Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. ~Matthew 24:23-25
Seriously?
People prayed and got their religious freak on during the Capitol Assault? I'm here to tell you some people take the Lord's name in vain every time they say it.
How in the hell does any of this shit seem...Christian...in the least?
I started out as a conservative and a Christian and quite frankly, then as now the idea that somebody would assault the capitol building of our nation fills me not so much with horror as with blood-boiling rage, and I'm here to tell you I have guns, I was properly trained in their use, and I swore an oath once. It wasn't to some weirdo Fundamentalist version of God, either.
The fact that these fucking people would try and wrap their treason up in the practice and rhetoric of religion and debase the Cross of Christ with it turns that rage absolutely incandescent white-hot and I don't give a goddamn who knows it.
If you support an attack on our country, Fuck You. If you're going to try and both-sides or equivocate on said attack, Fuck You. If you're going to try and say you did it because of religion? What the fuck is the difference between you and Al Qaeda or the Taliban?
Don't look away, no hand-waving, answer the fucking question.
Trust me, as a secular person, hell, as an American, I don't give a goddamn if the religion you use to try and justify your bullshit is Fundamentalist Christianity or radical Islam or the teachings of Satya Sai Baba. Religion has no place in our government, and the fact that those who pushed this shit just tried to overthrow our democracy does not speak well of their intentions were they to get power. It's really just that goddamned simple.
And just who, or what, do these supposed religious nuts think is "Christian" enough?
Not Mike Pence, apparently.
Mike Pence was a Congressional Evangelical well before it was cool, he sucked so bad as governor of Indiana that the Republicans in that state were glad to be rid of him, he mishandled the Opioid crisis in his state so bad that he caused a minor AIDS epidemic among heroin users, and for fuck's sake he got the job because Paul Manafort of all fucking people recommended him.
Mike Pence puts the Christian in Christian Nationalism and for all intents and purposes spent much of his political career as the clanking metallic heart of the Party Of No.
And he's not Christian enough to not be killed by these Vanilla Isis Chucklefucks if they would have caught him?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that when push comes to shove none of these motherfuckers really give a damn about Christianity, unless Unregenerate Evangelical Trumpism somehow qualifies.
And don't try and tell me they give a shit about America, either.
Some dumb bitch stole Nancy Pelosi's work laptop and tried to sell it to the Russians, don't ever tell me these fuckers are conservatives or patriots ever again.
I grew up Christian and conservative. Russia and/or the Soviet Union was considered the enemy, and that didn't really stop when the Iron Curtain fell either, Russian nationalists were standard villains of 1990's movies and novels, or enablers of other villains if they weren't a direct threat themselves.
What's different now? Did the Russians themselves change?
Or did the "Conservative" movement become anti-American?
In retrospect, the move from Christian nationalism, to American nationalism, to White nationalism and outright fascism was slow and gradual, until it wasn't. The bait and switch from American nationalism to anti-American fascism was even faster, to the point that the conservative movement and the Republican Party of today are unrecognizable from what they were even on November 2nd of last year. Trumpism itself has changed from ignorant chest-beating pro-Americanism to outright anti-Americanism if America can't be ruled by members of the Trump family forever.
And of course the vast majority of Republican elected officials are either Okay with this, or hiding from it and especially hiding from the Trump Supporters, terrified that they might get voted out and have to leave their sumptuous lives behind and go get real jobs again.
And there now exists, within the context of the conservative movement, an armed terrorist element not unlike the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, that will try to terrify whatever parts of the government that it can into submission, because if they can't claim power honestly by winning elections with enough candidates to get what they want, as usual they'll just cheat or try to fuck the system.
And too many Republicans will just take it, either because they agree with the terrorists, or because they don't care about America and their own freedom enough to stand up. Too many people value whatever perks they get more than they value the civilization that gives them their money and perks and power, without civilization, they'd be nothing. But everybody thinks they're going to end up on the last plane out and end up sitting on a beach somewhere collecting twenty percent.
But without civilization all that money is worthless, and the power reduced to empty titles, as if they're some grand vizier of hell, some Lord of the Pit, demanding a better spot in the Lake of Fire after judgement day.
And that's kind of how it is, isn't it?
Since they don't get to watch the world burn, well, some of these fucking people would rather barbecue their own ass in hell than admit they were wrong. Some of them might just be dumb enough to not know they were wrong.
If this is American Revelation, some people are going to fail that test. We're going to have to accept that. In a sense, that's the problem with Salvation.
You've got to want to be saved. Some people...don't.
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