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Maraya1969

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September 1, 2017

Holy shit! I looked up the "prosperity gospel" because of Joel Olstean and look what I found in the

Bible.

First, one article that refuted the prosperity gospel named some bible verses that these prosperity preachers use to justify what they say but truly none of them really say what the prosperity preachers claim they say.

And the one verse I followed talks about how the rich should give to the poor so that all may be made equal

Here is one verse these prosperity preachers try to use.

2 Corinthians 8: 9 - 9 "For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich."

BUT they mention that the rest of the paragraph dispells this verse even says that God wants equality among people and their money. Of course none of them mention this. And I am including all the Republicans who say they are Christian but are filthy wealthy

I've highlighted the verses that talk about equality. The rest talks A LOT about giving.

The Collection for the Lord’s People
8 And now, brothers and sisters, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. 2 In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. 3 For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, 4 they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the Lord’s people. 5 And they exceeded our expectations: They gave themselves first of all to the Lord, and then by the will of God also to us. 6 So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part. 7 But since you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in the love we have kindled in you[a]—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

8 I am not commanding you, but I want to test the sincerity of your love by comparing it with the earnestness of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich.

10 And here is my judgment about what is best for you in this matter. Last year you were the first not only to give but also to have the desire to do so. 11 Now finish the work, so that your eager willingness to do it may be matched by your completion of it, according to your means. 12 For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

13 Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed, but that there might be equality. 14 At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, 15 as it is written: “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.”


Here is the article that I used: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/5-errors-of-the-prosperity-gospel

August 28, 2017

Jim Bakker, Christian thief convicted of mail & wire fraud and conspiracy just said that if Trump is

impeached it would start a civil war because the Christians would rise up against it.

IF TRUMP IS IMPEACHED CHRISTIANS WILL RISE UP FROM THE SHADOWS TO START ANOTHER CIVIL WAR

https://twitter.com/LiberalResist/status/902021002472894464

August 28, 2017

I think the DNC needs to hire a thousand anti-trolls to post on social media - Youtube

Twitter, Facebook and in the comments pages of right winged propagation sites like Breitbart and Info-wars.

If you look at some of these places there are so many posts that look the same. "I am praying for our great president Trump" for example.

Even if they were given short progressive FACTS to post and re-post we could at least have a hand in this dis-information game.

I cannot see us winning another presidential election unless these fake news and fake trolls are contained. (Also we need to use an algorithm to get real news to the top of Google for a fucking change)

It may not even take a thousand people, (maybe a couple hundred college students part time?). I have made anti-Trump posts with a link and just kept clicking on pro-Trump videos and pasting them as the latest comment. It does not take that long to bombard a lot of pro-Trump and racist videos if you just keep pasting. I know that is what the Russian bots do

August 27, 2017

A tweet by #45 about Joe Arpaio from 2012

Congratulations to @RealSheriffJoe on his successful cold case posse investigation which claims @BarackObama's birth certificate is fake


https://twitter.com/AnneFrankCenter/status/901249260355805189


August 25, 2017

Whoever has the pee tapes please release them. This man child is burning down the country

The only thing that will stop him is being so humiliated he just fucking leaves.


Edit: Adding to ask for recs and kick. I just realized his ignorant followers probably don't know anything about these tapes. It's our job to let them know.



August 24, 2017

So what if #45 said no more black people in the military. Would they have to follow him with that

too?


I can't believe he is just making this fucking proclamation about banning transgendered people in the military and everyone is supposed to follow his orders.

What if the jerk proclaimed that gay people were not allowed? Even though they all got the green light during the Obama administration would they have to now listen to Donny 2 scoops?

I think this guy is trying to break everything he can break just to break it. There is no rhyme nor reason, just destroy.

He can't go soon enough.

August 22, 2017

So the editor of the Blaze is the person Chris Hayes is talking to like he is normal

I thought "The Blaze" is Glen Beck crazy?

Seriously, they have an anti-Blive Lives Matter article on their front page. And another one showing how great it is that Alan Dershowitz "Shut Down" Joy Reid

I hope MSNBC does not get fucked up by Bannon's new "war".

There is no way in Hell that a Glen Beck magazine should be taken seriously by MSNBC.


Edit: To add the page that had a hit piece on Joy Reid. I am not showing this to support this page but to show what a piece of shit it is.


http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/08/21/msnbc-host-snarks-at-alan-dershowitz-over-russian-probe-and-he-shuts-her-down/

August 20, 2017

I just got an advertisement to buy my new TrumpCare! I clicked and filled in the forms,

changing some information about myself and I think it is just the regular plans under Obamacare that they have covered over with "TrumpCare" to get people to buy them.

Can you imagine them selling the exact same Affordable Health Care insurance to people who heretofore would refuse it because it was associated with the name Barack Obama?


I wonder how legal it is for them to do this. In the finer print it says, "Trumpcare is coming"

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