Author: R J Adams

Here is a Christmas message for all those folk out there who think that climate change isn’t happening or is just some freak of nature that’s going to disappear on its own. Get your head out of your asses and look around you.

Here is a Christmas message for all those Americans who are appalled that Joe Biden has commuted the death sentences on thirty-seven federal death row prisoners, to life without parole. Go stick your heads up your asses so we don’t have to listen to your pathetic, self-righteous, whingeing anymore.

Here is a Christmas message for the bullies: Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, and all the other sick bastards on this planet who get their kicks by torturing, maiming, and waging genocidal war on innocent folk. I don’t believe in the God or gods to whom you pretend to pay homage, and in who’s name you commit your vile atrocities. Sometimes I wish I did. Then I could take pleasure from imagining you burning for eternity in the lake of fire you call Hell. For that is surely what you deserve.

Here is a Christmas message for all the police officers and military personnel who blindly follow the orders of dictatorial governments and politicians, and are used as pawns in the defence of those governments against their own people. You disgust me. Your job is to defend your country and the citizens of that country. You are not there to safeguard those who would massacre their own citizens. To do so is to besmirch the uniforms you wear. Next time you are told to shoot, or tear-gas, or water-cannon innocent citizens standing up for their rights, turn your guns, your tear-gas, your water-cannon on the evil ones from whence your orders came.

Finally, Here is a Christmas message for all the decent upright citizens of this planet Earth. We can live in peace together, whether we are of a religion, or an atheist like me. I don’t need a god or an afterlife to care for others. I don’t need the carrot of a reward in heaven for doing good, or the stick of Hell if I do bad things. If you feel you do, then that’s fine. We are all decent human beings who just want to live our lives peacefully, without fear of the bullies. There are eight billion of us…

…and only a handful of them.

Are we to continue to allow them to destroy our peace and invade our rights? To you good people the message is for a joyous and peaceful Christmas and let’s make 2025 the beginning of a time when we take back control from those who would harm us and enslave us.

To all the decent, caring people in our world, a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.

 

“The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, went to the Trades Union Congress to denounce Amazon for avoiding taxes and to brand zero-hours contracts as “evil”, only to discover that the church has huge investments in Amazon and his own cathedrals advertise for zero-hours posts.” The Guardian 2018.

Yet again the churches show a lack of empathy with their parishioners. The churches’ egos permeate it’s priests and clergy, from the hierarchy down to those who are given charge and control of a parish.

The sins of the Catholic Church are still echoing around the Vatican as it tries to cover it’s tracks of debauched child molestation throughout the Holy Roman Empire. Meanwhile, the latest explosion of child abuse is rattling around Westminster Abbey. The Head of the Protestant church in England and Wales, archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, (see quote above) has resigned his post. He’s resisted admitting any wrongdoing on his part in the cover up of appalling abuse over decades, inflicted on young boys by one John Smyth. Smyth entrapped boys attending summer camps, which he ran for Evangelical Christian youngsters. He eventually fled to Zimbabwe where he continued his abuse on African victims and died in 2018 before he could be extradited back to Britain.

We read it everywhere. The churches are riddled with these types of abhorrent crimes, as clergy misuse their positions of power and trust to propagate sexual violence against the young and vulnerable. 

Not quite on par with the sins of John Smyth or the Vatican, we read this week of a certain ‘Reverend’ Dr Paul Chamberlain, who while visiting a UK primary school (children 5 years to 11) took it upon himself to tell the children that Santa Claus was entirely fictitious and it was their parents who bought the presents and ate the biscuits left out for Santa. 

Understandably, this left the children upset and sobbing at the news this egocentic vicar had chosen to reveal to them. To say nothing of the outraged anguish of the parents who had to console their offspring.

All told it serves to prove that these so-called “Holy” men who choose to bestow on themselves the titles of “Reverend,” or “Very Reverend,” are in fact very flawed and unfit for the job their “God” has chosen for them. 

Churches everywhere are just businesses running vast pyramid-selling schemes to trap vulnerable people.  The hordes of wealth these institutions accumulate tax free allow limitless power to those of all ranks, none of whom has a phoneline to their god despite the ‘Holy Book’ sermons they spout from their pulpits every Sunday.

Perhaps the Reverend Dr Paul Chamberlain could have added a postscript to his sermon for the school children, by stating that Santa Claus was just as real as the ‘God’ he was telling them to worship.

There’s been much speculation in the media as to why the far-right is gaining so much power in national elections. The general opinion is that the rise in wealth by the 1%, and subsequent fall in living standards for the rest, has provoked a backlash against ruling political parties who are seen as not doing enough for the ordinary people left to scratch a living as best they can.

While this is an obvious and acceptable opinion of the situation I believe there has to be another factor causing sane and sensible people to choose far right-wing, possibly fascist-leaning, politicians rather than the less extreme parties that would normally be considered as more suitable to govern.

It should be noted that almost without exception, far-right politicians are deniers of human induced climate change. Many of their parties are at least part-funded by the oil and gas industry. Why would folk with genuine concerns about the climate vote into power politicians who deny it is happening?

There have been many cinematic ‘Holocaust’ type films over the years, portraying various aspects of a world in climate chaos. People are well aware of the serious consequences of a climate out of control. In blunt terms, it doesn’t bear thinking about. Societal breakdown, the rise of ruthless, cold-blooded, warrior types given free reign in a world bereft of law and order.

We saw it in Iraq when ISIS were running riot. We see it now in places like Sudan, Gaza, parts of Africa where terrorist gangs roam freely. These are not places where we would wish to plan our next summer vacation. To be there would be to share the suffering, the tortures, the rapes, the enormous loss of life. Much better not to think about it. Switch from those pictures on our news screens to a nice family comedy, something to laugh and feel good about. After all, Sudan is a long way away. Life is normal here. Let’s keep it that way.

Maybe Mister Trump is right that it’s all a ruse, a plot of the ‘Deep State’. But what is the ‘Deep State?’ Basically, it’s an emotive phrase to undermine the vast numbers of civil servants working to thrust into reality the demands of their government. Every government needs civil servants. They are the backbone of government. The term ‘Deep State’ has been both invented and emotionalized in far right political circles to produce an ‘Oooh’ reaction in their followers, a mix of fear and pleasure designed to draw people to the speaker emotionally. The marketing industry uses them all the time. There are webpages devoted to them. They’re known as power words, phrases that influence, persuade and convert.

There have been many such politically emotive words and phrases throughout history: ‘illuminati’, ‘big lie’, ‘fake news’, ‘alt-right’, ‘post- truth’, all serve to produce reactions in followers by suggesting that those using these phrases know more about what they represent, than those hearing them.

Consequently, when Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, a far-right political party, smears anthropomorphic climate change as a ‘scam’ his followers are happy to go along with it. Why? Because if their ‘Nige’ says it’s a scam then it must be, because he knows more about it than they do.

Basically, it’s a simple mind block. To consider the consequences of runaway climate change are too distressing to think about, so if good old Nigel, or Donald, tell you it’s not going to happen, then why worry? Push it away, out of sight out of mind, and get on with life.

It’s all part of the craft perfected by the far-right, to give the impression that with them in power life for the ordinary person in the street will be a bed of roses.

In reality, of course, nothing is further from the truth.