I Was a Religious Studies Major in College

     Democrats will have a majority in the House of Representatives.  What will they do with that power?  From what I've heard, committees will form to investigate Donald Trump, because, apparently, that's what the American people need more than Medicare for all, a living wage, an end to our wars, a jobs program, a new emphasis on improving infrastructure, and free college.
     An ex-Marine with PTSD massacred people in a California bar.  Senator Marsha Blackburn (who looks like a past-middle-age Debbie Reynolds) reacted on Fox News by first insisting on the need to stand by the Second Amendment.  She also mentioned mental health without elaborating on any of her ideas, if any, on the subject.  The murderer, a war veteran, acquired his killing skills in another country.  He came back to his own country, not taken care of properly by a government eager to send people overseas as tools of corporations, standing guard over Exxon Mobil's stake in the Arabic-speaking parts of the planet.
     Marsha Blackburn, a longtime Washington politician in spite of her Tennessee accent and good Southern manners, cares more about the "right" to own automatic weapons than about the people they reduce to horizontal unmoving positions on reddening ground.
     I wrote a previous post entitled Sick Fuck Jesus.  It poses the question, What if Jesus was a sick fuck?  Christian politicians, like Blackburn (a Presbyterian), often believe in and get legislation passed that is the opposite of Jesus' views as expressed in the Gospels.  She supports the idea of Donald Trump receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.  Picture it: Trump, Man of Peace.  It's like suggesting that John Bolton is a Flower Child.
     If Jesus was a sick fuck, though, it would make sense--maybe the Gospel translations are faulty?  Blessed are the poor?  No, fuck the poor!  Blessed are the Haves, those who receive the benefits from the tax cut for the 1%.  Blessed is the Pentagon for being unable to account for the loss of 21 trillion dollars.
     Marsha Blackburn is for traditional marriage.  She sticks it to the Gays, the Lesbians.  Somehow, that significant portion of the American population marrying each other affects her personal life.  It's mystifying, like the moment Thomas put his hand (not his cock) into Jesus' resurrected side.
     National Anthem kneeling protests get Marsha's goat, too, spoiling her Sundays.  She wants a border wall between Mexico and the U.S.  Her views are Trumpian; which is to say, Trump's views are Republican--he just offends some in his party because he's such a boor.  Rich, "classy" folks don't like boors.  Or the homeless.  Or mentally ill veterans.  Or sick people with no insurance.  The lepers of our society, so to speak.
     Marsha is against net neutrality, saying it's "socialistic."  Think of anything beneficial to most Americans and Senator Blackburn is against it.  As a Christian, perhaps, she fits that description.  I suggest that it can be Christian to be a horrible person, believing heavily in a set of spiritually elevating beliefs (above others) that were pushed from an early age.  
     Jesus wasn't a Christian, he was a Jew.  Arguably, a Jewish heretic.  One can be Christlike and not be a Christian.  The Jesus who wasn't a sick fuck said that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to get into Heaven.  What does that mean?  Exactly what it says!
     I accept that Blackburn and Paul Ryan, Mike Huckabee, the Bush family, the Obamas, and many others among the powerful are all Christians; in varying degrees manifesting immorality and committing evil acts, including blowing people to smithereens, all in service to capitalistic and power consolidation goals having nothing to do with Freedom, Liberty, the American Way, the Shining City on a Hill; having nothing either to do with beliefs as demonstrated by the words of Jesus, who was tortured and murdered because he offended the assholes running the show in the Province of Judea, circa A.D. 33.  Were Jesus to come back now with the same philosophy, people in power, like those mentioned above, would have him killed, making them literally Antichrist.  I don't mean the Devil when I write Antichrist, but someone on the opposing side of Christ as represented by Jesus' words and compassionate acts in the Gospels.  Did George W. Bush, Michelle Obama's fun new friend, kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghanis because he's Christlike?  
     Marsha Blackburn doesn't believe in climate change.
     Marsha Blackburn is an idiot.
     Democrats will have power in the House of Representatives so who wants to be the Speaker of the House?  The same seventy-eight year old who shouldn't be, Nancy Pelosi, the champion fundraiser who cares most about money and maintaining the status quo in her party.  A dinosaur.
     Dinosaurs, remember, also witnessed climate change.

                                                                            Vic Neptune