Tourists come to Boston for some play acting

Is out at Arch Street and Summer.

But they seem to have an appealing amount of free time and not a lot of apparent work-related responsibilities.

Who would fall for that knock-off crap?!?!

If you want real holy water, you've got to visit the Lourdes Center in Kenmore Sq.

Thankfully they have online ordering too.

gossips. I have room in my heart for pretty much everyone else listed on that placard -- that's my family, friends, neighbors and fellow Boston sports fans right there -- but fuck those gossipy types! Mind your own business while the rest of us are fornicating, lying, drinking, disbelieving, and idolatori-- idolatorate-- *ahem*, idolatorizizzing.

I want to be sympathetic to these folks in satisfying the need for meaning in their lives. But finding meaning by condemning others - just on the basis of beliefs - itself borders on doing evil.

I am comfortable assuming that the each of the folks protesting this con could find in their hometowns and cities people who are hurting in ways that nearly everyone can agree is suffering. Suffering from bodily illnesses, kids not getting enough food, folks who are homeless or are on the verge of homelessness for reasons having nothing to do with the person's choices. Or simply quietly suffering from loneliness.

Yet instead of acting in a way that might mirror the actions of the person they claim is their ultimate spiritual leader, here they are instead telling the world that they have knowledge and wisdom superior to everyone else.

To me this is a sickness of mind and spirit. Of the mind because they each make the choice to put their energy toward a silly protest. Of the spirit because it is in our relationships with each other than a spirit exists. They choose relationships which magnify hatred of others and belief that they - in their shared beliefs - are somehow superior to others.

I'm on there at least four times - you?

I don't feel sorry for these people, they bought the ticket and they're gonna take the ride. I do feel sorry for anyone who has the misfortune to be related to them, living near them or working with them (generously assuming that any of them are capable of holding down a job). People like this make life hell on anyone near them.

But at least no riots and assaults on police like what you get with a lovely BLM protest. No broken windows or burned down buildings either. Seems peaceful but you’re still mad right?

They've all got it.

Who doesn't love Santa?

I've got to head over there to see all those chubby guys with beards in their red suits.

I'm a fornicator and I like it.

but what did Baby ever do to them?

Anyone know if the usual Forest Hills Jesus lady was there with her sign?

I must have missed the National Security Proverb

it’s not science, it’s a lie”

So… science proves the earth is flat, as it says in the Old Testament? OK

People wonder why the number of self-professed Christians in America is in freefall. Willfully ignorant, power-hungry, lying assholes do far, far more violence to Christianity than any atheist could in their wildest dreams.

Jesus indeed wept.

for luring these assholes away from whatever funerals and medical clinics they might have normally been harassing people at.

Was it Monty Python's Life of Brian scene of various competing political liberation sects that helped me realize that religion addicts can be just as entertaining as they parade around in their bombast and circumcision? These folks are funny; albeit a deeply ironic, and extremely unself-aware irony.

Unintended comedy aside: these folks are dangerous. They are the fodder of culture war. The troops easily agitated kept in constant furor. The bullets are explosive words. The generals vary widely, in various forms of lust, endless bloated creatures craving to be at the center of all things (Trump), money and wealth (Fox News masters), power (McConnell, Republicans in general and the religious right). Not that any of this is not known in this forum.

If it was possible to reach these folks - to lead them out of the psychological pits that are the only possible home for this hysteria - then perhaps it would be easier to reach people are not as hysterical.