{"id":1284,"date":"2022-06-25T03:15:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2022-06-25T03:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T03:15:03","slug":"zealots-the-battle-is-joined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Zealots — The battle is joined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zealots<\/b><\/p>\n

The battle is joined<\/b><\/p>\n

June 25th<\/sup>, 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

Nothing exposes the utter ethical and logical bankruptcy of zealotry than the two decisions the once-and-not-bright-future Supreme Court handed down this week.<\/p>\n

First, they celebrated the ever-growing piles of dead children by ruling that states could not put any limitations on concealed-carry except, of course, for \u201csensitive areas\u201d such as…the Supreme Court. They don\u2019t want to have to take the same risks they want to impose on the rest of us.<\/p>\n

Then two days later the Court struck down Roe vs. Wade, ruling that states had the right to put limitations on abortion, including making it illegal under any and all circumstances.<\/p>\n

So in the space of just 48 hours, the Court ruled that the Court could not impose limitations on the second amendment, and then ruled that states could impose limitations on the ninth and fourteenth amendments.<\/p>\n

The first ruling ensures greater numbers of dead people, including children. The second was done in the nebulous name of \u201csaving children.\u201d It\u2019s the kind of inconsistency that lies at the heart of the zealot\u2019s mindset.<\/p>\n

Zealotry is hard to tell apart from insanity. Zealotry is an externalized morality and intellect, one aptly described by Voltaire who said, \u201cThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.\u201d Most (but far from all) zealots aren\u2019t lacking sanity\u2014they merely reject it.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump isn\u2019t a zealot. It\u2019s perhaps an interesting paradox that nihilism is a good emotional defense against zealotry. If you believe in nothing, you are much less likely to believe absurdities, right? Of course, the drawback is that nihilists also commit atrocities, and unlike many zealots, do so with the full recognition of what their actions entail\u2014they just don\u2019t care. In fact they may even enjoy the suffering they cause.<\/p>\n

Trump is a nihilist posing as a zealot. So today, he praised the court ruling on abortion as \u201cGod made the decision.\u201d Of course, he then went on to take the credit from God, saying that the decision wouldn\u2019t have been possible without his three disgraceful Supreme Court picks. Anyone who thinks God and Trump are interchangeable on any level has one shit God. They already had a shit President.<\/p>\n

The zealots control the Court. They have a stranglehold on Congress. They threaten to take over the entire country in the next six months. It\u2019s not something new in history: Zealots have taken over many countries in history, and the result, without exception, is misery, deprivation, and slaughter. All the worst \u201crevolutionary governments\u201d in history were controlled and largely were composed of zealots; revolutionary France, Nazi Germany, Mao\u2019s China, Pol Pot\u2019s Kampuchea, Lenin\u2019s Russia, Pinochet\u2019s Chile, Iran\u2019s Islamic Republic, Cromwell\u2019s England…the list is endless.<\/p>\n

Usually countries so afflicted need decades to recover. Some, such as the Congo or Cambodia, never do fully recover.<\/p>\n

When zealots take over, personal and legal freedoms cease to exist. The same people who like to claim rights are God-given don\u2019t hesitate to ensure they are God-taken, and as always, God is an obliging doormat who shares all of a zealot\u2019s most cherished beliefs.<\/p>\n

The Court decisions this week show how close to the maw of authoritarian zealotry America has already come. Clarence Thomas, disgraced justice on that same court, publicly stated in his decision that the court now needs to \u201crevisit\u201d rulings upholding the right to contraception and same-sex marriages. No word on how the esteemed judge feels about mixed-race marriages or laws against slavery.<\/p>\n

States run by zealots are rushing to put laws into effect that make it criminal to give or receive abortions, to travel to other states for abortions, or to even advocate for the right to an abortion. Some are trying to outlaw \u201cmorning after\u201d pills, along with contraception. A couple of states are trying to fig leaf their assault on the rights and freedoms of women by promising to expand state assistance to mothers and their young children, but in the few cases where any details are available, the measures are ridiculously inadequate, showing their mitigation measures to be nothing more than a half-hearted swipe at the pretense that they are \u201ccaring about the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hearings by the January 6th<\/sup> Select Committee, and the reception they are getting, show that there are still many people in America who value justice and freedom and rationality.<\/p>\n

I think we\u2019re going to need every single one of those types of people. This isn\u2019t just an assault on rights and freedoms; it\u2019s the opening shot in a war that can only be prevented by enough people facing the zealots down and saying, \u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zealots won\u2019t back off. They won\u2019t settle for a half loaf. They\u2019ll take it all, and laugh at your suffering.<\/p>\n

Resist as hard as you can now, or you will be fighting for \u201clife, liberty and freedom\u201d later\u2014and it won\u2019t be cheap.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t despair. We\u2019re not dead yet. Voltaire also said, \u201c\u200eLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sing as you resist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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