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  1. 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.

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  2. 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

  3. @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

  4. @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

  5. @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

  6. @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

  7. @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

  8. @SeanCasten

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

  9. @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

  10. 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

  11. @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

  12. @mvario

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

  13. @iam_sysop @benroyce

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

  14. @GottaLaff @alexproe

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

  15. @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

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

    Deep Sigh
    #JesusWept