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Started by RussCarroll, 11/26/2019 05:10AM
Posted 11/26/2019 05:10AM Opening Post
Apparently, I am demon possessed! At least according to Franklin Graham!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/to-trumps-evangelicals-everyone-else-is-a-sinner/602569/?fbclid=IwAR2ceddoN_2_WFZhsUGzpbxtP1mNiOQB6fcnF97U18KqVa0w6dRreDJBBZw

The only consolation I have is that religious leaders of the 1st century said the same thing about Jesus.
Posted 11/26/2019 05:49AM #1
Originally Posted by Russ Carroll
Apparently, I am demon possessed! At least according to Franklin Graham!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/to-trumps-evangelicals-everyone-else-is-a-sinner/602569/?fbclid=IwAR2ceddoN_2_WFZhsUGzpbxtP1mNiOQB6fcnF97U18KqVa0w6dRreDJBBZw

The only consolation I have is that religious leaders of the 1st century said the same thing about Jesus.
No Russ, you(like others on the Forum) have simply been suffering from TDS for the last 3 years. wink

Darian R.
Posted 11/26/2019 06:00AM #2
Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

No Russ, you(like others on the Forum) have simply been suffering from TDS for the last 3 years. wink
You say that as if it’s a bad thing. 😀
Posted 11/26/2019 07:21AM #3
SATANIC JUDGE UPHOLDS CONSTITUTION!!!!!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/former-white-house-counsel-don-mcgahn-must-obey-subpoena-testify-n1090566
Posted 11/26/2019 08:02AM #4
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

LOL  Oh, so now you're on a par with Jesus Christ are you???  
Dude;  I think you missed the obvious jest in Russ' post...
Posted 11/26/2019 08:12AM | Edited 11/26/2019 08:13AM #5
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

...and you were ashamed of them to the point whereby You were ready to leave the Church.
See, this is exactly what Trump and the GOP now do. They just make up a lie and it becomes truth to their sycophant cheerleaders and believers.

The church is made up of every person that follows Christ regardless of their political beliefs (among other things) that are not essential. It is not possible for me to even leave the chirch as a result. In terms of my local congregation, I am well pleased with it. It is an Evangelicall Free church, and i have no idea what the political views of any of the Sr pastors are - they not only don't talk about their political views, they have taught on the importance of being a home that makes anyone welcome regardless of their political bent. This is the norm within actual Christian leadership that I have seen, most of whom do not even have recognizable names to people like Richard - They are not that well known in the secular press at all.

As most of you are aware, I don't waste any time refuting Richards (often weird) claims about my beliefs/statements and just ignore him, but this is a good opportunity to highlight an overwhelming trend that has become the norm in the Tump era GOP.
Posted 11/26/2019 09:57AM #6
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Jesus C.,
 
      I may have exaggerated when I said that you were ready to leave the Church however I stand by my other statements about your stance, and your judgments about others who are religious that apparently don't live up to your high morality.   My reference to you leaving the church wasn't a lie, it was simply an exaggeration, however you did say that those evangelicals who voted for Trump were making a deal with the Devil.  

  I just find your inconsistencies for one thing, slightly amazing if not utterly hypocritical. 

  You voted for Hillary Clinton who supports abortion on Demand, any time anywhere. You have overlooked her decades long criminal past for years now, since you voted for her and that's your prerogative, but don't come on here implying that you didn't vote for Trump because of some principled Christian reasoning you have.  Obviously Hillary Clinton's crimes are just fine with you, her magical Insider trading move that turned $10K into $100K overnight isn't a problem for you, nor was her Clinton Foundation which was filled to the coffers with money earned by selling her seat as Sec'y of State.  How much exactly did they put into their pockets via the generosity of Russians surrounding the Uranium ONE deal?  Do you care?  Obviously, not.

The fact is that you don't want to address your hypocrisy, which I understand when you really can't defend it.

  I don't go to church myself, my mother sent me to Sunday school for a bit when I was a child but it wasn't something I kept up with since my father was an atheist, so now I just try to be helpful to others when I can and do the right things in life.  

 I just do little things, give to several specific charities, occasionally buy people on the street meals when I think they are genuinely honest about wanting money for food rather than to piss it away on drugs or alcohol.  

 Just last night I was at King Soopers with my brother, and we both were grocery shopping.  The guy in front of me had a pizza and a Kroger's brand box of oats.  There was some problem with the food stamp card he had and it dawned on me that he didn't have enough on the card, so the clerk took back the oatmeal and finished the x-action for his pizza.  I leaned over to him and said "If you want the oatmeal, I can put it on my credit card" since I didn't have cash.  He looked like he was down on his luck but he got embarrassed and said "that's ok thanks", grabbed his pizza and left. He walked away, so I told the clerk to put the oats on my card and he pulled it back out from under the counter, handed it to me and I jogged over to him and gave him the box of oatmeal before he made it out the door  Certainly wasn't a BIG thing at all.

  My brother said "that was nice of you" and he knows me and he knows that if I see people on the street I wouldn't hand them money, 99% of the time.  Also, had this guy in front of me had a nice pair of shoes on, with groomed fingernails, and a nice shirt, I seriously doubt that I would have offered anything to him.  I don't care for people screwing the system on my behalf and on behalf of taxpaying citizens who work.  But this guy was dressed WORSE than I was, which is hard to do most of the time.  I usually tromp around in rags and look like a bum myself.

  You can attend Church and do whatever you want.  I don't doubt that you give to charity, and I'm sure you give plenty, but you've come on here so many times saying that Trump doesn't give to charity and you bust him down continuously, while giving a pass to ALL of your liberal Democrat politicians for the same thing.  That makes you a hypocrite IMO.  And when you get on your high horse saying that evangelicals are making a deal with the Devil for voting for Trump that makes you a clown IMO.  

And since you have made BLANKET negative statements about Trump supporters while wearing your halo here, I just thought you needed calling out.  

  It amounts to nothing more than that.  

Now go back to hanging on your cross for the rest of us!  wink  angel


Richard, you said I was better than Jesus Christ, which is sick!!!!

(see how it works, guys)
Posted 11/27/2019 11:02AM #7
This isn't a personal best, but let the record show that I only used 12 words (Richard, you said I was better than Jesus Christ, which is sick) to get 725 words in return from Richard. That is quite a bang for the buck