Charlie Kirk chose to be a racist, xenophobic, sexist, authoritarian, Christian nationalist, anti-LGBTIA hate-mongering bigot who promoted violence against his enemies. His last words before being murdered exemplified the horrific far-right political rhetoric that he used his movement to spread to young people with under developed critical thinking skills. Kirk definitely lacked those skills as …
Tag: fascism
Days of wickedness and groaning
Yesterday in Washington D.C. victims of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's heinous crimes bravely spoke their truths about how the trauma of being trafficked by Epstein and sexually assaulted has caused them tremendous traumatic harm. They were united in their demands for justice and were joined by members of Congress who generally have nothing in …
Full blown fascism
Back when Donald Trump entered his first race as a presidential candidate, it was clear to many of us what kind of presidential administration he would have were he to inexplicably win the election. During that campaign I had begun work on my Master's thesis which would later become my first book and in the …
The Trance Regime
For many years now, I have been trying to understand why anyone who claims to be a Christian, that is someone who follows Jesus, could vote for someone as antichrist as Donald Trump. I have tried without success to get any Trump voting Christian to explain one teaching of Jesus that Trump actually advocates for, …
Project 2025 and the war machine
The Project 2025 "Mandate for Leadership" document is 900 plus pages of Christofascist ideology that the Heritage Foundation's leadership and partners hope will become public policy if Donald Trump inexplicably wins another term as POTUS. It is replete with fear mongering, blatant lies, weaponization of the Bible to harm immigrants, BIPOC communities, and LGBTQ+ peoples. …
Lent in the time of Covid
Lent is here again, and Covid-19 remains the reality in our lives. Usually during Lent, we think about what we are giving up as our fast during this season leading to Easter, and often it is something like meat, wine, chocolate, or sex that people choose to eschew. Perhaps this year is different due to …
From repudiation to reconciliation
The voters in the United States have spoken and Donald Trump has mercifully been made a lame-duck president. He will go down in history as a complete failure as president, by virtue of only winning one term in office and being rightfully impeached during that term. By his own standard, he claimed that winning 306 …
What I hear…
Earlier this week, I had an interaction with a former seminary colleague and friend who had been posting some pro-Trump links on her social media page. I simply asked her point blank if she is now a Trump supporter to which she replied, "I now see the Republican platform as the lesser of two evils. …
The Tattooed Theologian 