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Guns & The Bible: A Very Short Commentary

Anyone who knows me, either personally or on social media, know that I was recently suspended from Twitter for a full week for calling Tomi Lahren a cunt. I was previously suspended for one day for calling her white trash. The irony, of course, is that Lahren and her cultish following have embraced the term "snowflakes" for anyone they deem to be weak or fragile, not able to handle criticism, or as they refer to it as truths. In my time back, there have been three mass shootings, and the race-baiting, blonde xenophobe has taken to calling out everyone who questions American citizens' rights to be locked and loaded at all times. She's also thrown out that the reason is that there isn't enough prayer in school.

Prayer and Guns. Nothing says modern-day America for inbred, ignorant white people than the Bible and an AR-15. Somehow, in our warped society, the ownership of military-grade weaponry is viewed, as Lahren put it, as a human right. Not a constitutional or legal right, but a human right. As if the gun is an extension of God's will to allow us to kill anyone who questions our devout faith in freedom. A freedom which apparently God can't grant us herself, but an assault rifle can. Omnipotence, be damned. Now it's no secret that American Christianity is just about the furthest thing from actual Christianity as it is written, but those are semantics in this FOX News culture, where everything that isn't based in white supremacy and nationality is viewed as a war. Again, the irony is, these same white folk who use the war narrative, are terrified by their misunderstanding of Islam's jihad. Which, unlike their Bible, is actually retold in the Qur'an. Faith and war is nothing new, because God, well she has a suck little sense of humor. I mean, who doesn't cast out angels before creating everything holy and pure? Also, who would ever follow a religion where evil preceded good? Billy Bob and Mary Sue, that's who.

I have read the Bible, studied it, and even taught some about their own faith, but for the life of me, I don't recall the part where Jesus rides in on the back of a Ford Ram, guns-a-blazing, waving a Confederate Flag, ready to create judgment day for all those who don't believe he's the whitest thing since sliced bread.As absolutely ludicrous as that las sentence sounded, this is just about where we are in 2019, and all you non-believers, or people of color, Jews, women, LGBTQ, or anyone else who doesn't conform to some insane translation of the Bible and our Constitution, better beware. Sadly, that's not a joke, as the bullseyes have been on our backs for a while now and the closer these hayseeds come to being a minority, the scarier it will get.

WWJD?
Love everyone and have faith, just remember, to keep it locked and loaded.

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