Westopia: An Epic Narrative Describing the History of the West post-Reformation and the Rise of New Peoples and Places in Conflict with the Old
In anno domini 1650, the God of the West -- of the World -- was banned in Maryland. The Pure had come, had been given land, had found shelter under the Toleration Act -- yet acted with intolerance towards those who went to God with hearts much different from their own. The Pure were proud and firm -- like the Chosen People of the Old Testament -- the children of Abraham.
Millennia had passed and the children were grown -- enveloping within them some sense of the God of the West -- Christ Who redeemed them -- yet their sense was separate from that of the past: their doctrine was steeped in the predestinated forms of the Protestors -- of Luther and Zwingli and Knox and Calvin: these formed the basis of their doctrine; -- the popes of the past, God's representatives in the Church they ignored. Thus when the Church gave them an inch in Maryland -- they bit back and took a mile.
It was not long before the God of the West intervened -- through the sturdy and steady hand of the Calvert clan, who rode in to restore propriety and strike down the laws erected by the Puritans in Maryland. Not even a decade passed before this was done, and the Church and the Pure came to blows -- but it was all ordained from the beginning -- and it was all a part of the working out of salvation -- and these two mysteries clawed at the hearts of some in the New World. Ahab's creator -- the writer of the White Whale -- he plumbed these mysteries and probed them as deeply as any medieval scholastic ever did -- and he sought to slay the White Whale in writing -- and could not. The God of the Puritans was strong. Melville sank -- clutching to a life raft -- a Billy Budd in his desk drawer, a Bartleby in his corner.
By then the West had been redefined. The Original Chosen People -- Abraham's sons -- converts from Khazaria -- now rose up through the cracks in Christendom -- as the Protestants and the Pure and the Church came to blows, fighting in every corner: the Original Chosen People saw opportunity in division. They had already corrupted the hearts of the materialists -- those who sought usurious interests -- condemned by the Church in the Old Days -- yet made respectable in the new times now; it was a New World, reshaped by new doctrines -- money could beget money -- for the elect -- and the Pure and the Chosen now went hand in hand, supporting one another -- and yet one was the dog and one was the tail.
The New World grew and prospered: America's Manifest Destiny emerged at the end of the musket: fire pushed the borders -- the guns drove the natives -- the God of the West retreated and stood afar, watching his children lose ground to the God of the Pure, to the God of the Chosen. Together, the new lords and arbiters of the New World colluded to finish the Revolution in the West -- the Peace of Westphalia (lauded by Voltaire,...
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