And behold, a White Horse (American Revelation II, Part 1.)

And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see. And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. ~Revelation 6:1-4

So, early this morning, Turkey attacked the Syrian Kurds, because Trump pulled our troops out of the way and fucking let them. Anybody want to tell me how the President of the United States rolling over and bitching out for pissant wannabe dictators like Erdogan, or actual dictators like Putin, makes America "Great?"

Donald Trump has taken the United States and turned it from the world leader into a second-rate henchman of countries that Americans either can't find on a map...or back in the day drew a map in the sand and pissed on them.

Ya'll realize, I hope, that when this crap is over we are going to have to prove to our allies that we can even be trusted to do basic shit...and then spend another 70 years rebuilding that trust.

As I've said before we're likely going to have to do that, by defending a line from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea against the Russians, and another from the Mediterranean to the Arabian Gulf...not to mention treating the refugee populations that result from this current round of stupidity with some degree of decency.

Greatness is not made by bluster and bullying and ignoring anything you don't like.

It's made by doing the right thing on a consistent basis, by having some degree of morality, by defending those weaker than yourself, not abandoning them because you want to suck up to some power hungry wannabe-dictator.

Hell, I can remember when Americans in general, Christians in particular and Evangelicals most of all tended to empathize with people under the thumb of Commie dictators like Assad or Putin or who were being oppressed by radical Islam.

I donated to Voice of the Martyrs and got their news letters and swag for years, I still have a box of it somewhere.

Greatness comes from even the simple act of caring about other people.

Greatness is not made by rolling over for some third-rate thug.

As others have noted in the past, Syria in general...because of its previous secular government...and the Kurds in particular because of their secular, socialist organizations, have a higher-than-average rate of Christian believers than is normal for the Islamic World. All too often, this fact and the suffering inflicted upon those people by American foreign policy far too often goes unacknowledged or even completely unnoticed by White American Christians in general, and by "Conservative" white Evangelicals in particular. A lot of people put that down to racism. Honestly, at this point I'm not sure I disagree...but it might also have something to do with the fact that most of these fucking people couldn't find Syria on a Rand McNally large-print map.

Not to mention the fact that a majority of these fucking people simply ignore the Christianity of anybody who isn't white and/or of their particular denomination or church...and that, let's get real, most of these people really don't seem to give that much of a fuck about religion anyway, unless they get to beat somebody over the head with theirs for whatever reason.

Hypocrisy is not Great. Ignorance does not make us Great.

And then, to top off all the other stupidity of the last several days, somebody compared the Impeachment of Trump to "Regicide."

Trump is not a king.
Trump is not being killed, or even harmed in any physical way.

And somebody totally missed the entire point of America and 243 years worth of its history. This country was founded to be against the entire concept of kings and nobles and shit like that. This happened for a fucking reason.

Just like the modern Republic of Turkey was founded as a secular state out of reaction to the religious idiocy that often was part and parcel of the Ottoman Empire...and Erdogan, who seems to want to re-found it, to be a sort of reverse Ataturk if you will...is massively unpopular at this point, just like Trump is. (That's why he's bombing the Kurds, as a distraction.)

Hell, you can even say the same thing about the modern nation of Syria...although we've seen how that turned out. Such can even be said of the generally secular character of Israel. It's funny how the only people in the world who seem to want to go back to those ancient ideals of altar and throne...are privileged white assholes who never had to worry about living under that shit, and whose ancestors didn't have to deal with it either in most cases, not in living memory anyway.

But they want a King because they think a king will somehow kick the shit out of their "enemies" or something. Here's the thing with that, though. These people don't really see Communists or Terrorists or whatever as the enemy. Things like that are a logic problem, a phantom, something that isn't really real because they can't see it.

It's you and me, their hated neighbors, the people who disagree with them even if it's just a little...who they think is the Enemy.

That's who they want King Trump to protect them from...other Americans.

But see, here's the catch, Evangelicals. Trump eventually betrays everybody. It's part of his nature, it's who he is. Trump has a very long record of being publicly anti-religion, an equally long record of stiffing contractors and investors, and at the end of the day, what do you think he's going to do to you?

Trump doesn't care about conservatism, about Christianity, about judges or about anything other than a few vanity projects...and most of those he doesn't actually understand so they're tending to either get half-assed or they're just not getting done, either.

And you think you're going to benefit from this mess?

It's that right there, that even so many of the Believers gave away their souls for so damned little...that is exactly why America will be under the judgement of God soon, if it is not already.

You don't betray your allies and your friends.

You don't sell your country out for chump change.

And you sure as hell don't get to claim to be a Christian when you're breaking every single commandment that goes with believing in Christ.

So many of these religious people act like God is dumb as shit, or like He doesn't really exist.

Ya'll think the all-knowing, all-seeing Creator of the Infinite Universe can't see what's going on here?

Welcome to American Revelation.

And remember, either by apathy, by fanaticism (and I'm looking at you here, Bernie-followers) or by maliciousness or worship of an unworthy man like Trump, you asked for this. You asked for the fall of our country and its standing in the world.

America was only ever what it was because the rest of the world thought the man behind the curtain was competent and that our Word as a country was good. That time has now passed.

And when we get ourselves out of this mess it's gonna be a damned long and hard road back.

Have fun.

Part Two.

Part Three.