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I have given up Trump for Lent, for the duration, for as long as it takes to eject him from office. He makes me ill, and he is now invading my sleep.
Enough.
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I hear ya! But we must keep up the fight.
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Listening to him pontificate and posture and drool is not fighting, it’s awful. The only way we can fight this is with a vote, and we are still at the mercy of the electoral college, lord help us all.
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He’s claiming the LIVE testimony of his security chiefs is fake news because it makes him look like an idiot. It was LIVE!!! We can go back and watch it! The guy’s psychotic and his supporters are the lowest forms of life out there. What IDIOTS! This is dangerous. Something awful is going to happen.
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Why you asking the Lord to help when you don’t believe in him? That’s strange. How can He help if He is not real? I am confused.
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Jodi, your comment is confusing! No one is asking “the Lord” to help.
The point of this post is to pinpoint an article about how Trump is allowing Evangelical Christian leaders to influence him and support laws and regulations that are clearly biased towards Christianity. Non-believers should NOT be governed and/or ruled by believers. No POTUS or any member of his administration should be allowed to force their Christian beliefs on U.S. citizens.
This country was founded NOT on “Christian” values, but on Freedom of Religion. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that everyone in the United States has the right to practice his or her own religion, or no religion at all.
You can be a Christian any and every day of the week. You can read your bible, attend your church, pray everyday and all day. By the same token, I can live my life minus any and all of these activities. THAT is Freedom of Religion.
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Jodi, I just realized you were responding to judy when she wrote “lord help us all.”
I would assume you know that’s simply an off-handed remark referencing a common Christian belief. I’m quite certain judy put no “faith” in her “plea.”
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Nan, thanks for clearing that up. I think everyone was wondering what Jodi was talking about. Thanks. GROG
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There is but one God and one way to worship him: From the Quran, 3:85: “And whoever seeks a religion other than Islâm, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.”
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I am confused. Is not this an atheist platform? Atheist believes in no god.
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All who do not accept The One True God, Allah, as their god are atheists. From the Quran: 2:120: “Never will the Jews nor the Christians be pleased with you till you follow their religion. Say: “Verily, Islâmic Guidance is the only Guidance. And if you were to follow their desires after what you have received of Knowledge, then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.”
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I am confused. Why are you telling me about Jews and Christians? What does Jews and Christians have to do with what was said?
“…then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.” What does this mean?
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Only atheists are confused by truth. “The only true faith in God’s sight is Islam.”
Quran 3:19
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“…then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.” What does this mean?
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Please t help me with my confusion. “…then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.” What does this mean?
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Only the atheist is confused by reality. “He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost.”
Quran 3:85
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Is this the answer to this question? “…then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.” What does this mean?
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There is but one truth. One answer. One reality. As an atheist, you have eyes but refuse to see. As an atheist, you have ears but refuse to hear. One God. One Truth. One answer: Allah.
“If you doubt what We have revealed to Our servant, produce one chapter comparable to it. Call upon your idols to assist you, if what you say be true. But if you fail (as you are sure to fail) then guard yourselves against the Fire whose fuel is men and stones, prepared for the unbelievers.”
Quran 2:23-4
Waken, before you are one of the lost. Allahu Akbar
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Please help clear up the confusion. “…then you would have against Allâh neither any protector nor helper.” What does this mean?
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It’s just an expression, like when people say “when Hell freezes over” to mean “never”. It doesn’t mean they actually believe in Hell.
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Makes my stomach WRETCH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
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Welcome to the world of populist leaders. There’s no unifying principle(s) being enunciated or used other than what the Leader deems ‘popular’.
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For Christ’s sake how much more delusional can human beings be? What’s next? Cross your fingers that the US gets a savior. This bag of nut cases is out of control!!!!! My recommendation, GROG
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From the beginning, with those idiotic Hitler-style rallies to now, it has only gotten worse. He preens, he smirks, he leers. He has utterly no concept of anything but his own fine self.
And he is a pure narcissist.
I noticed a steep upsweep in bigotry, in the Klan, in anti anything that wasn’t white bread america. Almost from the first day, he has fostered fear and distrust for anyone ‘different”. My husband, as far as I know, thinks he’s just swell.
He knows enough at this point to keep it to a low buzz and not try to involve me in the rhetoric. (shudder.)
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I gather many religious folk are citing the ‘Cyrus’ precedent from the Old Testament (for those who don’t know ‘God’ allegedly raised up a non Jewish leader in Babylon called Cyrus to release the Jews from captivity there).
Of course there is one clear difference in that Cyrus appears to be have a good and wise ruler.
By Biblical standards Trump is no Cyrus. Perhaps Samson would be a better precedent, a person with no moral compass who causes mayhem wherever he went and many people commented on his hair. According to the Bible ‘God’ raised up Samson in order to cause difficulties in relations with the Philistines.
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Correction: For charlatan leaders, however, the charlatan’s interest in their views has been thrilling.
Fixed.
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YES Carl, YES!!! Please oh PLEASE return and save us!!! ❤ 😉
Wonderful, apropos quote Victoria.
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it’s also so much easier to sit back and have your minister, your mother, your congressman, your president, tell you what to do and think and believe. No worries, man. Nooo worries.
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Have you read this article by John Pavlovitz: White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/24/white-evangelicals-people/
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And THAT blog-post from a Christian minister himself! 🤔
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Yup.
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I wrote a post on this back in February of last year and published his letter. 🙂
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Oh 🙂
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Grrrrr, as I was drafting my VERY shortened comment with the four key critical topics in the article I wanted to address, elaborate on, refute, and correct, I eventually realized it won’t work. It isn’t the least bit effective to win a war that has essentially been waged for many generations of American families and communities — even well before July 4th, 1776.
How does one adequately critique a people or group’s, or an organization’s sociopolitical years (decades? century or centuries?) of educational propaganda, indoctrination, brainwashing without dismantling it/them brick by brick!? Does just firing one or two verbal ballistic missile(s) at these people work, and Voilà… they’re gone, problems solved!?
And yet, here I go… about to do EXACTLY what I don’t really want to do. It goes against every fiber of my being and personality to willingly step in/down into the quagmire of this BULLSHIT ideologies, get my hands, fingers, feet, and face dirty… probably even get cuts and bruises. But no, the metaphorical fortress, walls, and weaponized rhetoric they’ve accumulated over an adult lifetime and from many, many family generations and colleagues won’t even show a tiny dent if I launch one maybe two mega-warheads of 20-50 (or less) offensive words. 😆 Oh well, maybe it will hit the bottom of their magazine of ammunitions — BOOM!!!!! Like the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor. Ready, aim, fire…
YOU PEOPLE ARE NUTS and LOST YOUR ANIMAL MINDS!!! (hums the nursery-rhyme song… who have lost their way… Bah, bah, bah.)
There. Let’s see how that works. 😁
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Am I correct is assuming the desire of the Evangelicals to “rule the world” (or at least the U.S.) upsets you? 😛
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YES NAN, it DOES!!!! Not just a little, but A LOT, a WHOLE LOT!!! Can I freely write out here
JUST.
HOW.
MUCH? 😛 😉
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Not necessary. I get it.
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What I find terribly perplexing and comical at the same time about ‘Evangelicals wanting to rule the world or the U.S.‘ are their definition(s) of WHAT the world is and what it should be. 🤔 HAH! 😆
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