From Dan Rather, saluting some of the many heroes among us and urging us to be the heroes we need to all become to resist this onslaught of organized, billionaire funded lies, hatred, irrationality, greed, blind, deadly vengeance and unlimited destruction.
FOR STANDING UP TO THE BULLY-IN-CHIEF
The day after inauguration, the new president traditionally attends an interfaith prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. This year the televised homily was delivered by Bishop Mariann Budde, who has been the Bishop of Washington since 2011.
Budde addressed Trump, who was sitting in the front row, directly. “Mr. President, millions have put their trust in you. And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy on the people in our country who are scared now.”
The look on the president’s face was worth more than a thousand words. To put it succinctly, he was displeased.
After the service, he vilified Budde on Truth Social as a “Radical Left hard line Trump hater” and demanded an apology — an apology for being asked to be merciful, while sitting in a church. Budde, mercifully, declined to respond. Source
This is the greatest example in recent current events of an actual Christian calmly facing down a nasty, brutish, petulant, transactional two year-old anti-Christ type determined to bend the world to his will, using bullying lies and an army of unreasoning, transactional Christian hypocrites as his sword and shield. If mercy toward the oppressed isn’t at the heart of the teachings of Jesus Christ, then my name is Donald Fucking Trump, Interfaith Pope of all Christian martyrs, living, dead, real and imaginary.
Pete Hegseth, number one at the Department of Defense, proud white Christian , with his Crusader tattoos and hatred of “others”, will tell you Jesus hated homosexuals, the poor, women, snitches, Jews, the meek, the weak, gun regulators, prosecutors, government watchdogs, demonic Democrats, advocates of human equality, anyone who questions his personal savior, Mr. Trump, an infallible emissary of God who has never been mistaken. So will dark-skinned fascist liar Kashyap Patel, with his published Enemies List (a brown skinned guy Trump and Hegseth would normally mock as he got beaten up), Jewish Nazi Stephen Miller (another one Pete and Donald would ordinarily spit on), Trump’s personal lawyer (literally), employee of Qatar and Attorney General pick, Pam Bondi, and all the rest of those who claim to love the inimitable taste of their master’s never washed “ring”.
This is a moment when we all need to become the best heroes we are capable of becoming. Despair is not an option, it is a luxury that only helps evil triumph over the rest of us.
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