You Can't Lose What You Never Had

Lately, I've started to move in more politically-oriented circles on Instagram.  I know...it was just a matter of time, wasn't it? 

But it's just not possible to remain aloof, disconnected and silent when it comes to the disintegration of our public discourse and the existential threats to our form of government.  

(Notwithstanding the resultant migraines and ulcers, from even touching a toe into that cesspool again...)

Yesterday, I came across this little gem, and it really spoke to me:

 

And almost as if the Universe was handing me a meatier argument on the subject, I came across a post that led me to this:

This is a screen shot from the August NPR interview with evangelical leader Russel Moore, on his book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call For Evangelical America.  You can find the entire article here:

Russell Moore on 'an altar call' for Evangelical America

 I've often said that I was an evangelical Christian for a short time in my young life (maybe five years, if that.)  And while I have personally moved beyond (FAR beyond) that phase of my spiritual walk, I know and respect that there are sincere followers of the teachings of Jesus Christ.  

And I also know that 90% of the Evangelical Christian Right are NOT that.  

They have no more connection to Christianity than the terrorists who blew up the twin towers had to Islam.

They are folks with an agenda of hatred, violence and domination who use religion to conscript hordes of hapless adherents.  

NO different at all from Muslim extremists.  

THAT is who we have backing the Christian right, the GOP, and its evil, muddled puppet of a leader.

That, and a bottomless treasure chest of funds, kept brimming full by forces diligently working for the cataclysmic failure of the Great Experiment.  

How did we get here?

And how do we get out?