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[Storm Fox]

Wasn't there a post on here where some Republicans are now criticizing Jesus for being too woke? Particularly the Sermon on the Mount.

Someone did, I cannot find it, so apologies to who originally posted, but there are a couple of stories and the quote.

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.

and:

 https://onlysky.media/jpearce/christians-jesus-is-too-woke/

The links are in code quotes as it was causing issues with the board and making this post sticky for some users.

 

[_Russ_]

God and Guns...hell yeah

 

[cupid_stunt]

Will this piss on his chips? It would be nice if it did:

Florida lawyer files challenge to disqualify Trump from 2024 race, citing 14th Amendment

A Florida lawyer is challenging former President Trump’s ability to run for president in 2024 under the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, citing the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Lawr…

thehill.com

There's more about that here...

 

[gosub]

[ unfurl="true"]First U.S. State Makes Move to Keep Donald Trump Off Ballot in 2024

Nothing stopping people writing him in on the ballot. Won't win but nothing stopping it.

 

[stavros]

My US friend is convinced that Trump will be the Republican candidate and that he'll chose that loon Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate. I have to agree that Trump definitely looks the most likely.

I listened to an NYT podcast earlier, analysing the primary debate last week, and they were pretty clear that Ramaswamy was the most Trumpian, and possibly even more extreme. They also pointed to his appropriation of Obama's "tall skinny guy with the weird name" trope.

 

[petee]

Wasn't there a post on here where some Republicans are now criticizing Jesus for being too woke? Particularly the Sermon on the Mount.

yes. this isn't it, but it's been widely reported.

Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal” and “Weak”

The editor in chief of Christianity Today is warning that evangelical Christianity is moving too far to the right, to the point that even Jesus’s teachings are considered “weak” now.Russell Moore resigned from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2021, after years of being at odds with other...

www.google.com

 

[WouldBe]

Made $7M so far from mug shot mugs.

 

[krtek a houby]

Made $7M so far from mug shot mugs.

He should get himself arrested more often

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Made $7M so far from mug shot mugs.

There are three different senses of mug there!

Watched some ‘highlights’ from of the Republican candidates debate, genuinely terrifying stuff. Trump didn’t even bother to turn up yet he still somehow managed to completely dominate. The crowd were dominated by his thuggish supporters who would boo and hiss at any candidate who made even remotely critical remarks about Trump. The candidates on stage were mostly terrified of criticising him! This:



Very much reminded me of the ‘unanimous’ vote in the Death of Stalin:

 

[pbsmooth]

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

I feel like Ramaswamy is the most transparent version yet of someone prepared to say literally anything for his career/popularity.

 

[krtek a houby]

What a wretched sickening state of affairs.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The lunatics really have taken over the asylum.

I feel like Ramaswamy is the most transparent version yet of someone prepared to say literally anything for his career/popularity.

Feels like he'll be Trump's VP if Trump gets to run.

 

[pbsmooth]

Following the Tory playbook of getting some horrible brown people to do your anti-immigrant bidding.

 

[LDC]

Feels like he'll be Trump's VP if Trump gets to run.

Yeah, that's the feeling a few US friends have. This is pretty terrifying tbh.

 

[bluescreen]

OT: anyone else experiencing the embedded link in post #1,261 as a sticky on this thread?
/OT

 

[teqniq]

OT: anyone else experiencing the embedded link in post #1,261 as a sticky on this thread?
/OT

Yes, it's really irritating.

In other news:

 

[cupid_stunt]

I just can't see Trump returning as president, as Chris Sununu says in the interview above, he doesn't have enough support amongst independents, and there's sizeable minority in the republican party that seems to be in the 'anyone but Trump' mode. I think as more republicans wake-up to him not being electable there's a chance he'll not get even the nomination, or if he does, as Sununu says they will be crushed in the election.

Interesting piece in the Washington Post discussing this, well worth reading in full.

Some of the increases were marginal— former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson’s improvement to 9.4% from 8.5% on that question hardly makes him a threat to anyone. But immediately after the debate, 50% of those polled said they would consider supporting Haley, compared to 30% who said they would before the event. And those who said they would support DeSantis increased from 63% to just over two-thirds, a smaller but perhaps even more consequential increase. Meanwhile, all three candidates the pollsters asked about who weren’t on stage saw their support drop, including Trump, who lost about five percentage points and fell below DeSantis on that measure.

That’s not all. As political scientist Meredith Conroy pointed out Thursday, “Candidates willing to go after Trump last night (Haley, Christie, Pence) didn’t get punished.” Indeed, not only did all three expand the group willing to consider voting for them, but their net favorable ratings all went up. Christie and Pence still remain underwater by that measure, and Haley’s criticism was limited to Trump’s electability, still if the candidates conclude that they can gain support from attacking the former president, it may increase their willingness to do so.

Trump Doesn’t Look So Invincible in Post-Debate Polls

 

[two sheds]

OT: anyone else experiencing the embedded link in post #1,261 as a sticky on this thread?
/OT

Seems ok for me - how do you mean as a sticky?

 

[bluescreen]

Seems ok for me - how do you mean as a sticky?

Every time I come back to the thread it's the first post. I'm just going to have to open the link and deal with the dialog box.

 

[SpookyFrank]

My cousin posted this on FB.



View attachment 389045

'No new variant'

- translation: reality scares the shit out of me so I'll just curl up inside this nice warm delusion that I can make it go away by just saying 'no' to it and stamping my feet really hard.

Trouble is, it's not a warm and cosy delusion at all. It's shot through with paranoia and rage. Like crawling into a pit full of snakes to hide from a squirrel.

 

[emanymton]

Every time I come back to the thread it's the first post. I'm just going to have to open the link and deal with the dialog box.

Same here, very annoying

 

[two sheds]

Doesn't do it here - Firefox if that makes any difference.

Presumably will solve itself when we get to next page.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Doesn't do it here - Firefox if that makes any difference.

Presumably will solve itself when we get to next page.

It hadn't happened to me, until just now, so I can see it being annoying if it happens every time for others.

 

[two sheds]

perhaps ask Storm Fox to put a space in the url?

 

[Storm Fox]

I have amended the post. It seemed to do some odd media inbed

[MEDIA=npr]i=1192663920;m=1192664176[/MEDIA]

Which may have caused the issue.

I'm not seeing the issue, so I cannot tell if it's fixed.
Let me know, and if it's not, I'll amend it further.

 

[bluescreen]

Every time I come back to the thread it's the first post. I'm just going to have to open the link and deal with the dialog box.

I dealt with the dialog box and it's still doing it.

ETA: Thanks, Storm Fox - it's sorted now.

 

[Ax^]

Made $7M so far from mug shot mugs.

think how much money he could raise from being in a jail cell

I'm willing to find out

 

[stavros]

Poor old Jeff Garlin is very unlucky to look like both Harvey Weinstein and Chris Christie.

 

[deeyo]

Wasn't there a post on here where some Republicans are now criticizing Jesus for being too woke? Particularly the Sermon on the Mount.

dunno bout this thread, but someone called 'two sheds' posted in another thread a couple of weeks ago..?

Evangelicals are now rejecting 'liberal' teachings of Jesus

Christian devotees of former President Donald Trump are denouncing Bible verses attributed to Jesus as "weak," according to an evangelical leader.

www.newsweek.com

Hardly surprising, Trumpianity supplants woke Jesus. The bible was right to beware of False Prophets.

 

[two sheds]

I knew I'd seen it somewhere