Sunday Thoughtsby NoahWhen it comes to Herr Trump's professed Christian followers, never was a meme so true. They are fanatical worshippers of their own golden calf of hypocrisy. They bow down before that hypocrisy. "Yea, how we adore ye, for it is thou who provideth cover for our hate, our gluttony, and our greed." **From The New Republican Bible c1980, Third Testament, Book One.
In writing about Trump's meeting with evangelical ministers and assorted religionist hucksters and grifters at the White House Monday evening, they reported that in his public remarks he "spoke in high-minded tones about religious liberty, abortion and youth unemployment.
So it wasn't just Lindsay Graham leading the charge on the right to allow Trump to seamlessly rid himself of Jeff Sessions with no noisy consequences from the base. Jerry Falwell had a son, Jerry, Jr., and some people bill him as "a top conservative religious leader." On Monday, Jr.
Over the weekend, the New York Times published an OpEd by Peter Wehner, The Full-Spectrum Corruption of Donald Trump. "There’s never been any confusion about the character defects of Donald Trump," Wehner, a former Reagan and Bush staffer and senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center began.
I don't know a better observer of life in America's evangelical communities than author and filmmaker (and former evangelical) Frank Schaefer. He and I are both working on a project called VoteCommonGood, "an effort to dislodge control of Congress from the Republican Party by inspiring Christians to vote on November 6, 2018 according to what our faith tells us is the Common Good.
Fascism Comes To America by Nancy OhanianThere are some Republicans-- precious few-- who will work to try to separate the Republican Party from the racism that Trump has inserted into its DNA. Mitt Romney, soon to be Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT), is setting himself up as a Republican alternative to Trump on issues where Trump makes normal peoples' skin crawl.
(OD) — A US evangelical Christian group has used Facebook and YouTube to target LGBT young people with ‘dehumanising’ video ads. The social media giants’ sophisticated advertising capabilities have allowed the tax-exempt charity Anchored North, based in California, to “pay to reach secular world views”, said founder Greg Sukert in a recent webinar. The group says it uses “media and […]
Why did Donald J Trump sign a bill to tax churches 21%Academic, seminarian and monk, Mike Hertsenstein, shook up the evangelical world this week with a lost passage from an infamous Nixon tape.
Yesterday we took a peak at how the GOP is slipping into the status of being a cult rather than a legitimate political party. As I've mentioned before, recently Blue America has partner with an evangelical group, Vote Common Good, a 501 c (4) non-profit organization, which is helping Democratic congressional candidates have a better understanding of evangelical voters.
