Today is my last day of work before the Thanksgiving holiday, so I have a lot to wrap up. I am fighting the seduction of inertia. I'm relieved to not have to undergo the Thanksgiving holiday rituals. I'm seldom festive in the best of years; my supply of festivity is depleted this year. Fuck it, man, I can't stop thinking about how bleak things are about to get.
I'm going to work on this week's radio show for a bit. That tends to cheer me up. I can't change the whole world, but I can make small parts of it better. I don't understand why everyone doesn't want to do that. I don't understand greed. I don't understand lusting for power or notoriety. I don't understand people who find joy in being deliberately cruel toward others, particularly those who cloak their cruelty under the guise of "personally-held religious beliefs."
I've read the Bible cover to cover on three different occasions, and based on what I've read and memorized, MAGA Evangelicals more resemble the crowd that demanded that Barabbas - a criminal who was convicted for staging an insurrection - be freed and Jesus be sent away to be crucified. It's really sad. It's also a little weird that it's the former Evangelical turned secular humanist getting outraged at how Jesus' reputation is being dragged through the mud by those who claim his name and proclaim their salvation but never display any of the fruits of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).
The atheist shouldn't know more about the Bible than the Christian, but all too often that seems to be the case.
Jesus said nothing about building an earthly "Christian nation" - he said his kingdom is not of this world, but rather exists in the heart of everyone who believes in him. He said to heal the sick, take care of orphans and widows, feed the hungry, bind up the wounded, and tell the whole world of his forgiving love. He said nothing about establishing a Christian theocracy on earth. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 says, "Abstain from all appearance of evil," or keep away from anything that looks like sin - and yet Evangelical Republicans had not a single twinge of conscience before voting to assemble this clown-car of moral depravity into the White House and Congress.
One thing I know, if I was a Dispensationalist, I'd be reading my Bible and checking the skies right about now.
