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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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- POEM: Gratuitous Rumor
- POEM: The Lamb and The Lyin’
- POEM: Straight Manly Complaining
- POEM: Draft Registration Civil Disobedience, aka, Holy Obedience
- POEM: Occam’s Razor (as told by Gödel)
- POEM: A Cain Due Attitude
- POEM: Conversion Raiding
- POEM: Lilliputian Vampires — Ode to Bed Bugs
- POEM: Large Language Mottle — Yet An Other Ode to AI
- POEM: North Pole
- POEM: Walking the Second Thousand Miles
- POEM: Making Know Deference
- POEM: Locked in Prism
- POEM: A Big Rock in a Bigger Pond
- POEM: Here on Abet
- POEM: Away With Words
- POEM: Did I Hear You Write?
- POEM: To Know a Veil
- POEM: The Ark of History
- POEM: Having Landed, Hear
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Tag Archives: Christian
POEM: Loyalty Oafs
Loyalty Oafs Loyalty oafs Would halve you Believe In idol vanity Sowing their wiled oaths AWOL keeping us a part With litmus tests In a whirled of acid And base Brands that burn And scar us In too submission Not … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Bible, Christian, Compromise, Evil, God, Heart, Heaven, Impeachment, Jerusalem, Jesus, Law, Partisan, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Republican, Simplicity, Values, Vanity, Virtue
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RAMBO JESUS: Taking U.S. To School – Salvation is in Hand – This Time You’ll Pay For Your Own Sins
In surreal fashion, I await for the U.S. followers of The Prince of Peace to provide moral leadership in fighting the unrelenting epidemic of mass shootings carried out with military-style guns. Perhaps U.S. Christians are too busy making plans to … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Cartoon, Children, Christian, Death, Funny, Guns, Hypocrisy, Jesus, leadership, Love, Military, Moral, Parodies, Political, Prevention, Right-Wing, Surreal, Time, Violence
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FREE POSTER: GOP Greedy Old Perverts Sexual Predator-in-Chief Donald Trump and Roy Moore
Dirty old men, predominantly dirty old white men, are running rampant throughout our culture and politics. A long overdue push back is underway as many powerful sexual predators are finally being held to some account. The cutting edge of this … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Gay, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Beautiful, Children, Christian, Community, Conservative, Conspiracy, Crime, Culture, Democrat, Donald Trump, Enemies, Fascism, free poster, Free Posters, Future, God, GOP, Hypermasculinity, Hypocrisy, Illegal, Justice, Kids, Lawyer, Lifestyle, Martyrdom, Military, Minorities, Moral, Muslim, National, Nationalism, Nature, Nazi, Normal, Patriarchy, Political, Politics, Power, Present, President, Reactionary, Redemption, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Rhetoric, Right-Wing, Roy Moore, Sex, sexual assault, Socialism, State, Success, Supreme Court, Time
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FREE POSTER: Who Would Jesus Masturbate In Front Of? American Evangelical Apologists for Sexual Predation Reach a New Low . . . And Keep Reaching
I am sickened by American evangelical so-called Christians serving as apologists for sexual predation. There is a seriously dark evil engulfing Christians who profess conservative sexual morality and also serve as the first line of defense of sexual predators, whether … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Christian, Christianity, Conservative, Culture, Defense, evangelicals, Evil, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Funny, Jesus, Justice, Morality, Perspective, rape culture, Sexism, sexual assault, Sexual Harrassment, Social Justice, Women
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FREE POSTER: Trump’s Tax Plan Will Be A Huge Christmas Gift Because Everyone Knows That Tax Cuts For The Rich Is Practically The Incarnation of Jesus
Some things are very predictable, like a big turkey looming before Christmas. And so it goes with the biggest turkey of all, Donald Trump. In cahoots with congressional Republicans, more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and wealthiest corporations are … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged Christian, Christmas, Debt, Donald Trump, free poster, Free Posters, Gift, government, Incarnation, Jesus, Power, Rich
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A Spiritual Autobiography
I wrote the below spiritual autobiography a dozen years ago as part of a servant leadership study group. While it definitely needs updating, it serves well as a brief overview of my spiritual history and development over much of my … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, Gay, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Anxiety, Art, Authority, Beautiful, Bible, Blessed, Buddhism, Business, Catholic, Children, Christian, Church, Civil Disobedience, Conscience, Conscientious Objection, Conscription, Crude, Death, Diversity, Draft Registration, Environment, Events, Experience, Faith, Family, Food, God, government, Grace, Haiti, Healing, Heart, History, Holy, Hope, Humor, Irreverence, Jester, Job, Journey, Justice, Kids, Law, leadership, Liberal, Life, Love, Media, Mennonite, Military, Mind, Mom, Money, Mystic, Nutrition, Obedience, Pacifism, Pastor, Philosophy, Play, Poems, Political, Poor, Poverty, Powers that be, Prayer, President, Public Health, Religious, Reverence, Science, Security, Serenity, Social Justice, Spiritual, Stewardship, Success, Theology, Time, Top Pun, Truth, Vegetarianism, War, Work, World Hunger, Worship, Zen
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FREE POSTER: Senator Rob Portman as The High Priest Caiaphas, Starring In That Christian Damn Nation
This free poster takes Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) to church over his brutally un-Christian vacillation over the senate Republican health care bill. This satirical poster is yet another installation in my “Parity or parody in democracy” series. Wile Sen. Portman … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Christian, Church, Democracy, free poster, Health Care, Jesus, Logic, Medicaid, Parity or Parody, Poor, Republican, Rich, Sen. Rob Portman
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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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POEM: Standing On My Privy Ledge
I am a white, straight, Christian, male And you see that I am afraid Though paying attention To what is fare I am more afraid Of whites than blacks Of straights than queers Of Christians than Muslims Of men than … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Discrimination, Economic, Equality, Feminism, Haiti, Hate, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Intersectionality, Justice, LGBT, Life, Mennonite, Muslims, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Poverty, Prison, Privilege, Public Health, Queer, Reality, Rich, Social Justice, Solidarity, Values, Vocation, Women
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POEM: A Bout As Helpful
He axed Are you a Christian? Sow bound to answer I am Though that is a bout As helpful As siding the fact That I am American When in truth Such a confining chide Might only be a parent As … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Christian, Creation, Death, Evolution, Experience, Gandhi, Gender, Hindu, Life, Muslim, Nationalism, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Religion, Religious, Short Poems, Transcendent, Truth, Universe
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: The Iconoclassism of Godliness
She was in A class by her self Staring at her teacher In a too room school hows By two mirror subjects taut Assure as three Bound by know Student lones Only that body Of know ledge From the school … Continue reading
POEM: A Brother Lying
Prey fore the dead In the name of Jesus In resurrection of those soully asleep Getting a phallus rise Out of Christianity That is, US More sow then radical Islam In violate fundamental lists Dissembling faith, hope, and love As … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Anti-War, News, Peace, Peace Signs, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Christian, Christianity, Competition, Death, Democracy, Domination, Faith, Family, God, Grace, Heart, Hope, Image, Islam, Jesus, Justice, Lazy, Life, Love, Meaning, Militarism, Military, Moral, Muslim, Muslims, Nationalism, Nature, Pacifism, Patriotism, People of The Book, Poems, Poetry, Privilege, Racism, Radical, Religion, Religious, Resurrection, Reverence, Sacred, Sacrifice, State, Terrorism, Violence, War, Worldview
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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus Retirement Plan
CEO Jesus: You Had Me At The Retirement Plan After a long hiatus, CEO Jesus is back. This comic was inspired by a poem I wrote recently: At Jesus, Inc. I came for the love and mutuality I stayed for … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Free Stuff, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Christian, Christianity, Church, Comics, Death, Jesus, Joke, Love, Martyrdom, Nonviolent, Palestinian, Poems, Poetry, Political, Power, Powers that be, Prophet, Questions, Radical, Religion, Revolutionary, Risk, Security, Short Poems, State
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FREE CHRISTMAS POSTER: Homeless Refugee Nativity
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…with all of those homeless Middle Eastern families. This free poster offers my take on the hypocrisy of Christians in a co-called “Christian” nation worshiping xenophobia and fear rather than the radical hospitality … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Free Stuff, Peace
Tagged Christian, Christmas, Compassion, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Hospitality, Humanity, Hypocrisy, Immigration, Jesus, Love, Muslims, National, National Security, Nativity, Radical, Security, Xenophobia
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POEM: God’s Perish
I under stood God’s might And might not And in awe probability New That I Will only Fooly see Phase to phase Until awe of creation Come prized my parish This poem is about dying to see the face of … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings, Uncategorized
Tagged Argument, Atheist, Authority, Awe, Christian, Compassion, Creation, Death, Enemies, Existential, Experience, Faith, Fundamentalism, God, Heart, Humanity, Idealism, Ironic, Jesus, Joy, Law, Learning, Life, Logic, Love, Mercy, Militant, Mind, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Passion, Pastor, Perfectionism, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Power, Probability, Projection, Reality, Reconciliation, Religion, Religious, Skepticism, skin in the game, Spiritual, Success, Time, Truth, Wisdom, Worship
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POEM: Awe Full Going On
In oblivious camp The guard threw shoes at us My pair was too big to fill More suited to Tariq Though mine were newer Tariq’s were old And bound to be A little too snug Seeing more than a pair … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Acceptance, Art, Awe, Character, Christian, Courage, Culture, Death, Equality, Fascism, Freedom, God, Hate, Hell, History, Hubris, Humanity, Idealism, Image, Inspiration, Ironic, Irony, Israel, Jesus, Jewish, Life, Literacy, Meaning, Moral, Muslim, Nature, Palestinian, Possessions, Power, Present, Proverb, Rage, Reality, Redemption, Slavery, Soul, Spiritual, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Vanity, War, Zionist
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