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Rezo a espírituQue Espíritu brote
lenguas de llama
que alumbren el entender,
enciendan el corazón a amar
y nos den palabras
para clamar por justicia
arraigada en la compasión.
© Rafael Jesús González 2026
Prayer to Spirit
May Spirit spring
tongues of flame
to light understanding,
fire the heart to love,
& give us words
to cry for justice
rooted in compassion.
© Rafael Jesús González 2026
Alguien ha dicho que los nacionalistas cristianos "andan con escrituras en la boca y el corazón lleno de odio".
When I was a kid and altar boy at St. Patrick Cathedral, one of my favorite masses to serve was that of Pentecost celebrating the coming of the Spirit in the form of tongues of flame of divine inspiration and speech to the Nazarene’s disciples. It has been many years now that I have been a born-again pagan, but some of the traditions of the church keep their spiritual truth. And that of Pentecost, divine inspiration grounded in love and justice, as in Liberation Theology, will always be true.
Now we are faced with a Christo-fascism, in the Catholic church that of Opus Dei and its ilk. Leonard Leo, long said to be a member of Opus Dei, has for at least 30 years, set himself to making the U.S. judiciary ultra-rightist, fascist.
In the Protestant, there are the Christian Nationalists, a type of Evangelical Fundamentalists obsessed with the fantasies of Revelations who would turn the nation into a theocracy and who violate every teaching of Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth and profess to venerate him. They are a cultural and political force since the 70s behind the fascism that governs us. A great many Christian Nationalist are in the Trump administration, among them Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, an alleged war criminal, who prayed in public for the U.S. military, “Break the teeth of the ungodly. By the blast of your anger, let the evil perish. Let their bulls go down to slaughter for their day has come, the time of their punishment. Pour out your wrath upon those who plot vain things and blow them away like chaff before the wind,” Hegseth prayed. “Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy. Preserve their lives, sharpen their resolve, and let justice be executed swiftly and without remorse that evil may be driven back and wicked souls delivered to the eternal damnation prepared for them.”
Someone has said that Christian Nationalists "walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate."

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