You can't make this shit up!

[Soph0571]

To be fair - only real Christians want to reminded of the least amongst us - not the pretend Christians who wear Jesus on their sleeve while Satan lives in their hearts.

[Cha]

1. Wow! i saw OPs about

Chaplain Patrick J Conroy but I didn't click on.. omg.

WTHF! Can paul ryan please get the karma he so laboriously has earned?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Don't believe something just because you see a meme. Explanation Ryan gave is murky but good chance

There is a good chance that the real explanation is as the meme says.

What happened is that after the chaplain gave a balanced prayer, praying that the legislation would help all Americans, a staffer came to tell him that some members were a bit upset or something. About a week later Ryan fires him. Not a 100% locked-in logical sequence, but enough of a probability to be the leading theory on it.

Ryan's explanations have been unconvincing and they do not reference that incident.

[SunSeeker]

23. Ryan himself told him, "Padre, you just got to stay out of politics"

Ryan’s office complained to Conroy about a prayer he offered on the House floor during the tax overhaul debate that those who “continue to struggle” in American would not be made “losers under new tax laws.” Ryan admonished the priest after the Nov. 6 prayer, saying, “Padre, you just got to stay out of politics,” Conroy told the New York Times.
...
Over the five months since Ryan’s warning, Conroy dared to continue to preach the teachings of Jesus on the House floor:
...
He prayed for lawmakers to be “free of all prejudice” and, after the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, to “fulfill the hopes of those who long for peace and security for their children.”
...
But such “political” sentiments are apparently no longer compatible with service as House chaplain. “As you have requested, I hereby offer my resignation,” Conroy, named chaplain seven years ago by John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, wrote to Ryan on April 16. The ouster became public Thursday.

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/29/dana-milbank-if-you-preach-about-the-poor-you-dont-have-a-prayer-in-washington/

[misanthrope]

24. Easiest way to avoid that?

Stop bringing religion into matters of state.

[SunSeeker]

26. Oh I agree. The idea of a Chaplain for Congress flies in the face of the establishment clause. nt

[SunSeeker]

25. Conroy committed the unforgivable GOP offense of preaching about the poor like Jesus.

Republicans may call themselves Christians, but they want nothing to do with Christ's teachings.

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/29/dana-milbank-if-you-preach-about-the-poor-you-dont-have-a-prayer-in-washington/

[duforsure]

2. Attacking a Chaplain ,

For political reasons,and firing him shows how much contempt for the institution of the House and Senate Ryan has. Also shows he's not qualified to hold that position acting this way. Just another daily reason for voting all republicans out of office, and its all because of their own doings. Trump, Ryan, and McConnell have proven to be the most corrupt politicians in our history of this country. Every day they prove it to us too.

[lpbk2713]

3. To them God is green paper.

With $$$ printed on it.

[mnmoderatedem]

4. welcome to the latest episode of

What If A Democrat Had Done It.

[democratisphere]

5. Paul Ryan, like many redumbliCONs, is a religious and spiritual fraud!

Paul Ryan worships tax cuts to the wealthiest!

Amen.

[Hortensis]

6. Good. Some of this sifts through to Repubs.

They can deny, deny, deny, but still...

[True Blue American]

8. Seems some Republicans

Are unhappy with the firing,too.

Ryan is making sure people remember him as the ass he always was.

[FakeNoose]

9. Thank goodness Ryan's days are numbered

[onecent]

11. GREAT SIGN!!!!!

[sellitman]

14. Smart?

Heck.....how about "human"?

[onecent]

10. Ryan needs to JUST BOW OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chipper Chat]

12. along with all the tea party Goppers

In congress

[Lonestarblue]

13. Amen to that!

I keep saying that Trump is draining at least part of the swamp because so many GOP reps have decided not to run again because they won’t win on their records. For every one of those, though, he has added two more corrupt swamp creatures in his administration.

[Texin]

15. Don't forget that the God of Paul Ryan's idolatry is Ayn Rand.

He lives and breathes her so-called 'philosophy'.

[BlueJac]

28. That is a real fact!

[IluvPitties]

16. Ryan is a closeted white nationalist and fascist.

[smirkymonkey]

17. Except he's not really closeted, is he?

He's pretty much out there. God, I hate that miserable fucking bastard almost as much as I hate Trump. I really want something horrible to happen to him.

[onecent]

18. I'm with you also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[S.E. TN Liberal]

19. Real Christians don't have to be reminded to consider the plight of the poor.

These so-called Christians in the republican't party can't give a damn for the poor no matter what any religious leader has to say.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

20. Say goodbye Paul

Ryan, you are so going to Hell now.

[lunatica]

21. Remember he loves Ayn Rand who hated the poor

and didn’t believe in god.

[Stonepounder]

22. I don't claim to be religious, but there is some good stuff in the Bible that all of these

so-called "Christians" don't want to believe in. For example, in Matthew 25:

34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

36 Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

37 Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

38 When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

39 Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

[Scurrilous]

27. K&R