Now the far right is trying to monopolize God.

[Charmin One]

Kirk’s memorial is turning into a religious revival. They think there is a struggle between Christians and liberals. A Himalaya of horseshit!

[Girard442]

1. There's absolutely no precedent for this...

...other than, y'know, most of human history.

[eShirl]

2. same as it ever was

[debm55]

3. Watched for an hour. Had enough of that horseshit.

[Maru Kitteh]

4. Okay.

Given current trends away from religion, over both the short and long term, this is more likely to hurt them than help them.

[Marcuse]

5. Were you not entertained?

: (if necessary)

[Sneederbunk]

6. When God breaks up a monopoly,

he really breaks up a monopoly. He has been known to smite.

[Autumn]

7. They can have him. Just like republicans, he's never done a damn thing for me.

[markie]

9. as James Baldwin so aptly says....

“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”

[Chasstev365]

8. Benny Johnson

https://www.rawstory.com/benny-johnson-2674014495/

[GoCubsGo]

10. This is nothing new.

This is the same shit McCarthy and his ilk spewed. The John Birch Society, too. It never went away. It only metastasized, thanks in large part to the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, James Dobson...

[Wiz Imp]

11. Shows how little of what they call Christianity has in common with Jesus Christ

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/12/13/the-woke-liberal-leftist-movement-of-jesus/
The Woke, Liberal, Leftist Movement of Jesus

Jesus was a progressive.

He arrived two thousand years ago, not with vague religious nostalgia or territorial separatist dogma, but with a bold, clear vision that pulled disparate people forward together in interdependent community.

He started a revolutionary underground movement of the people of the street, not a top-down theocracy of wealth and cloistered privilege. His sermons didn’t harken back to some mythical glorious time in the past, he instead announced that the new Kingdom had now come: a new counterintuitive way of living and of being in the world marked by goodness and empathy.

Jesus was “woke.”

The radical activist declared us all responsible for our brothers, for our neighbors, even our enemies. His followers created interdependent communities where each was accountable to the other. He was a maker of peace, a turner of cheeks, a lover of all; a homeless, dark-skinned Jewish rabbi, who said that love of wealth would make it almost impossible to really see God or to live well.

History will show that when the elderly, the sick, and the vulnerable showed up in their need, it was the Progressives, the Muslims, the Jews, the Humanists, and the Atheists—not the Conservative Christians who cared for them as Jesus would have. They will have been the ones with the orphans and the widows, with the ignored and forgotten; all responding together in love in a way the followers of Christ were supposed to, but tired of.