Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Racism Won't Stop Until We 'Accept Jesus Christ'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Wednesday night claimed that the root of America’s racial problems was the lack of faith by “the left.”

Speaking after more than a week of demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Patrick tried to pin the nation’s long and deep-rooted racial problems on people not being religious enough ― and more specifically, “the left” not accepting Jesus Christ.

Patrick said on Fox News that Floyd’s killing and the unrest breaks his heart and that it’s an issue of “loving God.”

“You cannot love your fellow man if you don’t love God,” he said. “And we have a country where we’ve been working really hard, particularly on the left, to kick God out.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/dan-patrick-racism-jesus-080515989.html

Oh FFS. Plenty of Biblical passages were used to justify slavery and segregation. Don't give me the "no true Christian" rebuttal either.

[agingdem]

1. I'm the child of Jewish Holocaust survivors...

go fuck yourself!

[BeyondGeography]

2. He really is one Texas-sized douche canoe

[Goodheart]

3. "You cannot love your fellow man if you don't love God,"

THIS atheist has a truth for you: I can't love YOU, you fundy creep.

Your religion is nothing but assigning and peddling fear and guilt and shame onto people, and you claim to have a corner on love for your fellow man? Fuck off.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The black churches have been at the forefront of the civil rights movement

of the 1960's and afterwards. I guess he forgot all of those believers in Jesus who were and still are fighting racism. And, by the way, Dan Patrick, maybe if you tried to love your fellow humans - all of them - you'd be loving God. Check out Matthew 25.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. It never fails to amaze me how christofascists who believe in an all knowing, all powerful God...

think that the socialists can block God from anything. Stupid or a Liar or Both?

[msongs]

6. 2000 years of oppression everyone esp indigenous populations nt

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. That can't be right

You claim to have accepted Jesus, yet you are still racist.

[walkingman]

8. Not that I give a shit but Lt. Gov. Patrick is a member of the Second Baptist Church in Houston

which is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. SBC has it's roots in racism and support for slavery. He sounds like the typical POS that pushes that agenda.

Fuck'en Dumbass!

[SamKnause]

9. Is this stupid fuck saying there are no Christian or Evangelical racists ???

I am an Atheist.

I am not a racist.

I don't need or want any gods in my life.

I know how to be decent and loving without instructions.

Get rid of Trump and his supporters and racism will decline drastically.

[sop]

10. These rightwing super-christians always use the "Godless" trope to divide people.

Centuries ago it was "Godless heathens." Later it was "Godless immigrants." Then "Godless blacks" and "Godless communists." These days it's the "Godless left."

[BamaRefugee]

11. Jesus, giving a seminar on looting to some bankers.

[Patterson]

12. It seems there is a strong correlation between being racist and Christian.

[safeinOhio]

13. Can you accept Jesus and not follow his words in Red.

Blessed are the merciful,
for they shall obtain mercy.

Blessed are the pure of heart,
for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they shall be called children of God.

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

[grantcart]

14. He should resign and get to work on that

[texasfiddler]

15. This is bullshit. For proof see the following picture:

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[struggle4progress]

16. Dan quotes his scripture upside down and backwards

Anyone who claims to love God but hates a brother or sister, is a liar. For how can anyone hate their brother and sister, whom they have seen, and yet love God, whom they have not seen? 1 John 4

[handmade34]

17. Patrick

and his ilk are the reason racism still exists...

[Nature Man]

18. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick

needs to go fuck himself in his nearest possible hole.

[hatrack]

19. Take your bible-beating bullshit, dip it in battery acid, wrap it in barbed wire . . .

And shove it right up your ass.

Fuck, I am light-years past done with these fucking IDIOTS.

[jayfish]

20. So, Lemmie See If I Have This Straight.

Me not believing in your god turns your supporters into racists and keeps them that way? For f sake!

[spanone]

21. FUCK OFF DANNY

[roamer65]

22. STFU you racist pig.

What a piece of shit.

[Solomon]

23. Another stupid fuck who believes Jesus is white, blond and blue eyed.

[Buckeyeblue]

24. Until we accept that Jesus Christ was a person of color...

[Takket]

25. tell that to drumpf and his never-opened bible

[Paladin]

26. Oh, fuck off, Dan Patrick.

Patrick's recent "Old folks need to die to boost the stock market" statement shows the god that he really worships: Mammon. Patrick wouldn't know the loving message of Jesus Christ if it bit him in the ass. Total hypocrite, as always.

[Crunchy Frog]

27. Because the deep South has always been such a hotbed of atheism.

Especially during the slavery and Jim Crow eras.

[GeorgeGist]

28. Jesus or else.

Charming.

[Behind the Aegis]

29. To him, this Jew says:

Gay Kocken Offen Yom!

[tblue37]

30. The government & its agents aren't supposed to favor any specific religion. nt

[Initech]

31. I think even Jesus would be joining the protestors, Danny.