An iconic Texas band, the Austin Lounge Lizards, has a song that nails the absurd self-righteousness of Christian supremacists: “Jesus Loves Me [But He Can’t Stand You].” I think of this refrain when I behold today’s right-wing proselytizers wailing that the blessed rich should not be taxed to assure that everyone has the most basic human needs. Seems very un-Jesusy to me. One bizarre focus of their religious wrath is a wholly sensible and biblically […]
To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable