November 29, 2004
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moral values you say— of who? the self-lobotomized bigots? the televangelist blackshirts? the ritual cannibalists awaiting the rapture? but thou shall not question the puritanical morality of the Christian far right instead you idiotic mislabeled Democrats drift a little right yourselves and rubber-stamp their world view but before you drift too far we should first take a little peak at the hirstory of the Christian far right the far right Constantine ordered the demolition of polytheistic peoples' sacred groves and shrines the torching of their books and shattering of their icons and outlawed their songs, dances, and holidays the far right bishop Cyril incited a Christian mob in Alexandria to attack the brilliant philosopher Hypatia on her way to the Library and they dragged her to a church and mercilessly scooped away her flesh with oyster shells the far right Charlemagne beheaded 4500 Saxon nobles in one day for refusing to be baptized and convert and his army ruthlessly tortured entire Odinist families and massacred 2/3 of all Saxon people in 30 years of genocide the far right with self-righteous assurance tortured dissenters with the wheel, the rack, iron maidens, vaginal pears, and other apparatuses of intense pain from the most sadistic depths of their twisted imaginations the far right organized the Inquisition to seek out and punish heretics hiding in villages and cities and clerics used the threat of sin, guilt, and eternal damnation to control the flock through fear and terror the far right Saint Jerome declared that women could not use reason and Saint Ambrose decided that women were lustful by nature and escorted men into sins of the flesh the far right wrote the Malleus Maleficarum to identify, torture, drown, and burn alive poor, defenseless women for crimes like adultery, having a child out of wedlock, and masturbation the far right Saint John Chrysostum incited pogroms from the pulpits blaming Jews for the murder of the messiah telling Christians it was incumbent upon them to hate the devil race the far right Saint Augustine decreed that Jews, heretics, and pagans would burn forever in eternal fire so Christians burned them alive to give the victim a taste of what was to come in Hell the far right supported fascism in Spain, Italy, and Germany and now it supports a Puritan revival in America a fascism that wears white gloves and itches for Armageddon to forge out of the destruction their twisted version of heaven on earth the far right George Bush claims he consults with Jesus before he makes his instinctual policies then bombs and tortures Arabs, cuts social programs, and privatizes everything owned by the public to transform America into a gilded corporate paradise the far right insists God is on their side and their ideas of exclusion, persecution, and intolerance extend today to homosexuals, neo-pagans, and abortion clinic doctors in their hate speech, vicious assaults, and ignorant ballot-casting it baffles me how the far right does not understand that Jesus was a liberal who blessed the meek, the poor, the disaffected, and other abused groups who practiced and preached peace, charity, forgiveness, humility, and love who overturned the moneychangers tables because of their usury when religions achieve political status they transform into their opposite claim an absolute moral mandate and rid themselves of anyone who doesn't agree with them maybe this piece will one day make me disappear too or maybe one day the far right will be exposed for the frauds and moral imposters they really are i can only pray · · · · · ·
Poetry on Swans Scott Orlovsky is a World History & Cultures, and an American History teacher at Clifton High School in New Jersey. He has a BA in History from the Johns Hopkins University and a MA in History from the University of Colorado. Do you wish to share your opinion? We invite your comments. E-mail the Editor. Please include your full name, address and phone number. If we publish your opinion we will only include your name, city, state, and country. Please, feel free to insert a link to this article on your Web site or to disseminate its URL on your favorite lists, quoting a few paragraphs or providing a summary. However, please DO NOT steal, scavenge or repost this work on the Web. © Scott Orlovsky 2004. All rights reserved. |
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