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AZ legislators kneel on Senate floor and "speak in tongues" (Original Post) Nevilledog Apr 2024 OP
oh brother! mahina Apr 2024 #1
Please, let the Earth open and swallow these freaks. Safe that for your church...it don't belong in the Legislature Drum Apr 2024 #2
I second that "oh brother". Firestorm49 Apr 2024 #32
WTF Speechless I am. c-rational Apr 2024 #3
So what happened to their obsession with English only??? tanyev Apr 2024 #4
As another DU'er might say: No Shit! yonder Apr 2024 #12
Snakes and tambourines are next. Traildogbob Apr 2024 #5
this is lunacy..... they may as well be sacrificing animals or burning incense to ward of demons! Takket Apr 2024 #6
Don't give them any ideas. Nevilledog Apr 2024 #19
Somebody call the men in white coats! Lunabell Apr 2024 #7
Could they come a little faster? StarryNite Apr 2024 #23
That is an abomination. chowder66 Apr 2024 #8
Posting MotownPgh Apr 2024 #9
Let them return home to Babel and jabber the Gibberish which is their native tongue struggle4progress Apr 2024 #10
At what point and time are people going to start demanding proof ??? SamKnause Apr 2024 #11
Spot on! pandr32 Apr 2024 #29
How embarrassing... Blue Idaho Apr 2024 #13
How to speak in tongues revealed FuzzyRabbit Apr 2024 #14
Did the Flying Spaghetti Monster show up? cbabe Apr 2024 #15
Hell no. He was later quoted as saying "Those people are nuts. Give me a break". EarnestPutz Apr 2024 #26
Dear Religious Nutjobs: Magic isn't real, God isn't real, and Sky Jewels Apr 2024 #16
Use this as the soundtrack to that video DJ Synikus Makisimus Apr 2024 #17
If I still lived in Arizona, I'd file a suit on people desecrating the senate. sinkingfeeling Apr 2024 #18
Separation of church and state? To see these people in positions of power is scary. jalan48 Apr 2024 #20
Seriously? FormerOstrich Apr 2024 #21
What creepy, sick, sad people they are. StarryNite Apr 2024 #22
It looks and sounds like devil worship if you ask me. Earth-shine Apr 2024 #24
They're neither smart enough nor moral enough NanaCat Apr 2024 #31
Did I say Satanist or devil worship? Earth-shine Apr 2024 #39
Not a can of Planters North Shore Chicago Apr 2024 #25
And one guy turns around to make sure they are on camera. keithbvadu2 Apr 2024 #27
GFG? malaise Apr 2024 #28
The disturbing part is... SarahD Apr 2024 #30
I would be so embarrassed if I had voted for any of these people. yardwork Apr 2024 #33
Three or four did that. MineralMan Apr 2024 #34
We have some very extreme MAGAts in AZ Nevilledog Apr 2024 #37
Of that I have no doubt. MineralMan Apr 2024 #38
Seems significant to me nowforever Apr 2024 #43
This kid makes just as much sense as those knuckleheads. bluesbassman Apr 2024 #35
This is considered nonsense unless there is a translator present RainCaster Apr 2024 #36
They need a Pentacostal to English translator. SupportSanity Apr 2024 #47
remeber they take this shit seriously dembotoz Apr 2024 #40
what a bunch of sick fucks nt orleans Apr 2024 #41
SNL is going to love that one. Vinca Apr 2024 #42
As I said on another thread, Elessar Zappa Apr 2024 #44
Dated a girl from a Pentacostal church Johnny2X2X Apr 2024 #45
I'm sorry to say this . . . Aussie105 Apr 2024 #46

Drum

(10,084 posts)
2. Please, let the Earth open and swallow these freaks. Safe that for your church...it don't belong in the Legislature
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:30 PM
Apr 2024

Traildogbob

(10,545 posts)
5. Snakes and tambourines are next.
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:34 PM
Apr 2024

What the actual fuck happened to enforcing Church and State Separation? Why can’t WE just ignore the 2nd amendment?

MotownPgh

(413 posts)
9. Posting
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:40 PM
Apr 2024

Thanks for posting. Hope this is shared far and wide so that sane Americans see the way this is headed. Maybe even some commercial, especially for Arizona senate for instance

SamKnause

(13,993 posts)
11. At what point and time are people going to start demanding proof ???
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:43 PM
Apr 2024

Separation of Church and State is being ignored.

They bleed us dry by not paying taxes, yet they have a voice in our government.

This is insanity !!!!!!!!!!!!

Blue Idaho

(5,500 posts)
13. How embarrassing...
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:46 PM
Apr 2024

This is the 21st Century for 🐶 sake. I guess I should be relieved they didn’t sacrifice any virgins while they were down there.

Sky Jewels

(8,856 posts)
16. Dear Religious Nutjobs: Magic isn't real, God isn't real, and
Mon Apr 8, 2024, 07:53 PM
Apr 2024

Jesus wasn't supernatural and is never, ever coming back. There. Saved you lots of time. You're welcome. *dusts off hands*

FormerOstrich

(2,793 posts)
21. Seriously?
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 12:43 AM
Apr 2024

Is that real? I haven't' seen anything about it anywhere else. It's sad I have to ask if it is real, because nothing would surprise me about some of them. Well...maybe...honest is that real? It looks like they are giving CPR. I didn't listen to it.

 

NanaCat

(2,332 posts)
31. They're neither smart enough nor moral enough
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 06:56 AM
Apr 2024

To be Satanists. After all, Satanists understand things like bodily autonomy and not hurting (or raping) children, enough to have those as commandments, unlike the Judeo Christian 10Cs.

https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/the-satanic-temple-tenets/there-are-seven-fundamental-tenets

https://www.churchofsatan.com/eleven-rules-of-earth/

And spare us the rabid exaggerations about the attire of Satanists. I mean, really, plenty of Christian ministers wear black robes:





 

Earth-shine

(4,044 posts)
39. Did I say Satanist or devil worship?
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 10:58 AM
Apr 2024

There's a difference.

>> spare us the rabid exaggerations about the attire of Satanists

Spare me your moral outrage over nothing.

 

SarahD

(1,732 posts)
30. The disturbing part is...
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 06:22 AM
Apr 2024

... what they're saying here is more comprehensible than what they usually say in that chamber.

MineralMan

(148,428 posts)
38. Of that I have no doubt.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 10:35 AM
Apr 2024

However, I'm not sure their little show of speaking in tongues has any impact on anything. Just three or four nutcases being nutcases.

It just seems insignificant to me.

nowforever

(438 posts)
43. Seems significant to me
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 12:12 PM
Apr 2024

I count 8 in that circle of crazy. They represent quite a number of constituents and others whose religiosity contaminants the legislative process.

RainCaster

(12,075 posts)
36. This is considered nonsense unless there is a translator present
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 09:31 AM
Apr 2024

I could translate this:

We are fools who want to show off our feined righteousness.
 

dembotoz

(16,922 posts)
40. remeber they take this shit seriously
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:17 AM
Apr 2024

makes them feel like they are communicating directly with god
reinforces anything the maga preacher says

Vinca

(51,549 posts)
42. SNL is going to love that one.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 11:20 AM
Apr 2024

Back in the 80's my late father got involved with one of the whackjob megachurches and I went to a service with him once when I was visiting. Sure enough, the crazies talked in tongues. Very, very weird. At least there weren't any snakes.

Elessar Zappa

(16,295 posts)
44. As I said on another thread,
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 12:14 PM
Apr 2024

where from and when did Arizona get so many Pentecostals? I used to think of AZ as a libertarian Republican state, unlike the evangelical Republicans in the South.

Johnny2X2X

(22,182 posts)
45. Dated a girl from a Pentacostal church
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 12:19 PM
Apr 2024

We had many frank and honest discussions about religion and she admitted she faked speaking in tongues at church when she was younger because of the pressure to do so and her want to feel like she belonged. Her and her friends were all faking it. And when you went and did it, you got special treatment from the rest of the congregation.

People's faith is their faith, but the fact that people like this not only get elected to office, but then perform this nonsense on the people's floor in the House of Representatives for the state is just disgusting.

Aussie105

(6,678 posts)
46. I'm sorry to say this . . .
Fri Apr 12, 2024, 07:35 PM
Apr 2024

but those prayer folk need to be deleted from politics.

Politics is about clear thinking and making decisions that benefit the majority of people.

It's not 'Oh, donno what to do, but let's call on the Upstairs Big Guy to decide for us!'

If you are going to do politics like that, might as well shut the whole political shop down and rely on church leaders to make decisions.

(I guess separation of State and Church didn't occur to them?
Why weren't they arrested or removed?
Or at least told . . . Umm, no, you can't do that here?)








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