Christmas In A House Of Devils (Christmas 2023, Two.)

Why, why, why, why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't wanna fuck in the first place? Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked. Conservatives don't give a shit about you until you reach military age. Then they think you're just fine. Just what they've been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Pro-life... pro-life... These people aren't pro-life, they're killing doctors! What kind of pro-life is that? What, they'll do anything they can to save a fetus but if it grows up to be a doctor they just might have to kill it? They're not pro-life. You know what they are? They're anti-woman. Simple as it gets, anti-woman. They don't like them. They don't like women. They believe a woman's primary role is to function as a brood mare for the state. ~George Carlin

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And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:) To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.

And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. ~Luke 2:1-14

Last night, after I wrote this post, I was talking about Christianity in Russia with some people on Blue Sky. The header photo above is from some ceremony in the "Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces" a huge bombastic edifice that spends more effort celebrating the Red Army than it does in honoring Jesus Christ.

One of these things is not like the other one.

The shit looks like how I'd describe a Temple of Bane if I ran a 5e D&D game set in the Forgotten Realms. Bane being a Lawful Evil god of Tyranny.

Shit, it looks like how I'd describe a cathedral dedicated to Mammon in the City of Dis on the second layer of the Nine Hells of Baator.

And this is these fucking people's idea of Christianity.

This is the future that "Conservatives" want.

Well, that and a science-fiction grade Panopticon society dedicated to keeping women and everybody else "In Their Place."

(And if you think this won't hurt you, Republican voter, you're wrong.)

These Republicans, alleged heirs to the legacy of Ronald Reagan, who rather famously stood there at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mr. Gorbachev to tear down that wall and told the Soviet Union to go fuck itself...think Putin has some good ideas with the re-Sovietization of Russia and in general want to build a repressive State that Stalin would have envied. 

Think about that, for a second.

Of course, with Republicans...especially Trump...channeling Hitler recently, you'd think these fucking people would at least remember how that ended. But, I suppose that's the idea...and Republicans are just fine with the idea of America losing to a backward 17th Century shithole like Russia...just so long as they're not the ones who end up in Gulags or shot by the KGB.

Republicans love Communism when it's stripped of any kind of social welfare, I guess, and that's what Russia is now.

Reagan Wept shouldn't even begin to cover it.

Speaking of Republicans doing things that hurt most Republican voters, Iowa is declining to participate in a Federal lunch program for disadvantaged kids next summer (a program for the most part paid for by other people in other states) simply because Republicans think it's funny to watch kids go hungry. They don't want Capitalism to feed everybody either.

And then, no doubt, they'll expect these kids to "thank" them for saving them from "Liberalism" or something something Gazpacho later.

Hungry kids don't care about shit like that, Republicans.

Hungry people just want to eat. 

If you'd ever been hungry and in a position where food wasn't just a short walk to the refrigerator away, you'd understand why that's a bad thing.

It's the goddamned Christmas season, and Republicans can't wait to tell you how crazy and evil and terrible they are, and how the only thing they want to do is hurt other people for no damned reason...and how if they get power again, they're going to try to turn America into a one-party State like the Soviet Union that'll basically do nothing but support their hate and their desires for a Bacchanalia of cruelty and slaughter, and one that'll hit their own people the hardest, preferably.

Simply because Republicans know what they are.

Oh yes, they do. They just revel in being evil, at this point.

And I think that's why they have so much contempt for people who vote for them, consciously or otherwise.

Although they don't want anybody to vote for somebody else, either...but the truth is current Republicans lack the imagination to think anybody could be any different from them, so there's that, too.

The truth is, these fucking people want a "Society" based on contempt and hate where there's no values except Power, and where everybody is scheming against everybody else.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think, in that kind of a joyless world...that I'd even want to get out of bed in the goddamned morning, nor do I think Christmas (or anything else) would mean anything in such a place...except maybe as a celebration of excess by the wealthy or some shit.

Jesus was born a poor kid for a damned reason, in a stable, because there was no room at the Inn.

You think these Republican motherfuckers would deny the baby Jesus something to eat??

Hell yes, they would, and they'd laugh about it.

And then they'd have a bunch of excuses come the Judgment Day.

Jesus wasn't rich or powerful...because God wanted to see people how they really are, in relation to Him...and lots of people can find it in themselves to be nice to somebody who has money, if they think they might get some.

You follow after these fucking people? At this point, as far as I'm concerned, you're the one who's going to Hell.

Trouble is, you point that out and all they want to know is where they'll end up in some kind of devilish hierarchy. If you want to spend Christmas in a House of Devils...go for it, I can't stop you, but don't be surprised at what you're going to get.

It's Christmas, come on. Try not to be These Fucking People.

Christianity is supposed to be about Love, not Hate...Eternal Life is achieved by Compassion, not Power.

Remember that, because it'll be on the test.

Слава Україна!

"The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride." ~Volodymyr Zelenskyy, allegedly 25 February 2022, Associated Press

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Come they told me
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A new born king to see
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Our finest gifts we bring
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To lay before the king
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So to honor him
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When we come. ~The Little Drummer Boy, Christian Hymn