Antivax Jesus and the Gospel of Selfishness

Come they told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
A new born king to see
Pa rum pum pum pum
Our finest gifts we bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
To lay before the king
Pa rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum
So to honor him
Pa rum pum pum pum
When we come. ~The Little Drummer Boy, Christian Hymn

Wut?

"Jesus was a vaccine-free, home-birthed baby."

Excuse me?

I have a *Checks Notes* extensive church background and I've never heard that before. It's not only an article of Christian faith and tradition that Jesus was born in a stable, surrounded by animals since there was no room at the inn...it's literally right there in black and white in the Holy Fucking Bible, that this is exactly what the fuck happened. The whole damn point of Jesus is the humble origins, humble life, greater spiritual purpose, Kingdom not of this world, etc. I've quoted two versions of this story just this week. But please don't take my word for it, you can look this stuff up for yourself.

You know, do your own research, like These Fucking People are always saying?

It's not virus RNA, it's the Word of God. You don't need an M.D. to understand it, you just need an open heart and some degree of literacy.

Hell, technically you don't even need that. You can find audio versions of the Bible online.

Or if you prefer you can buy a copy of the Word just about anywhere, order one online (probably get it for free, even) download it, stream it, find it on the Blockchain. I mean, seriously, the possibilities are endless. I'm not a born-again anything and I'm not trying to evangelize anybody. I'm telling you what I read.

These people make Jesus sound like the son of well-off suburban woo woo nuts who believe in New Age garbage, drink Kale smoothies and watch too much Dr. Phil and Oprah, people who can afford to hire a midwife and shit and have a doctor on speed-dial in case something goes wrong.

Trust me, it was not that way, and all the modern medicine and technology that we take for granted didn't even exist.

And I did not fail to note the unsubtle undertone of Eugenics and Dr. Strangelove-style Purity Of Essence garbage.

If the real Jesus, the way He actually was, looking how He would have looked...were sleeping on a park bench near their house, these fucking people would call the police on Him. It happened enough with mere statues of a homeless Jesus. Think I'm kidding? 

This actually happened in North Carolina. People called the cops on a statue of a homeless Jesus. Think about that for a second. Think about how much of an utterly selfish willfully-ignorant shit you'd have to be to even do something like that.

Christian nation, my fucking ass.

Little baby
Pa rum pum pum pum
I am a poor boy too
Pa rum pum pum pum
I have no gift to bring
Pa rum pum pum pum
That's fit to give our king
Pa rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum
Shall I play for you
Pa rum pum pum pum
Pa rum pum pum.

~The Little Drummer Boy, Christian Hymn.

These people don't give a fuck, and since the days of Donald Trump, which they will forevermore look back on as some sort of a golden age, they don't care if you know they don't give a fuck. But don't worry, they'll still get mad if you don't publicly pretend they're righteous, sober Believers in all the shit they reject out of hand in real life. 

They want the glory of being seen as righteous Christians without ever being that.

Hell, anymore they're not even willing to take the time to sit there looking oh-so-serious reading their favorite verses in the middle of the break room at work.

They want to be seen as some kind of traditional culture like the Amish without any of the pacifism or various strictures that guide such societies. 

They want to be seen as a warrior culture like the Sikhs or the Zulus without the courage and honor and values that often must define such groups.

They want to be the king of the castle, like the Afrikaners in Apartheid South Africa...but without accepting the changes that kept those people relevant in the world, without accepting the ideal of the Rainbow Nation that likely saved the Afrikaners from extinction, and ultimately redeemed most of them.

They want power without obligations, rights without responsibilities, sin without consequences and wealth without work.

They want America without the diversity and pluralism that has always been our defining feature.

Look here:

Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

That's conservative icon Ronald Reagan.

I suppose it should go without saying that these selfish people don't share the Gipper's belief in peace, either.
 

Mary nodded
Pa rum pum pum pum
The ox and lamb kept time
Pa rum pum pum pum
I played my drum for him
Pa rum pum pum pum
I played my best for him
Pa rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum,
Rum pum pum pum
Then he smiled at me
Pa rum pum pum pum
Me and my drum

~The Little Drummer Boy, Christian Hymn.

And they want all that is America without having to do anything for it, defend it, or maintain it, or practice the active, informed citizenship that our system implicitly demands and that our Founders expected of us. Unlike Ronald Reagan, they do seem to believe that freedom is something they pass on in the bloodstream. As I've pointed out before, there can be no freedom without truth. 

Without a verifiable baseline of fact and a respect for the same, the brightest lights and the biggest spectacle are very likely to win, and keep winning, and what really is be damned.

Even the Word of God doesn't matter to these people, not as much as a good meme anyway.

These people, the Antivaxxers, the conspiracy theorists, the fascists and insurrectionists, they sure as hell don't appreciate America.

Nothing is more important to these fools than their shitty ideologies of self and selfishness and their idea of a godless world where Man's self-satisfaction is the moral purpose of his life:

.

And they're telling us that, loud and clear, as if they believe there will be no consequences for it.

We'd best prove them wrong.

Like our lives depend on it.

Because they do.

Making a better world starts with giving a shit, including caring about other people.

That was the whole point of Jesus and most of what's in the Bible.

And again, I'm not a born-again anything.

It's what I read.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream.  The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same.  And if you and I don't do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it once was like in America when men were free. ~Ronald Reagan