Yes, I'm talking about religion again and I sure as hell wish you would too, because that bundle of authoritarian offal with a cross stuck on it stinks so bad, I'm sure you could smell it on the moon. Where is the resistance to this endless calumny, this unceasing assault on our freedom, in our classrooms, our meeting places, our legislative assemblies?
On Fox today, (where else?) Stevie the Dooce made fun of religious freedom and our protection against official State religions by mocking Pennsylvania State Representative Babette Josephs (D) for declining to recite that nauseating formula declaring the United States of America to be what it's constitutionally forbidden to be: Under God.
Good for her and like her, I haven't dignified that 'Satanic Verse' since the Republicans shoved it up the National ass in 1954, taking time out from their struggle to keep the 'coloreds' in their place and making sure the races didn't mix. Time out from making sure people lost their jobs because of their politics.
“I wonder if she refuses to use money because money has ‘In God We Trust’ on it?”
chortled the coiffed and polyestered Doocy through three quarters on an inch of pancake makeup; totally forgetting a legendary tantrum of a certain Jewish agitator concerning money with God written on it being in the Jerusalem Temple, but like so many of these Christian pretenders, hiding behind some perverted pretense they call 'faith' as they hide their inner secrets behind stage makeup, behind patter and persiflage with their scummy Fox familiars, He's an enemy of almost anything good, anything that stands for freedom, for respect, for kindness, decency, democracy and yes -- American Values and American law. Is that schoolgirl giggling supposed to make us forget or be embarrassed by the fact that neither citizens nor their elected officials may be required to make religious oaths? No, Doocebag, I don't trust your God and if I had the opportunity to shove the constitution and a Gutenberg Bible sideways up your gaping anus I would feel like an instrument of justice and a defender of America. Do you wipe your foul ass with the Constitution because it has that Establishment clause? Do you pay for sex with money that has God on it?
I almost expect blood to ooze from beneath my fingernails as I try to avoid the most obscene and vulgar maledictions against Doocy and his gibbering boyfriend Brian Kilmead; foul mouthed imprecations and excrement encrusted execrations against that evil Republican empire that employs them to eat at the heart of America like a parasitic worm. It's hard to do and words come to mind, thoughts I don't dare to mention. Yes, it's hard not to dream of these evil men being in fact under some angry God -- like a dead, oozing cockroach under an iron boot heel.
Rep. Josephs exemplified in her behavior what the anti-establishment clause really means. I think that it is a constitutional violation to include the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and to include "in God We Trust" on our coins and currency.
ReplyDeleteThe NC state legislature begins every one of its sessions with a prayer led by ministers of different faiths. Somehow they think that it makes it less unconstitutional if they vary and have a rabbi, a priest, or a minister. Although they cover Christians and Jews, I have yet to hear the guest prayer from Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, or the myriad of other religious beliefs. Definitely no Wiccans.
I think that it trivializes sincere religious beliefs, insults agnostics, atheists,and most non-Christian faiths, and violates the anti-establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution and the NC State Constitution. So far, the ACLU has not taken them on.
And Doocy is a doofus!
I agree with every word and we have to remember that many Christians object strongly to making such casual oaths. Using 'the name' to support secular patriotism is hard to reconcile with:
ReplyDeleteThou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain;
for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes his name in vain.
As you suggest, this assumes that the Christian God is everybody's God and that if it isn't yours, then maybe you don't belong here. That's certainly how these phony Crusaders do feel.
I've noticed a big resurgence of pledging recently, with several groups I belong to, none of which are concerned with anything religious or patriotic piously reciting it at the beginning of meetings and luncheons. I usually go along but omit the God thing. I've also noticed an enormous upswing in militarism and troop worship -- public applause whenever we see someone in uniform etc.
These things together scare me.
No, and I thing the ACLU knows it can't win. A few years ago when some guy on the West coast took the issue to court, half the cars on the road here were emblazoned with "UNDER GOD" painted on the windows. Americans think freedom means the right to rape people with their beliefs.