Civil Commotion

And, since the doctrine of Original Sin is nonsense … there you go: Christianity is certainly not true, and it’s premises are harmful.

Note this, too: The Christian psychologist or counselor’s very first task is to convince you that you’re no damn good, that you were born depraved, guilty, and deserving eternal punishment. Only after you accept that can you begin the vital work of self-annihilation, of surrendering your self-direction and self-control and transforming yourself into an aimless mote of dust blown hither and yon according to to the whim of Our Invisible Friend.

Bah. In the hands of such as Piper et. al., ‘Christianity’ is just the name of a sickness.

The Donald is out with a bunch of them this morning.

A portion of the JFK files were released on the appointed date, and a great many more remain unavailable on “national security” grounds. This claim is make-believe.

This is egregious. Insurance premiums are up because Trump withheld the federal subsidy, and has otherwise devoted himself to sabotaging the ACA; the Dems do not “own it.” Donald Trump and the feckless Republicans in Congress own it.

Oh … please. Do Trump and his Republican whores truly not know that everybody with two eyeballs and a properly functioning mind knows perfectly well that this is nothing but an infantile distraction cooked-up to divert attention from his knowing cooperation with Russia?

None of this will affect his base; they knew well before the election that The Donald is nothing but a brazen liar. I remain confidant, as I was immediately after the election, that the American people, and the courts, and the press, will step forward to defend their country against Trump and the malice-eaten ignoramuses who think he is a Great Man. It is no coincidence that, a mere 9-months into his administration, even friendly pollsters show the Republicans down 20-points in the looming 2018 elections.

Politicians read polls, too; on the evidence, they read little else. They will stop ignoring Trump’s serial indecencies when they realize that too-close identification with the brazenly-corrupt Buffoon-in-Chief comes with a cost — their jobs.

When the 15-years long turmoil that was the so-called “conservative resurgence” within the Southern Baptist Convention finally ended, the talking-point became “Yes, it was ugly — but it had to be done.” It was the ruin of dozens of honorable careers with whispering campaigns, outright lies, betrayals … all the corrupt techniques of Tammany Hall — and Donald Trump. The so-called Values Voters — the white evangelicals who comprise the greatest part of the 35% of Americans who are Trump’s unshakeable base — will never acknowledge the injury they have done to their country or the brazen repudiation of what they claim are their values. They will say it had to be done to protect America from nigras, moozlims, gays, libruls, et cetera. It will be up to the rest of us to make repairs, and to never be fooled again by Christianity’s brazen, self-congratulatory marketing lies.

Oh? “Commonly agreed”? This is make-believe, a lie spun out of thin air — period.

The heritage that Trump is bragging-up is that Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy. Richmond is proud of that, too; just take a ride down Monument Avenue.

I’ve discussed the monument flap in the past; I feel squeamish about whitewashing history and removing the statues, but also that celebrating the Confederacy requires a misshapen character. The statues should be turned into the centerpieces of, basically, open-air museum exhibits rebuking that shameful history.

But nobody should feel any confusion on this point: Trump is dog-whistling the human sewage who resent that regular white folk can no longer own a couple of slaves (preferably breeding stock), and all he deserves is loathing and contempt.

Bah. These cult-leaders fear happy, healthy marriages, because they undermine their total ownership and control of people. Again: Anybody who thinks that pleasing an Invisible Wizard is more important than his or her wedding vows is a fool who isn’t actually married at all.