message to sisters and brothers by different mothers
Our social media apps and texts started dinging around 6:30 this morning (we already knew).
Friends reaching out, grieving, trying to process.
I tossed a couple of scripture grenades on Facebook to demonstrate the oft used and flawed “Use the ‘two-edged sword’ to mean whatever you want it to mean!” methodology of exegesis to get it out of my system and kick a dent in the side of the moment.
Yesterday, and then again today, two Facebook “friends” from high school (one of whom I honestly don’t remember) showed up on cue to reveal their theological obsessions with genitalia and scatology by regurgitating debunked lies in an effort to explain why it was necessary for them to vote into office—again—a white man who is a manifestly horrible human being, sexual predator, criminal, and traitor over a biracial woman who is a manifestly decent human being, the wife of one husband, law-abiding, and true to her oath.… Read the rest