The great, positive, uplifting thing about Pride and LGBTQ events is the sheer love and grace and sense of nurture. There was a Pride parade today in Louisville and people were laughing, smiling, hugging, holding hands, greeting one another, rainbows, colors, beauty, joy, singing, fun... welcome, welcome, welcome!
And this beautiful crowd of people? They were young and old and black and white and all ages and colors in between. They were grandmothers and grandbabies and people with disabilities and their allies and straight and LGBTQ... it was truly the beauty of all the world and diversity. And, as always, there were a handful of protesters - in this case, six white guys, one wearing a Nazi/white power "Jerusalem cross" symbol - gathered in a little knot and shouting down curses and hate. "You're going to hell!" they yelled. "Your church is NO church!" they shouted at me, seeing my church name on my LGBTQ friendly shirt.
Venom, bitterness, hatred, demonization, arrogance. You have to wonder what such groups hope to accomplish by contrasting their messages of hate and bitterness with the love, grace and beautiful joy and welcome messages from the Pride side? WHO would want to be part of that? You can see in one of the photos that, while most people just ignored them and their pathetic little pamphlets of "good news," when people DID accept the pamphlets, they just tore it up. Who needs that sort of hate and villainy? It's just sad and pathetic and I could almost pity them, if they didn't do so much damage in their vengeful arrogance and rage. One last point, a tip for other conservative religionists: If the churches who are opposed to LGBTQ folks just existing and being truly want to try to make a positive impact, they could come and protest the neo-Nazis who are being the face of conservative religiosity on their behalf.
Marshal, unsupported, stupidly false attacks on people you don't know will not abide here. Neither will defense of Neo-nazis.
ReplyDeleteDo I know for certain this guy with the neo-nazi symbology and hate coming from his mouth personally identifies as a neo-nazi? No. Do I have any serious doubt about it, though?
No.
Look, you can defend these white men espousing hateful attacks and charges if you want, just not here.
The POINT of this post is, given a choice between some neo-nazi looking hatemongers espousing attacks and demonizations on the one hand and people celebrating love and welcome and support and inclusion on the other hand, WHY would anyone join the haters (short of their own hateful predispositions)?
They just were not providing anything like a compelling case FOR their own hateful selves, only a compelling case against them and their views.
In the meantime, the beloved community of grace and kindness, joy and welcome, continue to march in grace and beauty.
Which side will you choose?
“ White Christian Nationalists are the only people on the planet who could control an entire government and still insist they’re being persecuted and oppressed.”
ReplyDeleteWhat dumbass said this dumbass comment??
Delete"White Christian Nationalists" aren't in control of any government.
What dumbass claims Trump is an instrument of God for Jesus Christ? A Christian Nationalist.
DeleteThen there’s the underage loving accused assaulter at the head of the DoD. “Hegseth has a history of defending the Crusades, the brutal medieval wars that pitted Christians against Muslims. In his 2020 book "American Crusade," he wrote that those who enjoy Western civilization should "thank a crusader." Two of his tattoos draw from crusader imagery: the Jerusalem Cross and the phrase "Deus Vult," or "God wills it," which Hegseth has called "the rallying cry of Christian knights as they marched to Jerusalem."
The perpetually abdicating Speaker of the House. “ Standing on the National Mall for the "Rededicate 250" worship service in May, House Speaker Mike Johnson offered a prayer that cast the United States as a Christian nation. Johnson claimed in his prayer that God directed the 56 people who signed the Declaration of Independence to do so, and he called the United States "a place of miracles" and "the light and the glory of all nations." He then declared that he and the crowd did "hereby rededicate America as one nation under God."
https://www.youtube.com/live/P9dGtndnFiA?si=T6n__9iPaaDBLdhz
The felon sitting in the Oval Office. "To have a great nation, you have to have religion. I believe that so strongly. As president, I will always defend our glorious heritage, and we will protect the Judeo-Christian principles of our founding".
"But no one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you"
He was right in a way he didn’t know.
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Thugs - like “Christian” Nationalists - can’t face Jesus’ judgment in Matthew 25. You’re implicated.
Your lies are famous even to the local Thugs. You vote to starve the hungry and choke the thirsty. You shut the door on the refugee. You strip the clothes off children and put them in cages. You vote to imprison legal citizens.
DeleteYou’re the GOAT of the cursed, those he commands to depart.
And St Paul did not know democracy. He only knew the absolute power of a Caesar and the real life need to try to avoid the gaze of crushing brutality. Like black people know. Paul knows blackness.
But you. You’d love Roman rule. You love blood in the water, blood in the fields, steroid-laced blood in the White House. For the 47 years of your span. Then… 86’d.
Deplorable how committed “Christian” Nationalists are to perpetual lies. They even lie about their own beliefs. So sick in the head.
ReplyDeleteIt's pathological, to be sure. Irrational, sick, immoral and just "off," this simple-minded "religion" of (typically white) "christian" nationalists.
DeleteMarshal, in a now deleted comment due to oppressive attacks on people he doesn't know...
ReplyDeletePaul says God is the reason anyone is in a position of power, but if someone says the same about Trump, it's an indication of a Christian nationalist?
This is one of the problem of the bibliodolators on the right and throughout history, as well as a symptom of and pathology of white christian nationalists... the desire to want to make (some) words of the Bible literally factual even if it indicates an extremely vile view of God (or at least their "god" as they imagine "him"). This line of thinking says that God wanted Adolph Hitler in charge, because God is "in control" meaning god appoints even rapists, mass murderers and child abusers in control.
What irrational, vulgar nonsense.
If you are a good person, do you leave a rapist in charge of your children? Of course, not. And you're a mere mortal. If even you, a mere mortal, knows better than put abusive, oppressive people in power, does not a perfectly just, perfect loving God know better than you?
It's a nonsense and blasphemous charge against "god" as you imagine "him."
You've got questions to answer, Marshal, if you want to engage in dialog. Empty-headed, vulgar rants are not dialogs. Be more adult than this.
ReplyDeleteMarshal asked (in a now deleted comment due to not answering questions and being vulgar and disrespectful) what questions he hasn't answered. Here:
ReplyDelete1. If you are a good person, do you leave a rapist in charge of your children? Of course, not. And you're a mere mortal.
2. If even you, a mere mortal, knows better than put abusive, oppressive people in power, does not a perfectly just, perfect loving God know better than you?
3. (and thus, would not put a rapist in charge of children, an enslaver over enslaved people, an abuser in charge of innocent people?)
You're offering the opinion that IF a given person is in power, it's because God PUT them there, even if that person is an enslaver, a rapist, an oppressor. Even if that person is Hitler.
4. Isn't that what you're saying?
5. And if so, do you not see how insane that is if, even YOU, a mere mortal, would not put a child molester in charge of children, to suggest that God would be cruel, careless and evil enough to do what even YOU wouldn't do?
6. And finally, do you not see how that is slander/blasphemy against God to suggest that God places abusers over children, enslavers over slaves, oppressors over the oppressed?