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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMAGAt 'pastor' tells 'Christians': Stop praying for unity and arm yourselves for civil war
Appearing on The Jim Bakker Show this Monday, Trump-loving pastor Rick Joyner had some grim news for his fellow Christians: start forming militias in anticipation of the coming civil war over the evil that is taking over our land.
I tell you we have to be ready to defend our families, our communities, our neighbors, our churches, everything because it is coming home, Joyner said. I dont believe theres going to be a neighborhood exempt from whats coming.
Joyner went on to say the God showed him in a prophetic dream that militias will soon be popping up like mushrooms all over the country.
Even Jesus said at one point, I didnt come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword, Joyner added. Were in that time right now. You can go on praying for unity and for the parties to come together and all that, but its not the time for that. Thats not going to happen right now.
Theres a time for peace and a time for war
Well, were not headed towards peace right now, were headed towards conflict and war, and we need to prepare for it. We need to put out the word. People need to be prepared.
https://deadstate.org/right-wing-pastor-tells-christians-stop-praying-for-unity-and-arm-yourselves-for-civil-war/
mainer
(12,022 posts)What, exactly, is coming? People wholl pry Dr Seuss from his hands?
Volaris
(10,272 posts)He very well knows that if government can actually meet people's needs and increase their overall happiness, he will have to figure out a way to make his own damn house payment.
Cant be having any of that, no sir.
IcyPeas
(21,889 posts)So I guess he wants to defend his neighborhood from brown people and children.
Is he Ron Johnson's pastor? They are the same: racists.
RicROC
(1,204 posts)Seems to me that's a very unChristian attitude. Rick Joyner is therefore, not the head of a church but instead a political organization. TAX IT!
Marcuse
(7,488 posts)Laurelin
(529 posts)I took my daughters to a concert at some Texas megachurch (I don't remember the name). There was this huge painting on a wall of Jesus in camouflage, armed to the teeth. Pretty much gave me the horrors. My church still teaches the Prince of Peace view of Jesus. Also that God is love. I hadn't realized what the not so silent majority believed. Some time later a Baptist friend told me about a dream ("vision" he had of being in his church, shooting invaders. And I thought churches welcomed guests.
It's like a whole 'nother country.
DFW
(54,405 posts)Like about 500 miles behind you, watching it all on CNN, and sipping on a whiskey sour while he comments on the phone to some cable TV show, asking for people to send him money.
ms liberty
(8,580 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... interfering with the business activities. Praise be to the Capitalists.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)What was Jesus packing? They claim to follow a man called "The Prince of Peace", a man who,
according to the Bible , said to "turn the other cheek", and yet these hypocrites arm themselves
to the teeth.. Hell, we go to war for our supposed "Christian" values. I have never owned a gun,
except for a BB gun when I was a kid that my parents bought me.
"There's a time for peace and a time for war" this guy says, trying to quote Ecclesiastes, which is
an Old Testament book. In my limited knowledge, Christ is in the New Testament.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)...that Evangelicals see Jesus as a Santa Claus that appeals to slightly older children.
Mariana
(14,858 posts)According to the stories, when he was offended by the activities on the Temple grounds, he flew into a rage. Then he went and constructed a weapon, attacked the moneychangers, drove the animals out into the street, and vandalized the place.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Mariana
(14,858 posts)John 2 : 13-15, NIV - When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)Attn: FBI
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)Now tie in this post:
Multiple State Bills Would Grant Churches "Blanket Immunity" from All Wrongdoing
https://www.democraticunderground.com/123059046
Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)associated with exercising their beliefs"
They get more dangerous by the minute.
Zoonart
(11,869 posts)I grew up in the Protestant tradition. My family were the pillars of the church we attended. My Grandfather literally built the church and my family's names are on the plaques that designate the donation of the beautiful stained glass windows.
By the time my parents passed, they had mostly left the church. They were disturbed by the clear drift to the right by the congregation.
I had long before taken my own spiritual journey to Buddhism and they practically disowned me for it.
I am glad they did not live to see what passes for Christianity in this country today. They were spared Trumpism and COVID and there is some comfort in that.
tanyev
(42,567 posts)His strongest words and actions were always directed toward the local religious leaders.
Volaris
(10,272 posts)Maeve
(42,282 posts)IL Dem
(814 posts)N/T