At the "National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance," Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger called for a purge of non-believers from the government
I should have known it would be Diana Harshbarger. She is a toxic Howler Monkey for Jesus, and yet she’s not even the dumbest (Tim Burchett) or most evil (Andy Ogles) member of the Tennessee House delegation.
There is actually a bill in the TN Legislature right now that attempts to nullify the 14th Amendment as it applies to equal protection for LGBTQ persons.
She clearly has no understanding of what Christians, acting in the name of Christianity have done to their fellow humans, or she simply dismisses that history as not the work of TRUE Christians. If her God is really all-knowing, then prayer is moot. All of which leaves what she had to say as pure performance art. Nothing ever demonstrated the disconnect between religion and morality quite like the evangelicals extending their unconditional love for the most corrupt, incompetent and grotesquely immoral President in American history.
WHAT A MISTAKE ! …The blubbery orange mistake … "a thrice-married wildly corrupt racist who paid hush money to porn stars he was having affairs with when his latest wife was pregnant with his fifth child" … the UNMITIGATED ARCH CRIMINAL
Acting against God's will by giving pain medication to your patients is a sin. The proof is some Albanian nun who got sainted for refusing to commit this sin.
There are people who let their children die, rather than take them to the doctor, though it's fairly rare.
And when I was in college, a maintenance man there was in an augur accident that tore both his arms almost off, at the shoulder. He was a Christian Science guy and refused the surgery (because he would need blood), and they had to amputate both arms. I mean, that's kind of insane.
On the contrary, I don't think she goes far enough. We need even more godly people than we have. You know, federal agents who will not just apprehend and deport immigrants, but shoot them on sight. A judiciary that okays random stops for proof of citizenship explicitly based on skin color, rather than who try and dodge the question. A President who doesn't just try to buy Greenland, but invades it and puts any Danish loyalists to death. Politicians who don't wait for a woman to have an abortion to punish her, but drag her out of her house while having sex and throw her in jail without trial for being the slutty slut slut she is.
The evangelicals can talk about their loving Jesus and the glorious after life from now on, but there is nothing they crave so much as power and wealth on this earthly plain. Power few groups would be more ill-equipped to exercise.
Equality feels like oppression to people like her. The irony of all her performative prayers and calling other people ungodly and how they should be purged, when her and her husband broke lots of biblical laws while commiting fraud is peak...
I'd rather walk up to her and say, "Look, Diane. I'm okay with Christians being here, so long as they don't muck with our government. Why can't you deal with an atheist being here and doing the same job your doing?"
Oh, yeah, I'm sure she'd be all bent about my being "ungodly" and that I'm a tool of Satan and all that guff. Whereupon I might answer, "I act within the law. I love my wife and my kid and my cats, and I enjoy helping where I can. I don't need your god to do all of that."
And at that point, perhaps turn on my heel and leave.
Sometimes I have to wonder if they actually believe that only godly people are capable of 'good,' however they define that.
I mean, do they actually imagine the rest of humanity as sin-ridden creatures squatting miserably in hovels, pining for a chance to commit another evil act, like drug addicts pining for their next fix?
People like Harshbarger have likely never knowingly met an atheist, and may not even have had any interchange with a Jew or Muslim, either. They may actually avoid such contact, because their local pastor has told them that those people are ICKY, or equivalent language.
As stated elsewhere, I listened to a YouTube video of her pending opponent, Kristi Burke, who is one sharp cookie if ever I heard one. SHE has her eyes and ears open and would make a wonderful Representative.
Yes, they really do think that only godly people are good. They usually define 'good' as 'doing whatever god says do', so the logic is more circular than the wheels on a car.
Yes, they also think that the rest of humanity is sin-ridden creatures defiled by evil looking to spread more evil in the world. They also see themselves as warriors of righteousness wearing the 'full armor of God' and wielding the 'sword of truth' and other such nonsense. It's all bunk, of course, but they get a steady diet of that at their church every week. Just because all this is completely untethered to reality doesn't mean they don't believe it, it just means they're working very hard to maintain that blindness.
All this is a major reason I've long considered heavy religious belief to be a form of mental illness in need of extended professional treatment. These ideas just aren't how reality works, and the insistence on them being true exhibited by religious folks is dangerous both for others and for themselves.
They imagine it because they have little personal experience otherwise. Their mission trips are carefully curated and they choose not to associate with anyone who might pop the bubble.
There's a reason cities are blue and rural areas red; it's much harder to maintain a wrong generalization about a group if you interact with that group's members on a regular basis.
This is also why one of the most compelling strategies for swinging someone to the middle or left on an issue, is just to befriend them. Like Cheney and his gay daughter, nothing quite pops the rightwing intolerance bubble like knowing a gay, migrant, atheist etc. who is a decent stand-up friend.
I'm not going to be lectured on morality by a woman whose husband committed healthcare fraud and endangered the lives of his patients just because Donald Trump pardoned her hubs. How much did that pardon set you back, Diana? Donnie doesn't do anything for free.
I'm also not going to be lectured on morality by a hate group that saw fit to hire Josh Duggar as its Executive Director for Faith & Freedom from 2013 until his resignation in 2015 - after getting arrested for possessing child porn and CSAM. For which he's currently serving federal time.
All y'all can follow the catholic church by taking a long walk off a short pier.
Gee, us atheists must be awfully scary people for this Harshbarger woman to want us gone. I have to wonder what we've done that is so horrible. Oh, yeah: we doubt her religion. We have the unmitigated gall to reject belief in her deity, to be skeptical, to note that there is a screaming lack of evidence that her god even exists.
And apparently, she can't tolerate the presence of those who have an opinion other than hers. Hmph. Her tough luck.
The problem that the Christian fascist have with us is: We are curious; we ask questions; we are willing to learn and to be informed; we can’t be controlled, manipulated, or silenced. However, what Christian fascist FEAR about us (atheists) the most is: WE CAN TEACH OTHERS TO BE CURIOUS, TO ASK QUESTIONS, TO LEARN AND BE INFORMED; AND NOT TO BE CONTROLLED, MANIPULATED OR SILENCED! That is why the Christian fascist want us gone, not for what we (atheists) can do, but for how we can INFLUENCE others!
Reading Humpburger's prayer, I was struck by how she has to include "God" or "Lord" in almost every sentence. Normal people don't talk that way. She shows signs of an untreated serious mental illness.
Please help her get some help with that, oh mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster. Touch her with your Noodly Appendage, Your Pastaness.
Most prayer is just canned phrases anyway, rearranged in a different order by each person who prays aloud. I sat through enough of them to realize that much, at least.
A lot of people pray like that when they pray aloud, at least in Baptist churches. When I was in middle school, my friends and I would sometimes amuse ourselves during long drawn out prayers by counting the number of times 'God' or 'Jesus' or 'Lord' was mentioned.
This is a story I heard secondhand from a college professor. There was an elderly prof who had a whole collection of verbal tics and mannerisms that drove his students to distraction. Then one year a classroom decided to deal with it by assigning baseball values to every tic/mannerism. A clearing of the throat = a single. A needless pushing up of the eyeglasses was a strikeout. Polishing the glasses was a fly out. Etc. The students organized into two teams, the Rightside and the Leftside. Scorekeepers sat next to each other to make sure they agreed on the progress of the game.
The secret of this got out to other students and faculty, all of whom took an interest and none of whom clued in the elderly prof. As his tics were numerous and random, the score was close. The game came down to the final class and indeed, the final minutes. The prof finished his lecture, looked around the classroom, and noted that this had been his most enjoyable class in quite a while. He appreciated their attentiveness and, cough cough, have a good summer. The final cough cough drove in the winning run for one of the teams.
Later that day, according to the prof telling me the story, another faculty member asked elderly prof how the semester went. The prof said that one class had given him a standing ovation. But it was odd because only the right half of the classroom stood and cheered.
Well, it IS a prayer, so much more expected than if conversing with a human.
Still, ya gotta wonder if a God would get annoyed. If I was talking to someone and literally every sentence out of their mouth started with "Eric, ..." I'd be like, 'drop it, I'm right here, we both know who you're talking to.'
If I were God, I'd get mighty tired of thank you for this food and bless it to the nourishment of our body, every meal. I get it, I fed you. You don't need to thank me every time. Now if you really want to thank me, help that poor Somali refugee who's just looking for a way to earn zir own living.
If I were God, I'd be sick of people asking me for stuff that they can, and probably should, get up and do themselves. I mean really, praying for more power, when they already have so much and will likely be able to get more on their own?
I had a (former) friend who used “Praise Jesus” at the end of every sentence about something they deemed worthy of such praise. Now you know why they’re a former friend. 🙄
A PURGE? Of taxpaying citizens? Voters? Wow this woman would be ousted from almost any a)democratic government and b) sane sect of Christianity. That’s not how it works, not how either were written. This is Spanish Inquisition stuff.
A purge of government? Not that unusual. Happens across the globe pretty regularly.
This woman would have purged 5 of the 7 Key Founders of our country. She would have purged ALL who stood against being ruled by a Christian empire and a Christian king. Harsh would have been a Loyalist.
It's the in-group, out-group mentality. Christian Nationalists routinely look the other way when one of their own does something immoral because the only thing that actually matters is the group. Their group has power, and they don't want to lose that power, so they have no problem ignoring their own group's failings. It's the double standard that is so utterly preposterous, not to mention that indulging that double standard is just totally irrational.
President Trump has a servant’s heart? I question the existence of any type of heart let alone one about service to others. He is president for the sole purpose of enriching himself, through power and corruption. That is all he has done, and it is destroying the entire world.
Pam Bondi was quoted as saying during her deposition in Congress that Trump is the most transparent president (or something about him being the most transparent) and my reaction was, “the only transparent part of Trump is the skin on the back of his hands.”
We should not stop describing his crimes at paying a porn star while his wife was pregnant, we need to start including the very real crimes he’s committed revealed in the Trumpstein files. The infanticide, the cannibalism, the digital rapes, the genital penetration rapes, and the child sex trafficking he is certainly guilty of. We have to stop letting him get away with these heinous crimes. There will be no justice if we just wait for the DOJ to prosecute anyone, the DOJ will do nothing until he’s removed from office and none of his cronies are anywhere near power, and that won’t happen anytime soon. Not unless we hold him accountable for this. There’s enough evidence to convict him, they are just too corrupt to do it. We can’t let this go. He’s a pedo, he’s a murderer, he’s a rapist, he’s the worst human being on the planet and we can’t have him just die of old age with no consequences. Call it out. Call it out every chance you get.
Many thanks for the reference! After reading a few reviews I just ordered a hard copy to keep on my desk.
Really Off Topic:
And if I may offer one in return, for those folks that just happen to like words (love em, though I am entirely unskilled in their use...): The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
I should have known it would be Diana Harshbarger. She is a toxic Howler Monkey for Jesus, and yet she’s not even the dumbest (Tim Burchett) or most evil (Andy Ogles) member of the Tennessee House delegation.
There is actually a bill in the TN Legislature right now that attempts to nullify the 14th Amendment as it applies to equal protection for LGBTQ persons.
"Howler Monkey for Jesus"
You win today's IPotD*.
* Internet Phrase of the Day
I call them HMJs for short.
Hope it catches on.
I agree
That is real insulting to howler monkeys! Howler monkeys are smarter and have better morals than any of Christian fascist assholes!
She clearly has no understanding of what Christians, acting in the name of Christianity have done to their fellow humans, or she simply dismisses that history as not the work of TRUE Christians. If her God is really all-knowing, then prayer is moot. All of which leaves what she had to say as pure performance art. Nothing ever demonstrated the disconnect between religion and morality quite like the evangelicals extending their unconditional love for the most corrupt, incompetent and grotesquely immoral President in American history.
If prayers worked, why do we need doctors?
To correct God's mistakes?
WHAT A MISTAKE ! …The blubbery orange mistake … "a thrice-married wildly corrupt racist who paid hush money to porn stars he was having affairs with when his latest wife was pregnant with his fifth child" … the UNMITIGATED ARCH CRIMINAL
… 🦘🦘🦘
AKA THE BRAIN DEAD, INBRED, UGLY, ORANGE SKUNK APE!
Great question. If suffering is God's will, the aren't doctors interfering with that divine will?
Acting against God's will by giving pain medication to your patients is a sin. The proof is some Albanian nun who got sainted for refusing to commit this sin.
There are people who let their children die, rather than take them to the doctor, though it's fairly rare.
And when I was in college, a maintenance man there was in an augur accident that tore both his arms almost off, at the shoulder. He was a Christian Science guy and refused the surgery (because he would need blood), and they had to amputate both arms. I mean, that's kind of insane.
I recommend John Loftus' book, "God and Horrendous Suffering."
On the contrary, I don't think she goes far enough. We need even more godly people than we have. You know, federal agents who will not just apprehend and deport immigrants, but shoot them on sight. A judiciary that okays random stops for proof of citizenship explicitly based on skin color, rather than who try and dodge the question. A President who doesn't just try to buy Greenland, but invades it and puts any Danish loyalists to death. Politicians who don't wait for a woman to have an abortion to punish her, but drag her out of her house while having sex and throw her in jail without trial for being the slutty slut slut she is.
You know, like Jesus taught.
Harsh is another one of those poor, persecuted Christians who has no trouble persecuting others.
If for some reason you want to see what genuine persecution looks like . . . hand power to the preachers.
They say that, when religion is out of power, its primary concern is for minority rights. When it is IN power, THERE ARE NO MINORITY RIGHTS.
The evangelicals can talk about their loving Jesus and the glorious after life from now on, but there is nothing they crave so much as power and wealth on this earthly plain. Power few groups would be more ill-equipped to exercise.
They've said the quiet part out loud a few too many times to be ignored.
Yep. The 19th century enslavers bear that out.
Equality feels like oppression to people like her. The irony of all her performative prayers and calling other people ungodly and how they should be purged, when her and her husband broke lots of biblical laws while commiting fraud is peak...
Anyways, vote Kristi Burke and donate here: https://www.votekristiburke.com/
And the irony of that would be utterly beyond her ability to comprehend.
most things already are.
Too bad for her that pesky Article 6, Clause 3 of the Constitution she swore an oath to support and defend keeps getting in the way of her desires.
Oh, and by the way, Harsh one: Public praying is forbidden by your Jesus. Guess that makes you an ungodly hypocrite.
Awww, c'mon! Are you gonna cite Matthew 6:5-6 AGAIN?
Yer damned straight, you are! 😁
By now, we all know it by heart. :D
I'd be fine with Harshbarger being purged from our planet.
I'd rather walk up to her and say, "Look, Diane. I'm okay with Christians being here, so long as they don't muck with our government. Why can't you deal with an atheist being here and doing the same job your doing?"
Oh, yeah, I'm sure she'd be all bent about my being "ungodly" and that I'm a tool of Satan and all that guff. Whereupon I might answer, "I act within the law. I love my wife and my kid and my cats, and I enjoy helping where I can. I don't need your god to do all of that."
And at that point, perhaps turn on my heel and leave.
Sometimes I have to wonder if they actually believe that only godly people are capable of 'good,' however they define that.
I mean, do they actually imagine the rest of humanity as sin-ridden creatures squatting miserably in hovels, pining for a chance to commit another evil act, like drug addicts pining for their next fix?
Sheesh!
People like Harshbarger have likely never knowingly met an atheist, and may not even have had any interchange with a Jew or Muslim, either. They may actually avoid such contact, because their local pastor has told them that those people are ICKY, or equivalent language.
As stated elsewhere, I listened to a YouTube video of her pending opponent, Kristi Burke, who is one sharp cookie if ever I heard one. SHE has her eyes and ears open and would make a wonderful Representative.
Yes, they really do think that only godly people are good. They usually define 'good' as 'doing whatever god says do', so the logic is more circular than the wheels on a car.
Yes, they also think that the rest of humanity is sin-ridden creatures defiled by evil looking to spread more evil in the world. They also see themselves as warriors of righteousness wearing the 'full armor of God' and wielding the 'sword of truth' and other such nonsense. It's all bunk, of course, but they get a steady diet of that at their church every week. Just because all this is completely untethered to reality doesn't mean they don't believe it, it just means they're working very hard to maintain that blindness.
All this is a major reason I've long considered heavy religious belief to be a form of mental illness in need of extended professional treatment. These ideas just aren't how reality works, and the insistence on them being true exhibited by religious folks is dangerous both for others and for themselves.
They imagine it because they have little personal experience otherwise. Their mission trips are carefully curated and they choose not to associate with anyone who might pop the bubble.
There's a reason cities are blue and rural areas red; it's much harder to maintain a wrong generalization about a group if you interact with that group's members on a regular basis.
This is also why one of the most compelling strategies for swinging someone to the middle or left on an issue, is just to befriend them. Like Cheney and his gay daughter, nothing quite pops the rightwing intolerance bubble like knowing a gay, migrant, atheist etc. who is a decent stand-up friend.
Short answer is yes, they do believe that!
Her and all the religious nutcase control freaks like her. Just GO! Leave the rest of us in peace.
Few people disgust me more than those who claim their religion entitles them to a say in other people's personal choices.
I’m getting very impatient for that Rapture.
I'm not going to be lectured on morality by a woman whose husband committed healthcare fraud and endangered the lives of his patients just because Donald Trump pardoned her hubs. How much did that pardon set you back, Diana? Donnie doesn't do anything for free.
I'm also not going to be lectured on morality by a hate group that saw fit to hire Josh Duggar as its Executive Director for Faith & Freedom from 2013 until his resignation in 2015 - after getting arrested for possessing child porn and CSAM. For which he's currently serving federal time.
All y'all can follow the catholic church by taking a long walk off a short pier.
Does she truly believe her god made everyone? If so, then he made nonbelievers as well.
Who is she to defy her god's will? Who is she to dare at playing god?
I would love to see her try to answer that.
Gee, us atheists must be awfully scary people for this Harshbarger woman to want us gone. I have to wonder what we've done that is so horrible. Oh, yeah: we doubt her religion. We have the unmitigated gall to reject belief in her deity, to be skeptical, to note that there is a screaming lack of evidence that her god even exists.
And apparently, she can't tolerate the presence of those who have an opinion other than hers. Hmph. Her tough luck.
Atheists have never been responsible for a holy war.
We HAVEN'T? Golly-gee! Wonder why that is... 🤔
Just lucky I guess. ;)
Theres\ was that one time…
I forget the exact date.
Have a cup of coffee, settle in to your new place, and it might come to you.
It's been under the surface for a looong time.
“𝐼’𝑚 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑖𝑠. . . . 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐺𝑜𝑑, 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛. . . . 𝑖𝑡’𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠! . . . 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑓𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝! 𝐺𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡! . . . 𝑌𝑜𝑢 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒! 𝑊𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔!”
-Monique Davis, state representative, responding to an atheist in the gallery, Illinois legislature session on April 2, 2008.
Could she have been more wrong? I have to wonder.
The problem that the Christian fascist have with us is: We are curious; we ask questions; we are willing to learn and to be informed; we can’t be controlled, manipulated, or silenced. However, what Christian fascist FEAR about us (atheists) the most is: WE CAN TEACH OTHERS TO BE CURIOUS, TO ASK QUESTIONS, TO LEARN AND BE INFORMED; AND NOT TO BE CONTROLLED, MANIPULATED OR SILENCED! That is why the Christian fascist want us gone, not for what we (atheists) can do, but for how we can INFLUENCE others!
That is my conclusion of the situation anyway!
By George, I think you've got it!
And this is why we have church-state separation. This right here.
Why do fanatical xtians hate America?
Because they're not being allowed to rule it as they see fit.
🎯🎯🎯
They LOVE America. They just want it to be totally different.
Republicans claim to love America while managing to hate almost everyone living here.
Reading Humpburger's prayer, I was struck by how she has to include "God" or "Lord" in almost every sentence. Normal people don't talk that way. She shows signs of an untreated serious mental illness.
Please help her get some help with that, oh mighty Flying Spaghetti Monster. Touch her with your Noodly Appendage, Your Pastaness.
Apparently, Yahweh has a bad case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and you have to mention his name repeatedly to hold his attention.
Rather like a certain person holding the office of president at the moment.
Both have staff made up of only yes men.
It seemed like her pause word. Similar to "like" or "you know" or even "ummm". Just throw it in while you think of what to say next.
"think" might be a strong word for what she's doing.
Most prayer is just canned phrases anyway, rearranged in a different order by each person who prays aloud. I sat through enough of them to realize that much, at least.
A lot of people pray like that when they pray aloud, at least in Baptist churches. When I was in middle school, my friends and I would sometimes amuse ourselves during long drawn out prayers by counting the number of times 'God' or 'Jesus' or 'Lord' was mentioned.
This is a story I heard secondhand from a college professor. There was an elderly prof who had a whole collection of verbal tics and mannerisms that drove his students to distraction. Then one year a classroom decided to deal with it by assigning baseball values to every tic/mannerism. A clearing of the throat = a single. A needless pushing up of the eyeglasses was a strikeout. Polishing the glasses was a fly out. Etc. The students organized into two teams, the Rightside and the Leftside. Scorekeepers sat next to each other to make sure they agreed on the progress of the game.
The secret of this got out to other students and faculty, all of whom took an interest and none of whom clued in the elderly prof. As his tics were numerous and random, the score was close. The game came down to the final class and indeed, the final minutes. The prof finished his lecture, looked around the classroom, and noted that this had been his most enjoyable class in quite a while. He appreciated their attentiveness and, cough cough, have a good summer. The final cough cough drove in the winning run for one of the teams.
Later that day, according to the prof telling me the story, another faculty member asked elderly prof how the semester went. The prof said that one class had given him a standing ovation. But it was odd because only the right half of the classroom stood and cheered.
Well, it IS a prayer, so much more expected than if conversing with a human.
Still, ya gotta wonder if a God would get annoyed. If I was talking to someone and literally every sentence out of their mouth started with "Eric, ..." I'd be like, 'drop it, I'm right here, we both know who you're talking to.'
If I were God, I'd get mighty tired of thank you for this food and bless it to the nourishment of our body, every meal. I get it, I fed you. You don't need to thank me every time. Now if you really want to thank me, help that poor Somali refugee who's just looking for a way to earn zir own living.
If I were God, I'd be sick of people asking me for stuff that they can, and probably should, get up and do themselves. I mean really, praying for more power, when they already have so much and will likely be able to get more on their own?
Rude.
I had a (former) friend who used “Praise Jesus” at the end of every sentence about something they deemed worthy of such praise. Now you know why they’re a former friend. 🙄
A PURGE? Of taxpaying citizens? Voters? Wow this woman would be ousted from almost any a)democratic government and b) sane sect of Christianity. That’s not how it works, not how either were written. This is Spanish Inquisition stuff.
A purge of government? Not that unusual. Happens across the globe pretty regularly.
This woman would have purged 5 of the 7 Key Founders of our country. She would have purged ALL who stood against being ruled by a Christian empire and a Christian king. Harsh would have been a Loyalist.
It's the in-group, out-group mentality. Christian Nationalists routinely look the other way when one of their own does something immoral because the only thing that actually matters is the group. Their group has power, and they don't want to lose that power, so they have no problem ignoring their own group's failings. It's the double standard that is so utterly preposterous, not to mention that indulging that double standard is just totally irrational.
OT: Levity
Spouse: 'Did you just spill a bag of flour all over the floor and leave it there?"
Me: "But, the Dow is over 50,000!!!!!!
President Trump has a servant’s heart? I question the existence of any type of heart let alone one about service to others. He is president for the sole purpose of enriching himself, through power and corruption. That is all he has done, and it is destroying the entire world.
Pam Bondi was quoted as saying during her deposition in Congress that Trump is the most transparent president (or something about him being the most transparent) and my reaction was, “the only transparent part of Trump is the skin on the back of his hands.”
We should not stop describing his crimes at paying a porn star while his wife was pregnant, we need to start including the very real crimes he’s committed revealed in the Trumpstein files. The infanticide, the cannibalism, the digital rapes, the genital penetration rapes, and the child sex trafficking he is certainly guilty of. We have to stop letting him get away with these heinous crimes. There will be no justice if we just wait for the DOJ to prosecute anyone, the DOJ will do nothing until he’s removed from office and none of his cronies are anywhere near power, and that won’t happen anytime soon. Not unless we hold him accountable for this. There’s enough evidence to convict him, they are just too corrupt to do it. We can’t let this go. He’s a pedo, he’s a murderer, he’s a rapist, he’s the worst human being on the planet and we can’t have him just die of old age with no consequences. Call it out. Call it out every chance you get.
Of course he has a servant's heart! He keeps it in a jar in the fridge, next to the pickles.
Nobody knows what happened to the 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵 of the servant.
“Pray: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), American author, The Devil’s Dictionary
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Many thanks for the reference! After reading a few reviews I just ordered a hard copy to keep on my desk.
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And if I may offer one in return, for those folks that just happen to like words (love em, though I am entirely unskilled in their use...): The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
My hard copy has been well-thumbed.
That sounds dirty.