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In reply to the discussion: Bishop Talbert Swan telling it like it is, calling out evangelicals........ [View all]wnylib
(21,468 posts)32. It's been done before and I don't just mean
the Middle Ages and early modern times when Europeans believed in the divine right of kings.
I realize that the kind of comparison I am going to make is often overused, but this is a perfect match for how Nazi leadership portrayed Adolf to the people. "God on our side" is a perfect excuse for any action, no matter how atrocious.
When we think of Nazi Germany, we immediately think of the Holocaust and shy away from making comparisons to anything so horrible. In doing that, we remain ignorant of how it started and built up to the nightmare that it became. We should look more at the early years of that period to see how the later years were possible. An ounce of prevention.......
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Bishop Talbert Swan telling it like it is, calling out evangelicals........ [View all]
Takket
Nov 2019
OP
Ok I'll go with that: Thank You God for delivering the Impeachment Power to the people.
usaf-vet
Nov 2019
#6
It finally dawned on me, these extremists really believe God put Trump in office for a reason.
Pepsidog
Nov 2019
#9
Jim Wallis of Sojourners said republicans and churches that teach republicanism are teaching a
rwsanders
Nov 2019
#12
"It would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and be drowned
struggle4progress
Nov 2019
#14
So do these people believe that Obama was chosen also? I mean what's the dif?
Maraya1969
Nov 2019
#22