Speak of the Devil presents Third Side Intelligence. This month Reverend Campbell is being joined by Darren Deicide and Witch Zaftig to discuss the United States new Religious Liberty Task Force that was announced by Attorney General Sessions on July 30, 2018.
We will discuss it’s stated mandate, reach, implications and scope. And why not reach a little deeper in the Attorney General’s past to try and understand his motivations with this announcement.
Opening Monologue
Can we for one moment talk about the majority of Democratic Representatives in the U.S. Congress? Is it mandatory for you to be an incompetent leader to be elected as a Democrat, or have we just been incredibly unfortunate from the beginning? We have a president who directed his lawyer to commit a crime. His lawyer committed the crime, admitted to it in court and was convicted by a federal judge. This is concrete factual evidence that the POTUS is a criminal and broke the law, but the Dems don’t even want to talk about impeachment until more evidence surfaces. More evidence of what!? This failure of a president is dismantling environmental protections daily, ruining U.S. credibility with the rest of the world, even more, daily! He is acting in the best interests of Russia for an unknown, a suspected yet unproven, reason. He admitted to sexual assault, we have proof that he has had affairs (so much for Republican family values), his tax policies have added up to $2.3 trillion to the national debt (so much for republican fiscal conservatism), but that’s not all! Now they are coming after your social security and medicare, you know, those socialist programs you have been paying into your entire working life? The most popular American government programs out there–In order to cover the deficit left by the tax cuts that only benefited the top 1%. (so much for caring about the middle class) Hey republicans and independents that voted for Trump, feel like a fucking idiot yet? Look in the mirror, you should.
But as bad as Trumps admitted sexual assaults and infidelities are, a new report came out that rocks even that corrupt foundation. Yes I’m talking about the Roman Catholic church and the more than a thousand children that were assaulted and raped by over 300 priests! And that’s only in Pennsylvania! Now, given an outrage stick and asked to shake it at all assault equally and I have to admit, I can’t! The abuse and rape of children by catholic priests has been a problem from the beginning of this corrupt, illogical and vile religious institution. These are the followers of Christ, and these are their appetites. Complain and argue all you like but there is no institution that has committed crimes at this level in the history of… well modern history. And no, feeding homeless does not makeup for decades of institutional cover up, hate speech, abuse and rape, no matter how much you like Christmas. So can we please stop pretending that all crimes are equal and by the pope saying they are shocked and sorry for the actions of their church members, their comrades, their brothers of the cloth–and just admit that this institution has never worked, has never been about love and compassion and has never been ‘good’ by anyone’s standard in any sense of the word. I’m actually surprised the idiot-in-chief hasn’t tried to appear clean by comparison: “Yes I grabbed those women by the pussy, and walked in on those underage pageant contestants while they were dressing, but I didn’t wear a robe while I did it!”
So… religion, it’s all fucked right? It’s all fucked but we really should protect it. Protect it from naysayers and atheists. Why not create a special task force to uphold its holy rights to belittle, condemn, persecute, restrict rights and attack the non religious, or at least those of lower moral value, as judged by the xenophobic, bigoted, religious themselves? That happens to be the very topic for tonight, The United States brand new Religious Liberty Task Force. I am joined tonight by two of the brightest minds available as well.
Our first guest is one of my favorite Witches in the world. She has an M.A. in religious studies, and is a PHD candidate. Her focus is on western esotericism, ritual and religion & popular culture. She has received multiple awards and scholarships and has had her research published in academic journals and books. She was a contributor to 9sense with her Unorthodoxy segment and has been a frequent guest on Speak of the Devil. Allow me to introduce the beautiful Witch Zaftig.
We are also joined by an editorialist that has worked in both print and online as the Agent Provocateur. His unbiased and unflinching look at any situation can endear his brutal honesty to you, or repulse you outright, though you probably know him best as a working musician, traveling the world’s countries bringing back his original delivery of the blues, and more recently his macabre musical project The Wedding Funeral, please welcome Darren Deicide.