The 700 Club

The 700 Club made a lot of shit clear, y’all — for realz!

If you still think this election is about a few stupid people versus the rest, you better frigging think again. I got my car serviced in a Michigan suburb yesterday. Nice folks for sure. Everybody treated me with kindness and respect. Nothing to hate on. That was until I sat in the waiting room for two hours watching the news on the Christian Broadcasting Network.

There wasn’t anyone mentioning any candidates by name. There wasn’t even a question of partisanship. It was just very clear that the election was about a lot more than who was gonna be in the White House. They reinforced the idea that this was about the soul of the nation, and when you put the election in religious terms, liberals will always lose.

Think about the issues on the table—the right to choose, response to a pandemic, racism and the environment. When you look at those in biblical terms they look like the wrath of God at play. There’s a majority of people in the country who believe that the fate of the world is in the hands of the God of Abraham and that the only necessity is a firm belief in Jesus Christ.

A few years ago, when Islamophobia was the hot topic, I wondered that Christians could lack so much self awareness as not to see all of the violence that has been done in their name. Having studied the Bible and seen for myself how much blood is evoked in those pages, I can say for sure, it’s a dangerous book in the wrong hands.

Trumps supporters aren’t fools. They are people of faith. They are people who know God is on their side and the more people rail against them, the firmer they will hold. The Bible has an answer for everything, including the persecution believers may have to endure from liberal minded folks.

Pink Flowers

Pink Flowers is a Black trans artist, activist and educator, whose work is rooted in ancient shamanic, African trickster, and Brazilian Joker traditions. Pink uses Theater of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting, Navajo Peacemaking and other anti-oppression techniques, as the foundation of their theater-making, mediation, problem-solving and group healing practices.

She is the founder of Award-winning Falconworks Theater Company, which uses popular theater to build capacities for civic engagement and social change. She has received broad recognition, numerous awards, and citations for their community service. She has been a faculty member at Montclair State University, Pace University, and a company member of Shakespeare in Detroit.

Pink is currently in Providence Rhode Island teaching directing for the Brown/Trinity MFA program, while also directing the Brown University production of Aleshea Harris’s award-winning What To Send Up When It Goes Down. Get performance detail here.

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