TWGB: We Need the Wood!

 

There's hardly anything wilder to me than Trump fluffing up his crucifixion narrative while being literally the most un-Christlike person you could think of. Turn the other cheek? Love thy enemy?  Forgive others as you would also be forgiven? Oh, that stuff is crazy. He sure does try it though. He's being persecuted for taking what he hast (overleveraged) and using it to get more rich (or at least, pretending he is).  He's being crucified (being prosecuted, not persecuted) for his hush money arrangement--a business fraud, based on an election fraud, based on an illicit sex fling--selling himself as a better man than he actually is. 

So how does this modern-day martyr show his Christ Consciousness? You know, the way Christ did, by letting his disciples know what Pilates' family members look like, so they could...use their imaginations. Who wants to tell me where in the Bible Jesus would have done anything of the sort? 

Trump is no Jesus and Judge Merchan is no Pontius Pilate--what the hell? This is where my blog title comes from--get on down off that cross honey, we need the wood! 

But Trump, the Bible salesman, is just on one hell of a roll, if not an actual hot cross bun this Holy Week. He's mad that the Trans Day of Visibility happens to coincide with Easter, like it just....has?  This day commemorating trans people has been on March 31st for years, and Easter, a moveable feast, is merely momentarily squatting on the same day. The outrage is dumb. One is no more obliged to do anything about this day than one is obligated to eat tacos on Taco Tuesday. It certainly doesn't "replace" Easter any more than the Great Replacement theory literally means brown foreigners are replacing white folks. 

It's faux outrage. The horror of trans people having an honorable mention for existing! What if (certain political partisan) Christians could just do their own thing in peace because literally no one is stopping them, and not complain that some symbolic other thing is happening like weird selfish babies? 

What if many Christians who aren't extremely online simply will do exactly that because...duh? They totally can. It's a free country and no one is compelling any kind of worship at all because our Constitution doesn't make that a thing? 

And we definitely aren't imposing Satan worship, which is something MAGAt Tommy Taterhead seems to think--including about the idea that the White House doesn't want to specifically endorse Christianity. Which per the First Amendment, actually, our government never should!  

(And just to address the silliness of claiming, for example, that secular people are Satanists--if I don't worship Bugs Bunny because he might be fictional, why would that mean I am an Elmer Fuddist? What the Fudd kind of reasoning is that? What if I thought Bugs Bunny was quite all right in his way but we shouldn't run a government based on Bunnyism? What if perfectly good moral instruction could and should be made on the precept that humans with needs and feelings and all exist, and that the various mythological abstractions of that are hardly more germane than the actual reported opinions of the humans themselves? You might just arrive at something like Democracy thinking that way.) 

But take a hard squint if you can, up at the above picture--Trump holding up a Bible after he used it to clear a crowd of protestors against the death of George Floyd. Wait--I understand he didn't use that Bibe as his weapon, just tear gas. It was the Bible he used as his fig leaf, to justify countering the protest of a man being unjustly killed with more state-sanctioned violence. 

And for those who want to talk about blasphemies, ask yourselves what was the man of Galilee charged with, and hush your mouth. Ask yourselves what you would do for even the trans ones of these children of God and what example you would make. 

Read that book Trump is selling and get back to me. Because if your religions is just hate and you are offended by what you see--you know what to do with your moted eye, Lucy. And just for the fun of it, let's look ahead at the future of Christian nationalism--

Apparently, TrumpWorld does not think Catholics and Christians are the same. Well, as a Catholic-adjacent person, I knew that was what would always be up with Christian nationalism--but as a proud American, I do not look forward to the Troubles that might commence.