We have always had truth tellers and heroes, but sadly most people getting on with their daily lives only heard the noise of POWER. Power rests with the moneyed elite, the corporate class, the exploiters. They control mass media, mass entertainment, and mass lies. They have produced a culture of idolotry of demons like tRump ( a pitiful narcissistic wannabe celebrity who lies with every breath).Now we can listen because the powerful have destroyed everything worth caring about. They almost destroyed our very humanity. Corbin listened through the noise. More people listen every day. My despair finally sees some cracks of light. Carry on.
I am 81. Was raised in Christian religious fundamentalism. Have spent a lifetime personally overcoming its effects. I became adult before bibliolatry embraced the false doctrine of the economic rewards of being born again, before the cooptation of low church people who then became political tools of the rich. Before "born again" and "armageddon" infected the nation so poorly.
I was given an incredible gift to live among the Palestinians in the West Bank for a year during the 1970's.
Thank you so much for what you have written here. Your piece is perfect.
You hit the nail on the head. Cruz represents a branch of the church that went off the rails a long time ago, equating a false notion of biblical prophesy with the words and actions of Jesus. Loving your neighbor does not involve bombing them to death. Hamas did not love their neighbor, but for even longer, since about 1947, the Israeli government has not done so either. Note, it is the Israeli government that is critiqued, not the Jewish people, some of who have a long family history of living exactly where they do now. We (the American government) should immediately cease sending weapons to Israel. Already we are fully complicit in the massacre of innocents in Gaza. We do not wish to succumb to the same complicity in Iran, let alone actively participate based on a lie.
True. He did in the sermon on the mount. The more intriguing analogy to today's conflict is the parable of the Good Samaritan. The of the man beaten up was a Jew. Who helped? Not the Orthodox Jew, not the ultra Orthodox Jew, not even the Reformed Jew, it was the Palestinian (Samaritan) who helped. That is your neighbor.
As if an ancient book telling you that the universe, planet and the creatures who live on it were all created in 7 days and that by giving telepathic loyalty to a guy killed 2,000 years ago you will live forever isn't a big enough indicator of fiction…
What are we to make of this. We are lemmings on our way to the sea. Determined. Hell bent. But then, shooting ourselves in the foot has always been what we do best. NO! Telling ourselves what we want to hear is what we do best. NO! Looking the other way is what we do best! NO! Kidding ourselves is what we do best! NO! Being our own worst enemy is what we do best! NO!
The only reason that the Evangelicals are interested in the Middle East is that they think a war between Israel and other countries will hasten Jesus's return. Then Jews will convert to Christianity, and anyone who doesn't will be cast into the lake of fire, blah, blah, blah. I've been hearing this stuff since I was a child.
MacArthur pushed Korean invasion based upon godless commies. Nixon nixed the Nam peace deal in a fit of subterfuge fitting an assassin. Ray Gun invaded Grenada, pulled off Iran-Contra, screwed Carter by bribing the Iranians to get elected, Papa Bush Crime Family told Hussein that he could do what he wanted via Kuwait lateral drilling, and then invaded Iraq. Dubyuh did it again, after famously refusing to read intelligence rpts., even after Clinton tried to kill bin Laden and the Cole was bombed. That went straight into Hell in AFGHA, twenty years worth.
Each one's underlying reasons - land/resource grabs and upside down poll numbers for the megalomaniac presidents installed by the true Deep State - corporate kleptocracy. TFG is naked to the world, cannot hide anything anymore, and its brazen stick-beating of judges, politicos, immigrants, LGBTQ folk, sane Native First Nations folk, Mexicanos who feed us, Black folk who built/maintain most of the country, Asians who are smart enough to keep the wheels from falling off.
Criminal intent cannot control its urges - blatant addictions to every weakness known to man - and a blindness to its own glaringly obvious hegemony against just about every living thing FELT by all those living entities. To say that TFG and friends are underwater inside a psychotic break is to take your own pulse and realize that you are still here.
Desperate times require desperate measures. The old gods in many fairy tale religions are all about vicious, barbarous wrath - mass murders and mass torture. Bloodletting and overt destruction of entire civilizations, meaning the earth those communities live in and on - note GAZA. So what would we expect otherwise than another tsunami of LIES - Iran nukes imminent, Iran ready to turn Israel into glass, the so so so tired tale of the Saracens coming for your Jesus or your Moses.
It's the religious economy stupid. What does religion, as a cult, trade with? Transactional victories in zero-sum tete-a-tetes with much weaker ginned-up enemies who threaten the 'souls' of all these poor, innocent chattel who live, 50% of them, on 2.5% of the wealth of this nation. While at the TOP of this pyramid scheme are 340k who control about 14%, and another 3M who own another 17%. Real numbers.
What do the top 1% own? All the trappings of war, conquest, hegemony and the energy sources to pull these off. The reward is more land, more energy, and fewer bothersome 'lessers' who some god somehow got interpreted as proclaiming are not now and never worth being alive in the first place. In polite terms, this is known as genocide. Know any areas of the world right now that are in the throes of genocide?
Hegemony-seth is a member of one of the most reactionary religious christian sects EVER. A misogynist drunk megalomaniac who has written, in books, that all on the 'left' should just die. Notice a pattern here? Protestant religions have long been delusional about the subjective claims that wealth equals favor from some god/dog. Delirium generates the essence of 'rapture.' Where do any of us think that goes? The Cartesian psychotic break between 'self' and all other 'illusions' is at play 24/7. Note the radicalized killer in MN, a robotic pawn of this crazed hubris.
Lies? What isn't a lie in this sordid day and age?
I remember Chris Hedges saying there would eventually be a revolution, and you never know what will set it off. He cited the beginnings of former revolutions. We are being assaulted from all sides of our government: cutting and eliminating all social programs that benefit ordinary citizens, and demanding we send our precious sons and daughters to fight and die for corporations to get even richer. Will we be able to rise up against this lunacy, or will Palantir and AI succeed in imprisoning us all in a dystopian digital concentration camp nightmare?
Great article, and you're not wrong. So many unjust and terrible things are justified in the name of God and the Bible, and I thank God for sending Jesus Christ to give us the good news and to spread the message that it is about our personal relationship with Him, and that we should follow Him. Thanks for the amazing piece!!
We have always had truth tellers and heroes, but sadly most people getting on with their daily lives only heard the noise of POWER. Power rests with the moneyed elite, the corporate class, the exploiters. They control mass media, mass entertainment, and mass lies. They have produced a culture of idolotry of demons like tRump ( a pitiful narcissistic wannabe celebrity who lies with every breath).Now we can listen because the powerful have destroyed everything worth caring about. They almost destroyed our very humanity. Corbin listened through the noise. More people listen every day. My despair finally sees some cracks of light. Carry on.
Dear Corbin Trent,
I am 81. Was raised in Christian religious fundamentalism. Have spent a lifetime personally overcoming its effects. I became adult before bibliolatry embraced the false doctrine of the economic rewards of being born again, before the cooptation of low church people who then became political tools of the rich. Before "born again" and "armageddon" infected the nation so poorly.
I was given an incredible gift to live among the Palestinians in the West Bank for a year during the 1970's.
Thank you so much for what you have written here. Your piece is perfect.
You hit the nail on the head. Cruz represents a branch of the church that went off the rails a long time ago, equating a false notion of biblical prophesy with the words and actions of Jesus. Loving your neighbor does not involve bombing them to death. Hamas did not love their neighbor, but for even longer, since about 1947, the Israeli government has not done so either. Note, it is the Israeli government that is critiqued, not the Jewish people, some of who have a long family history of living exactly where they do now. We (the American government) should immediately cease sending weapons to Israel. Already we are fully complicit in the massacre of innocents in Gaza. We do not wish to succumb to the same complicity in Iran, let alone actively participate based on a lie.
Jesus took it a step farther. He was love your enemy and treat your neighbor as yourself I think.
True. He did in the sermon on the mount. The more intriguing analogy to today's conflict is the parable of the Good Samaritan. The of the man beaten up was a Jew. Who helped? Not the Orthodox Jew, not the ultra Orthodox Jew, not even the Reformed Jew, it was the Palestinian (Samaritan) who helped. That is your neighbor.
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Homo sapiens sapiens: the only life form that destroys everything it requires to live. Greedy, barbarous and cruel.
Well said.
My feelings exactly!!!
Amen, Corbin! Spot on, as usual! Thanks!
As if an ancient book telling you that the universe, planet and the creatures who live on it were all created in 7 days and that by giving telepathic loyalty to a guy killed 2,000 years ago you will live forever isn't a big enough indicator of fiction…
What are we to make of this. We are lemmings on our way to the sea. Determined. Hell bent. But then, shooting ourselves in the foot has always been what we do best. NO! Telling ourselves what we want to hear is what we do best. NO! Looking the other way is what we do best! NO! Kidding ourselves is what we do best! NO! Being our own worst enemy is what we do best! NO!
The only reason that the Evangelicals are interested in the Middle East is that they think a war between Israel and other countries will hasten Jesus's return. Then Jews will convert to Christianity, and anyone who doesn't will be cast into the lake of fire, blah, blah, blah. I've been hearing this stuff since I was a child.
Our "democracy" requires our constant vigilance to keep it from transforming into an "idiocracy" as is so often the case.
#Resistance is required daily.
Only a woke population can turn this madness around. It is up to us.
MacArthur pushed Korean invasion based upon godless commies. Nixon nixed the Nam peace deal in a fit of subterfuge fitting an assassin. Ray Gun invaded Grenada, pulled off Iran-Contra, screwed Carter by bribing the Iranians to get elected, Papa Bush Crime Family told Hussein that he could do what he wanted via Kuwait lateral drilling, and then invaded Iraq. Dubyuh did it again, after famously refusing to read intelligence rpts., even after Clinton tried to kill bin Laden and the Cole was bombed. That went straight into Hell in AFGHA, twenty years worth.
Each one's underlying reasons - land/resource grabs and upside down poll numbers for the megalomaniac presidents installed by the true Deep State - corporate kleptocracy. TFG is naked to the world, cannot hide anything anymore, and its brazen stick-beating of judges, politicos, immigrants, LGBTQ folk, sane Native First Nations folk, Mexicanos who feed us, Black folk who built/maintain most of the country, Asians who are smart enough to keep the wheels from falling off.
Criminal intent cannot control its urges - blatant addictions to every weakness known to man - and a blindness to its own glaringly obvious hegemony against just about every living thing FELT by all those living entities. To say that TFG and friends are underwater inside a psychotic break is to take your own pulse and realize that you are still here.
Desperate times require desperate measures. The old gods in many fairy tale religions are all about vicious, barbarous wrath - mass murders and mass torture. Bloodletting and overt destruction of entire civilizations, meaning the earth those communities live in and on - note GAZA. So what would we expect otherwise than another tsunami of LIES - Iran nukes imminent, Iran ready to turn Israel into glass, the so so so tired tale of the Saracens coming for your Jesus or your Moses.
It's the religious economy stupid. What does religion, as a cult, trade with? Transactional victories in zero-sum tete-a-tetes with much weaker ginned-up enemies who threaten the 'souls' of all these poor, innocent chattel who live, 50% of them, on 2.5% of the wealth of this nation. While at the TOP of this pyramid scheme are 340k who control about 14%, and another 3M who own another 17%. Real numbers.
What do the top 1% own? All the trappings of war, conquest, hegemony and the energy sources to pull these off. The reward is more land, more energy, and fewer bothersome 'lessers' who some god somehow got interpreted as proclaiming are not now and never worth being alive in the first place. In polite terms, this is known as genocide. Know any areas of the world right now that are in the throes of genocide?
Hegemony-seth is a member of one of the most reactionary religious christian sects EVER. A misogynist drunk megalomaniac who has written, in books, that all on the 'left' should just die. Notice a pattern here? Protestant religions have long been delusional about the subjective claims that wealth equals favor from some god/dog. Delirium generates the essence of 'rapture.' Where do any of us think that goes? The Cartesian psychotic break between 'self' and all other 'illusions' is at play 24/7. Note the radicalized killer in MN, a robotic pawn of this crazed hubris.
Lies? What isn't a lie in this sordid day and age?
I remember Chris Hedges saying there would eventually be a revolution, and you never know what will set it off. He cited the beginnings of former revolutions. We are being assaulted from all sides of our government: cutting and eliminating all social programs that benefit ordinary citizens, and demanding we send our precious sons and daughters to fight and die for corporations to get even richer. Will we be able to rise up against this lunacy, or will Palantir and AI succeed in imprisoning us all in a dystopian digital concentration camp nightmare?
Great article, and you're not wrong. So many unjust and terrible things are justified in the name of God and the Bible, and I thank God for sending Jesus Christ to give us the good news and to spread the message that it is about our personal relationship with Him, and that we should follow Him. Thanks for the amazing piece!!
Finally.