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Initech

(100,040 posts)
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 02:52 PM Jul 2018

The Christian Right Doesn't Care About You

They don't. They never have and they never will. We had a president who was faithful to his wife and loyal to his family. But you know what the Christian right did? They trashed them and said they were un American and called her some extremely ugly things including an "ape in high heels" and even floated a conspiracy theory that she was a man in drag and that her daughters were paid actors.

They rally behind one of the most boorish, loathsome, and pig headed presidents we've ever had in American history because they are as boorish, loathsome, and pig headed as he is. That's why they are able to overlook his affairs with porn stars and pee tapes with Russian hookers. These people who love and support Trump are people who are just like them - serial cheaters and multiple divorcees who've committed some disgusting sex acts that would make the pee tape seem amateur by comparison. He's just like them.

That's why they supported his zero tolerance policy of ripping immigrant children away from their families because they don't give a shit about children. These assholes support child torture because they've probably tortured children themselves. Some of the holier than thou types like Rick Wiles and Theodore Shoebat? I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had real skeletons in their closet.

Really the only people who the Christian right really care about is other straight white Christian males. Bill Clinton has an affair with an adult female? They grill him for 8 years without hesitation and still continue to to THIS FUCKING DAY! But Trump literally walks in on underage women dressing in a locker room because he could - something that would get you or I placed on a registered sex offender list for the rest of our lives - he gets a mulligan!

Yes that's right - for all of Trump's failings, and his absolutely disgusting and appalling sex crimes, and the fact that he tortures children, they're willing to give him a second pass just like he's playing professional golf. Oh and that's something else Trump sucks at, but we'll save that for another subject.

Because the bottom line for the Christian right is that they don't give a fuck about you. They don't think America should be a land of peace and prosperity where everyone of all ages, races, sexes and creeds is welcome. They just want it to be for red blooded, white 'Mericans. They only think straight, white Christians should be able to own property, to have health care, to get married, to start businesses, and to be prosperous.

What they really want - and why they praise Trump, is that Trump is giving them exactly what they want - the judiciary. That's why he's nominating the most unqualified judges this country has ever seen. Because they can be easily controlled and manipulated by the Christian right. And they'll get it. Which is why they don't give a fuck. They want absolute power and they will praise the most boorish, loathsome jackass in the world to get it. Because he's just like them.

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The Christian Right Doesn't Care About You (Original Post) Initech Jul 2018 OP
tell 'em u have lots of available $$/ they will looooooooooove u nt msongs Jul 2018 #1
George Carlin had a quote one time: Initech Jul 2018 #2
I never believed they did. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2018 #3
The Christian Right cares about only one thing in a President Quemado Jul 2018 #4
They only care about power atreides1 Jul 2018 #7
Yup that's it in a nutshell! Initech Jul 2018 #13
Off topic but spike jones Jul 2018 #25
Sounds like most of the Christians I know in Texas. walkingman Jul 2018 #5
and Jeebus doesn't want you for a sunbeam either flibbitygiblets Jul 2018 #6
"Christian" in name only vlyons Jul 2018 #8
Trumpanzee "Christians" are the biggest assholes around: dalton99a Jul 2018 #9
The resale value of those cars just went down exponentially! Initech Jul 2018 #14
I Love How These Cowards SDJay Jul 2018 #21
I'm sure they have tiny dicks Freddie Jul 2018 #27
The Christian Right has lost any claim to the moral high ground. Blue_true Jul 2018 #10
+10000000 Initech Jul 2018 #15
Good. SamKnause Jul 2018 #11
They certainly don't care about me The Genealogist Jul 2018 #12
Maybe we should always label them as Christian, Inc. (C) erronis Jul 2018 #16
It's mutual. Solly Mack Jul 2018 #17
Think for yourselves Racerdog1 Jul 2018 #18
I always consider an endorsement by the Christian right as a disqualifier... Wounded Bear Jul 2018 #19
That's because they're not very Christian and rarely right (except for being FAR right). n/t DFW Jul 2018 #20
And they don't care about any of my LGBT people. trickyguy Jul 2018 #22
To Borrow a Biblical Term... SDJay Jul 2018 #23
And versa vice-a, in spades. Nt Mc Mike Jul 2018 #24
KR NT ProudProgressiveNow Jul 2018 #26
And as a Christian myself, of the liberal variety Freddie Jul 2018 #28
My mother and her family are all ELCA Lutherans. Willie Pep Jul 2018 #29
It's weird to see the downward spiral isn't it? Initech Jul 2018 #31
Well put EndGOPPropaganda Jul 2018 #30

Initech

(100,040 posts)
2. George Carlin had a quote one time:
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 02:57 PM
Jul 2018

"God is all knowing, all powerful, but somehow, he just can't handle money! God's got a big money problem!"

Quemado

(1,262 posts)
4. The Christian Right cares about only one thing in a President
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 02:58 PM
Jul 2018

Do you hate the same people that we hate?

atreides1

(16,067 posts)
7. They only care about power
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 03:06 PM
Jul 2018

With access to power, they can push their bigoted, hate filled, racist, and misogynistic agenda!!!

spike jones

(1,676 posts)
25. Off topic but
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:33 PM
Jul 2018

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
8. "Christian" in name only
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 03:12 PM
Jul 2018

Certainly don't practice the compassionate teachings of Jesus about love, tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, protecting the weak and vulnerable. They are a degenerate cult, which is all wrapped up in spiritual materialism. And for those of you unfamiliar with the label "spiritual materialism," it is using spirituality to enhance one's ego, to gain material stuff, power, and position.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
21. I Love How These Cowards
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:18 PM
Jul 2018

call themselves "alpha males" as the clown in one of the bumper stickers above seems to believe. In my experience, these are the biggest frickin fraidy cats around. The only time they're "brave" is when they're yelling at their TV from their musty couch or at their radio from inside their cars with the windows up.

It's actually almost funny. Alpha males. Right.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. The Christian Right has lost any claim to the moral high ground.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 03:21 PM
Jul 2018

Next time one of them complain about being discrimated against and start quoting scripture, abruptly stop that person and tell him or her to go fuck themself.

SamKnause

(13,088 posts)
11. Good.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 03:50 PM
Jul 2018

I don't give a flying fuck about them.

Nosy ignorant busy-bodies.

They are diseased.

They should have to prove their bullshit lies.

Separation of Church and State !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stay the fuck out of the government !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
12. They certainly don't care about me
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 04:35 PM
Jul 2018

I am a gay man. They'd like to have the ability to legally murder me. They don't care about each other, either. Trump doesn't care about them a whit, except where he can exploit them for his own gain.

erronis

(15,183 posts)
16. Maybe we should always label them as Christian, Inc. (C)
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:13 PM
Jul 2018

Or Christians, LLP. Trademark and Intellectual Property rights belong to them.

(Jesus Christ, or whatever his real name was, need not apply for employment.)

It's always been just a business. Ever since somebody declared themselves a "pope" and some other people made their own branches of the enterprise.

I don't know enough about Islam but I'm guessing the same money-making and power-grabbing schemes abound there.

 

Racerdog1

(808 posts)
18. Think for yourselves
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:15 PM
Jul 2018

Politics by fear and religion by fear, one in the same. Both geared to taking mindless peoples money and playing with what little brain matter they may have.

Wounded Bear

(58,603 posts)
19. I always consider an endorsement by the Christian right as a disqualifier...
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:16 PM
Jul 2018

Have not had a reason to go against that opinion in better than 30 years.

trickyguy

(769 posts)
22. And they don't care about any of my LGBT people.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:22 PM
Jul 2018

They would just as soon see us all disappear - or worse yet be exterminated.
Kind of like in WWII only we'd be the big scapegoats for all their problems.

But the beautiful irony in all that is there will be a new generation of children
born as I write this, and some of them will grow up to be LGBT citizens.

And what's next? Kill them all.
No, I think this next generation will somehow have more empathy and want a better
world for ALL of us. At least that's my hope.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
23. To Borrow a Biblical Term...
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 05:22 PM
Jul 2018

which I'm pretty sure means many of these "Christians" wouldn't recognize it at all, these scum are hypocritical, heretical pharisees. They are nothing like the Jesus anyone can read about in the bible. Actual Jesus, instead of Scam the Rubes Jesus, didn't hate:

Brown people
Poor people
Foreigners
Women
Gay folks
Sick people

In fact, Actual Jesus often spoke bluntly about how we need to be kind to the sick and the poor, among other things.

Basically, and as I said yesterday with regards to my fundie family members, fuck them. They're way more hateful than most atheists I know and some are downright evil.

Freddie

(9,257 posts)
28. And as a Christian myself, of the liberal variety
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 06:38 PM
Jul 2018

They've done more to kill my church (ELCA) than you can imagine. A whole generation hears "church" and "Christianity" and immediately lumps us with them.

Willie Pep

(841 posts)
29. My mother and her family are all ELCA Lutherans.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 07:10 PM
Jul 2018

I am a Catholic but I have visited my mom's church a number of times and I was shocked by how few young people there were. I am using the term "young" broadly to mean anyone under 50.

I am really sad to see so many of the mainline Protestant churches decline, as this article about churches in Minnesota points out.

http://www.startribune.com/as-minnesota-churches-close-a-way-of-life-fades/486037461/

I am not gloating as a Catholic since we have our own problems with people leaving the church, much of it self-inflicted due to the abuse scandals and cover-ups. I actually wish the mainline Protestants were stronger since they tend to act as a bulwark against the right-wing which claims to have a monopoly on Christianity. Sadly, the growing branches of Christianity in America and around world seem to be of the charismatic or prosperity gospel variety.

Initech

(100,040 posts)
31. It's weird to see the downward spiral isn't it?
Sat Jul 28, 2018, 12:54 AM
Jul 2018

Religious institutions have just devolved into crazy conspiracy theory shitholes. The Russians knew who to target and where it would do the most damage. It's scary what is happening now.

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