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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 09:33 AM Jul 2019

Goddamn It, The Religious Right Are Hideous...

Despite Trump’s Racist Rally, Some Christians Are Just Upset He Said “Goddamn”
For some people, that was the bridge too far.

West Virginia State Sen. Paul Hardesty, a self-described “conservative Democrat” and 2016 “Trump supporter,” sent a letter to Trump calling him out on the language:

… I am, however, appalled by the fact that you chose to use the Lord’s name in vain on two separate occasions, when you went off the prompter during your speech. There is NO place in society — anywhere, anyplace and at anytime — where that type of language should be used or handled. Your comments were not presidential. I know in my heart that you are better than that.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/07/20/despite-trumps-racist-rally-some-christians-are-just-upset-he-said-goddamn/

Just to be clear this orange wanker is ALL of this:
Caging children is okay
Raping teenagers is okay
Enshrining white supremacy is okay
Threatening the world is okay
Calling countries shit hole countries is okay
Grab them by the pussy is okay
Telling BAME democrats to go back to where they came from is okay
Calling Mexicans rapists is okay

And Trump using the word Goddamn is the problem?

They are FAKE

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magicarpet

(16,984 posts)
2. The extreme right wing Christian Fascists think the next,...
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 10:00 AM
Jul 2019

.... Messiah resides in the people's White House.

Excuse me,.. while I shit and piss myself laughing.

 

Larrybanal

(227 posts)
8. trump being a monster
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 12:37 PM
Jul 2019

is zero problem, but using their fake gods name in vain is beyond the pale

SWBTATTReg

(24,337 posts)
3. Disgusting. This people are sinking lower and lower, and I view them less and less able or ...
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 10:16 AM
Jul 2019

capable of governing and resolving any of the problems of this country in any meaningful way. If all they are concerned with is preaching on a soap box all of the time instead of governing, then they don't need to be there in Congress.

I want doers, not criers in Congress.

marble falls

(62,527 posts)
4. I'm surprised they can be outraged by anything Donnie does. They certainly ...
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 10:17 AM
Jul 2019

haven't shown much outrage up to this point, and I get no sense than any one of them held their nose voting for him. It isn't as if he's any different in his comportment now as opposed to pre 2016.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. When he said it, he was in the middle of a fake story about a rich guy who hates his guts.
Sun Jul 21, 2019, 10:42 AM
Jul 2019

The whole thing was a lie. One of the Commandments is about "bearing false witness". He's also a serial adulterer who doesn't honor the Sabbath. Each captive child or adult who dies is second-degree murder. This is on top of the list mentioned above.

He is also destroying our God-made natural resources. "If something man-made is destroyed, it's done by vandals. If something made by God is destroyed, it's done by developers."

All of this is overlooked, as long as he criminalizes abortion. If Miami, NYC, and New Orleans are destroyed by flooding, the people who die won't need abortions. The flooding won't come overnight, but places who are warned a week in advance of hurricanes can't evacuate in time for all to be saved. Why should this be any different?

Others will die because of wildfires and more extreme tornadoes in many of the states he carried. The overall carnage numbers will be on him. This could all have been avoided. I also blame the evil Koch brothers and the rest of that terrible industry. And there's the challenging of the ACA with Mitch McConnell/John Boehner/Paul Ryan anti-American threesome at work. They have blood on their hands too. These are horrible times with deplorable people in charge.

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
9. They're not fake Christians. They're real ones.
Mon Jul 22, 2019, 07:17 AM
Jul 2019

Calling them fake implies that real Christians can't ever be wrong. That's an unhealthy way to approach religion, and it leads to exactly the kind of rigid fundamentalism you're upset about.

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