Tag: jesus

DONALD TRUMP AND THE CHRISTIAN CHALLENGE

This, in a word, is repugnant.

If you are a person of faith, particularly Christian faith, it smacks of the idolatry the Protestant denominations denounce the Catholic Church for.

And if you’re a Catholic, it’s theoretically a double whammy, since President Asshole has been spending a good chunk of his weekend slagging the pope.

That slagging the pope business is nothing new since dictators and autocrats, along with kings and emperors, have been attempting to exert pressure on the pope, any given pope, to see things from their point of view.  It’s been going on for centuries.

But Donald J. Trump is not Henry VIII.  This is not 1538.  This is not Pope Paul III or Clement II.  This is Pope Leo IV, none other than Robert Francis Prevost, and this is 2026.  Ironically, the current pope is an American.

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MEASLES MAKES A COMEBACK

Measles.

An old world disease, vanquished in this part of the globe since 1996, yet coming back like gangbusters.

And all of it thanks to our recalcitrant couldn’t-give-a-hoot about anybody other than themselves anti-vaxxers.

You know the type.  The type where nobody tells them what to do.  The type that doubles down on their ignorance rather than accept the facts of medicine and medical science.

The type that would rather bring harm to the rest of us than to grow up and maybe crawl out of their self-imposed ignorance.  The type who would willingly place their own children in harm’s way to make a really bad and uninformed choice.

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READING THE ROOM

It’s been suggested that I learn to read the room better.

Which is a little like saying that I should get in step with whatever happens to be the flavour of the day.  I should go where the crowd goes.  Be part of the gang, and not some loser.

How appealing that sounds, to finally not be a loser.  To run with the posse, to fit in, to be part of the collective of agreement.  To, for what may even seem to be the very first time, actually belong.

Pretty heady stuff.

But it sort of brings up a bit of a question for me.  

What if I have read the room, only I don’t like what the room is saying, or where it’s going, or how it’s going about whatever it’s saying?  Like, what do I do then?

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