DURING THE SIX MONTHS that our tiny town senior center has been closed, and daily lunches have been handed through car windows slowly moving through the parking lots, all masked up, I have missed my progressive Democratic friends ( we used to call ourselves "liberals", but the right wind demonized the word) and have enjoyed the merciful respite from the far right devil worshiping MAGA Trumper evangelical gangsters. Thomas Paine, who invented the American revolution and wrote "The Age of Reason", excoriating the cruelty of the biblical god, and Bertrand Russell, whose essay "Why I Am Not a Christian" says it best, agreed that, as Russell said: "Cruel men invent and worship a cruel god whose cruelty they use to excuse their own cruelty." The people I don't like at the senior center are the people who worship the cruel biblical god, and almost invariably support Trump, as if one requires the other.My friends are the ones who do neither. Invariably the progressives, with their liberal politics and beautiful, benevolent deity, are the far more pleasant people, with pleasant, cheerful personalities. the adherents to the scriptural deity and Trump, the right wing fundamentalists, are generally stern, gruff, judgmental, unfriendly, snooty. And why not? Deep down, they know that they are doomed to decompose into dirt, and that their wait for the return of their lord in his fiery chariot wielding not an olive branch but a terrible swift sword is laughable, ludicrous, and futile.They must know this, unless they have brainwashed themselves beyond any semblance of sanity, which, as evidenced by their unshakable devotion to the criminal, traitorous, pathologically dishonest present president of the United States, they may well have.
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