The FFRF kids don't believe me when I tell them that Donny Trump and Jo Smith have both been taking the piss out of American religious culture and narratives:
It's nice that these youngsters have good ethics, a desire for honesty, and a belief in integrity. On the other hand, it makes them very vulnerable, and a little ill-equipped to deal with reality.
If Donny and Jo are making open fun of fideist delusion with gold statues and postcards with themselves posing as Dr Jesus Buddha Zoroaster Muhammad von Rasputin: are you certain they're being mean and unkind?
Isn't there a strong sense in which they want you to feel the bite of the sarcasm and figure it out for yourself?
Guys: I suggest that's better behaviour than selling you snake oil and pretending it's perfume or medicine like Voltaire's scoundrels do.
If there's one thing the youngsters at FFRF need to learn, it's that there is nothing certain in life (nor in the universe in general) apart from perhaps death, that it's absurd, and that - consequently and importantly - bad is not always easy to identify.
Bad will camouflage itself.
"That's Donny!!" I hear the masses of left-intellectualish very nice kids howl.
I love you guys, but ask yourselves: Is Donny really using effective camouflage?
I think not. It's more like wearing an LED-and-lightstick disco suit while on a raid in the jungle.
Donny is using sarcasm and irony, and making 20 foot gold statues of himself and saying "I am the greatest" at the presidential podium. In a sense he's behaving just like the great American Casius Clay - who also knew how to be camp and funny, and that it was all showbiz.
I mean - think about it. "I am the greatest!" and "float like a butterfly sting like a bee!" and "I'm too pretty". You think Casius wasn't a master comedian and not taking things very seriously? Please! He was an 85kg ass-kicking athletic warrior who called himself a cute bumblebee and a butterfly. Donny's just doing the same kind of American camp for you. You're so immersed in the American cultural narrative of freedom of thought you've become the fish whom one can't ask about water.
I'm not saying Donny is a good guy, nor that he's an evil guy, because I don't know enough about him and although he's allegedly (and even apparently-seemingly) attached to some rotten crap: William Kingdon Clifford's admonition not to believe something without adequate evidence is amplified when the context is presidential politics and the US political battleground in general.
The truths will out eventually if there are any to find, but until then: The Angel Moroni and Tom Cruise's host of alien ghosts with the most approve of this post!
