Far-right MAGA theocrats: Most dangerous threat to America

[marmar]

Far-right MAGA theocrats: Most dangerous threat to America
Even Mitch McConnell is trying to push back against Mike Johnson and the MAGA wing of the GOP. It isn't working

By BRIAN KAREM
Columnist

PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2, 2023 9:46AM (EDT)
UPDATED NOVEMBER 3, 2023 5:54PM (EDT)


(Salon) ....snip)....

In the House, those would likely include newly-minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (and that still sounds like a Bart Simpson prank call to Moe’s Bar), who took on McConnell directly, pushing to unlink aid to Israel from aid to Ukraine.

While the world burns, Johnson and the MAGA wing of the Republican Party — which seems to have swallowed the evangelical movement while also embracing it (a T-1000 morphing into Sarah Connor is just about the right image) — is embracing the darkest verses of the Bible, apparently pushing for apocalypse with an enthusiasm only rivaled by Saul’s slaughter of Christians before he changed his name to Paul.

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The House of Representatives, now run by Johnson, offers a discount version of the apocalyptic orgasm the holy rollers have dreamed of for years. They’ve renewed the Inquisition and seem determined to convert the U.S. into a theocracy run by people who will thump you with the Bible, but haven’t read much of it.

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They want no separation of church and state. They want an isolationist country surrounded by walls and dedicated to the proposition that the First Amendment guarantees them the right to worship any way they want — while forcing the rest of us to worship the way they choose. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/11/02/maga-and-christian-nationalism-bigger-to-america-than-hamas-could-ever-be/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My mind boggles at these so-called Americans and their far right-wing ideas.

We must not only fight them at every turn, but we must also fight them before they even get started.

This is not going to be easy.

[lees1975]

2. Yes.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/10/christianity-is-being-invaded-and.html