TFG™ - the daemon who gave these false prophets and the idol worshipers who follow them the veneer of acceptability, who encouraged them to shamelessly stand in public and unleash the festering evil that had bubbled beneath the surface for so long.
I don't know that Steve Bannon has ever claimed to be a Christian. I would be inclined to move the men and women who claim to preach the Gospel up to the top of the list before the politicians: Paula White, Robert Jeffress, Ralph Reed, Eric Metaxas (not on this list but should be). Marjorie Taylor Greene (will she retain the "Greene" after her divorce?) deserves a special mention for that photo of her sitting in front of a wall of crucifixes with an open Bible in her lap turned to the Book of Revelation, as if she had actually read everything leading up to it. I would like to see what edition of the Bible these people use, because I think it must be heavily redacted. All the Prophets talked about economic justice. Jesus said "whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me." Do they cut those pages out, in which case the book would be much smaller, or do they just white them out?
Good question to ponder! As Eudora Wetly quipped (in brief and not a direct word for word), people are layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it’s difficult to know what makes them hyacinths or onions (or something of the sort).
Thinking about other false prophets tends to ring my economist bells more than my pastoral bells. Prophets who have so successfully finessed in a vision of our profoundly interactive and intertwined world as composed of atomic human entities who interact only when we choose, so "environment" has no meaning, where all "real" processes are competitions, where time horizons for planning are unquestionably very limited, yet leading to Elysian tomorrows, and where markets always, always clear.
Think on, I suppose that they do depend on theological principles of a sort:
- Markets are complete, completely competitive without any maintenance, and perfect.
- All processes are competitive, and all "winners" are worthy ("losers" get what they deserve)
- (Contradictorily) Distributive issues are matter for ethicists, not economists
- All profits are taken in monetary form, so demographic bias, which would cut into monetary profit, does not survive the competitive process
- ... Other points, many of them matters of style that militate against leftie economic models that are more supported by data....
Whoa. This got me to thinking. False prophets have a deep faith in the system — so long as the system affirms what they believe. When the system confounds them (tornadoes+plagues), that’s God stepping in to punish. It’s all pretty much out of our hands. We aren’t responsible and certainly not complicit. It’s the laziest possible form of human being-ing.
I was glad to see the unholy Texas trio of Cruz, Patrick & Paxton on the Dishonorable list. For their callous treatment of undocumented immigrants, I’d like to fly TX Gov. Abbott & FL Gov. DeSantis to Venezuela. They can only take a backpack with a change of clothes, 2 one liter bottles of water, 2 cans of beans, a pkg. of tortillas, 2-3 pieces fruit. Give the governor Grinches $10 each. DeSantis gave unsuspecting “aliens” a $10 McDonald’s card to sign a waiver so they wouldn’t sue him for flying them to Martha’s Vineyard. Drop him in Caracas, with its high crime & poverty rates he can find housing & a job like those he led to the aliens about to get them onboard. If not, let him hoof it back to FL. Have the plane drop Abbott off in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and point him toward the Rio Grande. Let him climb over Trump’s wall or find an unfenced area of arid land to sneak over into the Lone Star State. Hope there’s room for him in a shelter- or not!
Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows. If you’ve read transcripts of their texts to one another, there’s a lot of god talk.
And now Cotton is going to Georgia to campaign for Herschel Walker. I wonder if Cotton going to explain how Walker fits into the theme of his book “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need”. Ignoring most of the children he fathered with four different women? Threatening one of his wives with a gun? Pressuring a women to have two abortions while being anti-choice? Tell us Tom. Tell us how to be a real man like Herschel.
I would add Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee to that list. She's been complaining all weekend on Twitter about President Biden "taking another vacation" when, in fact, he's gone home to Delaware to spend time with his family -- and to attend church on Sunday. The hypocrisy is so ridiculous. How many times did the former guy escape to his Florida compound during his term and when did he EVER go to church?
That's a good addition. I have started watching for the Twitter scripture-quoting on Sundays. That's a dead giveaway (to me) that someone is sinning the rest of the week and seeking to show just how very religious they are on the Lord's Day. Hypocrites.
TFG™ - the daemon who gave these false prophets and the idol worshipers who follow them the veneer of acceptability, who encouraged them to shamelessly stand in public and unleash the festering evil that had bubbled beneath the surface for so long.
Righteous!
Absolutely and amen.
I don't know that Steve Bannon has ever claimed to be a Christian. I would be inclined to move the men and women who claim to preach the Gospel up to the top of the list before the politicians: Paula White, Robert Jeffress, Ralph Reed, Eric Metaxas (not on this list but should be). Marjorie Taylor Greene (will she retain the "Greene" after her divorce?) deserves a special mention for that photo of her sitting in front of a wall of crucifixes with an open Bible in her lap turned to the Book of Revelation, as if she had actually read everything leading up to it. I would like to see what edition of the Bible these people use, because I think it must be heavily redacted. All the Prophets talked about economic justice. Jesus said "whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me." Do they cut those pages out, in which case the book would be much smaller, or do they just white them out?
“White them out.” My goodness, but that’s awesome.
Right?
Thanks!
Good question to ponder! As Eudora Wetly quipped (in brief and not a direct word for word), people are layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it’s difficult to know what makes them hyacinths or onions (or something of the sort).
Too many to type in with these old arthritic hands so I will just submit the entire gQp!
I’ve stopped wondering how some of these hypocrites sleep at night.
Thinking about other false prophets tends to ring my economist bells more than my pastoral bells. Prophets who have so successfully finessed in a vision of our profoundly interactive and intertwined world as composed of atomic human entities who interact only when we choose, so "environment" has no meaning, where all "real" processes are competitions, where time horizons for planning are unquestionably very limited, yet leading to Elysian tomorrows, and where markets always, always clear.
Think on, I suppose that they do depend on theological principles of a sort:
- Markets are complete, completely competitive without any maintenance, and perfect.
- All processes are competitive, and all "winners" are worthy ("losers" get what they deserve)
- (Contradictorily) Distributive issues are matter for ethicists, not economists
- All profits are taken in monetary form, so demographic bias, which would cut into monetary profit, does not survive the competitive process
- ... Other points, many of them matters of style that militate against leftie economic models that are more supported by data....
Whoa. This got me to thinking. False prophets have a deep faith in the system — so long as the system affirms what they believe. When the system confounds them (tornadoes+plagues), that’s God stepping in to punish. It’s all pretty much out of our hands. We aren’t responsible and certainly not complicit. It’s the laziest possible form of human being-ing.
I was glad to see the unholy Texas trio of Cruz, Patrick & Paxton on the Dishonorable list. For their callous treatment of undocumented immigrants, I’d like to fly TX Gov. Abbott & FL Gov. DeSantis to Venezuela. They can only take a backpack with a change of clothes, 2 one liter bottles of water, 2 cans of beans, a pkg. of tortillas, 2-3 pieces fruit. Give the governor Grinches $10 each. DeSantis gave unsuspecting “aliens” a $10 McDonald’s card to sign a waiver so they wouldn’t sue him for flying them to Martha’s Vineyard. Drop him in Caracas, with its high crime & poverty rates he can find housing & a job like those he led to the aliens about to get them onboard. If not, let him hoof it back to FL. Have the plane drop Abbott off in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and point him toward the Rio Grande. Let him climb over Trump’s wall or find an unfenced area of arid land to sneak over into the Lone Star State. Hope there’s room for him in a shelter- or not!
Spoken like a champion. Well done.
Ginni Thomas and Mark Meadows. If you’ve read transcripts of their texts to one another, there’s a lot of god talk.
And now Cotton is going to Georgia to campaign for Herschel Walker. I wonder if Cotton going to explain how Walker fits into the theme of his book “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need”. Ignoring most of the children he fathered with four different women? Threatening one of his wives with a gun? Pressuring a women to have two abortions while being anti-choice? Tell us Tom. Tell us how to be a real man like Herschel.
Just what ol' Hersch needs -- the kiss of death from the lanky fascist from Arkansas...
I would add Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee to that list. She's been complaining all weekend on Twitter about President Biden "taking another vacation" when, in fact, he's gone home to Delaware to spend time with his family -- and to attend church on Sunday. The hypocrisy is so ridiculous. How many times did the former guy escape to his Florida compound during his term and when did he EVER go to church?
That's a good addition. I have started watching for the Twitter scripture-quoting on Sundays. That's a dead giveaway (to me) that someone is sinning the rest of the week and seeking to show just how very religious they are on the Lord's Day. Hypocrites.
DT
Yes!