HILLARY: NPR Q&A / STRUGGLE with FAITH / JOBS / CHURCH and STATE....

[Buster Schulz]

The Hillary Clinton who took part in NPR’s Democrat Candidate Q&A last week took Best of Show. Her extemporaneous responses were clear, concise, and bundled in polite, informed brevity — she stayed with what she knew and responded on-topic with ease. Hillary was different. Dunno why, but it looked good.

Then Sunday, Wes Clark went public with his endorsement: a relief because Hillary’s campaign is not showing the stones required for experience necessary as CINC (Commander In Chief) — her past toughness works on domestic and soft power foreign policy issues, but has not translated into military bearing — not convincing. It is imperative that Senator Clinton’s choice of Presidential Admin people includes a few competent, experienced warriors…. General Clark’s recent book, A Time to Lead, locks-in credentials tempered with political philosophy demonstrating viable attributes — Wes Clark / Veep.

Another issue is voter perception, that Hillary owns lop-sided attachment to women’s issues. Many can’t help but sense she’s over-the-top for women, that she blames men for job discrimination and the other inequalities woven into the fabric of ‘male dominated culture/society.’ One only has to watch Hillary to see she’s warm toward women and chilly to men — as if at heart, she can’t bring herself to trust us — always on guard.

It’s true, pay and salary parity is not where it should be. But women now take up 52% of the work force, and men have been left behind. Just drive thru town; stop at the grocery store, the bank, the insurance company — it seems all the employees are now women. And there is evidence of reverse discrimination: women tend to hire women, and not hire men.

The loss of manufacturing jobs has hit men especially hard. (On the side, corporations sending work off-shore look for ways to fire employees so they don’t have to pay unemployment compensation. Federal unemployment stats are cooked books — they lie. Terminated workers, those fortunate enough to be eligible for unemployment compensation — when it runs out — are not counted on the books.) Hillary harping on women’s issues all the time rings like a one trick pony with men, and with many women: she runs-on about healthcare and daycare for single moms and/or women from households with two incomes, while all men from no-income households want, is work.

Accurate or not, Hillary’s rigidities are obvious. It’s something sensed right-off, an absence from the natural matronly trait in a woman’s character — womanhood tempered by womanhood. But it was different; during the NPR Democrat Q&A, she was right-on… hard to say why her demeanor was warmer, more approachable, empathetic — whatever it was, hang on to it. For the first time, I was impressed.

On Religion: It has be reported that Hillary admits her struggles with faith, which alongside the Romney consumer buy-in, and Hucksta’s phone call from God, may appear disingenuous to Evangelicals and other authoritarian Zionists seeking a sign that Candidate Clinton Has Been Saved… Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the notion of State Religion.

Let us pray for Senator Clinton: that if elected President, she will struggle to resuscitate Separation of Church and State. Clearly, Founders intent includes freedom of religion, and freedom FROM religion. Yes sisters and brothers, it’s time for the second coming — sweep the profession of Evangelical Christian sleeper-axynetoi from our Democratic Constitutional Republic, forever.

Mitt Romney’s stated folly: Separation of Church and State is not absolute; his Mormon prophets have prophesied: ‘the Constitution shall hang by a thread — and the Mormon Elders of America-Israel have been selected by God to save it’… and they intend to get in on smiting Gentiles who get in the way <‘tis a true Mormon prophesy>.

This means if God elects Flippin’ Mitt to be Prez, he will serve to enforce state religion contrary to Founder intent. His religion believes in the appeasement of patriarchal, Zionist state religion; Romney has confessed his interpretation of Church & State — a move that that will remove Constitutional, freedom FROM religion: tough luck for atheists, agnostics, seculars, skeptics, Gnostics, and moderate Republicans and Democrats — and Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Zoroastrians, Pagans, beer lovers, Scientologists, the Constitution, et al.

Back to Hillary: It’s not entirely clear what she means when testifying she has had personal struggles with faith…. If she’s saying she had a hard time getting over Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, well what the hell — we can all run comparatives on that kind of trauma.

But let us conjecture thru the next few paragraphs: KJV bible believers like to quote that Mr. God created humanity in His image — male and female (and He made all the other creatures too, but they don’t know it.) If you discount the Old Testament “Adam’s Rib” myth, the ‘in God’s image’ argument gets a little complicated because logic says He-God must have breasts along with other reproductive attributes…. Or, there’s a Mrs. God the Ol’ Man prefers to keep up in Heaven outta sight, her head covered, her mouth shut, and pregnant.

So Hillary’s faith struggle might be as simple as wondering why the Good Book never offers any comments from Mrs. God, nor does it mention the names of women prophets and/or other celestial fairer-sex messengers providing bit of direction from the female point of view from time-to-time.

Hillary might even dare to think the KJV of Good News has classed women as after-thoughts, at best; and in view of historical perspective, all the Zion Christian inspired money grubbing, racism, torture, murder, rape, book burning, and hypocrisy, the sum of her struggles could be defined as, “I think I’m over Santa and the Tooth Fairy, now.”

And hey, any man who’s ever been married or in serious relationship with woman surely knows how it really works in the family – around the house. No matter what the KJV authors say God thinks, and/or says about the authoritarian patriarchal order of things, it’s safe to assume Bill’s not immune from getting his ass kicked by the wife from time-to-time. So there must be a Mrs. God the Christians haven’t told us about all these years.

We’ve heard a lot from the TheoNeoCons about getting rid of entitlements — the pull yo-self up by the bootstraps, and ‘teach a man to fish’ bull-pucky… while these voters identify with crooked K-Streeters who lobby God's Elect to send jobs off-shore. If God is truly the alpha and omega, omniscient and omnipotent, then He doesn’t need State Welfare entitlements and tax breaks. As part of returning Separation of Church and State, I sincerely pray the next administration will end religious tithing tax deductions and faith based initiatives.

Our Constitutional Republic has been intruded upon by theme park Evangelical witchdoctors and snake-oil shamans LIVIN’ LARGE ON THE DOLE — ‘tis the profession of Zionist Christianity: there are no good reasons why God needs taxpayer money. The Evangelicals and other trespassers own businesses, office buildings, huge personal mansions, media empires, private jets, luxury cars, and as standard practice, do not suffer doing business with non-believers — they have their own goddamn economy that goes out of its way to exclude and discriminate against non-affiliated citizens, thank you.

The hard-right dominionist Evangelical god crowd won’t ever see it, but Theocracy and the American Democratic Constitutional Republic are opposites — mutually exclusive. When monotheists are pressed to define allegiance, the response is always God first, then country. But there is only one Constitution, and there are many Gods… we can never be certain which God they, the monotheists, are referring to because of all the overwhelming and fantastic, numerous and varying tenets and doctrines — e.g. every Christian faith has its own Jesus brand. The best we can do: protect State FROM religion, and protect freedom OF religion in accordance with Constitutional Separation of Church and State: Founder intent.

Theocratic monotheism is and has been an invisible male God King run by self-anointed minions who claim to speak for HIM — a lot not unlike absentee landLord monarchy. The Founders did not appreciate the notion of monarchy, and kings — and superstitions; they clearly established a Democratic Constitutional Republic — enlightened secular law: freedom of religion, and freedom FROM religion.

SEPARATION of CHURCH and STATE!

GOD OFF WELFARE!

Opinions Inspired By:
1. THE BIRTH of SATAN: TRACING THE DEVIL’S BIBLICAL ROOTS — by T.J. Wray and Greg Mobley.
2. MORAL MINORITY: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers — by Brooke Allen.
3. The DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE — by Ed Gibbons
4. BREAKING the SPELL: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon — by Dan Dennett.
5. LOST CHRISTIANITIES: The Battles for Scripture and Faiths We Never Knew — by Bart Ehrman.
6. LOST SCRIPTURES: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament — ibid.
7. GOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything — by Chris Hitchens.
8. AMERICAN THEOCRACY: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century — by Kevin Phillips.
9. The CLASH of FUNDAMENTALISMS — by Tariq Ali.
10. CONSERVATIVES WITHOUT CONSCIENCE — by John Dean.
11. HISTORY AS MYSTERY — by Michael Parenti.
12. THE TEACHINGS OF EZRA TAFT BENSON — by Ezra Taft Benson (Mormon President/Prophet).
13. KING JAMES VERSION of the Bible — by various and suspect authors, post A.D.
14. THE TORAH — by various and suspect authors, B.C.
15. THE HOLY QUR’AN — by various and suspect authors, post 600 A.D.
16. GUNS, GERMS, and STEEL — by Jared Diamond
17. THE FEDERALIST PAPERS — by Constitutional Framers.
18. DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE — by American Founders.
19. THE CONSTITUTION — by Constitutional Framers.