On the deification of diseased daydreams, February 12, 2025.

Introduction.

The great Thomas Sol has written a slew books, and I in turn have read a passel of them.

Part of making America great again is bringing back words like slew and passel. At any rate,

Thomas Sol is written a pile of books, and I've read 11 of them. To be fair, I read two of them twice,

but that was an accident and not my fault. Okay, okay, so I've read nine of them. I bring all of this up

because, in my judgment, his best book was The Vision of the Anointed, with a subtitle that summarizes

his thesis nicely. Self-congratulation as a basis for public policy. And this brings us to the

small matter of Christianity today, receiving 1.8 million clams from the public treasury. It is a

subject fraught with interest for one such as we, a subject promising to provide us with any number of

occasions for chortling, albeit not in an ungodly way, Proverbs 2417. The basic facts. Like so many

piglets trying to find a teat, progressive Christians have diligently sought out numerous ways to ransack

the taxpayers' money as a way of pursuing their own cultural agenda. What we thought was an

endless supply of leftist money from Soros turned out to be on closer inspection and endless supply of

money from taxpaying Goegrs. This technique, of course, would have been very bad if any conservative

organizations had ever tried it, but the progressives were above all that, well above the fray.

And the thing that was able to waft them above the fray, and the thing that was able to

waft them above the fray was the warm air of self-congratulation, about which more in a minute.

Christianity today received $1.8 million from the feds in the year 2023.

We will focus on that one, although we are soon to receive word about a slew of other questionable

disbursements, disbursements, gusushers, gully washers, whatever,

that remind one of a gross misapplication of that nursing father's verse in Isaiah.

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