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Date: August 19, 2017 10:57AM
It's so difficult to know how to respond. I'm so very confused, which is to say, temporarily ungrounded. I'm completely worn out by the chaos. Ground down. Burnt out.
I can usually find my way off of any fence, which is a sound place to be while gathering data, forming opinions, and if not the actual words, the ending sounds like, "I don't know," or, "I don't know yet."
In the case of these slime-coated, Caesar [foul languge dodge involving male genitalia] suck-ups, am I to feel relief that slime is fleeing the slime pool? I would be more relieved to learn that he also acknowledges his role, his responsibility, in creating the cesspool.
He did not. He called it an "honor to have served his country." Whom was he trying to serve? The main character of the book from which he makes a fabulous living? I don't think so. He's straddling the fence between Caesar and Jesus, trying to reach the ground with both feet, his nether regions on the painful line.
I, an atheist, sit next to a liberal Christian at least 40 hours a week, one who proudly claims being anti-fascist and reviles all forms of bigotry. She has nurtured the natural color-blindness of her children to a degree that instead of saying "You know, mom, my black friend...," the child says, "You know, mom, the one who has a green backpack every day..." Gender is handled in much the same fashion, except, the kids only understand "he" and "she," and use these pronouns. Her church is inclusive of all, and the members are to view one another as equal under god.
This informed, loving and gentle woman never would have found herself in a position of "trying" to "serve her lord" or her country via someone like Trump. I've seen references to this group of evangelical leaders calling them "Pharisees." I think it not quite right. I would call them "Sadducees."
https://thinkprogress.org/meet-donald-trumps-new-evangelical-advisory-board-6a5bfc5460d7/I live in Kentucky. Not all Southern Christians are evangelical.
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2017/08/17/lexington-county-council-may-vote-thursday-to-move-confederate-statues/576368001/What other country celebrates those who were traitors, or those who sought to maintain genocide and slavery? Yes, history belongs in museums, not as standing war memorials on the property of the winning government which those memorialized sought to destroy. That's factual history.
We would more accurately reflect history by memorializing the names of the 620,000 soldiers (never mind the rape and murder of civilians in war-torn nations) who died in that failed attempt to destroy our nation. The statues being removed are of those who were not only on the losing, traitorous side, but of the elite who led their men into defeat and slaughter on the morally wrong side. Their sycophants are some very sore losers.
Given that the police were being protested, I doubt that they would have arrested supporters:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-kkk-connection-dad-klan-riot-arrest-article-1.2546656This is the face of evangelicalism, and history will call it what it is - white supremacy, Nazism. Nazis were in this country long before WWII, and fence-sitters were fine with that for a very long time.
Free speech? Fine, but don't ever expect me to side with a Nazi. Leave the weapons at home, and demand that the police police them.
The rats among us (especially those who led others onboard) will flee ship just as they did following WWII. Bernard is an early jumper. He needs to own his errors. It's not enough to simply jump, calling it "an honor" to have served the beast.
Not even his god forgives the unrepentant.
Clarity attained. Thank you Erik for this space and freedom.