God is Misrepresented by the Patriarchy

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Religion / Politics 

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A good phrase for what we have been observing in the right, alternative right, and conservative media is: the lack of godliness. Talk show hosts jump up and down screaming about god. These men pray on air and act arrogant that their pick for President of the United States ascended into office.  

Should we say prey on air instead?

The last few weeks has shifted the plane of existence into a gambler’s dream. Our timeline is now filled with new possibilities of reality. Some good results are ridding the world of the New World Order slave system. The bad outcome manifests as threats to social equity by antiquated superstition disguised as patriotism.

With the promise of jobs and a better economy, President Donald Trump swept into office like a tsunami. Yet, he and other conservatives believe their divine right of kings promises them the power to revoke any women’s right or health initiative. The rapture of ego has grown to the point that the patriarchy cannot relate to the People they were entrusted to serve.

“Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn’t these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly,” Trump tweeted early Sunday morning.

This statement supports the out of touch religious mindset of the administration. The protests were to inform the government that women will not be sitting this administration out. Women know their rights and will be exercising those rights to the fullest extent that their creator has deemed.

“Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. Take away the law-establishment, and every religion re-assumes its original benignity.”
~Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, 1791

On the other side, the alternative right media has poked fun, made horrible comments, and relished in derogatory statements about women and men who protest against the alt rights’ adopted religious edicts. These holier than thou egotists are not Christians but hiding behind that identity to force their agenda onto others. These imposters revel in the putting down of people as a form of social control, especially of non-followers and women.

Christian comportment should subtract the judgment and misinformation coming from this segment of the media. If one can call right, alt right, and conservative religious sources in any way shape or form news media at this point, it would be difficult to support factually. Alternative media for the most part worships the cult called religion in order to garner fandom and support.

Journalism is not about exalting religion but pointing out the faults and corruption of government. Mainstream media has faltered under corporate rule as does everything monopolies and privatization touch. News for new’s sake is a dying institution.

Where does this disparity leave the American People when objectivity is sacrificed for illusion? The Fourth Estate is not only For Sale, but in disrepair with a cemetery plot being dug in the driveway. Is the new media as corrupt and subjective as the old establishment media?

The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.”
~Founding Father Noah Webster, calling for no religious tests to serve in public office, Sketches of American Policy, 1785

If the majority of alternative media purports to be media than it will have to do so at the altar of facts, freedom, and reason or the Republic is lost before it even restarts. Empirical reporting cannot happen when colored with the filter of propaganda be it political or religious. Alternative media has to be one or the other: factual media or a church. Media for the People cannot be both.

“The legislature of the United States shall pass no law on the subject of religion.”
~Founding Father Charles Pinckney, Constitutional Convention, 1787

Yet that direction is where states like Texas demand America’s course to drift from our promise and the current federal administration intends to tread with the exuberant climax of the right, alt right, and conservative media.

This blind adherence to cult tenets has left alternative media to push causes not outlined specifically in their own religious doctrines. The alt right media has grabbed onto women’s issues like their view is god’s view, except it’s not. How’s this list for a reality check:

·  Drinking alcohol

·  Smoking cigarettes or cigars

·  Gambling

·  Dancing

·  Watching R-rated movies

·  Listening to secular music

·  Watching MMA (Mixed Martial Arts)

·  Using birth control

·  Sporting tattoos or piercings

·  Sending your kids to public school

·  Owning a luxury car or other extravagant possessions

·  Working on Sunday

·  Observing Halloween

These items denote all the topics NOT discussed in the Bible. Why? Because men wrote the Bible, not god. If an all-knowing god had written the text then the future would be represented, but no word about women’s issues like birth control, equity, equality, or even abortion exist. Still the People are convinced that their religion represents these political juggernauts.  

Men are representing their interpretation of what god wants as the patriarchy has for thousands of years. There is no basis for religion in women’s issues, modern, progressive, or otherwise. So in reality god is being misrepresented by the hubris of certain media outlets, religious leaders, and politicians to their own ends. Hint, hint, Mr. President.

“I never liked the Hierarchy of the Church — an equality in the teacher of Religion, and a dependence on the people, are republican sentiments — but if the Clergy combine, they will have their influence on Government”
~Founding Father Rufus King, Rufus King: American Federalist, pp. 56-57

The shame is on those media outlets who believe that their platform is to preach instead of maintain the checks and balances of this Republic. Religion should never take place of reason. Religion should never dictate law or policy. Yet here we stand on the crossroads of history and we have a patriarchy too in love with itself to see a defining moment of freewill is at hand but instead to hand out reprisals based on mythical parables.

“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”
~Founding Father Oliver Wolcott, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 9 January 1788

We are faced with such oppression twice over. Americans are faced with the choice of economic and spiritual tyranny. So many have taken to the streets to secure their freedoms from both.

Since Roe v Wade was established in law by the Supreme Court in 1973, women have been protested, attacked, and their physician’s murdered for the ideals of Christianity. The Clinton years were rife with violent conservative misconduct against women. Women have seen the ugly side of religious doctrines masquerading as moral authority.  

In many respects, Christians have a very selective memory when it comes to history and facts. Even conservative, alt right media cherry pick their version of reality to feed their followers a false sense of self and entitlement. If the topic is not about homosexuals or gay marriage then the ire is raised about women having the ability to make decisions about their lives and health.

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”
~Founding Father James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1817

Have the People fallen into the abyss of communitariansim so far that they believe their religious ideology is worthy of lawful acknowledgement?

As a people will Americans rise above the confines of ego, hubris, misrepresentation, and selective inclinations to recover our Republic from the hands of tyrants?

Or shall we slip from one political nightmare and surrender to a theocracy of dunces?

If the new media does not avail itself to reason, then spiritual tyranny is the future. There is no one god. There is no god. Men have written and defined society at the determent of all others.

This uneven course is sure to implode America into a new battleground for elites to feast. As reason dictates, we must refuse the temptations of ego-driven ideologies and do the work of the People. Without reason, America has no chance at all in defeating the tyrants of this world.

No matter how we feel about theology.

Source: Addicting Info, National Post, Bible, 

Conservative Whine: The Original Social Justice Warriors

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Patriarchy / Theocracy 
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In the age of your rights end where my feelings begin Social Justice crapola, we get another example of the hypocrisy from the patriarchy. The message is clear that freedom is when conservatives do not have to take responsibility for living in a Republic but demand all of the protections created by it.

The Religious Right is the birth parents of Social Justice tantrums and look what it has gotten us. Women are sacrificed on the alter of whaaa! Conservatives defund birth control and abortions citing religious exemptions and morality.

Except birth control reduces the number of abortions, so what is immoral, unethical, or impractical about making sure birth control is available to all young women? The problem is not having control of women. Control of anyone is slavery. Isn't the Religious Right against that too? 

In an article on LiveScience called Free Birth Control Cuts Abortion Rate by 62 Percent, anyone can see that proper medical care counters the number of unintended pregnancies.

Among women in the free contraceptive program, the teen birth rate was 6.3 per 1,000 women, a huge difference from the national teen birth rate of 34.3 per 1,000 women.

Likewise, the abortion rate among women in the program was 4.4 to 7.5 per 1,000 between 2008 and 2010. Nationally, there are 19.6 abortions per every thousand women, a 62 percent to 78 percent difference. In the St. Louis area, the overall abortion rate in that time frame was between 13.4 and 17 abortions per 1,000 women.

So shouldn't that study be lauded by conservatives of the Religious Right to protect women's' health initiatives? That would be a resounding: no. One quote garnered from a conservative, alt right radio host is: "I don't want to have to pay for it!"

But in reality, no legislation has ever had to be passed to force employers or insurance companies to cover erectile dysfunction treatments, most types of male reproductive prescriptions are covered by insurance. In 52% of the human population that is female, why are women paying for that cost when women's protection from unwanted pregnancies are refuted, if conservatives want to be petty about it?

Conservative men have no problem having sex with women and creating babies. Yet, these same men who help create the problem of abortion refuse women the opportunity of not having one.

Problem Reaction Solution.

Sounds like conservative men do not understand that women are not pleasure bots. We are feeling human beings who want to find a balance between family and self-fulfillment. Without birth control or abortions, especially for the life of the mother, genetic abnormalities, or worse, women become nothing but sexual toys burdened by antiquated theology. 

In the light of fairness, freedom, and equity, the conservative argument against preserving women's reproductive health services including birth control loses all credibility. 

To take the reality further, many neglected and abused children live as prisoners in foster care.

Over 400,000 American children are in foster care, taken away when their families are in crisis and can’t take care of them.

How many of these children were unintended pregnancies?  We have to wonder. We are also left to wonder where all the conservatives are to adopt these children? 

These children and their families are directly effected by the "let someone else care" philosophy of the Religious Right. The Right has no problem dictating economic, political, and religious policies to the rest of America. The question remains: can America afford to keep entertaining these religious tantrums? Anyone with a moral or ethical conscience would be remiss to do so.  

Still the cry for religion to be exalted in society is prevalent as preachers interfere with politics, push their religion in public schools, and never pay a dime in  property taxes. 

On the website called Christianity an interesting point was made:

I find it fascinating that certain groups on the Right want pastors to "speak up." What they mean by this, of course, is to more overtly endorse their preferred candidates and/or moral issues. But what they don't understand is that pastors are speaking up, it's just that what pastors are speaking up about may not be the taking points of the current season.And, the Bible cuts against both parties, against all political persuasions....So some would say the Bible is very conservative. And yet that would be incomplete, because you will also find in Scripture many texts on justice, the plight of the poor, treatment of the immigrant. And who Jesus' chief antagonists were in the gospels? The Pharisees, the Religious Right of their day.  

Should pastors speak about in the pulpit about contemporary issues? Yes, but only when the texts of Scripture clearly articulate it. They shouldn't bow to any party's talking points. They shouldn't slant their sermons to fit a political profile. They shouldn't become wannabee pundits in the pulpit. They should preach the Word and let it do it's work in the hearts of the people, who will then go influence their communities. 

And, the argument from the Founding Fathers of the United States would say: No. Religion should not be apart of our political or justice systems. The simple fact of swearing on the Bible is hypocrisy. 

 

In the article, 10 Founding Fathers Quotes That Will Make Conservatives’ Heads Explode, we can read of list of statements made by Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and others that contradict the political, social, and religious edicts demanded by the Religious Right in our country. Statements such as

“The power of all corporations ought to be limited, […] the growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.”
— James Madison

Corporations were never intended to become megaconglomerates or transnationals. The fact that corporations bribe our politicians and write their own laws supports Madison's assertion. America needs to break up monopolies as well as make corporations less influential.

Another concern: a conservative radio show host has also expressed his intolerance for worker's protections under the law. 

“He who is the author of a war, lets loose the whole contagion of hell, and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.”
— Thomas Paine: The Crisis No. V, 1797

Conservatives under the banner of Globalism have murdered millions of people and destroyed the environment for the sake of controlling other people's natural resources.

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
~Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Horatio Spofford, 1814

Religion was not the foundation of the American Dream. The subtraction of religion was the impetus. Freedom and rights cannot be weighed in the fantasy of a god.

Just ask women.

“As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.” –= Alexander Hamilton: Address to the Electors of the State of New York, March, 1801

A certain level of taxation is necessary for the sake of our society, yet taxes are cut for the wealthiest time and time again with the promise of jobs and prosperity that never come. 

Conservatives cry: taxation is theft, but when everyone else not making a living wage is forced onto social services because the taxes for that segment of society are too high and the good paying jobs were outsourced to the Third World to make Share Holders rich, conservatives scream: "laziness!," "you waste your money on junk food!," and, of course: that women are sluts for having children or feminists for divorcing their abusive husbands.

Conservatism has been a bane to freedom and rights since the beginning of history. Our forefathers wrote of such concerns and repudiated religious exercise in politics. Today, conservative radio shows, celebrities, and writers want to rewrite history and revert back to a stifling theocracy for anyone who is not white, male, and Christian.

Those days are over. The patriarchy needs to understand that the rest of us live here too. Time to grow up, stop flailing your tantrums on television and radio, and finally realize that you cherry pick ideals to stand behind all the while negating your duties to this Republic.

Source: Foster Club, Christianity, Democratic Underground,