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Republicans and Kevin McCarthy Money Changers in the Temple By Mary Hess [1]
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Date: 2022-08-15
Good Little Catholic Pose
I can feel a “Blue Tsunami of Love” for President Joe Biden “on the way.”
The Taliban government in Afghanistan, comprised of all men, with deadly weapons, have decided women and girls are to be slaves, not worthy of education, or jobs. These sexist men are finding out, the hard way, that women “must have some kind of job,” in order for society to function. These men will decide for girls and women, upon pain of death.
My father never planned for me to go to college. For him, he was too smart to go to college, it wasn’t “challenging enough for him.” I ended up paying most of my “own way” through college by always having a “job.” My Dad blew through a lot of money on golf courses and “bars.” You could always find him at The 19th Hole.
Daddy did teach me many things, in spite of his ingrained Catholic-taught sexism. He gave me my first camera, a Japanese-made Yashica, when I was 10-years-old. Daddy taught me how to play poker, and cuss like an Irishman. He taught me how to make a Dewars Scotch, with just a little bit of club soda.
My mother never learned how to cook. My father always knew how to cook better than my mother, but he would only “cook” once or twice a year. I learned to cook from my Aunts and Grandmothers, and mostly out of my own selfish interest — of eating delicious food.
My mother’s greatest talent was communication and entertaining others. She was always “picture perfect,” onstage somewhere, in Community Theatre. She was an expert at selling swampland in Florida.
One of my earliest childhood memories — was a Catholic Nun running across the playground to bring me a pair of shorts, when I was hanging upside down on a jungle gym.
I was angry that I had to “wear a skirt AND pants.”
Another early memory, I said out loud, “I want to be a Catholic priest.” At five years old, I was told repeatedly that I would never be a Catholic priest, because I was a girl. I would never believe that.
A rare “man” fifth-grade teacher told me, “You will never become a “veterinarian.” I don't believe everything people say to me.
I have had very good relationships with men in my past. Even men I really loved, however, would inevitably start to “order me around,” “criticize my life,” “tell me what to do,” and attempt to define, or “cage me.” Some of my “romantic” entanglements have, instead, become lifelong friendships.
I find the Taliban’s sexism just as reprehensible as the sexism of Republican politicians, like Kevin McCarthy. Kevin McCarthy is obsessed with “putting women in their place,” and demonizing desperate immigrants, who are always “less than human.”
Kevin McCarthy, an “expert” in immigration, had Italian and Irish immigrant grandparents, who were “presumably Catholic or Christian.”
Marco Rubio, a “Cuban,” another “family of immigrants,” presumably has “Spanish” ancestry. He “grew up” Catholic.
Ronald DeSantis, who has total “Italian immigrant ancestry,” uses religion as a cudgel for demanding obedience to his “philosophy.”
Like my family, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, has a “family” of Slovak immigrants.
Kevin McCarthy claims he is a Baptist. He and his wife have only 2 children, so they either use birth control, or “abstinence.”
My American ancestors, all immigrants, fled famine, poverty, and wars in Europe. All of my ancestors found refuge in the United States of America. Most were “Catholic,” but I have learned recently, that my paternal great-grandfather was a “Protestant Preacher.” No one in my father’s family ever “talked about that!”
I have been learning that my ancient German and Slovak ancestors lived in Great Forests. Before Christianity spread through Europe, my ancestors worshiped “sacred groves of trees.”
The Christian armies of Charlemagne destroyed and cut down sacred trees in Germany and Slovakia, forcing the inhabitants to worship Charlemagne’s Catholic religion, upon pain of death.
Charlemagne lived around 800 years after Jesus of Nazareth. He is known as Charles the Great, Karl der Große, King of the Franks, and the First Holy Roman Emperor. The Catholic Church still wants to canonize Charlemagne and make him a “Saint.”
There is more than a fossil record of Charlemagne. His image is on coins. His “skull cap” is supposedly “encased” in an elaborate “be-jeweled” gold bust in a Catholic Church, in Aachen, Germany. Many books have been written about Charlemagne, and exquisite artwork was painted.
Charlemagne is “The Republican American Christian Crusader.” His insignia is the fleur-de-lis.
The fleur-de-lis was recently made into a “sticker”* by Barry Loudermilk. When I saw Republican Congressman Loudermilk wearing this “sticker” on his “bidness suit” lapel, I had a “shock.”
In the Bible, the Koran, and the Old Testament, God sent Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden together. He did not send Eve out alone. God kept Adam and Eve together, because humans belong together.
Men who are successful and happy in life, often have a significant other, most likely a woman, with whom they have an equal and loving partnership. Men understand that if a woman is happy, that he himself, is more likely to be fulfilled and satisfied. Isn’t that the goal for all of us?
There are many oral histories of the “beginning of the world” that are older than religious texts.
No matter where these oral history originated throughout the world, they all have similar themes of ancient human history, and include both sexes, with women being often the “creators.”
Women have been strong leaders, ancient clay figures such as the Venus of Willendorf, were presumably sacred sculptures.
Family histories were often traced through matriarchies; it was easy to know who was the child of a woman. Ancient humans most likely understood that men contributed to the creation of children, children who look just like their fathers, like me.
I learned in college, that Archaeologists have discovered, in pre-history, women provided approximately 80% of the food. Most of what ancient humans ate was not meat, but roots, grains, vegetables, and berries.
Humans were foragers, sometimes they would camp under ripe fruit or nut trees, temporarily making that area their home. Women and men would both hunt meat, and “small” animals were more likely to be part of the diet, instead of large animals. In pre-history, humans would work together as “teams” to bring down large mammals, like mastodons.
Human beings, when naked, are very similar.
Human beings are meant to live together in every way. Humans survived, because of their teamwork and adaptability, not because of separation of the sexes.
The human soul, or spirit, has always lived deep within us. Our spirit does not live in our skin, or our hair. When a surgeon performs surgery on a human heart, or lungs, they are not thinking of sex organs, but the essential organs that breathe life into all of us.
Archaeologists have found, that humans, being hunters and gatherers to survive, were often on the move, just like the migrating mammals living among them. Caves were more likely sacred burial grounds, and not homesites.
Caves are often damp, cold and dark. The fossil evidence shows, what separated humans from animals, was the fact that humans had “funerals.” The “Caveman” myth is a “myth.”
Scientists have also discovered that intelligent animals, like elephants and porpoises, also understand the pain of the loss of a child, or revered elder.
Caves are not places a human really wants to sleep. Humans prefer to sleep under the stars, the natural nightlights, of our beautiful planet. Early sailors would travel by the winds and navigate by starlight. Like songbirds, we wake just before dawn, to begin singing our song.
Jesus of Nazareth has left no fossil record of his existence that we can find, although we are still digging. The important legacy of Jesus of Nazareth is how humans remembered him and wrote about him.
Jesus of Nazareth had not much to say about sexism, homosexuality, slavery, and subjugation of women. Jesus of Nazareth said, “those of you who have no sin, you should be the first to throw the stone,” or enslave, or, be the lethal judge of others.
Republican men find their “power” in demeaning and punishing women for their “otherness.”
When I use the word “women,” I mean that word as a term for all people Republican men are interested in “dominating.”
Many humans have obsessions, and many feel comfortable playing “certain roles.” Some people are obsessed with “fashion.” These people are not necessarily homosexual, some of them have “fetishes.”
Fetishes are a human obsession. Classical literature describes obsessions of human beings. Shakespeare describes how the character Iago was obsessed with destroying the happiness and joy of Othello and Desdemona. Victor Hugo describes the freedom, joy and beauty of Esmeralda.
French King Louis XIV supposedly invented high heels, and wore elaborate “dresses.”
Modern human beings, “drag queens,” and others, are often obsessed with “fashion,” not sexuality. Some good examples of this are Rudy Giuliani dressing as a woman, and “Flip” Wilson’s character “Geraldine,” who exhibited Mr. Wilson’s most hilarious comedy routines and inner “free spirit.”
Ronald DeSantis’ wife, Casey Black, is a perfect example of the archetype of uncomfortable “women’s fashion.” Does Casey Black really wear high heels to change her babies’ diapers?
Many women prefer to wear oxford shirts, comfortable pants and loafers, instead of dresses, constricting pantyhose, and high heels.
Much of women’s “fashion” is designed for someone to live as a “statue,” a “poser,” upon a “pedestal.” I find this type of fashion is useless when you are climbing to the summit of a mountain.
Republican politician Ronald DeSantis, is really good at being a “Poser,” and nothing else. Governor DeSantis “poses” with little Catholic school children all the time.
Other examples of “human obsession” are “plastic surgery. Some men and women are obsessed with how they look. Other people, those more comfortable in their own skin, seldom look in the mirror, except to “remove the beam out of [their] own eye.”
Men, most often, are obsessed with their “biceps and abdomens,” their “six-packs,” and their hair “plugs.” Women are often obsessed with their faces, hair, and the amount of fat on their chest.
Some people are obsessed with plastic surgery. Examples of this are Ivana Marie Trump and her mother, Ivana “etc., etc., etc., etc.”
Recently, one of the most “beautiful” women in the world, Jane Fonda, has now stated that her obsession with plastic surgery was detrimental to her health. Now, she is an old woman, she has learned to love herself, and not just the way she “looks” for the “delight of others.”
People who are obsessed with their outer appearance can neglect their inner souls or spirits. Yul Brynner (Yuliy Borisovich Briner) was a magnetic and beautiful man. Yul Brynner was as bald as a “Billards’ Cue Ball.”
People of all religions, and skin colors, either respect and love women, as equals, or denigrate women, as slaves, and second-class citizens.
Kevin McCarthy, Marco Rubio, and Ronald DeSantis are “Catholic - Protestant” political hypocrites, claiming the most “politically expedient religion.”
I have stared into Kevin McCarthy’s soulless dark eyes. No light comes from them, only anger.
No one was ever going to stop me from “hanging upside down on a jungle gym.”
There is only one Human Race. People have an infinite spectrum of skin colors and sexual desires. Love is Universal.
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Sources: Archeology Studies, University of Colorado; Universität Regensburg, Germany
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