There are many "religious people" in America who support immoral positions: incarcerating children because Trump claims they are threatening us; forgiving illegal and immoral activities of their leaders (Trump at al abusing women, wives, and their own children); violating standards of civility and coarsening society with lies, half-truths, subversion of honesty, loyalty, patriotism, and basic human values.
These same religious types subvert sexuality, love, compassion, sensuality and normal life by purporting to have "moral high ground" on all these human activities. Religion has put itself at odds with reality. Boys and girls are taught that sexual activity is just wrong -- the "original sin" in fact. The South is filled with these religious zealot-hypocrites.
The "new Puritanism" is infecting more and more human minds in the U.S. It mocks and indicts all of the persecuted peoples who fled to America to find tolerance: Amish, Salzburgers, Shakers, Jews, Muslims --- and instead brought their worst prejudices with them. Hypocrisy flourishes among the arrogant zealots -- and it harms us all.
An honest, benign, and hopefully thick excursion into my mind -- the way I think, process, and respond to life and experience. I seek the truth in things, and myself.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Evangelical Hypocrisy
America's flight from religion not only seems justified but necessary. Religion has given up its morality for expediency.
Immigrants are: "rapists, murderers, criminals, ..." "and are taking our jobs, our wealth, ...; so says Donald Trump. Prevarication, lies, hyperbole, mischaracterizations; and then evanngelicals and right-wing catholics bow and scrape and nod in quiet agreement. To a lie.
If "the salt loses its strength , what shall it be salted with?" Religion has lost its strength when it refuses to be moral. What use is religion when it feeds on lies?
What use?
Immigrants are: "rapists, murderers, criminals, ..." "and are taking our jobs, our wealth, ...; so says Donald Trump. Prevarication, lies, hyperbole, mischaracterizations; and then evanngelicals and right-wing catholics bow and scrape and nod in quiet agreement. To a lie.
If "the salt loses its strength , what shall it be salted with?" Religion has lost its strength when it refuses to be moral. What use is religion when it feeds on lies?
What use?
Monday, June 25, 2018
Vote Against the Despot
Vote against Trump and all the candidates he endorses. And all the "poodles" (thank you George Will). And all the racists, homophobes, white supremacists, who are Trumpian. And all those who denigrate and oppose the "rule of law." And all those who have sublimated their morality for love of Trump (evangelicals, right-wing catholics, etc). And those who have somehow lost their way.
And all those who would torture children. And oppose equal rights for women, gay people, or anyone different from themselves. And all or the mental "blackshirts" who follow the "joke" who is our despot. Vote your conscience; not your wallet. Vote against Trump!
And all those who would torture children. And oppose equal rights for women, gay people, or anyone different from themselves. And all or the mental "blackshirts" who follow the "joke" who is our despot. Vote your conscience; not your wallet. Vote against Trump!
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Shaking Things Up
"Lies are actually your truth as opposed to mine!" The "big lie" in politics has now become constant, in a scurrilous attempt to drown out truth, and frustrate our ability to discern it. Trump, the man with no ethics or morality, has done this to American discourse.
Trump needs to be impeached, for the sake of our American system. Trump is the embodiment of all things evil in every human.
Think for yourself; research it yourself; you will see what I have discovered. Trump is a moron but a glib one. He doesn't solve problems; he creates them, blames them on everyone else, and then pretends to solve them with words of compassion (meant for his sycophantic followers).
We need to remove Trump from any position of power.
Trump needs to be impeached, for the sake of our American system. Trump is the embodiment of all things evil in every human.
Think for yourself; research it yourself; you will see what I have discovered. Trump is a moron but a glib one. He doesn't solve problems; he creates them, blames them on everyone else, and then pretends to solve them with words of compassion (meant for his sycophantic followers).
We need to remove Trump from any position of power.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Brain-dead Base of Donald Trump
Look at what your President is doing. Taking innocent children from their equally innocent parents. Setting up internment camps to "keep families together" after a "womp, womp" public outcry; honoring the idiocy of his "base supporters" (in every way "base") by continually lying to them. And they still "believe" in him. Why?
Are their 401k's doing better? Has "the donald" fulfilled their blood-lust? Do they really want to return to some mythical past -- with Trump punching their tickets?
Are they that misinformed, or that selfish, or simply willfully and indomitably stupid? May they rot in Hell!
Are their 401k's doing better? Has "the donald" fulfilled their blood-lust? Do they really want to return to some mythical past -- with Trump punching their tickets?
Are they that misinformed, or that selfish, or simply willfully and indomitably stupid? May they rot in Hell!
Thursday, June 21, 2018
A Bone To Pick ... With God
Why did you kill my sister Linda? Why did you kill my beautiful wife Sheila? Why do you kill anyone? Is it amusement for you? Does it give you something you don't already have? Why then?
What's the reason? Or do you not participate? Do you just allow us to die? Why then?
Why do humans die? It is the same as asking the opposite question -- why do we live?
What's the secret, and why is it hidden from us? Why, why, why?
What's the reason? Or do you not participate? Do you just allow us to die? Why then?
Why do humans die? It is the same as asking the opposite question -- why do we live?
What's the secret, and why is it hidden from us? Why, why, why?
Owning Trump
We caused him. He belongs to us. We created him. He is the "rogue" flower of what was once "the American Dream." He is the racist, the chauvinist, the homophobe in every American. He is a pig, a fat old man, a "man-splaining" asshole -- but he is the product of us. He is the hidden "white supremacist" that resides in every white American. He reeks "white privilege."
He is a sad excuse for a businessman; he corrupts morality by ignoring it. He is a chameleon, by accident,; an improvisor by temperament; a human being by mistake.
He is not my President -- he belongs to all of us. He is our responsibility. We need to get rid of him, hopefully legally, and then try to forget he ever existed. He is our Hitler.
He is a sad excuse for a businessman; he corrupts morality by ignoring it. He is a chameleon, by accident,; an improvisor by temperament; a human being by mistake.
He is not my President -- he belongs to all of us. He is our responsibility. We need to get rid of him, hopefully legally, and then try to forget he ever existed. He is our Hitler.
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