Christians should beware of false prophets.

[PatrickforO]

27. Yes, today's right-wing evangelicals seem to have forgotten some of the

fundamental teachings of Christ.

I'm sorry for that, because those teachings - the Sermon on the Mount, and the Golden Rule - those are things that we can all live by, and that, if we did live by them, this world would be a much, much better place.

Thank you for posting this, because with Trump, the GOP has surrendered the moral high ground, forever.

I belong to an IONS group in my state, and in our last session we spoke at length about how touching the funeral of Elijah Cummings was. One member made the point that when we made all the progress around civil rights, it was the black churches that led the way. I mean, one of my very favorite essays is Martin Luther King Junior's Letter from Birmingham Jail. HE had the moral high ground there.

And, when Christians began to oppose the war in Vietnam, which was being fought by my generation for the benefit of the Military Industrial Complex, the corporate greed-gods and billionaire parasites knew they would have to pervert the Christian message.

Lewis Powell's 1971 Manifesto to the US Chamber of Commerce laid the groundwork, and the crazy-Christians who were virulently anti-abortion provided the capitalists with a very convenient way they could twist the message and 'take' or let us say steal the moral high ground.

AND WE LET THEM DO IT.

Well, folks, after Trump and his criminal activities and crimes against humanity, after the unilateral war W launched and its attendant war crimes, after HW and his first oil war, the Republicans don't ever get to take the moral high ground again. They don't.

But we still have the MIC sucking up $733 billion this year, and the drain on our treasury from the giant tax cut for billionaire donor parasites and corporations. And now we have the Russian oligarchs running the Republican party through Trump, and the AM talk radio so cleverly set up according to the Powell manifesto aiding and abetting.

These people KNOW they don't have the high ground. But their greed and lust for power has created within them a blindness that has brought us to the brink of extinction. As a species.

So.....................will we actually GROW UP, and begin planning forward as a species? Or will we do nothing and suffer catastrophe?

Someone on here actually had the temerity to tell me, and I quote, "We aren't raising taxes to give you healthcare." This after he told me that he was "really well off and he could afford 'platinum coverage,' okay?"

I said that is great, and while I rejoice with him in his success and prosperity, he shouldn't be able to by 'platinum coverage' when there are people in this country who have NO coverage.

Now if someone on this very site still comes out with this greed- and fear-based position, how will mainstream Americans and Canadians, and Mexicans, and South Americans, and Africans and Europeans and Asians be able to put aside this fear so that we can move forward as we should - to the next level - as a species?