Eden (Pride Month, Two.)

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Who told thee that thou was naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

And the man said, The woman whom thou gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.

And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it was thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. ~Genesis 3:8-24

I saw this after I'd already finished the previous post for tonight, and it just burns my ass enough that I had to say something.

Some "Conservative" is trying to declare June "Traditional Family Month."

LOL.

You know what the problem is with these fucking people?

They wouldn't know "Tradition" let alone traditional Christianity or proper Christian theology if it fell out of the sky and bit them on the nose.

They're so stuck on the idea of a perpetual anti-liberal "Opposite Day" and so addicted to constant reactionary behavior, that they don't even know what the fuck they're talking about anymore.

"Conservatism" is defined as whatever Trump and a few other "Thought Leaders" say. Christianity is defined as nothing more than the opposite of whatever they think some amorphous "Left" is going to do. 

That's all.

In his book, Josh Hawley refers to Earth as "The Eden that is Earth" except that the Garden of Eden, which is presumably entirely mythological, in theological terms was denied to Man after Man fell from Grace due to eating the fruit from the wrong tree. It's closed. 

"Everybody out of the pool!" said the Angels with their flaming swords held aloft.

But that alleged fall from Grace, from that animalistic or childlike Eden, is presumably according to all this stuff what differentiates Man from the rest of the Animal Kingdom and gives us the understanding to make this shit up, but what the hell do I know?

Dogs don't feel the need to Evangelize. You don't see Sable Ferrets discriminating against Blaze ferrets, or Black Squirrels and Gray Squirrels declaring Jihad against one another. Homosexuality exists throughout the Animal Kingdom, from Dolphins to Great Apes to Penguins and critters don't kill each other over it.

Is Humanity really that much better than everybody else on the Planet? My personal life experience suggests "No."

In fact, we're usually worse. Lots of us revel in that worseness. Religious people being the worst offenders, usually.

We enjoy being absolute shit for no reason.

Just so people get that shitty little thrill that they get from hurting other people. And some of us develop complex rationalizations and structure political and religious beliefs around nothing more than preserving the ability to do just that and then feel righteous about it.

Christianity is supposed to be based on compassion, not hate.

Jesus said "Love thy neighbor as thyself, and love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy mind." He made it quite clear that everything else hangs on those two things.

Meanwhile whole libraries and then some have been written, whole denominations and faiths invented in order to define "Neighbor" down to make it exclusive of more and more people.

Because for too many of us, the cruelty and perversion is the goddamned point.

Because all that Religiosity really cares about is its market share, and thus its profits, and worldly power. If hate gets that better than love, so be it.

But the Lord's Word itself is quite specific about the fact that it's not religiosity that gets one into Heaven.

You believe in God, or religion?

You do well to, for the devils also Believe...and tremble.

How did you treat your neighbors? That's what Christ asks in the great judgment. In fact, specifically, how did you treat the Least of these?

How many times you went to church or said "Unga Bunga" in just the right way has not one fucking thing to do with it and don't you forget it.

Remember that. Because there's absolutely going to be a test later.

Assume the guy administering the test is smarter than you are.

All this talk of "Eden" and "Tradition" and various forms of authority and hierarchy is simply an attempt by bad actors to absolve themselves of responsibility for their Sins.

But Man doesn't get to do that.

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You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it. ~Malcolm X. 

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27