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Isn't assuming you know the mind of God a form of blasphemy. Even if they are right about Christianity, why do they think God would want anything to do with them now. Fairly certain if I were Jesus I'd come back when the shit weasels are all gone.

I think they should all go over to Israel and wait for the second coming. Don't worry about the bombs or the murder or the rape or the lies. Israel is making it easier for you to get there, LOL so buy your fucking plane tickets

I remember back in the 1980s during the peak of the Reagan administration. I was talking to the chairman of our local AFL-CIO and his opinion of the Cold War still sits with me today. “Two full-of-shit nations trying to outdo each other always means something bad for the working class.”

Yes, sorry to say out of High School my first vote was for Reagan following my Dad's lead, in NRA although we were raised Presbyterian so didnt fall for the rest of that but we woke up under Bush II, I bailed on the GOP BS, while watching Evangelicals hijack the Government & Christianity.

It’s not the first time apostate Christian’s thought that God needs a little push. The argument could easily be made that this was what Judas was trying to do. All they accomplish is piles of the dead as witness to their faithlessness and crooked hearts.

God doesn't need any help to "finish His work". According to Biblical interpretation, God initiates Armageddon as a divine act of judgment, though it is triggered by the gathering of human nations under the influence of EVIL forces. Hear that Hegseth? Trump? Netanyahu? You are not the good guys.

Mankind has come so far since the bronze age. It acquired scientific insights like relativity theory and quantum physics. How sad it is to see mankind will realise the Fermi paradox by eliminating itself because it couldn’t shed it’s bronze age beliefs.

Conservative Senator Barry Goldwater warned his Republican Party was being taken over by the Evangelicals back in 1968 Everyone dismissed him that guy knew his 👍 he was spot on. Reagan and Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority Evangelicals George Bush and the Evangelicals Trump and the Evangelicals

I lived through all of the times you discuss. Jerry Falwell. Pat Robertson. Moral Majority. But as a teenager, I was far removed from the impact of this movement. You explained in detail how we got here and why Trump still has so much support. What was unfathomable to me is now frighteningly clear.

Reagan didn't listen to Goldwater. Instead, he sold the country to Falwell and Robertson. That made Trump and the current state of the nation inevitable.

Really what’s the difference between MAGA and Muslim fundamentalist? There is no difference. MAGA United believes an orange sociopath pathetic liar. Trump is here to finish Christian fundamentalist revelations! Good thing for the United States Sounds insane, right? Because it is insane.

Its dogma. Whether religious or political there is nothing more divisive than dogma. Once a system turns dogmatic is just starts sorting people into camps leading to eventual conflict. Dogma is the enemy of humanity and civility.

This is the territory we’ve been in and many have been warning people in govt about. They have been openly infiltrating for decades and now are emboldened by this chaos of an administration to out what they want. They are seizing this moment because all the warnings were ignored All the warnings

This is what happens when we don’t keep religion out of govt. NO place for it. None! And you idiots praying at meetings are responsible. Deplorable, weak, misguided, ignorant, and reprehensible. Your whole party is a bunch of hypocritical dolts. Now we ALL get to reap those fucking consequences.

dolts.nowdolts.now

under our constitution there is freedom of religion i am a Muslim because i love Islam and it chose me nearly 35 years ago and it is my right to practice my religion freely without harassment from these white Christian nut jobs they are no one to infringe on others beliefs

Entering? Conservative Christians have only been pushing this since Reagan and the damn moral majority at least. The Tea party campaigned on it. Mike Huckabee has made a career out of it. This is who conservative republicans have always been!

You omitted REPUBLICANS in Congress. Do people just not grasp that this election resulted in NO checks and balances? Everything is not only controlled by the Republicans, it's controlled by the cruelest, greediest, narcissistic, power-hungry, republicans in history. We're hanging on by lawsuits.

The thing that pisses me off the most about these religious fanatics is that they think they know the mind of God. And twist the bible to their agenda, they are nothing but con artists.

@adamkinzinger.substack.com - you are working this backwards. The military…since the beginning of militarism…has ALWAYS worn the mantle of “gods righteousness”. And that, because civilians are stupid. This is a prime example of that very thing. There is no holiness in killing… Me, combat veteran.

Biblical Source: Revelation 6:8 (ESV) says, "And I looked, and behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed him". Symbolism: He is given authority to kill a fourth of the earth with the sword, famine, pestilence, and wild beasts.

Totally agree. Since they started amassing political power in the 1970s the crazy religious right (not sure there are sane ones, tbh) have decided that they can force the second coming by making world event match their reading of Revelation. I remember in the 1970s when they focused on Russia!

The literal interpretation of a symbolic, somewhat mythic biblical story by unhinged individuals who have twisted Christianity into a pretzel of illogical thinking set on destruction is at best a dangerous place for us to be as a country.

We're "entering?" What the fuck is wrong with you people. They're almost done with project 2025. They're taking away women's right to vote, brainless shitheads running rampant stealing people off the street, a new war every week, and a rapist, traitor, is running our govt. That's just the beginning

2 of the middle eastern cults did most of the relatively recent culturecide though. And not even too distant. The northern crusades attacked baltic pagans far after the most recent abrahamic variant started spreading. Tempting to think of the crusades as bilateral conflicts, but they weren’t.

There is no difference between a Christian Nationalist and a Muslim extremist. This time I want the Muslims to win the war because Trump and his Christian Nationalists’ followers are threatening other countries, attacking other countries, harming immigrants and harming Americans. They need to pay!

People can find justifications for any act of violence or inhumanity in the pages of these ancient texts, be it the Bible or the Koran. So while you’re correct that it’s the radical adherent who’s ultimately responsible, the scripture does meet these people halfway.

quran wasn't understood. I fixed it. But people prefer to fight each other. Also, it's not really clickbaity unlike the more violent people. So I had to pay for ads. Done with that now. Good luck with it.

Actually not for the Qur'an it does. The Qur'an is the first source of evidence, then the hadith, then the seerah. We have a strong adherence to scholarly understanding. The hadith and seerah explain verses and what they are instructing.

ok though, real question - Dominionists have been a real force driving the Republican party for decades. You took office in 2011, 30 years after The Heritage Foundation worked on policy for the Reagan Administration. They've been at the core ever since. Were they always a concern for you?

Donald Trump and his grotesque, unqualified, and utterly corrupt administration , are a reflection of all of us. We, as a nation, elected him as “the best option”. Now, as an abominable war is raging, we are just as guilty, as long as we remain silent. Our silence is complicity and complacency.

Our military now being run by Trump &'Hegseths version of our own ISIS &Taliban.That's right, it's the 80% of white Evangelicals who are pushing for this depraved evil ! They ignore the atrocity of Trump cancelling USAID & 1.5 million children dying while here ICE Gestapo is killing & terrorizing us

Grew up Presbyterian, then Nazarene, Church of God, Southern Baptist, GOP, NRA then out in late 90s seen it all & can't agree more with your article it took me decades to get out. This old Boy Scout agrees with even read all the Hal Lindsey books. GOP MAGA Trump don't tell Jesus when to come back.

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment. Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off. The 25th is never happening.

Watched #EndDays #evangelists, welcomed by the wealthy power seekers, infiltrate our secular gov’t & subvert our #Constitution since the 90s. #Trump’ s #IranWar said #Hegseth is a religious war, & the Biblical end of the world drama they’re pushing lest their delusional belief system be invalidated.

We have messianic hoping for the Rapture on one side. We have Shiites on the other hoping for the return of the Mahdi. We have Israelis hell bent on revenge with zealots believing God is on their side. Then with have erratic Trump with the nuclear football. What could possibly go wrong?

The clearest explanation I've read of how Christian Nationalism evolved from Falwell through the Tea Party to Trump — & why the Iran framing is its most dangerous expression yet. The threat's not the theology; it's the actionable obligation some feel to bring it about. Brilliant & necessary writing.

Crazy fanatic evangelists in Texas are still trying to produce that 10th pure red heifer. They flew 5 red calves to Israel in 2022, but they didn't age perfectly. Rejected. Weird superstition.

No disrespect to anyone that believes in God. I am a lifelong atheist, I dont see how in this day and age anyone believes there is a god. I think when man invented the atomic bomb god would have appeared again and said enough is enough. There are too many religions

Well, there’s a notion of free will. I’m gonna make the argument to anyone can just casually read the Gospels and conclude that the vast majority of Christian nationalist don’t follow the teachings of Jesus and the Apostles. Really at all.

This good piece by you as the author makes me wonder, at least with this question: during a significant period of your lifetime as an adult, with the Christian moral compass you believed, what made you officially identified yourself as a republican, rather than a democrat?

Cray Cray.. Religious people love hate and death.. They get off on that shit. If they're religion we're true they will get all that they've hoped for when they die.. They will be soooo shocked to find out where they end up. Naw not really.. deep down they know they're shit people

Trump's getting played like a fiddle in Trump's new Deliverance war movie; "Netanyahu still yelling squeal like a pig and Putin's Kermit the frog puppet little bitch/"pedophile King still bent over squealing like a pig"! "But", Now Oil oligarchs are all strapping on their dildos or popping blue...

pills standing in line ready to Rheem out the fat pig; "price gouging", "tripling their profits", and still haven't used their oil or reserves until they can also bend over Putin's Kermit the frog puppet little bitch/ "pedophile King"!