Have Mercy!
Ever since Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde asked Donald Trump to show mercy in a church service the other day, some folks have attacked her while others have come to her defense.
I saw a lot of irony in her plea for mercy, however: how one cult leader (no one has persecuted more throughout history than the Church) showed the temerity--the outright audacity--to ask another cult leader to show mercy on those in his way.
The Church, in all it's murderous glory, has a helluva lot of nerve asking anyone to show mercy: ever heard of the Crusades? the Spanish Inquisition? the Doctrine of Discovery? The Church has refused to show mercy throughout it's long, sordid history, and truly has no leg of mercy to stand on.
I don't support Trump: I despise his very being. And like him, I also despise the Church, with all it's show and glamour, but little love for the people who they pretend to serve.
Trump and the Church deserve each other.