Here come old flat topHe come grooving up slowly
He got juju eyeball
He one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what he please
He wear no shoe shine
He got toe jam football
He got monkey finger
He shoot Coca-Cola
He say I know you, you know me
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together, right now, over me.
~Come Together, The Beatles (Also ably covered by Aerosmith.)
Seriously? (I know I say this a lot, but, Seriously?)
(Also bonus points if you know the origin of the song lyrics from the pull-quote.)
I just saw this not too long ago. Christian Evangelist Prosperity Gospel False Prophet and Trump Supporter Kat Kerr claims that "150-foot Angels" will protect her from anybody who wants to kill her or criticize her ministry or something something Gazpacho. She evidently believes in some kind of dance party hippie Jesus who is, nevertheless, a Republican and a Trump Supporter and he keeps "commissioning" Kat to do stuff.
In the interest of decency, I'm not going to explain what sort of 'stuff' came to mind when I read this.
I'd just like to point out that in my old-school, conservative, Baptist church back in the day Kat Kerr would have been asked, at best politely, to leave on the basis of her pink hair alone. She'd never have been allowed to preach because, well, she's a she.
Our pink-haired Christianized Marianne Williamson-wannabe would not even have gotten a chance to start spouting cockamamie bullshit about angels.
As our Pastor, Brother Larry, would've put it "Go start a chat room if you want to talk like that." Dude was the sort of Pastor who still, in the oh-so modern situational ethics of the 1990's and the laid back "I'd rather just have a beer" early aughts...the Bush 43 era, before things went to shit...Brother Larry still wore a suit when acting in any official capacity, whose personal Bible was well-worn from use and full of bookmarks and yellow post-its with hand-written notes in ink, and he didn't think too much of technology. He had a computer mostly because he needed it for the office-work part of his job.
That was something I learned from him. The truth is simple. Man makes it complicated because he does not want to obey. Love thy neighbor as thyself, Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul and all thy mind. This isn't hard. It's since been my experience, both as a Believer and otherwise that if you have the Truth, you don't need...and likely won't be interested in...a bunch of fancy garbage ass bullshit.
If that doesn't seem "Woke" or particularly 21st Century, well, too bad. Agree with them or disagree, standards like that served to keep the pink-haired, gold-plated propeller-beanie goombas on TV (if that) and out of your church. Were things still that way, Kat Kerr would've probably hung a sign that said "Psychic Reader" outside her house and nobody would know who she was but the gullible chucklefucks who showed up at her door.
I'm here to tell you, without the self-absorbed moral torpor and rampant vapid performative moronism of people like Kat Kerr and Paula White, people like Ted Cruz would have to get real jobs before too long.
Blaming others, abandoning millions of your constituents and your dog to freeze in the cold with no food or water while you jet off to Cancun and self-righteously insisting that the people in your state would rather freeze to death than have Federal government regulations?
This level of selfishness would not be socially acceptable, would not be possible without a dedicated cadre of political Commissar, Republican Zampolit preachers to bullshit these motherfuckers gullible constituents and whisper in their ears that God loves them because they're them and everybody else can literally go to hell. And not only that, but these people's entire religion functionally consists of self-justifications and rationalizations for why they should get what they want, and belief that they'll get to watch smugly from Heaven after the Rapture while Big Butter Jesus zaps everybody they don't like into charcoal briquettes. That's really all there is to it. That's what Christianity is to these fucking people.
Rush Limbaugh, may he rot in hell, would not have found as much purchase as he did without political preachers like James Dobson and Ralph Reed and fake-Christian Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay hollowing out Christianity from the inside so that these devils could crawl inside it like a Tauntaun and use its warmth to shield themselves from the freezing cold of reality.
Trumpism was a hologram. Trump is a symptom. These fucking people are the actual disease. Trump just added a whole bunch of
circus-stunt bullshit that served to get the mob riled up and interested, and he even attracted a coterie of preachers to tell them that their desire to kill the rest of us was righteous.
And people have the nerve to wonder why I'm an Agnostic?
The other day, Lauren Boebert was in a congressional zoom meeting demanding that she have a security detail if she can't carry a weapon on the job.
(I mean, seriously, Gunbunny, the fuck are you even afraid of? The mob you tried to help direct?)
Behind her, were military-style semiautomatic rifles, pistols and a shotgun, all obviously loaded and in battery, stacked haphazardly and unsafely among and on top of the books on a bookshelf.
Every once in awhile, on her Twitter feed, Lauren will piously insist that "Jesus Is Lord." Honey, if you really have faith in the Prince of Peace, why the fuck to you need to be so heavily, incompetently, and yet ostentatiously armed?
I mean, I was a Christian, I also have guns. I practiced safe storage and weapons handling because I'm not afraid of everything, because I'm not an idiot, and because that's what I was taught, period. The only job I ever carried a weapon at was when I was in the military. Firearms and other weapons are not toys, they are a deadly serious business, tools for defense, for hunting, for work for some of us and in the various professions of arms. And they should be treated as such, it's really that simple.
If you can't understand that, and treat your weapons accordingly, you don't deserve to have one.
And again, you wouldn't have a high-school dropout restauranteur and sometime oil pipeline worker in Congress at all without these airheaded, bizarre self-absorbed Mammon-preachers telling you that Intelligence was literally a curse from the Devil.
People who want you to be dumb don't have your best interests in mind, read this again until you understand it.
Except...well, now we've hit the point where it's often the Republicans
themselves that are this dumb.
Consider, for example, perverted shit-talking Wheelie-Ghoul Madison Cawthorn (And yeah, I'm disabled too, I can say that) who thinks that US law applies to the Vatican...and he can't even get US law right because vaccine mandates aren't illegal.
How the hell can you be a grown-ass adult, supposedly a Christian Conservative, and not know that the Vatican is a City-State within the city of Rome and the country of Italy with the Pope as its absolute Monarch? I knew this stuff so far back I don't remember when I learned it. This is basic knowledge, or it should be, especially for somebody like Madison Cawthorn.
If he was any of the things he says he is.
But that's the problem, isn't it?
Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc. ~Roy Batty, Blade Runner (A deliberate misquote of William Blake's America: A Prophecy.)
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