Sunday, September 03, 2023

Evilgelicals: an Update

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 © August 10, 2023, the Griot Poet 

 

See my piece “Evilgelicals,” I wrote on January 25, 2021

 

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.”

 

Matthew 7:13 fulfilled.

 

After preaching a sermon on the words of Jesus,

Telling everyone to “turn the other cheek,”

You know,

The nonviolence on which Dr. Martin Luther King based his movement and philosophy,

Along with a sprinkle of Mahatma Gandhi,

The Sermon on the Mount that we all THOUGHT they believed,

A congregant asked the theologian:

“Where did you get those LIBERAL talking points?”

 

To which he replied:

“I’m [literally] quoting the words of Jesus.”

 

The reply from the congregant:

“Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak!”

 

Dumbfounded, the theologian didn’t know how to reply or speak.

 

Source: https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

 

At one point, they considered swapping Jehovah for Odin,

 

Since the motivation is raw power, why not a barbaric deity to support it?

(But Jehovah, in all honesty, has had his moments.)

 

Source: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1998/new-brand-racist-odinist-religion-march

 

To quote Russell Moore: “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

 

Preacher, check this:

One out of six congregants have PAID for an abortion!

Let’s put some math to it:

The Southern Baptist Convention has 47,198 churches and 13.2 million members.

One divided by six is 16.7%,

This math means 2.2 million members have either had or encouraged an abortion.

 

Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/1-in-6-churchgoers-have-had-or-encouraged-an-abortion-poll.html

 

“Scribes and Pharisees: Ye HYPOCRITES!”

 

Source: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2023&version=ESV

 

We are beyond a crisis.

We have an influential religious sect that spouts conspiracy theories and intellectual pablum bullshit!

 

We are beyond belief that a religious sect,

That once claimed to be following brown-skinned Palestinian Prophets,

That once claimed to be about religious piety, “family values,” and “personal responsibility,”

Can with a straight face call themselves his sheep,

Sheep follow their shepherd,

Not go off half-cocked, QAnon crazy into the bizarro deep!

 

The “meek shall inherit the Earth,”

Not sociopaths strapped for combat,

Walking into Panera Bread and Starbucks,

With AR15s and grenade launchers slung over their backs!

 

Any movement, so armed to slay dragons,

When none, except Kimono, actually exists,

They are poised for violence,

They are poised for a tumultuous crash,

A crisis from which they will not recover [and] will likely no longer exist.

 

What they feared was enough for them to sell what was left of their souls to an orange devil,

 

Quoting myself:

“They should stop perpetuating the biggest lie,

They’re not following brown-skinned Palestinian prophets,

Who’s neck they’d stretch or likely stomp on,

They wanted to throw out the votes of the “least of these,”

The actual “meek of the Earth” that looks like him,

[And elevate the “thieves in the temple,”]

They’re worshiping their [own] lack of Melanin,

[They’re worshiping their [own] reflection,]

The “Golden Calf” in their Sinai Desert,

The altar of white supremacy,

Cremation altars of “I [really] don’t care” (do you?)

Separating brown-skinned youth from their parents,

Pitching children and the future through the flaming altar of Moloch,

Or, Rio Grande barbed wire death traps!

 

They are:

Anti-Arts,

Anti-Education,

Anti-History,

Anti-Immigrants,

Anti-Science,

Anti-BIPOC,

Anti-Love,

Anti-LGBT,

Anti-Muslim,

Anti-Semitic,

Anti-Woke,

Anti-Women,

Anti-HUMAN!

Following their cult leader over the abyss into oblivion,

 

Evangelicals: (n) “of, relating to, or agreeing with the Christian gospel especially as it is in the four Gospels.” Merriam-Webster

 

These apostates are EXACTLY the opposite!

 

Of the Roman Emperor Domitian,

The self-proclaimed “Lord and God” and ruthless dictator reigned from CE 81 to 96,

John on the Island of Patmos coded his critique,

By numbering his name as “Six-hundred, threescore, and Six,”

I don’t know if John was speaking about future events,

But it is [quite] obvious,

For there to be an Antichrist,

He must first have anti-Christians!

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