Trembling I asked, what do you want of me oh Lord? Feed my lambs...yak blood.

You know, I am starting to just give up on this whole Christianity thing. Not on the Jefferson Jesus, but on the whole idea that Christians have anything to do, as a group, with things like hope and charity and tolerance. Greed...O'Reilly says that Jesus wasn't into extreme charity, which leads me to believe he was dozing during catechism classes. If charity was Chuck Norris, Jesus would have used Chuck Norris as a bitch...One of the patrons of soldiers was St Marin of Tours, a Roman Officer who, according to legend, came upon a cold beggar one winter night, and drawing his gladius, the Roman Infantry sword that was the AK47 of it's day, cut his warm cape in half and gave one to the beggar. Later, that night he had a dream in which Jesus appeared as the beggar, wearing the cape and saying, "Whatever you do to the least of them, you do to me."

 

Now, I can stand a little disingenious stuff in political discourse, and I accept that hypocrisy is as human as blocked colons. But, the nonsense delivered by the Christian Right is going to result in something pretty damn disgraceful. I grew up hearing about the starving children in Europe; when the plight of people in Appalachia was revealed, it became a scandal. Things were done by government, churches and individuals to provide food, clothing, shelter and some minimal level of medical care.

And then, the Christian Right found its true voice -- the Falwells, Robinsons, Reagans, Bushes, Cheneys and DeMints, the Brownbacks and the Palins and the Bachmanns. Tom Delay crowing that in time of war, the most important thing is to cut taxes. Cutting taxes for the rich and then complaining that critical and deserved social programs are just too expensive because they have to be paid for.

There's already entirely too much truth in this cartoon, and it's only going to get worse. When the fuck are we going to wake up as a people? As soldiers, citizens, men and women who deserve the rights, freedoms and liberties we have by rising to our responsibilities to provide our own people freedom of speech --which is for people, not corporations; freedom of religion, including from religion if need be; freedom from want so that no American should be cold, hungry, dirty; and, freedom from fear. Of losing a job and never finding another one; of losing one's home and having no place to go; of needing surgery and not being able to pay for it.

You know, I kind of hope these Bible-Belting, fundamentalist twits are right and the rapture comes -- they're going to be amazed to find themselves left behind while all the poor, cold, tired, hungry, alone and afraid are gone. I'm sure the Rupert Murdochs, Glen Becks, Koch Brothers and Tea Partieres will spin it that being left behind with the Bernie Madoffs, child rapists, swindling capitalists, and terrorists means that they were the ones raptured and there was just some misunderstandings along the way...

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