So, this happened several days ago. Some dumb-ass Republican legislator in Pennsylvania decided to act out and "Pray to Jesus" for "forgiveness" as the state's first Muslim woman legislator was sworn in, evidently repeating the name "Jesus" 13 times. Funny thing but the Bible has something to say about that.
Evidently, this incident even made a number of other Republicans uncomfortable. It's old hat for me. After we split up, My Pentecostal ex-wife would act out like this (and the more publicly, the better) at least once a month for around two and a half years. The key here, is not to encourage this crap. Yet I've personally seen none other than Franklin Graham do exactly that.
Listen here, Republicans, this is the kind of drooling idiocy ya'll have been encouraging for 30 years. That sound you hear right now is the chickens coming home to roost.
This is America, a Muslim person has every right to be here, and yes, to run for office if they want.
Listen here, Christians. This lady doesn't need to be in government, she needs therapy and/or a church that doesn't fill her head with false gospels and nonsense.
Let me ask you this: If the Lord requires that you do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God...how does flipping out in public like this even close to accomplish any of those things?
It's called lying, and it's against the Ten Commandments. I get that conservatives, Evangelicals, Fundamentalists, etc. don't like abortion, hell, I get that ya don't like Democrats.
20 years ago I was one of you, though nowhere near as extreme as seems the norm today. I get it. I know this because I was there.
So how does lying, fundamentally spreading untruths, and breaking the Lord's own Commandments help, here? How does taking the risk of getting innocent people killed for no reason benefit anybody?
For that matter, what in the hell do these fucking people have against women's bodily autonomy, freedom of choice, and reproductive health?
What's the end goal? What is your objective? Have you considered that how you achieve something is just as important as the end itself?
'Cause if the end goal is looking like a bunch of idiots who are easily led and slowly turning from the worship of Christ to that of Donald Trump...well that looks to me to be the way this is going and I want no part of it.
Ya'll aren't going to make the country more Christian, or more conservative this way. Hell, you're not doing yourselves any damn favors.
The basis of this Q-Anon shit, functionally, is that every conspiracy theory is true and somehow to magically restore things Donald Trump and Jesus and something something gazpacho are setting up what can only be described as mass extrajudicial murder of Trump's "enemies" and that somehow after this everybody will live happily ever after in some kind of right-wing police state and there will be no Democrats, or something.
Now, as with most conspiracy theories this one has a lot of logical holes in it, like there's supposedly 60,000 sealed indictments (which are needed for an orgy of extrajudicial killing why, exactly?)
There's too many failure points, too many areas where too much is required to be airtight in an administration that's about as airtight as the plastic bag my ferrets just shredded.
I'm just going to point out that the historical record on cults and how well they tend to work out for anybody in the long term isn't great.
What's going on here, is that whoever is behind this crap is going to try to get their followers to kill people, sooner or later. That's how this always works out.
In so doing, those followers will damn themselves, and run a real risk of damning the rest of us too, if this kind of shit blows up too bad.
Wouldn't it just be...I don't know, easier...to try and get along?
Maybe it's just me and maybe it's just that I was raised up and educated and taught the Word long before our current age of dysfunctionality...but "To do justice and love kindness and walk humbly with God" seems easier than following the hyper-emotional torrents of hate and rage that are what passes for conservative "philosophy" today.
The Truth, as always, is usually pretty simple.
Man makes it complicated because he does not want to obey.
And it's hard to make money off the truth.
But here's the thing...
And note that I say this as somebody who's been an Agnostic Theist rather than a Christian since 2007.
When you die, you will not be judged by Donald J. Trump, nor by your fellow Man, and it's safe to assume that whoever judges you probably doesn't agree with anything you said in life nor care about your politics. In general, assume an arbitrary system that doesn't care what you think. Assume they know everything you did, why you did it, and are prepared to render judgment accordingly.
I honestly feel that before this is over...and honestly, probably before (or maybe even in place of) the next election, I feel like these matters are going to come to a head. These fucking people themselves seem to be the ones demanding it.
They're going to lose. Why? Take your pick: Cultural, Demographic and social change, immunity to facts, knowledge and truth. The fact that they've gone too fucking far, the simple obvious truth that they're outnumbered by people who to one extent or another don't agree with their bullshit?
But it doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't.
What I want to know is why in the hell these fools are so hell-bent on setting fire to their country, their futures, their very lives...for Donald Trump?
Why?
It doesn't have to be like this, and you damned well know it.
Part One.
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