I really was hoping that we had reached terminal velocity stupidity when people were simultaneously claiming Obama was a Muslim and giving him heat over his Christian pastor. But obviously, I was wrong. There was so much more stupid left in the tank! And now it's killing people.
I remember the proto-MAGA Right dialed up the fauxsteria to 11 about this because the Blakkety Blak guy was running, but when every ... white ... preacher says America is damned by their "god" because of abortion, civil rights, gays, librarians, traffic lights, etc. it's all no-harm-no-foul.
Isn’t the underlying fact - that past US aid saved lives - actually in tension with the sentiment expressed by Rev. Wright *at the time he expressed it*?
What retribution now awaits us is a different matter.
our country is the cruelest joke to humanity. the richest and most powerful empire to ever exist refuses to do good on the general principle of it not filling the pockets of the wealthiest losers fast enough.
y'know, the US has really always been run like a corporation. we operate on underpaid labor class to take, protect, and extract natural resources from another country while our marketing department advertises our moral brand, which is propped up by the 'charity' to aid those we take advantage of.
Add second degree murder to his already felonious record. How could not know that this action would result in the deaths of people worldwide? I challenge any of the affected countries to charge him.
The devastation has led me to say "God chasten America" but not "damn America." The only specific one Jesus spoke a certain damnation on was the devil. To go overboard like Wright has, is to fail to fear God.
He knew people were going to die, him and all his loyalists knew.
He knows many more will; it's not that he doesn't care,
his policies are designed that way.
It's a feature of DOGE, no bugs in sight.
There are no words.
What got me about the Reverend Wright panic was that he was making the exact sort of comment that popular white evangelical preachers say constantly, only instead of his specific grievance being abortion or gay rights, it was racism. Which is, you know, better.
As someone raised Catholic, I find it insulting to the faith that American Christianity can't figure out to universally condemn racism. I grew up with a middle eastern messiah, and believed (Still do) that the faith is the same religion whether it's the Ethiopian rite, or Latin rite, or anything.
Like, I could go in, worship in an Ethiopian rite Catholic Church, Melkite (Lebanese), or Syro-Malankara (Indian) and believe there is no difference between them and my own Latin rite, despite the varied cultural traditions at play. Not to mention the extremely varied Saints from every ethnicity.
I think that Americanized Christianity is a heresy that has infected Christianity in this country, and a lot of it is deeply offensive to me. My faith is what drove me to be a white guy pissed off about racism and an ally. Racism + Christianity just feels like an oxymoron.
I don't practice currently, but I still believe with my whole heart that a lot of the cruelty associated with American Christians, is not reflective of a genuine practice of the religion, but rather, a politicization and corruption of Christianity. Call their prophet Reagan, because it isn't Jesus.
American evangelicals literally split away from their national/international organizations so they could have white supremacy and black slavery at the top - hence “Southern Baptist” and “Southern Methodist” and various other cults
One of the unspoken corollaries of "only some Americans are Real Americans" is it's only moral for Real Americans (white evangelicals and their current political allies) to even utter criticisms of America. From anyone else such words are a violent attack on them from an internal or external enemy.
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obama disappointed me for the first time when he disavowed reverend wright.
god DAMN this horrible country. also white people do be clapping on 1 and 3
It sure feels like we’re damned…
There are Republicans who still have PTSD because of that. You're going to give them the vapors.
What retribution now awaits us is a different matter.
I wonder what version of the Sermon on the Mount these assholes are reading???
He knows many more will; it's not that he doesn't care,
his policies are designed that way.
It's a feature of DOGE, no bugs in sight.
There are no words.
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