If you are a nice person, and think all women are good and holy and sugar and spice, stop now. Because today’s text is about two skanks, mother and daughter. Who managed to play a king like a chump. A story as old as today’s blog.

Another thing: Watch out for lapsed Catholics. Hitler was a lapsed Catholic. Yeah, backslid Baptists and apostate Pentacostals have been known to go off the deep end, but when Catholics go bad, they’re likely to go all the way to pure evil. Prostitution, witchcraft, human sacrifice, voting Democrat — there’s no limit to their wickedness.
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Johnny Depp probably wasn’t thinking in terms of statistical probability when he hooked up with Amber Heard. He was a middle-aged guy and she was a 26-year-old blonde — no, a guy in that situation doesn’t calculate the odds rationally. “Thinking with the wrong organ,” as they say, and maybe Amber Heard wasn’t shrewd and cunning, but just emotionally unstable, but either way, Johnny Depp got played for a chump.

Pay attention to those warning signs, guys.

Mundabor, who is not a lapsed Catholic, is scathing. Me? Kinda bored.

Sorry, Johnny. I’ve seen the same story too often. You married Jessica Rabbit. [1]

Now, this is merely Hollywood being sad, and an older man trying to be with someone younger. Let us turn to someone who truly used sex as a weapon. Folks, meet Herodias, and her daughter the stripper, oh I meant dancer.

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus, and he said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.” For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because John had been saying to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet. But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod, so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.” And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given. He sent and had John beheaded in the prison, and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother. And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus.

(Matthew 14:1-12 ESV)

Herodias had divorced one brother and then married another, which is against the incest regulations within the Torah. Thus John said it was not right that this happened. Josephus said that her husband had been married to a Nabatean princess, and the divorce that preceded her marriage caused a war.

She had a track record.

And her daughter (un named in the New Testament) seemed to be like her.

So… when you, young man or old, find a woman who is beautiful and smart and wonderful… check out her mother. [2]

Is she sane? How does she treat her husband? Is she still married? Has she raised the family well — looking particularly at your beloved’s sisters and brothers, where the mists of attraction don’t exist.

For I have no doubt that the daughter was attractive. Depp’s new ex-wife is also attractive. But that is not enough.

Women can be evil, bending men to do their work. While saying, calmly, that they did not kill the prophet, their chump ordered it instead.

And more righteous women see through this, while the males are distracted by glamour. Which is another good reason, young man, to find a young righteous woman, marry her, and husband her carefully and faithfully. You have blind spots, and you need someone covering your back.
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1. Jessica was the wife of Roger Rabbit in one of the first films that combined animation and live action. The best line of the movie was hers “I’m not evil, I was just drawn that way”

2. No. Not mine. Vox boasting about his beloved, Spacebunny.