Dear Tig,
I think you'll enjoy "Christians Tired Of Being Misrepresented."
Back in the day I could deal with Christianity's authoritarian inclination which occasionally degenerated into formalized fascism - Italy, Argentina, Guatemala.
Although it is probably a red herring to mention Hitler's cradle Catholicism, there it is. For what it's worth.
In any event, it is incontrovertible that Catholicism has a VERY checkered relationship with Judaism and Jewry, even though its founder was a practicing Jew as were the authors of every book in the New Testament but two. (25 of 27 books is the customary count.)
It was Thug-Pope Paul IV who first locked Jews in ghettos and made them wear identifying garments - the same pope whom many Catholic conservatives now revere as the author of antediluvian-but-supposedly-infallible comments such as his (in)famous dictum: "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" - "Outside the (Catholic) Church there is no salvation."
Pope Paul IV, 1476 - 1559
Proto-Nazi?
Nowadays, it feels like I'm branded with the indelible mark of these manifestly lunatic people who prefer Armageddon to compromise, absolutely certain they are God's Exceptional gift to humankind.
Increasingly, I conceive God as an ironist for despite the trumpeted pretenses of "The Saved!" we are living in a political madhouse almost entirely of their making.
"Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem"
Conservative Scholar Norman Ornstein
The American Enterprise Institute
The American Enterprise Institute
And now, as we move into The Post-Truth Era (oh yeah... this is gonna end well) these mad, self-righteously vengeful people elect a solipsistic sociopath as their political (and religious) savior.
Best Photographic Evidence Of Trump Inaugural Crowd Size
Viewed From The Swearing-In Stage And From The Washington Monument
It is surpassingly difficult to refrain from the use of expletives when talking - as honestly as I can - about these despicable "Christians," whom, often through no fault of their own, have been terminally mislead, as Bob Dylan put it, by "corpse evangelists."
Faith and Falsehood
I imagine Saint Peter at The Pearly Gates familiarizing himself with the acronym, "WTF."
Love
Alan
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