Sunday, May 26, 2019

Bullying Our Way to Heaven and Empire



I was out for a Sunday stroll on the outdoor mall.  I noticed up ahead two young men trying to hand out some leaflets.  The two had evangelically bland, scrubbed faces and attire to match.  I could see that no one was accepting the leaflets; others went out of their way to avoid the two men completely.

I walked right up to them and the tall guy held out a leaflet.  I accepted it, nodded, said, “Thank you,” and moved on.  I opened the leaflet. The first page was covered with one sentence from a letter of St. Paul’s to the Hebrews (9:27).  In all caps it said: “A man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.  The word die was in red italics and judgment in italics.


What a creepy way to preach the “good news” of the Christian gospel!  What a way to introduce the famous religion of love.  What happened to forgiveness and charity?  I couldn’t help asking myself--Why don’t they feed the hungry, take in immigrants, nurse our poisoned nature, speak truth to tyrants and plutocrats? Why not condemn the war profiteers? Call out murderous Big Pharma? Serve the victims of torture in solitary confinement? 

The options for acting like real Christians are infinite in this suffering world.  We don’t need to be threatened with damnation or told that people who believe in the right to abortion are murderers. Scaring the bejesus out of people into submission was not the way the new creed touched the heart and captured the imagination of the ancient world.

Psychic terrorism is what I call this model of evangelical propaganda. It was neither intelligent or practical to use this scare tactic in a town noted for its progressive ideas.  No wonder nobody was paying attention to them.

This bullying approach to ‘religion’ reminds me of the bullying approach to politics of Donald Trump and his aides, blast-em-all Bolton and pontifical Pompeo. This thuggish trio use the same techniques of threat and intimidation in world politics that the evangelicals use in their predatory religiosity.

At this moment we hear reports of the supposed need to man the battle ships and send thousands of troops again to the Middle East.  The Iranians are threatening the United States! To arms! Trouble is, not even Trump believes this.

A large percentage of evangelicals in the U.S. A. are squarely behind this morally grotesque use of military and economic power, as for example John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel that line up with warmongers like Bolton lusting for war with Iran.  Needless to say, this has nothing to do with loving actual Jewish people.  The obsession with Israel is selfish and self-serving, and in the end, fatal to all Jews who fail to convert to Hagee’s Christianity.

A good part of Trump’s ‘base’ are evangelicals who believe that backing Israel is prelude to the ‘Second Coming’ of Christ and the Rapture of the faithful to heaven.  It is terrifying to think that the most powerful man on earth, an ignoramus and narcissistic liar, has a political base whose “religious beliefs” are totally at odds with reality and totally malignant toward the mass of the human race.  Enough to spoil a Sunday stroll. 





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