The Justified Anger of the Righteous.

Talking with a friend today and he was discussing with me on his feelings and anger over this mess going on with the Corrupt Republican Party, and the wannabe dictator Trump currently squatting in the White House.  And anyone that has a smidgen of empathy, sympathy or even intelligence is angry.

So here are my thoughts to those not only here in the United States, but around the world who are dealing with the rise of White Nationalism, Fascism and a reverence for hate and evilness.  Look, it's ok to be angry, it is ok to fight against this.  If you don't who will?  Our entire planet and all it's life forms are on the line.  Democracy, and peace are on the line.  You are perfectly justified in fighting and in your anger and your loathing of these people supporting these actions.  It is the justified anger of the righteous.  The righteous in this case being those who believe in fairness, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  Righteous meaning those who have a reverence for life, all life, plant, animal, and human not just an embryo or fetus.  Those who believed in what this nation aspired too.  We are those who believe in truth, education and equality for all.

I daily am angered by the corruptness of not only the Trump Crime Family but at the Republican Party.  To think that a corrupt, slimy, ill educated, cognitively challenged Sociopath such as Trump is revered by so called Christians who have forever told the rest of the world how they and only they were saintly, and good.  Un freaking believable.  Grab em by the pussy is fine with them, lining his pockets and breaking the law is dandy with them, pushing Russia and Putin's agenda, hey they loveee Russia and Putin now.  His wife, Melania, the former nude model, who like him has no breeding is seen as just "wonderful", even when she shows up braless flashing her nipples at the world.  Class huh?  Goddess forbid!  Frankly I am surprised she is not running around topless and in a thong.  And don't even get me started on his offspring who all seem to have inherited his lack of intellect and morals.

As for the Republican Party, for years we heard how they and only they were patriotic, fiscally responsible and the Party of family values.  Bah, they are only patriotic apparently when it comes to photo ops.  They all also seem to have plenty of donations from Russia.  Hmm, perhaps they are now owned by Russia.  As for family values, oh yes, they do have those, but they leave out that their family values are the values of The Charles Manson Family.  Come to think of it, Charlie and his crew had better values and morals then the Republican Party.

Daily we are reminded That our government has put children and families in cages, and literally given children to Betsy Devos, the idiotic Evangelical who plans on brainwashing and dumbing down everyone through her plans for education.  Betsy has ties to an adoption agency that is adopting out these children  MY GODDESS we are now dealing in human trafficking!  Crimes against humanity and the damn Republicans and the Trump base are just fine with it.

Our Constitution is undermined hourly and propaganda pushed by not only this damn administration but by the damn Republicans who apparently think we are ALL as stupid and uneducated as their base. 

Crime after crime, after crime and chaos galore!  It just goes on right along with the lies and propaganda of these nutters.

The planet is in crisis and they are fine with it, because they either call it fake news, or think it's great cause their mythical Jesus will come, save them and create a new planet!!

Angry, damn right I am, and you should be too!  Embrace that anger and put it to use, cause the only ones that are gonna save us, are ourselves!!

Santa is a Pagan, really!

And Yule draws near, the Winter Solstice will soon arrive and everyone regardless of their religion or spiritual path is celebrating some type of Holiday.

Back in the early days of the Catholic Church under Emperor Constantine, the Catholic Church under the guidance of Constantine was shaping the Christian religion.  Doctrines were established, laws were made of what was acceptable to believe but yet those pesky Pagans were still celebrating their holidays.  What was an Emperor to do?  So the Catholic Church begin to take Pagan Holidays and rename them something else, and dictate how they were to be celebrated.  So when Winter Solstice came up, it was designated as the birth of Jesus.  In 336 A.D.  Constantine declared the first Christmas celebration on December 25th.  All those "nasty" pagan celebrations he thought would be replaced with everyone going to Mass and scuttling those traditions of merriment.  But over the centuries the pagan roots crept back in.  You just can't keep the Goddess down.

Santa Clause if one goes searching for his roots, is really a mixture of various pagan figures. He is the Holly King of Celtic lore, he is Befana of Italian Lore, Thor and Frey of the Norse traditions, a pinch of Saturn and Cronos and so on.  The Christians tried to convert him and rename him St. Nicholas, but still his pagan roots shine through.  You just can't keep a good Pagan down!!

So even though some groups of Christians, meaning those right wing Evangelicals like to scream about Christmas being THEIR Holiday, remember, just like 95% of their religion, it has been "stolen" from other paths.

Have a wonderful Yule.