I'm with the Zombie
When Jesus Christ comes back to Earth, I really have to doubt the reception he will receive here in America.
Sure the propaganda is that America is great because God loves America...but I really have to wonder.
If Christ could be said to have a social and fiscal policy, it is antipodes of that espoused by Ayn Rand and put into practice by Ronald Reagan - extending even to tax policy.
"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto to God what is God's," said Christ.
Caesar being the government and what is being rendered is taxes.
"Tax cuts" said Reagan.
"Tax cuts, tax cuts, and still more tax cuts," said Bush the Younger
"We need more tax cuts," says Romney.
The Wealthy. Beneficiaries of the rising tide that lifts all boats, but which doesn't do anything but drown houses and pedestrians.
According to Reagan, the class that needed the most money so that prosperity would trickle down to everyone else.
Those euphemistically called "Job Creators" who flourished under Bush (though if you mean those who are creating jobs in China, India, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia you may be closer to the truth...also including Vulture Capitalists and Wall Street Gamblers who employ small armies of accountants/call girls/ lawyers/politicians/and hi-end cocaine dealers) who must be protected at all costs lest their fragile glass-like peace of mind be wrecked by "uncertainty."
Christ was far more succinct if unflattering in his view of the wealthy.
"Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
Why, coming from anybody else, that would be filthy nasty pinko-commie talk that would have rung the bell of Joe McCarthy and made Ronald Reagan have a stroke.
In this day and age, it would be more than fair to bastardize the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...for this is a nation "of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich."
How would Christ see it?
A nation of the damned, by the damned, for the damned.
Stinkin' assed Commie!
Nor did he have much patience for the money-men outside the Temple. He knocked over their tables and broke his foot off in their collective ass.
Now the money men who once stood outside Congress and the Senate now OWN those institutions.
I can't imagine Christ being any more fond of Lobbyists now than he was back in the day.
It is irony indeed that Darwin's Theory of Evolution should be treated as an absolute existential threat to the Christian Church, even now, except for how the concept can be applied SOCIALLY.
Social Darwinism finds a happy home in many Christian hearts because of a recessive belief from Calvinism that to succeed and prosper is a sign of God's favor.
Inversely, failure to thrive can only be the result of moral defect or social/economic unfitness. Therefore it is immoral to help the Underclasses because that only weakness their moral fiber and allows them to propagate off of the largess of everyone else's labor. Like feeding wild animals or vermin. And indeed...many have made that exact argument.
This bridges the ideology of religious conservatives, Reagan social and economic orthodoxy, and the ideology preached by Ayn Rand.
This is an ethos that many Christians clutch to their breast with a glow of self-righteousness.
How Christian, how American, how Capitalistic!
Which again underlines why Christ might not be welcome when he hits American shores, despite all the devout cross waving that goes on and all the declarations of piety that ride shot-gun with patriotism.
In addition to the jaundiced eye he would cast at our Job Creators, our politicians and their Lobbyist enablers. In the New Testament, he DOES show himself to be something of a Socialist in that he regarded the underclasses as something other than vermin.
He healed lepers...for free! Fed the masses...despite the terrifyingly ominous threat this presented to their moral fiber! Oooo subversive!
It gets worse.
Matt. 31- 45
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. ”
What kinda limp-wristed socialist bull-shit is this?
It's the Word of God.
Every Right-wing politician who has compared the social safety net to the feeding of stray dogs or vermin is on the wrong side of Christ, as is anyone who ever applauded them or stood beside them and proclaimed proudly for all to hear:
"I'll co-sign that!"
Reagan's prosecution of the War on Welfare Queens was a lie that substantially damaged the fabric of our society.
First he gutted public education with the understanding that schools should never have been desegregated...this ham-strung an entire generation of white as well of minority children.
Through his tax policy and union-busting efforts, he created an environment that made it more lucrative for manufacturing to move overseas and shut down factories here at home.
As jobs fled, more people had no choice but to go on public assistance.
Only to discover that the safety net had been cut out from under them.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me...
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
No, they did not.
In the inner-city, where blacks had migrated to in order to work the factories, the jobs were disappearing; president Reagan was trying to get the Dept of Agriculture to call ketchup a "vegetable" in school lunches - but hey, there was still government cheese!
When legitimate commerce fails, other forms take its place. And they don't even require GEDs.
The fabric of society frayed so badly under Reagan that drug wars complete with military hardware broke out.
Until the middle of the Reagan Administration, America never had crack heads, crack whores, or crack babies. All the triumph of Reaganomics.
To capitalize on all of the fear of machine gun toting minorities, Reagan started up the War on Drugs. Granted, it successfully squelched the Drug Wars which had broken out...but it did absolutely about the underlying causes. Namely, joblessness, a crippled educational system, and inadequate social supports.
But ask anyone who drinks the Reaganomics voodoo-economics flavor-ade and they will tell you that the only only reason blacks aren't doing any better than they are is because they are morally inferior.
Consequently, the rate of incarceration has grown geometrically since the inception of the War on Drugs with blacks and Latinos far out-representing their actual numbers in prisons...fed by racial profiling, driving while black or brown, stop and frisk. All of which violate 4th Amendment Unreasonable Search and Seizure protections.
If whites were subjecting to the exact same treatment, it would be called a Police State if not outright Martial Law.
I was in prison and you came to visit me.
No. They did not. They are now privatizing prisons and in particular are trying to monetize the illegal immigration issue with Az1070 and it's clones all across the nation with the appropriately Fascist nicknamed "Papers Please Law."
No, they didn't come to see you when you were in prison.
You were worth more to them locked up than free.
It is worth telling also that during the Reagan Administration, there was an epidemic that had primarily struck gay men and IV drug users. At first.
It was an issue that Reagan absolutely refused to address, despite the climbing body count.
The reasoning within his inner circle was truly worthy of any Ayatollah.
They figured that this was probably God's punishment on the queers. Who were they to interfere with the will of God? And then, of course - like crack in the inner-city - it became EVERY BODY'S problem. Some of my friends who were of age during that time...50s and 60s now, refer to the Epidemic - regardless of sex or orientation - in the same tone that once was spoken of the Black Black by it's survivors. Now the population it is most decimating is that of young black women. And the sexual education programed most favored by Conservatives? Abstinence Only. Not a word on protection.
I was sick and you looked after me...
No, they didn't.
I watched one of the most beautiful souls I'd ever known die from AIDS. I had a ring-side seat for that. After he lost his power of speech but was still conscious, they denied him pain medication "because they didn't want him to get addicted." Despite the agony he was still going through...clearly.
No. They didn't look after you when you were sick.
You were worth more to them dead.
Truly. What would Jesus do. What would Jesus say.
If he came to America with the same message he was preaching in the New Testament: love your neighbor, as you do it to the least of them, blessed are the peacemakers...
They'll be crucifying him again in less than a month for being a filthy anti-American socialist pinko-communist hippie scum who is a growing threat to the established order.
And when he rises on the third day, everybody will get in a line miles long to get their turn exercise their 2nd Amendment remedy by double tapping him in his crown.
Because that is what you do with socialist hippy propaganda spoutin' pinko communist zombies who won't stay dead.
And me, personally?
I'm with the zombie.
Sure the propaganda is that America is great because God loves America...but I really have to wonder.
If Christ could be said to have a social and fiscal policy, it is antipodes of that espoused by Ayn Rand and put into practice by Ronald Reagan - extending even to tax policy.
"Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, and render unto to God what is God's," said Christ.
Caesar being the government and what is being rendered is taxes.
"Tax cuts" said Reagan.
"Tax cuts, tax cuts, and still more tax cuts," said Bush the Younger
"We need more tax cuts," says Romney.
The Wealthy. Beneficiaries of the rising tide that lifts all boats, but which doesn't do anything but drown houses and pedestrians.
According to Reagan, the class that needed the most money so that prosperity would trickle down to everyone else.
Those euphemistically called "Job Creators" who flourished under Bush (though if you mean those who are creating jobs in China, India, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Indonesia you may be closer to the truth...also including Vulture Capitalists and Wall Street Gamblers who employ small armies of accountants/call girls/ lawyers/politicians/and hi-end cocaine dealers) who must be protected at all costs lest their fragile glass-like peace of mind be wrecked by "uncertainty."
Christ was far more succinct if unflattering in his view of the wealthy.
"Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
Why, coming from anybody else, that would be filthy nasty pinko-commie talk that would have rung the bell of Joe McCarthy and made Ronald Reagan have a stroke.
In this day and age, it would be more than fair to bastardize the famous quote from Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address...for this is a nation "of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich."
How would Christ see it?
A nation of the damned, by the damned, for the damned.
Stinkin' assed Commie!
Nor did he have much patience for the money-men outside the Temple. He knocked over their tables and broke his foot off in their collective ass.
Now the money men who once stood outside Congress and the Senate now OWN those institutions.
I can't imagine Christ being any more fond of Lobbyists now than he was back in the day.
It is irony indeed that Darwin's Theory of Evolution should be treated as an absolute existential threat to the Christian Church, even now, except for how the concept can be applied SOCIALLY.
Social Darwinism finds a happy home in many Christian hearts because of a recessive belief from Calvinism that to succeed and prosper is a sign of God's favor.
Inversely, failure to thrive can only be the result of moral defect or social/economic unfitness. Therefore it is immoral to help the Underclasses because that only weakness their moral fiber and allows them to propagate off of the largess of everyone else's labor. Like feeding wild animals or vermin. And indeed...many have made that exact argument.
This bridges the ideology of religious conservatives, Reagan social and economic orthodoxy, and the ideology preached by Ayn Rand.
This is an ethos that many Christians clutch to their breast with a glow of self-righteousness.
How Christian, how American, how Capitalistic!
Which again underlines why Christ might not be welcome when he hits American shores, despite all the devout cross waving that goes on and all the declarations of piety that ride shot-gun with patriotism.
In addition to the jaundiced eye he would cast at our Job Creators, our politicians and their Lobbyist enablers. In the New Testament, he DOES show himself to be something of a Socialist in that he regarded the underclasses as something other than vermin.
Matt. 9:10-13
10 And as Jesus reclined at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were reclining with Jesus and his disciples.
11 And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12 But when he heard it, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” |
He healed lepers...for free! Fed the masses...despite the terrifyingly ominous threat this presented to their moral fiber! Oooo subversive!
It gets worse.
Matt. 31- 45
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. ”
What kinda limp-wristed socialist bull-shit is this?
It's the Word of God.
Every Right-wing politician who has compared the social safety net to the feeding of stray dogs or vermin is on the wrong side of Christ, as is anyone who ever applauded them or stood beside them and proclaimed proudly for all to hear:
"I'll co-sign that!"
Reagan's prosecution of the War on Welfare Queens was a lie that substantially damaged the fabric of our society.
First he gutted public education with the understanding that schools should never have been desegregated...this ham-strung an entire generation of white as well of minority children.
Through his tax policy and union-busting efforts, he created an environment that made it more lucrative for manufacturing to move overseas and shut down factories here at home.
As jobs fled, more people had no choice but to go on public assistance.
Only to discover that the safety net had been cut out from under them.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me...
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
No, they did not.
In the inner-city, where blacks had migrated to in order to work the factories, the jobs were disappearing; president Reagan was trying to get the Dept of Agriculture to call ketchup a "vegetable" in school lunches - but hey, there was still government cheese!
When legitimate commerce fails, other forms take its place. And they don't even require GEDs.
The fabric of society frayed so badly under Reagan that drug wars complete with military hardware broke out.
Until the middle of the Reagan Administration, America never had crack heads, crack whores, or crack babies. All the triumph of Reaganomics.
To capitalize on all of the fear of machine gun toting minorities, Reagan started up the War on Drugs. Granted, it successfully squelched the Drug Wars which had broken out...but it did absolutely about the underlying causes. Namely, joblessness, a crippled educational system, and inadequate social supports.
But ask anyone who drinks the Reaganomics voodoo-economics flavor-ade and they will tell you that the only only reason blacks aren't doing any better than they are is because they are morally inferior.
Consequently, the rate of incarceration has grown geometrically since the inception of the War on Drugs with blacks and Latinos far out-representing their actual numbers in prisons...fed by racial profiling, driving while black or brown, stop and frisk. All of which violate 4th Amendment Unreasonable Search and Seizure protections.
If whites were subjecting to the exact same treatment, it would be called a Police State if not outright Martial Law.
I was in prison and you came to visit me.
No. They did not. They are now privatizing prisons and in particular are trying to monetize the illegal immigration issue with Az1070 and it's clones all across the nation with the appropriately Fascist nicknamed "Papers Please Law."
No, they didn't come to see you when you were in prison.
You were worth more to them locked up than free.
It is worth telling also that during the Reagan Administration, there was an epidemic that had primarily struck gay men and IV drug users. At first.
It was an issue that Reagan absolutely refused to address, despite the climbing body count.
The reasoning within his inner circle was truly worthy of any Ayatollah.
They figured that this was probably God's punishment on the queers. Who were they to interfere with the will of God? And then, of course - like crack in the inner-city - it became EVERY BODY'S problem. Some of my friends who were of age during that time...50s and 60s now, refer to the Epidemic - regardless of sex or orientation - in the same tone that once was spoken of the Black Black by it's survivors. Now the population it is most decimating is that of young black women. And the sexual education programed most favored by Conservatives? Abstinence Only. Not a word on protection.
I was sick and you looked after me...
No, they didn't.
I watched one of the most beautiful souls I'd ever known die from AIDS. I had a ring-side seat for that. After he lost his power of speech but was still conscious, they denied him pain medication "because they didn't want him to get addicted." Despite the agony he was still going through...clearly.
No. They didn't look after you when you were sick.
You were worth more to them dead.
Truly. What would Jesus do. What would Jesus say.
If he came to America with the same message he was preaching in the New Testament: love your neighbor, as you do it to the least of them, blessed are the peacemakers...
They'll be crucifying him again in less than a month for being a filthy anti-American socialist pinko-communist hippie scum who is a growing threat to the established order.
And when he rises on the third day, everybody will get in a line miles long to get their turn exercise their 2nd Amendment remedy by double tapping him in his crown.
Because that is what you do with socialist hippy propaganda spoutin' pinko communist zombies who won't stay dead.
And me, personally?
I'm with the zombie.
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