Booker and Warnock just talked about their faith, and specifically about Matthew 25, segued to need to protect healthcare coverage for working Americans ("I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in")
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Kids treated like they tend to suppress anger towards the parents for being brutalised this way, and displace it (to their own kids, or on to other people).
I'd also add now that being treated with capriciousness fits the pattern of "random reinforcement" which is a powerful technique to induce conditioned behaviour.
Those six little mercies save money for the lords of industry, as well.
What other purpose has a nation, than to provide for the most vulnerable and secure fair trade?
Notes on Matthew 25
Dems: Then help the poor and hungry.
GOP: No! That’s socialism!
Wait are they filibustering in the house and the senate?
Did the dems just literally grind the government to a halt?
They are exposing the Trump administration's criminality and wrongdoing.
And yes, in the short time I've had it on, they've talked about disappearances and deportations.
Repubs: next on the agenda. "How do we put babies in a Canon and shoot them over the border."
I mean it's doing a lot but I'm honestly thinking it's just talking but if he's standing on a street corner it's gonna do jack shit. MTG told a woman from the UK to go home. They don't care.
He deserves better.
We need people to wake up.
How else do you suggest he do that?
What are YOU doing that is more proactive today?
Amplify efforts. Call out crimes. Or get out of the way.
Your noise helps them. It aides helplessness.
Aide action or hush.
Cory should end this by calling out crimes and calling for a national strike.
Power-hungry Trumpist loons swallowed a loving, charitable Christianity and barfed up a nasty, hateful, charismatic, supernatural hairball.
or The Good Samaritan
or The Sermon on the Mount
ever
Matthew 18:19 "And I tell you more: whenever two of you on earth agree about anything you pray for it will be done for you by my Father in heaven.
We NEED Divine Intervention and there is POWER IN PRAYER. 🙏🙏
Bono once said to Bush W that the Bible has more passages about how we are supposed to treat the poor than any other subject
Beautiful
empathy and reason are enough.
we don't need Bronze Age myths to be moral.
leave the faith out of it.
that same faith is giving us Opus Dei, misogyny, and overturning Roe.
more harm than good.
Exactly.
If they keep using the Old Testament over the New, they are abandoning their roots, placing Christ back on the cross, and turning their backs on him.
In Revelations, yeshua promises to destroy the Earth, torture most of Humanity forever and rape a priestess into a coma. IN THE BLOODY NEW TESTAMENT. It's bronze age HATE & FEAR.
Christians follow Christ - and his teachings.
Revelations is NOT Jesus. It is some later "prophet" consolidating power for the church.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-book-of-Revelations-even-part-of-the-New-Testament-It-was-written-long-after-the-gospels-doesn-t-have-anything-to-do-with-Jesus-s-teachings-and-reads-more-like-a-way-to-scare-people-into-believing-that-to
Dead god, Lady. You believe an infanticidal monster is about love? You believe in talking demon snakes??
C'mon!!!
No gods, my beliefs do not tend to high and mighty anythings in the universe. I don't know where you got that from.
But to talk to people who believe, you cannot shit on them or their beliefs.
It's fairy tales for adults.
They’re cosplaying as Christians.
The best way to get through to fundies is to show where the BIBLE says they are wrong. Show them the error, & let them start questioning their faith on their own.
He might go until he passes out.
He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’
You're up against the psychology of people who have delegated their moral reasoning to their preachers, because they're extremely authoritarian.
Do one with the Golden Rule, Jesus' "2nd highest commandment of all"? Merely getting them to apply empathy momentarily is a huge advance.
Expand "children" to "the homeless", "asylum seekers", "government workers", "veterans", etc.?
https://PaperAmmunition.com/shooting-blanks
A Fruits of the Spirit poster could also be powerful, especially as it seems that Trump's appeal exploits emulating aspects of fundie authoritarian parents and the capricious & sociopathic OT God.
Saw a psychiatrist video blowing my mind by pointing out that Trump exhibits a lot of the OT God characteristics - demands unswerving & unthinking loyalty, capricious, vengeful, sociopathic (arguably psychopathic), wants blind rule following not moral development...
https://theplotagainstamerica.com
https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3llqrbuax6c2o
Because #MedicareWorks
(I really hope he supports Medicare for all)
Fingers crossed 🤞