The Last Noel

Let's say we are God's gift to the world, as some persons seem to think. And that the fate of said world and Christianity are tied to America's fate. Manifestly, we're the wealthiest and most fortunate country ever. Never matter how we got there, whether you believe the bullshit line that it's destiny and we deserved it or that we plundered a continent because we could and then moved onto the rest of the world because, well, we're God's gift and exceptional so fuck them. 

What does it all mean? That, in spite of our wealth and professions of moral excellence we are screwing even swathes of our own society in the name of a bogus literalist interpretation of the Bible now having spread into an 'originalist' take on the Constitution? And the closer we get to evangelical/libertarian Nirvana the more we approach a greater state of screwing. A convergence, I guess. Of interests or interpretations or, maybe, just old-fashioned power lust and puritanical sadism.

Yay! This means humanity is shit. That the better we do the worse we do. When we get power we abuse it. We abuse and kill our fellow humans for no reason. When we could feed everybody several times over we starve them. We imprison them. We make life more difficult for them for the hell of it. Speaking of hell, we tell them it's their fault when their lives suck and, by the way, they're actually going there. To hell. Literally. Because they deserve it and God intended it. 

So, there. And this charge is being led by evangelicals, though a bunch of Catholics are pretty implicated. This is the end, I believe. It was humanity's last chance to show we weren't shit. That we were decent. That we wouldn't destroy ourselves out of paranoia and stupidity. That we weren't either created shit or evolved into it, so at odds with ourselves we chose collective suicide. Enjoy the holiday season. It might be the last you have before the doom descends.