Sunday Sacrelige

Jesus was not killed by atheism and anarchy. He was brought down by law and order allied with religion, which is always a deadly mix." ~ Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor

 As an theist, I see nothing wrong in believing in a god. I don't think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that's fine with me. It's when belief starts infringing on other people's rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn't kill people who believe in a different God, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It's strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful, all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens would also want to judge and punish people for what they are." ~ Richy Gervais

Trump's True Promise

From Green Eagle:

Okay, he lied to them 30,000 times in four years. He goes on lying to them every time he opens his mouth. And absolutely nothing seems to phase them in the least. And here is why:

Despite all his lies, he has told the truth to them about one thing, and in the end it is all they care about: If he comes back to power, he is going to unleash them to crush all the black people, all the Hispanics, all the foreigners, all the Asians, all the Jews, and take every single penny of value that they have. And at this point in our history, that is the only hope that White people have. Like some Lovecraftian family hidden away in the woods, they have willingly degenerated into a pack of subhumans that cannot compete with normal civilizations, and can only win through savagery and destruction. Few liberals have been willing to admit that yet, but these people all know it perfectly well. They despoiled their chance to participate in a greater world with its other inhabitants, so now their only recourse is destruction. And let me repeat, because it bears repetition, liberals can't yet admit that about their fellow Americans, but those people sitting on their front porches out in the hinterlands, swilling their beer and oxy, know it perfectly well.

Trump offers them their last chance to dominate what are now their betters. And despite all his lies, they know he absolutely means this one thing. That is why they don't care that he cheats in elections, steals from children with cancer, allows a million of them to die of a largely preventable disease, sells the country out to Vladimir Putin. They can't see any of that as a concrete threat to the dominance which they crave beyond all else, but they can see minorities and foreigners that way, particularly when one political party has spent a half a century teaching them to believe that.

And thus they will not turn their backs on him. They are right, and we are wrong, when we ascribe their behavior to a specimen of madness. It is a very rational decision on their part. Of course it is also a malignant decision, the sort of decision that results in tens of millions of dead people, but they don't care. They assume those dead people will be somewhere else, while they sit on their porches, wallowing in their stupor.