Bush slouching towards Stockton

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

- end of Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

This powerfully indicting line from Yeats has me rethinking the entire context of our current Christian misappropriation. I was touched by a recent interview with Jonathan Kirsch the author of""A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization"

He posited that the writer of the Book of Revelation's was not the Prophet John, that this has been proven untrue by biblical scholars for centuries and that the 2nd century AD writer was a disgruntle Jewish/Christian convert who hated all aspects of the imperial society which was dominate. He was an ascetic. Disallowing pleasure in this life, in other words a dangerous kook, to my mind not unlike those that point to "Revelations" as some sort of omen of change. The lines of Revelation 19:11-14

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a “White Horse and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon “white horses”, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

My feeling is that the Jesus I grew up believing in entered Jeruselum on a donkey and accepted martyrdom in lieu of violence. He ultimitly proved that non-violent resistance is the path to righteousness if he proved anything, but these nut jobs have taken our 2000 years of sanctity away ... yet again. Using this prior quote from Revelations as their battle cry. It is not a battle cry it is a metaphor, it is poetry.

Let us not take Yeats literally, but certainly keep this in mind from earlier in the "Second Coming"

" Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned

The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Certainly, our "innocent cermony" is getting drowned in the very real blood of taking a metaphor as if it were reality and I am daily reeling from the worst's passionate intensity.

On another front ....
"Tyranny, government. The violation of those laws which regulate the division and the exercises of the sovereign power of the state. It is a violation of -its constitution." hmmm...

Another definition includes the proviso that the leader of a tyranny, yes a tyrant, can not travel among the people without a cohort of protectors. Bush is coming to the Nor Cal, but the AWOL draft dodger doesn't have the courage to face his actual detractors. We will be going to Stockton to see if we can get within 1/4 mile of the weasel and chief. He can not debate Barbara Lee or Boxer. He is incapable of articulating his ideas. He is going to Stockton the city embroiled in a controversy over the privatization of their water supply and the un-met contractural obligations of that privatization.

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