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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumps God whisperer says resisting him is an affront to God
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-spiritual-adviser-affront-god-d615c512bffc/This is an older story but pulling back out due to the evangelical support of Moore.
So who wants to worship a God that would appoint someone like Trump to leadership? Or get Moore elected? Well apparently as this article states "Christian Nationalists" Ooooh Kaayyy.
This means that Hitler would have gotten their endorsement as well right? And just about any other historical dictator that did horrible things. So is it any surprise that they will also endorse Moore? Everything you see is God's will which is their grand justification for any bad thing a leader might do. These folks are totally whacked out human beings and our misfortune is that they have money.
How did these nuts get into power? Money. How did these nuts get influence? Money. It is hard not to see the inevitable outcome of all of this because I just do not see anything able to go up against Big Money and what it can buy and with what it can buy how it can turn a person into a soul-less zombie. I mean what is really in Jim Baker's pancake mix?
Money can dress the most abhorrent maggot in fine jewels, give that maggot a media spotlight and give the maggot a voice. In the end when the maggots have absolute total power they will no longer need the artifice. They will simply be maggots but they will rule so are they going to care what anyone thinks? Nope. Whatever base disgusting low life action they may have will all be the will of God and it is their God not yours.. and their God has money.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)The fact that people allow these kinds of morons to be granted undue deference and respect because they utter the word 'god' is enough to make me honestly believe these people are a clear and present danger to the future of humanity.
Enough with the asinine 'god' defense of literally everything. Things like this just make me think less of anyone who professes a "be-lie-f" in 'god' to begin with and an utter contempt for those who self-identify as someone who 'talks to god' or 'has a relationship with god' or 'allows that religion shapes their decisions'.
Enough already. Make believe friends and hideous conceptions of deity are accelerating the ruination of the planet and the doom of the dominant species, homo sapiens. If we do not all wish to perish and cede the world to the insects, we need to shake of the fleas that are religions and need to do it NOW.
ProfessorGAC
(65,061 posts)God is not pleased with the current situation and that people like this minister will pay in the afterlife.
What's he going to say? His pipeline to the almighty is better than mine? Then i just say, no it isn't.
One thing for certain: i'm a damn bit smarter than this idiot.
moondust
(19,991 posts)So if God is responsible for everything then what about the Holocaust? Was that God's divine plan? And millions of refugees around the world today? God's plan? Cancer in children? The list is long. "What kind of God would do that to his divine creation?" asked some Holocaust survivors.
Predestination is a doctrine in Calvinism dealing with the question of the control that God exercises over the world.
Probably an invention of rich people used to convince poor people that it's all part of God's plan for them to be rich and you to be poor.
ravencalling
(285 posts)In agreement with you moondust! But if they were honest about this God's plan, then it would also be God's plan for the abused women to be able to testify against these pervs in power in order to bring them down. My problem is that they pick and choose what they believe is "The Plan" and it is strangely tilted in their favor.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)ravencalling
(285 posts)I don't think there is any thought about some kind of spiritual God. I think they just claim God in order to justify what they are doing. And of course perhaps they have bought into it so much that they actually believe it. A God they created for just this purpose. And wow, it sure is selling well! So.. if I were loaded with ill gotten cash.. along with many unscrupulous past actions which I regretted, having someone say well - God put you there and made you do all of those things as part of his grand plan would make me feel a lot better!
So.. these folks cannot initially feel good about themselves. So I am becoming convinced that in order to buy into this Godly pyramid scheme, you have to be a rather nasty character. You get accepted and then voila.. all is forgiven and you have all of these smiling pat you on the back people who are just like you! And hoo boy are they going to support you because .. if they don't someone might just look into what they have been doing. I wouldn't let a single one of them close to anyone I cared about I'll tell you that much! LOL.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)I really don't think they understand how little the idea troubles some of us.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)I unfriended her on facebooking ok that red of her right wing posts
erpowers
(9,350 posts)In this speech/sermon he promoted the idea of Civil Disobedience. He used the Bible story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to say that people most oppose laws and stand up to those laws, even at the risk of their lives, if those laws are wrong.