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Tuesday Open Thread: Jesus and Woody and Ry Cooder

US conservative Christian leaders' willingness to support a president known for lying, cheating and stoking of bigotry has generated calls of hypocrisy. Big Al recently pointed out how "sacred" scripture is being misused to explain away Godawful behavior. Yet from their perspective, the Trump administration has delivered on its promises to advance a conservative agenda.

Unfortuanately, despite how much we belittle these practices and wish they did not matter, the power and money behind them packs a powerful punch. We damned well better realize that fact and find spiritual resources of our own ... or we will continue to be kicked to the political curb.

And that brings us to the immortal Woody Guthrie and his disciple Ry Cooder ...

Johnny Lawrence... The Cynic.

So, just for the HELL of it, I'm going to do a fun, snarky, little exercise. I haven't talked about something I enjoy for a while, and I haven't done an exploration of a piece of art in even longer, so I'm going to do that. I'm going to explore a show I greatly enjoyed, and explain why I feel that The series "Cobra Kai" might be one of the most eloquent examples of the Cynic philosophy that we have in the Modern Day. (And of course, this will contain spoilers for the show.)

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