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Welcome To The End-Times

March 29, 2010 by Brandon | 4 Comments

I’ve realized that yet another month has slipped away without a post, and let’s face it, it’s been a busy month. I figured I might as well break in my new netbook and write a post as I’m watching Stephen Colbert play with a set of finger puppets representing the ten plagues of Egypt. Which reminds me, happy Passover to my Jewish friends.

So where do I begin?  I suppose the best thing to start with is the obvious. We’ve officially been ushered into the End-Times with the passing of the health care reform bill. And the Republicans are dead-set on making sure that their prediction comes true, with the rounding up of Christian militias and death threats against congressmen. And what does the leader of the Moral Majority have to say about all this? Well, Michael Steele was unavailable for comment, because he was busy spending nearly $2,000 in a lesbian bondage strip club. Not really my cup of tea, but hey.

Seriously though, I really can’t wrap my mind around the right’s objection to health care reform. Not only that, but I’ve actually had to defend Christianity against other Christians, who under the wing of the likes of Glenn Beck, honestly believe that Jesus wouldn’t have supported a bill which extends health care to 32 million uninsured people at the cost of others’ hard earned money. Pure socialism! Jesus never would have supported paying taxes… oh, wait. He did. Ok, well. He never would have supported me giving my money to… oh? He said to give all my money to the poor, too? And feed them? And give them my extra clothing?! Holy shit, Jesus was a communist!

Face it, the message of social justice that many Christian faiths actively promote simply does not jive with the Republican platform, which is a platform of selfishness, plain and simple. You can try to spin this any way you want, but when you boil it down, you just don’t want to give your money up to help people. “It’s mine. Mine, mine, MINE!”

The other big thing that’s been on the news is that da freakin’ pope has had a massive role in covering up all the kiddie diddling in the Church. The late Pope John Paul II is possibly even under scrutiny, which could cost him his canonization. As for Ratzinger, I honestly think that we are going to see him step down. It would be the first time a pope has resigned in almost 600 years, but it isn’t unheard of. In fact, another Pope Benedict, Benedict IX, was kicked out, came back, resigned, came back, and then got kicked out again and was excommunicated.

To me, the only way out of this scandal is for Ratzinger to bow out and to have a new pope elected who will decree that all clergy is accountable to secular laws first, and then to church laws.



What is Fractal Wrongness?

The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.

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