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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Rationalization for Fun and Profit

I tink they're all medieval theologians at heart. This is from Joe.My.God.:

“Obviously, we as Christians hold biblical values high, we believe in sexual purity, moral faithfulness, we’re against adultery and all the rest of that. So listen carefully here, the strategy is to bring up these events that all involve sexual sins, allegedly, because they know — the people, the strategists behind the scenes — they know that this will upset a significant percentage of evangelical Christian voters and their goal is to turn Donald Trump’s primary supporters, which have been the evangelical Christian voters, against him by bringing up these sexual, moral scandals.

“Let’s say in a worst-case scenario it IS true [Stormy and the Playboy bunny]. If he did that, he’s guilty of sin, a serious violation of God’s commandments. I’m not negating that. What I’m saying is, if you read your bible from Genesis to Revelations, God has always used pagan ungodly leaders of nations to deliver God’s people. So what do you do? You make a decision on his personal sin? Which by the way doesn’t involve didn’t involve him raping or molesting.” – Evangelist Paul McQuire, speaking on his radio show.

Trump's GOP is no longer a political party -- it's a cult. (And I'm not the first to come up with that.)

Stray thought: How many evangelical "Christians" can dance on the head of a pin?

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