Countereffective christo-fascism

Having left “Martyrdom and hate” on the back burner for so long that it’s now stone cold, all I can come up with in the meantime is an observation that just occurred to me the other day, which seems so obvious that I wonder why it took so long. (Well, actually I have a pretty good idea why: my brain is slowly rotting away.) Having just now put together, on the one hand, the growing volume of atheistic writings I’m seeing that attack Christianity in particular and religion in general, and on the other hand, the increasingly fanatical and psychotic crusade of the christo-fascist evangelicals to make the U.S. a “Christian nation,” I’ve finally come to the realization that the former is a direct result of the latter—i.e., the fanatical, psychotic christo-fascists are turning the U.S. into a nation, not of more right-wing evangelicals but of more atheists. It would be nice if they could figure this out for themselves, so that they could stop pissing everybody off with their efforts, but the whole nature of fanaticism and psychosis is to be willfully blind to all the evidence of reality. I even think I’ve begun to detect (though it may be little more than wishful thinking) the beginnings of a movement of disillusioned evangelicals away from the lunatic fringe and a little bit more to the center—not to atheism, of course, but simply to a more reasonable form of Christianity. (Yes, guys, there is such a thing.) But the monster is still powerful enough politically to wreak havoc throughout the land and make our dearly beloved nation an object of ridicule and contempt to most of the civilized world.

Life without blogging

In case anybody noticed or cared that I’ve been absent from the Blogosphere for the last month and a half, it’s because I’ve been incredibly busy with music gigs—like “collapsing in exhaustion in the windows between gigs” kind of busy. I’ve also been working on another one of my typically long-winded, pompous rants, on “Martyrdom and hate,” which is taking more time and difficulty than usual because I’m kind of ambivalent and unclear as to what I think about it, and stuff I wrote a week ago looks like bullshit the next week. However, I still manage to waste untold hours surfing in cyberspace, and recently ran across a gem so precious that I feel I have to share it. He’s Joe Bageant, a not-quite-old (i.e., 10 years younger than me) curmudgeon in Winchester, Virginia, of all places (until recently fleeing to Belize), who writes with more rage and less humor and scatography than The Rude Pundit but with some very good ideas, very articulately stated. His particular shtick seems to be “class warfare,” between most of humanity and the incredibly small minority of blood-sucking parasites in the corporate plutocracy who control all the world’s wealth and governments, and for whom war is so profitable that it becomes their top priority to have as many as possible being fought on a constant basis. His observations on the witless sheep which the American people have let themselves be turned into are truly blistering. And his essays are even longer than mine, as well as angrier and more articulate. Check him out while you’re waiting for me to get back on line.