What church did the not exactly white guy Jesus attend?
In the Gospels when Jesus was around 12, he went into a temple and turned the Jewish elders upside down and inside out with his views of the Scriptures. During his ministry, Jesus went into a temple with his male disciples, and when one of them mocked a woman for only putting a small coin in the offering box, Jesus rebuked the disciple by saying the woman gave all she had! Later, Jesus went into a temple with a whip, alone, where merchants, money changers and gamblers were doing business, and he chased them out of the temple for defiling it, and that is what got him crucified at the behest of the local Jewish leaders.
As far as I recall, those were the only times in the Gospels when Jesus went into a temple, and those three stories tell very well what Jesus thought about temples in his day. Jesus was in church wherever he was. I imagine if Jesus were in America today, doing and saying what he did and said in the Gospels, he would be killed by the American religious right.
The best movie I ever saw about church is "Brother Son Sister Moon", which is about Francis of Assisi and his childhood sweetheart Claire. Every person in Christendom should be required to see that movie, and in that way see what Jesus meant when he asked Francis to help him restore his church. Francis thought it was an old broken down into rubble church in the countryside. But in time, Francis realized it was Christendom Jesus wanted him to restore.
Yesterday brought an email from a Mountain Brook, Alabama aka The Tiny Kingdom native I met when she was in diapers. A professional sculptress, who I never heard talk about attending church, she created The Four Spirits sculpture in the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument Park in Birmingham, and then she caught a lot of flack from residents of The Tiny Kingdom.
The sculpture represents the ascension of the spirits of 4 young black girls who died when Atlanta Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing numerous black people worshiping God.
From: Elizabeth MacQueen
xxxxxxx@icloud.com>
Date: April 27, 2024 at 10:08:21 AM CDT
To: Bash/Sloan Bashinsky <sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Tried to email before. This was for the religious bs and government.
Print any part. Idiots all totally ignorant of our constitution
AND
why our ancestors arrived in Jamestown (mine absolutely and not as cargo)
Religion and State = Separate
Bash, it’s too late
Read Malcolm Gladwell.
The Tipping Point has passed
Read Naomi Klein
“The Shock Doctrine”
and Economist March 2024
Men becoming more misogynistic.
Love you
Bibber/a
Elizabeth included a photo of her letter to the editor published in the Mobile Register. I hand-typed it into a document.
Religion Racism (Register, “Can Government Acknowledge God? October 23, 2002)
I thought the judges on courts were to remain free of blatant personal bias in order to perform their duties fairly and intelligently. The “monument is an acknowledgement of God”, said Moore attorney Melchior. What right, and I mean legal and moral right, does a supreme court judge pursue his own agenda within an environment that is a judicial refuge for all citizens. Moore has succeeded in getting this private agenda before the public, which was his original intention to begin with. Well, well, well. I never realized Moses needed advertising. Maybe we should borrow Michelangelo's marble statue of Moses fromItaly. No. that wouldn’t work since Moore in his innate stupidity has said, “Itr’s a monument that sits there and doesn’t tell anyone to do something.” I guess the Statue of Liberty is silent also. The Lincoln Memorial? The statue by De lWeldon of the soldiers raising the flag in Iwo Jima? The Vietnam Wall memorial? How about a no-brainer? Christ on the cross. Get these idiots out of the paper and off the federal dole into their chosen church where they can preach all they want.
I went online and read what Wikipedia had to say about Malcom Gladwell and Naomi Klein, and then I replied to Elizabeth:
Thanks-
My criminal law professor, Clinton McGee, graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law and joined the U.S. Army JAG Corps and was sent to Germany and defended Nazis at Nuremberg, and was doing such a good job getting them off, he was switched to prosecuting Nazis, who did not get off. When McGee had Roy Moore as a student at the Alabama School of Law some years after I graduated, McGee named Moore “Fruit Cake”. I lived in Boulder, Colorado when Fruit Cake got elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court the first time, and he posted the 10 Commandments in the Supreme Court building and a federal judge and the Alabama Court of the Judiciary relieved him of duty. After Fruit Cake got elected again, and was Godifying the Supreme Court building again, he was similarly relieved of duty again.
Fruit Cake’s devout Christian fanatic career is summed up in Wikipedia:
Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time being removed from office for judicial misconduct by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. He was the Republican Party nominee in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, but was accused by several women of sexually assaulting them while they were underage and lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones.[1][2] Moore ran for the same Senate seat again in 2020 and lost the Republican primary.[3]
Moore attended West Point and served as a company commander in the Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School, he joined the Etowah County district attorney's office, serving as an assistant district attorney from 1977 to 1982. In 1992, he was appointed as a circuit judge by Governor Guy Huntto fill a vacancy, and was elected to the position at the next term. In 2001, Moore was elected to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Moore was removed from his position in November 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing a federal court's order to remove a marble monument of the Ten Commandments that he had placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.
Moore sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama in 2006 and 2010, but lost in the primaries. Moore was elected again as chief justice in 2013, but he was suspended in May 2016, for defying a U.S. Supreme Court decision about same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges), and resigned in April 2017.[4][5] On September 26, 2017, he won a primary runoff to become the Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by Jeff Sessions.[6]
In November 2017, during his special election campaign for U.S. Senate, several public allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Moore.[7] Three women stated that he had sexually assaulted them when they were at the respective ages of 14, 16 and 28;[7][8] six other women reported that Moore – then in his 30s – pursued sexual relationships with them while they were as young as 16. Moore acknowledged that he may have approached and dated teenagers while he was in his 30s, but denied sexually assaulting anyone.[9][10] President Donald Trump endorsed Moore a week before the election,[11] after which some Republicans withdrew their opposition to Moore. Democrat Doug Jones won the election, becoming the first Democrat since 1992 to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama.[12]
Moore's political views have been characterized as far-right and Christian nationalist.[13] He has attracted national media attention and controversy over his views on race, homosexuality, transgender people, and Islam, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,[14][15] and his past ties to neo-Confederate and white-nationalist groups.[16][17][18][19][20] Moore was a leading voice in the "birther" movement, which promoted the false claim that president Barack Obama was not born in the United States.[21][22] He founded the Foundation for Moral Law, a non-profit legal organization from which he collected more than $1 million over five years. On its tax filings, the organization indicated a much lesser amount of pay to Moore.[23
As you know, Doug Jones was the US Attorney in Birmingham who prosecuted and convicted the Alanta Klansmen who bombed the 16th Street Baptist church. While Fruit Cake certainly proved Professor McGee had sized him up quite well, the cosmic truth is Moore is a proxy for the legions of right wing religious freaks in Alabama and America, all the way up to the U.S. Congress and the United States Supreme Court, white the Bible salesman Donald Trump’s pecker is being criminally prosecuted in a New York City state court with the help of the prosecution’s lead witness, former editor of the National Enquirer, David Pecker. Elizabeth also sent this letter to the editor:
Mobile Register
Letter to the Editor
State Lottery would be good for education.
Reading the Mobile Register onJune 9, I was struck by the irony of two coinciding articles–one on Gov. Don Siegelman’s lottery for education (“Lottery: Siegelman’s big gamble”), and he other an article that belabored the inadequate and failing educational system (“Equitable schools?”)
In the United States, Alabama continues to “bottom feed” at 49th place.However, Siegelman must be doing something right, as the educational article did show graduating seniors had graduated to 35th placer.
For those of you who voted against the lottery the first time ‘round, here are a few provocative thoughts you might never have considered.
Have you ever filled out a Reader’s Digest contest in hopes of Ed McMahon ringing your doorbell with a handful of colorful balloons and that gargantuan check?
How about bingo at your community center or church?
Did you ever fill out a form to win a car, money, vacation, trip to Disneyland, or a Carnival Cruise?
Did you ever give your child 25 cents to put in the gum machine at Blockbuster for a free video?
Next time you are filling out one of those grocery promos or rubbing all the metallica ink to reveal your surprise winnings underneath, remember our children and vote yes,
Who knows? We could shock the nation. Wouldn;’t that be fun?
Elizabeth MacQueenFairhope
To which I replied:
The very early tipping shock point twist in HEAVY WAIT: A Strange Tale is the love of Riley Strange’s life, the white witch heal the sick and lame animals veterinarian Mary Lou Snow, wins $14,000,000 dollars in the Alabama state lottery birthed by Governor Don Sigelman in a parallel universe, and on her drive back from Montgomery to Birmingham with the loot, her car has a tire blow out and she returns to the Mother Ship much sooner than expected and leaves Riley cursing $14,000,000 fucking dollars!! After nearly boozing himself to death, followed by a really strange stint in Hillcrest Hospital for the mentally ill, the rest of Riley’s life begins when he meets Willa Sue Jenkins at a roadside produce stand outside Apalachicola, Florida. She looks just like Mary Lou, but is twice as big, A sho nuff paradise matting stemwinder, with plenty of run-ins with religious freaks and their political kissin’ cousins, the storyline was given to me by a street performer I met in Key West. His jaw dropped when I told him I had lived half of the storyline the year before.
Below is a link to the tale at the free internet library, if you want to read it. Not for young children, but I bet Judge Roy Moore would get a rise out of it before suddenly wishing he never heard of Riley Strange, even though Moore gets no mention in the tale.
https://archive.org/details/heavy-wait-a-strange-tale_202212/page/n1/mode/2up
I kinda doubt Fruit Cake and the great pussy grabber and his legions, and the Christian right, and Vietnam war and later American wars veterans would care much for Heavy Wait's sequel, either, written last year. Here’s the free library link to Return of the Strange.
https://archive.org/details/retun-of-the-strange-v-20_202306
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
What church did the not exactly white guy Jesus attend?
In the Gospels when Jesus was around 12, he went into a temple and turned the Jewish elders upside down and inside out with his views of the Scriptures. During his ministry, Jesus went into a temple with his male disciples, and when one of them mocked a woman for only putting a small coin in the offering box, Jesus rebuked the disciple by saying the woman gave all she had! Later, Jesus went into a temple with a whip, alone, where merchants, money changers and gamblers were doing business, and he chased them out of the temple for defiling it, and that is what got him crucified at the behest of the local Jewish leaders.
As far as I recall, those were the only times in the Gospels when Jesus went into a temple, and those three stories tell very well what Jesus thought about temples in his day. Jesus was in church wherever he was. I imagine if Jesus were in America today, doing and saying what he did and said in the Gospels, he would be killed by the American religious right.
The best movie I ever saw about church is "Brother Son Sister Moon", which is about Francis of Assisi and his childhood sweetheart Claire. Every person in Christendom should be required to see that movie, and in that way see what Jesus meant when he asked Francis to help him restore his church. Francis thought it was an old broken down into rubble church in the countryside. But in time, Francis realized it was Christendom Jesus wanted him to restore.
Yesterday brought an email from a Mountain Brook, Alabama aka The Tiny Kingdom native I met when she was in diapers. A professional sculptress, who I never heard talk about attending church, she created The Four Spirits sculpture in the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument Park in Birmingham, and then she caught a lot of flack from residents of The Tiny Kingdom.
The sculpture represents the ascension of the spirits of 4 young black girls who died when Atlanta Klansmen bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing numerous black people worshiping God.
From: Elizabeth MacQueen
xxxxxxx@icloud.com>
Date: April 27, 2024 at 10:08:21 AM CDT
To: Bash/Sloan Bashinsky <sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Tried to email before. This was for the religious bs and government.
Print any part. Idiots all totally ignorant of our constitution
AND
why our ancestors arrived in Jamestown (mine absolutely and not as cargo)Religion and State = Separate
Bash, it’s too late
Read Malcolm Gladwell.
The Tipping Point has passed
Read Naomi Klein
“The Shock Doctrine”
and Economist March 2024Men becoming more misogynistic.
Love you
Bibber/a
Elizabeth included a photo of her letter to the editor published in the Mobile Register. I hand-typed it into a document.
Religion Racism (Register, “Can Government Acknowledge God? October 23, 2002)
I thought the judges on courts were to remain free of blatant personal bias in order to perform their duties fairly and intelligently. The “monument is an acknowledgement of God”, said Moore attorney Melchior. What right, and I mean legal and moral right, does a supreme court judge pursue his own agenda within an environment that is a judicial refuge for all citizens. Moore has succeeded in getting this private agenda before the public, which was his original intention to begin with. Well, well, well. I never realized Moses needed advertising. Maybe we should borrow Michelangelo's marble statue of Moses fromItaly. No. that wouldn’t work since Moore in his innate stupidity has said, “Itr’s a monument that sits there and doesn’t tell anyone to do something.” I guess the Statue of Liberty is silent also. The Lincoln Memorial? The statue by De lWeldon of the soldiers raising the flag in Iwo Jima? The Vietnam Wall memorial? How about a no-brainer? Christ on the cross. Get these idiots out of the paper and off the federal dole into their chosen church where they can preach all they want.
I went online and read what Wikipedia had to say about Malcom Gladwell and Naomi Klein, and then I replied to Elizabeth:
Thanks-
My criminal law professor, Clinton McGee, graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law and joined the U.S. Army JAG Corps and was sent to Germany and defended Nazis at Nuremberg, and was doing such a good job getting them off, he was switched to prosecuting Nazis, who did not get off. When McGee had Roy Moore as a student at the Alabama School of Law some years after I graduated, McGee named Moore “Fruit Cake”. I lived in Boulder, Colorado when Fruit Cake got elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court the first time, and he posted the 10 Commandments in the Supreme Court building and a federal judge and the Alabama Court of the Judiciary relieved him of duty. After Fruit Cake got elected again, and was Godifying the Supreme Court building again, he was similarly relieved of duty again.
Fruit Cake’s devout Christian fanatic career is summed up in Wikipedia:
Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2013 to 2017, each time being removed from office for judicial misconduct by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary. He was the Republican Party nominee in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, but was accused by several women of sexually assaulting them while they were underage and lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones.[1][2] Moore ran for the same Senate seat again in 2020 and lost the Republican primary.[3]
Moore attended West Point and served as a company commander in the Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School, he joined the Etowah County district attorney's office, serving as an assistant district attorney from 1977 to 1982. In 1992, he was appointed as a circuit judge by Governor Guy Huntto fill a vacancy, and was elected to the position at the next term. In 2001, Moore was elected to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Moore was removed from his position in November 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing a federal court's order to remove a marble monument of the Ten Commandments that he had placed in the rotunda of the Alabama Judicial Building.
Moore sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama in 2006 and 2010, but lost in the primaries. Moore was elected again as chief justice in 2013, but he was suspended in May 2016, for defying a U.S. Supreme Court decision about same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges), and resigned in April 2017.[4][5] On September 26, 2017, he won a primary runoff to become the Republican candidate in a special election for a U.S. Senate seat that had been vacated by Jeff Sessions.[6]
In November 2017, during his special election campaign for U.S. Senate, several public allegations of sexual misconduct were made against Moore.[7] Three women stated that he had sexually assaulted them when they were at the respective ages of 14, 16 and 28;[7][8] six other women reported that Moore – then in his 30s – pursued sexual relationships with them while they were as young as 16. Moore acknowledged that he may have approached and dated teenagers while he was in his 30s, but denied sexually assaulting anyone.[9][10] President Donald Trump endorsed Moore a week before the election,[11] after which some Republicans withdrew their opposition to Moore. Democrat Doug Jones won the election, becoming the first Democrat since 1992 to win a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama.[12]
Moore's political views have been characterized as far-right and Christian nationalist.[13] He has attracted national media attention and controversy over his views on race, homosexuality, transgender people, and Islam, his belief that Christianity should order public policy,[14][15] and his past ties to neo-Confederate and white-nationalist groups.[16][17][18][19][20] Moore was a leading voice in the "birther" movement, which promoted the false claim that president Barack Obama was not born in the United States.[21][22] He founded the Foundation for Moral Law, a non-profit legal organization from which he collected more than $1 million over five years. On its tax filings, the organization indicated a much lesser amount of pay to Moore.[23
Elizabeth also sent this letter to the editor:
Mobile Register
Letter to the Editor
State Lottery would be good for education.
Reading the Mobile Register onJune 9, I was struck by the irony of two coinciding articles–one on Gov. Don Siegelman’s lottery for education (“Lottery: Siegelman’s big gamble”), and he other an article that belabored the inadequate and failing educational system (“Equitable schools?”)
In the United States, Alabama continues to “bottom feed” at 49th place.However, Siegelman must be doing something right, as the educational article did show graduating seniors had graduated to 35th placer.
For those of you who voted against the lottery the first time ‘round, here are a few provocative thoughts you might never have considered.
Have you ever filled out a Reader’s Digest contest in hopes of Ed McMahon ringing your doorbell with a handful of colorful balloons and that gargantuan check?
How about bingo at your community center or church?
Did you ever fill out a form to win a car, money, vacation, trip to Disneyland, or a Carnival Cruise?
Did you ever give your child 25 cents to put in the gum machine at Blockbuster for a free video?
Next time you are filling out one of those grocery promos or rubbing all the metallica ink to reveal your surprise winnings underneath, remember our children and vote yes,
Who knows? We could shock the nation. Wouldn;’t that be fun?
Elizabeth MacQueenFairhope
To which I replied:
The very early tipping shock point twist in HEAVY WAIT: A Strange Tale is the love of Riley Strange’s life, the white witch heal the sick and lame animals veterinarian Mary Lou Snow, wins $14,000,000 dollars in the Alabama state lottery birthed by Governor Don Sigelman in a parallel universe, and on her drive back from Montgomery to Birmingham with the loot, her car has a tire blow out and she returns to the Mother Ship much sooner than expected and leaves Riley cursing $14,000,000 fucking dollars!! After nearly boozing himself to death, followed by a really strange stint in Hillcrest Hospital for the mentally ill, the rest of Riley’s life begins when he meets Willa Sue Jenkins at a roadside produce stand outside Apalachicola, Florida. She looks just like Mary Lou, but is twice as big, A sho nuff paradise matting stemwinder, with plenty of run-ins with religious freaks and their political kissin’ cousins, the storyline was given to me by a street performer I met in Key West. His jaw dropped when I told him I had lived half of the storyline the year before.
Below is a link to the tale at the free internet library, if you want to read it. Not for young children, but I bet Judge Roy Moore would get a rise out of it before suddenly wishing he never heard of Riley Strange, even though Moore gets no mention in the tale.
https://archive.org/details/heavy-wait-a-strange-tale_202212/page/n1/mode/2up
I kinda doubt Fruit Cake and the great pussy grabber and his legions, and the Christian right, and Vietnam war and later American wars veterans would care much for Heavy Wait's sequel, either, written last year. Here’s the free library link to Return of the Strange.
https://archive.org/details/retun-of-the-strange-v-20_202306
