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(31,114 posts)He cant do that, yet.
If we vote for democrats, nobody will do that.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)It's just a matter of convincing them God wants it done, and that isn't hard, because it's what they want to believe anyway. Then they'll do it, enthusiastically, and afterward they'll go home and feel righteous, because they did it for God.
Not all of them, but plenty of them will.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Mariana
(14,860 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Almost the entire world has engaged in religion-sanctioned slavery for tens of thousands of years. The cultures that have not are very remarkable, and very few. If there are any.
In any case, in advanced nations these people only get out of control when could-be-good people just sit around complaining about others instead of doing what being good people requires of them.
COUNTDOWN TO TAKING DEMOCRATIC CONTROL OF CONGRESS: 199 days!.
COUNTDOWN TO DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTIONS IN VARIOUS STATE GOVERNMENTS: 199 days!.
0rganism
(23,966 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Response to pbmus (Original post)
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dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Lars39
(26,110 posts)Batshit insane, drooling for the Apocalypse.
And yes, this is what their preachers are telling them.
FakeNoose
(32,722 posts)There's no rational behavior left in these churches.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)of Bill, when it came to Monica...
jes06c
(114 posts)that made me laugh....
A HERETIC I AM
(24,376 posts)it about their agenda. They want trump to help them turn this country into a theocracy
unblock
(52,306 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Long ago (1951), Eric Hoffer wrote "The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements" It should be required reading for every generation's high school seniors to graduate. But of course, it isn't. The republican party has blindly and unconsciously taken on many of the trappings of Fascism. The evangelicals have always been there, since Constantine the Great invented the Church for crowd control, mind conformity, and empire rule. If they could burn us at the stake for heresy, they would.
winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)When the first priest sat down with the first Prince and devised a method to allow the few to control the many we started down this long sad road.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)I mean this seriously.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Without a doubt.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)We will know for sure.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)And except for how our 'holy' men judge, all the time, and call for punishment.
And except for how dRump -- the guy we say don't judge -- judges all the time, and calls for punishment of everybody that isn't as holy as dRump, Dobson, Graham, Falwell, and their fucked up fascist flunky followers.
Bircher 'christians'. Doublethinking nazis. Repugs.
meadowlander
(4,402 posts)with him.
There have to be at least a few people asking themselves 'Why would God choose this man who, in no way, represents any of the values in the Bible".
If they start to doubt Trump, they start to doubt their church leaders.
And it's not hard for anyone who isn't a complete moran to doubt a man who doesn't even deny he cheated on his wife with a porn star at the same time he was also cheating on his other mistress and who is caught lying on average six times a day, sometimes within the same sentence.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-perspec-trump-compulsive-liar-0116-story.html
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)KelleyKramer
(8,982 posts)Yeah, that's what I thought
The hypocrisy is at a level that is off the scales
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)increasingly some are backing away from evangelicalism itself, believing it's taken a wrong turn away from god into partisan politics. It's also increasingly embarrassing for some to be associated with the word evangelical. As one writer put it, the once mighty moral majority seems to be turning into an immoral minority.
Those still vote with hellish conviction, though. They wipe the floor with the kind of spoiled left-wing wobblies who insist we should have whatever they want right now and throw away their votes in rejection of Democrats who only offer what is possible.
moondust
(20,002 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)then you guys don't need to vote
god will stuff the ballot box for the right person
Romney was not chosen Obama was
Bill Clinton chosen
George Bush chosen
Nixon chosen
Johnson ......
god loves war?
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Don't recall them saying that about Obama.
Vinca
(50,302 posts)It's really, really weird. I can't remember this cult-like fawning over any other POTUS we've had and many were bona fide Christians . . . unlike Don who only worships himself.