Whether or not you buy into this religious canon isn’t really important. What God means to most people willing to throw his name around recklessly is his utility as an excuse, justification, or a knee-jerk expression of superiority. All of those things are present in this hideous promo video released by the DHS — one that not only contains a quoted Bible verse, but subverts a cover of a Johnny Cash cover of an old folk song telling people they can’t outrun their judgment by God into an implicit blessing of bigoted policies that have resulted in the infliction of misery on hundreds of thousands of God’s children… just because they don’t have the proper paperwork.
And I doubt Johnny Cash would have condoned this. Or at least I would hope so.
🎶I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down. Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town. I wear it for the prisoner who is long paid for his crime. But is there because he’s a victim of the times.🎶
Folks these days dont believe the prisoner can suffer enough to pay for his crimes
Pretty sure Johnny would break a guitar up Trumps ass for using his music.