PS - Heretic or Hypocrite?

If these are my choices ....

Being considered a heretic -  despite being Christian myself - for not falling  in line with this sort of "Christian communism" nonsense under Trump? 

-OR- 

Or being considered a hypocrite for falling in line with the above group, who claims they're patriots against government control, unless it's their side doing it, and suspends Christ's message of compassion, mercy, and sacrifice for anyone not exactly like themselves? ... 

THEN I CHOOSE HERETIC 😂

In fact, Christ was considered somewhat of a heretic himself, in his day, for not going along with everything religious leaders said.

So I'd like to think that Christ himself wouldn't go along with this  Christian nationalism, lack of due process, and immigrant paranoia -and apparently I'm not the only Christian feeling this way, as many of the clergy are themselves protesting in LA.

It's especially absurd for a nation comprised of often illegal immigrants, whose own German, Irish, Polish, and Italian grandparents and great grandparents were once scapegoated and treated this way.

 

Legal citizens being "accidentally" deported ...

Reporters getting hit with rubber bullets while they report in LA ...

My neighbor from Puerto Rico being asked by an ignorant government institution to produce a green card, despite the fact that Puerto Rico is an American territory and thus automatically legal citizens (she had to tell her to go check or Google it.)

Children being ripped from school and adults from work by ICE undercover ...

This is NOT due process and not the way!

And where are all the protests songs like we had in the 1960s, hmm?

Everybody too afraid to lose a small percentage of all that money you're making, singing about less important stuff?

There are even members of the clergy stepping into this now, on the protest side. 

I only know of one that hit the top 40 in the last 10 years by Pink.

It was originally released after Roe Vs. Wade was overturned, but the video and the lyrics are about having the right to dissent, the right to a voice, the right to protest ... 

 So I'm going to play it again now ...

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I think it might rain today, ash on the ground
Took all the heat we could take, and then burned it down
Now it's a real parade, we're all welcome now
As long as you feel afraid, that's what it's about

You can call me irrelevant, insignificant
You can try to make me small
I'll be your heretic, you fucking hypocrites
I won't think of you at all

Sticks and stones and all that shit
Does Jesus love the ignorant?
I like to think he'd gladly take us all

The kids are not alright, none of us are right
I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight
'Cause I still feel alive
The kids are not alright (not alright)
None of us are right (none of us are right)
I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight
'Cause I still feel alive

I can't tell the difference between fight or flight
I guess I'm indifferent, since I don't have the right
I stay under covers now, I'm afraid to go out
I wait for tornadoes to come take me out

You can say that I'm ignorant, insignificant
But I've been here all along
I'll be your heretic, you fuckin' hypocrites
You can't ever catch us all

Sticks and stones and all that shit
Does Jesus know I'm innocent?
I like to think he'd gladly take us all

The kids are not alright, no (not alright)
None of us are right (none of us are right)
I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight
'Cause I still feel alive

The kids are not alright (the kids are not alright)
None of us are right (none of us are right)
I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight
'Cause I still feel alive, oh, yeah

Girls just wanna have rights
So why do we have to fight?
Girls just wanna have rights
So why do we have to fight?
Girls just wanna have rights
So why do we have to fight? (Oh, yeah)
Girls just wanna have rights (oh, yeah)
So why do we still have to fight?

The kids are not alright, no
'Cause none of us are right
I'm tired, but I won't sleep tonight
'Cause I still feel alive

You can call me irrelevant, insignificant
I won't call on you at all ...