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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump administration's alternative Christianity
Evangelicals have never had it so good, politically speaking.
Since President Trump took office in January, the White House has become a Christian roundtable, with just about every top-tier seat filled by a faithful member of the fold or someone who is happy to further the folds agenda.
The lineup of believers who are in positions of power is truly dizzying. Betsy DeVos, who leads the Department of Education, has stated that her goal as a public servant is to advance Gods kingdom. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry employed mass prayer as a means of addressing social problems when he was governor of Texas. Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, believes that the theory of evolution was encouraged by the devil.
It doesnt stop there. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions has said that people who dont believe in God cant be truthful. Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency chief, is a devout Baptist who denies that climate change is real. Mike Pompeo, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is an evangelical who opposes abortion even in cases of rape. The presidents attorney, Jay Sekulow, another evangelical, has defended school prayer at the Supreme Court, and Trumps spiritual advisor, Paula White, is a Pentecostal televangelist who teaches that if people give her church thousands of dollars, God will reward them with favors. Vice President Mike Pence might be the most piously anti-gay politician in America.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-zuckerman-christians-trump-administration-20170811-story.html
dalton99a
(81,658 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)..."grab them by the pussy".
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)He meant to say "grabeth "
Permanut
(5,671 posts)Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)Hahahahahaha Glad to see you know your King James Version of pussy grabbing
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)HOW ARE YA, SWEETIE?
Hows the hubbster? How is Kentucky treating you?
And yes, the KJV....Book of Pudendum, Chapter 69, Verses 3 through 4;
3) Yay I say verily unto thee, that wheneth thou art of the celebrated class, you can move on them as ifith a bitch, and they shall allow you to do all manner of things.
4) Thou canst kisseth them, shoving thy tongue to their deepest recesses. And they letteth you do it. Grabeth them by the pussy. Place thy hands on all their private and naughty bits. It's great.
Liberal Jesus Freak
(1,451 posts)...has watched too much Monty Python, including me! Kentucky sucks but the granddaughter is only 10 minutes away. She's the most beautiful thing in the whole world, of course
A HERETIC I AM
(24,380 posts)And yes, I can quote almost any line from all the movies and all the Monty Python's Flying Circus series, so don't ask!
SHRED
(28,136 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)And nothing says Jesus' teachings any less than 'Evangelical Christianity' -- a scourge upon this and all nations; the real enemy.
niyad
(113,714 posts)bora13
(860 posts)people working on this reality since the latter part of the 20th century and now they have
the power.
they only have one goal in mind, see Israel and all of civilization destroyed so their
genie can break free of the bottle and seat them all at the right hand of a genie.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Do they just go squee at the thought of breakfasting with a president...or do they know they are just props? Can't they see that they are only there to make the president look vaguely more Christian?
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Scary times ...
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)They pick and choose what to believe and how to behave.
As the op-ed writer so aptly put it:
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)"Jesus is the son of god".
There is no following his teaching, acting christ-like, etc. They are truly amoral.
dawg
(10,624 posts)Somebody once said that you can't serve both.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Now that's an oxycotinmoron if ever I saw one.
Initech
(100,121 posts)Asking the guys from Jackass about personal injury attorneys. There's no way either of these two are remotely qualified to speak out about these subjects despite the fact that they're the loudest about it!
gtar100
(4,192 posts)of everything in our government that is of service to the general population and hand it over to the greedy few.
I'm at work today trying to do something well that will benefit my family, my company and our customers and not be hurtful to others. I suspect we are all doing the same or similar (backstabbing trolls lurking about here being the exception). But these tRump people spend their days figuring out how to take away protections, regulations, benefits, and welfare from people. That's how they occupy their time.
Why do we get such awful, ugly people as "leaders". They should be locked up in psych wards while we figure out what went wrong with them. Yet there they are, paraded across our media on an hourly basis as if they were normal and had something important to say.
Hopefully this is an aberration and not typical throughout the universe. Why we have the sickest among us taking on positions of power is beyond me.
not fooled
(5,803 posts)because, being amoral (at best), they will lie cheat and steal to advance their agenda. Truly moral people have a difficult time going up against such ruthless criminals.
Oh, and their sky genie tells them that only they are right, and that therefore they can do whatever they want because they are on dog's side.
The rationalization used by despots throughout history.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)When good hair was governor, he led a state-wide prayer meeting for rain to end the drought. We ended up with the worst fire season in Texas history. Maybe his prayers were imprecations? He does get quite mixed up about things.
jmowreader
(50,572 posts)Trump is a Holiday Christian at best. No true Christian would ever follow a man who sees the Ten Commandments as a bucket list, like Trump does.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Really? Seems to me like all these people do is lie. They are INCAPABLE of telling the truth. Such astounding hypocrisy!
Time to drain the swamp! We are living in a de facto Theocracy.