Headed for the Serious Strife

When people talk about how un-serious Trump and evangelical “Christians” are about their religion, they often speak of how these folks don’t follow any of the teachings of Christ, and in fact repudiate them.

But, to me, the real indicator that these fuckers aren’t serious in their beliefs is that they aren’t worried about burning in hellfire. The burning-in-hell imagery, both verbal and visual, seems notably missing from MAGA religious politics. It’s all about turning the US into hell on earth for MAGA’s enemies, but not about avoiding the fires of hell. That’s probably because modern evangelical christianity is pretty light on the damnation and heavy on the forgiveness, at least if you’re in the cult.

I don’t know what religion Elon Musk belongs to, but he’s exhibit A of someone who’s going to feel fire applied to his body, eternally. JD Vance calls himself a “baby Catholic” but if he took his new religion seriously, he’d call himself a soon-to-be servant of Lucifer for all the lying that he does.

What sparked me to write this post isn’t Musk, or Vance, or even Trump, but this fucker:

That’s Jefferson Griffin, the guy who lost the North Carolina Supreme Court election and contested it month after month. He and his legal team invented a blizzard of excuses for why 65,000 ballots should be thrown out. He finally conceded today after getting spanked in Federal Court. It will surprise nobody that his bio from his campaign site includes this fact: “Along with his wife Katye and their son Jay, his family are members of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Raleigh.” He’s an “originalist and a textualist.” He “believes the words of the Constitution mean what they say.” Yet he engaged in a cynical, lying attempt to disenfranchise voters, many of whom were serving overseas in the military, just as Griffin did. He is a hypocrite.

I ain’t God or anywhere near there, but if I were at the Pearly Gates when this hypocrite showed up, I’d be pulling the lever that sends him straight to the hot place. In Acts 5, both a husband and wife fall down dead after being accused of hypocrisy by Peter. Griffin just sits around and smiles.

Clearly Judge Griffin doesn’t really believe in what’s preached every Sunday at Holy Trinity, when he sits there in his perfect suit next to his wife and son, otherwise he’d be at least a little scared of getting a hot poker in the nether regions, for eternity.

Also, nice to see these folks are still singing: