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    The US evangelical movement is entirely unconnected with what any rational person would call grace or love. It is a movement about hate and racism.

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      I mean I’ll take this guy over honor killings of women any day.

      There are certainly worse religious people around than this guy and the majority of American Christians are also better than this guy.

      If we’re comparing the traditional western or historically majority Christian nations then yeah the US is absolutely the worst.

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        ALL RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE LIARS I DIDNT FUCKING STUTTER.

        IF THIS OFFENDS YOU I AM TALKING ABOUT YOU.

        thank you for your attention to this matter

        • Wayne Gretzky — Michael Scott
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          That’s not what my comment said dude or what I was addressing at all.

          Nuance is dead resume circle jerking

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    Jesus: treat others with respect, love, peace.

    Trump: make money by scamming people, blame others for your mistakes, start wars, prosecute minorities.

    Yeah, Trump gets it.

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    What’s Donald Trump’s favorite book or passages from the Bible? “All of them”. New or old Testament? “Both”. It’s deeply personal though, so he won’t say.

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      And the Pope would probably only reference a few specific passages, probably doesn’t even know any others. If President Trump said he loves them all, then CLEARLY he’s read them all!

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    So these people are stupid, of course.

    They are not THAT stupid

    They know what they’re saying

    They know it’s all bullshit

    They are also a pastor

    This means that this pastor is full of shit and he knows it

    He knows he’s evil yet continues preaching for trump

    This guy literally is the guy that imaginary bible warns about

    And all “Christians” are following him because of course

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      They’re salesmen.

      What they’re saying is only “crazy” if it fails to move units. And this guy seems to have been very successful at moving merch

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      I have no idea about those numbers, but I seem to be seeing religion pushed more and more in daily life. More religious vendors at the local farm shops, more young people (in our sphere) talking about it or involving themselves with it. My cynical self feels like it is subversively (isn’t it always?) being pushed.

      Edit: Forgot to mention the billboards and bumper stickers I see too.

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        It’s a decreasing amount overall, but the union of the christofascists with the current asshole in charge (and all his lackeys that help) allows a far greater reach, which they are hoping is enough to pull more people in.

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    You know Donny trump can’t read for shit, He can’t grasp even Bluey, that’s why He summarizes and ad libs everything, He couldn’t read an SNL scritp

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    All religion is mental illness. But nothing gives me the heebie-jeebies more than “christian pastor”. UGH

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    Is the pastor able to read ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek and understand the original context? Otherwise he doesn’t understand the bible either, and that would be assuming he had actually read it in full himself. Trump himslf doesn’t have an understanding of even ‘see Spot run!’.