Pastors who quote from the Sermon on the Mount these days get an ear-full from angry parishioners who want to know "where you got those woke talking points." When told that they are the words of Jesus Christ, they don't even blink. They say something like "That was okay back then, but not now." Their Christianity is about as sincere as Ann Coulter's has always been.
The good bishop was speaking as a prophet before Trump. Since they don’t think they could get away with crucifixion or beheading, all they have is deportment, but I don’t think even this Supreme Court would let that go.
Bishop Budde proved at least 2 things in her homily yesterday: Christian nationalism is heretical and 2. She has courage to speak quietly with unmistakable moral force. The ConvictedFelon34 and his crowd looked like deer caught in the headlights. That is the look Democrats should strive to see on the faces of this crowd of Fascists who do not believe in supporting the dignity of every human being or preserving the Constitution or the planet, and who are eager to grift as long as it is possible. The nation will be robbed not merely of financial wealth but of community and solidarity if this crowd is not held up to powerful examination AND rebuke...which in essence she did. Of course they want her deported. That says everything about these vipers.
Mike Collins is eerily like the male version of Marjorie T Greene, right down to the gun fetish and sharing voters from the North Georgia areas outside Atlanta (what the hell, Athens? You had to go full MAGA?).
We have a saying in Kentucky, the Confederates finally captured Louisville...20 years after the war and put up a Robert E Lee Statue in 1885 to signify the establishment of Jim Crow. It never stopped
Was born and raised in Lebanon, Marion County, dead in the middle of the state.
In Ryder Cemetery on the east end of town (land deeded by will for its use from a private individual in 1863) is a monument to Capt. Andrew Offutt, a Union Officer in the 5th Kentucky Cavalry, placed in 1921. Its inscription is described as having the second strongest pro-Union sentiment of any such union monument in the state.
Lebanon was a railroad town with Union troops garrisoned at the local railroad depot at times and was the scene of 3 battles and other skirmishes during the war. Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan of Morgan's Raiders led the ultimately unsuccessful month-long diversionary action known as Morgan's Raid in 1863 from Tenn through W VA, IN, KY and OH, with a notable battle in and around Lebanon along the way.
There is a statue of Morgan at a major intersection on the northern route out of town near an historic home that he commandeered as his headquarters while in the area. Not sure when it was put there... sometime after I moved away after graduating high school. Maybe the 80s. Not sure who paid for it either. Not even sure if it's still there, since I haven't been home in some years now, but I'm pretty sure it is. Morgan was much revered by many in the area as I recall during my time growing up there.
So, where I came from in Ky was a mixed bag of sentiment, loyalty and admiration vis a vie the North and South and the Civil War. As it is in much of the state yet, I believe. But in small rural towns in rural counties such as mine, the tilt was a bit more southerly than northerly and probably will remain so for far too much longer into the future.
What part of Ky are you in, if you don't mind my asking? Just generally. You need not get specific if you don't want to. Or say at all. No harm, no foul either way.
I'm in Covington, I lived in Maysville for awhile as well. Northern Kentucky from east to west was very pro Union. I believe proximity to the Ohio river gave it more of an economic and cultural tie with the Midwest than South.. per say.
I'm sure you're right about the Midwestern cultural and economic ties. Where I'm from, there is much more cultural identification with the South. Or there was when I lived there 50 years ago and it seemed not to change at all over the years, though like I said I haven't been home in a while.
Interestingly, although I've lived in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan not too far from Flint for more than half a century now, I still occasionally get people asking me "Where are you from?" when I speak to them for the first time. When I first moved here, those were almost always the first words out of anyone's mouth the first time we met, and I got kind of tired of explaining where Lebanon was, since just saying "Kentucky" never seemed to satisfy them.
I speak a lot more Midwestern than Bluegrass now, but some things you never loose completely, I guess.
What made me think of that was you saying you're in Covington. My best friend's son moved down to Covington from here a few years ago for a job opportunity. Some time ago while catching up on things with my friend on the phone, I asked him how his boy was doing?
"Fine", he replied. "Except he's starting to sound more like you than you do."
Regarding the cheap shot, it really speaks volumes that a basic message of kindness and grace offends Republicans so much.
Pastors who quote from the Sermon on the Mount these days get an ear-full from angry parishioners who want to know "where you got those woke talking points." When told that they are the words of Jesus Christ, they don't even blink. They say something like "That was okay back then, but not now." Their Christianity is about as sincere as Ann Coulter's has always been.
The good bishop was speaking as a prophet before Trump. Since they don’t think they could get away with crucifixion or beheading, all they have is deportment, but I don’t think even this Supreme Court would let that go.
Bishop Budde proved at least 2 things in her homily yesterday: Christian nationalism is heretical and 2. She has courage to speak quietly with unmistakable moral force. The ConvictedFelon34 and his crowd looked like deer caught in the headlights. That is the look Democrats should strive to see on the faces of this crowd of Fascists who do not believe in supporting the dignity of every human being or preserving the Constitution or the planet, and who are eager to grift as long as it is possible. The nation will be robbed not merely of financial wealth but of community and solidarity if this crowd is not held up to powerful examination AND rebuke...which in essence she did. Of course they want her deported. That says everything about these vipers.
Mike Collins is eerily like the male version of Marjorie T Greene, right down to the gun fetish and sharing voters from the North Georgia areas outside Atlanta (what the hell, Athens? You had to go full MAGA?).
Old times there are not forgotten.
The South is rising again, alright -- South Africa, pre-Mandela.
They can't look away from the past...
We have a saying in Kentucky, the Confederates finally captured Louisville...20 years after the war and put up a Robert E Lee Statue in 1885 to signify the establishment of Jim Crow. It never stopped
Was born and raised in Lebanon, Marion County, dead in the middle of the state.
In Ryder Cemetery on the east end of town (land deeded by will for its use from a private individual in 1863) is a monument to Capt. Andrew Offutt, a Union Officer in the 5th Kentucky Cavalry, placed in 1921. Its inscription is described as having the second strongest pro-Union sentiment of any such union monument in the state.
Lebanon was a railroad town with Union troops garrisoned at the local railroad depot at times and was the scene of 3 battles and other skirmishes during the war. Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan of Morgan's Raiders led the ultimately unsuccessful month-long diversionary action known as Morgan's Raid in 1863 from Tenn through W VA, IN, KY and OH, with a notable battle in and around Lebanon along the way.
There is a statue of Morgan at a major intersection on the northern route out of town near an historic home that he commandeered as his headquarters while in the area. Not sure when it was put there... sometime after I moved away after graduating high school. Maybe the 80s. Not sure who paid for it either. Not even sure if it's still there, since I haven't been home in some years now, but I'm pretty sure it is. Morgan was much revered by many in the area as I recall during my time growing up there.
So, where I came from in Ky was a mixed bag of sentiment, loyalty and admiration vis a vie the North and South and the Civil War. As it is in much of the state yet, I believe. But in small rural towns in rural counties such as mine, the tilt was a bit more southerly than northerly and probably will remain so for far too much longer into the future.
What part of Ky are you in, if you don't mind my asking? Just generally. You need not get specific if you don't want to. Or say at all. No harm, no foul either way.
I'm in Covington, I lived in Maysville for awhile as well. Northern Kentucky from east to west was very pro Union. I believe proximity to the Ohio river gave it more of an economic and cultural tie with the Midwest than South.. per say.
I'm sure you're right about the Midwestern cultural and economic ties. Where I'm from, there is much more cultural identification with the South. Or there was when I lived there 50 years ago and it seemed not to change at all over the years, though like I said I haven't been home in a while.
Interestingly, although I've lived in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan not too far from Flint for more than half a century now, I still occasionally get people asking me "Where are you from?" when I speak to them for the first time. When I first moved here, those were almost always the first words out of anyone's mouth the first time we met, and I got kind of tired of explaining where Lebanon was, since just saying "Kentucky" never seemed to satisfy them.
I speak a lot more Midwestern than Bluegrass now, but some things you never loose completely, I guess.
What made me think of that was you saying you're in Covington. My best friend's son moved down to Covington from here a few years ago for a job opportunity. Some time ago while catching up on things with my friend on the phone, I asked him how his boy was doing?
"Fine", he replied. "Except he's starting to sound more like you than you do."
Are they going to deport her to New Jersey where she was born?
I only wish that she had also recited “the four woes” from the sermon on the plain. (Luke 6:24-26)
24"But woe to you who are rich,
for you have already received your comfort.
25Woe to you who are well fed now,
for you will go hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you,
for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.
Jesus himself would be on the deportation list.
“Where’d you get all this woke nonsense!?”
“Umm…Jesus..”
Right after Kash Patel arrested Jesus as one of the enemies on the list.....at the behest of the 'Christian' Nationalists of all persuasions.
I can only imagine the vitriol that Jesus would have encountered from spreading his message.
This entire timeline is ludicrous.
pretty much like he did in his own timeline...
Deportation beats crucifixion any day.
I wouldn’t bet a plug Trump coin against the likelihood of crucifixions coming to Sunday night Fox programming within the next 100 days.
A kindler, gentler hate?
A veritable smorgasbord of opportunities for hate. So hard to choose . . . Satiation is elusive.