Drowning in religion

It is Tuesday, and as I either read the Huffington Post, graze on the insane from FOX Noise, or hear tired tidbits from the T-Republicans I wonder aloud…I have noticed when  countrymen and women begin to praise the Fundamentalism of their religion more bigotry/racism/ homophobia crop up. It is as if the zeal for pure religion takes the form of manure dripping on the souls of the stupid. Suddenly demigods are elevated to the position of grand Pu-Bah and granules of gross human inadequacies flair up like sun spots and burn any fact from the fickle. Men like Mike Huckabee a Pastor and Presidential wannabe state without missing a beat that he and only he knows what Jesus meant when he was placed on the cross. Mr Huckabee insists that even if he wasn’t in the workroom when the Bible was created he above all others received the first memo and knows the exact meaning of that message. Huckabee, holding the US Constitution in one hand lets a bit of his disrespectful spit shimmy down its paragraphs and amendments and swears that this bit of Americana will NEVER be as lawful as the Bible that he crushes next to his heart. And as this happens Fox Noise gets a hard on, Evangelical’s grab their Second Amendment solutions and the voters in T-publican primaries are at the ready to elect this man to the highest office in the land. 

Paul Ryan, boyhood saint of the T-publicans speaks to a group of wealthy good ole boys saying "We have got this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work, a favorite mantra from Charles Murray a loud and proud Racist. When confronted with the origin of his speech and the lack of any real fact to back it up this Orthodox Catholic lad hems and haws stating the usual farcical reaction, I was misquoted, taken out of context. The man whose budget rips assistance to families who need food stamps, who believes the government is not as powerful as the Church when it comes to women’s parts, who calls the unemployed leeches (when he is not reciting Ayn Rand or Charles Murray) likes to refer to himself as an ex alter boy. He walks in the shoes of God, he professes.

Then take the T-Publican majority state legislatures, the guys and gals who wear their hoods and sheets under their suits and skirts; claiming they are the true inheritors of everything red, white and blue. Amendments fly off the handle from these folk, proclaiming the Bible as the state book for Oklahoma, shutting down any clinic in Texas that might educate a female about health issues, permitting good Christians of Georgia to carry a god damn AK 44 to church, bars and airports.In Nevada supporting a selfish goon who really is on the government dole ever avoiding the paying of his fair share of taxes. Look closely at all the Christian fundamentalists who prefer laws that deny same-sex couples marriage equality, who feel that women were and always will be chattel, who want to deny long term unemployment payments, who consider poor people not worthy of quality health coverage, let alone any health care. Look closely at how they first say Gods name, then clutch a Bible till it bleeds poison then declare this nation is a Christian nation first.

It is Tuesday another Fundamentalist jihad and I just wonder how much God must be spilled before we all drown?