It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful. ~HP Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu I saw this earlier today.
In a thread about how proselytizing isn't really cool anymore, some Evangelical nut started spouting off about how "Proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a command" (Which, to be fair, it actually is) but then he immediately followed up with "The Unbelieving World Hates Jesus."
Horse shit.
I spent most of my life as a Christian, and most of that as a theologically conservative Christian as well. Dude, I'm fucking sorry, but your bullshit attitude is exactly why most people don't want to hear it these days. I'm serious as a heart attack here. First of all, I can't say that I've ever met anybody who either appeared to hate Jesus or who said they did. Secondly, I'm an Agnostic, your argument is invalid.
In real terms, something has to exist to be hated. You have to believe God exists to have feelings about Him one way or another. Now personally, I'm an Agnostic theist, I believe there's something out there, I just don't profess to know what it is. I'm not a Christian anymore, so it's a pretty safe bet that I don't believe in the same concept of God or Jesus that this nut does.
I'm a gamer, I used to play World Of Warcraft. I could say that I hate Murlocs, but that would be irrelevant outside of the context of that particular video game now, wouldn't it? Murlocs are not real and do not exist outside of World of Warcraft and its assorted derivatives. I kind of feel the same way about this guy's version of God or Jesus Christ.
Your beliefs require you to, obviously, believe in them in order for them to have validity, what you have here is your opinion, not The Default Setting Of The Universe...or at least not for anybody other than yourself.
Of course the truth is, like most people with his kind of binary worldview, Josh isn't actually looking to
convert anybody...in fact, the fewer people he "reaches" the better. He's looking to set up an "Us vs. Them" type conflict and his actual goal in so doing is to offend, to preach, to talk
at you instead of
to you because Heaven isn't Heaven if everybody gets to go, in order for his beliefs...as constructed in his own head...to be valid...
somebody has to go to Hell. And no, it
can't be him.
Of course, the part he absolutely refuses to ever consider is that God, assuming He exists, may have a different opinion.
See, Josh doesn't worship Jesus. Josh worships Josh. He sees "His" true "god" every time he looks in the mirror.
And he comes right out and says he doesn't want other people to exist, unless they agree with him. And trust me, since this motherfucker doesn't actually know God exists any more than I do, the Inquisition will absolutely be televised if we're ever dumb enough to hand power to these assholes...because they don't know shit about Heaven, but they're obsessed with Hell and they'll do the best they can to bring it to you right here on Earth.
All dude really cares about is power in this world.
And to them, the greatest expression of power is cruelty.
Do you see yet, why These Fucking People worship Donald Trump?
I saw this earlier today too.
Some doctor from Florida is all contrite and says it's "Stupid" that he participated in the 1/6 insurrection and that he "lacked the education" to distinguish between the Capitol Building and the White House.
Now, when he was participating in the revolt, trying to overthrow our government, he posted "At the White House, breaking windows, the tree of liberty got watered today."
Again, this dude is a doctor...a grown ass adult...and his idea of "Liberty" is breaking shit and trying to overthrow the government. Then he's apparently surprised when he loses his wealthy ass job, his wife and kids leave him, and he gets arrested and placed under house arrest. I mean, what the fuck?
The fuck else did you even think was going to happen, dude?
For one thing, in most countries dude would have been hanged or shot or be looking at life in prison.
There is something very wrong with these people, mentally, spiritually, however the fuck you want to phrase it. Something is not right here.
And I think it all comes down the the fact that every last one of These Fucking People believes in God, alright, yes they do. They just happen to see their God looking back at them every time they look into a goddamn mirror. Every last one of these motherfuckers believes they are God.
And it's a problem that too much of the world declines to educate these bitches about the wrongness of that belief. Or, you know, doesn't know they exist in order to educate them.
We have a hell of a narcissism problem in this country.
And they always think the whole world is going to end up knowing their name.
Something about this combination of things I've seen today made me think of a dude I remember hearing about when I first started studying Christian extremism, General Efrain Rios Montt, who was the dictator of Guatemala for a bit over a year in the early 1980's.
Unusually, for somebody of his background, culture and walk of life, dude was a Protestant rather than a Catholic...he belonged to some fringe Pentecostal group. Dude got ran out of the country by political rivals after he retired from the Army and moved to the United States, where he became a preacher. He made friends with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye and a whole bunch of other American fundamentalist leaders. When his political rivals were overthrown in yet another coup, he went back and was chosen as President by the coup plotters, in part because he'd previously been political on an anti-corruption platform.
Now, when this asshole became President he became known for long, preachy, televised speeches about good governance and morality and shit. But at the same time, he was conducting a vicious genocidal counterinsurgency campaign against Leftist guerillas and the Maya people as a group. He basically blamed everybody but himself for his country's problems and he was ultimately overthrown, mostly because he wasn't corrupt or evil or shitty enough.
Motherfucker wasn't some kind of moral person. He was just a petty tyrant who liked to hear himself talk and found a way...religion...to get the feeble-minded to go along with it. Down in Guatemala they still digging up the bones of people that son of a bitch killed.
Dude had a hell of a long career in politics later on, although he spent much of his life in and out of exile over political matters and in and out of court for crimes against humanity. His past hobbled his political life, though, and several times he was barred from running for President, the one time he was able, he lost. But, by the time he was convicted and sentenced for his crimes, he was aged, infirm and senile and the country's constitutional court suspended his prison sentence on those grounds.
And of course, with These Fucking People, it always turns out badly in the end and that's
always everybody else's fault. And more often than not, justice against these assholes is always going to be an uphill fight because they always end up with moneyed, often foreign, protectors and justice against the powerful, on behalf of the powerless is often elusive.
But that doesn't mean you don't fucking try for it. And I'm looking at you, Merrick Garland.
We are quite literally up against people who are so pig-ignorant that their conspiracy theories are basically the half-remembered plot to Revelation with them on the wrong side behind a resurrected Trump...and this is absolutely because they kicked Jesus Christ right out of their End Times narrative. So now, they regard a bodily resurrected politician, traditionally what Christian belief says the Antichrist is...as "Proof of God?"
Because to them the only thing that matters is power and some imagined "right" to rule. They don't want Trump or somebody like him because they think he's great or strong. They want him because they know he's weak, or susceptible to flattery or manipulation and because he'll let them do as they damn well please while telling them how great they are.
But if that's what they want, they sure keep repeatedly picking the most stupidest possible ways to go about it. And they don't actually care if they destroy American Christianity or culture or desire for unity in the process...because not only did none of that shit matter before, but a lot of these people were and are apparently too stupid to even know what it all is.
That doesn't make them less dangerous, that makes them even worse.
Both America's secular system of government and organized Christianity depend on people being engaged, at least somewhat intelligent and, ya know, giving a shit about other people...because both the small-L liberal, small-D democratic government concepts and many of the ideas that fed into Christian thought, to the very idea of citizenship itself, all go back to the same source...ancient Greek philosophers.
Do you really think people whose starting point is "They don't want other people to exist because Jesus" are going to obey things like the rules of war if it comes to that? I'm here to tell you that a lot of stupid people literally take the philosophical illustration of Plato's Cave and immediately deduce that ideas are better and more important than people.
Usually their ideas.
And the more stupid the idea, the greater the chance that exactly this will happen.
Look, people, I don't know what the fuck is wrong here. I don't know whether it's drugs or narcissism or just plain old stupidity...but we don't have to put up with these people or their bullshit.
And if our government is doing the job of dealing with These Fucking People half ass, well then as so many things have in the past doesn't that fall on We The People?
Most of these fuckers are narcissistic, weak little shits. They'll melt down in the face of the slightest consequences. We can stop this simply by not tolerating their bullshit.
But you have to follow through, and that includes making sure our government follows through on its end and the representatives of the people.
Citizenship is work, it's people holding each other to account. Why the fuck do you think petty tyrants who want to sit on they ass and do whatever they damn well please keep trying to overthrow the entire concept and make the world one of Dictators and their Subjects?
If you want to have a better country, you have to be a better citizen. And this ain't it.
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan
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