Meditations From A Mundane Mind, Part Three

The good Public Servant, Mark Dayton, gives us a little peek into his mind with this little quote:

I’m relieved that God visited Arjuna and taught him, while he was involved in the world, on the eve of a battle. It’s not one of those deals where you have to drop everything and drop out, find an Ashram with a guru, give up your inheritance, savings, and 401K and become an obedient devotee. I am not good at obedience. In the Gita story you are not only involved in the world, you have a point of view, an edge, a cause, a battle looms, the lines are drawn: the forces of good against the forces of evil.

Now God wouldn't expect me to take my wealth and start anything like this. No, God wants me to chase the money changers from the Temple. Well, except for that George Soros guy, and then there's that John F. Kerry guy and, well, there's that Edwards guy, and you gotta love all those Kennedy guys and then there is . . . Well, you know, chasing out all those bad, really bad rich Republicans. And why do I believe this? Because the Bible tells me so:

Jesus was an activist with a point of view and a moral outrage at what he saw; the social injustice, the hypocrisy, the profiteering. In Matthew chapter 21 he goes into the Temple of God and over throws the tables and throws the moneychangers out. He drives them and the profiteers out of the Temple saying, “My house shall be called a house of prayer and ye have made it a den of thieves.” Later in Luke, Jesus says, “I have come to send fire on the earth. Suppose ye that I have come to give peace on earth, I tell ye nay, but rather division. Whoever shall seek to save his life shall loose it. Whoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”

But please do not confuse me with those evil Bible thumpers:

Worst are the self-anointed “super saviors”, the self-proclaimed, self-ordained, members of God’s chosen few who enjoy, they say, unique access to the holy hotline, where God tells them decidedly what is right. Which is almost exactly what they believe is right. And then, are they ever right! People who have memorized the Bible, and don’t practice what it says, people who love to hate in the name of God, to denounce and condemn in the name of Jesus Christ. Progressive politics has too often ceded God to the Right, and the flag, and the American dream. Those are three major mistakes, which have cost us our causes and our allies.

They are evil and I am Arjuna - Metaphorical Fighter of Evil! And I know they are evil because . . . . well, because they disagree with me and they are not progressives which means "for progress" and we all know that progress is good and therefore not evil.

(Hat tip to Dayton v. Kennedy and Powerline)