The Christian Right and the Election ...

In my last post I stressed that democrats need to make appearances on FOX in order for that audience to see that democrats are not America-hating-pedofile-sex-trafficking-Satanists.  

Let me be clear ... I am talking about CRAZY right wing Christians.  Not NORMAL Christians.  There is a difference.  

For instance:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1326802155815186432

If you are unable to see the attached, allow me to fill you in.  A Calvary pastor down on is knees CRYING because Biden won the election and imploring God:

This is EXACTLY what the pastor says:

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God you are pro-life.  And one man (Trump) is, and one man (Biden) is not.  

Lord, one man is for Israel, and one is not.  You are for Israel.

Lord one man is for our military and our police, and the other is not.  You are.

Lord, have you brought Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State only for that to end now?

Have you brought Lord, Amy Coney-Barrett onto the court and that's it?  We're done?

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That's basically it.

Now, why is it that they believe God placed Trump in the White House in 2016, and now that Biden has won the presidency it's the end of the world?  Could they ever consider, as "believers", that maybe God removed Trump because of his evil and corrupt ways and placed Biden in the White House because he is a decent and God-fearing man?  NEVER.  Now why is that?  I'll tell you why.  It's because they live in the FOX NEWS bubble and believe everything FOX News says and therefore, everything that Trump says.  And I don't mean to say this in a patronizing way because these people honestly do not know that they have been lied to and manipulated.  They watch FOX with as much devotion as they attend church.  And when they attend church, the pastor reiterates everything said on FOX News.  It's a circle that goes round and round to nowhere until the brain finally atrophies.    

How do you change it?  I'm not sure.  I don't think most of these people would be willing to watch CNN or read the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times out of fear of self-immolating.  Could it be fear of finding out that maybe they have been misled?  I can understand that.  As Gloria Steinem famously said "The truth will set you free, but first it'll piss you off."  To grow as a human being, and even as a spiritual person, one needs to keep evolving, transcending, and as one progresses one leaves behind what no longer serves.  I feel that a lot of these evangelicals are afraid to move beyond what they're safe with.  It is considered sinful to question.  I know all about this.  I was raised Catholic.  And that guilt will make you crazy.  I had a few nuns in catechism that were fucking scary as shit!  But at some point you have to realize that it is really fucking hard to be a human being without trying to be perfect twenty-four/seven.  At some point you have to THINK.  Think about what YOU believe.  Think about what serves YOU.  Think about what causes YOU pain and do away with it.  That includes a restrictive religious belief that keeps trying to pound you into a square hole when YOU'RE A ROUND PEG.  

I know plenty of people like this as I'm sure you do too.  I've attended these church services where they do, in fact, pray for Trump and Pence.  Yet, as a very bad Catholic, I can tell you that I have never heard a priest tell the congregation who to vote for.  Ever.  

THAT IS WHY THE CONSTITUTION IS SPECIFIC ABOUT SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.

[You don't have to read it if you don't want to, but here it is if you want to]

The First Amendment

The first amendment to the US Constitution states "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The two parts, known as the "establishment clause" and the "free exercise clause" respectively, form the textual basis for the Supreme Court's interpretations of the "separation of church and state" doctrine.^[40] Three central concepts were derived from the 1st Amendment which became America's doctrine for church-state separation: no coercion in religious matters, no expectation to support a religion against one's will, and religious liberty encompasses all religions. In sum, citizens are free to embrace or reject a faith, and support for religion - financial or physical - must be voluntary, and all religions are equal in the eyes of the law with no special preference or favoritism.^[41]

I especially like this part:  ... and all religions are equal in the eyes of the law with no special preference or favoritism.

Know what this means?  It means Muslims, Catholics, Buddhists, Atheists, Mormons, Jews, Hindus, etc., et al. are ALL PROTECTED.  Unfortunately, most evangelicals would find all of the above religious beliefs counterfeit because to them, unless you are "born again," you will spend eternity burning in Hell with Mother Teresa.  

Now here's where I'm going to call myself out.  I am a coward.  I post my blog and send it only to people who I believe will understand where I'm coming from.  Like minded people, if you will.  I would be afraid to make it entirely public because I'm pretty sure the evangelicals would come for me.  I also believe they would not READ and COMPREHEND a post like this with the intention of trying to understand another point of view.  I have posted my opinions before and know for a fact that these folks do not read what I've written because of their responses which completely overlook most of what I've written. And that is frustrating.  

In order to understand, you HAVE TO LISTEN.  And vice-versa.  I would LOVE to have a real, deep conversation with an evangelical because I sincerely want to understand why they have an undying and unyielding allegiance to Trump, without getting scripture thrown at me.  Tell me why you support this man despite his terrible character, his misogyny, his cruelty, his vindictive personality.  But I'll probably never get the opportunity to do so.  Because sadly, most of these people behave as though they went to school with God and know him better than I could ever hope to know him, ergo I am unworthy.  This is called "spiritual pride" and a lot of evangelicals suffer from it.  They are quick to forgive their own, sinners like Trump, but the first to condemn YOU.  So where's the love?  This is my entire point.  WHERE. IS. THE. LOVE.  The answer?  It's lacking.  It's conditional.  And THAT is not being Christian in anyone's book.  But they, of course, cannot see this and will argue and debate to the death that YOU are wrong and they are right.  But that's ok.  Because I KNOW I'M RIGHT.  

FOX NEWS PROPAGANDA ....

I have decided to post clips of FOX News interviews with various right wing pundits and let you all listen to how these folks manipulate, lie, and throw out theories and ideology that is based on NOTHING.  No facts.  No statistics.  This is how they are able to sway their viewers to their extreme points of view and accuse democrats of hating America and calling all of them communists, socialists and Marxists.

According to Candace Owens who has a HIGH SCHOOL degree, she believes that if you are a black American and you go through the public school system like she did, you see that "they" are replacing education with indoctrination and you will come out of that education system as a propagandist for the left and you won't even realize it.  

WOW.  Really Candace?  First, can you tell me who "they" are?  And WHY they are indoctrinating students to become propagandists to the left?  Can you supply me with some statistics to support this?  Some evidence or facts that confirm this cockamamie statement of yours?  I'll wait ...

She also said that Conservatives need to wake up to the fact that we've lost the education battle with the left and what that allows is democrats to have a handle on the school system.  If we continue to LET the democrats control the education system we are guaranteeing them (the democrats) the future.

Candace hon, WHO is letting the democrats control education?  Um ... you do know who Betsy DeVos is don't you?  Trump's Secretary of Education, who wants nothing more than to have the entire United States implement a school system based on Christian principles.  

Her comment that 75% of black boys cannot pass a literacy test is true.  But I am willing to bet that if they went to public school in Beverly Hills they more than likely would have received a much better education.  IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY CANDACE.  MONEY.  

Now for a little background on Ms. Candace Owens.

In 2007, while a 17-year-old senior in high school in Stamford, CT, Owens said she received three racist death threat voicemail messages, totaling two minutes, that were traced to a car in which the 14-year-old son of then-Mayor, and future governor, Dannel Malloy was present. Joshua Starr, the city's superintendent of schools, listened to the voicemail messages and said that they were "horrendous".  Owens' family sued the Stamford Board of Education in federal court, alleging that the city did not protect her rights, resulting in a $37,500 settlement in January 2008.  

Owens pursued an undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Rhode Island.  She left after her junior year because of an issue with her student loan.  Mhmmm?  

She has now reinvented herself as a political pundit who knows nothing but talks like she does and has become the darling of the conservative right.  

THIS IS CRAZY ...

SEE!  They are out of their minds and FOX viewers are going to believe EVERYTHING they say and it's WRONG.  Biden is the President Elect, and Donald Trump LOST the election.  HOLY F**K!

Halla-fuckin-luyah!!!!!

 

THANK YOU GOD!!

So, as I posted on Facebook:

"WOW ... I guess GOD wanted Biden to win!  😁" 

and IMMEDIATELY I received a bunch of insults and anger which didn't surprise me because I made that comment specifically to stick my finger in the eye of those crazy evangelicals.  ONLY the crazy ones.  And FYI, I deactivated my Facebook page because I got sick of all the hate.  But I just had to jump on because I was SO HAPPY that Biden won and I wanted to share my happiness and it didn't take more than ONE SECOND for a friend of mine to jump on me with comments about China and Iran being happy too!  And though I NEVER respond to her comments because she loves Trump and I don't, this time I thought NO.  This is wrong.  So I asked her "can I have my opinion please?"  No response.  

I have to say that I actually feel lighter!  Happier!  Hopeful!  And I LOVE that I don't have to see that fat douchebag on T.V. twenty-four-seven!  Isn't it great!  No more Ivanka.  No more Jared.  No more Melania.  I LOVE IT!!  And they'll be GONE!  Completely gone after January 20th!  Trump is ALREADY irrelevant.  Have you noticed?  No one cares about what he has to say!  His power is gone!  AND HE HATES IT!

I also love that El Trumpo is having 24 hour meltdowns because he LOST.  The only thing that would make my year is to see him being carted out of the White House in a straight jacket crying like Jim Bakker.

Sadly, this election was not a repudiation of all things Trump and that is very sad.  And worse, the GOP is indulging his delusion about having the presidency stolen from him.  Filing bogus lawsuits and threatening to hold his breath until he turns blue.  But as of today, November 12, it seems like more of the GOP are calling him out and telling him "dude, it's over."  Not to mention Karl Rove (who I hate) but he's come forward and stated that the election is not going to be overturned.  

Trump has been M.I.A. except for his appearance at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Veterans Day.  But I fear he is going to do everything in his power to fuck things up for Biden.  He fired Mark Esper and now wants to fire Gina Haspell, Director of the CIA.  He's placed three loyalist morons to the Pentagon.  Who knows what he has planned.  He won't give Biden his congratulatory emails from world leaders and he is holding up the transition because HE CAN.    

Interestingly, I have been watching a lot of FOX lately just to see how they spin all this election crap.  And boy do they spin.  They do LIE, INFER, say things like "lots of democrats have done really bad stuff and it's illegal and now they want to make America Socialist and do away with Christmas."  This is not a joke -- they really say shit like this.  They speak just like Trump.  Remember when Trump said he had "his people in Hawaii and you won't believe what they're finding out about Obama!"  And then, we never found out what they were finding out.  And FOX just throws it out there like raw meat to whomever will bite and run with it, and then they tell a friend, and they tell a friend, and so on and so on.  This is how FOX undermines half the population who do not realize they've been manipulated and used.  

I am convinced that the only way things can change is if more and more democrats will go on FOX.  FOX's audience needs to hear from the democrats in order to realize that they are not Satan incarnate.  I caught Mayor Pete on FOX and he is so damn articulate and well spoken and I'm certain that the FOX audience were probably doing a Scooby-Doo after watching him.

But seriously folks.  It's not funny.  The only way that the right wing crazies, those who really believe that the democrats run a pedofile and sex trafficking ring will realize that democrats are NOT socialists, communists, anti-Xmas, and hate America.  This is something I hear on FOX ALL. THE. TIME.  That Democrats hate America.  SMH.  Someone needs to get into Rupert Murdoch's ear.  I mean that guy is seconds from death.  He still has time to undo the damage he has done with the creation of FOX news and all the lies and misinformation it has spread.  And just for an interesting aside, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are now telling their audience not to use Facebook anymore because they are calling out errors and untruths, and instead to use Parlor, which is a social network that does not flag lies or untruths.  In other words, spread the lies.  SIGH.

But since I don't have that kind of power I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it all pans out.  For now, I AM VERY HAPPY.