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I saw this last night.
Yeah, that sounds like fun, what we gonna call it? Atlas Mugged??
Sorry, but I started out as a conservative and I was raised on stuff like Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street. You know, shows that were about being a good person, learning, and sharing. Shows like that helped form my character and taught me how to do shit like be able to fucking read.
But I guess that's not what Republicans wanna be anymore, eh?
Anything but "Love Thy Neighbor."
I've read the Bible cover-to-cover many times, as the Baptists taught me. Part of it is simply being able to check what some other person is saying against the Word, part of it is "Study, to show thyself approved." That is, study of the Bible is itself an act of devotion and piety.
Tell me something, without "Love Thy Neighbor" without "Father, Forgive them" what the fuck is even in there?? What is to differentiate Christianity from the Deobandi Radical Islam of the Taliban or from the violence of the worst Israeli nationalist fanatics who sort-of claim Judaism as rationalization?? Without Love...what's the damn point?? Being able to judge other people?? Shit, you can do that about damn near anything. Power and Control?? Well in that case...again, without love...what is the damn difference between Christianity and Soviet Communism or the Chavismo Socialism of Venezuela's current government??
The fuck is the difference between American Evangelicalism and the Empire from Star Wars??
You go ahead and figure it out, I'll wait.
Without love, both as a virtue and for its own sake, without giving a shit about Other People, there ain't no difference and this is how you go to Hell and hit all the Brimstone on the way down, according to what I was taught. Jesus Himself preached compassion and sacrifice for the Other, not as options but as the actual modality of Salvation, and He lived those virtues right up to His literal dying breath.
Without love, you're just accepting a set of political or theological principles that may or may not even mean anything aside from theoretically belonging to "Your" In-group. And what if another such group comes along and says they're more of an In-group than you are?? Basically, without compassion, without love, without shared humanity, without belief in one human family (which Christianity, taken literally enough, should not make all that hard) all any religion is, is just an excuse to kill people.
Of course, that's all people like Greg Abbott, Kirk Cameron, or the "Christian" Nationalists of Project 2025 even want or understand, it's little more than something to get into fights over. They want to dominate and enslave and subjugate others, and as they see it all they need is an excuse.
For far too many of these motherfuckers, the only lessons from Christianity that they ever internalized were of a monstrous "God" and a vengeful Apocalypse, their deity perhaps is better addressed in the Latinate form as Carnifex Maximus.
Seems like a hell of a way to live.
There is NO actual thought in These Fucking People's heads about a God who might maintain the Universe from moment to moment, not even one. There is NO belief in a Risen and Living Christ who might actually judge them by His own standards when they die.
I'm honestly surprised These Fucking People's translations of the Bible even include the Resurrection at all...their idea of Religion, of a lived faith, is revenge for mostly-imagined wrongs or things that simply aren't wrong at all.
In the end, all it is is an excuse for Nihilism of the most base kind, America didn't jerk off their narcissism enough or make them rich enough, so they hate it. Perhaps it should be more accurately said that to them, nothing will ever be good enough because their debased appetites are simply infinite.
When's enough going to be enough, yo??
And sooner or later, we're gonna have to, simply as a means of self-defense. And we're gonna have to say it with physical force, because these fucking people are stupid and don't understand anything less than a punch in the face.
I mean, especially if you're a conservative...or even a fascist...what is the excuse for not knowing that Rome is in Italy?? I'll wait.
I mean, these kind of dudes spend a lot of time spanking the monkey to the idea of the Roman Empire, you'd think they'd know where it was located, don't you?? Maybe a little about the people who lived in it??
I mean, for fuck's sake haven't any of these dudes ever watched Gladiator?? For all that movie gets wrong (which is quite a lot) it does capture the spirit of the place and time and the basics of Platonic philosophy pretty neatly if you *Do* know anything about Roman culture or Stoic belief.
These fucking people don't want that.
They want to fetishize marching soldiers and uniformed sameness while living in an Idiocracy, for no better reason than they think if they don't know anything, they figure they can believe and do whatever they want.
And they don't want anybody that's any smarter than them making any of the decisions.
Trouble with that is, the same people who taught me the Lord's Word taught me that, at the end of the day, a lack...or claimed lack...of knowledge of the Truth is no defense against it. It's the same principle that's why...from way back in Western Civilization...Ignorance of the Law is not considered a defense.
Let me put it another way.
You don't have to believe in Gravity.
It is what it is.
Step off the roof, and that sudden stop at the bottom will have the same result whether you choose to believe in it or not.
This Trump thing is going to end up the same way, sooner or later it hits a wall, people die, the Perpetual Motion Machine runs out of inertia. I'm serious.
But the longer this goes on, the harder the impact when one hits the ground.
Truth is literally the only thing that gives people a floor to even stand on to push back against Power.
Remember that.
You either believe in freedom or you don't.
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