gummy jones wrote:#27 what do you want people to do? No one elected him Lord, he was elected president over a lying criminal who supports abortion on demand at any time, even partial birth. You want to see evil, find some videos of that procedure. Seriously, it's worth your time. I'd still vote for Trump over hilary infinite more times. Don't misunderstand the previous sentence as rubber stamp approval of all things Trump.
Your issue is with Trump. It's pretty clear based on your volume of work.
Further, I see you have adopted the habit of marginalizing large swaths by referring to them as zealots. it's a bit disappointing. I know many of these zealots, although i call them by other names and they are the sweetest, most giving people in the world. Literally. Check the stats. They do more charitable giving than any other group and it isn't even close. (I actually ate the best baklava I've ever had last night from 3 Greek orthodox nuns - incredible women) I'm sure there are some crazies but I'd take that bunch either as a neighbor or in a foxhole over any other group. And if we were being honest, most would too.
Maybe you are only suggesting westboro Baptists and Isis et al are the zealots you refer to? Well they're really not worrying about now are they? And if you aren't then you did in fact marginalize a massive amount of people you do not know and likely have little experience with as a fringe group of crazies.
I consider myself a strong Christian and abide by that world view. I don't support almost anything Trump does socially and i don't base my morals off of any man. Would it be better if i posted a lot of hyperbole on facebook about his affairs or lost my mind and got butt hurt because some of the stuff he tweets is offensive and most of it stupid? Maybe I should call for his immediate impeachment because he had sex with some strumpet a decade ago? Or is it better to maintain my reason, appreciate some of the things he has done (especially some things with the economy, national defense, world politics, religious freedom, hopefully infrastructure, hopefully healthcare, etc) and evaluate things as they come like a grown up? He is a means to an ends in the absence of any other options.
Trump derangement syndrome is real and it has shaken people to the core. I was no fan of Obama and probably typed more disparaging things about him on the net than I should have. But my world didn't tumble to the ground like many people's has since Trump was elected. It's sad really and reflective of how fragile and fragmented we have become. And that is likely the main issue and has resulted in the inability to think critically. The people that hate everything he does assumes the other side loves everything he does when it is likely far from that simple for most normal, working Americans. Case in point Nancy Pelosi referring to the tax breaks as "crumbs" many times over. Well
if it's so insignificant why the heck has she been so reluctant to feed me those crumbs in the past, choosing rather to take similar crumbs from off my own table?
lots of scattershot above, much missed me as a target completely. I'll just respond off the top of my head and may ignore entire chunks of the above.
You have inferred incorrectly that I am indicting all people with religious cores. There is no wide swath being painted by me, but that's what you took from it.
I am targeting the hypocrites, the charlatans, the zillionaire conmen/women who have gleefully taken money from the truly humble and used those funds for lavish lifestyles, fame, and (this is big) political clout. Betcha lunch many are not even faithful to their spouses...as we have learned time after time as they become "outed" for their sinful ways. Seems to me this a small subset, opposite of what you think I meant, and I am asking why aren't they aren't skewering the immorality, why are they shrugging and saying "meh"? Only liberals can be called out? Horsechit. The Far Right (HA!) Religious Leadership has stuff to win by supporting someone they would identify as a sinner...
Follow the money...it always leads to those phonies, not just Sharpton and Jackson, but them too during other administrations. Cut from the same cloth.
As for Trump, I have hardened my opposition over the months, but went into the term truly hoping for the best. My politics would be out, I knew, but I've lived through many years when not aligned with the current power holders. Always survived quite nicely. I am not a knee jerk reactionary.
The chaos and circus and what may yet surface are more than I can turn quietly away from...
but my "body of work"? Please. You must be kidding.
Betcha lunch I'm considered one of the most fair, open-minded posters here. For a non-devout Jew, I still share many of the values and views on morality as many of you true Christian believers (those not in the "narrow swath" which is most good people).
You are way off base about me, and I must say that from our limited but positive shared history, I am disappointed how easily you could throw that history away.
I believe I deserve better.