As a Christian minister, I believe in God and the devil — and I know whose side today's pious Republicans are on
As a Christian minister, I believe in God and the devil — and I know whose side today's pious Republicans are on
Where is that devil and what is he up to? First of all, like in any good horror movie, the devil is always right here in the house. In the case of the current evangelical political machine, the devil is all too often wearing pastoral robes and expensive tailored suits. For many years, the evangelical church has pointed to the devil outside in the world, but the devil is the one doing the pointing. Secondly, the devil is always up to the same thing: creating division through fear.
I'm more scared most politicians believe or claim a religion when the population doesn't. How can I trust you to govern me when you believe in magical bearded men threatening you from the clouds?
What's more, God is omniscient. He knew the serpent would tempt Eve. He knew they would eat the fruit. And yet, he still put it in easy reach. Then punished them when they did what he knew they were going to do.
There's also Exodus, where Pharaoh is going to let the Jews free but then God hardens his heart and he says no. Why? Because God told Moses he would say no. And then God tortures all the Egyptians for it and murders their kids afterward.
Even dumber. "Just kidding, bro. Sacrifice this goat instead. Yeah, the one just hanging out over there you could have sacrificed this whole time. Remember how you told your son God would provide an animal? That animal, doofus."
I'm so glad that a secular nation gets to have a snake handler like this to be third in line for POTUS. It's infuriating that these Republic of Gilead freaks have so much power.
It's cute that they like a book; there is at least 1/3 of the nation that want no part of their little book club.
Does anyone know if there are any political communities that don’t consider op-ed pieces to be news? For example, a community that has strict rules that news must be free of journalistic bias and only cite news that factually happened with no agenda?
and this, which also hinges on Daniel, which identifies that when Hamas put the bait in Israel's face, & Israel too the bait, then Israel's annihilation becomes certain within 1 decade...
( it is less-specific, I'm just identifying that it
a) hinges on Daniel's abomination, &
b) identifies Israel's ANNIHILATION, which is certain, now.
Hamas went nihilist, no longer being deterred by threat of anything, & committed the strategic sacrificing all Palestinians, in exchange for tripping a sequence that would showcase Israel's nihilism/sadism,
and once you remove the deterrent power from your weapons, because you've made the opponent nihilist,
then "martyrdom" becomes an option, for them.
The entire Muslim region's going to lose its ability to care what damage Israel does to them, so Israel won't have any "deterrent" anymore:
the NEED to annihilate Israel is growing, now.
Animal/rabid escalation upon escalation upon escalation.
Like clockwork.
Inevitable.
Inescapable.
Oh, this, too...
There's some line in Rev which says someone with bear paws
will have his "head injury" cured, and it'll be called miraculous...
I'm betting that the shattered-narcissism in Trump,
gets suddenly replaced with careful absolute-psychopathy.
Christmas-ish?
Maybe.
Within a season or 2, certainly.
...
If that happens, it'll just be another "delusion" of mine to claim that evidence could possibly exist in ANY religious text, according to the materialists/physicalists/existentialists...
Their dogma prohibits Universe's evidence from contradicting them.
...
But, these are ScientificallyTestablePredictions, obviously.
Scientific Method insists that simply waiting & seeing is the only valid method of testing them.
Does your belief choose to side with eating-popcorn, or getting prepping?