Marjorie Traitor Trash says that her religion is being mocked because of eclipse comments

[AdamGG]

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https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-says-her-faith-was-mocked-over-eclipse-remark-1888733

This woman doubles down on her stupidity so frequently that she makes Pat Robertson look like Stephen Hawking. She said that the recent solar eclipse was evidence that America needs to "repent" or we will face god's wrath.

She apparently has no comprehension that scientists have known the date and path of this eclipse for hundreds of years; that it's a simple matter of physics. It's like saying that god is displeased with Hollywood liberals because the sun sets in the west.

I'm not sure if she is truly this stupid, or is catering to people who are, but either way, it's absurd that she holds the position that she does. I think she's a golden goose for Democrats because although my faith in America is shaken, I feel confident that she damages support for her cause every time she speaks. She's a walking punchline that crystallizes the hateful stupidity of MAGA, so I guess WTG Marge.

[keithbvadu2]

1. Her tantric sex religion?

[Hugin]

4. Ugh, the visions that just flashed...

Through my mind.

[Mr. Evil]

24. I just threw up in my mouth!

[Celerity]

25. now add the smell of it all

[Hekate]

31. Every time the she-thug brings up Gawd I think: So sayeth the woman caught in adultery with...

…the Tantric sex yoga instructor at her gym.

Have you ever repented of anything, Marge? I don’t care what you do in your off-hours, but Do. Not. Preach. Religion. To. Me.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. The first questions asked

when you register as a Republican are:

1) Are you gullible

2) Are you a hypocrite.....

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"She said that the recent solar eclipse was evidence that America needs to "repent" or we will face god's wrath"

Funny she said that. During the eclipse I asked a friend what he supposed the Native American's thought when they viewed this happening hundreds of years ago..... We agreed that it was probably something really really weird, because they had no knowledge/education about what causes it......

[wnylib]

51. In the Anthropology Forum I posted a thread and link

about traditional stories among the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) people regarding the founding of their Confederacy. The traditional stories tell of the sun going dark over the land where the negotiations were taking place. It convinced the Seneca Nation, which had been holding out, to join the Confederacy.

A modern Mohawk woman has researched total solar eclipses over North America in the past and found that one occurred over the land described in the traditional stories in the year 1142 CE.

[Hugin]

2. No Marge, we're criticizing you. n/t

[Ocelot II]

3. We're not mocking your faith, Marge. We're mocking you.

[thomski64]

9. ..I'll go there..

..her Dominionist Christofascism is part and parcel of her stupidity. Being a crude troll is entirely on her..

[slightlv]

29. You are so right!

These NAR are stuck in the early days of xtianity... without the understanding or experience that came with being a part of that culture.

As far as what I think of her... those pics of her in the prehistoric bra and panties is a perfect fit and expression of her and her dumb ideas. BUT this is the kind of woman we have to fight against. The kind who's a traitor, not only to her country, but to her own gender. IOW... she's worthless, through and through... as are the rest of them that follow the same dumb line of thought.

[littlemissmartypants]

50. What's a NAR? ❤️

[Abolishinist]

57. Not sure, but it might be the

New Apostolic Reformation. Or possibly the National Association of Realtors.

[littlemissmartypants]

60. Thanks. ❤️

[slightlv]

69. New Apostolic Reformation...

formerly known as the Dominionists. Many of us have been yelling about them for years, to very few listening ears. They think rebranding themselves and ruling the republicans will get them the Theocracy that's codified into their slant on Xtianity. These people are downright evil - in the name of religion. They thoroughly believe that they can commit any sin... even murder... and if it's done in the name of gawd, all is forgiven and it's no longer a sin. They truly are evil.

[hlthe2b]

5. Gawd... all I know is that I can scarcely avoid going "postal" (so-to-speak) when she talks...

Like fingernails on the chalkboard x infinity!

And I keep hoping she will disappear under the enormous barbell (from her gym video) and we will be spared hearing more from her.

No, Agent Mike, she has no fear of harm from me. Just from her own karma.

[Johonny]

6. I think FOX news makes you stupid

A lot of GOP are well educated and yet so many sound like morons. What happened? Years inside the GOP echo chamber has dragged them down. Propaganda and fake news do make you stupid. She is likely repeating things told to her without realizing how fucking stupid it makes her sound because everyone inside the chamber says the same thing. This is typical of the modern GOP raised on RW Propaganda.

[NanaCat]

27. Plenty of college graduates are idiots

Nothing says you have to retain anything professors teach. It's all-too-common for college students to do the work to pass a course, then dump the information after the final exam.

Example: Few but mathematicians will remember how to read inverse functions from a graph after an algebra final. Non-physicists probably don't remember Ohm's Law. And so on.

[DENVERPOPS]

35. A year ago I was reading an article

about the fact that the Medical Schools were becoming alarmed at the lack of retention of information after taking the test.

More and more, all schools, at all levels, are "teaching to the test", and the students in all areas are becoming masters at doing what you said...

[3catwoman3]

41. I remember precisely 3 things from 2 semesters of organic...

...chemistry that I foolishly took in 8 weeks of summer school, after finishing nursing school and having fantasies of going to med school - ETOH means alcohol, saponification means making soap, and Kekule' envisioned the 6 carbon ring in a dream about a snake holding its tail its mouth.

"German chemist August Kekulé visualized the ring structure of benzene in 1865. Most organic chemical compounds contain loops of six carbon atoms called benzene rings. The nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé claimed to have pictured the ring structure of benzene after dreaming of a snake eating its own tail.May 5, 2010."

I got a C in the class, which was the kiss of death. Unless you got an A in organic, no med school would even look at you. On the day of the final, I noticed that many of the people in my class had formulas written on their jeans. I got my C without cheating. Only C I've ever been proud of.

[EverHopeful]

46. Organic chem was also the only C I was proud of

Also told myself and others that I was taking a semester off to put some money aside 'cause I was tired of being broke and starving but it was at least partly to recover from the C.

My cousin described organic chem as the class in which you learn to hate the carbon-based molecule with every fiber of your being.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Go climb a tree, Marjie!

If you hadn't brought religion and these occurrences up at the same time, you would have been off the hook. But NO! You had to open your big mouth and thus, make a FOOL of yourself!

[AllaN01Bear]

8. gee.

i cant say what i want to say on here .

[thucythucy]

10. Isn't it the other way around?

Isn't she mocking religion by aligning it with such stupidity? And religious people by assuming they're so gullible as to believe her nonsense?

[AllaN01Bear]

13. they hide behind the bible . behind the constitution. when cornered they come out swinging.

my late mom.

[Caliman73]

43. Unfortunately no. She isn't. She is particularly stupid and inarticulate...

and she has too large a platform for her level of intelligence; but many religious people believe that their god punishes people and societies by sending plagues and natural disasters as signs that they aren't following the god's laws. It is written in the Bible, repeatedly and has been a staple of Abrahamic religion, and others since the inception of religion.

One of the criticisms of religion is that it inhibits critical thinking. Obviously not in every situation and in every person, but if you can explain things with "god did it" and "only god knows why" for someone who is intellectually lazy, that is where the thought process ends. For people like Greene, that is definitely where the process ends.

Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Joel Olsteen, and others have become very rich convincing millions of people to send in their Social Security checks and disability payments so that god will stop punishing them, or reward them in some way. I would say that Greene is speaking to the same audience, which fortunately for humanity, is shrinking. Shrinking far too slowly, but shrinking nonetheless.

[thucythucy]

47. I agree with that you're saying.

I suppose I was asking a rhetorical question.

Though I can't imagine, for instance, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. believing such a simple-minded explanation for an earthquake or eclipse, or Martin Buber or Reinhold Niebuhr, but clearly millions do.

It's astonishing, though. So according to these folks, all those tornadoes and hurricanes that hit the Bible Belt and "real America" every year mean what? Maybe God is punishing the people there for supporting a serial rapist and adulterer? Their theology, such as it is, is so remarkably inconsistent even a child would or at least should balk at believing.

[Caliman73]

58. No doubt. There are many brilliant people who are religious and spiritual.

Many scientific pioneers, Mendel, Copernicus, Newton, the man who postulated the Big Bang, etc... were religious to some degree.

I suppose I should have said, Fundamentalists rather than simply religious people. Though there is always some tension between religion and science because both are trying to describe the how and why of the world around us, many people can separate the natural world and the spiritual aspects. While I am not religious or spiritual, I understand that people are looking for deeper meanings beyond themselves and what we see in the world. When I was practicing Catholicism, it was difficult to follow all of the doctrine consistently. I saw it as my path to being a good person and to live within the world showing others the goodness of God. It was about me, moderating my behaviors and being an example to others, not about imposing my ideas on others.

When I hear people like Greene and other fundamentalists however, I see that it is usually about control. Controlling other people, or at minimum, having some kind of external control because they can't deal with the complexities of the world and can't moderate their own behavior in order to function as a social being in the world. Greene, in her personal life, has allegedly cheated on her now ex-husband multiple times. To me, her prior behavior and her current rigid stance on religion, signal a person who cannot internally control her own behaviors and so needs to impose some kind of external "punisher" being to keep herself and others in line. Relationships can be difficult and I try not to be a harsh judge on others, but if you are in a relationship and have made a commitment to be monogamous, then you either keep that commitment, or you tell your partner that you can't and you end the relationship. You don't need a god or religion to be a good person, to honor your commitments, or to not damage other people.

[OMGWTF]

11. How about substituting "Traitor" for 'Trailer'?

I’m an old lifelong progressive Democrat and live in a very nice manufactured home in a trailer park with high standards and low rent. I’ve never had better neighbors. Please quit putting people like me down or worse, comparing us to that miserable and ignorant piece of 💩.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[AllaN01Bear]

14. i perfer marge , moscow , jsl , greene.

again, i really cant say what i want to say.

[AdamGG]

15. Fair enough, I meant no disrespect for people who actually live in mobile homes

Sorry for the lazy stereotyping (Marge is like a human matador's cape drawing me there).

[birdographer]

53. This is a good point

Mobile homes are not nearly as shabby as they used to be.

[mainer]

12. So the Rapture sucks you up without your clothes?

Meaning there'll be a lot of naked men and women standing around, ogling each other, in heaven?

[Ocelot II]

16. If these morons are going to be raptured I hope it happens soon

so we don't have to put up with them any more. Also, some of them might have nice cars.

[jcgoldie]

20. Everytime they predict it I cross my fingers they are right...

Then the next day the assholes are all still here...

[slightlv]

32. Isn't that against their religious beliefs?!

[Dulcinea]

70. I'm in favor of the Rapture.

If it rids the world of people who believe in such nonsense, bring it on.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. so her religion is an ancient pre civilization one? One with a god for every living thing

and every celestial body with The One God Who Rules Them All?
Ancient Egyptians; Greeks; Romans; even the Ancient Near Eastern Religions with many gods .....

[Ping Tung]

18. When all else fails say that God is on YOUR side.

However, to be believed you should require a signed and witnessed contract from the God you choose.

[catbyte]

19. Sigh...

[NanaCat]

21. No, spork-foot

We're laughing at you for being a complete moron.

Honestly, ask us sometime why we say what we do, rather than putting words in our mouths. Something you're not in the least smart enough to do, by the way.

[Tetrachloride]

22. Calvin and Hobbes

[twodogsbarking]

23. People aren't trash because of trailers. Nor are the homeless. MTG is trash.

[tornado34jh]

26. I was lucky to be in high school around the time Obama was in office

Back then, I thought that the education in US was great. But since then, I have had my doubts. If I had a time machine and then went to the time where instead I was born in 2006 and saw what the education system is now (i.e. in this scenario, I would be in high school), I would have really started to question how we would fare. I mean, as of last year, the US is not even in the top 10 most educated countries, yet supposedly we have all these universities and the like. It's 2024 and yet some are acting like as if we are some middle-age nonsense about eclipses (particularly lunar eclipses) as some of religious prophecy? Good grief. I don't think things bode well by 2040.

[slightlv]

34. I was in high school in the early 70's...

we had an emphasis on critical thinking... but even then, I could see the direction things were going, depending on where you lived in the country.

SIL and I counted all the members of our immediate and extended families who desperately wanted to move to Oregon. Every single one of us... and every single one of us is poor enough not to be able to afford to move -- let alone live there. Sometimes I wish the ideas of communes and cooperative living arrangements hadn't died out.

[tornado34jh]

59. When I was in Virginia, I used to like taking the subway to DC

I could go to the Smithsonian, go to Reston (they have an ice-skating rink they do in the winter), go to the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, etc. But unfortunately, it is way too expensive. A friend of mine, who I have since lost contact with, used to be in a apartment in the Arlington, VA area. At the time (around 2013-2014), it was $2,000 per month. Now it is probably upwards of $3,000 to $3,500 per month. In one month, that is enough to get you a Canon R5 camera.

[NanaCat]

37. US unis are top-tier.

They really are. That's why so many foreign students clamour to attend them.

It's what comes before that is a travesty. I've seen the changes, up close and personal. STEM is much better. Everything else?

KILL ME NOW.

[tornado34jh]

55. Maybe, but not if people who don't know what they are doing mess around with them

Florida is one of the worst at it. The government here is horrendous at that, and I know quite a few people who have gone to Florida State, University of Florida, and UCF. I swear, you would have thought it was they like wanted to do things backwards. Heck, there are people in the federal government who want to halt funding to public schools. I mean, that does not make me feel confident that we will get very far. I get that in most high schools you get electives such as music, art, foreign language, etc. But even with the STEM part, how can we be confident that we will have students that when they graduate high school are really capable of it, particular the S and the T part, when you have people who want to push nonsense stuff in schools. I am not saying we don't have students that are capable of it, but when you have politicians trying to mess around with it, it doesn't give me much confidence. Look, I am not saying everything non-STEM is bad. For example, I took three years of Latin in high school. If you want to learn foreign languages and stuff, go for it, I think it would be a good thing.

[mahina]

45. If we reverse the decades-long trend of making

Higher education unaffordable for regular people it would sure help.

[tornado34jh]

56. That is true

But I think that is another problem, it's getting too expensive. But even then, I have heard stories of people with bachelor's/master's degrees and they still can't find any jobs that fit what they studied.

[BigMin28]

28. When Moscow Marj

starts behaving as if she believes in Christianity, then I will give those beliefs respect. As of now, all I see is a crude, nasty, objectionable human being that takes pleasure in causing harm to anyone.

[slightlv]

38. She doesn't believe in Christianity.

They've designed their own religion and are stealing the name from true Christians... those who truly try to follow the beliefs attributed to the Christ. I'm not one of those, but I honestly respect those who attempt it.

This idiot and her ilk of the NAR are making it up as they go along. If it's evil, it's good. If it's good, it's evil. There is no golden rule for them. And I don't even mind those who DO make up their own religion. I keep expecting there to be one based on The Force/Star Wars. But I'll bet it has nothing in common with the false religion of the NAR.

[NanaCat]

42. Also--there is no such thing as a 'true' or 'false' Christian

You're apparently a Christian, and so is she. She simply follows other parts of the book, and I can assure you that most of what she believes has backing from that book (unlike most Christians, I've actually read it). Plenty of the history of Christian practice and teaching backs up what she believes as well. If you don't like the form of Christianity she follows, get together and figure out what the religion is actually about (good luck!). But to act like someone else's Christianity isn't real because it makes you uncomfortable is profoundly dishonest.

It's really annoying how Christians always want to disassociate themselves from their awful people, rather than blaming the flavour of the religion itself that made them awful.

[BigMin28]

49. Just where

Did I declare my religion or lack there of? I merely commented on Marjorie Traitor Green and the difference in her behavior and her trumpeted beliefs she is always yapping about.

[NanaCat]

39. She does believe in it

I know this will shock you, but Christians can be awful people, too. The religion certainly has a long history of promoting hate and violence.

Really.

[Warpy]

30. That's what happens when you try to force your relition on other people, Moscow Margie

Other people quite rightly resent the hell out of it and they start to pick bigger and bigger holes in it and mocking you and your religion is part of that.

The best idea is to realize your religion is your own and while you miught share it with like minded people in a church, that's where it should stay. You try to push your dogma into civil law, people will object. The more you push, the worse it will get.

So shove it up your bony ass, Margie. The rest of us don't want it and if you want to keep it, you'll have to larn where it does and does not belong.

[Caliman73]

33. SO WHAT? Stupid ideas informed by a religion deserved to be mocked.

She has a right to say whatever stupid (and it is almost always stupid) shit that comes to her pea sized brain. Anyone else has the very same right to mock her dumb ass.

I like how she whines to Bannon about how "I don't care that people mocked me". Well you dunce, when we don't care about something, we don't bring it up every chance we get. Kind of like that guy who swears he is over his ex girlfriend, but follows her on social media and then tells anyone who will listen how "over" her he is.

Greene is a caricature. The only way she could pull out of the spiral she is in, is if she came out and said she was doing a character ala Andy Kaufman.

[AdamGG]

67. It would be the stunt ever if it turned out that...

she's actually Sacha Baron Cohen.

[dchill]

36. Any faith that wouldn't slap you in the face...

...is definitely mockable, Em-ty.

[3catwoman3]

44. Good thing for her (not for us) that breathing does not....

...require the ability to think intelligently. If it did, she'd be dead.

[pandr32]

48. It's not "either way"--it's both.

She is "truly this stupid, and "is catering to people who are." Also, she is doing pretty well in her position as the result. MAGAts love her--as does Putin. She is a useful idiot and well-compensated so she has found her calling.

[John Farmer]

52. If your religion causes you to

say stupid things, maybe you have a stupid understanding of your religion.

[Maru Kitteh]

54. The first amendment says I can criticize the FUCK out of your religion, Marge.

Why do you hate America?

[elocs]

61. You know, a lot of good Democrats live in trailers. So that's a sad slur to use based on where someone lives.

I expect better from a Democrat. I live in a 56 year old trailer that I know that anyone homeless person would love to have as a place to live. I live in the city just minutes from stores and by a river where I can regularly see eagles and it's no big deal.
So there's trash who live in million dollar houses. It's what's in your heart, not the roof over your head.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

64. Agree. It's an unfair generalization. nt

[elocs]

65. The alliteration rolls off the tongue too easily before the brain can grasp its true meaning. n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

66. Yeah, I'm always getting alerted due to alleged alliterations. nt

[AdamGG]

68. Sorry, I addressed this in a previous post

I didn't intend to denigrate anyone who lives in a mobile home (which is probably nicer than my apartment). MTG is about as trashy as you can get and it's a lazy step away from Taylor (and I'd heard it before). I will edit the post and be more sensitive about it in the future.

[dlk]

62. Moscow Maggie always finds something to get hysterical over

I’m surprised she hasn’t had a stroke or heart attack

[republianmushroom]

63. Is she speaking of the Russian Orthodox Church, her faith ?

When one speaks stupidly, one can expect to be mocked.