Bishop Talbert Swan telling it like it is, calling out evangelicals........

[Takket]

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[Martin Eden]

1. Sickening display of religious hypocrisy

Even worse is the fact that millions swallow such crap.

[czarjak]

2. "Things happen for a reason"...

Proof positive of a theological nitwit.

[usaf-vet]

6. Ok I'll go with that: Thank You God for delivering the Impeachment Power to the people.

We appreciate the power to banish this evil tyrant from our presidency.

[Zambero]

3. OK, in the Bible God sends a lot of stuff

Plagues, famines, fire and brimstone. All sent by God. One could pose the argument that Trump's ascension to the presidency would fit in neatly with those "divine offerings".

[YOHABLO]

4. Right, and Stormy Daniels is Mary Magdalene...next.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. God ran out of locusts. The next best thing was the Trump Family. nt

[Maraya1969]

23. +1,000 Not everything God has sent down was peaches and fairy dust.

[PatrickforO]

36. Good one. n/t

[safeinOhio]

7. Matthew 7:15

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolfs.

[demosincebirth]

21. TV evangelists

[cutroot]

8. Jesus called them Pharisees

[Pepsidog]

9. It finally dawned on me, these extremists really believe God put Trump in office for a reason.

A friend of mine told me when Trump won it was God’s plan. I never understood that until I saw Rick Perry in this interview. They really believe God put Trump there for a reason. Perry said it was God’s plan that Obama was President. I wonder if they would still say that if Mayor Pete wins.

[Delmette2.0]

10. That is one fucked up god.

Which is why i don't believe in him . Religion is men's creation.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. K&R, I'm with you. All folks have to do is read some secular history.

After my "enlightenment" in my 40s, it hit me strange about a god being a "him" (not meaning to pick on you here at all).

If one were to believe in a massively powerful, controlling being in our universe, why would any rational being think it would have human-like sex characteristics, show prejudice or favoritism toward any living thing, believe it communicates only with some select humans, or even recognize our very existence at all? Our solar system is but a grain of sand in the universe, at best - relative to all the grains of sand on earth.

One tiny element (of many) in my wake-up process was when I read that Sigmund Freud said (paraphrasing) the minute our ancestors first stood up on two legs and became a little self-aware, we started inventing gods to help cope with the realities of life. We're still inventing, modifying and defining them to fit our needs to this day.

KY........

[Delmette2.0]

16. I had a series of small awakening moments.

I won't list them here but it took me a long time to acknowledge that I really didn't believe in any of their bullshit.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

18. Number one fear these days for evangelicals......

KY.........

[Delmette2.0]

19. LOL

[SonofDonald]

24. Your second paragraph

Pretty much exactly what I've always thought

You have it dead on.

[Collimator]

34. It's possible that believing in Biblegod. . .

. . . was one step higher than believing in Zeus--who not only had human-like sex characteristics, but also had sex with humans. Maybe people felt relieved because Biblegod only had sorta-kinda sex with one woman.

[corbettkroehler]

11. "Apostates" Is Exactly Right!

Blessings on Bishop Swan!

[rwsanders]

12. Jim Wallis of Sojourners said republicans and churches that teach republicanism are teaching a

"perverted gospel" (from the book God's Politics)

[Karadeniz]

13. I like the way the bishop thinks.

[struggle4progress]

14. "It would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned

in the depths of the sea"

Matthew 18

[dustyscamp]

17. Proverbs 31:8-9 NIV

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.

I don't see Trump or anyone on the Right doing this

[smirkymonkey]

20. Hear, hear!

[Maraya1969]

22. So do these people believe that Obama was chosen also? I mean what's the dif?

But I will also that if his DEMON (yea that's the word I'm choosing to use) in the White House continue to wake up a whole lot of people to what is really important and causes a true big blue wave then maybe he has been chosen by God. We'll see in a couple years. If the country turns blue then Donald Trump will have made America great again.

[murielm99]

25. Demon?

My brother is firmly convinced that 45 is the anti-Christ. Maybe is is on to something.

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. Revelations 13-5

Revelation 13:5, NIV: "The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months."

There are people who believe Trump will leave office, one way or another, in July 2020. I'm an atheist, but it would be interesting if that came to pass.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

33. Interesting indeed.

Revelations is interesting to me as an atheist/Buddhist/Reality Based person.

[StarryNite]

28. Very odd how they are coming out of the woodwork

saying tRump was chosen by Gawd but they never said Obama was.

[Xolodno]

27. It never ceases to amaze me.

They twisted them into a pretzel trying to prove Obama wasn't a Christian. But with clear evidence Trump's only religion is himself, they twist themselves into a pretzel trying to profess he is a Christian.

I liken it to the "beggar paradox". Republican helps out at the food bank that gives out to beggars and illegal immigrants. After he's done, he goes to the store and a beggar asks for food, which he then screams at him to get a job. Then goes home and turns on Fox News and starts raging against the immigrants taking away jobs.

[StarryNite]

29. God either needs a new plan or...

we need a new god.

[calimary]

30. BOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!

[Cha]

31. Thank you, Bishop Swan!

[wnylib]

32. It's been done before and I don't just mean

the Middle Ages and early modern times when Europeans believed in the divine right of kings.

I realize that the kind of comparison I am going to make is often overused, but this is a perfect match for how Nazi leadership portrayed Adolf to the people. "God on our side" is a perfect excuse for any action, no matter how atrocious.

When we think of Nazi Germany, we immediately think of the Holocaust and shy away from making comparisons to anything so horrible. In doing that, we remain ignorant of how it started and built up to the nightmare that it became. We should look more at the early years of that period to see how the later years were possible. An ounce of prevention.......

[NCjack]

35. Jesus wants all Televanglists to delivery their wives, girl friends, and

daughters to him at Mar-a-Logo. Those he likes will stay over and party with him -- the others should go home immediately.

[yellowwoodII]

37. We're Taking Names

These people will go down in history.

AND LAUGHED AT!