Copy of a Facebook post. I’ve been really neglectful of the blog I’ll try to keep up with it although a lot of it for a while maybe simply re-posts. They tend to be short but, I think, valuable.
In response to Georgia’s attempt to pass a law giving special privileges to right wing religious extremist Christians I posted:
Special laws for the religious, well, at least for the religious who are members of the exactly correct sect in the exactly correct religion. Sounds familiar for some reason. Oh, I remember. The Dark Ages.
From Wiki:
> In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin: privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
...Over time, this proof of clergy-hood was replaced by a literacy test: defendants demonstrated their clerical status by reading from the Latin Bible... <
It all started with Henry II murdered St.Thomas and eventually went so bad that the illiterate could memorize a single Bible passage and pretend to be reading it so as be exempt from civil law.
Just as, thanks to right wing media and Q anon, we are returning the middle ages as we hunt imaginary devil worshiping cannibals, we are also returning to civil versus canon with special rules for the clergy.
I’ve been warning since the days of Reagan that if we didn’t watch it we would follow the same path as China and the great Islamic empires. Once the wealthiest and most powerful countries in the world, they became Third World countries is they turned inward, away from reality and into fundamentalism.
We’re still making “progress“.
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