The Trump crowd being upset at a pastor for saying show mercy and leave trans people alone just shows how they use religion for aesthetics only.
There is no way these people legit think they have any chance of reaching the gates of heaven.
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How dare a priest call for compassion towards others. Jesus would be outraged.
Leviticus 19:33-34 When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 24:22 You are to have the same law for the foreigner and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.
1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
Proverbs 31:8-9 Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Deuteronomy 15:11 For the poor will never cease from the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall open your hand wide to your brother, to your poor and your needy, in your land.’
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politicizing religion
Republicans are fine with it as long as religious leaders agree with them.
That's why they love the smaller evangelical churches, there's no higher authority and plenty of grifters who will always back them in return for "donations".
They want to lead a religion, not be told what they're doing isn't religious.
From the maker of the Trump Bible.
And yet his diplomat wants give Israel the Westbank based on the bible
They want to deport her for hurting his feelings.
Deport her where? Honestly these people allegedly so freedom of speech are such snowflakes.
Doesn't matter. First step would be an immigration detention facility. If there's no country to deport her to, she just stays there, I guess. And while she's there, might as well dig a hole, build a wall, or assemble furniture or something to cover the cost of housing her or some shit.
immigration detention facility
I think we can go ahead and call them concentration camps at this point. That's what they will build on those 1400 acres in Texas, and that's how they'll be used. Convenient bureaucratic mix-ups will enable them to contain immigrants, targeted minorities and political opponents.
The fact that it's in Texas already makes it cruel and unusual punishment.
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Looks like she is from New Jersey originally? I guess being banished to new jersey is biblically accurate if you consider the movie Dogma to be canon.
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It’s code for death camps.
Please take the next logical step... Where do they send the people they "deport," yet who have no "home country" to be sent to?
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Hm, Putting people that openly criticise the party on "a list". Where have I heard this before?
Genuinely scary.
It also happened in the 50s with people the USA government decided it didn’t like the thoughts and statements of. Ruined a lot of lives.
Trump has no feelings. He's just a Markov process of assholery.
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"Politicizing Religion"?
Did she publish her own personal bibles or have the military take over a church for a photo-op?
"Politicizing religion"
Oh the irony
he literally signed bibles like he's the fucking author despite not having read a single word of it. not a single word. when they asked him if there was any part of the Bible he liked he couldn't say anything. not even "the lord is my shepherd", just blank.
to be fair though if he uttered any of the words he would probably catch on fire
She just asked for him to show mercy. How is that hurting anyone's feeling? What a snowflake.
You should know that asking trump to show mercy is almost as cruel as asking a legless person to stand.
He called her a radical left Trump hater. Like Jesus wasn't radical left and pretty sure he would've hated Trump too. But I guess that tracks since some right wingers are calling Jesus's teachings weak. I'm surprised they haven't called him "woke" yet.
Jesus was definitely radical left if he existed.
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Remember when Jesus apologized to the Romans about politicizing religion?
Jesus also said to pay your taxes, and was super against charging interest for loans....
It changed to "don't charge Christians interest" to "charge everyone interest" over the years as the wealthy kept re-writting the Bible.
Then there's the stuff about taking care of the poor and sick, which also isn't a priority anymore.
It's why I hate when Christians say they're forced to be anti-LGBTQ due to their religion, but never fight for the stuff their religion says to do to help people. They just want to use religion as a sword, never a shield.
I still go back to Jesus’s golden rule: do unto others as you would have done to you.
He says that rule sums up all of his teachings.
You can 100% be Christian and treat LGBTQ people with respect. In fact, I’m pretty sure that’s what Jesus would want. You don’t even have to read the whole bible to know that, that’s Jesus’ own cliff notes version!
Organized religions that for thousands of years oppressed people will read the bible as they may, but you’re not a Christian if you don’t recognize the new covenant and hear Jesus words.
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Trump dismissed the service as “boring” and accused Budde of politicizing religion.
BWAHAHAHAHA ah yes, after thousands of pristine years of religion being apolitical, all it took was one woman with the balls to speak truth to power and now it's been besmirched forever.
All it took is for one woman to say "have mercy" because that sentiment could only be political and was never part of Christianity.
It was a great speech. Highly recommend
Does he need a safe space for his snowflake ego?
Her church is your church you moron.
He could have he disagrees and that would be it. He's demanding an apology.
But then again, it's Trump.
I don't give a rat's ass about religion, any of them. I also applaud that woman's bravery.
To be honest she's probably lucky this is week one and not a year in, when Trump would have her shot as an enemy of the president and criminal of the state.
Yup, anyone who disagrees with Trump about treating people like garbage is a radical leftist. Sounds about right. I'm so siked for a decade of this.
I'm so glad the government isn't trying to control speech now that Biden is out.
sigh
Fuck your feelings, snowflake.
I think that's the typical magat response when someone's offended, right?
Politicizing... If he projects any harder he's going to start burning shit with his eyeballs like god damn cyclops.
He's trying to steal our rights, his petty bullshit is just distraction
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Awwww, Trump is one special snowflake who cannot take criticism
Hey, Donald. Shut the fuck up.
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