Christian Nationalist DOT Secretary Duffy Vindictively Moving Giant Jesus Painting Back to USMMA Conference Room — MRFF Files Giant Jesus FOIA Request
In 2023, MRFF, acting on a complaint from an group of 17 alumni, midshipmen, faculty, and staff at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a number that nearly doubled, succeeded in getting an enormous painting of Jesus moved from the Elliot M. See conference room in the Academy’s administrative building to the chapel.
Then, last month, former reality TV star and Christian supremacist transportation secretary Sean Duffy visited the Academy, whipping Christian midshipmen into a frenzy of Christian nationalistic approval when he asked: “Can we bring Jesus up from the basement?”
Duffy has been milking the viral video of his USMMA Jesus painting performance ever since, along with spreading his blatant lie that the painting was moved because of a “complaint from ONE ‘concerned citizen,’” a lie that is now being repeated in the plethora of articles from the Christian, Christian nationalist, and MAGA-friendly media since Duffy’s DOT press release last Thursday announcing that he was moving the painting back to its original Constitution-flouting location in the Elliot M. See Room.
Unfortunately, due to Secretary Duffy’s seemingly insatiable lust for attention and vindictive compulsion to stick it to MRFF, a constitutional solution that could have been reached when the Christian midshipmen who wanted the painting moved suggested moving it to the Academy’s Ackerman Auditorium will now not happen. There, it would have been among several other similarly gigantic artworks of secular subjects, and, with a simple disclaimer on its signage, would have passed constitutional muster, will now not happen.
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The mariner’s picture of Jesus showing off again, walking on water instead of, I dunno, curing cancer, as if to say, “I come to you in time of peril, not to save you, but to watch you die!” Given that he could have prevented the peril to begin with but chooses not to.
I have a different take on the painting in terms of where it’s displayed.
In a conference hall setting, it’s a reminder to the Merchant Mariner cadets that “ guess what, if you get yourself in trouble, Jesus ain’t gonna help you!”
He’ll watch as you meet your fate but, I mean, free will and all, you got yourself into this situation so …. got any boot straps in that boat?”
The moral being your Christian Jewish savior either, is not all powerful, or alternately, simply doesn’t give a shit!
Kind of like watching the clergy rape young boys – he watches! But don’t worry, the next life will be bett, er, um, different. There’s still a heavenly hierarchy that you have to cow tow to, there are rules in heaven. For one, you can never be an angel, those jobs are already taken. Saints, not sure what they do in heaven, maybe scribes or something, are protected by heavenly mandate, they hang out in the Catholic suburb, you still must worship a whole string of important heavenly dignitaries, and you’d better not complain – there are ways to punish you you know!
Yeah, the painting is a reflection of a powerless deity, one that might oversee a tragedy unfolding, but one that is powerless to do anything about!
Kind of a macabre testimonial of the human condition, the propensity to worship what does you harm, or, at minimum, is indifferent to anything that might befall you.
You never die in heaven. That would go against the business model of eternal worship. It’s a limited membership anyway. If they let you die, they wouldn’t have anyone to serve and worship them! Angels got that worship stuff taken out of their contract when they unionized. They’re, basically, messenger boys and girls. Maybe they’re trans, not sure. The only “birthing” going on in heaven is your re-birth as a heavenly minion, there to “serve!”
Sean Duffy? He’s just a man! Nothing special about this dude. Easy to bend, easy to mold, no original thought, a dearth of intellectual capacity, but privileged, a reinforcement of his piety. You know, prosperity gospel an all.
In other words, wouldn’t know leadership if it fell on him! He mocks himself by the display of a powerless Christian “savior!”
His way of saying, “pray to this dude walking on water and he’ll, well, he won’t do anything for you, but pray to him anyway! Show us your fealty and we might let you join our club!”
It’s a MAGA thing. Neo-liberalism. “We own you! Know your place!”
“Be ashamed to die until, you have won some victory for humanity!” Horace Mann.
Let me fix the title for you “Whiney pussy brigade demands answers to stupid question”.
Makes more sense now.
Like everyone else in Trumptie’s cabinet, all with Trump Defecation Syndrome, trying to out do each other in sycophantic fealty, you know, who gets to change his diaper, lowered expectations for the country, just grift.
Rumptie holding a presidential dinner for his top meme coin doners, to include (who would have guessed it), foreign leaders and foreign ultra-wealthy, Little Marco, the U.S. Secretary of State, claims he doesn’t know anything about foreign interests attending a dinner with the President of the United States! Really? No, I mean, really?
The Secretary of State of the United States doesn’t know the foreign attendees at a Presidential dinner? Presumedly, he approved their visas?
Goddamn! Goebbels is literally sitting up in his grave right about now asking, “you told them what?”
Little Marco! My Man! Got to give it to you, you made Goebbels jealous! You out-goebbled Goebbel!
With a shortage of truckers, Seanie Boy, following Chump guidance (executive order), is going to implement random road side stops of truckers to check ………… wait ………….. for English proficiency!
‘Bout fell off my chair laughing!
And if it’s determined that the trucker doesn’t speak English well enough (I assume with an Irish accent given Duffy’s roots), then the truck is impounded, all that Walmart shit doesn’t make it to the store!
Be Jaysus Sean! Are ya missing a feckin oar or two?
What’s next? Trump University for landscapers?
Keep wearing that red hat Sean. Folks in Ireland need to be able to spot stupid in a crowd on your next visit!
Too funny watching them eat themselves.