US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in an interview this week that the execution of the man who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 would be “public.”
But this is what we’ve always wanted as a fundamentalist Christian nation: some hardcore eye-for-an-eye shit you can take the kids to. Put it on TV. The line between entertainment and real death is long gone. “Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it.”
But this is what we’ve always wanted as a fundamentalist Christian nation: some hardcore eye-for-an-eye shit you can take the kids to. Put it on TV. The line between entertainment and real death is long gone. “Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it.”
Brought to you by the same pearl clutchers that think drag queens reading a story to kids is totally inappropriate.
Ironically the actual fundamentals of Christianity:
Be kind to your enemy. Turn the other cheek. Forgive those who trespass against you. …to the least of these… Let he who is without sin…
The heritage we mean:
White supremacy
The religion we mean:
Christian Sharia law
Unfortunately our claimed heritage and real heritage are very different 😭
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Hush, that’s communist talk!
Yeah, the Sermon on the Mount stuff sounds pretty great. Or Thomas Jefferson’s bible. Or just being a red-letter Christian.
It’d be great if all the other stuff was left by the wayside, but it’s still there, lying in wait…