Redemption Songs (Holy Week In Hell, Part Two.)

In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher. And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it. His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow: And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you. ~Matthew 28:1-7

Yesterday, I saw this. Ronna McDaniel making a big deal about not watching Baseball because MLB came out against the Georgia voter-suppression law.

Yeah, fuck you too, bitch.

That was their call to make, if it were me I'd have made the same one. If you don't like that, I'm a tell you where you can stick it.

Republicans are only mad about "Cancel Culture" when somebody else does it. It's Easter, can't these fucking people take a day off from being soulless hypocritical bastards even once in awhile? Even for the most important holiday of their majority religion? Seriously?

Of course, who am I kidding, there's no greater sacrament in the godless theonomy of modern conservatism or Republicanism, where it's perpetually anti-liberal Opposite Day, than utter hypocritical bastardy for its own sake. 

Coca Cola came out against Georgia's voter suppression law, so some Republicans are shunning the brand, as if anyone cares.

Look, I tend to buy whatever's on sale when I go to the store, leaning more towards Faygo or Pepsi out of personal choice. But as far as I'm concerned if everything in your life has to be some kind of political statement, right down to the kind of soda you drink, you need to get a life. If literally every aspect of your existence is some kind of partisan political loyalty test, what the fuck kind of life even is that?

And no, one should not be surprised when they go through life demanding utter fealty from everybody else for basically no damn reason, that somebody is going to say "No."

This is America, remember?

We not only have the right to do that, but in being true to our own natures, sometimes we have an obligation to say no.

Actually, that right there is what conservatism is supposed to be about. If a private corporation says they believe something, tells you no, or says you have to wear a mask because of a virus and they want to protect their other customers...well, that's their right.

And in a capitalistic, multicultural, pluralistic society, if you don't like it you can always go somewhere else. Actually, these legislators do have that part right, it's just everything else they have wrong.

Of course now if you believe that...if you accept what was a core traditional conservative belief and you act on it with any degree of consistency or good faith, these fucking people will be the first to call you a "Leftist."

Like they even know what the damn word means.

Of course we're dealing with people who, were they to be disabused of their foolish notion that God is an American who votes straight-ticket Republican, they would almost certainly all instantly become Atheists  It's not America or conservatism or God that these people care about, it's the shitty political and social agenda of the Party and of the extremely wealthy that they've turned into an idol and bowed down to worship.

Let them wander in the desert for 40 years, or until they figure out where they went wrong. 

Of course the problem with that really is that these people are stupid and in throwing out that last qualifier...well, it could in fact be a very long time before these fucking idiots ever figure out where the hell they fucked it up.

Mostly because they perpetually think they never did anything wrong to start with, and it doesn't matter what about. They're Republicans, and they've canonized their political agenda as infallible gospel truth. These are, for the most part, people who think that nobody else's beliefs or identity is even real. They think we're having them on, or that we just hate them and their self-proclaimed perfect beliefs. It's really nothing more than a bunch of self-serving horse shit. The truth about it is that Mike Huckabee would die before he identified as, or allowed anyone else to identify him as, anything other than a white male Christian redneck asshole.

It's interesting to me that this Baptist minister, of all things, seems to understand neither choice nor identity on a conceptual level. That this 'Culture Warrior" fails to understand how such a thing as culture even works? Well, missing the point is par for the course for these fucking people.

The funny part here is that Christianity is supposed to transcend things like choice, culture and identity, rather than be dominated by them as it too often is.

Transcendence is not actually something a lot of these people are looking for.

Heaven isn't heaven if everybody gets to go. That's what these people really believe.

And as I've said before, most of the things these people really believe are things they can't share with the rest of the class, because we'd beat the fuck out of them and they know it.

And then they don't even have the guts to admit to or claim their own beliefs in public. This is half of why the Republican Party has turned itself into the Chucklefuck Olympics.

Half of them don't know what they really stand for, and the other half know, but can't tell anybody, at least not in any kind of mixed company.

So naturally anything that doesn't work out or that goes against their shitty beliefs is Someone Else's Fault. Republicans have apparently bought into Stephen Colbert's joke that reality has a liberal bias, and they thought it was real. So now these fucking people are rejecting reality in favor of fantasy.

The bad part is, the fantasy ain't even worth a damn 

These idiots basically spend every waking moment of every day high on outrage and the smell of their own farts and they're constantly reacting to everything that somebody else does, because the facts and reality of the case are that they don't really have anything much worth a damn of their own. It must be a hell of a thing, I think, to live one's life in opposition to the existence of other people. It sounds like a hell of a way to live, if you ask me.

I couldn't do it. I found it exhausting to even be around people who were like that.

But it wasn't that I couldn't keep up, so much as after a very short period of time I just didn't want to. It was too much work.

Also, when you have actual beliefs other than in being a reactionary shit, being a reactionary shit just gets in the way after awhile.

You can choose to be that way, on this day, and in so doing miss the point and you do that long enough, there's going to be consequences.

Or you can choose different and start again. It's Easter, it's spring. This is America, and that's the point. You don't have to be an asshole to be a conservative.

Freedom of choice is the goddamn point, for everybody.

If you don't like your circumstances, it's up to you to do the work of life and change them.

That's how it is. That's a part of conservatism as I was taught it as well. Make your choice, but then know you get to own that choice for good or ill.

And it's only the assholes that'll tell you anything different than that. It's the assholes that are the ones telling you that making choices is bad, that you should let them make all your decisions.

Don't.

Being an adult, being free, is about making your own choices and having the guts to own them.

Christ had to choose to go to the Cross. That is the point of his night in the garden, He, as a Man, had to face death to attain the Resurrection. If you are a Christian, especially of a denomination that stresses free will like the Baptists...you have to actively choose belief and Salvation of your own free will. Most religions are to one extent or another like that. You have to choose to participate in the Divine Conversation.

And the answers don't just come to you, you have to work for that shit. As Che Guevara said, the revolution is not an apple that falls when it's ripe. You have to make it fall.

You have to work for it. (Note: This has been a conservative argument, a real one.)

It's the same with belief in America. Please, this Easter, remember that.

Choose, and start again.

If you want a better country you have to be a better citizen, and yes, a better person.

Happy Easter.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds. ~Bob Marley, Redemption Song.

Part One.