That ever this should be!
And slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
I saw this, this afternoon.
It's Labor Day.
As usual Franklin Graham and people like him miss the fucking point.
Frank says he wants to celebrate the American worker...and then he immediately dives in to dunking on people who aren't working, trying to make Labor day about rich people and blaming the democrats for the fact that people aren't working, making a point to celebrate his true God (Donald Trump) and then he claims that God created people to work.
Huh?
Back the truck up here a minute.
I've been reading the Bible since I could even read. As I was educated in Christian schools the Word itself played a big role in my education and I don't recall that being in there.
Let alone the unspoken implications that some people were created to work and others were created to profit from their work.
In point of fact, Jesus Christ as I was given to understand Him and His Word seems like somebody who would be far more concerned with the workers and the poor than with the rich and their profits.
In fact I think Jesus would chase Frank around with a whip.
And note that I used to be a conservative.
This isn't a conservative perspective. It's not a liberal perspective. It's not about politics or even workers rights, as much as it does tie in with all that stuff.
It's about What I Read.
It's about what is in the Word versus what is not. It's about actual Christian tradition versus the corruption of religion in the service of politics and power and wealth.
And that's not the purpose of Labor Day.
We're not here to celebrate Frank's Golden Image. It's not about any of the shit he says it is..
Working people built modern America.
In America, under our laws, our system, a working person is equal to a wealthy preacher.
That's what Frank is telling you he wants to undo.
He wants to take away people's social safety net. He wants to force other people to work, preferably with the most raw deal he can.
Because it's not even really about that.
It's fundamentally about a person's place before their God and even their rights to not see the world that way if they don't want to.
Frank thinks he's better than you, or me.
And he wants to prove it by using his capability to screw over working people on this day.
God says all people are equal in His sight.
America and its constitution say that religion can go pound sand.
Frank says "Get back to work you lazy assholes, you're costing me money."
And he's mad as all hell that he can't just clap people in irons and force them to work for the greater good of slimy things like Franklin Graham.
I was taught that there's a right and wrong in this world and the next. Christians taught me that.
Either things like Labor Day are about this country and its peoples, or they aren't and it's about what rich asshole is the best at lying and getting a bunch of feeble minded people to follow them.
One of these is right and the other is wrong. It's that simple.
Without truth there is no freedom.
Without truth what are we even working for?
Remember that.
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