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liberal N proud

(60,302 posts)
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:00 PM Jul 2014

The laugher for the day: Tony Perkins Fears Obama Will Start Putting Christians In Jail Any Day Now

Tony Perkins invited Fox News’ go-to-Christian-persecution-commentator Todd Starnes to join him on the weekend edition of “Washington Watch,” where Starnes pointed to recent remarks by Rick Warren and Russell Moore warning of the imminent imprisonment of Christians in America as proof that Christians will indeed soon face jail sentences.

Perkins, who recently warned that gay rights advocates are about to launch an anti-Christian Holocaust, naturally agreed that such arrests are going to “play out very quickly in our day.”

The Family Research Council president told Starnes: “I do think that it could very well come to that in our lifetime. A few years ago I didn’t think it would, not this quickly, but as we have seen the aggressive nature of this administration and this president and the open hostility of this administration toward orthodox faith — we have seen it in the HHS mandate, we have seen it in the numerous cases regarding marriage — I think it is going to come down to that.”

See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-fears-obama-will-start-putting-christians-jail-any-day-now#sthash.ptFUFndg.dpuf

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JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
1. Rushdoony-ites going off the rails
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:04 PM
Jul 2014

I'm book marking this and adding to my journal to come back to later.

Thanks! We need every little thing about these people expose. The Family Research council has been around an awful long time - now we know what direction they are taking.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
2. Instead of jail for ALL Christians...
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:05 PM
Jul 2014

maybe we can agree on selective medication for a few?

Idjits like that just bring out the devil in me............

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
3. What utter B.S. Obama is going to jail christians.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:06 PM
Jul 2014

Anybody with half a brain knows Obama's plan is to feed them to the lions.

Warpy

(110,909 posts)
4. What he needs to fear is the backlash against all strutting Christians caused by
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:06 PM
Jul 2014

their recent string of "successes" that have resulted in having human rights stripped from humans and given to corporations.

He needs to fear women. He's about to start tasting the arsenic in his soup.

My best advice to him is to retire on all his ill gotten wealth, following it to some Caribbean island where nobody knows who and what he is.

TlalocW

(15,358 posts)
6. I wonder what it's like to live in their world
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:15 PM
Jul 2014

I know that people like Perkins with media-related positions are mostly playing up fears for their own enrichment (although I'm sure a few believe what they're actually saying), but the people who listen to (and believe) them, who are fed a steady diet of fear-mongering, how do they even step outside? The neighbor has a Prius! He's going on my list! When did a Black family move in next door? Am I safe? The guy across the street has a Mexican gardener! Doesn't he know we're being invaded from the south? Why is there an Indian restaurant next door to my Applebee's? Brother's kid isn't interested in going out for football... better keep an eye on him so he doesn't turn into a fag. Etc.

It's like these people switch between perpetual anger and perpetual fear, and the only joy is the kind of mocking kind when something happens that liberals don't like (like Hobby Lobby), but even that's short-lived because their fearmongers start back up that even though they "won" on that and that they represent the most privileged segments of society in race and religion, etc. there's no time to rest because liberal socialist fascist communists are still out there working against them because they haven't gotten their way 100% on every issue.

TlalocW

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
11. Good observation
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:36 PM
Jul 2014

I've seen many of those types of elements in some fundies I've met and know with and I kind of wonder the same thing. How can you live like that? It must be absolutely exhausting to have to always be "on" all the time and filter every damned thing through some ideology test. No wonder so many of them I know like bland overcooked meat and potatoes diets and have vanilla tastes: They must be getting ulcers from the constant state of anxiety they impart on themselves.

abakan

(1,815 posts)
7. A drug induced fantasy......
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:22 PM
Jul 2014

Sorry Tony, you and yours are not wanted in our prisons, you will be a bad influence on the inmates.

 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
9. I do believe that Christians in America are the least persecuted people on the planet.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:32 PM
Jul 2014

Of course, some of 'em do a bit of persecuting of others then claim that they're being persecuted when they're called on it.

LoisB

(7,074 posts)
10. But isn't this one of the signs of the impending rapture? Or has it already happened
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:35 PM
Jul 2014

and these assholes were "Left Behind"?

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
12. Um, A Question For Tony
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:39 PM
Jul 2014

If that were true, wouldn't he put the most vocal away first? If so, wouldn't that mean that unless you WANT to go to jail, it would be better to stay low?

Or, it could mean that he knows this is a lie and has nothing to lose.
GAC

Takket

(21,424 posts)
13. all part of right wind paranoia
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 12:40 PM
Jul 2014

Every day this country is pushed farther to the right, so, how can the GOP ensure that there is not a "correction" to push us back to the left? They run an ongoing brainwashing campaign through the willing media to convince the public that the country is going off the deep end to the left. This is just an other example of that.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
14. As a Christian these people and their fear amaze me. Where is their faith in God? They are afraid of
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 02:29 PM
Jul 2014

everything and tell everyone else to pray. The first thing they should pray for is wisdom for their ignorance.

If "christians" get put in jail it will be because they are disobeying the law not because they are christain.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
16. It's good that no one has told them about the boatloads of lions headed here
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 02:39 PM
Jul 2014

Whoops, I let the cat out of the bag, didn't I?

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