Political Jesus...

This was originally published during August 2005. I wrote it on a Saturday morning. I remember waking up angry. This was around the time the Libertarian Party was kicked off the ballot here in North Carolina. I was State Chair at that time and the frustration and anger was brewing inside of me. I believe that anger is apparent in my writings below.

I do not regret any of the words I wrote over two years ago. I only regret the way I have let that anger bruise my heart and soul. I am trying to turn that anger into something positive, rather than self destructive hate.

It is damn hard and some days are harder than others. This will be a personal struggle for the rest of my life.

"A man may have to die for our country:
but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country.
He who surrenders himself without reservation
to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class
is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things,
most emphatically belongs to God: himself."
C.S. Lewis

Disclaimer: This essay is in no way an attack on Jesus Christ. I believe Jesus to be whom he said he was.. I find it offensive how some people, who claim to be Christians, can drag the name of Christ through the political mud puddle. Show me the part of the Holy Bible where it says to use the force of the State to enforce religious laws or redistribute wealth or educate our children. You can't.

If you really believe in the separation of Church and State, this essay shouldn't offend you at all.....

March onward christian soldiers! Wrap yourself in Old Glory and beat those war drums! Proclaim how America is a christian nation. Heretics and infidels be damned to Hell! Glory, glory hallelujah...the Truth goes marching on....

Yeah, that seems to be the dogma of the people who worship the Political Jesus.

Who is this Political Jesus?

He is a meme, created by the vulgar and corrupt Roman Empire. He is the Grim Reaper of the Church Militant, wielding a sword to smite anyone who doesn't bow down and worship the State! Yes, I said the State. This Political Jesus is responsible for merging the Church and State.

You don't believe me?

Do I have to remind you of the laundry list of horrors unleashed in the name of Political Jesus? The murder of hundreds of thousands of gnostics, pagans, backsliders and heretics. The burnings of books, temples and witches...get the picture?

Today's Church Militant is not as violent as in year's past but the threat and danger is still alive. These so called christians petition the State with various pleas and moans." Please protect marriage...please protect the flag. Oh please, mighty Caesar, protect us from the unclean! Take the smut off my T.V.! Protect us from those god hating dope smokers and please, pretty please, park the Political Jesus back in our government schools!"

Oh ye of little faith....

Yes, the followers of Political Jesus are guilty of idolatry. They worship the flag and the omnipotent State it represents. They claim our constitution is a Christian document. That's funny, I don't remember Political Jesus being named in the document. I can't find him in our Declaration of Independence either. They both seem to be written with Deism in mind. Oh well, Deists usually have the best ideas anyway.

Yes, there were Christians among our nation's founders. But these Christians did not worship at the feet of Political Jesus. They were enlightened men and women. They loved and respected the real Jesus so much, they would have never polluted his great legacy by injecting his Holy Name in any political document. These were Christians with a true faith. These Christians and the ones that followed are the last, true remnant of Christ's ministry.

Look at conservatives today...they are foot soliders in the war on drugs. They have declared war on Nature and the medicines she provides. "Pull up that demon weed! The Devil must have planted it here.", they seem to say by their actions. They don't give a damn about the death and destruction they reap in the name of Political Jesus.

These conservatives want the State to extend certain privileges to them, at the expense of others. They just have to protect the nation from gay marriage. Never mind that the only role the State has in marriage is enforcing contracts and establishing next of kin. No, that is not good enough for Political Jesus. He believes that Caesar-approved, conservative christians are the ruling class, appointed from on high, to administer justice..all in the name of Political Jesus.

When it comes to Political Jesus, you are either with him or against him..isn't that right Mr. President?