We live in chaotic and destructive times. I get very upset when White Christian Nationalists go full fascist and impose their limited "Christian" values on the nation. I put "Christian" in quotation marks because so many of their values are so contradictory to the teachings and life of Jesus Christ himself - from declaring the white race to be superior to all others (Christ himself was a brown skinned Jew who saw the divinity in all of people), to crushing women's lives by trying to eliminate women's ability to choose if and when they become pregnant, to violating the First Amendment and establishing their own brand of Christian dogma as the law of the land.
But I can identify with the desire to drop an anchor in a stormy sea. Especially if you think God is punishing America for immoral behavior and you see any behavior that does not conform to your own dogmas as punishable.
Our times are wildly chaotic and the desire to make the boat stop pitching and yawing by dropping anchor and establishing rigid rules and order is something I can understand. But their "anchor" is what has become a very un-Christlike Bible Belt dogma.
I can have some understanding of the desire, but the terrible damage they are doing to the lives of all of us is not OK.
Women get to choose to shape their own lives. Gay men and women get to love in ways that are natural and normal to them. Races are allowed to intermingle and intermarry. Democracy gets to have all votes counted. No matter how scary any of that is to the White Supremacist Christian Nationalists.
The way to sail the stormy seas is not to drop anchor and be capsized, but to ride the waves and let things become new.
