Christian Supremacy shows its ugly face to the Northern Arapaho Tribe!

I had my allergy shots this morning. I’m in agony right now. Not from the shots, but from the pain in my back muscles as they spaum. Every since I have had the operation on my lower back to reduce the pain in my right leg, the pain in my back from the rest of the back muscles spasuming is out of control. When I saw the surgeon this week, he looked and noticed how badly swollen the mucles were and agreed that I needed immediate relief from the situation I was in. He put in for mucle relaxing trigger point injections to relax the mucles. But other than lying down and taking muscle relaxers, there is little I can do at this point. I do have a hot tub, but if I push Ron to open it and get it ready to work, he will have to stop the work on the rest of the projects, including my new office, which I really need finished. So I suffer and often go to bed.

This video is a great way to talk about how to deal with Christian nationalist bigotry and the forcing of Christian religion on others who have different beliefs. In fact I read a post while waiting for my shots about a new trend of Christian evangelicals going on airplanes and forcing those in the plane to listen to sermons and preach about the Christian god. I don’t get this, but I experienced something similar in the military, where a sect of Christians would try to cornor me every time I sat down for a meal in the chow hall to eat they would swarm my table demanding I listen to them talk about their god. It did not make me feel better about their faith nor did it make me less gay, which was their real goal. In fact when I returned the gesture to talk to them about my beliefs, they got really offended. Strange how they think pushing their religion goes only one way in their minds. The thing is they know religion is a protected class where sexual orientation is not, but some friends and I came up with a good way to discourage them. We would listen to their spiel if they listened to ours first. We then spun them a made up religion on the house of Approditie, a religion based on having sex and being body worshippers. They got so grossed out over having to discuss the sex and nudity that they stopped pushing their shit on me. I wonder if it would work today on the religions and indiscretions you hear about in the news. Hugs.

Today’s cartoons / memes / news post. Updates on post7-29-2026

My apologies to everyone on today’s post that was to go out today. I tried; I really did try. I got up full of energy and made lunch, breakfast, lunch, and supper while working on the post. But the more I tried to do stuff, the more pain I ran head-on into. So I gave up and went to bed late at night, after 7 PM, and I got up at 3 am to finish. But as I sat in my chair, I just couldn’t accomplish anything to get everything done. I really tried. So when Ron got up, O made him and I breakfast, and we enjoyed that. I made potatoes, bacon, sausage, and fried potatoes I made the night before. But no matter how hard I tried, the more pain I was in. Then the pain got so bad I had to go to bed in agony. I slept for most of the morning after 8 a.m. Then I got back up at noon and tried again. But then I tried again. Every time the pain built, I had to get back up to move from the desk. So I decided maybe moving to doing the laundry while working might help. It did not. It is 4 pm and I just cannot do it today. I just couldn’t sit at my desk and the more I tried, the more I needed pain medications, which made me more tired. So I am giving up. I will schedule the post for the morning. I do apologize; there is simply nothing I can do. I just had surgery last Tuesday to help with the pain in my back and the damage to my spine. As they say, the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. I love doing the posts; I love not onlyly putting them out for everyone, but it sometimes gets to be too much. Especially during the middle of the week. But tomorrow I have an appointment with my surgeon, and the surgery went well. So I will make the post extra long to make up for the lack of the posts today and yesterday.

Oh, since I have been back on my feet, I have been trying to do more to help Ron so he can do more to rebuild the house. That means more laundry, more housework, and more meals. Hugs. Scottie.

Conversation Starter: The Tragedy of Faith over Hope.

I have sorrowed in confusion and anger watching those who profess themselves to be Christian and speaking with those who say that they love God confidently support the very worst in humanity. I have impotently stood by as those who say they are Saved celebrated the wonton destruction of life, of home, of health, of community and future suffered by those whom the ravagers declare lacking. It has been a shattering of my Faith to see those tragedies encouraged, applauded and justified by the very same who share a pew and who stand behind a pulpit.

In the last decade and more, we have all found ourselves faced with the loud declarations of pastors and congregants who believe themselves wise attacking the struggling, the different, the ‘stranger’ and believing themselves righteous in their condemnation. It has been difficult for me to hold to love for those being so inhumane, especially for family and friends of whom we thought better.

I was taught better than to do that in my Church, in my Sunday School and in my Confirmation Classes. I was told that was just who were meant to be. I wanted to believe it. The Reality of my life hurt and I needed to believe that there was some-thing, some-where better. I needed to know that the failures in my life, the struggles in my heart and in my mind, were not my definition, my destruction. I was failing in Faith because of my own limitations and realities, but I held onto Hope. I held onto that Hope that Something Better would come.

Hope is a difficult word. Prisoners hold onto hope that Freedom will come. The Sick hold onto hope that a cure will be discovered. The Hungry hope in Finding their needs met. The Hurt and Abused hold onto hope that someone will come to save them. Hope holds out a hand, praying that someone will come to be with them and believe they are worthy of life, of love. Hope looks into the mirror and begs for a better existence, strives for a better life, makes better choices and dreams of better days.

In my adult years, I’ve heard the church talk not about Hope but about Faith. Faith is described as the assurance that all has been done, the Price has been paid, the Contract is signed and no more needs to be done. I’ve heard the church talk about being justified by Christ, that sins are washed clean, and yet at the same time I hear that same church talk about the filthy, the sinful, the unworthy. In short, they claim forgiveness due to their faith and judge others for their sin. Such “faith” has brought them arrogance, impudence and presumption that calling themselves “christian” and sitting in a pew on Sunday justifies ugliness and hate.

I believe. I want to believe. I want that “unbudging” Faith that allows me to stand before the mirror, maybe one day before God. But, part of that faith was imparted to me by the church, one that willingly stands in judgement for the destruction of those who don’t love the same, live the same, believe the same. It holds a congregation of those who would condemn, deny, celebrate the pain their greed engenders. And so, my Faith is broken. I hold onto Hope.

-randy

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Of course, he is not right, and his racist and sexist conspiracy theory shouldn’t be given the dignity of a defense because it is just too ridiculous and stupid. But what Hokit did wasn’t just disrespectful to Michelle Obama and President Obama, but also to the White House, where he made the comment (hasn’t that place suffered enough during Trump 2.0?), and the country, as this was supposed to be for America’s 250th birthday.

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