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Jesus Wept

When Jesus drew near and saw the city,
He wept over it.

Not because the marble had cracked,
though it had.

Not because the columns trembled,
though they did.

Not because thunder gathered over the Potomac
and lightning stitched judgment
across the bruised sky.

He wept because the people had forgotten
the things that make for justice and peace.

He saw a cage raised like an altar.
He saw bodies offered up for entertainment.
He saw empire smiling gleefully from the front row,
wrapped in flags and gold and cameras.
He saw the powerful cheering
while the wounded became spectacle.

He saw Rome wearing a new suit.

The coliseum had crossed the ocean of the past
and found a home
under domes and monuments, white washed tombs,
beneath the watchful stone faces
of men who spoke of liberty
while the crowd screamed for blood.

And Jesus wept.

He wept for the fighter,
for the broken hand,
the swelling eye,
the mother watching,
the child learning
that violence can be sold
if the lights are bright enough.

He wept for the rulers
who called cruelty strength,
who mistook domination for glory,
who bowed before the oldest idol:
power without mercy.

He wept for Washington,
city of promises and wounds,
city of prayers and prisons,
city of pale stone
and scarlet history.

“If only you had known,” He whispered,
“even now, on this day,
the things that make for peace.”

But the roar was too loud.

The screens flashed.
The fists rose.
The empire cheered.
And somewhere above the cage,
a storm began to gather.

The lightning did not strike first.
The rain did.

A cleansing rain.
A sorrowing rain.
A baptism for a nation
that had confused freedom
with the right to devour.

And Jesus stood outside the gates,
tears on His face,
hands open,
heart broken,

still calling:

Come out of the cage.
Come down from the throne.
Come away from Rome.

Blessed are the merciful.
Blessed are the peacemakers.
Blessed are those
who refuse to be entertained
by another human being’s ruin.

And Washington did not yet understand.

So Jesus wept, tears falling in the rain.

A post from a contemporary #reformedtheology blog on the whole topic of the problem of evil. They say that the goodness of God is shown within the practices of the Christian community. Fair enuf.

Years ago, upon news about a disease in Africa, the editor/founder of this blog repeatedly posted on Twitter, “Now would be a good time for a travel ban from W. Africa.” Not, how may I serve these people? Not, how may I protect/heal the world (including my family)? But we will erect walls. #jesuswept

@rimu

Oh #JesusWept it's a reboot of #QAnon

@benroyce they think of it as culling the herd. We've moved seamlessly from a #eugenics experiment under Biden to a eugenics *program* under this #Fascist regime

Disposable humans, here & in #Gaza
#JesusWept

@BlogWood

#JesusWept

@verdantsquare
#JesusWept

@Yehuda

It's like almost every elected official thinks they took an oath to defend the stock market, the land mass or the population
#JesusWept

@The_Icarian
The #ChristianRight is neither
#JesusWept
Meanwhile...
https://religionnews.com/2025/04/04/faith-communities-are-setting-a-courageous-example-for-standing-up-to-trump/

@Allkinds

Oh, I'm happy to blame the entire #RepublicanParty
Individually, and as a whole

#Fascists & Enablers

And I've got a blame to spare for #CorporateMedia that normalized political criminals for Ad Revenue

Not to mention the @dnc whore$ who vilify #Trump in stump speeches but chuckle with his minions at DC watering holes

#JesusWept

@davidho
So much for Government Efficiency
#JesusWept

@xankarn
#JesusWept

@servelan

#JesusWept

@georgetakei

Every Single Republican who has tried to spin this as a nothingburger needs to go. That includes #Trump
They've all put their careers & their power ahead of #NationalSecurity - a clear violation of their oaths of office

Just called my #DemocraticParty Senator to tell her not to let this 💩 pass

#JesusWept #Signalgate

@GottaLaff
Every Single Republican who has tried to spin this as a nothingburger needs to go. That includes #Trump
They've all put their careers & their power ahead of #NationalSecurity - a clear violation of their oaths of office

Just called my #DemocraticParty Senator to tell her not to let this 💩 pass

#JesusWept #Signalgate

@SeanCasten

Just the fact that the Great Orange Turd has the nuke codes fubar'd natsec from Day 1
#JesusWept #SMFH

@theguardian_us_news

What a boneheaded, unnecessary error to kill your political career this way #smfh 😖

But for me, this headline buries the lede: #GavinNewsom - for his inaugural #podcast - chose to platform Charlie fucking Kirk ⁉️‼⁉️
#WTAF

No actual #MAGAts will vote for any pol from California ffs. Of what possible use is this pandering
#JesusWept

@ucaccessnow @academicchatter @disability when will we learn that accessibility benefits EVERYONE?
#JesusWept

@ErickaSimone @IveyJanette

#DisasterCapitalism changed #NOLA forever after Katrina. This is looking to be way worse
💔💔 #JesusWept

Of all the vanishingly small audiences for my jokes, I think none is more infinitesimal than that intersection of theologians concerned with violent schisms in the early church regarding the nature and procession of the trinity, and fans of Human League.

The Phil Oakey question.

#JesusWept #obscure

@servelan

I was wondering wtf it would take. The #MAGA wingnuts are so beyond what passed for the pale when I was growing up... it's like #Trump normalized Every Single Indecency
#JesusWept

@cdarwin

#JesusWept

@mvario

Eliminates jobs AND squanders resources
🙄 #JesusWept
#CapitalismKills everything it touches

@iam_sysop @benroyce

Watching the investor classes use Congress to game the #StockMarket & enable #InsiderTrading & #Arbitrage is just...
🤦🏻‍♀️💔🤮🤬
#JesusWept

@GottaLaff @alexproe

The grief comes over me in waves. It's like Gethsemane, only global
#JesusWept

@gwynnion

Blaming the base for losses is a Dem specialty #smfh

What's truly depressing is that this is a global problem now... so many nations have fallen for #xenophobia & #Fascism as a response to the mass migrations caused by #Imperialism & #ClimateCrisis

The axis of US + Russia once #tRump seizes power has no equivalent counterweight to come to our 'rescue' as in WW2

We're just So Fucked

#JesusWept

@venitamathias
#JesusWept

@RoguePlayer
A perfect storm of expensively gamed voting systems, propaganda, w racism, sexism, xenophobia, ytsupremacy, homophobia, & more propaganda

Deep Sigh
#JesusWept