Pope Francis trashes the ‘prosperity gospel’: Pompous Christians are ugly pagans

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4. 'a Christian who doesn’t want to humble himself...'

I saw a lot of Republican Xtians on CSPAN during the Bush era.

Two I never forgot:

One was some of them with a cellphone, pretending that God was on the other end of the line. They said, 'Oh, sir, yes sir, we'll do it! And don't worry, sir, we'lll stop that! And we'll fight those Democrats, oh yes, we will!'

All of them laughing racously at the joke, reminded me of damn gang of klansters talking about lynching someone. And their base may or may not have seen that and approved.

Another one was the infamous James Dobson. He was being very contentious about those who criticized him (none of those were in the audience) but there were a bunch of fawning women waited with bated breath on every piece of dung that fell from his mouth.

He told about spending time in a cabin in Colorado in the mountains. He arose to stand on the porch, and saw a bear in the yard. So he got a gun and shot it.

Then said something to the effect that anyone who didn't like it could fuck off. I don't recall the exact words, but that was close, and it was the sentiment and tenor.

We wonder why women that vote with this group and are Tea Partiers and 'patriots' can be so vicious. This is what they are taking as the word of God, with no compassion or respect involved.

The Pope has seen them, too, and it's about time they got called out on it by the people who think they can count on an ultimate authority figure to be in their corner. Good bye to all these frauds who hate the poor and hurt others.

A person who believes in the only real ideal that set the USA apart from the time it was founded, that all are created equal, and looked to see that ideal taken further with the Constitutional amendments, would never even indulge in the kind of thinking, much less utter the words we have heard from the rightists repeatedly.