Holy mother of God, pray for us!
Amen!
tbh at this point I think the meme doesn’t fit sometimes
the rattlesnake is usually defensive and only attacks when endangered (or when people are within its strike zone)
yeah, the “don’t tread on me” can be interpreted to mean a “freedom” of a kind of godless independence
it can also refer to legitimate self-defense:
Everyone has the right to defend his life against the attacks of an unjust aggressor. For this end he may employ whatever force is necessary and even take the life of an unjust assailant. As bodily integrity is included in the good of life, it may be defended in the same way as life itself.
It is lawful to defend one’s material goods even at the expense of the agressor’s life; for neither justice nor charity require that one should sacrifice possessions, even though they be of less value than human life in order to preserve the life of a man who wantonly exposes it in order to do an injustice. Here, however, we must recall the principle that in extreme necessity every man has a right to appropriate whatever is necessary to preserve his life. The starving man who snatches a meal is not an unjust agressor; consequently it is not lawful to use force against him.
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13691a.htm
I mean so basically my perception was the original “don’t tread on me” seemed like godless libertarianism, this meme has been used by some to come in to promote a questionable authoritarianism, and I think as a mean between the extremes we can reject godless independence and yet also still safeguard some individual rights or liberties at times. God may trample on individual liberties for a divine purpose, but men will often be called to respect certain freedoms of others.
I always appreciate your responses. Everyone is reading fat more into this than I am. Honestly that’s a good thing, I just thought it was cute.
To me it just underscored that Mary can conquer anything and anyone she wants.
I’ve seen this in my feed, and am scratching my head about what it’s trying to say.
Is this about the incompatibility between the church and libertarianism? Is it taking a side? I’m confused.
i think it’s about the bible passage which predicts about Jesus. The snake is the devil and Mary who birthed Jesus is stepping on it.
I sort of get the context, with Christianity treading upon the Genesis depiction of Satan. For my evangelical friends, yeah, it should be Jesus treading, not Mary, but oh well, we’ll let that one slide for now.
Now for the 🤓 “ackshually”
The imagery, however, is incongruent with the historical use of the Gadsden flag, which to my knowledge has been traditionally interpreted as mostly pro-religion citizens, so Mary is treading on fellow Christians? Should have used a different snake, in my opinion. But, I recognize an attempt was made. This one unfortunately falls under the “the right can’t meme” category for me.
That whole category fascinates me. I wonder if the ideology is just immune to irony because it has no aversion to holding contradictory ideas.
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Mary does what she wants. Fortunately she wants to do the will of God, but she gets it done.
