e unibus plurum

The façade of the Supreme Court of the United States is beginning to crumble.
Mene, mene, tekel upharsin.

One more lunar cycle until Christmas and the Christian patriots are proclaiming  without pause.  They read their pamphlets, they go to their madrasas on Sunday and they write what the papers print on Monday.  What a farrago of self-satisfied fallacy we’re given.  A nation of immigrants is asking itself “who let the immigrants in?”

“It’s a Christian country founded by Christians and we shouldn’t have to tolerate any dissent or show respect for dissenters” is proclaimed from pulpits and the pages of newspapers. It is enough to make Jesus bleed all over again, yet it’s a cornerstone of the Religious Right that we spite Jesus by turning the tables right up again by putting God all over the money, writing God on the walls where we sentence people to die, forcing people to make statements about God and puffing ourselves up as superior to others who by virtue of intelligence, education or moral scruple, object to it.

They are the majority and always have been, they falsely say who yet pose as a persecuted minority.  They have quotes from Woodrow Wilson and Abigail Adams and a host of other irrelevant commentators with which to drown out the secular, anti-clerical, Deist and agnostic voices of the creators of our nation.  

That the Majority should dominate the Minority is their low form of Democracy.  “Worship as we tell you or go away” is the low and crapulous Christianity they preach as though the teacher of respect and brotherly love and non-judgmentalism and peace never spoke.  “Go back where you came from” say the people who came from elsewhere to the people who designed and built and fought for a country that would accept us all and treat us all equally over the last 230 years.

So debased have we become by our ignorance and anger and self-worship and parochialism that we don’t deserve to be a free nation nor understand what it means to be one. No enemy from abroad could ever lay us so low as we have become. We have a Constitution and we have a history but we prefer to lie about it. We profess morality and a higher power, yet we worship our anger and lust for superiority.

The façade is crumbling.  Numbered, numbered, measured, divided.