Republican Jesus (the song)

By Donald A. Smith, PhD.

I was born in a manger, but hey, times change --            No more flipping tables, let's party with plutocrats.
Now I roll with donors and fly on a private plane.          Help the stranger? No way! I ain't no goddamn Democrat!
Don't feed the poor, don't heal the sick,                   Let's praise the unborn, but cut all their aid,
Just pray for blessings and get rich real quick!            And worship the dollar. That's how you're saved!

I'm Republican Jesus, I bless the elite,                    I'm Republican Jesus, with a flag in my hand,
The guns, the greed, the corporate deceit.                  I bless your wars. I love the fatherland!
Turn the other cheek? No way! You're toast.                 Love your neighbor? That's old news.
Fight the poor and the stranger from coast to coast!        I vote red, and I watch Fox News!

I used to preach love, but that don1t sell,                 I ain't gonna feed the hungry - I'll cut SNAP.
So now I scream "Freedom!" and privatize like hell.         I ain't gonna heal the sick -  No more free crap!
I still walk on water -- but only for white men,             I ain't gonna turn the cheek - I say "Stand your ground!"
And I turn loaves to stocks for my CEO friends.             If the old Jesus came back now, you'd run Him outta town!

Blessed are the billionaires, they'll inherit the earth,    Now bow your heads...
The meek get a boot and a lesson in "worth."                Let us pray,
Let's fund that war, cut food stamps with glee --           and pledge allegiance to Exxon Mobil, the billionaires, 
Slash Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.              and the military-industrial complex.
                                                            Elon Musk Über alles!
                                                            Amen.
Yeah, I'm Republican Jesus, with a flag in my hand,
Kicking the poor out of this Promised Land.
Forget the Sermon on the Mount -- rewrite that verse!
Love thy neighbor ... unless they're diverse.
    

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See also Invasion of the MAGA Mind Snatchers, The MAGA Cult Song, The Teflon Don and MAGA cult.

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Thomas Merton's Prayer for Peace
Rock Opera about U.S. Militarism, Part One
The Unholy Land has Genocide
Requiem for Victims of U.S. Wars
Bending Over for Dearest Uncle Sam
Endless War Blues
The-Endless War Blues (different version)
Windy City Protests -- from Vietnam in '68 to Gaza in '24
No More Blood For Their Endless War: an antiwar folk song made with AI
Machinery of Death (death metal song)
No More Stupid Wars!
Lesser of Two Evils Blues
The-Lesser of Two Evils Blues (longer, different version)
Eisenhower warns about the Military-Industrial Complex
Eisenhower Warns about U.S. Militarism
War is a Racket (Smedley Butler Song)
and Love Song by the U.S. Military Gospel Choir.

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Every war in the last 50 years is the result of media lies.
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