Evangelicals are naked before the world

[Zorro]

“There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!”

This recent statement by religious-right activist Ralph Reed is objectively true, at least when it comes to sloppy kisses for the president. Considered purely as a political transaction, religious conservatives have gotten two appointments to the Supreme Court who set their hearts aflutter. They, in return, have shifted from the language of political realism to the language of love.

Trump has not gone back on the conservative promises of his 2016 campaign. More than that, he has not let up in his attacks against liberal elites who disdain religious conservatives. Reed is correct that Trump has “defended us” and “fought for us.”

But this language itself should raise warning signs. Is this really how most conservative Christians view the political enterprise — as the vindication of their own interests rather than the good of the whole? Were Christian political activists of the 19th century — such as William Wilberforce , Frederick Douglass , Charles Grandison Finney and Harriet Beecher Stowe — primarily concerned with the respect accorded to their own religious community? No, they were known for taking the side of the oppressed and vulnerable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/evangelicals-are-naked-before-the-world/2019/06/27/463e87b4-991a-11e9-8d0a-5edd7e2025b1_story.html

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. They are obsessed with outdoing each other with their own ostentatious fake piety.

They rope in dumbasses who aspire to do the same.

[trusty elf]

4. I think that is an accurate assessment.

[not fooled]

16. Hahahahahaha

and Stormy is the most moral, ethical person in the picture.

[njhoneybadger]

31. Good one

[Judi Lynn]

41. Amazing! The face on the left in the top photo looks like Fred Trump!

I hope I see every one of your graphics. Wouldn't want to miss any at all. Thank you.



(What a horrible rug Fred's sporting.)

[trusty elf]

45. YIKES!!!!!!!

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How hideous!

On another note, thanks for the kind comment about my graphics. Some of them get me in trouble here occasionally. I sometimes let my outrage get me carried away.



p.s.


Did you see my "Executive Branch" ?

[Blue_Tires]

38. +1

[mr_lebowski]

27. +1 ... and that it's allowed is annoying AF (nt)

[mr_lebowski]

35. Word (nt)

[RAB910]

3. Evangelicals are fake religious people

They hide behind their fake religion to justify their morally reprehensible positions, actions, and beliefs

[CrispyQ]

14. You can almost tell what kind of Christian someone is by the political party they identify with. -nt

[patphil]

18. These people worship a false god, a satan.

They are the angels that fell from heaven. And now it appears that many others have fallen into the trap of darkness.
These pseudo-spiritual, right wing, fundamentalist, anti-christians are the dark ones who support evil on this earth.
See how easily they gave up their so called religious beliefs to rally behind the Father of Lies.
They don't follow Jesus because his message of love is not in harmony with their dark souls.
The message of hate is what resonates with them.
Trump has unmasked them, and rallied them to him.

The only way to oppose them is with love. If you fall into their hate trap, you begin the process of corrupting you own soul.

Patrick Phillips

[mr_lebowski]

28. Yes, Pat, you're probably right ... but f*** that, I still hate them (nt)

[Judi Lynn]

42. He attracts them as they are all the same: predators.

Once they learn he's no longer useful, they'll turn, all pretend they had been misled, and go look for their next ally.

They will all pretend to have straightened out, like Jimmeh Swaggart, and continue.









Jimmy's cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis.

[OMGWTF]

19. My Evangelical Fundi End-Timer Mother is the worst person I know.

[ck4829]

49. Yep

[dalton99a]

5. No one!

[LiberalLovinLug]

12. This should be on a giant billboard in every highly populated evangelical Red State community

What are the rules in censorship of language when it comes to simply quoting the POTUS? I'd like to see someone push that as far as it can go.

I want to see an all out attack on evangelicals this time around. They are his most consistent and loyal base of voters. If we can disrupt their rapturous gaze at their Dear Groper for even a few seconds, make even a few of them, if not switch to Democratic, then at least keep them at home out of shame in 2020, it would help immensely.

[ColesCountyDem]

6. These people are dominionists, not evangelicals. n/t

[certainot]

32. methinks they're dittoheads. they worship limbaugh and other talk radio preachers rather than

jesus an it's irresponsible for the pollsters to keep ignoring that.

the dominionists are a smaller subset

many of the scumbag preachers in this country realized the best way to connect with cons is to listen to what the flock and their husbands and friends are listening to the other 5 or six days, and then connect to that on sunday.

someone read that editorial to me it's ridiculous that the major pundits, who mostly live in cities, are still completely oblivious to the constant ubiquitous coordinated attacks on science and intellectualism and liberalism by a few hundred fake lying hypocritical hateful christianists dominating 40 states with 80 senators

[FiveGoodMen]

36. And definitely not Scotsmen

[Martin Eden]

7. Buttigieg said at Thursday's debate ...

…

The Republican Party likes to cloak itself in their language of religion. We should call out hypocrisy when we see it. For a party that associates itself with Christianity to say that it is OK to suggest that God would smile on the division of families at the hands of federal agents, that God would condone putting children in cages has lost all claim to ever use religious language again.

[leftieNanner]

11. I loved that!

I am a church goer, member of the choir, and former vestry. Pete sure talks about the Gospels that I hear on Sunday.

[CrispyQ]

15. Yes! It way past time the dems challenged the GOP's claim to be the party of God.

Not that we should claim it - let's keep that separation thing in place! But we should definitely have been pointing out how the GOP is NOT the party of God.

[Martin Eden]

24. Party of God; a.k.a. Hezbollah

a.k.a. American Taliban

[ck4829]

50. Thank you

[Hekate]

8. KnR

[paulkienitz]

9. they love to tar the left with the term "identity politics"

but today's conservative ideology is nothing but identity politics. They don't actually care about values or ideologies -- those are rationalizations or excuses. What they care about is their own kind of people (white, christian, patriarchal) vs other kinds of people.

What I have learned over decades of arguing with mainstream conservatives is that you never know what rationale or value system or philosophy they are going to pull out to justify their position, but you always know whose side they're going to take when someone like them is in conflict with someone not like them.

[Blue_Tires]

39. +1

[ck4829]

48. Bingo

[luvMIdog]

10. They're so misogynistic I can't stand them

I have some relatives I avoid like the plague on my step mom's side. They're all total morons. I ran into one of them about 2 weeks ago & he decided to tell me women can't multitask because we were made with incomplete brains. Yep. Mofo said that. I told him " Let me see how many men can breast feed while cooking dinner & helping a second grader with their homework & answering business calls all at the same time YOU IDIOT MAN. " Then he told me I'm a man hater. I just walked off. He's an idiot.

[Saviolo]

13. Like, what's actually going on here? What does this word salad even mean?

Link to tweet

?s=12

[Ligyron]

23. And Trump is like, "Muhaha, these rubes are but putty in my tiny little hands"!

"Bwahaha, Finally ... I'm going to actually be RICH"!

"Hmmm, Nice ass one this one. I'd sure like to fill her with the spirit..."

Idiots. All of them, idiots.

[Saviolo]

26. Yeah, I feel like no one on that side has quite figured it out yet

that Trump has 0% loyalty to anyone, except himself and (from time to time) his family. He'll love them as long as they're puffing him up, then forget about them and/or turn on them.

[czarjak]

46. WOW

[Tre45on]

17. Hmmm

"Is this really how most conservative Christians view the political enterprise — as the vindication of their own interests rather than the good of the whole?"

No wonder the fundie fucks get along so well with Netanyahu and his band of Kahanist criminals.

[Initech]

20. Trump is showing what their true colors and agenda are.

Their true color? Red. Their true agenda? Bring back Nazism.

[NRaleighLiberal]

21. godless hypocrites. they have no idea what they are preaching or following. None. Brainwashed cult

dipped in self loathing

[Xipe Totec]

22. O cruel, irreligious piety! nt

[Politicub]

25. The picture of Dorian Gray is on full view

Evangelicals are hateful, ugly people to their core. Now everyone sees that.

They have poured poison in their well. Their numbers will shrink because they embraced a man who brags about sexual assault.

Mayor Pete says it so plainly. They don’t get to use their piety any more.

[Fritz Walter]

30. Insomniacs: double your dose of Melatonin after reading this

Some evangel-istas are counting on the Mangled Apricot Hellbeast accelerating or triggering the end-time prophecies from Revelations. They want him to start Armageddon, convinced that they will be assumption-ed up in the Rapture, escaping all the troubles and strife their sad, pointless lives have wrought. And they will do anything to help facilitate that doomsday prophecy. Despite what the rest of us may believe/feel/want.

As happy as I would be to watch their departure from this earthly plain, I think we’ve been through enough tribulations, thank you very much. Just those since November 2016 would try the patience of Job! And we have miles to go... until November 2020.

It’s fun to mock the fundies. But stay alert! They’re not to be trusted with anything that might impact the rest of us, including and especially earthly politics.

[MasonDreams]

33. I hate to even type the word hate. Every time I type the word word it reminds me of the gospel of J

I have seen the remains of a young man, bound, gagged, and tortured to death, tossed in a ditch. It is a bad experience, flies, blood, it is viscerally horrible. He was a descendant of Alabama slaves.The terrorists who mutilated and murdered him were the descendants of the masters of that young man's ancestors. That is to say, same farm same families. It happened around 1966 and the masters were then called farmers and the slaves were then called field hands. It is near impossible to get educated and brave enough to try to leave. If you try, you must walk. The neighborhood watch or the sheriff will bring you back "home". "Son, you're stupid and lazy just like your daddy and you can't even read, you'll starve out there". His torture and death sentence was punishment for putting a touch of his urine in the butter churn. Of course, it wasn't just punishment, it sent a message, it was an act of terrorism. The KuKluxKlan "thinks" they're Christians, They Are Not. They have many names, of course, just like the Devil. So when the pResident says he's a "Nationalist", remember my words, and watch your back. "and the darkness comprehended it not" from John chapter 1

[Cartaphelius]

34. Seriously?

I sure do hope Jesus or his Father don't judge these ignorant assholes too harshly.

Put Tramp ahead of your God? Brilliant!

[pansypoo53219]

37. false god. shame on them. so, they are all talking nonsense. bye felicia.

[FiveGoodMen]

40. Bye, tax-free status would sure be nice!

[ck4829]

47. K&R