MRFF Stops Demon-Fearing Christian Fundamentalist Commander from Replacing Unit Halloween Party with “New Testament Holiday Costume Party”
“Then just the other day our Commander said some jacked up shit to our (senior enlisted title and rank withheld) about how ‘Halloween is inspired by demons and the devil’ and that ‘celebrating Halloween is the devil’s work’ and that he ‘won’t support anything that supports Satan.’ Yes he actually said this shit. Not very surprised as he is big on pushing his Christian faith anywhere and everywhere within our unit. He also now sometimes wears a ‘Trump 2024’ hat lately around our unit premises. We know that’s so messed up too. Nobody says anything though because he’s the Commander.
“Our (senior enlisted title and rank withheld) was able to talk him out of totally canceling our Halloween party. But our Commander decided instead to ‘encourage the troops’ (meaning do what I say!) to come to a brand new event that he and his wife would put on at the same time our event was supposed to happen called a ‘New Testament Holiday Costume Party’. Where those unit personnel and the families attending dress up as their favorite New Testament characters. Are you f——ing kidding me?
“I shit you not that is what he decided to do.”
— E-mail from junior enlisted MRFF client on behalf of a group of 26 unit members
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First and foremost, Satan is a Christian deity. Can’t have Satan unless you have Christianity. Don’t believe me? Check the myriad religions recognized by the DOD.
I’m not waiting for anyone to do the work, spoiler alert – Satan is a specifically Christian invention.
Second – So much for Christianists in the military following their own holy book where it’s said Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, a concept so important it’s mentioned not once but twice (Mathew and Luke).
We don’t need much imagination to see how the Commander would have reacted had his already approved event was canceled because another claimed privilege. It’s being played out on the political streets of the USA here/now.
Third – thank the world for the MRFF and Mikey. Without their presence the Christianists would get their way resulting in chaos and unit devolution.
Yes, lets break someone down to their component parts via boot camp, teach them how to kill without trashing their conscience, and then prove to them that the rules they thought were their guiding light aren’t really all that important because someone in command’s religious sincerely held beliefs trumps your adherence to rules and regulations.
What on earth could possibly go wrong?
Those of us who not only read the history books (written by the victors) but paid attention to art from the period – paintings, plays, prose, poems, songs, sculptures and so much more – know exactly what happens to those who come out of the fog to find out they’ve been lied to and used for the personal gain by those they trusted.
Watch your six kids. The popping has begun as evidenced by an uptick in animal cruelty reports (I follow several rescues and the stories are heartbreaking). After practicing on the defenseless the progression track means humans are next.
Just watch your six and be aware. Although we’ve never met our appreciation for the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights and all service folk in the military makes us a family of sorts. Dysfunctional as hell but still, I’d defend to the death your rights. Fair is fair.
OK kids – comparative religion time.
Yes, there are many deities in charge of destruction in many religions. Kali, goddess of destruction and rebirth come to mind. She’s been my go-to energy these past months and as she reminds me, sometimes when I see things as falling apart they are really falling into place, that no beginning can happen without removing what was previously in place.
There is reason the pictures of Satan look like a horned deity, the Christian priest class back in the day seized upon the visual of the Horned God of the pagan religions and ‘demonized’ them in order to win converts. Excellent PR campaign. Horrible representation of who and what the Horned God actually represented. Generally speaking he covers animals, fertility, power, strength, wilderness and strength, all traits the Christian priest class coveted for themselves.
It’s all about power and control. Remove the regional variations and yep, that’s how it distills out – who gets to control whom.
Of course this is the view from the stratosphere. A deep dive will give you more but honestly there isn’t enough room in a thousand blogs to cover one tenth of the deep dive. I should know, I’ve been studying the subject for at least forty years and I’ve barely scratched the surface. The more you know the more you realize you know nothing.
The Commander wearing the Trump hat says it all, “See, I’m fucking stupid too!”
Trump is the dumbest mother fucker on the planet, excepting his base, but they make a good team, “dumb and dumbest!” Not sure which comes before the other, both competing for bottom rung status on the ladder of intellectual prowess!
The MAGAT base is living proof of Neanderthal DNA in at least part of the species, my apologies for denigrating Neanderthals, their excuse is having lived in a different era.
Today’s Neanderthalians, easily identifiable, look for the “I’m fucking stupid” hats, particularly those in the military in positions of leadership, are, like Trump, an insult to this country and the U.S. Constitution.
Yes, we know, Jesus is coming back on a white horse carrying an AR-15, but in the meantime, purge these dumb mother fuckers from the ranks of what could be the most effective fighting force on the planet! Unfit to lead! Loss of confidence. Lacking in moral judgement, unable to separate fact from fiction. The same ill-bred leaders that are going to get your sons and daughters killed!
And you might wonder why we struggle in meeting recruitment goals? Veterans encouraging young people NOT to join. I’m guessing they’re tired of the mandatory Wednesday night Commander-and-his-wife prayer meetings and, in this case, The Charlatan Ball being put together to revise the historic Celtic festival of Samhain, the All Hallows Eve tradition being replaced by warfighters holding hands in a circle at the Commander’s house, dressed in Christian-friendly costumes, Casper the Christian Spirit or other “woke” sheepskin mantels approved by the real Commander – his wife!
Get a fucking grip! Young people want to do what young people do without the coercion of a Commander and his wife telling young troops how to live in their not so pure white Christian shadows! “Blessed are you, our troops, that are invited into the fold of our white Christian power!”
If you really wanted to prepare troops for battle, you’d forget telling them how to get to Heaven, you’d tell them how the Heavens go (which they’re fucking clueless about). Teach them more about Galileo than Galilee! Start with how he was tried for heresy by church leaders for suggesting a helio-centric model of the night sky!
You can wean them into burning-at-the-stake and cleric rape of little children, the Crusades and Inquistions, prosperity gospel, et al.
Not all at once though. You might make them Atheist!
Believing in the Bible makes you religious, reading it makes you an Atheist! Unattributed.
Get rid of these bigot military leaders, their “oath-train” having long since left the station!
Just a few more days until we can begin to rid this country of the Trump odor that permeates the kitchens of Haitians cooking your pets! Trump’s going to deport them – back to Venezuela!
MAGATS – Time for an intervention! Out The Fucking Door In 24!
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AC Grayling’s comment, “DO NOT do unto others as you would have them do unto you! They may not like it!”
Following the Mathew 7:12 verse would get many in the clergy sodomized!
They’d have to revise the Eye for an Eye passage in Exodus 21:23 to, “A butt for a butt!”
The MAGAT Purge – Roevember the month to remember!
Grey One and Synergy: not much I can add that you both have not already said. It is funny, though, how often the Christianity promotion industry claims that the Old Testament teaches “an eye for an eye,” while the New Testament re-invented morality in action by coming up with “love thy neighbor as thyself.” In reality, the “love thy neighbor as thyself came word-for-word from the Old Testament. See for example Leviticus 19:18.
That being said, I don’t go to either the Old or the New Testaments for my morality. Neither does it for me. And it seems like a large proportion of the USA only pays lip-service to the “love thy neighbor” idea anyway, even as they profess to hold it up as their goal and daily standard.
Jeff, I’d been toying with the idea of conservative Christianity when I read a transforming book – Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I was clear eyed when I again looked at Christianity as I wanted my new found friends to share my joy in the new lessons learned and they weren’t as receptive as this Grey One hoped.
It took me aback that they could not see the parallel lessons in morality, insisting their holy book was the ONLY holy book. What could I do but leave?
Fast forward to here/now to where I’ve read the Christian holy book several times (OMG the begats are boring!!!). My impression is it’s a compilation of many doctrines tied together by the ruling classes in order to make easier their job of governing myriad tribes without having to pander to every flavor of faith.
To me it’s a lot like here/now where Christianists say they want Christianity as the faith of the nation but never get around to which denomination will be in charge.
Grey One: yeah, that’s a great book that I read shortly after it was published. Our Christian neighbors don’t always think through the implications of what they’re espousing, and don’t always exhibit behaviors that embody their alleged ideals, as you know. Their enthusiasm for eliminating the boundary between religion and government is going to backfire on them enormously, for example, if they can’t be stopped from succeeding.
Many of us are already second-class citizens in our states, thanks to them, as you also are aware. I can only hope the cheerleaders for theocracy don’t get any more control of the government than they have already. I’ll keep trying to speak out about the consequences of dressing up authoritarian theocracy as democracy and freedom of religion, and I know you will also do what you can. My state legislators have proven to be so far unwilling to acknowledge the problem and do what is right rather than what is politically expedient.
Both sections of the Bible plagiarized from the Greeks and Persians, Zoroaster giving us monotheism, many having died and been resurrected long before the mythos of a Jewish savior came along, crucifixion a standard in terms of capital punishment until others means of punishment were devised. There’s a little more entertainment value in being burned alive at the stake, as one more modern example.
Course, dunking of those nasty witches here in the good ole US of A a novel approach. If she survived the dunking, she was a witch! Gasp! And if she didn’t ….. she was a witch!
Republicans ought to visit the “torture museum” in Rotenburg, Germany. They cleaned up the name – The Medieval Crime Museum – but the torture devices were disproportionately used on ….. you guessed it …. those nasty women that Republicans love to hate!
“Get your ass back in the kitchen! You pregnant yet? Goddamn woman! Know your place! Get me a beer and don’t forget to get those Trump steaks out of the freezer, (belch)!”
On you ladies! It’s YOUR time! Haven’t ALL wars been started by ……. wait for it ……MEN?
Tired of Haitians eating your pets? Tired of immigrants building your houses and looking after your kids? Tired of them doing your landscaping? Building your roads and infrastructure? Working for peanuts. Tired of them picking your fruits and vegetables? Cooking your meals? Working the farms, working the slaughter houses, providing the labor to feed this country? Driving your trucks? Working the Maquiladoras in Mexico to provide the U.S. with manufactured products, automobiles, trucks, farm equipment?
The U.S. wouldn’t survive without immigrants! Period!
Fucking Christian Nationalists with their “better than thou, I got mine” attitudes.
Florida went on a binge kicking immigrants out until they realized it would decimate their labor force. Went on TV to beg them to stay after their Governor Schittsinboots passed a law to rid the state of migrants.
“We’ll, um, er, uh, we don’t want y’all ta leave now. Ah know the Govnuh has passed a law but it ain’t, well, um, just doncha leave now. We gonna git this ‘ere fixed!”
Fucking Republicans. They fuck up everything they touch! “Git me ‘em Ten Commandments up in schooos. Y’all need ta come ta Jesus! Ass wos wrong with this cuntry, ain’t nuff prayer in are schoos!”
They want the federal Government out of states’s business until a hurricane hits and all you hear coming from the right is incessant whining about how the Guvment ain’t in our business like they should be!
Well which fucking one is it? You want the federal government to socialize the cost of a natural disaster in a state you CHOSE to live in.
Not a mention of what the state is doing about the devastation! State’s rights?
“It’s not fair! I chose to live in hurricane alley and the rest of the country owes it to me to buy me a new house ‘cause mine got blown down!”
Not to mention the fraudulent claims paid out in every natural disaster!
Sorry, got wound up. Sick of all the Republican whining! They can’t legislate! Public pissing in DC, impeach Joe Biden, and the congressional testimony on the size of Hunter Biden’s dick! So …. the 118th Congress did ………… what for the last four years? Fucking nothing! Not a damn thing besides piss and moan about anything and everything. They did a good job of getting in front of cameras! ‘We have trusted sources on Joe Biden’s illicit activities – and then couldn’t find their star witness, who, as it turns out, was a Russian agent!
“We do love us some Putin!”
The Republican Party IS the Communist outreach for their Daddy Vladdy! Remember when Fox News compared the shirtless Vladdy on a white horse saying he was a real leader? That’s who they wanted to follow, apoplectic over there being a black man in the White House! Trump praising autocrat Viktor Orban, Xi, Kim Jong Un, Putin, and MAGAT of all MAGATS, Leon (as Trump calls him) Musk. Another grifter having made his fortunes with US government contracts! The State of Texas pays him over a billion a year!
Get rid of these assholes! Vote them out! ALL of them!
Roevember just around the corner. Show ‘em the door!
MAGATS – Get rid of them! We’re NOT going back!
We don’t care about your red hats, makes it easier to spot stupid in a crowd! You’re doing us a favor! Keep up the good work!
So Oklahoma superintendent Ryan Walter’s sends out a request for proposal to supply Oklahoma schools with 55,000 Bibles to place in every classroom!
Course, the specs listed in the RFP just so happens to meet the Trump Bible exactly! You know, the Bible must also include the pledge of allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, et al, all the shit Trump added to his Bible, you know, the New Testament 2.0. So taxpayers in Oklahoma get the privilege of giving Trump $3 million, a tidy little profit for the orange man and Ryan gets himself a job with the Trump Team if Trump makes it back into the White House! Now that’s a good little scam! Get the tax payers to buy your way into Team Grift!
Not to mention the unconstitutional nature of the move to place Bibles in all classroom – that’ll cure poverty and infant mortality!
Course, Oklahoma ranks 44th of best states to live in and ranks 7th in worst states overall!
Yeah, those Bibles in classrooms ought to fix that!
Can’t wait to hear some kid look through a Bible and ask why Lott was fucking his own daughters! lol.Because he was a righteous man, sayeth the Lord! It wasn’t his fault – he was drunk! Is that a good legal challenge? In the eyes of God it is!
I’m sure there will be legal challenges. Walter’s ought to be kicked out but, of course, he was put there by his Governor friend Stitt, another right-winger.
Maybe the kids will stumble on to the passages about beating your slaves! Or dashing the little ones against the rocks!
I mean, you can’t really unread a passage about having sex with your daughters.
Remember the angels that visited Lott and the men of Soddom wanted Lott to let them sodomize the angels? Lott, instead, gave them his daughter. She was a little tart anyway.
Yeah, lots of good reading in the Christian Bible, especially for school children!
Encourage them to read it! It’ll make atheists out of them!
Just a snippet of what your new country looks like under Trump! They don’t even hide the grift anymore. Pretty blatant!
A village in Oklahoma is missing its idiot! If you see Walter’s, tell him his village is looking for him!
Out the door in 24!
It’s appropriate to be outraged by outrageous behavior. The normalization of such extreme behavior based on bigotry doesn’t make it any less pernicious and wrong and unconstitutional. It just makes the masses more likely to glance at it and return their attention to PlayStation or X.
Poor Ryan Walter’s didn’t bother to look up who sets public school curricula in OK. It is the school districts, not the state. Many of the district boards are rightly telling him they are not willing to violate their families’ constitutional rights to satisfy Walters’ blood lust for nonbelievers or believers in the “wrong” religions.
I’m sorry. But listen, you might want someday to stream a television series from back in the day called “MASH”. Seems like serving has always been associated with surviving the top brass. Carry on as well as you can!
MASH was a television show, Peggy. Not reality. And while we all know we have to persevere as best we can while being led by thoughtless and incompetent bosses, that isn’t the issue here. The issue being addressed here by MRFF is leaders violating the basic constitutional rights of their subordinates and violating military regs also. It is also about ugly bigotry from the top down in organizations in which unit cohesion is vital and is a matter of life and death.
You are sorry about what Peggy Palma? Being female?
I ask because I struggled with saying sorry all the time, at least I did until Mental Health classes where I learned the sorry response is A, not helpful and B, something the patriarchy demands of all females to keep them in their place (under their feet and thumb). Please, it’s not necessary unless you are directly responsible for the action you are saying sorry for causing. Seriously, I said sorry to a lamp post when I ran into it. That’s when I got help. Let this be your wake up call.
That said, to the meat of your comment – MASH.
I came of age with MASH – watched every episode – twice if I could. Missed the prime time viewings but it was on after the news and I got special “I’m old enough to stay up late” permission. To be honest I might have fallen asleep a couple of times just listening to the voices, conversations, relationships. They were like my family and I cried like crazy when it ended.
So I know a bit of MASH lore, like did you know Mike Farrell, the actor who played BJ Hunnicutt, is not only a long time supporter and advocate for the MRFF but also serves on the MRFF Advisory Board? Before you suggest an action to audience as you did I submit you heed the advice of my swim coach way back in the day to never dive until you know exactly the depth of the water.
You are correct in stating “Seems like serving has always been associated with surviving the top brass” but you are off the mark in applying that sentiment to the situation here/now.
What is different?
Top brass aren’t enforcing regulations, they’ve abandoned the rule of law to insist personnel under their command worship exactly as they do in direct violation of the USA Constitution and Bill of Rights and every DOD rule/reg on the subject. Not all Top’s but enough must be covering for someone or the MRFF wouldn’t have so many higher ups being reported.
So, a question Peggy, and I do hope you answer because I’m asking quite sincerely. Ok, as sincere as my snarky self can be when asking a name attached to a comment online.
So – exactly how is a service critter supposed to ‘Carry on as well as you can!’ when they aren’t allowed to practice their sincerely held belief that the faith they follow is correct for themselves? I ask as the widow of an old Marine who was thoroughly Pagan (seventh generation kind of thing) and was punished for his faith. Sundays the Christians went to church with the head of the squad, he was “allowed” to clean the toilets. Not sure there is enough ‘carry on’ to make up for such an injustice.
The rules are clear and yet the Christianist nationalists insist on violating, trashing, and ignoring them in order to force their concept of Christianity/authoritarianism on the rest.
There is no confusion as to why the MRFF goes after so many Christianists – it’s because they are the only ones (with a few exceptions) who are breaking the rules.
I do await your response. Not holding my breath kind of thing – that would be silly, but with genuine curiosity of what you will say.
Jeff and Synergy (alphabetical as that’s my brain today)
Ryan Walters is experiencing some unintended consequences. The memes across the interwebz are filled with slogans such as ‘You put your religious book in the classroom, We The People put the IRS into your churches”. I’m sure Mr Walters doesn’t care much but the pastors of the MegaChurches are sure taking notice. Makes me laugh every time I think of it.
The landfall of both Helene and Milton has been enlightening, the making political what should be merely assistance for those in need. Speaker Johnson refusing to call back the House to approve needed funds (they are funded through Helene but not Milton, nor was the Continuing Resolution enough to meet the needs for several Departments, specifically the Small Business Administration), MTG showing her ignorance again by insisting humans can control the weather.
About that – controlling the weather. I just read a 300+ comment post made by a news organization advising their watchers of the dangers from Milton. I kid you not, over 100 replies to a comment tried to conflate cloud seeding (yes, admittedly can be called weather modification) with altering the course of a hurricane or even creating a hurricane.
I’ll just leave that right there.
When Harris/Walz wins and the inevitable violence from the MAGA crew is subdued We The People have so much work to do. I have a To Do list. Well, it’s more like a spreadsheet with milestones, gates, and objectives, but you mean what I know.
Vote Blue No Matter Who 2024
MAGA – Out The Door in ’24
#AuditAllTheThings
(HT/Mikey for pointing me this way)
Love the “….we put the IRS into your churches!” Brilliant! Going to use that one!
Long overdue, imo, the Christian grift well beyond palpable in today’s prosperity gospel climate of mega-maga churches.
Those wearing the MAGA hats (I’m glad they do, easier to spot stupid in a crowd), would do Nazi Germany all over again in a New York minute (reference to propensity, not New York).
Those in the Schittsinpants cult (did you see his speech where he audibly shit has diaper?), are right about one thing, they have devolved into a Banana Republic form of Neo-Fascist Christo-Fascist government, trying to get us all on board the Titan submersible with them.
Some can leave the country, much as some did when one of their idols came to power (Hitler), but those left behind, in their cult, are relegated to a life of fealty to a reality of their own making, living in the pretense that “as long as we ignore the reality of our own detriment, and keep our mouths shut, everything will be OK!”
Many won’t actively participate, but they’ll go along with it, being, in their minds, on the right side of the Dear Leader’s regimen of power and control.
At least one in my own family coming to mind. She won’t say shit when Trump rounds up 21 million in this country and puts them internment camps, much the same as many of us did when George Bush and his henchmen implemented “extreme vetting,” (torture) after attacking the wrong country after 911. So Patriotically American, right?
In this case, the stakes are exponentially higher as Trump embarks on his “revenge tour,” not only throwing America into greater depths of despair than it’s ever felt before, but giving the world over to autocracy, a globalized fascism on the horizon!
New wars as elements of control. The religious right-wing their authoritarian “brown shirts,” their Stephen Miller look-alike henchmen, your neighbors part of the watchful State!
Hide and watch, God forbid, if the grift team EVER gets back into office!
Vote like your lives depend on it! It does!
The Christo-fascist playbook, Project 2025, is out there for all to see!
I was in Iran during the Islamic revolution and take-over of 78/79, when the theocrats came to power. I’m not saying Shah Pahlavi, an American puppet, was a poster boy for democracy, but I can tell you the first thing that happens in any takeover, is an immediate “purge,” of anyone even remotely perceived to be not loyal to the new regime. Neighbors telling on neighbors as part of their own self-protection mechanism.
The immediate purging, in this country, in accordance with Project 2025, of those military leaders deemed a risk to the Dear Leader. The civil service leadership completely gutted, Trump acolytes installed, with no recourse for the working masses. “Go along and shut your mouths, or else!” Internment camps run by our military. Military bases used as staging dread for those rounded up. Not that anything could go wrong with that – Abu Ghraib in Iraq right here in America!
The MAGATS in this country are outnumbered – IF you vote and help get out the vote!
Team Trump IS an existential threat.
As Grey One says, “when they tell you who they are, believe them!”
VOTE – We’re there! Let’s make history! Blue Tsunami!
Harris/Walz for a new beginning and a better tomorrow! Down ballot as well to purge the scourge!
Funny how business leaders, Fox media people and politicians complain about Americans not wanting to work; however, they do everything they can not to put Americans back to work. They would not work at those jobs for lousy pay, no benefits and terrible working conditions plus they look at those jobs as being beneath them
Yeah, 5% of our military is made up of non U.S. citizens. In other words – immigrants!
60 Hispanic Medal of Honor recipients. 90 black Medal of Honor recipients.
So, “they’re eating your dogs, they’re eating your cats, they’re bringing drugs, they’re rapists….,” fucking idiot.
More like, “they’re picking your fruits and vegetables, they’re building your houses, they’re taking care of your kids, they’re cleaning your houses, they’re cooking your food, they’re working on your roads…..”
In other words, deport them and see what happens to this country!
The MAGA crowd is dumber than a bag of hammers! You’ve never seen a MAGA face with a nose on it – they cut it off to spite their faces!
VOTE BLUE! Ride the wave!