Perhaps
some cracks are beginning to form in this monolith of ignorance
supporting Donald J. tRUMP. Last month, Christianity
Today, a
fundamentalist publication, published an editorial in which it
declared our Caesar Disgustus morally unfit to be president of the
United States. The rag (read publication) was founded, back in the
day, by Evangelist Billy Graham, until recently the most notorious of
the religious telemarketers. Graham, famously, trekked the world in
search of sin and iniquity. However his prostration before
authority—as evidenced by his unseemly habit of licking the boots
of power—blinded him to the most obvious: the criminality right
beneath his nose in the Nixon White House. Power will do that to
men. And so, Graham tread that long and well-worn path of worshiping
power in order to exercise it. Kings and bishops have always had an
incestuous relationship, each supporting the other in order that the
stilts beneath them do not come crashing down.
This
makes it rather impossible to render the obvious, well, in a word,
obvious.
To
betray the lie of each is to betray the lie of all. This is what
Christianity
Today, however
belatedly, is in danger of doing.
Rather
predictably then, the howls and cries of the overmuch righteous were
heard about the land. Franklin Graham, Billy's son, who has no real
claim to clerical authority other than the
obvious, protested
like a virgin whose virtue were in question. A veritable chorus of
protest then sprang up as televangelists and other cranks soon
producing a chorus of outrage demonstrating that, once again, Graham
isn't your only cracker.
Clearly,
the Grahams have learned nothing from the experiences of half century
ago, as Franklin and his cohorts circled the wagons to defend the
'virtue' of our Caesar Disgustus.
It
would be laughable, if it weren't so serious, and so disgusting.
Reports
have it that Franklin Graham, like many others in the American
Evangelical Community and the religious wrong, has forged a
friendship of sorts with Putin. It doesn't surprise me. I'm
familiar with the pretzel logic of the religionist, and nowhere is it
more twisted than in the fevered mind of your evangelist. Power will
be supported by any rationalization, no mater how tortured. Here you
have it, the most despicable, disgusting, corrupt and immoral man to
ever cross the national political podium is somehow transformed into
a savior doing the Lord's business.
By
degrees the religious wrong has merged with the political wrong in
order to gain and maintain power. And now, transformed and
transfixed, they kneel yet again before an object of their own
creation. The editors of Christianity
Today committed
the ultimate sin, for they failed to kneel and worship at the altar
of the golden pig.
Hail
Disgustus! Gravedigger of the Republic!
“An'
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Convict
and Imprison
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