The Devil is On the Ground in Bama
This Blog will be a work in progress the next couple days. Read again later in the week for revisions and extra mustard.
Lincoln had to navigate the Know Nothings in 1850s. Alabama is Lincoln Da Ja Vu all over again in the special election for US Senate between Roy Moore and Doug Jones; and the Devil is having a field day with his arc angel Steve Bannon and his congregation of Yellowhammer News network of Baptist Church of the Highlands, FBC Gardendale, Rick Burgess of the Rick And Bubba show who deceives young virgin interns from Samford and other fundamentalist stripes who are clueless about authentic execution of Baptist ideals of Baptist Separation of Church and State.
Nick Saban's St Francis Catholic Church is at risk in Tuscaloosa Alabama not to mention the legacy of Atticus Finch (created by a Methodist) and the great Baptists Judge Frank Johnson (a Lincoln Republican) and Hugo Black the Supreme Court Justice.
But how can you expect the state to do the right thing when the leadership of the Alabama Baptist Convention is struck mute even in the wake of the fiasco, debacle of the Phoenix Alt right resolution in Phoenix last summer; not to mention nothing learned from Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham Jail 50 years ago?
Your Average Baptist is no more prepared for Roy's Rock in the US Senate, the Salafist wing of the evangelical tradition in America, than they were for King in the 60s. They voted for Wallace in 63 and I'll be Damned if they aren't likely to vote for Roy Moore in Dec 2017
The question is in addition to the SBC leadership in Bama is the progtessive wing, The congregation of FBC Auburn, the CBF of Alabama and their ecumenical friends among the Methodists; have they read Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green or even the nybooks dot com review. Do they have a conversational knowledge of Hillary Clinton's magnificent unflinching naming the Bannon infidel cabal in her NPR Fresh Air interview of last week.
Will Doug Jones have the presence of mine to master the themes of Hochschild's National Bk Award finalist Strangers in their Own Country and make authentic appeals to the White Working Class in Bama that feel like others have jumped in line in front of them.
Hillary Clinton should be president now. She made some mistakes she has conceded. Will Jones and his messaging folks learn from Clinton missteps and Hochschild?
Baptist Preacher's son Cliff Simms the creator of Yellowhammer News is now in the Trump White House. Rick Burgess interviewed Trump live on air last Monday the day before the Strange/ Moore Runoff.
Will the good folks at Auburn University Living Democracy Project and the Dave Matthews Center in Montevallo make this plain. Will the Honors Program at UBAMa tell their students about Judge Frank Johnson and Hugo Black say by Mid November so they can talk about it with their families over Thanksgiving. Will the Baptists in Montgomery who owe their salaries to the tithes and offerings of Trump's base on Sand Mountain and the Wiregrass tell people what they know in their hearts is at stake with Roy Moore, a man at odds with the church state views of the Grand George W. Truett, the greatest Baptist of the first half of the 20th Century.
Will the Sorority sisters at Bama and Auburn call in WYDE and Tell Michael Hart and his snarky side kick Jessica and then my friend Gomer Scott Beason this is not a single issue vote on abortion, but the ethics or gerrymandering and Trump's Huntsville Sonsabitches statement come in to play for the extended families of the mostly people of color they champion every Saturday on Game Day in the SEC?
There is a plaza at Ole Miss named for Jesus Christ Disciple Will D. Campbell. He called the Moore, Yellowhammer News, Steve Bannon Cabal "soul Molesters" . Are what passes for Christians in Alabama still able after all the pounding obfuscation of Fox News these last twenty years still able to recognize soul molesters when they see em and does the leadership of the B ama Baptist convention have any desire or capacity to help them Discern?
In the early summer of 1931 Dietrich Bonhoeffer drove through Alabama on Ole US HWY 11. At Union Divinity School in NYC he had befriended Frank Fisher, then son of the pastor of the 16th Street BC in Birmingham. Two years before Trump fumbled into the US Presidency, Pulitzer's Marilyn Robinson framed this moment in America, crystallized now in Alabama in her biblically proportioned essay Memory in the Collection Givenness of Things on the legacy of Bonhoeffer and the similarity of 30s Germany to post Obama America.
I cant think of any excuse Rick Lance, Bradley Byrne and Richard Shelby could call upon not to go to a local Barnes and Noble and spend 15 minutes with that divine essay.
October 5. Look for opinion piece in Washington Post coming soon by Randall Balmer of Dartmouth on Roy Moore as anathema to historic and authentic Baptist ideals on church state separation.
And this piece from RD dot org
http://religiondispatches.org/roy-10-commandments-moore-doesnt-want-to-reform-the-senate-he-has-a-higher-calling/
Read Harold Bloom in the American Religion on Baptist Fundamentalism as a latter day Know Nothing party
And Like her or not, Hillary Clinton nails the sobs who put Trump in office in the second segment of this grand interview on NPR Fresh Air re her book What Happened. Pay particular attention to the Q and A sequence after the notice Ramilies on the Soundtrack during a break of the on air interview
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=551217204
Lincoln had to navigate the Know Nothings in 1850s. Alabama is Lincoln Da Ja Vu all over again in the special election for US Senate between Roy Moore and Doug Jones; and the Devil is having a field day with his arc angel Steve Bannon and his congregation of Yellowhammer News network of Baptist Church of the Highlands, FBC Gardendale, Rick Burgess of the Rick And Bubba show who deceives young virgin interns from Samford and other fundamentalist stripes who are clueless about authentic execution of Baptist ideals of Baptist Separation of Church and State.
Nick Saban's St Francis Catholic Church is at risk in Tuscaloosa Alabama not to mention the legacy of Atticus Finch (created by a Methodist) and the great Baptists Judge Frank Johnson (a Lincoln Republican) and Hugo Black the Supreme Court Justice.
But how can you expect the state to do the right thing when the leadership of the Alabama Baptist Convention is struck mute even in the wake of the fiasco, debacle of the Phoenix Alt right resolution in Phoenix last summer; not to mention nothing learned from Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham Jail 50 years ago?
Your Average Baptist is no more prepared for Roy's Rock in the US Senate, the Salafist wing of the evangelical tradition in America, than they were for King in the 60s. They voted for Wallace in 63 and I'll be Damned if they aren't likely to vote for Roy Moore in Dec 2017
The question is in addition to the SBC leadership in Bama is the progtessive wing, The congregation of FBC Auburn, the CBF of Alabama and their ecumenical friends among the Methodists; have they read Devil's Bargain by Joshua Green or even the nybooks dot com review. Do they have a conversational knowledge of Hillary Clinton's magnificent unflinching naming the Bannon infidel cabal in her NPR Fresh Air interview of last week.
Will Doug Jones have the presence of mine to master the themes of Hochschild's National Bk Award finalist Strangers in their Own Country and make authentic appeals to the White Working Class in Bama that feel like others have jumped in line in front of them.
Hillary Clinton should be president now. She made some mistakes she has conceded. Will Jones and his messaging folks learn from Clinton missteps and Hochschild?
Baptist Preacher's son Cliff Simms the creator of Yellowhammer News is now in the Trump White House. Rick Burgess interviewed Trump live on air last Monday the day before the Strange/ Moore Runoff.
Will the good folks at Auburn University Living Democracy Project and the Dave Matthews Center in Montevallo make this plain. Will the Honors Program at UBAMa tell their students about Judge Frank Johnson and Hugo Black say by Mid November so they can talk about it with their families over Thanksgiving. Will the Baptists in Montgomery who owe their salaries to the tithes and offerings of Trump's base on Sand Mountain and the Wiregrass tell people what they know in their hearts is at stake with Roy Moore, a man at odds with the church state views of the Grand George W. Truett, the greatest Baptist of the first half of the 20th Century.
Will the Sorority sisters at Bama and Auburn call in WYDE and Tell Michael Hart and his snarky side kick Jessica and then my friend Gomer Scott Beason this is not a single issue vote on abortion, but the ethics or gerrymandering and Trump's Huntsville Sonsabitches statement come in to play for the extended families of the mostly people of color they champion every Saturday on Game Day in the SEC?
There is a plaza at Ole Miss named for Jesus Christ Disciple Will D. Campbell. He called the Moore, Yellowhammer News, Steve Bannon Cabal "soul Molesters" . Are what passes for Christians in Alabama still able after all the pounding obfuscation of Fox News these last twenty years still able to recognize soul molesters when they see em and does the leadership of the B ama Baptist convention have any desire or capacity to help them Discern?
In the early summer of 1931 Dietrich Bonhoeffer drove through Alabama on Ole US HWY 11. At Union Divinity School in NYC he had befriended Frank Fisher, then son of the pastor of the 16th Street BC in Birmingham. Two years before Trump fumbled into the US Presidency, Pulitzer's Marilyn Robinson framed this moment in America, crystallized now in Alabama in her biblically proportioned essay Memory in the Collection Givenness of Things on the legacy of Bonhoeffer and the similarity of 30s Germany to post Obama America.
I cant think of any excuse Rick Lance, Bradley Byrne and Richard Shelby could call upon not to go to a local Barnes and Noble and spend 15 minutes with that divine essay.
October 5. Look for opinion piece in Washington Post coming soon by Randall Balmer of Dartmouth on Roy Moore as anathema to historic and authentic Baptist ideals on church state separation.
And this piece from RD dot org
http://religiondispatches.org/roy-10-commandments-moore-doesnt-want-to-reform-the-senate-he-has-a-higher-calling/
Read Harold Bloom in the American Religion on Baptist Fundamentalism as a latter day Know Nothing party
And Like her or not, Hillary Clinton nails the sobs who put Trump in office in the second segment of this grand interview on NPR Fresh Air re her book What Happened. Pay particular attention to the Q and A sequence after the notice Ramilies on the Soundtrack during a break of the on air interview
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=551217204
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