Getting Right With Jesus, With the Rev. Billy Pulpitt
A little blasphemy never hurt anyone, except those to condemned to eternal torment
In these terrifying times, even the most avidly atheistic among us has wondered if inviting Jesus into our hearts might be a good idea.
Well, I happen to think that there’s no such thing as an inopportune time to get right with Our Lord, even for someone such as I, who asserted only last week in a spicy exchange with a True Believer that Hubert Selby Jr’s 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn has as much right to be considered sacred as the Bible.
The record shows that I repudiated apostasy halfway through President Donald G. Trump’s momentous first term, when I binge-watched the videos of the Rev. Billy Pulpitt, as I intend to do again now, in the wake of President Trump’s having made clear his intention to usher in a glorious new age of American Christofascism.
A loud, resonant shout-out to the Rev. Pulpitt’s sponsor, Christians and Others for Decency and America.
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Oh, sure, you encounter plenty of horseshit on Substack — women saying they covet as subscribers others who share their interest in Living Authentically [capitalization mine], or persons of both chromosomal configurations speaking of “lived experience” [an experience is, for God’s, sake lived
That Reverend is quite a man of the cloth!