Indulgences


INDULGENCES/INDULGENCE: the preface



Needing to elucidate a "truth," Martin Luther posted 95 theses ----Disputatio pro declaratone virtutis indulgentiarum ----on October 31, 1517 in Wittenberg.  Nailed them it is alleged on a church door.  Were our nation's senators and representatives equally as brave and inclined to be statespersons rather than ego-masturbating politicians , they would post 95 theses ---propositions on universal principles of human rights and dignity and justifications of debatable democratic experimentation in governing ---  on January 21, 2019, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday.  These would be painted in bipartisan ink on the walls of the Oval Office and on the exterior of the White House.  Our Congress would perform an unprecedented historical act . The theatricality of the act would alter the world order of the 21st century.



Our Congress ( the Republicans and Democrats and Independents of 2018),   however, is not in full possession of its wits, and no more in possession of sanity than American citizens, who with aid and comfort from the Electoral College, elected a demonic, mentally-challenged person to serve as "leader of the free world" and Commander-in-Chief (HNIC) of the United States of America in 2016.  Our senators and representatives do not play in a sandbox.  They misgovern, we may justly argue,  in a fascist mud-bowl or a circus of horrors, throwing the rule of law to raging white winds.  American citizens who desire to be sane and fair are condemned to live in the tweet-nest of a cuckoo.



Unlike Martin Luther, our Congress has chosen to refrain from speaking "truth" to power.  It has chosen to make common cause with cosmic evil, with barbarity, with piss-stained hatred. There's a major difference between the indulgences  (Roman Catholic commodities and the selling of forgiveness for guilt of sin, a right  that belongs to God alone) which so angered Luther and the indulgence in Constitutional rectitude for which Martin Luther King, Jr. and other brave souls paid  with their lives.



All the cosmetics of Santa Claus fail to disguise how besmirched and devoid of true patriotic  virtue  is the celebration of the birth of Jesus the Christ on December 25, 2018.  Do not invest in weeping; indulge in laughter if you enter the door of a church.



Jerry W. Ward, Jr.            December 24, 2018

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