Saturday, May 9, 2020

Contradicting

I RECKON I'm a mite wrathy, but I'll stand up to my rack, fodder or no fodder, may the devil take the hindmost, as Davy Crockett would say. My position, my complaint is this. The conservative movement, the evangelical Christian community, the Republican party have all revealed themselves not only to be morally bankrupt, but worse. By their continued support of president Trump, who is demonstrably a liar, a criminal, and a traitor, they have revealed themselves to be no better than he. Accessories to crime, liars, traitors all, they have made themselves, by supporting a lying, treasonous, criminal, traitorous president, they are accessories to all these, by being enablers. The Christians are the worst of the lot. A devout christian socialist is fine by me.. Likewise a libertarian free market atheist. Best of all is teh socialist atheist, unencumbered by religious pretensions. But the most reprehensible, execrable creature in God's green universe is the Christian conservative, more particularly the fundamentalist evangelical Christian conservative Republican who supports Trump. The United States and the world would be far better off without them. If only some method could be devised to eradicate them. Reason and intelligence should be the means, should be able to persuade any sane, intelligent person to renounce this horrible ideology, but, alas, intelligence and reason are absent among these people, and they are impervious to its influence. The conservative republican agenda is the exact opposite of the message of jesus christ, as even a cursory examination reveals. They ignore render unto Caesar and give unto the poor in favor of work to obtain personal wealth and let the poor fend for themselves. Jesus, in terms of redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor, was hard core. he made no mistake about it, left no room for misinterpretation. Conservatism and religion both embrace tradition, which resists change.Traditions like racism, exploitation of labor, poverty of the working class, hatred of gay people and minorities, are all traditions which receive respect. The people who most zealously advocate for economic freedom to become wealthy or poor, or to gather together in segregated communities and groups,also most zealously embrace a dictatorial religion which condemns social freedoms of sex, marriage, and many forms of cultural diversity. Political conservatism may be compatible with Biblical Christianity, but not with the essential teachings and message of jesus, who was a progressive.

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