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Old 07-22-2018, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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Evangelical Christians embrace "bad people" they like, but they use bible scriptures to judge and condemn those they hate.
It really exposes them all as frauds. Many of these parishioners are as phony as the evangelists who tell the sheep that Jesus told them to purchase a private jet to spread the word far and wide. All they need is a few more million in donations.
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Old 07-22-2018, 03:44 PM
 
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You should watch those sermons from start to finish.
Obama sure threw that preacher under the bus and distanced himself only after the heat got too hot from the public.
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Old 07-22-2018, 04:35 PM
 
Location: north central Ohio
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Another example that shows them to be the real hypocrites that they are.

EXACTLY!
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Old 07-22-2018, 04:39 PM
 
Location: Long Island
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EXACTLY!
Doonesbury captures the essence of evangelicals today:




https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2018/04/22
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Old 07-22-2018, 04:44 PM
 
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It's a mystery to me why people who consider that Christian morality is important would support Trump, who exemplifies greed, lying, fraud, adultery,selfishness, cruelty - all that Christianity is supposed to abhor.
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Old 07-22-2018, 04:58 PM
 
Location: Japan
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Features like this, where some journalist goes out to the hinterlands to report on the rubes and their uncouth, dumb, racist, hypocritical ways, have long been a staple of the WP and NYT. Evangelicals support Trump mostly because he supports them, and not the ongoing elite media project to discredit and marginalize them.
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Old 07-22-2018, 05:10 PM
 
Location: north central Ohio
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Doonesbury captures the essence of evangelicals today:




https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2018/04/22



Yep, that is an excellent portrayal of the church and Christians!


So many in the church "Shacking Up" getting abortions, multiple marriages and divorces! No better than non-believers, and often they are far worse!

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Old 07-22-2018, 05:34 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Doonesbury captures the essence of evangelicals today:




https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2018/04/22

Perfect!

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Old 07-22-2018, 05:47 PM
 
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You once again pick and choose. Actually Americans are Americans whether they live in Alabama or New York. You continue to show your ignorance of reality.
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Old 07-22-2018, 05:50 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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Evangelicals support Trump mostly because he supports them, and not the ongoing elite media project to discredit and marginalize them.
Any movement that is against separation of church and state and that wants to force the entire country to submit to its will should be marginalized. However, evangelicals don't really understand what marginalization and persecution really is. Being wished a "Happy Holidays" is not persecution. Starbucks releasing plain red cups at Christmas without the snowflakes and reindeer on them is not persecuting Christians. Homosexuality being legal is not persecution against Christians. Legal marijuana is not persecution against Christians. Public policy that affirms science over superstition or that the earth is more than 6000 years old and humans can contribute to climate change isn't persecution against Christians. American evangelicals view the simple lack of establishment to be persecution, as if it's their right to rule over everyone and force everyone at gunpoint to submit to their religion. It's not. Until evangelicals start respecting the First Amendment I will not respect them.
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