MAGAts and Their Crosses

Painfully Profane

My biblical Greek professor in undergrad studies said something I as a 19 year old didn’t fully grasp at the time; years later it became clear. Professor L. Dan Taylor said he couldn’t see why anyone would want to wear a cross. He explained: wearing a miniature electric chair today would be comparable.

An empty cross has some symbolic value to ponder, but it’s the empty part that matters. Not the implement of cruel execution.

Respectfully, to those many who find wearing a cross a statement of faith of sorts (though who decided to turn the “old rugged cross” into precious metal jewelry?) I hope you will not feel I am showing you disrespect. I absolutely would not do that intentionally and apologize if I’ve caused you to feel that. I do think Professor Taylor was making a very profound point nonetheless.

Lisandra Vazquez portraying Karoline Leavitt,

In any case, Leavitt and Trump and Scam Blondie and Johnson—no MAGAts are Christian, cross or no cross.

Chapter 2, verse 4, book of First John in Christian scripture (New English Translation):

“The one who says ‘I have come to know God’ and yet does not keep God’s commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.”

Here’s a commandment, for example, one of the Big Ten. Chapter 20, verse 16, book of Exodus in Hebrew Scripture (New English Translation):

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.”