Islamic and Christian extremists, pot pies and candy canes

By Rev. J.J. Purcell

Can the lessons of the Nazi rise to power, beginning in 1920s Germany, and the Holocaust (1939-1945) be looked upon as a dark warning of the past for us living in 21st century America?

I think it is worth a few lines.

I am an American; a citizen of the United States of America, born in the 1960s. My father and uncles fought in World War II and Korea. My cousins fought in Vietnam. And, American popular culture changed its face and attitudes so many times in my lifetime that I have lost count of their occasions.

No one in the 1970s needed to actively remember Nazis. Our fathers fought them, and some of our family lived through it and others did not. Everyone not only saw the chilling documentaries about the Nazis and the Holocaust, but we also heard about them from parents and grandparents. As a boy, I thought there was little difference between Satan incarnate and Adolf Hitler. I was not alone in this.

I will not mark the years that followed the 1970s by political movements, wars, fashions, celebrity headlines, scientific achievements or rock bands. It is enough to say the years passed until now -- the eve of 2015.

There are extremist Muslims at home and around the globe who seek another genocide. The world has already seen so many of this kind of fiend. This time, these people want to murder basically everyone on the planet who does not subscribe to some smallish cult of Satanic hate someone somehow codified on a camel's back somewhere in Southwestern Asia some centuries ago. This law basically restricts everyone about anything that might represent a full life. Further, women and children lose all personal value and murder is permitted to run through their lands like streams. They are seeking to grow this psychosis over any border that can be found.

At home in these United States, the KKK and American Nazi Party were finally in a well-deserved decline and were only menacing shades from the past before now. For some unholy reason, Christian extremists have found a friend in the Republican Party. Today, their brand of 'Christian Sharia' is trying to be spread like a contagion on Conservative Media Networks, like Fox.

These so-called "Christian" political extremists have actively voiced, and loudly, their want of usurping the American political process given us by our Founders and, instead, seizing control of our state and disallowing Progressive thought in any hall of power. They speak of murder, racism, sexism and Islamic genocide glibly. They wish to empower every mad redneck with a firearm and as much liquor as they can drink and set them loose on innocent town streets.

If someone wanted to create a speed bump for these hellish movements, they might well study the Nazi rise to power in Germany, and the Holocaust. Because surely, these extreme groups have each decided to work on different ends of the blueprint laid down by Hitler and his cronies.

I have studied in seminary, but I must have missed the section where it said Our Lord Jesus Christ was a fan of guns, mad killings, murder, genocide, racism and repression of science, humanity or humility.

In a time when this country needs to be cohesive to face the threat of International Terrorism by insane Muslim fanatics, our nation is just inches short of a Civil War with mad Christian fanatics. Sardonically, if only we could get the two groups together in some border outside the borders of the Continental United States, how much better the world would be for all.

The Muslims who are not truly Muslim could vent on the Christians who are not actually Christians and they could expend themselves on each other without shedding anymore innocent blood or promising to murder the American World, built by the brightest people in the world to be operated by the dumbest.

Do not take any of this lightly, if anyone would, because the world has seen the likes of these moronic "Tea Party" vandals before, just as they have seen these hellish Islamic minions who preach murder. And either or both of these groups could and may infect the world and turn what is light dark, and what is fresh into something acrid.

I pray I will naturally pass before I might have to see the world I love so dearly transformed into a disfigured, disgraced version of itself -- as comely as a horribly deformed fetus in a pickle jar at a sideshow.

I would not have immortality for all the treasures of Babylon. I have a feeling all the best parts of history, American or otherwise, have already occurred. And, given the fact this nation shirked the yoke of slavery only 150 years before, the Great American Highlight Reel is not as long as it should otherwise be. Yet, slavery only proved that even in America lunacy can be institutionalized.

Today, the American race is more vicious, entitled, short-sighted, undeserving, boorish, uncultured, less sophisticated, inept, murderous and bumbling than ever before in our chronicles, which began in 1776. We no longer possess an American Dream, only American Nightmares we wish to share with all of the world. In turn, in the spirit of reciprocity, the world would like to share its nightmares with us Colonials.

Speaking of the world, Islam is experiencing its own civil wars, which threatens to discredit that formerly well known religion of peace and prosperity and give it the likeness to all of nothing more than a frothing mad dog in the streets, who would be better to be put down than understood.

In-between this, people are trying to have gentle lives of love and usefulness. And soon, maybe decades, the remnant of the Garden given humanity by God will be a fetid, spoiled place of languish and desolation. And, before that, I would gladly have my Judgment and be on my merry way.

What is the cause? Forget the lengthy explanations. I will tell you the cause. It is not new and there is nothing innovative about it: Evil men want power. It has been the same since the Great Flood. Evil men would rather make Hell of a Garden and be its prince than live in a Garden and be another gardener.

The American Presidential Election every four years is no longer a hunt for excellence. Instead, every four years, American elect the most corrupt, sometimes dumbest aristocrat that can be found and elevate him to the role of chieftain. Occasionally, a great person is elected to the office. But, in the Modern Era, such things are strictly an accident and any honorable acts one might try to make are quickly eradicated by the mountains of slack-jawed morons that present themselves as Senators and Congressmen.

I urge no one to action. If anything, I would simply look to distraction while awaiting some fresh horror that some fiend or other will unleash upon an unsuspecting, sedated citizenry.

The KKK Strikes Again!

Hello, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea. Dateline Chesterfield, VA: A young woman goes to her door and finds a pile of poop there with a note, informing her it was left there by the KKK and they don't like her because she is black.

Are you kidding me?

I'm surprised they didn't ring her doorbell and run away.

Bear in mind, this is the same KKK that was such a national pain in the ass throughout most of the 20th century: hangings, shootings, cross burning, marching down Main Street with their moron robes on. Yeah, these are the guys -- and they left a bag of poop on a woman's doorstep and ran away.

What were they trying to do, terrorize her? The last time I pulled the ol' 'Leaving Poop On Your Doorstep' thing was when I was seven years old. My neighbor, Paul Fiquet, and I left a bag of poop on a day care's front doorstep.

When someone came they just threw the bag in the outside garbage: No big pay off with someone stepping into it. OK, that was the beta testing phase. So, Paul came up with a fool proof idea -- we light the bag on fire and then ring the doorbell and run away. Someone will see the burning bag and stomp it out. So, they would have poop on their shoes then, you see. Only problem was, no one was there -- it was Sunday. No one came out. Our careers as scalawags was over and it was a miserable failure.

Flash forward 41 years. What Paul and I learned is being repeated, only by the KKK, as a means to strike terror into the heart of this poor woman. I don't know her name, but I know her cousin and he told me the whole thing. How do they up the ante? I fear they might try to toilet paper the tree on her front lawn, folks.

Hey, obviously, everyone knows who and what the KKK is -- no need to go over it. They are a bunch of hooded scumbags who have created more unnecessary suffering in this country than anything else for more than 150 years and -- they suck.

I will laugh at these evil hate-mongers resorting to a child's prank to "make their point." I like it a lot better than how they were making their points in the 1920s through 1970s -- and I think everyone will agree on that.

No longer threatening to march 200,000 strong down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, they have 'adjusted their campaign' for the 21st century. Listen, if the most anyone ever hears from the klan again is this nonsense I can't see it's a bad thing.

But, remember, Mr. and Mrs. America, once upon a time in this country most Southern office holders were card carrying members of the klan (circa 1910s through 1940s). Afterward, while they were not outspoken in their beliefs, many kept good relations with the klan. These people had power and what did they do with it? They killed people. They corrupted the office holders of our nation (which didn't take too much) and they gave every American a bad name because of their actions.

The klan killed NAACP President Medgar Evers, they dogged the footsteps of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. before a klan sympathizer killed him. They made their presence known on television screens around the country, evoking sheer terror because of their borttomless evil against minorities and anyone else who sided with equal rights.

To my surprise, someone who I considered almost a friend in Franklin, North Carolina told me he used to be a klan member but "...the group petered out here. Now a lot of us just meet for coffee now and again but no one is doing anything." I couldn't speak. I was in shock. Are you kidding me? He never heard from me again.

Meanwhile, in the 80s when I was a young soldier at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the damn klan used to have breakfast as a group every Sunday at this breakfast place I used to like. No shit. Right out in  public. I left and never came back.

Some hate organizations try to make their sickening message more palatable with a smile and a wink. Well, screw the smiles and the winks. They're a hate group and one with a long history of violence. My question of the day: Why the hell are these groups allowed to exist?

This isn't the Elks, the Kiwanis, the Masons or the Knights of Columbus. They aren't having drives to help good causes. No, while the once mighty klan is lowered to doing childish tricks today, I would just assume they not exist at all. And, this is something of substance law enforcement can actually get done. It's just a matter of the national will to want it.

Well, I am casting my vote now: I'd really like them gone forever.

Again, thank you for letting me rant my old man rage. Here I am, getting stirred up and swinging my cane. I best watch it or I'll knock over the glass with my teeth in it.

I've done my best at putting my opinion where it's not asked for enough today. Thanks for coming by and, as always, seeya later alligators.