Depart from me, ye that work iniquity

When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats:

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

For I was hungry, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. ~Matthew 25:31-46

I saw this article on Facebook earlier today.

"Since 2011, the city has marked a 54 percent decline in people experiencing homelessness, according to local point-in-time counts. Thibeaudeau credits the falling numbers of people living on the streets to the city’s adherence to a set of principles known as Housing First. The policy has enabled Houston to put more than 18,000 people into permanent housing situations with their own leases. “We shifted a lot of dollars out of short-term, temporary, high-barrier projects, and reallocated them all toward permanent solutions,” Thibeaudeau says. “That really is the reason that our homelessness has been driven down.”

Housing First runs contrary to the approach favored by Marbut, the consultant who was named director of the U.S. Inter-agency Council on Homelessness last week. Marbut has pushed for shelters that set up barriers to treatment, namely sobriety. For example, at Haven for Hope, a shelter founded by Marbut in San Antonio, homeless people with substance-abuse problems must sleep outside in an exposed courtyard until they can pass a drug test."

WHAT?!

Trust me, if I had to sleep outside in an exposed courtyard, that's not going to motivate me to stop drinking or using drugs.

In fact, it would probably make me use more drugs, worse drugs, anything to dull the pain or ward off the chill at night.

And for anybody who thinks that you can police that crap away, I humbly suggest you talk to somebody who's spent any length of time incarcerated.

There are three things that sinful, unregenerate Man will always find ways to do:

Get High, Have Sex, and Kill People.

And conservatives, the supposed masters of the atavistic thought process, fucking refuse to get this and scoff at me when I point it out. In fact they'll say all type of dumb shit to avoid having to acknowledge that another point of view exists or is valid.

Why? Because for the most part they are obsessed with the idea of punishing other people, mostly for being other people.

These conservative assholes LOVE the idea of a punitive approach to this, that, or the other thing because they think if they punish people hard enough, they'll get the result they want.

You know, it never really works that way in real life. It's human nature to resist, and in order to beat addiction you have to have a reason TO beat it because you have to want to and even then, some people just can't.

For all of their atavistic thought process or obsession with Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they never fucking get it, because too many of these people simply can't or won't see outside of their own limited sphere of experience...and that's quite often by choice.

It's become quite fashionable in conservatism to be dumber than a fucking rock.

And such people often want everybody else to do the hard work of life, hard work that trends toward being piled on fewer and fewer people.

Why the fuck do you think we even have an Opioid crisis? Why in the fuck do you think suicide is at a damned-near all-time high, particularly among veterans and people who work high-pressure jobs?

If you keep piling stuff on to a person, that doesn't motivate them to change or work harder or do more. If there's not also some kind of positive reinforcement or at least the simple act of giving a shit, either it just won't get done or the person will give up, quit, commit suicide, or whatever is the easy way out.

"The Trump administration may pursue its agenda on homelessness on other fronts. An executive order—said to be the brainchild of Benjamin Hobbs, special assistant to the president for domestic policy—might not materialize for weeks (if ever). But such an executive action would reinforce the dynamic in Texas, where the conservative governor has sought to overrule the work of liberal leaders in Austin to legalize tent encampments, for example.

But the broader campaign to criminalize homelessness hit a snag on Monday, when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case from Boise, Idaho, about whether local and state governments can make it a crime for people to sleep outside. A Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal appeals court’s decision might have enabled cities to prosecute people forced to sleep outside."

Serious question: Where the fuck else do they think people who have nowhere else to go are gonna sleep?

And when the Supreme Court...the conservative Supreme Court that you just packed, no less...the highest authority regarding our laws, just told you no and in effect told you to go fuck yourself by not even taking the case...what the fuck are you going to do without simply breaking the law?

Not that this is about laws or that these motherfuckers give a fuck about laws or care that there are things called laws.

Not one damned bit of this is designed to help people. I'd be willing to bet there's some asshole rich white person who just thinks they can make more money off of warehousing people and locking them away so that the comfortable don't have to see them. Rich, white, comfortable assholes have been saying shit like that forever, and if you think adding more cops to this kind of situation will ever improve things, you're wrong.

Until we address health care, income inequality and mental health care and funding in particular, nothing is going to improve, and punitive solutions or relying on capitalism will only create more dead people.

And that's exactly what these fucking people want.

Because literally anything is better to them than making them have to give a shit about somebody else.

The cruelty is the goddamned point.

And there's nothing Christian about that.

For that matter, you can preach right from the Word and if it doesn't fit with what comes out of Trump's mouth, some MAGA nut will try and argue with you.

This crap is ridiculous, and at this point if you don't think it's going to end with Americans shooting at each other, and with the disabled, the poor, people of color and even the religious or the "wrong" wealthy people being attacked for simply being what they are or belief in something other than the greater glory of Donald Trump and White Supremacy, you have another thing coming.

Most Trump Supporters that I know or have ever met or even heard of are not wealthy. This dragon, once unleashed, will eat them too.

No, Christians, you are not safe.

Happy fucking holidays, I guess.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

 ~Matthew 7:16-23