The hate in these people is absolutely terrifying. They inhabit a world beyond the reach of facts, reason, and human decency. They would make themselves masters of us all. Absolutely nothing ever demonstrated the disconnect between religion and morality quite like the evangelical preachers and their flocks declaring their unconditional love for the most corrupt, incompetent, and grotesquely immoral President in American history. If there is any upside to this, their hate and intolerance isn't helping their long game.
It's not just hate; it's a complete intolerance of any divergence of opinion. You either toe the company line or you are OUT, and not even the slightest deviation from that line can be accepted.
One more little piece of evidence describing an autocratic, fascist movement.
This is exactly indicative of what would happen if a Christian theocracy would take over: constant, petty internecine fights over minutiae and meaningless bullshit, particularly surrounding just WHICH version of Christianity was the OFFICIAL version.
Would make the whole Catholic / Protestant Northern Ireland thing look like a walk in the park.
They are modern Puritans. They intend on using the same tactics as the Puritans of old. If they have their way, expect gallows to be erected in every town square and park. They will stop at nothing.
A christian 'ethics' commission fires somebody for speaking the truth. Tells you everything you need to know about the abhorrent state of what passes for christianity these days. Good. I hope they keep marching down this path, because that's what's driving people away and opening their eyes at long last.
Keep up the good work, 'christians', and we'll be well on our way to a secular nation.
Remember, the SBC broke off from the "regular" baptists because regular baptists thought it wasn't a good idea for baptists to take their enslaved persons with them on mission trips to Africa.
Hmm. I'm married to a Zappa fan and had to look that track up. Now we had to play it. We both love much of his work, but that track is far from his best. The text is wonderful though.
My favorite Zappa track, even with the huge library and all, continues to be
"Dynamo Hum." By now Dweezil has probably finished remastering ALL of the old stuff, The Zappa Family Trust continues to pump out two or more albums every year, from concerts and the cutting room floor
Frank Zappa's versions is more than good enough to me. Dweezil played some of his father's work at a festival in Tromsø, app 2015. He didn't play bad, but it was not needed either.
You know what’s funny, they call for Biden to step down and when he does they whine about him doing that. It’s almost like you can’t please some people. And they are mad because they now have the old orange fart.
Back On Topic: I guess their definition of truth is what only comes out of the mouths of a leader like Stupid Idiot Dump and the Party like the Rethugs and the SBC.
So, you were just a bitty baby when I used to zoom through Owosso on my way home from East Lansing. I remember it being a pretty town with interesting architecture, from what I could see from M-52.
Glad to still have compatriots in Central Michigan!
This is more troubling that it first appears. Conservatives have rounded the corner. Now, anything but complete condemnation of the opponent is now seen as betrayal. Governing requires compromise, working with people you may not complete see eye to eye with. You have to be able to listen to the other side. You may not agree with them, or think that their solutions are acceptable, but at the minimum, you have to understand what they are thinking. But now, unless you agree with them them 110%, you are the enemy. You tow the rope, or you get lynched.
The Southern Baptist Convention was founded for its express and explicit belief that God thought it was OK to enslave and beat and rape human beings based on their skin tone while selling their children for gold.
The most powerful voting bloc in our country called for a Civil War and populated the dreams of glory of the youth of the Confederacy. They should be removed from our body politic immediately, and should have never survived the war between the states.
I am all for them picking up and moving to TX, LA, MS, AL, OK. AR and setting up their Gilead. As long as they take their share of the national debt. Pete can build us a super highway that goes around it. And we can rescue the blue people who want out.
Just a fair accounting of how Federal money is spent, and a partial audit of the Pentagon, tracing how state funds are spent - these are the the things that terrify them. Do that and you'll find the sons of the same wits that gave the South elaborate and excessive power in the electoral college.
Pastors are building and funding personal business empires with tax free funds that are untraceable the moment they waltz through the sacristy door. They have long monopolized rural radio, and an evangelical Sinclair Media is doing the same with rural TV and newspapers.
Trump took over a machine that in some way or another has kept the rich few and and in power since the time of the pyramids.
Trump will be their President (Emperor). He will slap tariffs on all the Tesla vehicles exported from Texas. This should please his benefactor Elon Musk.
I live in the Deep South - I hear them muttering. If it comes down to secession, we have to be ready to press them to accept a rational, ordered, constitutional path to breaking the union. That would likely take a referendum leading to a Constitutional Convention. I think it would be incumbent on both sides to 'rescue' their people behind 'enemy' lines.
That's rich, considering it's a standard and hackneyed talking point for Republicans to say/write "Democrat" as a an adjective (like this dude does here), even though that's grammatically incorrect.
Yep, that they now look at Trump as important as their god is also telling--they're cultists, Also, this should remind that the only difference between a cult and a religion is numbers and longevity.
The lion laying with the lamb?! That sounds like some perverse bestiality. We have to make sure our kids are never exposed to that kind of "book". Lions lay with lions.
I heard Hagee on the radio, talking about growing up on a farm and that just doesn't happen. I lived in the suburbs and saw the cows doing it just a few miles down the road.
This lion and lamb trope is very poetic but (and I could be mis-remembering) is not really Biblical, It seems to be taken from Isaiah where it occurs twice, differently.
Isaiah 11
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
Isaiah 65
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Is this merely a poetic way of saying, “It’s just not going to happen.”?
Well.... I suppose if you take "little child" figuratively to mean a self-centred person with small regard for social niceties or seemly behaviour and a tendency to speak without due consideration for the consequences or even correct grammar there might have been a recent example.
I've heard that "lion shall lie down with the lamb" trope all my life. I think it was supposed to represent the perfect peace of God's kingdom on earth after Armageddon.
If the Heritage Foundation has its way, that career field will only lead to prison. It would be interesting how the party of no regulation regulates an infrastructure composed of a multitude of companies to replicate the Great Firewall of China.
Awww... Suthin' Bapteests. Reminds me of the old joke: Why do SBs not have sex standing up? Because someone might see them and think they were dancing.
I come from a Mennonite background and we have a similar saying... 'why don't Mennonites have sex? Because it might lead to dancing!' I laugh everytime.
Are they still enforcing this? You don't hear about it much anymore. I remember how I was the only person in my class that knew the premise of Footloose wasn't made up entirely. Which is kind of interesting considering this was just a public school classroom in Louisville. No other kids had parents that belonged to a church that forbid dancing. Or maybe they just weren't told about it. But it's crazy to think people are still worrying about such pointless garbage.
The collective Southern Baptists are missing the signs that their organization is riddled with cancer - this won't be the last outrageous act. I myself would say the "patient" is too far gone - no treatment will save it. Best to start over in a new iteration.
But how does one do that when the very fundamental components of the body are cancerous themselves?
My biggest problem with Biden was his need to work with those across the aisle. I do understand his logic, he had been in politics a long time and that's how it used to be. I get that he felt the American people deserved a leader who looked out for all of them, not just those in his tribe and I laud him for that. I am sure that he, probably rightly, assumed that the majority of conservatives did not agree with everything the Orange Jesus said.
But: The Republican party has not only refused to work across the aisle but they have made it a Republican plank that they would oppose anything the Democrats did. In fact, the entire platform of the 2020 election was that one plank. Trump's presidency was punctuated by undoing just about everything Obama accomplished. They insist that the only compromise is to say they are right and will not move. They have declared war and the only response is to burn them down. Kick them out of the political arena and stop catering to them at all. As for the people who don't agree with them all the time but continue to vote for them? They chose badly.
President Biden managed to get quite a bit done before the Republicans hunted and destroyed all statesmen. At this point, they have driven out the last of the collaborators (right word, wrong connotation; but collaboration is the actual job of legislation), and all that remain are Republicans who exploit for political leverage any and every accomodation — as they did with the border bill.
The hate in these people is absolutely terrifying. They inhabit a world beyond the reach of facts, reason, and human decency. They would make themselves masters of us all. Absolutely nothing ever demonstrated the disconnect between religion and morality quite like the evangelical preachers and their flocks declaring their unconditional love for the most corrupt, incompetent, and grotesquely immoral President in American history. If there is any upside to this, their hate and intolerance isn't helping their long game.
It's not just hate; it's a complete intolerance of any divergence of opinion. You either toe the company line or you are OUT, and not even the slightest deviation from that line can be accepted.
One more little piece of evidence describing an autocratic, fascist movement.
+++ There is only ever one acceptable point of view in that world, and woe be unto whomever gets out of line.
And even if you toe the party line, you can be purged. You have your pick of dictatures who acted that way.
This is exactly indicative of what would happen if a Christian theocracy would take over: constant, petty internecine fights over minutiae and meaningless bullshit, particularly surrounding just WHICH version of Christianity was the OFFICIAL version.
Would make the whole Catholic / Protestant Northern Ireland thing look like a walk in the park.
If the preachers ever attained the power they appear to dream of, they would be killing one another within a month over doctrinal errors.
Survival of the fittest. Culling of the population. Evolution. Oh the irony!
Thirty Years War Electric Boogaloo 2.
South Park?
There was literally a movie about that. Some guy in a mask, and a train, and explosives, and Parliament…
Remember, remember, the 5th of November...
.. and the Ides Of March
First it was a graphical novel.
💯
In my experience, American evangelicalism is an ever shrinking circle of smug abusers.
Not shrinking quickly enough.
They are modern Puritans. They intend on using the same tactics as the Puritans of old. If they have their way, expect gallows to be erected in every town square and park. They will stop at nothing.
Except that in this day and age, they're known as Christian Nationalists!
Anyone who doesn't speak groupthink is shunned. Their side is always right and everyone else is demonically wrong.
"Dictator for a Day
Why can't it be this way?
I'll make my enemies pay,
Eliminate the DOJ."
From the titular song in the forthcoming MAGA Musical for the Masses, Dictator for a Day (c).
Dictatorforadayshow.com. Listen to the entire prescient song by scrolling to the bottom!
"Yes we'll do it all over tomorrow
After golf with Bolsonaro..."
"Dictator for a generation,
A yearly inauguration.
Dictator forever,
With blood coming from wherever."
A christian 'ethics' commission fires somebody for speaking the truth. Tells you everything you need to know about the abhorrent state of what passes for christianity these days. Good. I hope they keep marching down this path, because that's what's driving people away and opening their eyes at long last.
Keep up the good work, 'christians', and we'll be well on our way to a secular nation.
It's also named religious liberty when they drool at the prospect of their own theocracy.
George Orwell had nothing on these people.
"christian ethics". Is there a better oxymoron out there somewhere?
Seriously.
Remember, the SBC broke off from the "regular" baptists because regular baptists thought it wasn't a good idea for baptists to take their enslaved persons with them on mission trips to Africa.
I do wish that was more common knowledge.
So much for conservatives being against "the thought police" and "cancel culture."
Frank Zappa foresaw all this in 1966 "Freak Out" album, and the song was "Who Are The Brain Police."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Are_the_Brain_Police%3F
Hmm. I'm married to a Zappa fan and had to look that track up. Now we had to play it. We both love much of his work, but that track is far from his best. The text is wonderful though.
I was going to apologize but I see they've completed the job of converting you❤️
/s
My favorite Zappa track, even with the huge library and all, continues to be
"Dynamo Hum." By now Dweezil has probably finished remastering ALL of the old stuff, The Zappa Family Trust continues to pump out two or more albums every year, from concerts and the cutting room floor
Frank Zappa's versions is more than good enough to me. Dweezil played some of his father's work at a festival in Tromsø, app 2015. He didn't play bad, but it was not needed either.
Note: It sort of was needed, because the rest of his family was selling out the rights to Frank'swork.
♫♪ What would you do if the friends that you knew
Were the plastic that melted and the chromium, too? ♪♫
You know what’s funny, they call for Biden to step down and when he does they whine about him doing that. It’s almost like you can’t please some people. And they are mad because they now have the old orange fart.
O/T: Today's my 51st Birthday!!! Yay me!!
Back On Topic: I guess their definition of truth is what only comes out of the mouths of a leader like Stupid Idiot Dump and the Party like the Rethugs and the SBC.
I will bake you a cake to celebrate. Then eat it because I don't know how to get it to you.
If you are in Texas, take I-69 to the M-52 exit, If you are coming from Florida, take I-75 to Flint and head west on M-21.
I seem to remember you being from one if these two states.
You misspelled Floriduh.
While not the official spelling, many spell it Texass.
Wyoming, so I-80. I'll just start honking when I get near.
Hell just eat the cake already 😭😋
Happy birthday, young-un.
You share a birthday with Daniel Radcliffe and Slash, among others. :)
More cakes for me!
Happy Birthday!
So, you were just a bitty baby when I used to zoom through Owosso on my way home from East Lansing. I remember it being a pretty town with interesting architecture, from what I could see from M-52.
Glad to still have compatriots in Central Michigan!
Best Wishes!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Feliz cumpleaños.
Gracias, Amigo!
De nada. Y soy una mujer, la amiga, no el amigo 😉
Happy B-day, yung un.
Happy Birthday! May it be the best, ever.
Hippo, birdie, two ewes!
Happy birthday, old timer!
Man, 51 is old. Like REALLY old. I can't imagine how old I'll feel when I reach that age. Which will happen in 15 days...
One of many successful anagrams is..."Lord Dampnut."
This is more troubling that it first appears. Conservatives have rounded the corner. Now, anything but complete condemnation of the opponent is now seen as betrayal. Governing requires compromise, working with people you may not complete see eye to eye with. You have to be able to listen to the other side. You may not agree with them, or think that their solutions are acceptable, but at the minimum, you have to understand what they are thinking. But now, unless you agree with them them 110%, you are the enemy. You tow the rope, or you get lynched.
You can agree with them 150% and still be the enemy. See majorly traitor greed, breitfart and mike john.
You will never be pure enough.
And, at this point, I really do believe we will win in the Fall... I fear they will go ballistic and they are armed to the teeth.
That senator called for a
Civil War when trump loses
He is an evil imbecile!
Start with him.
You are probably right, but the Tree of Liberty is water by the blood of patriots and traitors alike.
This right here! They also plan on challenging all the ballots for a recount. Expect complete chaos in November.
The Southern Baptist Convention was founded for its express and explicit belief that God thought it was OK to enslave and beat and rape human beings based on their skin tone while selling their children for gold.
The most powerful voting bloc in our country called for a Civil War and populated the dreams of glory of the youth of the Confederacy. They should be removed from our body politic immediately, and should have never survived the war between the states.
I am all for them picking up and moving to TX, LA, MS, AL, OK. AR and setting up their Gilead. As long as they take their share of the national debt. Pete can build us a super highway that goes around it. And we can rescue the blue people who want out.
Just a fair accounting of how Federal money is spent, and a partial audit of the Pentagon, tracing how state funds are spent - these are the the things that terrify them. Do that and you'll find the sons of the same wits that gave the South elaborate and excessive power in the electoral college.
Pastors are building and funding personal business empires with tax free funds that are untraceable the moment they waltz through the sacristy door. They have long monopolized rural radio, and an evangelical Sinclair Media is doing the same with rural TV and newspapers.
Trump took over a machine that in some way or another has kept the rich few and and in power since the time of the pyramids.
A meme I saw the other night said the monied class has us fighting culture wars so we won't fight class wars.
Trump will be their President (Emperor). He will slap tariffs on all the Tesla vehicles exported from Texas. This should please his benefactor Elon Musk.
Can yall help some of us get out before we move them?
I live in the Deep South - I hear them muttering. If it comes down to secession, we have to be ready to press them to accept a rational, ordered, constitutional path to breaking the union. That would likely take a referendum leading to a Constitutional Convention. I think it would be incumbent on both sides to 'rescue' their people behind 'enemy' lines.
And then Build That Wall!!!!
No, they definitely should not have survived - Abe Lincoln left a festering cancer.
"...repeating Democrat talking points..."
That's rich, considering it's a standard and hackneyed talking point for Republicans to say/write "Democrat" as a an adjective (like this dude does here), even though that's grammatically incorrect.
If I see "Democrat" as an adjective, the person gets unfriended. I still get too much Email, but it is a start!
Or "NeoLiberal", all that means is "new liberal", and it really has no meaning.
"this is who they are"
Yep, that they now look at Trump as important as their god is also telling--they're cultists, Also, this should remind that the only difference between a cult and a religion is numbers and longevity.
"Une religion est une secte qui a réussi."
"A religion is a successful sect."
Best to be ace--asectual.
I do believe Leatherwood learned that when the lamb lays down with the lion, only the lion is gonna get back up.
The lion laying with the lamb?! That sounds like some perverse bestiality. We have to make sure our kids are never exposed to that kind of "book". Lions lay with lions.
In some very good HP fan art I've seen, lions lay with snakes.
(Never did understand the Potter/Malfoy slash, but then there exists Gibbs/Dinozzo slash)
Yup. And here's the footage (NSFW)
youtu.be/RnRRoMdKwpk
BuT GAYZ aRRe UNnatURAl!!!!11
Ebola is natural. Natural is not necessarily a good thing.
I heard Hagee on the radio, talking about growing up on a farm and that just doesn't happen. I lived in the suburbs and saw the cows doing it just a few miles down the road.
This lion and lamb trope is very poetic but (and I could be mis-remembering) is not really Biblical, It seems to be taken from Isaiah where it occurs twice, differently.
Isaiah 11
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.
Isaiah 65
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Is this merely a poetic way of saying, “It’s just not going to happen.”?
Have those prophecies come true? I’d bet the apologists can conjure up some bullshit saying they have.
Well.... I suppose if you take "little child" figuratively to mean a self-centred person with small regard for social niceties or seemly behaviour and a tendency to speak without due consideration for the consequences or even correct grammar there might have been a recent example.
Does a vegetarian Doggess count ? 😁
Wasn't really going for biblical accuracy. It's just a popular (if not scripturally sound) trope.
I've heard that "lion shall lie down with the lamb" trope all my life. I think it was supposed to represent the perfect peace of God's kingdom on earth after Armageddon.
Now he knows god is a lion and this is why they are sheep.
If Brent Leatherwood needs a career change, at least he already has his porn name.
If the Heritage Foundation has its way, that career field will only lead to prison. It would be interesting how the party of no regulation regulates an infrastructure composed of a multitude of companies to replicate the Great Firewall of China.
I would suggest a tiny change: Bent Leatherwood.
Brent and Stormy: a MAGA Revenge Story. Rated MA for MAGA.
Awww... Suthin' Bapteests. Reminds me of the old joke: Why do SBs not have sex standing up? Because someone might see them and think they were dancing.
I come from a Mennonite background and we have a similar saying... 'why don't Mennonites have sex? Because it might lead to dancing!' I laugh everytime.
Are they still enforcing this? You don't hear about it much anymore. I remember how I was the only person in my class that knew the premise of Footloose wasn't made up entirely. Which is kind of interesting considering this was just a public school classroom in Louisville. No other kids had parents that belonged to a church that forbid dancing. Or maybe they just weren't told about it. But it's crazy to think people are still worrying about such pointless garbage.
The collective Southern Baptists are missing the signs that their organization is riddled with cancer - this won't be the last outrageous act. I myself would say the "patient" is too far gone - no treatment will save it. Best to start over in a new iteration.
But how does one do that when the very fundamental components of the body are cancerous themselves?
It is a metastatic MAGAtoma...
You beat me to it!
My biggest problem with Biden was his need to work with those across the aisle. I do understand his logic, he had been in politics a long time and that's how it used to be. I get that he felt the American people deserved a leader who looked out for all of them, not just those in his tribe and I laud him for that. I am sure that he, probably rightly, assumed that the majority of conservatives did not agree with everything the Orange Jesus said.
But: The Republican party has not only refused to work across the aisle but they have made it a Republican plank that they would oppose anything the Democrats did. In fact, the entire platform of the 2020 election was that one plank. Trump's presidency was punctuated by undoing just about everything Obama accomplished. They insist that the only compromise is to say they are right and will not move. They have declared war and the only response is to burn them down. Kick them out of the political arena and stop catering to them at all. As for the people who don't agree with them all the time but continue to vote for them? They chose badly.
Word.
President Biden managed to get quite a bit done before the Republicans hunted and destroyed all statesmen. At this point, they have driven out the last of the collaborators (right word, wrong connotation; but collaboration is the actual job of legislation), and all that remain are Republicans who exploit for political leverage any and every accomodation — as they did with the border bill.
There is no curing death. Burn it down.
They will
Slice your throat if you put your back to them.
https://images.app.goo.gl/GD2mnpGfQSrsGRn1A
Yea, I know but I wanted to use the bad grammar as a poke at Trump's use of the word "bigley".
I so enjoy when they eat their own.
Yuck!!! Way too rancid and bitter, their babies are quite tasty though, the meat hasn't turned.
How Do you prepare the meat?
Bulgogi marinade.
This is the way
(Only when you are short of green curry paste).
And coconut milk, it's not good with just the paste. And the paste with it added already isn't spicy enough.
Don't you know? Baby meat pizzas cooked with jewish space lasers.
Marinated in barbecue sauce.
Hawaiian sweet and smoky BBQ sauce.
Seriously, 🍍 in everything?
Everything.
https://i.makeagif.com/media/9-01-2023/28RFxq.gif
Well, it IS Hawaiian ya know. ;)
Yep 😁