Scripture from an atheist

I just had this lightbulb go off in my head and I want to share it. It's not really a new thought, but more of previous thought channels finding a new connection.

I just watched Tucker Carlson's eighth episode on Twitter. It was heavy! I commented on the Bird that his 5min clip had drilled right into the heart of the culture war. I then went to grab a thread I wrote the other day to drop below it and read a few things in the process that kind of froze my mind in its tracks. All these pieces came together at once and there in the middle was this quote:

God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

Of course that's not just a quote, it is scripture. That's Genesis 1:27. Now don't let me pretend to be some Biblical scholar here; as the title says, I've been a life-long non-believer. It's just who I am, what jives with my mind. But I've been around the church a lot. I'm around it now more than ever. I go to Mass most every Sunday, my daughter sings in the choir. My wife is from a very Catholic family and she too is closer to the church than ever. It wasn't that whole passage that I landed on in my mind, it was just the first sentence, and I didn't know that was Genesis 1:27. But the concept struck me…

Made in the image of God. Made in the image of perfection. So many Biblical quotes reinforce the notion that God made you the way you are. Think of how antithetical that is to gender theory and gender transition (a factor in why enrollment in religious private-schools is soaring). They are polar-opposites. Now, the power of that quote sources from belief. As one who does not believe in the scripture, it's not the literal idea that God made each child perfect that grabbed me. What did is the reality that for millions and millions of people - billions, in fact! - this is their belief. This is their belief system, their entire world, their faith and love. And in that scripture, their children have been made to perfection. They certainly have the right to hold this opinion. A majority of people in our country likely do. I live with three of them.

Gender ideology (gender theory) is the belief that humans are born neither male or female. Rather, we are merely “assigned one at birth” and it is up to the child later on to TELL US whether they are actually a boy or a girl. Yes, it's as bizarre as it sounds. It is a complete dismissal of biology and anatomy - well, sort of. Even the cultiest of dogma needs some explanation for the reality around it and so this ideology turns to… spirits. I use “gender spirits” all the time because it's true. This entire belief system rests on the concept of a “gender identity” being not only separate and distinct from a person's biological sex, but critically, a superseding descriptor. If a baby boy is born penis-and-all but later decides they feel more like a girl and want to live as one, they ARE a human female, penis-and-all. It makes no sense. It's the craziest dogma I've ever grappled with. I don't want to stray further into the technicalities of it, as I've hashed that out before…

Importantly, this isn't a group of people losing their minds at a ranch, but an objectively radical ideology being mainstreamed and codified across the west against the will of the people. Here in the states, Team Biden is adding gender identity into the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)” apparatus, which has become a government and corporate sphere and societal command on all, at threat of bigotry allegations, canceled names and careers, and even actual sanction. It is designed to sanction, to force its way way in. But what are we talking about here exactly? A man who simply declares himself female now IS legally a female in addition to entering a protected class under civil rights law? Holy shit. That is as revolutionary as a law could be. It will functionally erase women. Now do Queer+ and categories like bisexual and pansexual being part of “Pride”. Because I claim the identity of “would sleep with anyone who breathes”, I'm now entitled to DOJ protection? That is quite obviously untenable and yet it's happening right in front of us. But I want to head back towards the topic at hand, let's talk about spirits some more…

As mentioned, I am a non-believer. I don't believe in the notion of spirits either. But this isn't about me. My family sure does. Their belief in the notion of the ethereal and how that is applied to a framework of lifestyle/worldview via the Bible is absolute and central to their lives. Mentally, it is the very fabric of who they are. Now, rabid atheists bristle at this kind of talk and lambast it as cultish to hand-wave it away. But that's not the point; in fact, that reaction is purely a distractor or a suppressor and not applicable to the discussion at all. I too do not buy into their belief system of spirits and God in the flavor of Catholic, but I sure do defend their right to live that way! I love that my young children believe they were born perfect in the image of God. When our young and wonderful priest says things like that to them, they smile. Belief in The Holy Spirit brings so much richness and love and guidance to my wife and kids, and last I checked we were pretty big on defending the right to live in that manner here in America. And so now we need to turn back to that tension…

If God tells my kids that they were made perfect the way they were, but the Department of Education now says a child who claims to be the opposite sex from what they were born actually IS that sex (and is implementing policy to both seed this ideology in schools and plain-language provisions instructing state-agents how to hide it from parents), we have a big big problem. I mean Civil War-level problem. We are a majority Christian nation. And that’s not just a majority of the population claiming religion; rather, it is a majority of all Americans. Last I saw it was still floating around 55-60%. I would be surprised if that number hasn’t climbed significantly since 2020. But refining that number isn’t important, the greater concept is. Picture a pizza in your mind. Christians are more than half the pie. Now let’s add a slice for Muslims and one for our Jewish and probably 2 or 3 for the many other denominations in our country. Where are we? What is left? How small is the non-religious slice? A clear and drastic minority. Let’s talk about Muslims for a minute…

I’m trying not to link back to Twitter from here, so I’m going to stay true to that. But I’ve posted a ton over there about the images we’re seeing breaking out at school board meetings from California to Canada, Michigan to Maryland. What’s so fascinating and revealing about the scenes is “diversity”. No, not the trendy leftist spell but the actual meaning of the word. On one side of the street are parents of the students who attend these schools. They are powerfully non-white in uniformity; in fact, in California and in Maryland they were largely Muslim. They are old men, old women, people in suits coming from work. These are parents! They’re there protecting their children because of horrific shit they’ve seen pushed on them in their schools. Like the Armenian dads who got in a fist-fight in Glendale CA. Why did that happen? Because imagery of a cross made out of radical leftist scripture had made it to their homes. If that made it to their homes, what the hell was going on in their classrooms? These two images below were from that ‘cross’. The first is the communist fist over the colors of Armenia. This in a heavily-Armenian community. The second can’t be more point-blank: it’s their homeland queered-out. But these parents aren’t into leftist ideology and The DEI God, and they surely don’t send their own children to public-school to have communism and Queer+ activism celebrated and drilled into their heads. On the other side of the street, however, is a bleached-white homogenous mob of Rainbow Guard. You can go scan my clips and you won’t find anything in any of the mobs except for rabid white liberals decked out in their garb. In Glendale, Antifa distributed flyers on behalf and showed up. Those are the ones the dads dropped some bombs on that afternoon. I would have happily stood and threw blows with those Armenians, that’s how vital and world-shattering I believe this issue to be.

So what the hell is going on in that school? Well, I really haven’t changed the topic of this piece at all, it’s The Same Thing. Some teachers in that school are utterly deranged ideologues that would have stuck out in Jonestown. Ok, I have to break my rule, you need to see this. This maniac is one of the teachers at that school with the big brawl, and this is her speech to the board defending the staff’s ideology…

https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1667600637809373186

Mind-blowing. I’m surprised there haven’t been more parents battling in the streets. And let’s bring this back where we were. These families too are heavily religious. They almost uniformly do not believe in the existence of gender spirits, the need for children to have a menu of sex-themed avatars presented at school to choose from. “Boys, you can be girls! Today we celebrate Johnny for being a pansexual.” The whole notion is so broken and deranged. It’s quite obvious what it’s all about. I’ve written about it many many times.

And most parents aren’t down with a leftist revolution, folks. And yes, these are the proper terms to use, the correct framing. And what I’m drilling into with this piece now reveals that concretely. This movement is based on disruption and inversion of power-structures: “dismantle”. That’s not a theory, they are quite proud of it and publish lots of written work. Undeniably, this movement seeks to target one of the primary cultural moorings in this nation: the church. Our (captured) media has taken on overt anti-Christian tones; I see “Christian Nationalist” and “ChristoFascist” trend on Twitter all the time. The Truman Show no longer simply favors the DNC, it is helping advance this activism. The revolutionaries have captured those institutions and this energy is fully harbored within the Democratic Party. It’s going to be a brutally delicate dance for them to walk as time goes on. They are excising themselves from way too much of our population. But this is much much bigger than politics, it has just managed to perfectly weave itself within our political parameters…

I saw an engagement on Twitter where a defender of this activism laid out a passionate plea why those right-wing bigoted white supremacist parents across the country were so wrong (evil, really). And the thrust of it all was that their kid might be trans or Queer+ and their parents might not accept it. Remember, they were saying this in the context of Muslims. But let’s go back to that pizza. WTF is going on here? We have maybe one or two remaining slices saying that their ideology is to rule supreme over everyone else’s. What?!? Absolutely not. Yes, there is a damn good chance Muslim moms and dads aren’t going to be down with their kids embracing gender spirits and branding around bizarre avatars. But who the fuck do you think you are to command the state to intervene in such a situation - a state that is openly pushing leftist dogma? It’s hard for me to believe those words are real, but this stuff is all too real. How often do you hear the term “parents rights” in our news now and in the mouths of DNC officials? But let’s drill back towards spirits again…

We all agree that a public-school teacher could not adorn their classroom door in the teachings of Jesus. Could not tell all of those children (other people’s children) that they too were made in the image of perfection by God. No, that is a clear violation of separation of church and state because those are not that teacher’s kids. It’s quite possible some of those parents don’t believe in Christianity, don’t want YOUR scripture pushed against their own. Very few in America have any problem with this logically. And yet, we now have classroom walls and doors that look like this…

Whoa! Time-out all around here. “Mx.” and “xe, xem, xir, xirs”? What the hell are we even talking about? Maybe the better question is, what drugs are you on? There is absolutely zero chance that I would allow my child to be forced to enter a room where someone he or she had been told is an authority figure who they are to respect and obey is casting gender spells at them and demanding they call them artificial bat-shit crazy names that have no basis in reality. (That engine of disruption of authority and boundaries and rules and prioritizing the subjective > objective is a critical thread to this all, by the way). How do you even explain to the children why they have to call you that? Aha! You need to break down the D-Equity-I gospel. You explain to them how you’re not actually a girl like their lying eyes might be telling them. They were just “assigned female at birth” and now are “non-binary”. Yes, this is literally what she would tell them. What questions then come from the students, what are the next pages? Team Biden wants to defend her right to do so with civil rights law. How confused would a young child be by this? It would destroy their entire understanding of everything. It is overt indoctrination of cult-like dogma. But don’t we dare mention Jesus, right? And that’s what this is really all about; it’s why I wrote this piece. What does that teacher from that classroom above look like? Any guess?

That’s “Mx. Cogdill”. Jeez, what a surprise. Mx. Cogdill looks like xe needs some mental-health treatment, STAT! How the hell was she ever hired to be in a classroom? Think she believes in God? Lol How did a school ever get captured to a level this witchcraft is being pushed so openly on other people’s children? How lost in your head do you have to be to call this madness “inclusive” and “diversity” and “human rights” and defend it? It is Jonestown-level insanity. No joke. Happening nationwide and being forced on us permanently through legal action by our current powers that be. Though understand this is just the public bursting-out of something that has been cooking behind the scenes and slowly usurping institutions (especially education) for a long long time.

And I called it witchcraft because to me it is. And I don’t say that to jab or jest, I mean that objectively. Just a few miles north of us in Canada, their citizens are now being forced to genuflect to shit like this below as their “inclusivity” and “D-Equity-I”. These are lawmakers at this podium, not circus performers.

https://twitter.com/Theo_TJ_Jordan/status/1673111027448262658

So if we all agree that the teachings of Jesus cannot be pushed on other people’s children at school because it is a form of indoctrination, then how can anyone support what I just showed above being pushed in classrooms either? I presented the fact that I am a life-long nonbeliever (yes, that is known as an “atheist” and it doesn’t require a militant rub) because I believe it gives me a position of objectivity on this issue - especially in these radically tribal-times full of suppressive spells like “cultural appropriation” and “lived experience”. Because while I will continue to hold the position that it’s not ok for Christian scripture to be pushed in school, I can promise you I would much prefer the teachings of Jesus on that door than the horror show above. One of the minds I’ve long-respected on the center-left got really upset when a district in Texas moved to put the Bible back in classrooms. I went and agreed with him but asked him to resolve the tension I’ve laid out here. Are you against this Queer+ activism in schools? He didn’t answer; he couldn’t do it. The cognitive dissonance is just too overwhelming. What it forces those minds to process is something they have thus far refused to grapple with. It shatters “The Moral vs. The Monsters”-casting (TDS) which has been used across every front to advance every single DNC-related progressive agenda. It’s easy for militant atheists (which those radicals have in droves) to hate on God and Christianity, it’s much more difficult to present an argument why it’s ok for the state to force their scripture instead. This has always been the way this needs to be analyzed, because this is unquestionably a movement rooted in all the critical aspects of religious fervor for the purposes of the legal evaluation. None of this leftist bullshit is about “human rights” and “inclusivity”, those are just spells. Words like “cis” are no different than Scientologists’ “Thetan”. Are we going to drive that on the population by way of state force next?

It’s all so empty and pretextual. It is not coincidental that this movement has set its sights on the church. For them, that is The Holy Grail.