Image by Edward Cisneros.

Christianity is back and it’s more violent than ever. I speak, of course, of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst the decaying ruins of Washington, DC. Using the demonic, Caligula-esque Emperador Trump like a pedophilic battering ram, a bunch of millenarian lunatics with a barely literate interpretation of the Bible have found themselves in the highest echelons of political influence in this country and their vulgar reach can be felt throughout the decidedly big government and hyper-interventionist policies of MAGA 2.0, from the transgender genocide to the Zionist reinvention of the Middle East.

But there’s a catch and it’s one likely to catch up with the Evangelical set with a vengeance far sooner than later. The Christian Right may have succeeded in renting a pitiless, scum-fucking White House, ready and willing to make all their nightmares a reality for the right price but their numbers among the unwashed masses continue to dwindle as many churches are having to choose between rainbow welcome mats and shuttering their doors for good. These are wealthy zealots with a powerful lobby, but they have a rapidly shrinking army in an age of imperial decline and ascendant national debt and that could very easily make their throne a downright dangerous place to languish on.

Meanwhile, the number of people identifying as Queer, feminist, and/or pagan like me is slowly on the rise and being very affectively radicalized by the excessively statist abuse of the totally out of touch Evangelical fascists who’ve managed to rig a failing system into giving them an absurdly outsized presence in every state, court and federal office in the country. The blowback of related political violence has been grotesquely overexaggerated by Trump and his handlers, but it isn’t non-existent either and it will likely expand with their demonization deliberately amplifying its presence. I don’t believe any of this to be a coincidence either. In fact, I don’t even believe this to be all that shocking as I tend to view history like most things as being largely cyclical in nature.

While most mainstream American commentators seem to interpret the rise of “radical transgenderism” as some new pillar of progressive liberalism, I see it along with a persistent drive towards more overtly matriarchal institutions as being more of a return to the tribal diversity of the ancient heathen third gender mentality which I also honestly believe Oswald Spengler himself would have probably begrudgingly embraced on some level.

In other words, the Christian nationalists are playing a desperate and dangerous game, and they will have no one to blame but themselves when it continues to blow up in their face in increasingly violent ways. Believe it or not, as much anguish as I carry from a childhood of abuse suffered at the hands of these people, this is not a fait that I promote or relish in. I actually still consider myself to be something of a........

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