennia. Since that time we have seen their kind lead.
They have used the very word of God against us, attacking us with our forewarned weaknesses, the seven deadly sins.
Making it our way of life to be vain, selfish, greedy, and lustful it is big business.
There are people dying of starvation and poverty in a world which even in it's weakened state provides enough for every last one of us to have all that we need.
They control us by controlling the monetary systems of almost all countries, by dictating culture (lowering our moral standards), owning conglomerates, controlling information, education and or lack of it.
They have brought this world to its knee's.
This is the time we live in, the time of no more prophets, God help us all. Innocent people are dying.
So many wars, so many natural disasters, so many signs.
They think they are winning, with their propaganda, politics and their so carefully crafted facades, their public faces. They are the people we see every day hidden in plain site in positions of power and prestige they have created for themselves across the centuries.
Their emblems are everywhere they are indoctrinating the masses subliminally tearing at our cultural fabric getting us ready for the big reveal.
The irony of ironies is it was only when they put the books together that they had all they needed to formulate their plans, to control this world.
So even when they claim victory in his name, know they needed God still.
They have perverted his word, changed it to suit themselves, placed ritual into it, hidden truths and propagated falsehood, they are making this world ready for his emergence as scripture said they would. Making hatred amongst the believers, of the books of God.
But in God we find salvation, the correction reaction to their actions "if they come to you and ask about your God, tell them wait as I am waiting for God to settle the differences between us".
God is omnipotent remember that.