BROTHER, KEEP PREACHING
Two black soul brothers
Standing on the corner
In front of Metro center
On a Friday night
In the heart of the new evil
empire
The center of the beast
Hell Central
Preaching the word of god
The news of the end of the
world
The proverbial end times
Were upon us and coming soon
The commuters, workers and
bemused tourists
Walk on by the preacher men
Some pay attention, most walk
on by
They did not want to hear
They did not understand
And the preacher man kept
Preaching the word of god
And no one paid any attention
None at all
God is going to punish us
God is coming soon
To punish the wicked and the
evil
And to set things right
God is going to punish the
U.S.
For its arrogance, hubris and
hypocrisy
For its greed and evil
Disguised as saving the world
From the evil ones
God is coming, oh yeah he is
on his way
And boy is he angry at us
At the entire human race
And God, let me tell yah
He ain't the wimpy, wampy
pappy
White boy false god of the
New Testament
The false deity that the evil
Reverend Falwell
And the smarmy Pat Robinson
worship
Hell no
God ain't that god
God is a mean, angry powerful
God
The god of the Old Testament
The god of the Koran and the
god of old
The god that man once feared
Yeah, I am talking about that
god
Jehovah, Zeus, Allah and a
thousand other names
The god that our ancestors
feared
The real deal, and boy is he
pissed off
And he is coming to set us
straight
And send most of us straight
to hell
For eternal damnation and
punishment
God is particularly pissed
off
At all those politicians who
have been
Misusing his name and saying
God is on their side
God ain't on their side God
is God
And he is angry at them all
Particularly at our boy
pretender President
George Bush
God has a score to settle
with Mr. Bush
You see God has spoken to Mr.
Bush
And to all of us
But most of have forgotten
how to hear
The voice of god and we hear
what we want to hear
God told George
George, don't do that evil
thing
Don't invade Iraq
I will handle Sadam in my
own way
I want you to take care of
your poor people
Give away all your power and
money
And serve the poor
That's what I want you to do
And poor George did not
understand
Did not get the message
So George led the nation
Into war against another land
And thousands of people died
And millions of dollars were
wasted
And nothing changed
And God is angry at our poor
misguided President
And God is angry at the
people of this earth
Who have fucked up his
paradise and his divine plans
So, brother preacher
Keep preaching the word
I understand
And someday soon maybe the
rest of us
Will understand as well
Keep preaching the word
My man
God is coming to save us
And will start by dispatching
That fool of a pretender to
the throne
Straight to the hell he so
richly deserves
God is going to slap him
upside the head
And tell him to quit talking
shit
About God's plan and God's
will
Then God will smile
As Bush is dispatched to
Hades
And joins all the other fools
Who have proclaimed that God
is on their side
Oh yeah
God does not like that shit
Not one bit
And the end times approach
And the preacher man preaches
And God is getting ready for
the judgment day
And I say bring it on
Bring it on
Brother preacher man
Keep preaching the word
And someday soon
We will meet up
Somewhere and God will decide
Our fate
But the fate of our pretender
President is sealed
And Satan has a nice room for
him
And God smiles
At the thought of divine
justice
That awaits the sinner in
chief
The End of Days -- kainserpentine
Jerry Falwell was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor who at 22 founded the megachurch (a non-Catholic church with at least 2,000 people in average weekend attendance) Thomas Road Baptist Church (the largest independent Baptist church in the country, though it began with only 35 members) in Lynchburg, Virginia, Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) as a "segregation academy" and part of his church's ministry, and Liberty University, also in Lynchburg, which it claims is the world's largest Christian university, with some 13,00 residential students and 90,000 on line ; his Old Time Gospel Hour, founded when he started his church, made him a well-known televangelist (it became Thomas Road Live. In 1976 Falwell, going against the traditional American Baptist principle of separating religion and politics, embarked on a series of "I Love America" rallies across the US in order to raise awareness of social issues that disturbed him. Two years later Christian Voice, an American conservative advocacy group, was in the midst of an internal struggle for control which caused activists Paul Weyrich, Terry Dolan, Richard Viguerie, and Howard Phillips to leave, and the next year they asked Falwell to form Moral Majority (a name coined by Weyrich) as a rival organization. The organization was launched at James Robinson's Freedom Rally in Dallas, Texas. Falwell led the group, in association with members of his own Baptist Bible Fellowship. At its height Moral majority claimed over 4 million members and more than 2 million donors and consisted of four separate groups -- Moral Majority, Inc., its lobbying division; Moral Majority Foundation, its educational component and voter-registration arm; Moral Majority Legal defense Fund, its legal instrument for promoting its issues in the courts; and Moral Majority Political Action Committee, in support group for supporting political candidates. In 1987 the organization was incorporated within the Liberty Federation, and Falwell resigned his formal presidency two years later though he maintained an active role within the organization until it dissolved in 1989. Ironically, Falwell's father was a staunch atheist, and his grandfather was an agnostic entrepreneur and former bootlegger.
ReplyDeletePat Robertson, the son of Virginia senator A. Willis Robertson, was another prominent leader of the Christian Right with a strong talent for organizing. He founded the Christian Broadcasting Network in Virginia Beach in 1960, which is broadcast in 71 languages in 180 countries, and its CBN Asia affiliate; the CBN Cable Network (renamed the Family Channel), but when it became so large that it endangered CBN's legal non-profit status he formed International Family Entertainment, Inc., with the ABC Family Channel as its main subsidiary, which carries his twice-daily 700 Club news program live; CBN University (now Regent University); the American Center for Law and Justice, which is associated with Regent's School of Law; and the 1.7 million member Christian Coalition, which he organized in the wake of his failed 1988 bid to get the Republican Party's presidential nomination.
George Walker Bush was the son of US president George Herbert Walker Bush. With the active support of the Christian Right, he became president himself in a controversial election in 2000. His opponent actually had more votes nationwide but narrowly lost Florida, which had enough electoral votes to give Bush the victory. After the al-Qaida terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC, Bush invaded Afghanistan (which was sheltering the al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden) and then Iraq, falsely claiming that its leader Saddam Hussein had been involved in the terrorist attacks and was preparing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to use against the US. These became the two longest wars in US history.
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