Best meme of the week in a week that saw Moore and Trump humiliated.
And here's something to think about:
Alt-Reich Religion
Amy Sullivan on Fox-vangelism.
“Never in my lifetime have we had a Potus willing to take such a strong outspoken stand for the Christian faith like Donald Trump,” tweeted Franklin Graham, the son of the evangelist Billy Graham. The Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress sees a divine hand at work: “God intervened in our election and put Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a great purpose.”
Of course, what Graham means is “Trump will repress the rights of people not like us.” Which is the major tenant of the this new protestant faith. Testimonials like this confound critics who label conservative evangelical figures like Mr. Graham and Mr. Jeffress hypocrites for embracing a man who is pretty much the human embodiment of the question “What would Jesus not do?”
But what those critics don’t recognize is that the nationalistic, race-baiting, fear-mongering form of politics enthusiastically practiced by Mr. Trump and Roy Moore in Alabama is central to a new strain of American evangelicalism.
This emerging religious worldview — let’s call it “Fox evangelicalism” — is preached from the pulpits of conservative media outlets like Fox News. It imbues secular practices like shopping for gifts with religious significance and declares sacred something as worldly and profane as gun culture.
6 comments:
We are now in the Age of Aquarius. We have been in the transitional period for the prior 50 years. An age of information, heightened consciousness, an age with a horizontal rather than verticle power structure, and an age of greater and true equality.
There are many fighting the coming change with everything they can. They simply don't get it.
Trump and his type top the list of those who don't get it. It is a global change and their is no power strong enough to resist or defeat the change that is already in process.
there not "their" in 2'nd sentence last paragraph.
Last I heard, Moore is still refusing to concede. He said God would decide the election, but he doesn't seem to want to accept God's decision.
Today's US evangelicals -- fixated on their anti-gay and anti-abortion taboos and on clinging to whatever political power they can -- have redefined evangelicalism as the sum total of all the cultural features shared by most people who are, in fact, evangelicals, whether gun culture or whatever else. And all anyone needs to do to get anointed as "pro-Christian" is to support those taboos and help them hold that power.
Occasional typos by commenters are understandable, but it's a little annoying when a professional columnist apparently doesn't know the difference between "tenant" and "tenet".
Oh, and a vulnerable transgender fetus has a science-based right to a diversity of evidence-based entitlements. So there.
“God intervened in our election and put Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a great purpose.”
There seems to be a big political awakening in the country. The death of the Republican Party may be at hand. So, maybe Jeffress is right and Trump's election will lead to a new progressivism. God does work in mysterious ways.
I recall Eisenhower, who didn't want to be president. He wanted to play golf.
But a majority called on him to serve and he did credibly. Now we have Trump,
who wanted to be president..and play golf. An ignorant minority elected him and he has given them all the ignorance and arrogance they delight in. For some unfathomable reason, his party has chosen to support all his damaging actions
in both domestic and foreign policy. Because this is evidenced-based and science-based, it may take a bit longer before that minority sees the light. But they
will. Like the Sun King, après moi le deluge. We join Voltaire, ecracez l'infame.
RN, not all Republicans have fallen for the trump lies and deceits, only the weak-minded have.
Infidel753, The Evangelical Republicans have forever disgraced themselves in their support of this vile, vulgar, self-admitted Sexual predator and serial liar. They will ever be taken seriously in their crusade as Christian soldiers. They deserve ridicule and contempt for their hypocrisy in supporting a creature like trump.
Kevin, Are they sure it was "God" who put trump in office and not Satan?
BB-Idaho, Smash the rogues! Indeed. I am a a loss to understand the blind loyalty the 30 percenters have for Drumpf. He is everything they detest in a human being EXCEPT for the newly acquired "R" after his name. I will never forgive them for what they've done to America.
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