Tennessee Williams' Critique Of Cruelty Should Be Included In The World's Sacred Scripture

"I don't know what to tell you. 

A statement is easy, and here it is: Be yourself. Try to matter. 

Be a good friend. 

Love freely, even if you are likely--almost guaranteed--to be hurt, betrayed. 

Do what you were created to do. You'll know what this is, because it is what you keep creeping up to, peering at, dreaming of. 

Do it. 

If you don't, you'll be punching clocks and eating time doing precisely what you shouldn't, and you'll become mean and you'll seek to punish any and all who appear the slightest bit happy, the slightest bit comfortable in their own skin, the slightest bit smart. 

Cruelty is a drug, as well, and it's all around us. Don't imbibe.

Try to matter. Try to care. 

And never be afraid to admit that you just don't know, you just don't fucking know how you're going to make it. That's when the help--the human and the divine help--shows up." 

Tennessee Williams Interview with James Grissom, 1982

The Cruelty Of Trump's America

Best Pax Posts About Trump's Cruelty, Mendacity And Seduction Of "Conservative" "Christians"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/best-pax-posts-about-trumps-cruelty.html

Trump's America Is A Deliberately Cruel Place And "Christian" "Conservatives" Are The Cruelest

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/07/trumps-america-is-deliberately-cruel.html

"The Cruelty Is the Point": Trump And Many Of His Followers Delight In The Suffering Of Enemies
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-point-president-trump.html

Conservative Evangelicals On Trump: Racism And Cruelty Are Fine, But Must There Be Swearing?

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/conservative-evangelicals-on-trump.html

For Trump And Trumpistas Cruelty Is The Point
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/for-trump-and-trumpistas-cruelty-is.html

Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This: "Cruelty Is The Point"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/mommy-said-thered-be-days-like-this.html

Family Separation And The Deportation Of Parents Constitute Kidnapping And Human Trafficking

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/family-separation-and-parent.html

New England Journal Of Medicine Determines The Lethality Of Trump's Family Separation Policy

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/new-england-journal-of-medicine.html

"When Hate Came To El Paso," Introduced By A Central American Civil Rights Worker
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/when-hate-came-to-el-paso-introduced-by.html

"Evangelical Support Of Trump Will Be An Indictment Against Its Validity," Fr. Richard Rohr

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelical-support-of-trump-will-be.html  

Evangelicals' Satanic Surrender To Trump: Bend Over, Clasp Ankles, Apply K-Y

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/evangelicals-abject-surrender-to-trump.html

Absolutism As A Last Ditch Defense Against The Challenge (Threat?) Of Kindness

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/04/absolutism-as-defense-against-challenge.html

"Christian" "Conservatives" Are Neither Christian Nor Conservative
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/christian-conservatives-are-neither.html  

Cartoon: A "Free Lunch" Is American Conservatism's Unrelenting Nightmare

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/12/cartoon-free-lunch-is-american.html
  

My Gripe With Christianity
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/01/my-gripe-with-christianity.html

"Are Highly Religous People Less Compassonate?"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/are-highly-religious-people-less.html

The Obsolescence Of God
Good Religion And Bad
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2011/11/obsolescence-of-god-good-religion-and.html  

James' Epistle: "Judgment Without Mercy Will Be Shown To Anyone Who Has Not Shown Mercy"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/james-epistle-judgment-without-mercy.html

Peter The Apostle's Prime Directive: It Is Love That Forgives Sins

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-apostle-peters-prime-directive-love.html

Bill McKibben "The Christian Paradox: How A Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/06/bill-mckibben-christian-paradox-how.html

Christians Ignore Jesus' "Commandments" But Are Punctilious About Things He Never Said

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/christians-ignore-jesus-commandments.html

Yeshua Excoriates Fellow Pharisees: "The Woe Passages"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/08/yeshua-excoriates-fellow-pharisees-woe.html

The Pharisees... And What Became Of The Thirty Pieces Of Silver
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-pharisees-and-what-became-of-thirty.html

"Love Your Enemies. Do Good To Those Who Hate You," Luke 6: 27-42

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/love-your-enemies-do-good-to-those-who.html

"Do You Know What You're Doing To Me?"

Jesus of Nazareth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/do-you-know-what-youre-doing-to-me.html

Jesus Rails Against Human Traditions Of "Our Great Leaders Who Lived Long Ago" 

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/jesus-rails-againt-human-traditions-of.html

The Gospels With The Words Of Jesus In Red
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-gospels-with-words-of-jesus-in-red.html

Everything Jesus And The Apostles Had To Say About "The Rich" And "The Poor"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/10/everything-jesus-and-apostles-had-to_13.html

What's Wrong With Christian Bigots?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/whats-wrong-with-contemporary-christian.html

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/any-religion-that-needs-fear-to-thrive.html

Images Of Yeshua, A Nazarene Carpenter

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/images-of-yeshua-nazarene-carpenter.html

"From Jesus To Christ, The First Christians"
Frontline

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/from-jesus-to-christ-first-christians.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/bad-religion-compendium.html

Hey Christian! How Many Of Jesus' Moral Stands Do You Approve? Take The Test!

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-many-of-jesus-moral-exhortations.html

Plank In Eye Disease: Humankind's Most Common Affliction
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/05/plank-in-eye-disease-humankinds-most.html

How Do American Christians Direct Their Moral Umbrage?
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/how-do-american-christians-direct-their.html

"Has America Lost Its Mind?" 1A's Brilliant Interview With "Fantasyland's" Kurt Andersen
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/has-america-lost-its-mind-1as-brilliant.html

Televangelist Jim Bakker Resurrected: If This Doesn't Scare The Bejesus Out Of You, Repent For Your End Is Near!
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/09/televangelist-jim-bakker-resurrected-if.html

Pope Francis On Fundamentalism: The Horror Of Turning God Into Ideological Pretext
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/pope-francis-on-fundamentalism-horror.html

Pope Francis: The Horror Of Religious Fundamentalism And What's Wrong With Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/pope-francis-horror-of-religious.html

"Terror And The Other Religions"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html

Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/11/frank-zappa-profesied-fascist-theocracy.html

"American Theocracy" By Kevin Philips

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/07/american-theocracy-by-kevin-phillips.html

Conservative Christianity, Armageddon As Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, And Return To The Neolithic

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/conservative-christianity-armageddon-as.html

"The Politics Of Horror" And "The Paranoid Style In American Politics"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-politics-of-horror-and-paranoid.html

Facebook Exchange With Christian Fundamentalist Over "Wickedness" And "Hell"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/facebook-exchange-with-christian_29.html