ConnorEl
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Truly horrifying and damnable that those folks describe feeling much more comfortable voting for Dear Leader this time around than last.
The essence is a "we" vs. "they" mentality. And a fear of the other. Easily exploited by shitty politicians that care mainly about their own damned power.
There is a straight line from that day at Dordt four years ago to a recent scene at a chapel in Washington, where armed officers tear-gassed peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square and shot them with rubber pellets. They were clearing the way for Mr. Trump to march from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church and hold up a Bible, a declaration of Christian power.
“We have the greatest country in the world,” he said. “We’re going to keep it nice and safe.”
It was another instantly infamous moment, covered by cable news and decried by Democrats as an unseemly photo op. But in Sioux Center, many evangelicals once again received a different message, one that echoed the words uttered by a long-shot presidential candidate in a sanctuary on a cold winter morning.
“To me it was like, that’s great. Trump is recognizing the Bible, we are one nation under God,” Mr. Schouten said. “He is willing to stand out there and take a picture of it for the country to see.”
He added: “Trump was standing up for Christianity.”
Truly horrifying and damnable that those folks describe feeling much more comfortable voting for Dear Leader this time around than last.
So it's all about power, to support a religion based on the teachings of a man who challenged the powers-that-be and warned that power corrupts. Seems like they haven't learned the teachings and heeded the warnings of Jesus very well, and what they're really after is the power to force others to bend to their will and moral dictates. Kind of like, I don't know, the Pharisees. In the end this isn't about "saving" Christianity (and not all Christians are Evangelical fundamentalists), it's about saving the dominance of their cultural and social beliefs over everyone else.
I do think these people are unwittingly killing American Christianity in the long run. In the short run there have been political gains, but even then they've continued losing the culture wars (see gay marriage, for example) by wide margins, and that's not going to end anytime soon. Churches - including most Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches - are continuing to lose members, and younger generations are far less devoutly Christian than older ones, largely because of the blatant politicizing of Christianity as little more than an arm of the GOP, and because of the seemingly endless personal scandals of those who portray themselves as leaders of the Religious Right, the most recent being Little Falwell. In their desire to elect people like Trump to "protect" and "promote" their moral and cultural views (which Trump most definitely doesn't share or practice himself) they're slowly but steadily bringing about the very decline that they fear and dread.
Coastal elites don’t understand us and think we are dumb hicks but we really aren’t, proceed to do dumb as shit things to reinforce that actually is who they are.
I do think these people are unwittingly killing American Christianity in the long run. In the short run there have been political gains, but even then they've continued losing the culture wars (see gay marriage, for example) by wide margins, and that's not going to end anytime soon. Churches - including most Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches - are continuing to lose members, and younger generations are far less devoutly Christian than older ones, largely because of the blatant politicizing of Christianity as little more than an arm of the GOP, and because of the seemingly endless personal scandals of those who portray themselves as leaders of the Religious Right, the most recent being Little Falwell. In their desire to elect people like Trump to "protect" and "promote" their moral and cultural views (which Trump most definitely doesn't share or practice himself) they're slowly but steadily bringing about the very decline that they fear and dread.
Apparently Little Falwell had some good, clean fun on his boat recently. Nice to see a Man of God upholding traditional family values! I wonder what his Liberty U. would have said to one of its students, faculty, or staff who attended such a party.
Aside from the mercenaries and swamps, is there even such a thing as "black water"? Google doesn't point me to whatever he's trying to tell us that is.
Aside from the mercenaries and swamps, is there even such a thing as "black water"? Google doesn't point me to whatever he's trying to tell us that is.