Can someone explain to me about the bible thing? A group of peaceful protestors are gassed,

[niyad]

harassed, hit with rubber bullets, corralled. . All so that the racist in chief can walk across the street to hold up a book that he has never read, and then stroll back, all without saying a word???? I kept figuring I just wasn't bothering with the audio, sinceI cannot stand his voice.

What in the nine circles of hell was the friggen point?

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. The point was so the hypocrites can point to that picture and say

"Best President Ever".

Yes, just typing it made me want to gag.

[bobbieinok]

11. Evangelical leaders proclaim it proves Trump is the great defender, protector of Christianity

Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress (preacher 1st Bapt Dallas) have said so quite strongly

Graham scolded Episcopalians for complaining. Pointed out they're not 'real, true' Christian's b/c they accept LGBTQ people. 'Real' ones like Evangelicals harshly condemn them and throw them out of their churches and families

[Skittles]

2. he heard the words BUNKER BOY

so he had to prove to his pathetic, deluded, sanctimonious supporters that he is NOT AFRAID, by using the military to gas citizens to clear a path for him to walk to church and hold a bible for a campaign photo

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Dear Leader was bravely making a stand for Murica! Patriotism, Law and Order, blah, blah.

or to sane people, a public relations con job.

[Karadeniz]

4. Ongoing perversion of Christianity.

[jmg257]

5. I think racist Laura Ingraham said it worse ..."Christ like"

His old/christian/catholic base who watch that brainwashing shit 24 hours a day LOVED it.

All that matters.

[Freddie]

6. The actual people who run that church

Are LIVID that he used it as a prop, without permission. Episcopalians are usually liberal and Dolt 45 goes against everything they believe.

[fierywoman]

7. It's simply abject hypocrisy. All those "Christians" who never live the Golden Rule.

[Collimator]

8. You want me to explain the bible thing?

The Bible is a collection of writings compiled over centuries. Some of its contents were written by sincere people who were inspired by the idea of the divine. Some of its contents were written by people with specific social and/or nationalistic agendas. None of its contents were written by human amanuensis-es who were channeling an actual divine being in inking out "Absolute Truth".

Because the Bible was written by human beings with different human motivations, humans down through the ages have picked through its contents for inspiration and justification regarding almost any point of view you can imagine.

There are sincere people who look to its more noble contents to encourage themselves and others to work towards noble goals. Then there is pretty much everybody else.

Trump and his followers are in the second category. And that especially includes those who mouth off about following Jesus Christ and actually follow Trump.

Obviously, I don't believe that the Bible is true. But it would almost be worth it to be sent to hell to see the Trumpsters furiously condemned by the God they think they are following for being the most self-righteous and stupid idolaters ever.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Thanks for saying it

That the bible can be interpreted in a way to excuse sociopathy.

Most people don't understand this.

[niyad]

12. I do understand what the bible is- as I call it, the world's first propaganda tract". My

question was, "what was the friggen point of that (mercifully) silent display?

[Collimator]

16. My apologies for sounding as though

I were lecturing you on a subject in which you are already well-versed.

[niyad]

19. Not a problem. Perhaps I could have phrased the OP a bit more clearly.

It is clear that you are quite well-versed. Have you read"When God Was A Woman" by Merlin Stone?

[Collimator]

20. Immediate smile upon reading the title of the book you mentioned.

Got that one on my bookshelf. (Actually it is a book tower.) I also have Barbara Walker's Women's Encyclopedia of Secrets and Myths and Crone and The Skeptical Feminist. And I have Language of the Goddess by Marija Gimbutas.

Feminist spirituality is a particular interest of mine. A young friend met the writer, Starhawk, and got my copy of The Spiral Dance autographed for me.


Note: Most of these books were purchased when I was still married to my fundamentalist husband. This shows that I have a slight rebellious streak even though I am not a confrontational person by nature. It also explains why I know so much about the Bible.

[niyad]

21. Ahhhhh, you have some truly great ones there. I, too, have an autographed "Spiral Dance".

As you can probably guess from my avatar, feminist spirituality is my interest as well. So much is being rediscovered, (re-membering, putting back together,, as Mary Daly said).

Have your read "The Great Cosmic Mother" by Barbara Mor and Monica Sjoo? Utterly fascinating.

I was excommunicated from the rcc for daring to question the patriarchy. And that was before all the books we are mentioning!

[Beartracks]

9. It was like he was doing a magazine photo shoot.

Like a photo-op, but boiled down to it's most obvious essence -- the photos -- without any of the pretense of a normal photo-op (e.g. pretending to worship at the church, pretending to work in a soup kitchen, etc.).

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[Iggo]

13. It's about a photo-op, and what you're willing to do to get one.

That's it. And by the way, there's not enough people saying this: HE GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE.

But anyway, that's why he gassed his own people. To pose for a picture.

He's posing for this picture while the victims of his gassing are screaming in the streets.

[niyad]

14. A lot of us keep pointing this out. But, he didn't gas his own people To his "mind" (and I use

that word most advisedly) we, all of us, the protestors, their supporters, are NOT his people. We are alien, less than human. So we don't count.

[Iggo]

15. That's exactly what he did, though. He gassed his own people.

No despot who gasses his own people thinks of the victims of the gassing as people.

But that doesn't change what happened.

[Arazi]

17. Read this from the LA Times. Explains it all

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-06-14/donald-trump-st-johns-church-white-evangelicals-campaign-2020-pandemic-protest?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true

[niyad]

18. Dear Goddess, that was one depressing read. How can they be that f'n clueless??

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. The gassing and rubber bullets were as much the point as the photo op.

Ruthlessly clearing the path demonstrated power to his slobbering Nazi supporters while the bible and church props demonstrated 'righteousness' to his slobbering evilgelical supporters.

[niyad]

23. Soooooo stealing "evilgelicals"!

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