Wendell Berry: American Prophet
It turns out that Rugged Individualism (a front runner for "America's Secular Religion) is no way to live your life if you want to be happy and healthy.
Secularization, Rugged Individualism And The Loss Of Community... What Does "Bowling Alone" Have To Do With It?
Here is something you need to know, Karen. However, if true to form, you will not believe, because you are the only meaningful arbiter in your life.
Still, it's true. Murder rates are much lower in blue states than red states.
It is also true that murder rates are higher in big cities than elsewhere.
But even taking both these data points into account, it is a rock solid fact that murder rates are much lower in blue states than in red states.
It is hard for conservatives to accept clearly defined facts, because they are driven by ideological passion and are generally dimwitted enough to believe that their beliefs (particularly their religious convictions) "trump" factuality.
John Stuart Mill nailed it: “Although all conservatives are not stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.”
I realize Mill's observation sounds like an insult.
But Truth occupies "a realm apart," and stating simple Truth is just that - an honest statement, not an insult.
The persistently real insult (which conservatives perpetrate on themselves”) arises from their ferocious determination to remain hermetically-sealed in their self-imposed benightedness-and-ignorance (i.e. Ignore-ance).
Don’t like The Truth?
1.) Just ignore it.
2.) Craft a lie.
3.) Devise a conspiracy theory.
4.) Allege the manipulative malevolence of "The Deep State."
5.) Claim that any "inconvenient truth" is "fake news."
6.) Lock yourself in the "noise machine" "confirmation bubble."
7.) Pretend that terrestrial truth does not even matter in God's view. As St. Paul put it: "The wisdom of the world is folly before God." Never mind that "the wisdom of the world" is epitomized by Donald Trump replete with his brutish materialism and pussy-grabbing hedonism. (If you think Malignant Messiah is repentant, don't bet the farm.)
The upshot of the world you've carved out for yourself?
You renounce reason (except infrequently when it confirms your prejudices), and voila - you became a bullshit cultist.
In contemporary America, the renunciation of Reason is tantamount to worshipping at the altar of False God Donald, while parroting QAnonsense as if it were a Fifth Gospel.
Karen, virtually all the Trumpian hogwash and QAnonsense that you babble does not mean you are a "Truth-Hero": it means you have willingly -- eagerly -- sunk to your knees as a slavish cultist.
Pursuant to our conversation, consider this...
I am fully prepared to say that any president, vice-president or elected politician who is found with deliberately "lifted" classified documents in his possession -- after they should have been returned to the archives of the federal agency whence they originated -- be permanently banned from running for office.
You can't even conceive making such a suggestion for ANY of your cult figures because you KNOW God is on your side and fully endorses any judgement you make.
5.) Claim that any "inconvenient truth" is "fake news."
6.) Lock yourself in the "noise machine" "confirmation bubble."
7.) Pretend that terrestrial truth does not even matter in God's view. As St. Paul put it: "The wisdom of the world is folly before God." Never mind that "the wisdom of the world" is epitomized by Donald Trump replete with his brutish materialism and pussy-grabbing hedonism. (If you think Malignant Messiah is repentant, don't bet the farm.)
The upshot of the world you've carved out for yourself?
You renounce reason (except infrequently when it confirms your prejudices), and voila - you became a bullshit cultist.
In contemporary America, the renunciation of Reason is tantamount to worshipping at the altar of False God Donald, while parroting QAnonsense as if it were a Fifth Gospel.
Karen, virtually all the Trumpian hogwash and QAnonsense that you babble does not mean you are a "Truth-Hero": it means you have willingly -- eagerly -- sunk to your knees as a slavish cultist.
Six Sociological Characteristics Of Cults
https://andynaselli.com/sociological-characteristics-of-cults
Pursuant to our conversation, consider this...
I am fully prepared to say that any president, vice-president or elected politician who is found with deliberately "lifted" classified documents in his possession -- after they should have been returned to the archives of the federal agency whence they originated -- be permanently banned from running for office.
You can't even conceive making such a suggestion for ANY of your cult figures because you KNOW God is on your side and fully endorses any judgement you make.
Just open your mouth and whatever comes out is, in your mind, "God's Truth."
You -- Karen K -- are God's spokesperson (and His avenging angel) made in the image of the Old Testament's God of Wrath and Vengeance.
But despite your certainty of speaking in divine alignment, your pronouncements are transparently glib, and often false.
But despite your certainty of speaking in divine alignment, your pronouncements are transparently glib, and often false.
You cannot support Donald Trump and Truth at the same time: the completely separated circles of the Venn diagram could not be more clear.
Very often, your "babble" has no more credibility than the builders of the ancient ziggurat -- the Tower of Babel -- whence your religious logorrhea got its name.
Note well, Karen.
Not even Jesus can save you from unrepentant pride.
You and your Christian conservative white fellows bolster one another by sheer vociferation of just how TRUE your TRUTH is.
What you represent as truth -- whether it comes from Trump's mouth, or from the "annals" of QAnonsense -- is, routinely, garden variety cow pie. (As an aside, I must proclaim the tragic truth that even a broken clock is right twice a day.)
You have made a seriously wrong turn, Karen, and I'm letting you know what you need to know so that you are not STUNNED by what you discover at "The Pearly Gates."
*****
Here's how your "spiritual" ancestors went down the same mistaken road you have.
"Know Nothing Nativism: Prototypal American Bigotry"
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with Leslie Stahl
Putting The Scum In Scum Bucket: "Trump Pardoned Jared Kushner's Dad Charles, Who Was Convicted Of Tax Crimes, Witness Tampering, And Illegal Campaign Contributions" (With A Prostitute Thrown In For Good Luck)
Executive Branch Criminal Activities By Presidential Administration (Since Richard Nixon)
convictions indictments felonies
Trump's Handpicked Kansas Politician, Kris Kobach, Is Emblematic Of The Bullsh*t Nonsense That Has Become The Bogus Essence Of The Republican Party
The Lockstep Relationship Between Personal Fixation On Moral Purity And Violent Behavior: "Soy Bebé Robada’": La Historia De Los Niños Secuestrados Durante La Dictadura De España Bajo Generalísimo Francisco Franco - Y "El Franquismo"
Donald Trump's Christian Conservative Cult And Democracy's Death Knell? An Email Reply To Publisher Friend Elaine In South Texas
Replying To A White "Christian" "Conservative" Friend Who Wants Me To Know That "If Anyone At All Has Convinced Me to Support Donald Trump, It's You"
We Are Re-Made In The Image Of Our God (Or Gods). This Bedrock Fact Makes Me Increasingly Critical Of America As A Judeo-Christian Culture That Worships A God Who Is Wrathful And Punitive. Trump And His Cultists Comprise Incontrovertible Proof That The United States Of America - Which Has Always Been A Punitive, Retributive Society - Now Genuflects At The Altar Of Cruelty. Cruelty Is Not An Aberration. It Is The Central Point Of Unbridled, "Christian" "Conservative" Capitalism. Let's Make Up Our Minds. John The Apostle Says "God Is Love." Is "He?" Or Is God Punitive And Hellishly Cruel? Do Not Look Away. Do Not Sweep This Under The Rug. Be Whatever You Want To Be. But Do Have The Courage And Integrity To Own Up To The God You Worship, And In Whose Image YOU Continually Re-Make Yourself
Compendium Of Christianity Posts: Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell...Which I Don't Believe)
A Short History Of Hell
Religion, Eternal Punishment, And Hell-Gehenna (With A Special Guest Appearance By Bertrand Russell)
The Age-Old Normalization Of Warfare Through Stupidity, Ego And Religion
"Most Stupid People Are Conservative"
John Stuart Mill
Punishment Rarely Reforms But Instead Tends To Reinforce Wrongdoing
Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs
(for punitive violence can always be increased -- the screws can always be tightened -- until any-and-every political, sociological or "ideological" problem can be solved"
Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others
America's Passion For Punishment And Torture
Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love & Forgiveness, Or Retribution & Punishment
The Mistaken Concept That Reducing Cultures To Rubble Results In Peace
Bad Things Happen: Punishment, Mercy And The Demise Of The Republican Party
Religion, Eternal Punishment, And Hell-Gehenna (With A Special Guest Appearance By Bertrand Russell)
Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Mercy, Forgiveness, Retribution, Punishment
"The Pharisees Are Always With Us. They Are The People Who..."
Mercy And Compassion Trump Judgment And Punishment: Another Attempt To Save A "Christian" "Conservative" Friend From Losing Her Soul
Deism And "Founding Fathers" Links
St Paul Observed: "The Wisdom Of The World Is Folly Before God." Who, Exactly, Is Going To Hell For "Satanic Rebellion Against God?"
and the following companion piece:
The Age-Old Normalization Of Warfare Through Stupidity, Ego And Religion
The Mistaken Concept That Reducing Cultures To Rubble Results In Peace
Punishment Rarely Reforms But Instead Tends To Reinforce Wrongdoing
Best Pax Posts On Punishment And Torture As "Necessary" Methods For Righting Wrongs
Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others
America's Passion For Punishment And Torture
Christians And "Christians" Choose Mercy, Love & Forgiveness, Or Retribution & Punishment
Trump's Handpicked Kansas Politician, Kris Kobach, Is Emblematic Of The Bullsh*t Nonsense That Has Become The Bogus Essence Of The Republican Party
IF NOTHING ELSE, READ THIS POST
Bad Things Happen: Punishment, Mercy And The Demise Of The Republican Party
Compendium Of Best "Pax" Posts On The Cornerstone Necessity Of Education
ODDS AND SODS:
Why Heather Cox Richardson Is A Superb Political Commentator: Here, Heather Probes The J-6 Insurrection On Its Second Anniversary
Humans Are Energy-Feeding Creatures. Sub-Species Are Taxonomized By Fission And Fusion
Martin Luther King, Jr. On Streetsweepers - And A Baker's Dozen
My Favorite Rock And Pop Songs (With YouTube Links)
An Overview Of Trump's Compulsive Lying.
Even His Sister - A Retired Federal Judge - Calls Trump "Cruel," A "Liar," A "Cheat" And An "Untrustworthy Phony"
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