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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFor those nutty fundamentalist folks. Why did God send this during Trump's term?
Just saying.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)No, their taking away our guns, no their baby killers, no its them moslems, no, its the cara-vans. Feel free to add one or pick one.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)(all assuming there is a doG)
If doG had wanted to give tRump a trial to overcome, it would have been at the beginning of his term and a way for true believers to believe.
But coming at this stage in this way, with so many opportunities to smash it early or to tweet it up into a raging contagion, it can only mean it is to punish tRump, to let him make huge mistakes to prove just how undoGly tRump is and his supporters too.
Let tRump and his cult be swallowed up by the Orange Sea while true Americans are led through parted waters by Biden.
That's how doG works, right?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)The Rapture-Ready brainwashed fundamentalists see him as the 'CHOSEN ONE' to bring in the RAPTURE. They say 'God works in mysterious ways'. These are ppl terrified of Death - they NEED to be whisked into heaven and never experience Death. They give the snake oil salesmen 10+% of their income in order to be 'saved'
I can say this with some authority because my mother was, and is still, 'one of them'. My childhood was all about the demons that lived inside of me. I got to experience exorcism.
These ppl are living their lives TERRIFIED - going into the psychology behind it would take months of posts.
Turbineguy
(37,331 posts)Mister Ed
(5,934 posts)That's usually it. They usually figure God's mad at us for not being mean enough to gay people.
Chainfire
(17,539 posts)It would more likely be God's punishment for the Democrats trying to impeach the President. Remember some of these folks use the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth to condone the bombing of clinics, the murder of doctors and the persecution of people from South of our border. They sing, Jesus Loves the Little Children in Sunday School, and then rip children from their parents out of spite.
Some people can twist their religions to excuse any kind of inhuman activities, and do it with the self assurance that they are carrying out God's will. Gott Mit Uns......
TlalocW
(15,382 posts)Evangelical Trump-humper Robert Jeffress even did a sermon on it.
COV-19 can be caught by/happen to anyone. Think about past proclamations - AIDS initially affected the gay community the most, and religious nutjobs to this day still get traction pushing it as a gay disease, a scourge sent by God. Hurricanes and other natural disasters, they're slightly more selective with. New Orleans, a city synonymous with vice/having a good time/a large homosexual community? Punishment from God. A flood in the same state that destroys the home of evangelist Tony Perkins, who has preached God sends natural disasters as punishment? Eh, not so much. If anything, it's a test from God, and gosh-darn it, if a millionaire who can overcome God's test without having to touch his own money but get it instead from donations from his followers.. I mean through his faith... anyone can... if they're not gay.
So if COV-19 can strike anyone, you can't be telling the rubes in your flock, er, members of your congregation that it's punishment from God. They don't get punished. They get tested, and the best way to show God you pass his test is to send money to your preacher. It's good business.
TlalocW