A Whole Different Animal (Reason For The Season, One.)

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:

And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. 

~Matthew 5:1-16

You know what??

I'm just going to come right out and say it. I'm fucking tired of "Conservatives" constantly invoking Christianity while they shit all over the Lord's Word and act like a troop of murderous baboons on some weird cocktail of Ecstasy and Steroids. 

We are well past the point where there's any excuse for this fucking bullshit.

Modern American "Conservative" Christians would rather support a disgraced retired football player who can't even speak coherently and has a record of familial abandonment, paying for abortions, spousal abuse, and violence than they would support a man who's literally dedicated his life to preaching and teaching the Lord's Word...simply because the former, Herschel Walker, is a Republican and the latter, Raphael Warnock, is a Democrat.

I mean, technically that's nothing. At this point Republicans would rather support a washed up Communist dictator whose army attempts genocide and rapes children than support the country or President that we already have...and again, for apparently partisan reasons. Although, for the life of me, as a former Reagan Republican, I cannot get past the fact that these fucking people support Vladimir Putin, KGB Agent, at fucking all. This dude was literally an officer in the agency that the Soviet Union called "The Sword and Shield Of The Party." That Party, mind you, being the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Which Republicans have conveniently forgotten, because they'd rather call Democrats "Communists" despite the fact that even the furthest-left Democratic appointed or elected official and probably 90% of their voters are as Capitalist as they come.

But the truth is for modern Republicans none of this crap is about Capitalism, Christianity, or even Conservatism as it's traditionally been understood. 

The modern Democratic coalition pretty much includes everybody from far-right Tea Party guys to socialists. Republicans, on the other hand, seem to prefer high-school mean girls and unrepentant murderers, and it's only getting worse.

As in they've somehow found a Black man willing to be a Nazi apologist. Seriously, a year ago I wrote about how Kanye could've reinvented himself as a Gospel music artist, but had decided instead to simp for Vladimir Putin. 

The truth is, current Republicans and those (mentally ill or otherwise) who are drawn to them simply haven't met an authoritarian they didn't like. They would rather embrace the Radical Islam of Saudi Arabia than democracy and freedom in America.

They'd rather suck up to fucking Viktor Orban, who's never done anything for anybody other than Viktor Orban. Orban, of all the fucking people, who's demonstrably left his country and his people worse off while enriching himself.  

Of course, modern Republicans likely consider that aspirational. 

They all think they're gonna be Viktor Orban someday so they would rather support him than they would uphold the legacy of guys like Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush who made it possible for the Iron Curtain to be torn down in the first place!

It needs to be said. 

It needs to be named and shamed.

Power and wealth isn't a right, these are things that should be earned by leadership and work.

These people aren't interested in 'conserving' anything and they could give a fuck about revealed truth or the wisdom of our ancestors, the things upon which conservatism itself is supposed to be based.

And these fucking people, whose fathers and grandfathers constructed the current liberal-democratic world order in large part to prevent a repeat of the genocidal war they had to fight...would happily usher in a new Dark Age and call it "Righteousness" so long as they think their mostly-imagined enemies would suffer more than they would.

And these fucking people are obsessed with the idea that the rest of the world must be censoring them, holding out on them, or suppressing them.

Because they just can't imagine that their shitty views that don't benefit most people would be unpopular with...most people.

And they think they should just be able to bullshit their way through life and get rich for free while doing it.

These idiots see themselves like Dukes and Earls and Knights and shit. In that context the modern Right's obsession with Medieval Catholicism I guess at least makes more sense, although that still doesn't explain the fascism.

These fucking people don't view God or Jesus in any traditionally Christian context. They see God as a device to fool the feeble-minded, as a shield to cover for their bad behavior, and when all else fails, as some kind of a mythological "Daddy" to run to for forgiveness, protection and some kind of a goddamn bail-out like these motherfuckers never grew out of the college-kid party stage (at best) but they want to be seen like they grown ass adults and righteous (or something.)

Whereas an observant Muslim (especially of the Saudi Salafist variety) might regard their piety as a shield against the anger or wrath of Allah (God) these "Christians" flip the script and turn God into a shield against the wrath of their fellow-man.

It's not about Loving Thy Neighbor As Thyself. Hell, it's not even about Loving The Lord Thy God With All Thy Heart, All Thy Soul and All Thy Might. 

Oh, fuck no. It's about seeing what they can get, and wielding God and religion like a club to protect them from the consequences of their own actions.

And it's about using God, religion and the Bible as excuses for their shitty political and social beliefs, to justify bigotry, patriarchy, wealth and shitting on the very people Christ preached would be first in line for the Kingdom of God.

But of course that Kingdom is not of this world.

So, functionally agnostic or atheistic modern "Conservatives" whose religion is at best a sort of neo-Platonic vague spiritualism or Techno-Gnosticism...and at worst a bunch of empty Norman Vincent Peale feelgood crap or New Apostolic Reformation Black Magic could give a fuck about it. 

The Truth don't get you free money or invited to all the best parties. The Truth don't get them a part-time job with full benefits that can easily be spun into fame and money in its own right, I guess.

The Truth don't get you power and profits on enough of a scale to appeal to these people.

And hate is a lot easier to whip up and manipulate than love.

That's really the kicker. These people don't want to be leaders because they want to make things better for the people who support them, let alone for our country or the world as a whole. 

They don't even give a damn about those people at all.

They see America and the world as worth nothing more than shitting on.

In fact, they have nothing but contempt for the people who follow them.

It's that contempt and hatred...and a belief that everybody else is just as bad as they are...and that is exactly how these assholes see the world.

And they think they have some kind of a right to all this bullshit.

They see gaining the power to be a bunch of fucking freaks and not face consequences for it as their goddamned birthright.

And they'll happily play people from Donald Trump to Herschel Walker to Kanye West all the way down to the obnoxious dumbass who works at the car wash or the old guy living in subsidized housing on Social Security for the fools they are to get what they think they want.

And more to the point, there's others, like Vladimir Putin...who are all too happy to be used as hammers by these assholes to beat the world into their desired shape...so long as they get to act on their biases and petty hatreds and wield power their own damn selves.

This shit isn't Christianity...it's a new religion, or so different from any traditional understanding of Christ and Christianity that it should be regarded as such.

And this Christless Christianity is creating its own global order, parallel to and independent of the current world system, that's every bit as virulent and violent as Cold War-era Communism.

Conservative Christianity has damned little to do with Jesus Christ...and the politics and populism it's spawned has even less.

It's not even the faith of the Apostle Paul...who changed Christianity from the religion of Jesus to a religion about Jesus.

It's a whole different animal. If anything is the "Beast" foretold by Revelation, this crap is starting to look a lot like it. 

And it needs to be treated as exactly that, and dealt with now.

Because the same people who thought COVID-19 vaccines were the "Mark Of The Beast" think Elon Musk putting computer chips in people's heads is a splendid idea.

If you've read the Word...you know how this ends.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. ~Revelation 13:16:18

But the truth is, we can stop it. You just have to stand up, and do it now.

As we head into this Christmas season, remember that.

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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