The fanatical mindset of the religious right

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Tithes of March edition:

Coronavirus: Pastor urges people to donate stimulus cheques to churches


"A Louisiana pastor has urged people to donate their coronavirus stimulus cheques to churches, amid extended stay-at-home orders.

Pastor Tony Spell, of the Life Tabernacle Church, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, posted a video to his YouTube channel, where he asked his subscribers to donate their cheques to churches and evangelists.

Mr Spell named the challenge, the #PastorSpellStimulusChallenge and told his followers that churches have been without donations for too long.

“Donate it to evangelists, North American evangelists who haven’t had an offering in a month; missionaries, who haven’t had an offering in a month; music ministers, who haven’t had an offering in a month,” he said."
MEANWHILE:

 

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Of COURSE he did:

In Call With Religious Leaders on Re-Opening Churches, Trump Sought Election Support - The Tablet

Donald Trump used a call with faith leaders last Friday, ostensibly to discuss when religious institutions might reopen to large-scale public services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, to solicit support for his bid for reelection.

The fact a call took place was made public by the White House, saying in a statement that it included Christian, Jewish, and Islamic leaders, and The Tablet has now confirmed the participation of both Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

In addition to a discussion about re-opening houses of worship, The Tablet has learned from two sources familiar with the call that the president sought praise from the faith leaders – primarily from evangelical representatives – for his leadership during the pandemic and on a range of other issues.



MEANWHILE:

HEY, know what? They've CONVINCED me, "dagnabbit."

They SHOULD be allowed to congregate in mass crowds and, like Georgia's Gov. Kemp wants, (the f---------- who STOLE the governorship from a black woman, for which Georgia will no doubt pay a HEAVY toll), get their nails done, their tattoos done, go bowling, and every OTHER lamebrained activity of CLOSE contact these rubes can CONJURE UP.

Yes, it's an illogical thing to say, because these f------------- will place everyone ELSE at risk, and will be among the first piling into emergency rooms should the shit hit the fan, but HEY... CAN'T ARGUE WITH STUPID.

F----------- 'em.

 

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Of COURSE he did:

In Call With Religious Leaders on Re-Opening Churches, Trump Sought Election Support - The Tablet

Donald Trump used a call with faith leaders last Friday, ostensibly to discuss when religious institutions might reopen to large-scale public services amid the COVID-19 pandemic, to solicit support for his bid for reelection.

The fact a call took place was made public by the White House, saying in a statement that it included Christian, Jewish, and Islamic leaders, and The Tablet has now confirmed the participation of both Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, and Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

In addition to a discussion about re-opening houses of worship, The Tablet has learned from two sources familiar with the call that the president sought praise from the faith leaders – primarily from evangelical representatives – for his leadership during the pandemic and on a range of other issues.



MEANWHILE:

HEY, know what? They've CONVINCED me, "dagnabbit."

They SHOULD be allowed to congregate in mass crowds and, like Georgia's Gov. Kemp wants, (the f---------- who STOLE the governorship from a black woman, for which Georgia will no doubt pay a HEAVY toll), get their nails done, their tattoos done, go bowling, and every OTHER lamebrained activity of CLOSE contact these rubes can CONJURE UP.

Yes, it's an illogical thing to say, because these f------------- will place everyone ELSE at risk, and will be among the first piling into emergency rooms should the shit hit the fan, but HEY... CAN'T ARGUE WITH STUPID.

F----------- 'em.



Wouldn't be the height of irony and "chickens coming home to roost" if in November, especially if Stacey Abrams is on the ticket Biden wins GA by 800 and because "ticket splitting" is so last century they also lose BOTH Senates seats that are up by lets say 1800 and 2800 speaking in at 50% plus 1 and we find that between next week and election day 3800 Trumpians/Kempians who are so hell bent on "getting back out there" as a result of the spike THEY cause DIE and are thus unable to vote.

You could say the same thing about Florida all thus OLD Trumpians in "the villages" who since that start have thought Covid-19 was either a hoax or no big deal

Go ahead idiots

DIE so you can't vote
 

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The tithes they are a-changin':
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...navirus-pandemic-pastors-church-a9481226.html
'A phantom plague': America's Bible Belt played down the pandemic and even cashed in. Now dozens of pastors are dead | The Independent

Dozens of pastors across the Bible Belt have succumbed to coronavirus after churches and televangelists played down the pandemic and actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.

As many as 30 church leaders from the nation's largest African American Pentecostal denomination have now been confirmed to have died in the outbreak, as members defied public health warnings to avoid large gatherings to prevent transmitting the virus.

Deaths across the US in areas where the Church of God in Christ has a presence have reportedly stemmed from funerals and other meetings among clergy and other church staff held during the pandemic.

The tragedy among one of the largest black Pentecostal groups follows a message of defiance from many American churches, particularly conservative Christian groups, to ignore state and local government mandates against group gatherings, with police increasingly called in to enforce the bans and hold preachers accountable.

Yet despite the climbing death toll, many US church leaders throughout the Bible Belt have not only continued to hold services but have urged worshippers to continue paying tithes — including recent stimulus checks — to support their mission.

 

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Just IN CASE anyone hasn't YET grasped the MENTALITY with which we are dealing with among Trump's zealots, just in case ANYONE has any delusions about being able to deal with them via anything even REMOTELY resembling logic, READ THIS:

'He wears the armor of God': evangelicals hail Trump's church photo op | US news | The Guardian

When [Trump] raised a Bible overhead on Monday evening outside St John’s Episcopal church in Washington DC, the sign was unmistakable: an appeal to his white evangelical base for loyalty, as protests and riots roared across America.

Not every Christian answered the call. The Rev Gini Gerbasi, an Episcopal priest, said police used teargas to drive her and others from St John’s before Trump’s appearance. “They turned holy ground into a battleground,” she told Religion News Service.

But many of Trump’s evangelical supporters, far from Washingtons political stage, saw the move as a victory in a world rife with evil.

“My whole family was flabbergasted,” said Benjamin Horbowy, 37.

The Horbowys had gathered in Tallahassee, Florida, to watch live as Trump walked from the White House to St John’s. “My mother just shouted out, ‘God give him strength! He’s doing a Jericho walk!’”

Horbowy already supported Trump politically... and is campaigning for a seat in Florida’s state senate – but when Trump lifted the Bible, Horbowy and his family felt overcome spiritually.

“My mother started crying. She comes from Pentecostal background, and she started speaking in tongues. I haven’t heard her speak in tongues in years,” he said. “I thought, look at my president! He’s establishing the Lord’s kingdom in the world.”


After watching Trump’s gesture, Horbowy changed his Facebook profile photo to one of Trump outside St John’s, with added rays of light emanating from the Bible. “It was the coolest thing he could do. What more could he do, wear blue jeans and ride in on a horse?” he said.

can u spell B-A-T-S-H-I-T C-R-A-Z-Y??


MEANWHILE:

Oops—Trump Brought the Wrong Bible to His Church Stunt – Mother Jones

Bishop Michael Curry Criticizes Donald Trump Posing with Bible Near St. John's Church

 

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From the offices of BATT CHIT AND KWAZIE:

Texas lieutenant governor: Liberal godlessness to blame for racism

Speaking after more than a week of demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, [Texas Lt. Gov. Dan] Patrick tried to pin the nation’s long and deep-rooted racial problems on people not being religious enough ― and more specifically, “the left” not accepting Jesus Christ.

Patrick said on Fox News that Floyd’s killing and the unrest breaks his heart and that it’s an issue of “loving God.”

“You cannot love your fellow man if you don’t love God,” he said. “And we have a country where we’ve been working really hard, particularly on the left, to kick God out.”


Amazing how hypocritical apologists for hate and bigotry have the audacity to speak of God and love. Where was this b---------- when Trump and Co. were spewing all their hateful, malicious rhetoric aimed at demonizing minorities and women??

The same fkr mind you, who also:

... amply demonstrated his Christian bona fides back in March when he suggested we sacrifice more grannies to get the economy moving again — presumably to keep the essential Soylent Green factories running. So we should listen to him. He’s clearly very sharp.

Goes to show what twisted, sick-f------- some of Trump's zealots REALLY ARE.

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Why not throw in cancer and AIDS? Since we're just making shit up just go for crown.

Exactly Sargon. But then that's the expediency of zealotry and bat-shit crazy ideologies. They craft their "religion" to fit whatever anti-Christ they choose to worship, make shit up on the fly to rationalize their own evil, then readily digest ALL of it.

That's why trying to reason with those types is a lost cause.They're BEYOND any rationalization.

I mean HEY, anytime they APPLAUD, SUPPORT, DEFEND, or IGNORE the kind shit that's happening now, and that WE'VE long been calling out, then you KNOW we're dealing with a bunch of sick-f------ks.

Here’s a good start at police reform: fire all 57 Buffalo cops who approve of bullying and lying...
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Texas lieutenant governor: Liberal godlessness to blame for racism

Speaking after more than a week of demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, [Texas Lt. Gov. Dan] Patrick tried to pin the nation’s long and deep-rooted racial problems on people not being religious enough ― and more specifically, “the left” not accepting Jesus Christ.

Patrick said on Fox News that Floyd’s killing and the unrest breaks his heart and that it’s an issue of “loving God.”

“You cannot love your fellow man if you don’t love God,” he said. “And we have a country where we’ve been working really hard, particularly on the left, to kick God out.”


Amazing how hypocritical apologists for hate and bigotry have the audacity to speak of God and love. Where was this b---------- when Trump and Co. were spewing all their hateful, malicious rhetoric aimed at demonizing minorities and women??

The same fkr mind you, who also:

... amply demonstrated his Christian bona fides back in March when he suggested we sacrifice more grannies to get the economy moving again — presumably to keep the essential Soylent Green factories running. So we should listen to him. He’s clearly very sharp.

Goes to show what twisted, sick-f------- some of Trump's zealots REALLY ARE.

The lieutenant governor conveniently forgets how many racist atrocities have been committed *in the name* of Jesus Christ.

Hint: The burning crosses of the KKK were not a rejection of Christianity, but a proclamation of their particular skewed brand of it.
 

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Looks like yet ANOTHER person is finally starting to figure it OUT:

OPINION: Should we call Donald Trump “antichrist”? - ABC Religion & Ethics - by D. Stephen Long

excerpts:

"Robert Jeffress, a clanging cymbal of a court minister, regularly invokes Romans 13 to give Donald Trump religious backing for his expanded Article II powers.

After Trump threatened North Korea leader Kim Jong Un with “fire and fury like the world has never seen,” Jeffress further endeared himself to Trump by publicly proclaiming that Romans 13 gives Trump the right to “take him out.” Romans 13, Jeffress said, “gives the government the authority to do whatever, whether its assassination, capital punishment, or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers.”

The irony of doing evil in order to confront evil seems completely lost on such a noisy gong.

In his poor, but politically expedient, biblical interpretation, Jeffress rejects the command in Romans 12 not to repay evil with evil.

Such selective and self-serving biblical interpretation also lets you know why he and his ilk lift no significant voice when Trump pardons convicted war criminals, calls some white supremacists “very fine people,” tells Michigan’s governor to listen to and “make a deal” with the armed white militias who stormed the statehouse, but threatens to “dominate the streets” with military force against the protests that erupted after yet another black man, George Floyd, was brutally killed by the police.

When it comes to conceding Trump authority, the manifold evangelicals and ultra-right Catholics Trump has surrounded himself with, seem to have Romans 13 always ready at hand.

If Trump follows Senator Tom Cotton’s advice and declares war on Black Lives Matter protestors, invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 in order to use the military against us, you can rest assured that Romans 13 will be used by his religious loyalists to defend the great American carnage that Trump and his allies project on their regularly announced enemies of the state.

Their misuse of Romans 13 utterly fails to guide the faithful in understanding our current political context. A more reasonable biblical word for this administration, especially after the recent incident in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church, is found in Revelation 13.

For those who are not Trumpian court ministers, the image invokes an obvious biblical symbol, and one in stark contrast to their misuse of Romans 13.

Here is the beast of Revelation 13 arising out of the sea of smoke and violence, making war on the saints and conquering them while people of violence follow the beast and chant, “Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it? MAGA, MAGA, MAGA!

The more the beast uses haughty and blasphemous words, the more authority his devoted followers give to him.

... I think it appropriate that reasonable people of faith begin to refer to Trump as antichrist. I don’t come to that conclusion lightly."

D. Stephen Long is the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University. His most recent book is Truth Telling in a Post-Truth World.

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So to revisit the op-ed above, is it not a fair response, to those Evangelicals who believe Trump is "divinely ordaned," to hold the contrary belief (and based upon WAY more solid reasons) that Trump is an anti-Christ.

For a person who doesn't know which end of The Bible is UP (correction... "A Bible") he sure as HELL likes to invoke religious symbolism to stir his bamboozled disciples, whose souls have QUITE obviously been lost to a litany of pure EVIL,

so why not reference that which is contained in Revelations? Sounds fair to ME.

Op-Ed: White evangelicals think Trump is divinely ordained. He’ll do almost anything to keep it that way

Trump's electoral college win in 2016 was fueled by white evangelical turnout and the overwhelming number of white evangelicals — 81% — who pulled the lever for him.

He cannot afford for the religious right, made up of white evangelicals along with conservative white mainline Protestants and Catholics, to let up on the rapt support they have shown throughout....

That helps explain why, in the midst of an unprecedented global pandemic and a historic uprising against racism, [Trump] and his allied power brokers on the religious right are focused not on addressing either crisis, but rather on stagecraft that will reinforce the base’s belief that Trump is ... divinely anointed... who is saving white Christian America from ruin.

Never mind that the leaders of the liberal Episcopal church itself — from the church’s rector to the bishop of the Washington diocese to the presiding bishop of the entire denomination — condemned Trump for hijacking their church for a partisan political ploy.

Once his evangelical supporters had tweeted and broadcast their praises, Trump boasted to his former press secretary Sean Spicer in an interview:

“Religious leaders loved it. Religious leaders thought it was great. They loved it.”

When Spicer asked him if... he had “grown” in his faith, Trump had no thoughts to offer on his spirituality. Instead, he said, “maybe I have from the standpoint that I’ve seen so much that I can do.
Right. SOUNDS like the kind of answer the devil himself would give, DOESN'T it??

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Inside the Cult of Trump, His Rallies Are Church and He Is the Gospel | Vanity Fair

Many followers deploy a familiar Christian-right formula for justifying abuses of power, declaring Trump a modern King David, a sinner nonetheless anointed, while others compare him to Queen Esther, destined to save Israel—or at least the evangelical imagination of it—from Iran.

Lance Wallnau, a founding member of Trump’s evangelical coalition, dubs him “God’s chaos candidate”....

In Trump’s case, divine backing is more about smiting than healing.

When Rep. Elijah Cummings died last October shortly after sparring with Trump about Baltimore,
[Jesse Lee] Peterson

[ANOTHER sorry a--- self-loathing mfkr who once said, described Nelson Mandela as an “evil man” and said that South Africa was better off under apartheid see:Jesse Lee Peterson - Wikipedia ]

declared on his radio show, “He dead”—like Trump enemies John McCain and Charles Krauthammer, Peterson noted. “That’s what happens when you mess with the Great White Hope. Don’t mess with God’s children.”


Imagine that... a black pastor exalting Donald Trump as "the Great White Hope." Because BAT-SHIT CRAZY comes in all colors.



THE FLIP SIDE:

30 evangelical leaders beg Christians to rethink their support for Trump in new book – Raw Story

A new book released this Monday is compiled of 30 essays written by evangelical leaders imploring white evangelicals to rethink their support for President Trump, The Christian Post reports.

The book, titled, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity, also warns of the damage done to how Americans perceive evangelicals as a result of their alliance with Trump’s messaging.


Evangelical writers to their fellow faithful: Donald Trump is a ‘spiritual danger’
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Like I keep saying... batshit crazy. They'd HAVE to be. Anyone who believes Trump is some "messiah" and who buys into QAnon bullshit that, for all they know, could be the ramblings of some nutjob living in mommie's basement, CAN'T be playing with a "full deck." Just SAYING.

‘Socialist propaganda’: Texas voters go ballistic after GOP chairman gets COVID and party calls for masks – Raw Story

Dept. of Hypocritical Mfkrs:

Antiabortion groups say they stand behind Trump's use of a drug tested on cells derived from an aborted fetus because the president 'was not involved with that abortion'

and just plain bonkers:

WATCH: Trump voter tells focus group that Biden may have used magic contact lenses to win debate

"magic contact lenses" indeed.


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Like I keep saying... batshit crazy. They'd HAVE to be. Anyone who believes Trump is some "messiah" and who buys into QAnon bullshit that, for all they know, could be the ramblings of some nutjob living in mommie's basement, CAN'T be playing with a "full deck." Just SAYING.

‘Socialist propaganda’: Texas voters go ballistic after GOP chairman gets COVID and party calls for masks – Raw Story

Dept. of Hypocritical Mfkrs:

Antiabortion groups say they stand behind Trump's use of a drug tested on cells derived from an aborted fetus because the president 'was not involved with that abortion'

and just plain bonkers:

WATCH: Trump voter tells focus group that Biden may have used magic contact lenses to win debate

"magic contact lenses" indeed.


We're fucked. They know about the contact lenses. Damnit!
 
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