To: America From: Jesus

-

 Okay, you guys, all of you need to sit down, shut up, and listen to me.

This message is for all of you. I've had enough with the way you are behaving. You're more divided than ever right now, but all you want to do is point fingers. You are all harboring fear in your hearts and hate for your fellow man. All of you. Tell me you refuse to fear the Other and make the effort to understand them instead, and you are the few who are truly "woke." Tell me you hold no hatred for another and you have done the work to address the hate and answer it with familiarity. Only when we face our fears and answer them can we be truly free of hatred. In this way, as well as others, you have failed me. You have chosen to ignore my lessons and my message. Here's how:

If I were to come back, looking the way I do and living the way I live, I'd be thrown into a concentration camp before I could open my mouth. I was a brown homeless immigrant, you guys, telling people to be nice, which so many of you just can't seem to do. I even said "What you have done to the least of these, you have done to me." Yet you ignore that. You made homelessness illegal, which you somehow believed would solve the problem. You refuse to help the less fortunate and have no compassion for prisoners. You'd let me rot in a gulag because of your own fear. 

You keep having to learn that human beings are human beings. Natives. Black people. Women. Poor people. Working people. Every single one of them had to fight tooth and nail to be considered human beings. When will you learn your lesson? All of you are equal in my eyes. All of you have value to me. Yeah, even the ones you don't like.

Christian nationists? Oh boy have you screwed up. You claim that yours is a "christian nation," but you ignore every single thing I said. I told you to love one another, and you let your ignorance and fear make you hate pretty much everyone who isn't exactly like you. I told you to take care of poor people, and cripples, and old people, and children, and you actively, deliberately make their lives worse. You even make your own military personnel, which you claim to support, live on food stamps because none of your defense budget goes toward the VA. You'd step over a homeless veteran to get to a park memorializing the dead ones. I've seen you do it. I told you to turn the other cheek and you declared war. Pretty much everything you're doing would send you to Hell, you guys, if there was one. I have to say I'm most disappointed in you, since you're the ones claiming to speak for me.

Every single one of you needs to own up to your hatred and address the root cause of it. All of you need to make the effort to understand those who hate you. This ongoing battle has to end, or you're looking at the bloodiest war in history. People are going to get hurt. There will be blood, and it is on all your hands if you don't knock this shit off. 

You want to call yourselves a "christian nation?" Then try being more like me.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Recommended Reading: Fahrenheit 451

-
  Topic: Fahrenheit 451 & the Rise of Anti-Intellectualism This week’s sermon is about the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953, and what it is really about according to its author. This book is often misinterpreted as a warning against the evils of censorship, but Bradbury states that it is about the rise of anti-intellectualism in American society. He believed that the television would be the beginning of the end of our collective IQ’s, and if you look into our history, he had a point. People believe what they see on television, even when it is complete bullshit.   We are seeing an attitude of “my ignorance is as good as your knowledge” around scientific concepts that should not even be a matter of debate. Scientists and researchers who have spent their lives learning about something see their work dismissed in favor of the incoherent ramblings of some random actor that is only good at dressing up and playing pretend but has enough money and charis...
Read more

A Stoned but Somehow Relevant Thought

-
  Wheels Upon Wheels The Wheel of the Virtues and the Wheel of Ka. The wheel of the seasons, the wheel of years. The wheels that measure the globe of Earth, horizontally and vertically. The wheel of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. The cycle of the phases of the moon can be expressed with a circle. The cycles of life and death and rebirth. Then there are the cycles of the Chinese and Solar Zodiac signs. Even the pattern of a single rotation of Earth describes a wheel. Everywhere you look, there are wheels or circles or cycles. What does all of this mean? The most likely explanation is that I am stoned and seeing patterns in the Universe that I cannot see while I am sober. Does this invalidate the whole thing? I do not think so; now that I see it, I cannot stop seeing it. Just an interesting thought. 
Read more

Threat of Hell

-
  This sermon is about what it means to be a truly good person, and how ethics and morality should be based around what is right rather than the threat of damnation and eternal torment. To illustrate this idea, here are three quotations from three different sources, all of which say pretty much the same thing: “A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” -Albert Einstein The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I c...
Read more