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Michele Bachmann: I spent Christmas telling my grandchildren that 'eternal fires' of hell await them (Original Post) Swede Dec 2022 OP
That is grooming? Eternal fire surely awaits her Judgements of us all. pwb Dec 2022 #1
What a fun grandma! Ocelot II Dec 2022 #2
Not like it's grooming or brainwashing or anything Blue Owl Dec 2022 #3
What a shitty grandma dalton99a Dec 2022 #4
She is still BATSHIT crazy. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2022 #5
I'm crying because there's no video. Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #6
You have to scroll down. Maraya1969 Dec 2022 #27
wow. bonk on me. Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #29
"OK, grandma, you go first" dalton99a Dec 2022 #7
This is so horrid that I thought it was satire. Guess not :( patricia92243 Dec 2022 #8
The Queen of Rage NBachers Dec 2022 #9
Nothing screams "groomer" like scaring the 💩 out of little children for Christ Docreed2003 Dec 2022 #10
Hells not even that bad... jcgoldie Dec 2022 #11
Mommy, Grandma scares me I don't want to go over there to see her , kimbutgar Dec 2022 #12
Yeah, but her Will. 3Hotdogs Dec 2022 #25
God is love, indeed! Maeve Dec 2022 #13
Fear is a prerequisite for entering her "heaven"? patphil Dec 2022 #14
The kids were probably thrilled Mr.Bill Dec 2022 #15
That sick woman needs to be kept away from children. Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #16
2 and 6. Chellee Dec 2022 #17
A downright dirty trick. To this day I remember being sent to a Bible school near our house when allegorical oracle Jan 2023 #46
The different between right-wing Christians and REAL Christians.... TheRealNorth Dec 2022 #18
Then she ate a corndog. n/t Harker Dec 2022 #19
Scared stupid. Solly Mack Dec 2022 #20
This is child abuse. VMA131Marine Dec 2022 #21
Oh my! Rebl2 Dec 2022 #22
she sucked off the government tit her whole life RANDYWILDMAN Dec 2022 #23
I am thankful the Republicans in Minnesota are cray cray.... TheRealNorth Dec 2022 #31
Soooooo,...THAT'S the real meaning of Christmas! world wide wally Dec 2022 #24
When I die, I wanna got to whatever one she ain't gonna be in. 3Hotdogs Dec 2022 #26
We don't want to visit Grandma, No Ma, No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sarcasmo Dec 2022 #28
She is one sick person. LiberalFighter Dec 2022 #30
I'm going to assume picking up the kids that evening was a real thing of beauty jmowreader Jan 2023 #32
Be God's best friend or he'll torture you forever gratuitous Jan 2023 #33
Of course she did. The Unmitigated Gall Jan 2023 #34
And Bachman' adult children allow her to have alone time with their little ones?! Hekate Jan 2023 #35
I wondered how onethatcares Jan 2023 #36
I showed this to Dirty Socialist Jan 2023 #37
Holy crap, that sounds like the worst Christmas ever! Initech Jan 2023 #38
And just like that, tavernier Jan 2023 #39
a 2 year old and a 6 year old! treestar Jan 2023 #40
What a sick, twisted loon. Sky Jewels Jan 2023 #41
Grandma got brought over to the Baptists Kennah Jan 2023 #42
Ok, grandma goes on some really grim rants on holidays. But, it's great fun ,,, JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2023 #43
Such a nice Christmas childhood memory that makes Raine Jan 2023 #44
She's not their favorite grandma. Iris Jan 2023 #45
What a stupid woman. GoodRaisin Jan 2023 #47
I thought only gays were going to hell newdayneeded Jan 2023 #48
Hopefully it's the last time Grandma is alone with the grandkids. nt dflprincess Jan 2023 #49

pwb

(12,669 posts)
1. That is grooming? Eternal fire surely awaits her Judgements of us all.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:26 PM
Dec 2022

Judge not, someone once said, doubt she knows who said it.

Docreed2003

(18,714 posts)
10. Nothing screams "groomer" like scaring the 💩 out of little children for Christ
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:32 PM
Dec 2022

No shame

jcgoldie

(12,046 posts)
11. Hells not even that bad...
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:36 PM
Dec 2022

I already spent 4 years in the United States with Trump as president.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
12. Mommy, Grandma scares me I don't want to go over there to see her ,
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:38 PM
Dec 2022

Can I stay home with Dad?

The poor kids.

patphil

(9,068 posts)
14. Fear is a prerequisite for entering her "heaven"?
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:40 PM
Dec 2022

I don't think she'll find God there.

Mr.Bill

(24,906 posts)
15. The kids were probably thrilled
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:46 PM
Dec 2022

to hear their grandma was going to burn eternally in hell

Chellee

(2,300 posts)
17. 2 and 6.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:49 PM
Dec 2022

Her grandchildren are 2 and 6. This is how she speaks to a toddler and a first grader.

“I was with two of my grandchildren this weekend, a two-year-old and a six-year-old, and I was just compelled to talk to them about, when we die, it’s judgement,” Bachmann said.

Bachmann said that she told the children that at the moment of death, “a decision is made — you’re either going to heaven or you’re going to hell.”

“We talked about what heaven is, and we talked about what hell is,” she said. “That hell is just as real as heaven. And in hell, there’s eternal fires and damnation and it’s a real place, we do not want to go there, that’s where the wicked will go. And then I explained how they don’t go — that they receive Christ and confess their sins … [Jesus] cleanses them and then because of his righteousness, they go to heaven.”


allegorical oracle

(6,480 posts)
46. A downright dirty trick. To this day I remember being sent to a Bible school near our house when
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 08:09 PM
Jan 2023

I was six yo. Teacher kept talking about the blood of Christ -- showing pictures of bloody crucifixions and a bleeding heart. One night I woke up shrieking with nightmares and my parents ran in. They figured out what was going on at that school. Never had to go back again. But it totally and deeply affected me. It's a form of abuse imho.

TheRealNorth

(9,647 posts)
18. The different between right-wing Christians and REAL Christians....
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 08:53 PM
Dec 2022

Right-wing Christians look to the Bible and religion for reasons to condemn others.... Real Christians look to the Bible for how to live their own life.

Rebl2

(17,740 posts)
22. Oh my!
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 09:13 PM
Dec 2022

Lovely grandma you have there. Glad I wasn’t the parents that had to put them to bed that night.

Side note. Her brother used to be a meteorologist on a local channel where I live. He left a couple weeks ago.

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,163 posts)
23. she sucked off the government tit her whole life
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 09:14 PM
Dec 2022

hope is their is a HELL she definitely going to it.


She is one of the most sad sack anti christian's this world could ever imagine. Minnesota gave us something great in Al Franken, but they also gave us this weasel.

TheRealNorth

(9,647 posts)
31. I am thankful the Republicans in Minnesota are cray cray....
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 11:38 PM
Dec 2022

Instead of the more insidious evil bastards that they are in Wisconsin.

jmowreader

(53,194 posts)
32. I'm going to assume picking up the kids that evening was a real thing of beauty
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 12:10 AM
Jan 2023

"Hi sweetie. Did you and your sister have a good time with grandma?"

"No, mommy. It was scary."

"Why? What happened? Did grandma tell you a ghost story?"

"No, mommy. Grandma told us about a place called Hell. It's this big lake and it's full of fire, and if you're even a little bit bad you get thrown in it forever after you die and you can never get out. So I told Grandma I didn't want to go to Hell, so Grandma told us about this other place called Heaven that's really neat, and you have to be super good and never do anything bad and love Jesus and say prayers all the time if you want to go there. And then she gave me this book called the Bible, and I can read it all by myself! Listen to how good I read the Bible!"

(Turns to Genesis 19 and reads the story of Lot's daughters getting him drunk and raping him two nights in a row.)

"That's nice, sweetie. We'll have a long talk about this when we get home. But for now, just go wait in the car for me."

(Michelle Bachman's daughter goes into the house...)

"Hi, Mary. Did Bella tell you how much fun she had with me today?"

"MOM, HAVE YOU GONE OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MIND?"

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
33. Be God's best friend or he'll torture you forever
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 02:55 AM
Jan 2023

Thanks, Gramma, but I already have enough psychos in my life (counting you). So you and your god can just hit the bricks.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
35. And Bachman' adult children allow her to have alone time with their little ones?!
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 05:38 AM
Jan 2023

Holy Mother of God

onethatcares

(16,992 posts)
36. I wondered how
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 11:38 AM
Jan 2023

she handled the Santa Claus thing.

I wear a "Bigfoot" tee shirt most days and people ask if I believe it exists. My stock answer; I believe in three things,

Jesus, Bigfoot and Santa Claus because I've been told I have to accept all three on faith alone.

Dirty Socialist

(3,252 posts)
37. I showed this to
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 11:46 AM
Jan 2023

I showed this article to a Baptist preacher I know and he became upset because the article writer “denigrated Christianity.
Persecution complex in 3,2,1…

tavernier

(14,443 posts)
39. And just like that,
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 04:35 PM
Jan 2023

these kids were terrorized. One evening of story telling will require years of therapy.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
40. a 2 year old and a 6 year old!
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 05:29 PM
Jan 2023

incredible!

Can't she at least wait for a less impressionable age?

She's horrible!

And those two guys nodding in agreement!

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
41. What a sick, twisted loon.
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 05:35 PM
Jan 2023

I'm constantly amazed that so many "modern" humans still believe in this religious nonsense, and try to impose their insanity upon others.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,681 posts)
43. Ok, grandma goes on some really grim rants on holidays. But, it's great fun ,,,
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 07:11 PM
Jan 2023

... when she brings out the snakes for us to play with.

Raine

(31,178 posts)
44. Such a nice Christmas childhood memory that makes
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 07:38 PM
Jan 2023

to have for the rest of your life...

GoodRaisin

(10,922 posts)
47. What a stupid woman.
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 09:13 PM
Jan 2023

I don’t even talk to my grandkids about death, much less “hell fire”. No need to scare them and they’ve got plenty of better things to think about at Christmas than “going to Hell”. She’s an idiot.

 

newdayneeded

(2,493 posts)
48. I thought only gays were going to hell
Sun Jan 1, 2023, 09:18 PM
Jan 2023

according to rightwingers, Is she wishing that on her husband then?

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