The Gross Hypocrisy Of Republican Evangelicals Celebrating Easter

Last updated on April 8th, 2018 at 04:47 pm

It is always amazing that the people who claim America is a Christian nation the loudest, and they are loud, are the people most likely to eschew everything their lord and savior espoused was important to be like Christ. Obviously America is not a Christian nation and was never meant to be, but at the rate the religious right and their dirty Republican facilitators are pushing the so-called “Christian” agenda on the nation, one expects that the least they would do is adhere closely to what the gospel accounts say Jesus Christ preached; particularly around the most important day in the Christian religion.

Despite what many so-called  Christians think, or say, it is Easter, not Christmas that marks the ultimate representation of god and Christ’s love for humanity. It is true that Easter is yet another holiday Christians pilfered from Pagans, but the Easter bunny and fertility rites aside, it is the ultimate propitiatory sacrifice that god mad of his “only begotten son” Jesus Christ that should be the impetus for all Christians to do everything humanly possible to follow Christ’s example for how his followers should live their lives. One does not have to be a follower of Christ to appreciate the morals and ethics Jesus taught. In fact, Founding Father Thomas Jefferson was in no way a Christian and did not in any way believe in the magic that Jesus died and came back to life, but he did gather all of Christ’s ethical teachings and put them in a book known as “Jefferson’s bible.” It is a book all so-called heretical Christians in America should be forced to read, because then they would see they are the polar opposite  of a “follower Christ” and nothing but bloodthirsty barbarian apostates more aligned with Old Testament mean god; not their namesake Jesus  Christ.

It is a prescient statement that, although not all  Christians are Republicans, it is nearly certain that all Republicans are Christians; at least Christians in the neo-American 21st Century “conservative Christian” mold. Most Americans are familiar with these Christian heretics. They are those who actively deny basic sustenance for the poor, medical care for the sick and infirm, shelter for the homeless, and support politicians crusading to fulfill the neo-Christian mindset that there is nothing they will not take from the least fortunate among them to give to the rich their lord and savior claimed would never make into heaven. Christians are aware of their Jesus’ instruction to the rich man to sell all his belongings and give the proceeds to the poor, and yet the most vocal fundamentalists decry the poor as unworthy of the most basic human necessities and regularly call them lazy; something their lord who gave his life for his followers’ everlasting salvation never said. Still, so-called Republican Christian politicians who legislate “their Christianity” on the population enact policies to strip what little the poor, mostly the ‘working’ poor, have to enrich corporations and the wealthy.

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One might think that a follower of Christ would adhere to his commandment not to elevate themselves above him as the ultimate judge; particularly when he preached to his followers not to judge others under any circumstance. However, one of the primary teachings of the religious right is judging others and electing Republicans to legislate authority to mete out punishment for non-compliance with neo-Christian edicts. Curiously, although Jesus Christ never once mentioned abortion or homosexuality, the recent rash of so-called “religious freedom” laws are precisely to allow the “faithful” not only judge, but punish anyone who does not fit into the religious right mold. The religious right is aware that Jesus mingled with what evangelicals label as sinners and accepted them openly. America’s neo-Christians not only refuse to tolerate Americans that fail to live up to Old Testament standards, they demand that Republicans give them legal cover to exact punishment on Americans their Christ would embrace with open arms. Neo-Christians also celebrate every ruling from Christians on the Supreme Court giving religious Republicans authority to enact punitive laws Jesus would condemn.

It is all but certain Jesus would also condemn the religious right’s ardent support of carrying and using guns and their abject joy at the death penalty. It is a strange phenomenon that Christians who are not supposed to judge become giddy at the thought of an execution. As liberal pundit John Fugelsang noted, it is astounding that “pro-death penalty Christians commemorate anti-death penalty Jesus getting the death penalty.” Likely because they just love the idea of another human being killed; especially if it is with a firearm many argue vehemently that the Jesus who died for their salvation and preached peace would carry around with him as he preached tolerance and to turn the other cheek.

The list of how the religious right rejects the teachings of the man who willingly forfeited his life for their salvation is exhaustive, and it is telling about how so-called Christians honor the memory of their religion’s namesake. This is not to say that all Christians reject Christ’s teachings, or support the policies Republicans enact in opposition to everything he preached. However, there are many more Christians who support some aspect of conservative policies than do not whether it is perpetual war, the death penalty, imposing evangelical morality on the population, disregarding the poor, or mooching off other taxpayers.

For a secular humanist, even a former Christian minister, it is astonishing that a large number of so-called followers of Christ will celebrate the day their savior supposedly rose from the grave as a sign their salvation is guaranteed due to his sacrificial death; all while dependably rejecting everything the dark-skinned brown-eyed Arab Jew taught his followers was required to reap the reward of his sacrifice. What is even more curious is that the great majority of evangelicals know precisely what Christ taught about peace, caring for the poor at any expense, not judging, and being tolerant of all people and then advocate for more and harsher Republican policies that are contrary to everything Jesus preached. If Jesus was real, he is likely chomping at the metaphorical bit for the end times to wreak Hellfire and damnation on America’s neo-Christians and their Republican facilitators for their self-aggrandizing righteousness in his name and wasting his sacrificial death in advancing an agenda he condemned all to Hell while he was alive. Happy Ostara fundamentalists!