“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist.” (Dom Helder Camara)

  1. Thou shalt not question
  2. Thou shalt not criticize
  3. Thou shalt not challenge
  4. Thou shall maintain status quo at all times

The Four Commandments of the Christian Right. Those commandments supersede any Commandments given by God at any time the Commandments given by God interferes with the Conservative, Fundamentalist Christian Party-line.

They have been in existence and implemented since before Christ. The Christian Right is the Spiritual Heirs of the Pharisees and Scribes Christ so thoroughly chastised “For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.” (Matthew 23:4-7)

The Christian Right and its minions is just as much white washed tombs full of rotten, putrid, stinking maggot food, as were ever the Pharisees. They see the homeless, the fatherless, the poor, the sick and the different by the way-side and cross to the other side of the road and walk by like the Levite and the Priest, afraid that they might “catch” what ‘the homeless, the fatherless, the poor, the sick and the different’ “must” suffer from. They profess to follow Christ and say “Lord, lord…”, but the only Lords they serve are the Lord of Flies and Mammon.

They idolize their country, worship a murderous president and give more authority to the politics of their party than to God. They claim to be righteous, but wouldn’t know righteousness if it stared them in the face, not even their own self-righteousness. They pride themselves of “The fruits of the Spirit” but blaspheme that same Spirit with every claim of those fruits! They condemn others to their self-invented Hell, but forget that He Who counts hairs and knows of sparrows keeps track of each hurt and injure they inflict on their hapless victims as had it been done to Him. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.” (Matthew 23:27-35)

They despise people who disagree with them, claim that any disagreement is a sign that those disagreeing are “of the Devil”. Any questions, criticism, challenge or attempt to shift the status quo is met by name-calling, condemnations, personal denouncement.

If they met Christ on the street (which they are bound to do, since He told us we would) they would reject Him as a drug addict, prostitute, thief and evil-doer. They claim they are going to heaven, but will find themselves out in the dark, gnashing their teeth, and they don’t even hear, nor realize this.

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