Science and Facts Technically Knock Out Christian Nationalism

My father and I used to listen to Joe Louis of heavyweight boxing fame as he demolished White hopes one after another, sometimes winning by a technical knockout (TKO) when the referee stopped the fight to prevent further damage to the loser.

Joe Louis Barrow was born in a sharecropper shack in Alabama, the grandson of a slave and the seventh of eight children. The family was so poor, three other children and Joe slept in the same bed. When he was two his father died, and the family moved to Detroit.

When he was a teenager, Joe's mother paid for violin lessons to keep him out of gang trouble. He cheated and spent the money at a local fight club to learn how to box. He turned pro in 1934 after a record of 50-4, with 43 knockouts as a Golden Glove amateur.

A knockout (KO) is scored when the fighter takes a ten-count while "resting" on the canvas.

Joe was KO'd in Round 12 by Max Schmeling of Germany, a former heavyweight champion, for his first pro loss on June 22, 1937. A year later he KO'd Schmeling in Round 1 and became a world hero of U.S. Blacks and Whites for beating Adolph Hitler's favorite Aryan fighter.

His two fights with White Billy Conn of Pittsburg were legendary. Joe was behind in points in June,1941, when he finally KO'd Conn in Round 13 at 2:58. Conn was very quick with both hands and feet and gave Joe trouble. They fought again five years later before 146,000 in Yankee Stadium and international broadcasts. Joe said these immortal words after the fight: "He can run but he can't hide!"

I remember listening to the fight when I was 14 years old. Joe KO'd Billy in Round eight this time. Joe defended his title 25 times, held it for nearly 12 years, and retired with a pro record of 68-3 with 54 KOs. He was the best­ known athlete in the world at the time-and he fought for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) every step and round.

Will Christofascism and Politicians Awash with Religiosity KO Democracy in 2024?

When thinking about how the Trumplican White Nationalists are trying to TKO or KO democracy in 2024, I suddenly thought of Joe Louis who held records for most KOs in pro boxing. Joe was known for his kindness, was gracious to everybody except when in the ring, and never said much because he had a stutter from childhood.

Joe was the opposite of Donald J. Trump who says nothing in 10,000 psychobatshitcrazy words while displaying his cowardice with five deferments and electron-microscope bone spurs. Joe joined the US Army in 1942, shortly after December 7,1941, at age 28, and served his country better than it had ever served him. Donald yells "Fire!" plays golf, files for bankruptcies, and is TKO every day.

Sociologist Ryan Cragan of the University of Tampa makes an important point in the report: "When someone sees the stars and has an overwhelming spiritual experience of awe, and they call it a higher power, what does that actually mean? And that's the next step in all of this research."

Nones end up being 17% atheist, 20% agnostic, and 63% "nothing in particular." As very recent nones, Corky and I are atheists on Mondays, agnostics by Wednesdays, and nothing in particulars the rest of the week.

Ryan Burge of Eastern Illinois University wrote The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are And Where They Are Going where he asks the following questions: "How do we live In a pluralistic society? Thirty years ago 90% of Americans were Christians; now it's 60%. How do Christians understand the nones? Are they your enemy? How much religious freedom do I get? How do nones feel about questions about religion? Can a woman wear a hijab In her driver's license photo?'

But a more important question today Is: Is there anything about Jesus Christ left in "Christians" who support Donald Trump and White Christian Nationalism adopted and adapted by today's Republican Party? Has Jesus suffered a TKO?

Science and the Search for Truth has Turned a Perfect Eden into a Muggy Swamp

No doubt Charles Darwin and his Origin of the Species and the ever-growing fields of science are probing the human body and the world environment for answers to how we were "created." Whether we breathed in the perfect Garden of Eden with the snake in the tree or if we slipped and crawled out of a green muggy swamp billions of years ago has KO'd many old Biblical stories.

We have anthropologists and paleontologists squeezing pimples and probing parts all over the earth studying our birth and places. We have genetic scientists like Dr. David Eagleman of Stanford University telling us if we are born with certain genes we will commit more crimes. He has proven if you commit robbery, aggravated assault, murder and sexual offenses, you will likely be arrested for these crimes 3,5,8, and 13 times respectively – if you have certain genes.

Do we really want to know those facts?

Why do "Christians" who no longer believe in Christ follow the Christian Nationalism philosophy and want the Divided States to become a Christian nation? In the process of using "art of the deal" with the promoter of The Art of The Deal to trade votes to KO Roe v. Wade in a Faustian deal, these "Christians" gained White Power and political supremacy­ and emptied thousands of pews and put "FOR SALE" signs on hundreds of churches.

White Christian Nationalists swear by this statement: "God has called Christians to exercise dominion over all areas of American society.'' I guess that would make Jesus Christ an equal to Kim Jong-un, Donald Trump, Victor Orban, Vladimir Putin, Joe Stalin and Dracula the Impaler. If you were KO'd by some of these guys, you stay a KO permanently.

Remember, today's Christian Identity and Dominionists, such as former Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann and Senators Cruz and Hawley, believe that Blacks were created to serve Whites. After all, the Bible tells us so.

Since When did Jesus Christ Sign on to the Trumplican Party Platform?

When did Jesus say he was for low taxes? Was it when he tried to push that big camel through the eye of that tiny needle? Or was it when he chased those bank guys out of the temple for cheating money-changing customers?

A follower said Jesus remarked: "My house will be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves."

Jesus was said to be OK with paying the temple tax but didn't want the temple to be used for the wrong reason. As he looks down on Wall Street today, one wonders what Jesus will do with that den of thieves at the Second Coming.

I see the Great Leader of the Trumplican Party, who once posed for a campaign shot holding a Bible he had never read by a church he had never attended, is now selling Bibles for $59.99. It's too bad he didn't have his golden $399 "Never Surrender High Top" sneakers on for that photo.

His right cross to the brain is: "All Americans need a Bible in the home, and I have many, It's my favorite book."

I laughed so hard. I never figured he was a comic!

His USA Bible also contains a copy of the U.S. Constitution which he has never read or followed, a copy of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights he violates constantly, and the Pledge of Allegiance he forgot about when ordering his troops to capture the capitol building and the 2020 presidential election on January 6,2021.

Jesus demonstrated early that he was In favor of universal health care, using his medical skills to treat both women and men who had suffered TKOs In their lives, and he certainly used his CPR skills to revive Lazarus from a very serious KO. Well, he said he loved his neighbors.

President Donald Trump always insisted he would get rid of Obamacare, primarily because the president born in Kenya had bare-assed him in front of the world at a 2011 White House dinner for journalists and friends. It's probably why the psycho-sociopath with malignant narcissism ran for president in 2016. It really doesn't matter, because the Republican Party has always believed health care is a privilege of wealth and not a right of Christian human birth. It has tried to repeal Obamacare at least 50 times.

Republicans have always voted against Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and funding for Centers of Disease Control research. The Trumplican Party proved in the COVID-19 pandemic that if you don't vaccinate, wear masks, and social distance "hibernate," a country can lead the world in the rate of deaths per 100,000. Drinking bleach and treating anti-science script as miracle cures is a KO.

Jesus Christ walked and rode donkeys throughout Judea with some of his apostles, talking to everyone about his position in life and in Heaven, and walked on water as a diversion. He also spent a lot of time with Mary Magdalen and her friends. Donald Trump took his 737 TRUMP jet around the country, swearing to build a huge wall between Mexico and the Divided States of America with their money. He swore to keep brown people out of the country because they were criminals, rapists, bad judges, drug runners, vermin and terrorists.

Like Jesus, The Donald said he worked for his father as a carpenter! Maybe some day he will try to match Jesus by attempting to walk on the waters of Palm Beach Bay. It could be a KO performance if he Is carrying his USA Bible and wearing his gold sneakers.