So basically, more babies born to parents who don’t want them and aren’t prepared to have them, and less born to parents who really want them and have the means to care for them. And, as with all social conservatives, the idea of providing services to poor mothers and children is anathema.

Well, there it is. Abortion is now illegal in about half of the country. And despite the fact that this ruling violates the religious beliefs of myself and a large number of other people who are not conservative Christians due to the fact that it prevents the flourishing of actual, living human beings for the sake of potential human lives, it’s highly unlikely that the Trump SCOTUS will care for any religious freedom other than that of the backbone of their party.

So, to recap the ideology of the Trump SCOTUS and the Christian right:

• Fetal human life is sacred from fertilization until birth.
• The life of the mother is immaterial. She is just the object used to bear the sacred fetal human life.
• Once the baby is born, their life is no longer sacred. Guns are sacred, and therefore many of them will be sacrificed to Moloch.
• If they are not sacrificed to Moloch, they will be inducted into the military and sacrificed for bullshit wars to protect corporate interests, who are another sacred person in our country.
• They’re coming for the remaining human rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and the rights of BIPOC communities next.
  

“… then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7)

Up next for the Trump SCOTUS: Obergefell, Lawrence, Griswold, Loving, and Brown. They will not stop until all rights conferred since the 1950s are eliminated. And when Republicans seize power they will eliminate those rights nationally. Welcome to Theocratic America.

This headline is incorrect. There still is a Constitutional right to abortion, but there are six asshats on the Supreme Court who are legislating from the bench because of their religious beliefs.

Taking Time Off to Re-Evaluate

I need to re-evaluate whether I am a Christian anymore after today. How can I continue to affiliate with a religion that values a contested reading of scripture over the sacredness of an actual living, breathing person? And then takes the rights of that sacred person away. I follow the living Christ, incarnate in all creation, lover of all. But why should I follow that Christ in an institution that hates who God loves? When Christ can be found in the cathedrals of nature and the faces of people. And when Christ may not be the only name. Maybe it’s time to reject the institution ostensibly dedicated to Christ but in reality dedicated to patriarchy and white supremacy and follow God into the streets to burn the motherfucking system to the ground.

Church Schism

Yes, today is once again Church Schism Day on the blog. I think at this point a good church schism is in order. All the Progressive Catholics and Mainliners (and whichever nondenominational people want to come along) should excommunicate the conservatives who claim to be Christians. They’ve already basically excommunicated us already, after all. Start a movement where everyone is loved, no one is cast aside because they don’t believe exactly what our churches believe, everyone is welcome at the table, and no one’s doctrine will be imposed upon others in a statutory framework.