Understand, when you see stuff like this, that Jesus is merely a side hustle for fascists like Barr. As with centuries of monarchy, sowing a myth that God chose you to take power and rule over the populace with an iron fist is essential.
This is the raw power lust the founders feared. Barr is the reason why church and state were separated, and religion was given a free sphere completely outside our political life. Fascists like Barr, under the shadow of the cross, have been dismantling that in front of our eyes.
The lawlessness you see in Trump’s administration? What explains its brazen shamelessness? Trump’s a mobster, but most of his appointees are merely steeped in evangelicalism, and its idea that God chooses some to rule over the unworthy masses by having the chosen be born rich.
That’s why I sigh when I see your well-meant “hypocrisy” arguments. It’s not hypocrisy to them. Barr and his ilk follow an ideology, loosely garbed in Christian quotes, that proclaims men like them as chosen to rule with absolute god-like power, and the rest of us to eat crumbs.
Barr’s ideology was universal practice in every society for millennia prior to the unlikely survival of USA’s early democracy, and the adoption of its practices by other enlightened nations.
There have always been Barrs.
We haven’t always let them in.
There have always been Barrs.
We haven’t always let them in.
Be very certain - when Barr and men like him say “secularism” is their enemy, it’s “democracy” they’re talking about.
We the People are Barr’s enemy.
Our constitution is Barr’s enemy.
Democratic self-governance is Barr’s enemy.
We the People are Barr’s enemy.
Our constitution is Barr’s enemy.
Democratic self-governance is Barr’s enemy.
