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Midnight Writer

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6. If you want to define "woke", just read the red lettered lines in your New Testament.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:04 PM

Sep 2025

Read the Beatitudes, the very words from Jesus' most famous sermon, and tell me Jesus was not "woke".

Christianity was not hijacked by "woke" radicals.

It was hijacked by opportunists, conmen, the power hungry, the worshippers of Mammon and idolatry.

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That's JD's sugar Daddy...oh and he's a Nazi underpants Sep 2025 #1

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G.O.P. billionaire bros want Americans to stay asleep while they plunder BoRaGard Sep 2025 #3

Thiel is as incoherent as Musk. Apparently, this is what too much wealth Gaugamela Sep 2025 #4

And come the next campaign season, Religious Righties will suffer collective amnesia, Vogon_Glory Sep 2025 #5

If you want to define "woke", just read the red lettered lines in your New Testament. Midnight Writer Sep 2025 #6

How does a guy like this who worships the almighty dollar vs. Christianity know truly what Christianity is? SWBTATTReg Sep 2025 #7

Thiel is a wack job usonian Sep 2025 #8

Being 'woke' is being Christian. Anything else is sacrilegious. sinkingfeeling Sep 2025 #9

Maybe the republicans don't like Jesus's quotes. Blue Full Moon Sep 2025 #10