Illinois Congresswoman Quotes Hitler in Speech
It's not a dog whistle if the non-dogs hear it, too.
A Virginia man who was charged with Unlawful Entry after his participation in the Capitol siege says he did it because God didn’t tell him no.
He says he hesitated. He says he felt the need to go inside to share his views with Congress but wanted to consult God first. He prayed aloud: “Lord, is this the right thing to do? Is this what I need to do?” He says he felt God’s hand on his back, pushing him forward.
“I checked with the Lord,” he says. “I checked with Him three times. I never heard a ‘No.’”
Four years after she graduated from high school, a Tennessee woman received a Facebook message from a former teacher who couldn’t keep her bigoted disapproval of the young woman’s same-sex relationship to herself.
Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller is backpedaling after saying “Hitler was right on one thing.” In her defense, she was just reading the room— but she has a lot to learn from her Republican colleagues on how to use dog whistles.
You’re going to want to read every word of this New York Times essay from Katherine Stewart about the Christian Nationalism of Sen. Josh Hawley, one of the insurrectionist leaders.
Make no mistake: Mr. Hawley is a symptom, not a cause. He is a product of the same underlying forces that brought us President Trump and the present crisis of American democracy. Unless we find a way to address these forces and the fundamental pathologies that drive them, then next month or next year we will be forced to contend with a new and perhaps more successful version of Mr. Hawley.
This front-page NYT article about the Christianity on display during the siege is also worth your time. I highlighted one part below:
Show this to anyone who claims faith makes you more moral.
After the attack on the Capitol, many white evangelicals we interviewed described themselves as participants in a kind of holy war. How religious fervor and grievance is fueling Trump loyalists. Story w/ @publicroad https://t.co/ysm6NBxdC1
Elizabeth Dias @elizabethjdiasTurkish Creationist cult leader Adnan Oktar was sentenced to 1,075 years in prison for everything from child sexual abuse and kidnapping to money laundering and espionage. So I guess the justice system works sometimes?
Over the weekend, Sarah Huckabee Sanders whined about losing Twitter followers. One of the teachers at her high school chimed in… and just read his second comment for the kicker.
Bayside Community Church in Florida released a statement after finding out some of their members attended the Capitol attack, clarifying that the insurrectionists do not represent the views of the church. To be specific, they’re referring to a mother who gleefully posed by a noose and her daughter who bragged about storming the Capitol while wearing her gas mask. The daughter is married to one of the church’s pastors. While the church may not have directly told congregants to attend the riot, it’s curious why the church didn’t put this morality they claim to have front and center in their teaches before things got to this point.
Here’s the only openly non-religious member of Congress imploring his mostly Christian colleagues to find their moral compass.
If God were real, he would have struck Minnesota Pastor Darryl Knappen with a bolt of lightning after this marathon of lies:
Christian mommy blogger Lori Alexander has taken more time away from her fulfilling life as a servant to her husband and kids to shame modern women who “work outside of the home.”
From the following verses, we find that young women don’t want to be home. They want to wander away from home. In these days, they want to go shopping often, travel, have jobs away from home, or do anything they can so they don’t have to be home full time with their children caring for them and their homes. They would rather buy fast food, hire cleaning ladies, have laundromats do their laundry, etc. Anything to get away from their household duties.
Who wants to tell her why two-income households are a necessity for many families?
Finally, in October of 2019, I thought I'd go through the first two chapters of Genesis, highlighting the problems/contradictions, line by line. Then I kept going... because why skip Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel? I just completed the final chapter in Genesis — Chapter 50 — and I have no idea when this series will end now.
