Evil Fruit by Carol Wolman

Evil Fruit by Carol Wolman

John 15:  ⁸Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Matthew 7:17-18
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.   A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

 

The churches that support Bush believe that their political success is a sign that they are bearing much fruit.  Bush calls it his "political capital" to spend as he wishes.  His wish is  to enrich the corporate beast, whom he serves at the expense of the citizens that the president of the US is supposed to serve.

 

We are watching the destruction of our environment, our Constitution, our social safety net, our economy, our gene pool, our reputation as an honorable peaceloving country, our network of allies and our security as a nation.  Evil fruit indeed!

 

Our Constitution is based on the Christian notion that we humans are upright and sensible enough to govern ourselves.  Each person has access to the Holy Spirit, which can guide us to make wise decisions for the good of the body politic. The  Constitution was carefully crafted to prevent any one individual or group, especially any religious group, from imposing its will on the rest of the electorate.  The three branches of government are supposed to act as checks and balances for one another.

 

Now that the corporados control the White House and Congress, they are going after the remaining branch of government, the judiciary.   Dr. Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader who, waving the  Constitution, used the filibuster to block Clinton's judicial appointments, now is going all out to scuttle the same filibuster.  What a hypocrite! 

 

Here's another example of his hypocrisy.  Dr. Frist cosponsored a bill, back in the 90's, to provide special services for babies with congenital anomalies, but Dr. Frist refuses to stop the use of depleted uranium, which causes many congenital anomalies among babies of US servicepeople.

 

The Bush administration is rotten to the core, and all its fruit is evil.  The list of lies and hypocritical statements made by its members  is endless.  The Christian false prophets are in league with the corporate beast.  So we see Bill Frist joining with leaders of the right wing church on "justice Sunday" to defend that poster boy of corruption, Tom DeLay, while conspiring to destroy the judicial independence mandated by the Constitution, all in the name of Jesus.

 

Jesus is the corporate logo for the corporate beast.  The sheeps' clothing of the wolves who are fattening on the purses of the American people are the "hot button" pseudo-issues, like abortion and Terry Schiavo.  These hypocrites pretend to be "pro-life", while they send thousands of young Americans to Iraq to kill and be killed and maimed.  They kill 100,000 Iraqis for no good reason and pretend to be "pro-life".  They poison the gene pool for billions of years, and pretend to be "pro-life".  Evil fruit!

 

They are using these pseudo issues to attack the judiciary, which is the repository of justice and wisdom, imperfect though it may be.  Judges are supposed to be somewhat independent of the political winds.  The US judiciary has been the last refuge of the individual against the corporate beast, which has gradually usurped the rights of human persons over the past 150 years.

 

The Republican party has turned into a pseudo-Christian cult, with Bush as its titular leader.  Like all cults, it tells its followers to look for pie in the sky and accept one's oppression on earth.  The end result of such cults is often mass suicide, and that is where we are headed.   The corporate beast is gobbling up resources and destroying the balance of nature, intent only on profit. 

 

The real Holy Spirit, the spirit of the true Jesus, is the spirit of peace, love, healing, wisdom.  It is humble, not arrogant.  Jesus does not favor one nation over another.  His purpose is not to destroy the world:  John 3:17  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

 

True Christians must reclaim Jesus and the Bible from the corporate beast, and reveal the gross blasphemy of using His name for criminal gain, when in fact the true god of the Bush crime family is Moloch, worshipped at their annual Bohemian grove revels.  We are being overwhelmed by their evil fruit. 

 

In the name of the Prince of Peace,  Carol Wolman