Of pearls and hurricanes

Attorney General Bill Barr: "This is not decay. This is organized destruction. Secularists and their allies have marshaled all the forces of mass communication, popular culture, the entertainment industry, and academia in an unremitting assault on religion & traditional values." pic.twitter.com/HPda0ybdYN

— The Hill (@thehill) October 12, 2019

I used to poke around this question during focus groups and always discovered it led somewhere pretty dark https://t.co/yYVbajJ0JI

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 12, 2019

Trump tells Judge Jeanine that "people are joining the church" because "everybody knows the Russian witch hunt was a phony fraud." pic.twitter.com/Vm1kUpFoIH

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 13, 2019

I was going to count up the scriptures that reference the alien, widow, and orphan, and throw in the parable of the sheep and the goats for good measure. Get all Biblical on Barr's ass, in other words.

Pearls before swine, I realized. Barr was plumping Trump for the "Value Voter's Summit, a Family Research Council confab, and as big a confabulation as can be imagined. Those people are impervious to the word of God, as they are convinced they ARE the word of God. That they want to hear from Trump is proof enough there us no good in them. Rick Wilson's experience is my experience, only from the pulpit and the pew, not the focus group; and the White from Trump reveals he is both brainless and flailing, spewing words like a science fiction robot run amok before it stops working completely.

This pseudo-Biblical ranting is going to continue, but it will be as effective as an umbrella against a hurricane. The word of God is not mocked, either, though it is often misrepresented and seldom clearly heard. There is still a lot to be said for the still, small voice. It speaks even during the hurricane, and does prevail against it, if only by still being effective after it.