Jesus asks his listeners, “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?” “How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’ when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite!”
MAGA is making a name for itself seeing splinters and beams. But they do not know which is which. Ads claiming, ‘You did not vote for this’ may not grasp the depravity that is the MAGA oligarch complicity. White evangelicals did indeed vote for this. They voted for destruction; God’s destruction carried out by his earthly rulers against their depraved enemies whose splinters burn them; putting perverse books in their school libraries, wanting to take people’s guns away, and invading immigrants who are criminal tyrants crossing at the U.S.’ southern border. MAGA did not see the beam upon beam of depravity in their oligarch friends. MAGA see a splinter of infidelity in Trump’s eye but are ignorant of the beams that are his sexual perversion evident during his ownership of the Miss Universe-Miss USA-Miss Teen USA when he would make the women and girls available to his friends, five pedophiles among them, including Jeffery Epstein, and now pedophiles like the Tate Brothers who Don Jr., Elon Musk, and Matt Gaetz admire as does Trump’s special envoy Richard Grenell who personally flew to Romania to free the brothers who were in jail for admitted child sex trafficking and rape and are now safe in Florida, making MAGA complicit with the perversity of sex trafficking. MAGA see a splinter of a cutthroat businessman in Trump’s eye but are ignorant of the beams that are his absence of empathy in favor of appetitive desires for status and capital that will terrorize and exact retribution on any people in the U.S. who oppose him, like the middle class tenants and contractors and prosecutors who opposed his commercial holdings, including those he was holding in his bathroom, and so he is amassing Brownshirts at the CIA, FBI, Dept of Justice, and local law enforcement who will exact retribution on people here – noncitizen and citizen alike – just like he will terrorize and exact retribution on people who oppose his commercial holdings for Panama’s canal, Greenland’s minerals, Ukraine’s minerals, and the Gaza Strip so that if these areas too need to be cleared of their tenants and the people have their guns taken away for opposing his acquisitions then that too will be done, making MAGA complicit with ethnic cleansing. MAGA see a splinter of embellishment in Trump’s eye but are ignorant of the beams that are his inability to speak the truth because he is morbidly deceptive in all human communication and divisively destructive with any truthtellers in the media who convey the truth of his duplicity about securing the borders against poor people like Mexicans whom he demonizes as the enemy while he operates as the enemy they fear, beyond borders with rich dictators like Putin whom he glorifies as his friend so that America First plays second fiddle to Russia, being Italy’s Mussolini to Germany’s Hitler in a new Axis arrangement for the world to overcome, making MAGA complicit with global tyranny. MAGA see the splinter in the eye of leftists liberals waging war on culture. They do not see the beam in the eye of oligarch sociopaths waging war on humanity. The sociopaths may decide they can continue their war as is, or, perhaps under subterfuge, they may decide they need a Reichstag fire to burn it all down and complete their coup.
“Twelve fires burning: in amongst them stood twelve Brownshirts, quite a squad. … In the house… lived a person, name of Goering… Chairman of the Reichstag. (Prosecutors) won’t cross-examine Goering… for the (people’s) guilt is clear. Likewise for Roman Caesar Nero, Christian blood was to his taste so he set his Rome a-blazing soon in ash and fire effaced. Thus he proved it, Caesar Nero, (it was) Christians, villains one and all, and a certain Hermann Goering learnt of this when he was small. 1933 one Monday night in Berlin town Reichstag had no further meetings for its house had been burnt down.” (Murder Ballad Of The Reichstag Fire – Bertolt Brecht)
Prayer: Beautiful Spirit, help us make all the world our prayer circle.
Question: What is the courage of which I am capable?
March 02, 2025 Gospel Luke 6:39-46 Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time