An Episcopal priest calls out Jeff Sessions' biblical argument

[DesertRat]

Link to tweet

@frsimmons
Dear Jeff Sessions, are you aware that the argument you made today from Romans 13 was a central argument of the German Christian (Pro-Nazi) movement over and against the Confessing Church? Im not saying you are a Nazi, but you’re interpreting the Bible like one.

[Aristus]

1. No, man! don't call him a Nazi! That will never get under his skin!

Call him a damned Yankee!

He'll find the nearest tall building and jump off it...

[DesertRat]

2. Haha, yes

My husband's family is southern so I know what you mean.

[Aristus]

3. I'm Southern born-and-raised, so

we know these things...

[CentralMass]

5. He's no yankee.

[Aristus]

8. I know.

That's the point.

[Cha]

4. WOW! This should GO VIRAL!

Thanks, DR

[DesertRat]

11. I love it when a man/woman of the cloth

Calls them out on their hypocrisy and for twisting the Bible to suit their political agenda.

[Cha]

12. Me too!

[Hekate]

6. Off to the Greatest page

[sheshe2]

7. Fugg Sessions.

K&R

[defacto7]

9. K&R

[gratuitous]

10. Let's see . . .

"Blood and soil" chant from last year's Nazi rally, where Trump said he was pretty sure there some fine people among them. Larry Kudlow and Peter Navarro both use "stab in the back" after the G-7 conference. The entire administration is oppressing immigrants and refugees, while claiming the exclusive right to being "real" Americans. Sessions uses the same justification the Nazis used to tear apart families of those his boss has characterized as "animals."

I'd say you're being very circumspect and generous, Father Simmons. I AM saying these motherfuckers are Nazis. They're talking like Nazis, thinking like Nazis, and acting like Nazis. They are not going to outgrow their Nazi ways.

[dawg day]

13. Not to mention that was the very quote

The slavers used to justify slavery. Not that Jeff BEAUREGARD Sessions would think there was anything wrong with that.

[Sophia4]

14. The Declaration of Independence

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

. . . .

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/

First, if Americans had heeded Romans 13, we would still be a part of the United Kingdom. We would never have rebelled against the British government.

Second, if there is one obvious Law of Nature, it is the Law that says that children are born to their parents and should stay with their parents whenever possible. It violates a Law of Nature to separate children from their parents unless justified by some inability of the parent to provide and care for the children.

It violates a Law of Nature to take children from parents who love them. People who escape their homes to come to America and bring their children with them love their children.