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pipistrelle wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:56 am Have a forum called "Behaving Badly" and put "Evangelicals," "Republicans," "Democrats," "Cops," "Low-Lifes," etc. et al.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:23 pm I feel this way about the Republican Behaving Badly thread. There is no other way, at this point.

mojosapien wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:54 pm https://www.amazon.com/Off-Deep-End-Col ... 574&sr=8-3

Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch wrote: Former Ohio state legislator Candice Keller says "right now there are two parties in this country: The party of Trump, and the other party is called We Hate God."

James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki wrote: In 2020, white evangelicals voted for Trump 84-15. The rest of the country voted for Biden 62-37.

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Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:10 pm For the record, Catholics were split about even, 51% for Biden which is basically a tie.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:31 pm Try playing that tune in the US Senate!

Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch wrote: MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau and thousands of right-wing Christians pray in tongues to protect Trump from arrest, as well as from "every witchcraft curse, vex, spell that has been launched against him."

I had not been aware that Michael Cohen was involved in blackmailing Falwell into endorsing Donald Trump for president in 2016.

Pastor holding a Trump campaign event at his church: “This is the most amazing thing that’s ever happened at this church other than you giving your life to the Lord.”

Paul Blair Is Teaching Pastors That the Federal Welfare System Violates ‘God’s Design’

Liberty Pastors held an event in Texas in August that was dedicated entirely to the issue of economics, at which Blair asserted that according to the Bible, the government should have no role in creating a federal welfare system to provide for citizens in need.

“2 Thessalonians, chapter 2 said, ‘We commanded you that if any man is just lazy and refuses to work, then don’t let him eat,'” Blair said. “You know, there’s a proper place for charity, but if somebody is just a slug—as [Benjamin] Franklin said, ‘Hunger is a great motivator.'”

“Here’s God’s design,” Blair continued. “It wasn’t for a federal welfare system; the family is supposed to care for the family. Parents raise their children and provide for them as they’re young, and then as parents get older, their kids are to honor their parents, which means to provide for their needs as they get old. Throughout Scripture, slothfulness and laziness is condemned as sin. As I said a moment ago, [the Apostle] Paul agreed to Ben Franklin or Ben Franklin agreed with Paul: If a man doesn’t work, don’t feed him.”

Of course, a system in which parents provide for their children and children then, in turn, provide for their parents only works so long as the parents and the children are physically capable of working and are earning enough to provide what is needed. Unfortunately, for a lot of families, that is simply not the reality. But according to Blair’s interpretation of the Bible, the proper remedy in those situations is apparently to simply to let those families go hungry because that is the only thing that will motivate them to overcome their “slothfulness and laziness.”

2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings[c] we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:03 pm 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=NIV

2 Concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him, we ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to become easily unsettled or alarmed by the teaching allegedly from us—whether by a prophecy or by word of mouth or by letter—asserting that the day of the Lord has already come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. 14 He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings[c] we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter.

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

Nothing like lying your ass off about whats in the Bible. OR, maybe it was a Freudian slip, and the passages came out of his mouth about the coming of the Lawless One, and how the people who delight on wickedness will believe lies.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:09 pm

Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:03 pm 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=NIV

He meant 2 Thessalonians 3, but you can hardly expect someone in his position to know the Bible.

Suranis wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:03 pm OR, maybe it was a Freudian slip, and the passages came out of his mouth about the coming of the Lawless One, and how the people who delight on wickedness will believe lies.

Suranis wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:35 am I have to keep saying this, but how do you know? These guys could be dressed up like Dame Edna in their private life and we wouldn't have a clue. There's no evidence that they are, but there is no evidence that they are not either.

Just making flat statements like that is rather silly. SOME Transvestites will have abused kids. SOME Pastors/Priests are Transvestites. Those circles will cross into a Venn Diagram at some point.