Benjamin L. Corey

Benjamin L. Corey

BLC is an author, speaker, scholar, and global traveler, who holds graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and received his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller. He is the author of Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus, and Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith.

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10 Signs You’re Actually Following TRUMPianity Instead of CHRISTianity

Are you following Jesus, or following Trump? Here's an easy way to tell:

In the Era of Trump’s America, I must admit that I hardly recognize the very people who raised me. I was brought up by the Religious Right, and went on to become a faithful foot soldier for the cause of conservative Christianity and right-wing politics until my mid 30’s. However, long gone is their commitment to the values they tried to instill in me, and so much else that once consistently encompassed their collective identity.

Sadly, my old tribe seems to collectively struggle to realize they’ve done exactly what they spent the entire Left Behind series warning me not to do: they have fallen in line behind a worldly leader who arose to power during a time of “wars and rumors of wars,” who did so by falsely pretending to be a Christian, but who would ultimately lead them to follow an entirely new religion.

To help my former right-wing family out, here’s the top 10 signs you’re now following TRUMPianity instead of CHRISTianity:

 

10. You spent 8 years criticizing every move of Obama, but the minute Trump was sworn in you started telling everyone that “Christians should respect the president” and that being “divisive” is a sin.

 

Remember the you of two years ago? That’s okay, because I do– and you certainly didn’t seem to believe that Christians should “respect the president” or that being politically divisive was any sort of sin.

Here I am recalling you taught me that, “sin is always sin” and doesn’t change just because culture changes. Huh!

 

9. You think, “but we’re a nation of laws” somehow trumps biblical teachings on how immigrants are to be treated.

 

You didn’t expect me to forget all of those years where you taught me that the Bible is the “final authority for all matters of living,” did you?

Good, because I didn’t– but it certainly sounds like you did. I’m reminded every time you dismiss what the Bible teaches about the treatment of immigrants with, “But, but… we’re a nation of laws!”

I thought you’d said, “We have a responsibility to follow God’s law, not man’s law!” just a few weeks ago. Silly me!

 

8. Your church is planning a “patriotic worship service” for the 4th of July.

 

Let me simplify this for you: there’s no such thing as “patriotic worship” unless you’re willing to simply admit you’re worshipping your own country.

You were the ones who taught me that if God isn’t the focal point of our worship, that it’s sinful idolatry. Surely you remember Jesus saying, “It is written: worship the Lord your God and serve him only”?

Apparently there’s now room for two. Strange!

 

7. You instinctively applaud when Trump threatens to “bomb the shit” out of people, but quickly push back if someone quotes what Jesus taught about violence and enemy love.

 

Jesus commanded we love our enemies, and that we never repay evil with evil but instead repay evil with good. I mean, it’s right there in the red words. I still have it underlined from 1984.

But now when I quote that in response to your thinking that it’s all cute when Trump wants to “knock the crap” out of a protestor or nuke a country, you tell me that I’m twisting scripture.

Sorry, but I think siding with Trump over Jesus is… as Trump would say: Sad!

 

6. You think that having a filthy mouth and boasting about sexual immorality is a sign of being unsaved, but when it comes to Trump you all of a sudden have a “Who am I to judge?” attitude.

 

I mean, c’mon. I grew up under your guidance and I think we both know that neither one of us ever thought we’d see the day when you became an advocate of not judging. You told me that if I had sex before marriage or used the F-word that it would be evidence I was never saved to begin with.

Doesn’t it seem odd to you that it was Trump, and not Jesus who got you to (selectively) soften up on the whole judging others thing? Interesting!

 

5. You think it’s God-honoring to refuse to bow to a national statue, but that you should be fired from your job, kicked out of the country, or even charged with treason for refusing to stand for the flag.

 

Let me get this straight: When everyone obeyed the king and bowed down to the national statue and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused– under the pain of death– to pledge their allegiance to anyone except God, they were the good guys of the story…

But fast forward to present day America, and the good guys are actually the ones who want to force everyone to pay respect to the national symbol? Plot twist!

 

4. You want the nation to return to “biblical values”… except for all those socialist sounding biblical things like caring for the poor, welcoming the stranger, giving food to the hungry, etc.

 

So you really want the nation to return to “biblical values”? You do realize that when Israel lived under God’s law (which you love to quote when talking of same sex marriage) also included laws that mandated the rich be taxed, even down to the food they had, and that the wealth was to be redistributed to the poor and immigrants, yes?

Or is this the one situation where you’d rather not remember that you keep saying, “But God’s law never changes”? Confused!

 

3. Your church spends one month a year celebrating the story of refugee family who fled their violent homeland and secretly crossed the border to safety, only to return home years later where their son became another unarmed person of color killed by the state’s violent security forces because they “felt threatened”…

 

Yet you spend 11 months of the year missing the obvious. Ironic! 

 

2. You claimed Barack Obama’s election was the result of evil forces, but the minute Trump was sworn into office you started quoting verses about how “God picks a nation’s kings and queens.”

 

For real, how does this work? Did God only get involved and start deciding elections with the past election cycle, or did you just start quoting this verse after the black guy left?

There’s a lot in this world I don’t know, but I do happen to know the answer to *that* one. Easy!

 

1. You spent the 90’s saying “character counts” but now say, “We don’t vote for a national pastor.”

 

Ahh, my absolute favorite sign you’re following Trumpianity instead of Christianity.

Version of you from today, I’d like you to meet the version of you from the Clinton administration. You were supposedly so morally outraged that you coined the term, “Character Counts” to explain why you felt Clinton was unfit for office.

The version of you from today? My, my… as I listen to you explain that “We don’t vote for a national pastor…” I am keenly aware of how having the political power changes things. Totally!

…

So you’re a loyal Trump supporter and a loyal Christian?

I’m not so sure.

You might want to take a more self-critical look and make sure you’re following Christianity, and not Trumpianity. Really!

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Benjamin L. Corey

Benjamin L. Corey

BLC is an author, speaker, scholar, and global traveler, who holds graduate degrees in Theology & Intercultural Studies from Gordon-Conwell, and earned his doctorate in Intercultural Studies from Fuller.

He is the author of Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith, and Undiluted: Rediscovering the Radical Message of Jesus.

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  194. A good place to begin in this discussion is to ask what is the God ordained role of civil government. The NT is clear. Govt. is ordained by God to preserve law and order and execute justice upon evil doers. Period. Presidents and politicians who have fomented racial and social divisions and neglected to execute justice upon lawbreakers are in opposition to God’s ordained role for them.

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    Get off your soapbox, and get on board with the biblically mandated role for government. Government is NOT the agent for social change. The Gospel is. Quit being a social justice warrior and be a minister of the gospel. There’s a big difference, you know.

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    1. Pure bullshit. Trump is a human just like you. He sins, has his faults and puts his pants on one leg at a time. He doesn’t not speak for God, but has done more to bring him back to our wasted society than any President before him. He does not speak for anyone, except the 63 million of us who elected him. To his credit, President Trump puts America first. If that displeases you “Snowflakes” feel free to move your sorry asses elsewhere.

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      2. Not true. A president SHOULD be president of an entire country. WAY more than 63 million live here. Shameful.

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  202. I would LOVE to see a Trump supporting “Christian” defend anything you wrote. Will never happen, I know lol Hypocrites just get irate when called out.

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    1. Their only possible defense is that anyone against Trump is unholy, against god, needs saving, etc etc. Ie, to keep discussion away from what they believe and what Trump believes.

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  203. These are all strawman arguments. They assume that the reason a person voted for Trump was because they are anti immigrant or they don’t care about the poor, etc. You put words in people’s mouths and then condemn them for the words you created on their behalf. I contest each one of your phony arguments. Very weak, and poorly thought out.

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    1. Let’s hear your rebuttals point by point. Those are words we hear all the time from “Christian” Trump supporters. Go ahead and contest them. Everything written here is true. Put your money where your mouth is and defend the indefensible.

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      1. Fine. I initially intended to anyway, but I knew if this article actually convinced anyone of its validity it would be a waste of time anyway, but since you asked I’ll take each point one at a time because I see no value in wasting hours trying to convince someone who clearly has very little ability to not see the weakness of the arguments made in the article. So here goes point 1 for now:

        [Paraphrasing]” You spent the 90s telling us that character counts, now you say: but we don’t vote for a national pastor.”

        First, like all of the 10 points, this writer assumes to know the collective voice of all those who supported Trump. It takes a lot of huztpah to claim that you can capture the voice of all 63 million voters who voted for Trump in a simple 10-point little article. This carries about as much weight as a Seventeen Magazine article on “10 Signs Your Boyfriend May Be Cheating on You.”

        Secondly, I’ll answer for myself as I’m not arrogant enough to believe I can answer for 63 million other voters. 1) I have never said when I voted that I’m looking for a national pastor, I’m looking for someone who I believe can handle all the duties and responsibilities that are expected of the President of the United States. 2) While one might assume that a pastor (and this article doesn’t make any distinction of denomination or religious affiliation) is better suited morally to be President, I don’t think that one could say that makes him more suitable to be the President. There are many other skills and attributes that the President needs that we can’t simply say that a pastor would be more suitable to be president without knowing what other skill and expertise he possesses to discharge all the duties of a U.S. President.

        Third (since at least one point made comparison to President Barrack Obama), I would also say that I find it short sighted that this article and so many others that have raged against Trump never criticized Obama for such obvious character failings, such as voting for infanticide, which he did as a member of the Senate, or his attacks on religious groups, such as Hobby Lobby, who felt they were obligated by their religious beliefs to not follow some of the dictates of Obamacare when it came to funding abortion as a woman’s right to “reproductive care”. Trump, without question, has demonstrated much more support for Christianity’s rightful repulsion against actions that do not support the sanctity of life at conception and beyond than the previous president.

        I’ll continue with the rest of the points as I can get to them. I would only ask that you at least make thoughtful consideration of the points. In the meantime have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.

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      2. Fine. I initially intended to anyway, but I knew if this article actually convinced anyone of its validity it would be a waste of time anyway, but since you asked I’ll take each point one at a time because I see no value in wasting hours trying to convince someone who clearly has very little ability to not see the weakness of the arguments made in the article. So here goes point 1 for now:
        [Paraphasing]” You spent the 90s telling us that character counts, now you say: but we don’t vote for a national pastor.”

        First, like all of the 10 points, this writer assumes to know the collective voice of all those who supported Trump. It takes a lot of huztpah to claim that you can capture the voice of all 63 million voters who voted for Trump in a simple 10-point little article. This carries about as much weight as a Seventeen Magazine article on “10 Signs Your Boyfriend May Be Cheating on You.”

        Secondly, I’ll answer for myself as I’m not arrogant enough to believe I can answer for 63 million other voters. 1) I have never said when I voted that I’m looking for a national pastor, I’m looking for someone who I believe can handle all the duties and responsibilities that are expected of the President of the United States. While one might assume that a pastor (and this article doesn’t make any distinction of denomination or religious affiliation) is better suited morally to be President, I don’t think that alone makes him suitable to be the President. There are many other skills and attributes that the President needs that we can’t simply say that a pastor would be more suitable to be president without knowing what other skill and expertise he possesses to discharge all the duties of a U.S. President.

        Third (since at least one point made comparison to President Barrack Obama), I would also say that I find it short sighted that this article and so many others that have raged against Trump never criticized Obama for such obvious character failings as voting for infanticide, which he did as a member of the Senate, or his attacks on religious groups, such as Hobby Lobby, who felt they were obligated by their religious beliefs to not follow some of the dictates of Obamacare when it came to funding abortion as a woman’s right to “reproductive care”. Trump, without question, has demonstrated much more support for Christianity’s rightful repulson against actions that do not protect the sanctity of life at conception and beyond than the previous president.
        I’ll continue with the rest of the points as I can get to them. I would only ask that you at least make thoughtful consideration of the points. In the meantime have a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.

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      3. Next points. As point 2 is pretty much the same as point one, I addressed this in my previous comment. Point 3: “Your church spends one month a year celebrating the story of refugee family who fled their violent homeland and secretly crossed the border to safety, only to return home years later where their son became another unarmed person of color killed by the state’s violent security forces because they “felt threatened.”

        This is flat lie about biblical truth and history. Jesus was not an immigrant. When Joseph moved his family to Bethlehem he was following the dictates of his government regarding a national census. Therefore he was a citizen, not an immigrant. Later when they moved to Nazareth they were again not immigrants as Nazareth was part of the Roman Empire.

        It is worse than sad when someone distorts history and biblical truth to make a point about a modern day issue; it is shameful. If you want to make a point about immigration to the U.S., make it without dragging it through biblical misinterpretation to give it the fake aura of being sanctioned by God. I repeat: shameful.

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        1. When Jesus was just a few days old Joseph, following instructions from an angel, took Mary and Jesus and fled to Egypt to protect Jesus from being killed by king Herod (Matthew 2:13-16). Fortunately when they reached the Egyptian border the Egyptian authorities did NOT take Jesus from his parents and put him in a detention center.

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          1. Egypt was part of the Roman Empire at that time, thus this was not the case of foreign immigration. By the way, you should be supportive of detention centers which were put in place by the Obama administration. They are detained to investigate whether the children actually belong to the people claiming to be their parents. In many cases they are not. Sex trafficking has exploded with the increase of people illegally crossing our borders. Without the detention centers we would be, in effect, sanctioning sex trafficking.

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            1. Know your statistics… they’re have been fewer border crossings in the last several years than during the Bush administration. Only hypocrites are crying about it now.

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              1. Where in my comments did I say there are more border crossings? You brush aside the fact that sex trafficking has exploded with illegals coming into the country and make a non-point about fewer border crossings.

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          2. I seriously doubt there were any border checkpoints in those days. There was also no invasion of hoards of migrants flooding other countries without the means of taking care of themselves. In those days, people were more independent and took care of themselves and their families. Not so today, with the invasion from south of the border.

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      4. Point 4: “You want the nation to return to “biblical values”… except for all those socialist sounding biblical things like caring for the poor, welcoming the stranger, giving food.”

        These are not socialist values. They are the distorted promotional arguments by socialist ideologues. In every country where socialism has become fully adopted, the citizens don’t give to the poor, they become the poor. You have only to look at Venezuela as a modern day example.

        In less then a generation after the election of socialist Chavez, the citizens are eating out of dumpsters, abandoning their children because they can no longer feed them, and trying to get out of the country. Before the take over by socialists, Venezuela was the most prosperous country in South America.

        By the way, the U.S. and it’s private citizens has contributed more to the aid of other people and nations than any country in history. The U.S. has had more foreigners immigrate to it than any other country in history as well.

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        1. Not sure if you noticed, but Venezuela is ONE country out of hundreds. So, what percent is that? This is a poor argument…

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          1. Stating that Venezuela is one out of hundreds and then attaching a percent is not even statistically valid, unless you provide a number of those 100’s you refer to that have succeeded. Name one. And don’t use Denmark (a market economy) or Norway or Sweden which have reversed their socialist trends after recognizing the failure of their welfare states.

            Besides Venezuela in recent times you can add Greece and Spain.Within the past century alone you have failed states who are among the worst in history for human rights abuses (China, U.S.S.R. Cuba, East Germany, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Bulgaria, Croatia, Angola, Guyana, Cyprus, Nepal, Romania, the Ukraine, to name but a few of many – and you can add National Socialist, i.e. Nazi Germany to the list as well)

            Socialism must always lead to an extreme concentration of power in the hands of the state, and anyone with a scintilla of common sense knows that as power becomes more concentrated and absolute it corrupts absolutely.

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            1. Yes, but people like you like to tout Venezuela to keep from having universal healthcare and parental leave. Nobody I know wants full socialism. We want policies that benefit the poor and middle classes. And literally every other developed country has them aside from us and one other, including the ones you mentioned like Demark, Norway, and Sweden, which, BTW, happen to have happier populations than we do here. Also, the UK, Canada, Germany, France….

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              1. How do know what my views are to group me into “people like you.” I’m not against universal healthcare, but how it is controlled and administrated and financed is the all important question. The details are important. Government will use nice sounding names (“affordable health care”; “universal health care”) to fool people into thinking they don’t need to look into the details.

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              2. We have policies for the poor and middle class. It is called pre-school, school and hard work. In America, many people grew up in one room school houses and found a way to make the American Dream happen. The US doesn’t limit what people can achieve. The individual limits what they can achieve. As for the main arguments why some Trump supporters support Trump, 1. Freedom to achieve our God given talents, 2. Disdain for a political party that pushes laws for the slaughter of babies.

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      5. You are so brainwashed that any words spoken would be wasted breath. Better get a grip on it though, because President Trump will be around until January 2025.

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        1. lol how did that work out for you trumptard? your orange man baby lost and biden is your president lol. sanity has returned to america.

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  206. I have never claimed Trump was a Christian. Or agree with everything he does. However on the immigration issue it isn’t about them coming here, it is about doing it legally. If you feel otherwise then I suggest and encourage you to remove your security system from your home, remove your doors and windows, remove your fence around your yard and allow anyone who wills to come and go as they please. And while you are at it allow them to take everything you own and is dear to you and change it to suit the supposed thing they are fleeing from. How about it going to give them your wife, daughter, or son? Are you going to give up your money, retirement, etc…
    Here is a little background on me. I am disabled (meaning I can no longer work). I wish I could. I loved working and definitely had more money. I served my country as well. But when I became disabled (spine and PTSD) I got denied three times for disability even though I paid into the system for decades. When I finally did get my disability (after numerous lawsuits) my monthly check is well below the poverty level. Yet I am supposed to think it is ok for someone who hasn’t paid a penny into the system to get more than I ever will? How about you? Are you going to pay for me? Or are you just full of hot air?

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  207. Basically this shows up really well the selective nature of Evangelicalism’s Scripture use, and that they make things up as they go along.

    No surprise there. There is no integrity in these people at all.

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  208. . You think, “but we’re a nation of laws” somehow trumps biblical teachings on how immigrants are to be treated.. Obama treated them the same way, but you wouldn’t remember that, would you?

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  209. I am amazed (but probably shouldn’t be) at how little any of these comments have to do with the article above. Seems it’s all about getting your own personal political message across. Screaming into the wind, because YOUR view takes precedence over what you could learn from another human being. Where is the self-examination (search my heart, oh God)? Where is the desire to grow in “the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ”? Stop. Breathe. Reflect.

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    1. Thank you, this was, as you say, very instructive. It’s important to try and understand where people are coming from rather than deal in caricatures. Only by listening to them and understanding them can we address their concerns directly and hopefully persuade them.

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  212. Despite the new SCOTUS and whatever happens to Roe V Wade, we will see Evangelical Christianity collapse and it might happen very soon, unfortunately it might take all of Christianity down with it. Because these people are so loud and in front when people hear the word CHRISTIAN, they think of these assclowns. fact that they cling to Trump and are even supporting a political campaign of a Legal Brothel Owner in Nevada shows that they are in decline. It is why they are so rushing this new court nominee they know time is running out. Their base and leadership is getting older and young adults are not exactly joining up rather are leaving religion in droves. That is a sure sign of impending doom.

    The declines are slow bit the collapse is fast and sudden. Rome, USSR, Ringling Bros, Sign of the Beef Carver on Mich Ave in Dearborn MI all saw years of steady decline and then one day it all crumbled. Before the USSR collapsed we had the coup against Gorbachev as the old guard made one last gasp for power, but the youth under Yeltsin rose up and shut it down. We may see the youth shut these people down. I am seeing signs that they are active and engaged, March for our Lives and other grassroots voter drives are popping up. We say in NY Oscasio-Cortez taking out a establishment Democrat, she has BOTH parties scared.

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    1. Your analysis is self-serving and delusional. The new Justice will make it impossible for Progressives to legislate from the bench but the court will not overturn Roe as our society continues it downhill path to destruction. No one is clinging to Trump. We are just astonished at how fast he is fulfilling his campaign promises. And here is the big take away. It is the Liberal/Progressive base that is eroding in front of your eyes; #WalkAway.

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        1. Progressives are in a sheer panic. Armageddon is apparently happening again because Trump actually nominated a pearson to be on the Supreme Court. I heard this on CNN. Damn where is the nearest bomb shelter.

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      3. how fast? Let’s see. No wall paid for by mexico. No healthcare that is better than the ACA. No infrastructure plan, failure to get North Korea to do anything, still working with Russia and doin their bidding, starting pointless trade wars. A tax giveaway that helped no one but the wealthy. Bob, you are a fool.

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          1. Why not…your only spewing out Fox News huckster news…

            …and besides, did Miss Jane say anything that has no substance, don’t think so and you don’t think so either, because ya couldn’t reply with a concrete rebuttal to her facts…instead ya chose divulging into what ya think as being cute in your nonsensical remark…

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            1. You and Miss Jane share the same level of debate – grade school.
              I’ll give one chance to reply with some facts. What does “still working with Russia and doin their bidding” mean?
              If you can answer that general statement I will reply to you nonsensical comments.

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          1. Good to know you don’t dispute all the other bad stuff Trump is doing/not doing — also, have you heard of our First Amendment right to criticize our (corrupt) leaders?

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              1. oh and don’t forget how your leader trump has desperately insisted it doesn’t apply. You know, his lies about “fake news”? And applauding murderous dictators who don’t allow any dissent. Let me ask you, Bob: how does it feel to have a president who thinks Kim Jong Un is a great guy, when this dictator murders his own people, and doesn’t allow your religion in his land? For all of the claims of persecution of Christians, it’s great to see so many Christians have no problem with Trump applauding such people.

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              1. No, he hasn’t. No wall paid for by mexico. No super great healthcare to replace the ACA. No infrastructure plan. No help for miners. A trade war with the rest of the world that will bankrupt farmers. He has seperated familes with no idea on how to reunite them. He has lied about NATO and lied about him being the reaosn that they pay more (that was Obama’s deal still playing out). He has encouraged vermin like wannabee Nazis and Confederates and other bigots to come out from under their rocks. For a country that fought against Nazis, to have a presidentn who says they are “fine people” is disgusting. but I know you don’t have a problem with it at all, Bob. More is the pity.

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              2. Like the promise to build the wall and make Mexico pay for it? at least he’s keeping his promise to Make Russia Great Again …

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                1. Sorry you are unable to communicate.Your comment about the Wall is premature and duplicitous. One one hand you root for him to fail and on the other you criticize him for not going fast enough.
                  What is the point of your Russia comment besides invective?

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                  1. I’m guessing the 53% of Americans who today disapprove of Trump (and the majority who voted against him in the 2016 popular vote) have similar complaints — I’m not rooting for him to fail (the wall is a good idea), Trump is doing a great job of failing all by himself — as for Russia, his bias on Putin’s behalf (and against our allies) is a matter of almost daily public record …

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                    1. Trump’s approval rating has been climbing despite historic opposition from all parties. His rating is above Obamas at the same point. The popular vote does not elect Presidents in our system. Thank God that Hillary did not get elected.
                      Trumps accomplishments in the economy and foreign policy are already legendary and now a second Supreme Court appointment.

                    2. Hi Bob — I didn’t vote for Hillary either … I’m assuming you’re a Christian, so how do you justify Trump’s moral unfitness to be President?

          2. If I may, might I sit in for Miss Jane…Praising Putin and Russia on every turn he gets while mocking and criticizing time honored American allies, Trump is a blessing to Putin in creating rifts and fissures between Putin’s perceived foes.

            Russia is the one country that has arguably benefited the most from the Trump administration’s insistence that other countries (including America’s Western allies) reduce their petroleum imports from Iran to zero or face U.S. sanctions.

            By going through America to China to protect himself from current and potential U.S. sanctions against Russia, Russian, Alexander Voloshin, who headed Putin’s presidential administration, was able to secretly invest in Houston based ‘American Ethane’ signed a multibillion dollar export deal with China. Trump was promoting this transaction as a ruse in stating it was ““American prosperity and trade” in deals that would generate “thousands of American jobs,” when in fact it was a front for Russian opportunists.

            When Syria used another nerve gas agent on its citizens that was OK’d by Putin, the world demanded more sanctions be added to Russia and Syria. Trump nixed efforts for the U.S. to impose anymore sanctions onto Russia.

            17 U.S. agencies insist Putin meddled in our 2017 elections, yet Trump defends and believes Putin’s denials of it over the nation’s intelligence agencies.

            Just to add…Why do ya think the entire Russian parliament stood up and cheered when it was announced Trump had won the presidency…

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              1. So what ya say…are your blinders that efficient…for a sitting president to criticize our allies, the FBI and U.S. intelligence agencies while lavishing praise on our adversary, who we know meddled in our democracy and poisoned those folk over in the U.K. with a nerve agent that only has Russian fingerprints…is of an egregious nature of unethical proportions to this nation of ours. It is not only a backstabbing affront to our allies, but is a destructive effort to divide the U.S. and destabilize our democracy. Something Putin, ever since he was in the KGB has only dreamed of doing until Trump came along…

                Tell me why Trump always insists on having one-on-one meetings with Putin, except for a Russian translator or one-on-one meetings with Russian diplomats except for Russian photojournalists…to give away more classified info like he did with Lasrov and Kisylak?

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            2. I will answer all of your comments. But you have to realize that you have provided no substance, cites, information, comment or really anything but personal opinion. You certainly had the opportunity with Voloshin.

              1. “Praising Putin and Russia on every turn he gets while mocking and criticizing time honored American allies, Trump is a blessing to Putin in creating rifts and fissures between Putin’s perceived foes.”
              This is an editorial comment based on your knowledge without any quotes, dates or sources. It is the kind of statement that no one can respond to factually.

              2. “Russia…benefited…” This is someone’s opinion without any justification provided. Who knows if this is true. But explain why trying to stop oil flowing to Iran is a bad thing?

              3. Certainly you provide us an article on Voloshin “secretly” investing in American Ethane and explain why whatever Trump said was deceptive.

              4. Certainly you can provide the details of why Trump dropped additional sanctions because of what you said.

              5. Your 17 agencies comment is interesting. First it is a lie. There were only four agencies and the other agencies acquiesced without any independent knowledge. You do not know what Trump believes in this matter either. Do you?

              6. Why don’t you ask one or tell us.

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              1. Bobby, look it up for yourself, as there are many articles covering these, just type in a few key words…for if I do it for ya, you’ll simply regurgitate ‘fake news’…

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                  1. Oh really, just as I s’posed…there are numerous articles and more on these Trumpoid topics. By the way big boy with the little britches…it was indeed 17 agencies, yeah, maybe four did the actual legwork, but all the rest concurred with the findings…what are you saying the rest of our intelligence agencies shouldn’t believe the four’s results and conclusions to their investigations.

                    Ya kinda remind me of that Beatle song, ya know, the one that goes like this, “Cry baby cry make your mother cry, you’re old enough to know better…cry baby cry…

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                    1. First article on google, Politifact changed it’s mind from 17 to 4.
                      “17 intelligence organizations or 4? Either way, Russia conclusion still valid”

                    2. It was not 17 agencies.
                      The others did not verify anything.
                      The spread to the 17 agencies was from Obama to give a wide dispersal to all the Trump conversations they unmasked.
                      Yes that is exactly what I am saying.

                      By the way Lady Jane had a complete meltdown.

                    3. Fox News and Trump has ya all wrapped up cowpunch…the Air Force Intelligence, Army Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, Coast Guard Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, Energy Department, Homeland Security Department, State Department, Treasury Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Marine Corps Intelligence, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Security Agency, Navy Intelligence and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence all agreed with the FBI, CIA, NSA and Director of National Intelligence that indeed, Russia meddled in our elections.

                      Your vainlessly trying to ‘trump’ relevance over quantity, there Bobby…simply because either way the Russian intelligence conclusion remains valid…Dan Coates even says so with a “red alert” forbearing Russia is gonna attempt it in our 2018 and 2020 elections…what has Trump done to stop it…nothing…nothing but praise for Putin even after Rosenstein forewarned Trump of the 12 Russian military intelligence officers have been indicted by a grand public jury…

          4. now, it’s great that you didn’t object to any of the failures your idiot president has done.

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            1. Idiots more fairly describe Democrat men. The funny thing is that the President is your President also and you can’t do anything about it. Maybe you can find him at a restaurant and try to harass him ?

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              1. How lame…when Obama was president where was your patriotism then…besides after today’s Finland summit meeting with Trump/Putin…ya got nothing…

                Besides Trump, the entire GOP are traitors. Even Trump’s own staff admits Trump appeared weak to Putin. It’s worthless debating with you…Trump could take a dump on your thanksgiving table and ya would still praise him…KGB Putin could take a dump on Trump’s thanksgiving table and he would still praise Putin. We’re done here with Republicanism’s facade patriotism…

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                  1. What do you call the actions of the Trump/Putin summit…do you agree and still defend Trump or not…no more of your terse evasive run arounds; so go ahead and defend Trump with your feckless mentality. Ya got the last word, because I’m done here with your blind and ignoble drooling comments…

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                    1. Based on your rousing endorsement of my previous comments all I can say is your understanding of Foreign Policy is simply non-existent. You want to criticize the President every day for everything be my guest; you are not alone. But you are wrong.

                    2. Good because I need to spend more time studying Russian. According to every Liberal pundit today President Trump is giving control of the USA to Russia….

          5. trying to destroy NATO, attacking our allies, ignoring that it invaded a sovereign nation, repeatedly saying how great Putin is. The poor little fellow has a thing for murderous dictators. Now, Bob, how is it following someone that your bible says is evil. He is an adulterer who should be stoned to death per your bible. he cheats employees which your god says is wrong, He is a self admittted sexual abuser, he claims that wannabee nazis are “fine people”, he does his best to harm the poor and the sick. He has no idea what the bible says at all. And you idiots follow him. Thanks for showing that you have no more respect for your bible than I do.

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            1. Your political comments are just Democrat talking points.
              Your biblical comments do show your lack of understanding. Stoning adulterers?
              Lack of respect for the bible is problematic. Disagreeing with what is says is different than lack of respect. A book that has more published copies than any book in history must be considered by religious and non-religious. Failure to recognize that shows your lack of judgment in these matters.

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              1. And those points are true. Your president is a failure and works with Russia. Nice to see you not be able to rebut one of them.

                Wow, one more Christian who has no idea what his bible says. Leviticus 20:10 If a man commits adultery with the wife of[a] his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death. 11 The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. 12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them. 13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. 14 If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is depravity; they shall be burned to death, both he and they, that there may be no depravity among you. 15 If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. 16 If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them. Good for you!
                It’s hilarious that you want to claim that since the bible’s been published more, it should be considered magical. How many are laying disused in hotels? How many have been bought by Christians to give out and then they are just thrown away? And it’s great to see a Christian defend an anti-christ. And since the Qu’ran or heck, Scientology have been published many many times, per your idiotic claim, they should be respected too. How silly.

                Now, I expect you’ll whine and say you don’t have to follow these laws. However, JC himself says you do, and funny how hateful people like you run to the Old Testment to back up your nonsense.

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                1. You made no points. You are not even as good as the bad pundits on CNN. “Destroy NATO” is something you would expect from a child or a Liberal on a temper tantrum. Which is it?
                  You quote Leviticus. Those are laws that governed Israel when they were ruled by a King. Lucky for you that they are not in force in this country. You can’t read either. Magical? Get some glasses.
                  So to summarize you hate Conservatives and the Bible and God; typical of many Liberals. How does this make you better than everyone else?

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                  1. Yep, I was right. You are a ignorant Christian who doesn’t remember that Jesus Christ said that his followers are to follow his fathers laws until the earth and heaven pass away. Since both are still here, you are ignoring your savior because it’s tooo inconvenient to follow his commands. And in that same set of verses is where so very many Christians get their hatred for homosexuals. So, we have Christians like you cherry picking the bible to make your god in your image. And yep, magical, Bob, because Christians claim that the bible came from their god, quite a magical being.
                    Thanks for admiting aI made a point, when you quoted me about destroying NATO. Nice to see you lying again. I wonder, do you remember your bible saying that your god hates lies and liars? Probably not, because it’s very likely you’ve never actually read your bible. You just listen to people who tell you what you want to hear. The laws from Leviticus aren’t from when Israel was ruled by a “king”. The israelites didn’t have a king until much later, but of course, Jews and Christians have no idea when the laws from Exodus and Leviticus came into being since the exodus never happened, sine no one has a date for it that isn’t contradicted by the other believers.
                    It’s a shame that you have decided to lie, Bob. Nope, I don’t hate the bible or God or conservatives. I have no problem in correcting them. I do hate that you lie and you try to hurt people. Well, Bob, I don’t choose to lie like you do and the orange idiot you support does. So, I’m at least better than you and him. And funny how you go silent when I have shown you that your god wants you to murder adulterers. How wonderfully dishonest.

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            1. The campaign this year, broadly, is to save your sorry ass. When my rights go, so do yours. Your welcome.

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  213. I recently saw a social media question that asked “What is one of the hardest lessons life has taught you?” My answer? Religion doesn’t make people better.

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    1. Religion is often a kind of magnifying glass. If extreme ugliness is present somewhere (or inside someone, character-wise), then it gets bigger and bigger when seen through that religious lens.

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  214. a very good article I am amazed at how many Christians have no problem following an anti-Christ and that all he needed to do is to promise them that all of their bigoted notions would be made law.

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      1. ah, the claims of Chrisitans who want to be martyrs and who try to make believe that not being allowed to force what they believe on others to be persecution. It’s sad that they devalue Christians who really are persecuted.

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        1. As a pastor I’m as appalled as you are at the level of white evangelical support for Trump — but I still try to keep an open mind that the motivations of some could stem from an honest (if perhaps misguided, as you suggest) concern for their religious freedom …

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            1. With many millions I’ve learned the HARD way the truth of Pascal’s dictum, “The heart has reasons of which reason knows nothing”

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              1. and it isn’t true at all. The “heart” is ignorant nonsense. All you are claimign is “different way of knowing” and funny how Christians make the same claims and completely disagree with each other. Ob, tell me how I should know that your version of Christianity is the right one and no one else is. What do you have that they don’t?

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                  1. That may be the case. You are a typical Christian in that you ignore the parts you don’t like. Again, how should I know your version of Christianity is right. You have claimed so, just like the Christians who don’t agree with you. And pointing out how your claims fail isn’t “hostility” or “insults”. It is pointing out facts. You may not like them, and I understand that. You try to use the Gould claim of seperate magisteria to keep your religion in the face of the fact that it isn’t true. And from other post, that it dosn’t matter if Jesus is real, I wonder about your position.

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                    1. [ Reposting this as it was “detected as spam” for some reason … ]

                      With respect, I bracket (but don’t ignore) the parts I don’t like not because I’m Christian but because I’m HUMAN — and being human I don’t claim to know anything more than the little piece of the Elephant of biblical truth I can see/understand for myself, always “as through a glass, darkly.” I practice docta ignorantia, a self-aware ignorance that grants me empathy with every other human being who doesn’t have the full picture of Reality either.

                      Also, I’m surprised you seem unaware that not all Christians are fundamentalists who take a literal and inerrantist view of scripture. Many millions of us progressive Christians around the world try to use our (limited!) reason to discern the Bible’s babies from its bathwater — and the attacks we suffer from some Christians for doing so are as harsh as those made by many atheists …

          2. I agree. A mere decade ago I would have probably voted for Trump while honestly thinking God wanted me too. As bizarre as it seems, and especially in light of Jesus’ teachings, I’m convinced conservative evangelicals actually think God is on their side for supporting Trump.

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              1. For me, the context hinges on the culture of Jesus’ original hearers and what is recorded in Luke 19:11, “As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately.”

                Common Jews in Jesus’ day longed to be free from oppression; oppression from the Roman Empire and oppression from religion and its burdensome rules. But their idea of the kingdom of God was tied up with OT images of God restoring Israel by defeating enemy nations by violent overthrow. And it seems Jesus toppled that way of thinking by preaching love, humility, forgiveness and compassion, even for enemies, and these characteristics were to distinguish true citizens of his kingdom from those of the world. And Jesus’ followers were to go out and proclaim this as well.

                It seems that the gospels (well, the Synoptics especially) have in view (as the background for many of the judgment passages) the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and that Jesus’ warnings were within that context. So for those desiring for God to be their ruler, to come through the tribulation which would accompany these events, they needed to do it God’s way. Those who resorted to violence and retribution, which was not the way of God, would ultimately be slaughtered (which happened) by Rome. These, the “enemies of God”, suffered a natural fate of violence. Again, Jesus’ comments were in the form of a parable so there was metaphor in all this.

                By the way, I could be wrong on this lol. As a Christian, I try to filter most everything through Jesus’ greatest commandment to love God and neighbor. But in all honesty, no one can claim absolute authority on biblical interpretation and it really irks me when anyone claims they do. Sorry for such a long response but I thought you raised a good point with the reference to Luke there.

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                1. yep, he told a parable. Now, tell me what his words of killing people who don’t accept him in front of him “really” means. There is no “natural fate”, i’s just murder. In this parable, JC is telling those who accept him should murder those who do not. You are quite correct that no one can claim absolute authority on what was meant in the bible. Doesn’t that make you wonder why the bible is claimed as the “word of god”?

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                  1. “JC is telling those who accept him should murder those who do not.”

                    That’s not what I understand his words to mean. But I guess that’s the thing. Maybe that’s why one should never argue politics or religion. But all the blogs would disappear then ; )

                    “Doesn’t that make you wonder why the bible is claimed as the “word of god”?”

                    We sure hear that a lot, that’s for sure. But man is the one who deemed it to be “the word of God.” The Bible never really defines itself in those terms though.

                    Appreciate the discussion though. Thanks

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                    1. This pastor thanks you for modelling Christian civility with a hostile critic!

              2. Let’s for the sake of argument say Jesus is just the literary embodiment of the hope for deliverance of an oppressed people — progressive Christians keep the ethical baby and throw out the dogmatic bath water …

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                1. so, do you believe that Jesus Christ, who isn’t a Nazarene, if you look at the gospels, isn’t a real being? This entity, literal or figurative, said that it came to divide families, and that one should murder people who don’tn believe in it. This entity said to obey its father’s laws, which said to murder homosexuals, to murder people who work on the sabbath (somethign that Christians can’t agree on), to is supposed to come and murder everyoen who doesn’t agree with it in Revelation. It seems you’ve created a messiah and a god in your image, far better than that in the bible. I don’t need to believe in something that says genocide is fine and murdering people who don’t agree with me is fine. Do you want to believe in such a being?

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                  1. With respect, It doesn’t matter if Jesus is “real” or not — progressive Christians ask (with the holy martyr Bonhoeffer), “Who is Jesus for us TODAY?” — and we firmly bracket the genocidal God of the Old Testament as being created in OUR violent image …

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                    1. That’s…. hmmm… interesting to hear a Christian claim that it doesn’t matter if his savior exists. Really? For that makes teh bible essentially worthless, if we are only going to be decent human beings. No god is required for anything then. You’ve made your Jesus in your image and have decided that the bible, which your supposed savior agreed with at least in the “laws of his father” is to be ignored. If this entity was a Jew, then he believed in the murder of people who did all sorts of things. He picked and chose just like Christians now.

                    2. Human beings are always making God/Jesus in their own image, for their own convenience — I don’t mind confessing I do it too, and it’s one of the strongest temptations any Christian faces …

                      Would you mind if we changed subjects and talked about the vastly greater domain of things that you and I may have in common? I engage atheists often, not to win them over to my position but to discover that we very often share a humanitarian ethic/agenda, and could work together to make the world a better place for all of us to share if we could somehow overcome our tendency to attack or demonize those who seem so different from us …

                    3. It doesn’t surprise me that you want to change the subject from your religion being nothing more than a human construct. We may indeed have a lot in common, but I don’t find that it is a good or noble thing to spread nonsense like Christians do. I find it deceitful. How do you think that making false claims as if they are true makes the world a better place? I can work with you but I will not let false claims stand, eve if you think there may be a benefit to them. I don’t like when someone thinks that they can take away people’s right to make an informed decision. I do have a question for you: do you speak out against other Christians when they don’t share the humanitarian ethic we do? In so many cases, I find that Christians won’t confront each other publically because they know that if they admit that part of them are wrong, then they will show that there is really no reason to believe in any of them. I find a lot of Christians tacitly accept the actions of other Christians because of this.

                    4. I’m (further) surprised you haven’t heard of post-modernism, our reigning cultural paradigm, whose mantra is “Your truth is not my truth” — there is no univocal Truth (metaphysical that is, not scientific) we can all agree on, just those parts of the Elephant we find convenient?

                    5. Post modernism is solipsistic nonsense for some people who want to pretend that they know some magic secret to the universe. If this is the truth, then no one should be harmed by putting their bare hand in molten steel. I’d be happy to watch while you did that and hear you claim that we have our own “truth” while your hand incinerates.
                      Now, how do you think that lying to people makes the world a better place?

                    6. Of course we’re talking about metaphysical truth, not hard science — they’re the truths we have debates about, like the validity of religion as a way of understanding a dimension of human consciousness that cannot be reduced to your random materialist account. For example, we can have different opinions about whether it’s really a good thing to remove your hand from the molten steel — why bother saving yourself in your account? why is ANYTHING worth doing over something else? why is the world worth making a better place? There’s also the psychological aspect of religious faith, lauded by an atheist in this recent NY Times article:
                      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opinion/why-we-need-religion.html

          3. If it were an honest concern, then it could be allayed by the truth.

            The truth is that “prayer in schools” is about school led/endorsed prayer, not students making the individual choice to pray. The truth is that people are allowed to say “merry Christmas”, and some businesses use a more inclusive greeting because they want more people to shop there.

            The truth is that, were this an honest concern, their concerns would have laid at rest many years ago. But, as a means of feeling like martyrs or feeling brave and believing whatever they need to believe in order for their side to win, they don’t need to worry about what’s true.

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    2. I think even the most liberal Democrats would trade the corrupt Trump for the ‘Boy Scout’ Reagan in a heartbeat — he seemed to at least have a high moral character, whether one agreed with his policies or not …

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      1. His moral character was certainly in line with Evangelicals: dog whistles to racists, our first divorced president (correct me if I’m wrong) which is only okay for Republicans. FWIW, he signed abortion into law as governor of California several years before it became a hot button issue.

        But to your point, he behaved professionally and with decorum and that is something I dearly miss.

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        1. Yes thanks, that was exactly my point! — we didn’t have to keep the children out of the room when Reagan was on TV. As for his divorce, this pastor believes God’s grace is available to ALL who are open to it by their faith — but good for you for still believing the things Jesus actually talked about (compared to evangelicals who hate gays but now ignore divorce and adultery) …

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          1. Your children see much worse every day and in every way on the Internet. I don’t know many evangelicals but the ones I know don’t hate gays. They hate the judicial system that decided to give their marriage legitimacy. But does God accept these marriages?

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            1. “They hate the judicial system that decided to give their marriage legitimacy. But does God accept these marriages?”

              Why? What’s it to the evangelicals? And whether God accepts it, well that’s between the marriage partners and God. I would take offense if someone were to question whether God accepted my marriage to my wife. If people hate the judicial system for legalizing SSM, then the claim that evangelicals hate gays has some validity. It’s not about the Bible, but about bigotry. If it was about the Bible, then evangelicals would hate the judicial system for not prohibiting marriages between the previously divorced.

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              1. Changing the definition of marriage is a big deal. It is not about hate. Bigotry is just a term to make it personal and seem mean. Hardly what happened.

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                1. You sidestepped the salient point…. “If it was about the Bible, then evangelicals would hate the judicial system for not prohibiting marriages between the previously divorced.”

                  Is adultery not a “big deal?” I seem to recall it being one of the Top 10. It IS about bigotry, prejudice, and ignorance, and yes… sometimes hate. Whether one is willing to accept it for what it is, or not, is beside the point. .

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                  1. Your reply is illogical. What salient point. You support Ron’s statement without understanding it.
                    Adultery compared to abortion is not a big deal. Adultery affects two people maybe ten; abortion could be responsible for thousands of potential beings never born.

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                    1. Are you sure God calculates harm from our sins the way you do, Bob? SHAME ON YOU for damaging Christian witness with your ridiculous comments like, “Adultery compared to abortion is not a big deal”

                    2. Christian witness? Where? At an abortion clinic with your associates from Planned Parnthood who have decimated a whole race of people?

                    3. And Bob lies again. It’s great to see such a sad racist try to make crocodile tears about the people he hates.

                    4. That’s a cheap shot, Bob — it happens that I’m staunchly pro-life. SHAME ON YOU.

                    6. This is Bob. Bob has claimed that his god is not against adultery and lied about his bible. Bob forgets that his bible says that killing children is fine, and trying to poison a woman if her husband is jealous is fine too. But he probably doesn’t know that those things are in the bible too. The bible says nothing about abortion, right or wrong. However, it does say that homosexuals should be killed, as well as people who work on the sabbath. Bob picks and chooses what he wants to follow.

                    7. I’ll take one more crack at your Teflon Bob, and then I’m done. Let’s use your “reasoning” — you said a single adultery/divorce only hurts at most 10 people but abortion hurts millions. But adultery or divorce happens to thousands of families every day, adding up to millions hurt a year — do you see where I’m going with this?

                      Now of course you’ll respond that adultery isn’t murder and that’s true. But according to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, our thoughts can be as murderous as our actions — that’s God’s standard of sin, designed in part to counter our natural tendency to excuse OUR sins but not those of others. If you have a problem with that, take it up with Him please! God’s peace to you.

                    8. No. Adultery is completely contained in individual conduct. It does not have to happen. The individual decides whether or not to participate. Abortion is the active participation of the individual and the corrupt medical practitioner to engage in forcible terminating a life that God created. See where I am going?

                    9. Wrong… I understand it very clearly and it makes perfect sense to anyone not in that river in Egypt.

                      “Adultery affects two people maybe ten” ??? say what? You are beginning to sound like your hero i.e. “I have no organ”. Besides I thought we were talking about SSM not abortion. Please Bob just stay on the canvas, there’s no way you will be able to save face here. Fight another day.

                2. Except the the definition of marriage has changed considerably over the past few thousand years. Consider:

                  – Marriage is considered to be a contract between the participants now, not the participant’s families
                  – Children are no longer seen as acceptable marriage prospects (note that the Bible gives no age for when marriages can occur)
                  – Most jurisdictions across the world outlaw plural marriages (which would have landed David, Abraham, Jacob and all the other polygamous men of the Bible in hot water)
                  – Men are no longer expected to impregnate their sisters-in-law if their brother dies without a male heir, a concept called “levirate marriage” and discussed in Deuteronomy 25:5-10
                  – Wives are no longer considered the property of their husbands. On a related note, husbands are no longer legally permitted to assault or rape their wives.
                  – People of different ethnicities are permitted to marry, in spite of religious conservatives’ insistence that that Bible forbade such unions
                  – Love is considered a factor in marriage now. Love plays little role in Biblical marriages. The only case I know of in the entire Bible where married partners were explicitly said to lone one another is Rachel and Jacob (Leah being pretty left out in the cold.)

                  In short, the suggestion that the concept of marriage is immutable is not sustained by the facts. Marriage has changed over the years, a lot, and ALWAYS for the better.

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                  1. Your argument misses the point over and over. God’s definition has not changed; man’s definition has. The validity and acceptance you seek from God to remove the stigma of SSM you won’t get.

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                    1. Your god said that no one should get divorced, unless there is evidence of adultery by the woman. Why do Christians like you get divorced? Why does Bob pick and choose?

                    2. Actually it is you who is missing the point. As I noted, I recall well when the defenders of anti-miscegenation laws cited the Bible in defense of their views. I have heard Mormon fundamentalists cite the Bible in defense of polygamy. And I have heard men try to defend the abuse of their wives by saying the Bible says they are the masters of their home.

                      I expect that you will respond by saying that all those people are misinterpreting the Bible while your understanding of it is spot on. Guess what: they would say the exact same thing, and history bears them out. The fact is that it was society which decided that anti-miscegenation laws, polygamy and wife-beating are wrong. People like you side with society out of expedience.

                      And given historical precedent, we have EVERY reason to assume that the same will happen with same sex marriage.

                    3. I am not just citing the bible I am stating that marriage only exists because God created it and explained to man in detail.
                      the bible is not just defending marriage it reveals the Creator and His purpose.

                    5. Well why don’t you tell us where Marriage came from if not from God. Who exactly detailed the concept? When was it invented and why? You can’t even begin to answer these questions.

                    6. Bob, you have a far higher tolerance for abuse and arrogance than I do. A dog can always whip a skunk….usually it just ain’t worth it.

                    8. Bob is ignorant of history. There has been marriage far longer than his religion. So, Bob, since marriage has been around longer than your religion, it seems that you are lying again. Ancient Egypt had marriage, the ancient Chinese had marriage. The greeks and Romans had marriage. The ancient israelites were polygamous. You are a failure, depending on fear and ignorance.

                    9. Let’s see some proof of that ridiculous statement, There has been marriage far longer than his religion, please.
                      As far as being a failure I would look at what you write. It’s nonsense. You have no support or offer of proof for any of those statements. The fear and ignorance comment isn’t even related to the topic.

                    10. Where do all legal and social contracts come from? From we the people. I have long since answered why this is: to secure inheritance for one’s offspring and to secure alliances between families. The basis of marriage is, and has always been, social, economic and political. Religion is a late comer to the process.

                    11. ” God created it and explained to man in detail.”

                      Ok so when did God explain this to say – the Australian Aborigines?

                    12. “Ok so when did God explain this to say – the Australian Aborigines”

                      Through the KJV Bible at the beginning of time. Gosh Bones, you don’t know jack about history ?

                  3. Your points do not show that marriage between a man and a woman has changed over time at all. It shows certain cultures added things to the marriage not who was to be married to each other.

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                    1. “Your points do not show that marriage between a man and a woman has
                      changed over time at all.”
                      – I never said it did. I was pointing out that marriage, like all social institutions, does change over time. The popular conservative assertion that marriage has remained unchanged since its inception is demonstrably false.

                      “It shows certain cultures added things to the
                      marriage not who was to be married to each other.”
                      – Read what I wrote again and see how wrong you are. Marriage partners are no longer chosen for a person. Marriages between people of different ethnicities are no longer outlawed (I recall when that was a huge controversy, especially among Southern fundamentalists). Women whose husbands die without producing an heir are no longer required to have one with their brother-in-law, in spite of that the Bible requires. Age is now a consideration with marriage.

                      Almost everything I wrote has to do with who may be married to whom.

                    2. Not so David. “Except the the definition of marriage has changed considerably over the past few thousand years.” Not God’s definition only mans. The problem is man wants to commit God to his definition but it doesn’t work that way.

                    3. Again, according to the Apostle Paul marriage i a concession to weakness. As there appears to be no Christian denomination which preaches this, despite its Biblical grounding, it is clear that expediency, not Biblical adherence, is the principle at work here.

                    4. Hardly. Paul said it is better to get married than burn with passion. You misinterpret again and put words in Paul’s statement that he did not say.

                    5. “But I speak this by indulgence, not by commandment. For I would that all men were even as myself: but every one hath his proper gift from God; one after this manner, and another after that.”
                      I Corinthians 7:6-7 (DRA)

                      Clearly, the literal text supports my point: that Paul supported marriage only as a concession to weakness. But, again, it seems that the literal reading of the text is only to be considered when it agrees with The Party’s platform, which is dominated by expediency.

                    6. Your ability to understand the bible is limited. It is apparent each time you quote a verse. As I told you a while ago you missed the Jewish bible school training and it sure shows. For example, if you notice on Ben’s blogs, many people quote Paul to condemn homosexuality. Then several people chime in and argue that this is not correct for a variety of reasons. You are quoting a verse or two from Paul and expect us to believe that Paul considered marriage a concession to weakness. Let’s see if your supporters will agree with you and your new found understanding of marriage.

                3. So if it’s not about hate, and it’s not about the Bible, and it’s not about bigotry, then just what is it about then?

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                  1. Of course it is about the bible. For 3000 years the definition of marriage was one man and one woman.
                    Then 3000 years later a few Judges decided they knew better and change the definition to suit.
                    Where do you think the definition of marriage came from without the bible?

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                    1. Lol, well a couple things. We best not use the bible’s “definition of marriage” as a template for contemporary society. There were some very odd arrangements in the scriptures. But aside from that, explain to me, if it’s truly about the Bible, why then are conservative evangelicals not hating on the judicial system for allowing previously divorced couples, guilty of adultery, to remarry? You know that reeks of hypocrisy right? And everybody (well apparently not the conservative evangelicals) can see right through this.

                    2. That is the problem people have had since the beginning; forget the bible it has to be my way. Without the bible there would be no marriage because no one would know what the word meant.
                      Simple, the judicial system governs a lawful society but is not the enforcement mechanism of Christianity. Why in the world would Christians want the government to regulate marriage; the Catholic Church already does that.

                    3. “Without the bible there would be no marriage because no one would know what the word meant.”

                      – Bob, that might be the most ridiculous thing you have ever said, and that is saying something. Marriage has existed in numerous cultures that had never even heard of the Bible. Numerous ancient pagan cultures recognized marriage. Even the Bible recognizes that non-biblical societies recognized marriage. Note the Pharaoh’s reaction to discovering that Sarah was Abraham’s wife after Abraham concealed that fact.

                      Marriage has, historically, had several purposes. It existed so that men could be secure of the identity of their wives’ offspring for inheritance purposes. It also existed to secure alliances between families. Across time and societies we see that marriage has served economic, social and political roles. Marriage as a religious sacrament is, relatively speaking, a new and obscure idea. Indeed, the Apostle Paul states that it is good for men not to marry, celibacy being preferable in his eyes. He permits it only as a concession to human weakness (I Corinthians chapter 7.)

                      The debate in American society has been over marriage as a legal institution. Churches are not required to recognize or perform same-sex marriages. By the same token, the case against same sex marriages requires legal arguments, and “but the Bible says…” is not a legal argument.

                    4. Marriage only existed in cultures because they knew about marriage from God. The “bible” was not available until later but the word of God was always available – until certain cultures disregarded it. And where do you think the pagan cultures, like Egypt learned about marriage in the first place?. You might note that the Egyptians consulted the Israelites after the earth was moved out of its orbit because they did not know how to correct the calendar, etc. They had commuication – even if not the same beliefs.

                      Your understanding of Paul is weak also. Marriage exists primarily to populate the species about 15 billion more or less by now. The rest is just peripheral.

                      Same sex marriage advocates wanted the ability to marry to avoid the stigma surrounding them. It also became necessary to do something about healthcare privacy and social benefits. No same sex marriage would be recognized in general with the ruling.

                    5. “You might note that the Egyptians consulted the Israelites after the earth was moved out of its orbit because they did not know how to correct the calendar”

                      Wait, what?!

                    6. “That is the problem people have had since the beginning; forget the Bible it has to be my way.”

                      Well, that’s not really the issue here. The point being made is how conservative evangelicals cherry-pick scripture to suit their own prejudices. Like, we’re against SSM because we find no record of it in the Bible and so hate the judicial system for legalizing it. But, even though the Bible speaks against divorce and remarriage in certain circumstances, we have no problems with the judicial system for legalizing that one cause society accepts it and our churches are full of those couples.

                      “Simple, the judicial system governs a lawful society but is not the enforcement mechanism of Christianity. “

                      Wait, so first you insist it really is about the Bible with respect to hating the judicial system for legalizing SSM. Now you’re saying that the govt “is not the enforcement mechanism of Christianity.” So which is it?

                    7. Of course it is. The word of God has been available to mankind from the beginning printed or not. The concept of marriage being between a man and a woman is from God. This issue is much broader than Evangelicals as all of Christianity knows that marriage is between a man and a woman – so several billion give or take. And it had been that way since man was put on earth.

                      Who do you know that doesn’t cherry pick scriptures to suit? No one. I did not suggest any such thing. You are not interpreting correctly.

                    8. “This issue is much broader than Evangelicals as all of Christianity knows that marriage is between a man and a woman.”

                      Well, not “all of Christianity” since there are Christians in a same sex marriage. But regardless, an entrenched view held over centuries literally has no bearing on whether or not God himself accepts one’s marriage. Unless you presume to think organized Christianity always speaks for God. Do you think Christians we’re speaking for God over centuries of condoning the enslavement of others?

                      “And it (‘marriage is between a man and a woman) had been that way since man was put on earth.”

                      No it hasn’t. The OT is full of polygamous marriages even among the patriarchs. And nowhere do we find a record of God condemning it. The point is that one absolutely positively cannot find a template in the Bible governing marriage to be singularly defined no matter how much you want it to be that way.

                      “Who do you know that doesn’t cherry pick scriptures to suit?”

                      The problem is not when one does such a thing, but rather when one does it with a presumed authority. I have no problem when someone says, well I believe the Bible says such and such, but I realize other passages would call my view into question. Unfortunately, what we often get is, well the Bible says such and such and that settles it because God said it (while pretending the other passages calling such a view into question somehow don’t count).

            2. So just because kids see bad stuff on the internet that excuses the vileness that Trump exposes them to?!? and you should leave God out of it, given Trump’s track record of adultery, paying off porn stars, owning casinos with strip clubs, bragging about groping women, cheating contractors, etc etc …

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              1. Trump is not vile. He is an American businessman who loves his country; unlike you who are disgusted by your country. Trump’s personal conduct is none of your business any more than someone who is sitting next to you in church. You list his “sins” as if you are his confessor; you are not. Because he decided to run for office his opponents proffered all this garbage and present it like it is fact. You believe it because Trump is not a Progressive/Liberal and you hate the fact that the Great Criminal, Hillary Clinton, did not win. That’s all there is to your argument. It is little more than a childish tantrum disguised as a biblical affront.

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                1. Bob, you’re obviously not even reading my responses to you (e.g., I didn’t vote for Hillary). My country doesn’t disgust me, just the elected leaders who undermine and betray its values. Were you equally respectful of Bill Clinton’s “privacy” when he was president? Because I wasn’t, and thought he should have resigned or been removed from office — his amorality was just as destructive to our country as Trump’s. SHAME ON YOU.

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                  1. Of course I read your responses. I have responded to you ad nauseam.
                    Your idea of when a President should resign or be removed is not what our laws say.
                    Destructive to our country is removing God from all public places, allowing abortion to be used as birth control and ruling SSM to be called a marriage. Shame on you for not speaking up on this site about that.

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                2. “Trump’s personal conduct is none of your business any more than someone who is sitting next to you in church“

                  This coming from the guy who thinks the govt should interfere in the private lives of gay folks by prohibiting them from marrying lol.

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                  1. Your thinking is becoming clouded on this issue. The government is the vehicle that allowed SS couples to “marry.” My point is that the designation ” marriage” is inappropriate for SS couples.

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                    1. Why should you care? That’s their own private life. Just like Trump’s is nobody’s business right?

                    3. You’ll pardon me for not buying the God bit. It seems like you believe that God wants you to continuously look the other way when it comes to Trump and his sexual indiscretions, while simultaneously decrying as immoral the actions of a same sex monogamous relationship between two people who love and are committed to one another. So to you, God apparently is all about accepting wealthy, straight, GOP white males who like to sleep around (providing it’s the opposite sex of course), but not about accepting LGBT folks in a committed monogamous SSM.

                    4. Sorry. The LGBT is no more loving and committed than any other marriage – and that record is piss poor.
                      Why do you focus on Trump other than irrational hatred of the current President. What responsibility do you or I have for his personal life. He has a big job to do and he inherited another large mess left by Obama and his Utopian visions of
                      the world. Let him do the job; critique his performance but let this petty, unrelenting personal attack go.

                    5. “The LGBT is no more loving and committed than any other marriage – and that record is piss poor.”

                      How can you SO miss the point here? The issue is not that all SSM are committed and monogamous. No one claims that. The point is why you would deny the opportunity to those that ARE, while simultaneously looking the other way with respect to Trump’s infidelity.

                      “Why do you focus on Trump other than irrational hatred of the current President.”

                      Since when does calling out illogical biblical standards over how you view SSM vs how you look the other way on Trump translate to me hating Trump? I’m not unrelentingly attacking him. I’m just unrelentingly pointing out your inconsistencies.

  216. All of you Democrats/liberals are uninformed dolts. Informed people know communist vote Democrat, socialist vote Democrat, Islamist vote Democrat, Abortionist (baby killers) vote Democrat, America haters vote Democrat. LGBT & Pedophiles vote Democrat. Prisoners vote Democrat, illegals vote Democrat, Drug runners vote Democrat, Human traffickers vote Democrat, Muslim refugees vote Democrat, Muslim terrorist in America vote Democrat, welfare recipients vote Democrat. non-workers vote Democrat, atheist vote Democrat, and the “dead” vote Democrat. Therefore, Democrats = evil and what’s wrong in America. That leaves hardworking Patriots and Judeo-Christians who voted for President Trump. We won the election by a land slide so accept it. We had to accept and bare Muslim Obama’s treason against us and America for 8 years. Don’t start crying, Snowflakes because you can’t comprehend the truth.

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    1. Much of what you say is sadly true.

      Obama was not a Muslim as far as I can see but he was a massive Islamic sympathiser a bit like Corbyn in the UK.

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          1. Lol trump announces $ 110 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

            Some of those missilles blowing up yemeni kids are US.

            Thats not data.

            Its from Trump himself.

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        1. Yes Trump loves money too much he should as all countries should cut ties with Saudi Arabia and other evil Islamic nations agreed!

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          1. Not only has he not cut ties with Saudi Arabia he’s financing their bombing of Yemen.

            Trump is actually a bigger supporter of Muslims than Obama was.

            Once again your lies are found out.

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            1. What lies? Why do you post slanders and attacks against me? I am trying to be reasonable and even agreed with much of what you say.

              Trump calls Muslim terrorists out and is not politically correct about it which is great.

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              1. Trump gave the terrorists $110 billion in weapons.

                And you accuse obama of being a muslim.

                You’re a f###ing idiot.

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    4. I can begin to see why you are a Trump supporter. He is unhinged and you are. He plays fast and loose with facts, so do you. He slanders, so do you. He traffics in conspiracy theories, ditto. I will repeat what I said before, you deflect. You do not answer the accusations or even offer support for your bolstering up of a tyrannical, misogynist, racist president. When threatened, he lashes out blindly, so do you. You prove the general observation that the overwhelming white evangelical support for an evil man, was about xenophobia and the eroding of white privilege in America. It is racism in the guise of religion. The continued vitriol leveled at our first Black American president by white evangelicals is so telling. Burned any crosses lately?

      150 years have passed since the American Civil War and the blinding hatred of some white Christians is still present. A hatred that sought the enslavement of blacks, and murdered any non-whites that stood up to their bigotry. Lest we forget, the Baptists split in two over the “right” to own other humans based on the color of their skin. We cannot forget the evils perpetrated by “good” white Christians in the Deep South, the lynchings, firebombings and denials of basic human rights to non-whites there. The continued misogyny within the S. Baptist church. You are a deeply disturbed individual, in denial of your own bigotry and racist tendencies. Sadly, you are not alone, or unusual amongst Trump supporters claiming religion but denying the power thereof. I pity you in your delusion.

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      1. “… in denial of your own bigotry and racist tendencies.”

        You may be giving sandi too much credit there Kirk. He might proudly admit it.

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  217. The old Democratic Party logo. as it had existed for decades:


    Note that the donkey, while technically a beast, is mentioned several times in scripture as being present at or even participating in powerful miraculous and holy events, such as Balaam’s donkey talking to him to warn him about the angel he couldn’t see, the pregnant Mary riding a donkey from Nazareth to Bethlehem to give birth to the Savior, and 3⅓ decades later said Savior riding a donkey colt in triumph through the gates of Jerusalem and being greeted with Hosanahs and palm leaves, on His way to give His life for sin.

    Note also the four stars: all five-pointed, and all right-side up, like the ones on the U.S. flag, but also like the ones representing the Star of David on many a Nativity scene and/or Christmas tree put up by faithful Christians.

    Now let’s compare the classic Republican Party logo of old:

    Still a beast, and one not mentioned in the Bible, though the description of “behemoth” in Job sounds a lot like one. Yet behemoth is traditionally considered a demonic beast!

    Note the stars: all five-pointed, but all upside-down. Where else have we seen upside-down five-pointed stars?

    Oh, yeah:

    ♫♪ Bum-ba-dum-ba-dum | diddly-iddly-do-dah ♪♫
    ♪♫ One logo’s stars are | not like the oth-ers, ♫♪
    ♫♪ One logo’s stars just | do not be-long. ♪♫
    ♪♫ Can you | tell me which stars are | not like the oth-ers, ♫♪
    ♫♪ By the | time I fin-ish this | song? ♪♫
    (Now, granted, the upside-down stars of the Satanic Temple and Church of Satan logos are inside circles, and the ones on the classic GOP logo aren’t.)

    But those are the old, classic logos. Around 2014, both major parties underwent rebranding which included changing their logos. The Democratic Party dumped their old logo entirely and came up with an all-new one, with no beast at all:

    Just a plain bold sans-serif sky-blue “D” inside a teal-blue circle, and some slab-serif logotext in teal below that, with a slogan (which I don’t think is part of the actual logo) in red below that.

    Before I show you the new Republican Party logo (which you can verify really is their current official logo by going to their GOP·com website, calling up the Press Releases section from the footer menu, and viewing the Press Release of your choice — any of them will display the current official GOP logo right up top, nice and big), do know that many people noticed this thing about the stars being upside-down and their Satanic implications years ago, and the GOP was aware of this. Since, like the Democrats, the GOP was doing a rebranding including a new logo, they had a golden opportunity to correct this and get rid of the Satanic-seeming upside-down stars.

    So what did they do with this opportunity? They doubled down on the Satanic imagery. First, let’s read from Revelation Chapter 17:3 (KJV):

    “… I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names [or symbols?] of blasphemy,…”

    And now, the current official Republican Party logo (I’m getting this right from their site, from a Press Release page):

    Behold, a literal scarlet-coloured beast!!

    Stars still upside-down. And remember how I said that the stars weren’t inside a circle in the classic logo? They are now! Granted, it’s one circle enclosing the whole logo, but still, the stars are inside a circle, and they weren’t before. Gone is the blue, replaced by red, and not just any red, but a noticeably brighter shade of red than the U.S. flag-like red of before. There’s a word for that shade of red: scarlet!

    Also, the GOP is allied with the Alt-Right, which speaks all manner of unclean things that the right-wing politicians and Dominionist preachers themselves wouldn’t publicly say. Wait, that sounds familiar:

    And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

    — Revelation 16:3 (KJV)

    And who is the chosen mascot of the Alt-Right? Pepé the Frog!!

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  218. For those that think socialism is a 4 letter word, think about our roads, police, fire, schools, military, government, post office, Medicaid, etc…we all pay taxes, and the government turns around and decides what to pay for in regards to everything I listed. I don’t complain about the semis that use the roads way more than I do, or that the national guard will be sent in to help people displaced by hurricanes, or that the neighbors have called the police multiple times, or the fire dept raced to put out a fire. The government is here to do a job for the good of the people, not to pick and choose who gets tax breaks, and who should be able to afford health care, schools, and groceries. The churches do a lot for their people but not everyone goes to church, do they? Therefore, since we all pay taxes…property, income, and sales, there should be multiple ways to spread the wealth to the people, and the government could do a much better job of taking care of all it’s people, not just the wealthy.

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  219. I’m not a Christian, but if I was, I would be struck at how similar Trump is to the description of the antichrist in the Bible.

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      3. On what grounds do you make your false accusation? On the grounds that President Obama is half Black?
        That President Obama had NO scandals? Or that President Obama shows compassion, respect and decency to others?

        C’mon TOAD … enlighten us as to your reasoning for calling President Obama the ‘antichrist’ … and I’ll show your sorry
        TЯ卐mp-Humping αss what a lying hypocrite you are.

        If you still support TЯ☭itor-TЯ卐mp after all the crimes and indecency he’s committed, then you already have the Mark of the Beast in your forehead and hand. And you put it there yourself!

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    2. I am a Christian and I admit I had trouble believing the account of the anti-Christ; how could someone come to power with the full support of the political powers and also the full support of the religious establishment, all the while seeking only to advance his own self-serving power base and committing horrible acts against innocent people?
      It seemed implausible to me that someone so loathsome could fool so many people, but the reality of Trump’s political/religious ascension seems to fit the anti-Christ account exactly.

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      1. Actually, TЯ☭itor-TЯ卐mp absolutely fits the description of the Beast. (Revelation 13).
        Some of the prophesies in this chapter have not yet been fulfilled.

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    3. I’ve *always* said this and so has my Catholic mom!
      It’s astounding how many on the right accused Obama of being the antichrist only to turn around and vote in Trump!

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    4. I came from nearly 10 years inside of Evangelicalism, and I saw the rise of RW “Spirit-Filled” Christianity as basically being Creepy Voodoo from the Pits of Hell.

      There is NO love in Evangelical Christianity.
      Just … emphasis on Obedience, and on Accepting Pastoral Horseshit, even when it’s the opposite of anything Jesus ever taught.

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  222. Heh. I hear the not a true christian line every so often. the only comeback i have is, judge not lest you be judged. Oh wait, thats the big reason i left christianity, because most christians point fingers at other christians rather than accept and acknowledge, that something about the religion makes people act the way they do.

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    1. Baloney! Christ warned us to “Beware of False Prophets and Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing”. TЯ☭itor-TЯ卐mp’s own words judge him.
      We don’t need to do any judging.

      Jesus also said: “A tree is known for its fruit” and “But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person”.
      – Matthew 15:18

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      1. Sure. Surely you can hold up when the Media, the Establishment and the opposite Party attacks everything you do and say in an unrelenting 24/7 attack on the Presidency of this country.

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