Karma works im mysterious ways. America's karma has taken us from a posistion of strength and respect in the world to a position of weakness and being a laughing stock. In just 16 short months.
My fellow atheists should understand that Christianity also includes a vast number of people who seek the spiritual values taught by Jesus in the Gospels (4 short, repetitive documents which reply a quick look). Jesus was said to have sacrified. He was against wealth and power and for caring, sharing, healing, compassion, and inclusion.
Trump has no desire to 'suffer for our sins'. He has a great desire to sin to make us all suffer.
He wants wealth beyond dreams of avarice, and as a bankruptcy specialist he now has his greedy hands on the full faith and credit of the US of A. He is finally the billionaire he always claimed to be, and is building monuments to himself and accepting gifts of great value, gold for preference though a fancy jet was just fine. No corruption to great, no gift too large.
He is, as others are beginning to observe, the very model of a modern anti-Christ.
Trump knew that the best way to play God as President was to use modern American "Christianity" that is nowhere grounded in the life of Jesus and his words. This phony Christianity is the basis of the Republican Party. It is grounded in hateful anger, not the loving lamb of Christ. Pope Leo's admonishments are a long time coming.
There is great value in true, altruistic spirituality. A spirituality that is actually grounded in the teachings of ALL great spiritual masters from India, to China, to Tibet, to the ME. A spirituality that flows from a deep recognition we are all interconnected and are really just a tiny part of a much greater and broader whole. True spiritual masters have taught this through the ages.
American Evangelical Christian Nationalism and Israeli Zionism stand in Direct opposition to the teachings of all true spiritual masters.
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Speaker Johnson, Hannity et all are all the purveyors of a false and blasphemous Christianity. A Christianity that supports racism, white supremacy, white privilege, misogyny, and government supported criminality.
The Evangelical Prosperity Gospel, the fake untrue Christianity Evangelicals preach is the juice of the republican, now trumpublican party. A gospel that would have Jesus, and all true spirituality masters, railing against as it lacks wisdom, compassion, and empathy. All components of true and honest spirituality.
Unless this nation, and the Zionist state wake up soon the deep and vicious negative karma (action and intention) they have engaged in WILL come home to roost and it woi be devastating to both nations.
Is this Zenlike? 8 children were shot and killed today by a shooter in Shreveport, LA, the home district of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Both Johnson, a MAGA enabler from the GOP and the GOP governor of the state, Jeff Landry and his wife have assured everyone they are praying for them.
No words yet on what solutions either Johnson and Landry will suggest to ensure this won't happen again the the Bayou State. No gun bans announced. No increase in funding for mental health care... nothing.
Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' has a depth of spirituality based on everything that we know. But I wonder who wrote the script for Trump's latest threat to iran - "No more Mr. Nice Guy. Whoops there I go, laughing again.
from Slavoj Zizek today... "One could say that, with the eyes of the sinner fixed on the cross, forgiveness creates a new debt in the very act of forgiving. It forgives what was done, but it does not forgive the act of forgiving itself. On the contrary, the latter establishes a new bond and a new debt. It is now infinite mercy—understood as the capacity for forgiveness—that sustains the infinite debt, the debt as infinite. The debt is no longer brought about by our actions; it is produced by the act of forgiving those actions. We are indebted for forgiveness.[3] This is the reason why Nietzsche counters the concept of forgiving with the concept of forgetting (“a good example of this in modern times is Mirabeau, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he – forgot”).
Christianity thus invented a singular way of maintaining and amplifying our debt—through the Savior paying for it, and through the Church forgiving our sins in His name. At the same time, for doctrinal reasons, the Catholic religion long struggled with—and resisted—the idea that today appears as an entirely natural precondition of debt, or its internal moment: namely, interest. More precisely, it resisted the monetary expression of the increase of debt, which it nevertheless very much practiced on the symbolic level."
Wokeness has expanded the concept of perpetual debt with the idea of guilt married to "social justice"... a debt to those minority enslaved races (or colonized ethnicities like India/ Pakistan) that can never be repaid, but to westerners are proud to recognize in the forms of black history months and holocaust remembrance celebrations. Never forget! Isn't THAT the woke mantra?
“Woke developed in African American English and has been used to describe a state of active attentiveness to issues of racial and social justice since the mid-late 20th century. It gained widespread use and attention beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and eventually developed pejorative use describing people, policies, practices, etc., seen as too politically liberal or progressive by right-wing groups.”
JC: “Never forget! Isn't THAT the woke mantra?” Yes, and the Christian mantra, isn’t it? “ Never forget Christ died for your sins.”
Is there something wrong with never forgetting the injustices of the past so that humans don’t repeat them in the future?
IMO, those who dislike being reminded of past injustices against humans are those who feel remorse/ guilt for having committed and/or perpetuated them.
Being woke, IMO, is a good thing where it concerns not continuing prejudices and injustices against certain individuals and groups.
Those who are against passed down group guilt need to take that up with the billions of Christians in this world who believe in it.
Trump’s diplomacy is essentially mafioso Don diplomacy: threats and bluster. The world knows the only reason he gets away with his stupid threats is because the United States does have the most lethal military in the world. Just like the mafia bosses had ways of getting what they wanted because of the mafia bosses could back it up. Trump is nothing more than a rich thug with power.
–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”
That's individuals, not social groups. Social "Justice" consists of eliminating race essentialist laws, not imposing new and opposite ones.
To expand on Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil" (from Google)
Hannah Arendt’s "banality of evil," coined in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, describes how ordinary individuals commit atrocious crimes, not through inherent wickedness, but through thoughtlessness, bureaucratic obedience, and failure to critically evaluate orders. She observed that evil is often "surface-level," thriving when people act as cogs in a system.
Key Quotes & Concepts on the System of Evil
The Nature of Evil: "It [evil] can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is 'thought-defying,'... because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its 'banality'".
The "Thoughtless" Actor: "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil".
The System's Function: Arendt argued that Eichmann was not a monster but a bureaucrat, a "cog in the machinery" who surrendered personal responsibility to a totalizing system that dehumanized both victims and perpetrators.
Refusal to Think: Arendt highlights that evil stems from a "refusal to think" and a lack of critical judgment, allowing individuals to ignore the human consequences of their work.
The Systemic Mechanism
Bureaucracy: The system separates the actor from the action, allowing people to feel comfortable while committing, or enabling, immense harm.
Obedience as Duty: The "system" transforms immoral actions into a "duty" to follow orders, removing the need for moral reasoning.
Arendt's analysis, further discussed in insights from and, emphasizes that resisting the banality of evil requires active, critical thinking and personal accountability rather than mere conformity.
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Karma works im mysterious ways. America's karma has taken us from a posistion of strength and respect in the world to a position of weakness and being a laughing stock. In just 16 short months.
And the cult cheers.
From an email from a friend:
My fellow atheists should understand that Christianity also includes a vast number of people who seek the spiritual values taught by Jesus in the Gospels (4 short,
repetitive documents which reply a quick look). Jesus was said to have sacrified. He was against wealth and power and for caring, sharing, healing, compassion, and inclusion.
Trump has no desire to 'suffer for our sins'. He has a great desire to sin to make us all suffer.
He wants wealth beyond dreams of avarice, and as a bankruptcy specialist he now has his greedy hands on the full faith and credit of the US of A. He is finally the billionaire he always claimed to be, and is building monuments to himself and accepting gifts of great value, gold for preference though a fancy jet was just fine. No corruption to great, no gift too large.
He is, as others are beginning to observe, the very model of a modern anti-Christ.
Trump knew that the best way to play God as President was to use modern American "Christianity" that is nowhere grounded in the life of Jesus and his words. This phony Christianity is the basis of the Republican Party. It is grounded in hateful anger, not the loving lamb of Christ. Pope Leo's admonishments are a long time coming.
There is great value in true, altruistic spirituality. A spirituality that is actually grounded in the teachings of ALL great spiritual masters from India, to China, to Tibet, to the ME. A spirituality that flows from a deep recognition we are all interconnected and are really just a tiny part of a much greater and broader whole. True spiritual masters have taught this through the ages.
American Evangelical Christian Nationalism and Israeli Zionism stand in Direct opposition to the teachings of all true spiritual masters.
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Speaker Johnson, Hannity et all are all the purveyors of a false and blasphemous Christianity. A Christianity that supports racism, white supremacy, white privilege, misogyny, and government supported criminality.
The Evangelical Prosperity Gospel, the fake untrue Christianity Evangelicals preach is the juice of the republican, now trumpublican party. A gospel that would have Jesus, and all true spirituality masters, railing against as it lacks wisdom, compassion, and empathy. All components of true and honest spirituality.
Unless this nation, and the Zionist state wake up soon the deep and vicious negative karma (action and intention) they have engaged in WILL come home to roost and it woi be devastating to both nations.
Is this Zenlike? 8 children were shot and killed today by a shooter in Shreveport, LA, the home district of Speaker Mike Johnson.
Both Johnson, a MAGA enabler from the GOP and the GOP governor of the state, Jeff Landry and his wife have assured everyone they are praying for them.
No words yet on what solutions either Johnson and Landry will suggest to ensure this won't happen again the the Bayou State. No gun bans announced. No increase in funding for mental health care... nothing.
Except of course... thoughts and prayers.
Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot' has a depth of spirituality based on everything that we know. But I wonder who wrote the script for Trump's latest threat to iran -
"No more Mr. Nice Guy. Whoops there I go, laughing again.
Wokeism is/ was always the anti-Christ.
from Slavoj Zizek today... "One could say that, with the eyes of the sinner fixed on the cross, forgiveness creates a new debt in the very act of forgiving. It forgives what was done, but it does not forgive the act of forgiving itself. On the contrary, the latter establishes a new bond and a new debt. It is now infinite mercy—understood as the capacity for forgiveness—that sustains the infinite debt, the debt as infinite. The debt is no longer brought about by our actions; it is produced by the act of forgiving those actions. We are indebted for forgiveness.[3] This is the reason why Nietzsche counters the concept of forgiving with the concept of forgetting (“a good example of this in modern times is Mirabeau, who had no memory for insults and vile actions done to him and was unable to forgive simply because he – forgot”).
Christianity thus invented a singular way of maintaining and amplifying our debt—through the Savior paying for it, and through the Church forgiving our sins in His name. At the same time, for doctrinal reasons, the Catholic religion long struggled with—and resisted—the idea that today appears as an entirely natural precondition of debt, or its internal moment: namely, interest. More precisely, it resisted the monetary expression of the increase of debt, which it nevertheless very much practiced on the symbolic level."
Wokeness has expanded the concept of perpetual debt with the idea of guilt married to "social justice"... a debt to those minority enslaved races (or colonized ethnicities like India/ Pakistan) that can never be repaid, but to westerners are proud to recognize in the forms of black history months and holocaust remembrance celebrations. Never forget! Isn't THAT the woke mantra?
Karma - essence of Trump returns as a slug on the vine of uselessness?
“Woke developed in African American English and has been used to describe a state of active attentiveness to issues of racial and social justice since the mid-late 20th century. It gained widespread use and attention beginning in 2014 as part of the Black Lives Matter movement, and eventually developed pejorative use describing people, policies, practices, etc., seen as too politically liberal or progressive by right-wing groups.”
JC: “Never forget! Isn't THAT the woke mantra?” Yes, and the Christian mantra, isn’t it? “ Never forget Christ died for your sins.”
Is there something wrong with never forgetting the injustices of the past so that humans don’t repeat them in the future?
IMO, those who dislike being reminded of past injustices against humans are those who feel remorse/ guilt for having committed and/or perpetuated them.
Being woke, IMO, is a good thing where it concerns not continuing prejudices and injustices against certain individuals and groups.
Those who are against passed down group guilt need to take that up with the billions of Christians in this world who believe in it.
Trump’s diplomacy is essentially mafioso Don diplomacy: threats and bluster. The world knows the only reason he gets away with his stupid threats is because the United States does have the most lethal military in the world. Just like the mafia bosses had ways of getting what they wanted because of the mafia bosses could back it up. Trump is nothing more than a rich thug with power.
Sadly, America has become a reflection of its leadership (trump, Project 2025, and Evangelical Zionist Chriatianity) and their very worst instincts.
The founders and Jesus would no doubt be rolling over in their graves were that possible.
–Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"
“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”
That's individuals, not social groups. Social "Justice" consists of eliminating race essentialist laws, not imposing new and opposite ones.
To expand on Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil" (from Google)
Hannah Arendt’s "banality of evil," coined in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem, describes how ordinary individuals commit atrocious crimes, not through inherent wickedness, but through thoughtlessness, bureaucratic obedience, and failure to critically evaluate orders. She observed that evil is often "surface-level," thriving when people act as cogs in a system.
Key Quotes & Concepts on the System of Evil
The Nature of Evil: "It [evil] can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is 'thought-defying,'... because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its 'banality'".
The "Thoughtless" Actor: "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil".
The System's Function: Arendt argued that Eichmann was not a monster but a bureaucrat, a "cog in the machinery" who surrendered personal responsibility to a totalizing system that dehumanized both victims and perpetrators.
Refusal to Think: Arendt highlights that evil stems from a "refusal to think" and a lack of critical judgment, allowing individuals to ignore the human consequences of their work.
The Systemic Mechanism
Bureaucracy: The system separates the actor from the action, allowing people to feel comfortable while committing, or enabling, immense harm.
Clichés and Language: The perpetrator adopts cliché-driven language ("language rules") to avoid facing the reality of their actions.
Obedience as Duty: The "system" transforms immoral actions into a "duty" to follow orders, removing the need for moral reasoning.
Arendt's analysis, further discussed in insights from and, emphasizes that resisting the banality of evil requires active, critical thinking and personal accountability rather than mere conformity.
ps - I'm NOT a Christian.
Yeah. We kinda figured that out when we read your name.
lol! You think I'm Jewish? I'm a Deist.
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