Mike Luckovich for May 01, 2018

Jim Jones was saner.

Phony, hypocritical “holier-than thou” CONservative evangelical “Christians” who always wag their fingers in everyone else’s noses have been exposed for the money-grubbing frauds they are — they have officially relinquished any credibility on claiming to be the party of “family values” or the “moral majority” (they are neither moral nor the majority).

These CONservative religious hucksters have proven that it is only about the money, supporting candidates who will REDISTRIBUTE middle class working people’s wealth upward to the few richest elites like themselves who already have the most, while pursuing their daily televangelist scams and weekly Sunday collection cons to swindle gullible suckers out of their hard-earned money.

On the one hand, evangelicals are total hypocrites. On the other hand, it’s nice to know that they are finally willing to admit that the whole “eternal heaven / eternal hell” thing doesn’t matter because it doesn’t exist. I just wish they’d find some middle ground where something still mattered.

Trump is the Golden Calf incarnate…

Kool-Aid? More like Fool-Aid, and what happened to, “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service?”

They’re just lapping it up like the crazies they are.

Trump’s Evangelicals are closet NeoNazis to put it bluntly.

The evangelicals who support Trump appear to fall into several categories:

1. Racists: the vast majority of WHITE evangelicals supported Trump; the vast majority of BLACK evangelicals did not.

2. Followers of the “prosperity gospel,” an appalling perversion of Christianity that claims God wants everyone to be rich, and pushes the inverse: that rich people are favored by God. It should not have to be said that this is in total opposition to Christianity, as well as being an odd, modern throwback to the “divine right of kings.”

3. Misogynistic conservative Christians — the Christian Taliban, as it were — who would never, ever vote for a woman for president. Many “fundamentalist” Christians do things like forbidding women to wear “revealing” clothing (that is, short-sleeves and less than long skirts) or go into “mixed bathing” (that’s swimming to normal people). This isn’t even uncommon in parts of the South where I grew up. Pence exemplifies that view, which punishes and blames women for men’s inability to control their sexuality, and therefore puts constraints on women.

Ironically, many of these people are those who have insisted on “character” as a key element of a presidential candidate, but clearly true Christian character, or even basic decency, falls way behind the three criteria above.

The opiate of the masses.

I used to be a Southern Baptist until I realized their entire line of B.S. was based on LIES, FABLES AND TALL TALES written over HUNDREDS of years by a bunch of Bronze Age Goat Herders!!!! I’m feeling MUCH BETTER NOW! Do I believe in a supreme being? Yes. It’s RELIGION that’s a crock of crap. ALL OF THEM!!

“Do this in remembrance of me.”

“If evangelicalism ever wants to play a more positive role in social and political life, perhaps it’s time its leaders acknowledge that its public image isn’t a ‘grotesque caricature’ but the thing itself.” —Hollis Phelps, Religion Dispatches, 2018 April 19

Evangelicalism is in the top three of destructive forces in America. I can’t remember the other two right off. It’ll come to me , wait …wait…

What we have here is evil done in the name of Jesus… Who was a brown Middle Eastern philosopher who advocated caring for the poor, the infirm, the elderly, the orphans, the widows, the downtrodden, the outcasts……………etc. Christianity has become the new label for evil enabling of evildoers. Evangical seem to be the worst.

The Evangelicals’ support of Trump boils down to three reasons: 1) He’s not gay. 2) He’s not a woman. 3) He’s not black.

Finished the Kool-Aid long ago and have moved on to the Hatorade.

@MOTIVEMAGUS

Clearly reasoned, as usual, coming from your fine mind. I would like to add that a few Roy Moore types see in Trump a kindred spirit………..

Its called playing the long game. The evangelicals were promised conservative judges. So far, promise fulfilled.

I have a few friends within that community. Apparently they knew going in that Trump is a horndog with a checkered past. They don’t really care, provided they can get conservatives on the SCOTUS.

They figure, correctly, that a conservative SCOTUS will provide benefits far beyond the 4 or 8 years of a Trump administration.

Even el Presidente Moron Idiot needs someone to love him unconditionally, right?

Evangelicals have turned away from God to drink the Trump kool-aid. If you don’t agree, you can explain how what Trump did was okay and what Clinton did was not. You can explain how they attacked a man for the color of his skin and backed a man who started a preemptive war. They are nothing but a hypocritical wing of the Republican party, and worship money like the rest of them.

Republichristians those who ignore the biblical teachings of Jesus while religiously following republican doctrine in the name of Christ.

All of this is nothing new. Savonarola wasn’t burned at the stake by the Evangelicals.

Americans were idiots to elect vicious liar Trump the Crooked.

How many abortions is Trump responsible for?

It is amazing how “evangelicals” can quote the bible verbatim (“chapter and verse”) in a language (usually English) that didn’t even start until some 500 years after Jesus died. English didn’t evolve into something which we would understand today for another 600 years.

The “Old Testament” was originally an oral retelling in Aramaic and ancient Hebrew of stories that were later written down (in ancient Hebrew) and then translated into early Greek, and the Greek into Latin, which was later translated into other languages, including early English by people who didn’t always know the previous language that well. That is why there are so many English versions of “the Bible”. John Wycliffe, in the late 1300’s, decided to go back to the “original” (Hebrew and Aramaic) to translate them into Middle English. This was the start of “modern” English (and other) versions of the scriptures. Please remember that oral retellings rely on the ability of the reteller to accurately remember the story each time. Translations require the translator to precisely know both the originating and end languages, and for both languages to have the exact same vocabularies (an exceedingly rare thing, indeed).

As a result, today’s English “Bible” is a very loose approximation of what the originators believed to have occurred or been said.

Most current Bible scholars, use their preferred versions of the Bible as starting points, not as a strict accountings of what happed.

Of course evangelicals use THEIR bibles as a base for attacks on those they don’t like.

For an insightful review of half a millennium of magical thinking in America, starting with the Puritans and running right up to the age of “fake news” and “alternative facts”, I highly recommend Kurt Andersen’s excellent book Fantasyland.