Hell On Earth

Verily I say unto you, I missed something in the transition from born again Christian whose favorite philosopher is Jesus Christ to torture advocate violating the laws he swore to enforce.

There will not be a passing of the plate or a healing ceremony to follow.

There was something else in the Bible about a Sermon on the Mount, beginning with the Beatitudes (blessings earned by doing the right thing), which is the crib notes on that message in the New Testament. It was about the poor and unfortunate, not getting rich. I recall that it was about the real object of Christian charity, and there was nothing about rich people being expected to spread the good works if you gave them a big pile of money.

I have this distinct impression that the main character in the New Testament thought it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into paradise. Guess he saw some of the same kind of logic we're seeing out of this White House justifying stealing from the poor to give to the rich.

Other funny things that have happened to the faith I was raised in, is this association with toughness. The teachings I got included Jesus healing the ear of the Roman soldier that his disciple Peter had just cut off. Waterboarding and sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, threats, sorry, I missed that part. There is nothing about taking the lives of innocents to advance an abstract concept such as security or democracy, either.

This character who founded the faith I studied, remember him? listened to lepers and Sadducees and trash like that too, and healed people who weren't his race, and made a big thing of it. He said he came to fulfill the good parts in the Old Testament, that was the church teaching I got, and the Ten Commandments were part but not all of the new teaching. Love was the big thing, forgiveness and faith were really big. I want to know where my preachers went wrong, that I didn't get the lessons on lying to get your way, refusing to negotiate with other folks, and bringing it on, on breaking the laws, and truckling to the extremely wealthy.

I got that other faith, the one that loves your neighbor, that tells the truth even when it isn't going to serve your purposes, standing up for those who aren't getting all the best aspects of your particular class levels, like even those 'taken in adultery'. Remember that one? Instead of stoning the sinners, that fella that taught my lessons stopped other people from stoning them. There was this corny stuff about looking at the 'mote' in your own eye before you started mocking the moties in other folks' eyes.

Do you know, those voices the leader of the free world is listening to aren't coming from the same one that taught what wound up as the New Testament that I studied. Yep, I even have taken a bible history course in college, two formal Bible studies in church, and am certified to teach Disciple Studies. I don't recognize the version of christianity being practiced by that forsworn person in the White House.

I see in the White House the kind of leadership that the Christ fought against, that he drove out of the temple, and that put him up on a cross to eliminate the opposition that threatened their rule.

It's not right to take an oath that you violate every time you actually use your powers, that you got from taking that oath, if you follow me?

I have yet to see anything in the Bible about making women suffer because you don't believe in abortion, or that any kind of healing is wrong. Taking the name of the lord in vain, swearing by his name to something you have no intention of doing, though, that's seriously frowned on.

Not one day goes by that we don't see another reason this executive is the worst we ever had, and is a genuine threat to the country's well-being.

See. No collection plate was passed, and no one was healed or harmed in the expression of this lesson.

342 days. God help us.