Tom Toles for June 26, 2016

Trump reveals his favorite part of the Bible:

The Ten Suggestions

The Golden Calf Incarnate…..

Job 34-35

Any sensible person will surely agree;and the wise who hear me will saythat Trump (sic) is speaking from ignoranceand that nothing he says makes sense.

Seems the logical extension of Dump’s campaign. Rumored he wants to start a TV channel. Same thing.

Trump’s favorite Bible verse? All of them!

Seriously, have we ever seen him and Sarah Palin together?

Conservative pundit Michael Gerson:Oh, God — and I mean the entreaty seriously — the Trump/evangelical summit in New York was just as bad as some of us feared.

More than 900 conservative Christian leaders, put in a susceptible mood by a “prayer guide” (“Acknowledge any personal feelings that would keep you from honoring Mr. Trump for his participation”), witnessed Donald Trump field some softball questions. This was reassuring enough to reward him with a standing ovation and positive buzz. Trump can now (accurately) assume that these clerics and activists won’t be giving him much more trouble.

Many participants insist they haven’t yet given Trump their endorsement. The whole event, however, was taken — by the media, public and Trump campaign itself — as an evangelical Christian stamp of approval. Seldom has a group seemed more eager to be exploited.

No one, remarkably, asked Trump to explain the moral theory that has guided his gyrations on the abortion issue — from supporter of partial-birth abortion to advocate of punishment for women who have abortions. That, presumably, would have been impolite. And few were offended when Trump used the occasion to question Hillary Clinton’s faith. “She’s been in the public eye for years and years,” he said, “and yet there’s no — there’s nothing out there.” It is like watching a man insult a mirror.

In the course of the event, Trump promised to nominate judges whom evangelicals would favor; to change laws that restrict church involvement in partisan politics; and to foster a cultural ethos that allows the unapologetic usage of “Merry Christmas.” “You get racism, misogyny, torture and an authoritarian as commander in chief,” one evangelical leader wrote me, “but you’ll get to hear ‘Merry Christmas’ in stores. Now that’s the art of the deal.”

If there were no belief in a god and a hereafter, they would have to be invented by the wealthy and powerful to avoid having to share their wealth and power with the populace. Promises of great joy in the hereafter would be orchestrated to justify the inequities in the here and now.

The right wingers have been worshipping at the church’s of Satan and Mammon for a long time. They love money and love to make life difficult for everyone else so they can exploit it.

I made the suggestion to GoComics that they need to fix their “share” buttons. This would be awesome to Tweet or share on my Facebook page. But I want people to see this actual CARTOON and not a bunch of nonsense about ""visit our site" because nobody is ever going to click on that.

Love the cross, for some tax-exempt is a religion. Looking at you, T party. Literally made for each other.

The Evangelical radicals don’t want Hillary, so they may vote for Trump with seemingly no other option. Scary. The Radical Evangelicals can’t think beyond 2 issues.They never think of Jesus’ words and actions, such as feed the hungry, care for the widows and orphans, welcome the stranger, visit those wrongly imprisoned, and in the old testament, the 1st 5 books have many injunctions about giving to the poor, leaving the corners of the field for the hungry and multiple other places.The thing on abortion is only obliquely, (bad speller here) mentioned, and the gay stuff only slightly more. Sodom Etc.

Hmm, and God sits at the right hand of Trump his father in this church. Jesus, Trump’s brother from another mother,caters special events to raise money for the church.

Can I get an “Ah, Man”?

Can I get an “Ah, Man”?

Can I get an “Ah, Man”?

Just bizarre

My favorite SciFi story: An astronaut is being pulled in to a black hole, and as he is stretched to his “breaking” point, he wonders where the matter goes, and since it doesn’t escape,does it go out the other side?With his last conscious thought, he says “Let there be light!”

…it’s not easy…but it is possible…