... or rant against the nonsense, take yr pick.
USA bes NOT Israel, not even allegorically, so that nonsense can stop right now.
"Manifest Destiny" bes a lie -- an excuse to slaughter millions of innocent people who rightfully lived here before our European ancestors arrived and call it "God's will". RUBBISH.
This nation historically did NOT get founded upon "Christian principles" that also bes rhetoric and a tool of right-wing think-tanks to peddle their propaganda and pet agendas. These people bes NOT your friends and allies; they bes USING you, MANIPULATING your emotions by appealing to you through your religious sentiments while in the back rooms they take up with drink and prostitutes and secret homosexual liasions like any other "heathen" (so to speak) and like everyone they publicly condemn. They bes not Christians and do not worship Jesus Christ. They bes Orthodox Capitalists and worship the Almighty Dollar and the corrupt regime of corporate fascism that keeps those dollars rolling fattest of all into the same handful of pockets defiled with raping and destroying the earth, polluting the planet and profiteering off human misery. They grease the wheels of the machine that beats the working-class peoples and grinds the faces of the poor into the dirt with glee. And because they cleverly play upon YOUR pet biases and prejudices -- look over here, the plight of the unborn!! look over there -- the "queers" taking over your schools!!! OH NOES!!!!111 -- they manufacture the mud they sling, stir up the hate and get it roiling hot, and then ask for your vote because they will presumably fix it all for you. HAH. All they will do will be to turn your sons and daughters into cannon fodder to suck the last remaining drops of profit out of their petroleum empires and reach into your pockets for bigger taxes to do it with. While they promise you liberty, they themselves bes the servants of corruption.
But ohhhh no, don't question, don't analyze, don't LOOK, and above all do NOT say out loud how naked bes this "emperor" they enthrone. Nope, go chase the little pretty trinket causes they dangle before your eyes. Oooohhh, someone not allowed to force millions of diverse people to hear their expression of a faith they might not share?? Ooohhh, "Persecution, woe bes us!!! WAH WAH WAH everyone wants to shut Christianity and therefore Christ out of public life!!!" RUBBISH!! NONSENSE!!! Do you all realize where that thinking got Peter? He too thought His Lord needed defending from those who would seize Him and put Him to death, specifically HIS brand of defending!! He whips out his sword and immediately lobs off some poor innocent bystander's ear. If you all don't "get" that this story bes powerfully metaphoric and allegorical as WELL as literal then you don't read so good!!
Lobs off his EAR!!!!!! And poor Jesus has to stop in the middle of being seized and hauled off for execution to bend down, restore the sliced ear to its owner, and then matter-of-factly inform Peter NOPE...SORRY ... NOT THE WAY THINGS GET DONE IN MY KINGDOM.
We have the stories in our Bibles to read every day but still we don't learn. Still we don't see. Still we swallow rhetoric and cleverly constructed socio-political fodder designed to whip us up and program us to act a certain way and confuse reality and truth with certain beliefs that make a mockery of both. Moriah writes these things that you be not deceived -- but who's listening?
USA bes NOT Israel, not even allegorically, so that nonsense can stop right now.
"Manifest Destiny" bes a lie -- an excuse to slaughter millions of innocent people who rightfully lived here before our European ancestors arrived and call it "God's will". RUBBISH.
This nation historically did NOT get founded upon "Christian principles" that also bes rhetoric and a tool of right-wing think-tanks to peddle their propaganda and pet agendas. These people bes NOT your friends and allies; they bes USING you, MANIPULATING your emotions by appealing to you through your religious sentiments while in the back rooms they take up with drink and prostitutes and secret homosexual liasions like any other "heathen" (so to speak) and like everyone they publicly condemn. They bes not Christians and do not worship Jesus Christ. They bes Orthodox Capitalists and worship the Almighty Dollar and the corrupt regime of corporate fascism that keeps those dollars rolling fattest of all into the same handful of pockets defiled with raping and destroying the earth, polluting the planet and profiteering off human misery. They grease the wheels of the machine that beats the working-class peoples and grinds the faces of the poor into the dirt with glee. And because they cleverly play upon YOUR pet biases and prejudices -- look over here, the plight of the unborn!! look over there -- the "queers" taking over your schools!!! OH NOES!!!!111 -- they manufacture the mud they sling, stir up the hate and get it roiling hot, and then ask for your vote because they will presumably fix it all for you. HAH. All they will do will be to turn your sons and daughters into cannon fodder to suck the last remaining drops of profit out of their petroleum empires and reach into your pockets for bigger taxes to do it with. While they promise you liberty, they themselves bes the servants of corruption.
But ohhhh no, don't question, don't analyze, don't LOOK, and above all do NOT say out loud how naked bes this "emperor" they enthrone. Nope, go chase the little pretty trinket causes they dangle before your eyes. Oooohhh, someone not allowed to force millions of diverse people to hear their expression of a faith they might not share?? Ooohhh, "Persecution, woe bes us!!! WAH WAH WAH everyone wants to shut Christianity and therefore Christ out of public life!!!" RUBBISH!! NONSENSE!!! Do you all realize where that thinking got Peter? He too thought His Lord needed defending from those who would seize Him and put Him to death, specifically HIS brand of defending!! He whips out his sword and immediately lobs off some poor innocent bystander's ear. If you all don't "get" that this story bes powerfully metaphoric and allegorical as WELL as literal then you don't read so good!!
Lobs off his EAR!!!!!! And poor Jesus has to stop in the middle of being seized and hauled off for execution to bend down, restore the sliced ear to its owner, and then matter-of-factly inform Peter NOPE...SORRY ... NOT THE WAY THINGS GET DONE IN MY KINGDOM.We have the stories in our Bibles to read every day but still we don't learn. Still we don't see. Still we swallow rhetoric and cleverly constructed socio-political fodder designed to whip us up and program us to act a certain way and confuse reality and truth with certain beliefs that make a mockery of both. Moriah writes these things that you be not deceived -- but who's listening?
