Monday, May 23, 2022

Blood O' Jesus For Everybody!

I generally associate "blood of Jesus" language with Roman Catholic traditions (bleeding statues, stigmata which usually pour blood), etc. I may need to do a study on how that finds its way into fundamentalist traditions (if Boebert is not a "true fundy," she's near enough for dammit for this post.).  I know where it comes from, "Blood of the lamb" and all that, reaching back to the Passover in Egypt and connecting with John's "Behold the lamb of God" opening his gospel.  But there's something so weirdly idolatrous about it, by which I mean from a Protestant "we don't do that, Catholics do" perspective. You know, like transubstantiation v. plain old grape juice. ๐Ÿ‡  I don’t have a problem with it, but the Protestant tradition certainly does. Moving right along.... "The worst are full of passionate intensity." Yeats was describing Ireland and Europe after WWI. The sad truth is his description always fits the "present," whenever the present happens to be. Ummmm....I think maybe they'd rather be fed outside, if you don't mind. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, George Washington, and quite a few others, would like to put in a word. That's going to come as quite a suprise to the state of Georgia. Not that the Southern Baptists don't have undue influence..... So in 2020 God said “Well, it’s not Hillary, so I’m out”? Or God just didn’t have God’s way? These theological discussions always confuse me.

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  1. The GOP is the home of blasphemy, that's certain. This is what happens when the media presents "christo-fascism" as the only real religion for almost a half a century and the left figures secularism is required in all of public life. There's a vacuum that was created by that idiotic 1960s ideological idea following the "non-establishment" cases. The worst of the worst filled it.

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