Shoq11h ago
💯 And to prove your point, last Sunday a friend went to a local church and videoed a local preacher aggressively defending Trump and Ice.”We must accept that God’s work can seem brutal at times, but there’s always a plan.”
Her lawyer says she cannot release it. I agreed, but somehow we have to start making this story better known. They are using religious charlatanism from the pulpit to savage their own congregants and country. We have to fight back against these pious …
Show threadLucas C. Wheeler11h ago
@shoq
"But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil:
And thus I clothe my naked villany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint when most I play the devil."
Show threadotto9h ago
@lcwheeler @shoq Richard the 3rd, as depicted by Shakespeare might be a suitable analog for Resident Rump except that Rump is not so cunning by half and manipulates quite unconsciously. What passes for a conscience in these so called clergy I cannot imagine. Their psychotherapy bills, should they submit to such help, would break us.
Show threadLucas C. Wheeler9h ago
@ottomate @shoq Agreed. Trump has no cleverness at all. He's stupid and vicious. But I think some of his White Christian Nationalist lieutenants, like Russell Vought, do have a certain cunning. They manipulate from a position of relatively low profile and they know exactly what they're doing.
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@lcwheeler @shoq I am afraid you are right.
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