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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social |
Yep. The religious right was always so vapid, and power-hungry, and immoral that this was their natural destiny: a cult wholly devoted to a rapist huckster who shares nothing in common with them except for bigotry.
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Owen
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It goes back to the 70s where the GOP realized that evangelicals were a loyal and manipulatable voting base. It carried into Murdoch building a "new site for them in the 90s" and took off from there. Today we have people that have grown up ENTIRELY in the nutjob bubble of conservative rhetoric.
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Silly B Man
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Oh no he shares a ton in common with evangelicals
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rone
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I wish it were permanently true, though, because as soon as he's gone, those clowns will step right back into their niche.
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Scott Gibbs
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All you have to do is hate the same groups of people while preaching wealth as the ultimate virtue and you're in!
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Secretoriginz
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That suggests that the religious right were ever any better than they are now. Trump appealed to them because he dared to be openly what they only felt allowed to be privately.
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Carl Nyberg
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The theology of power: power good, morality bad.
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Austin
@austinfound.bsky.social
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I’d argue the contrary: that he represents exactly what they are behind closed doors
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Big Burt
@bigassburt.bsky.social
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Now do Biden.
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Elliott Morgan
@morganelliott.bsky.social
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What if that's who they were all along, though? Vapid and power hungry are under a picture of Joel Osteen in the dictionary, which is what I mean.
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Brotman
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And tax breaks for rich people!
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KisseMjölk
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The religious right was always this vapid. But the deeply religious in the USA were for the longest time apathetic to temporal events. They held themselves after all as strangers in this land.
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Becky
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Given the sexual abuse and subsequent cover-ups rampant in many churches across many denominations, I think the "rapist huckster" is par for the course.
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Orion Kidder
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As significant portion of them, at least their leadership, is rapist hucksters. They're embracing what they always believed in.
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Are You Being Detained
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I am tempted to go to an evangelical church and, in the middle of the ceremony, leap to my feet and begin saying curse words using an auctioneer's cadence just to gain a flock.
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Stephen Nuñez
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We call that revealed preference.
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Jim Phillips
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"A cult wholly devoted to a rapist huckster who shares nothing in common with them except for bigotry" is a pretty good description of both Democrats and Republicans.
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Vivalavoices
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attacked our govt, talks badly about our country, even humps the flag, disrespectfully; he hates everything this country stands for. Yep, definitely helping Democrats. And if he suddenly changes his tune and says otherwise; then you know he is. ... 3
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Vivalavoices
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the religious community on its knees to him; not God, Jesus is woke and to be trashed & ignored, hopes the economy collapses before the 2024 election, coddles and cozied up, even aided our enemies. He ...2
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Vivalavoices
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I bet he's helping destroy RepubliCons, because everything he does helps Democrats; motivating them to vote 2024 & take nothing for granted, keeps adding to his evidence pile and his own worst enemy, keeps saying what he will do as president to those who abhor him, has ... 1
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Conor Conneally
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They are literally heretics preaching a philosophy which is antithetical to the core tenants of Christianity.
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Jeff (no, the other one)
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Insatiable lust for power with no oversight or accountability because of course, it’s who they are
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Jesus of Narcissith
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Son of God, Brother of Trump youtu.be/V7GxS9vIARQ
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Pete of Australia
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Absolutely. The religious leaders are usually rapist hucksters, IMHO. This time around they've gone for a guy who's dropped the religious trappings.
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Pete of Australia
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Well said.
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chemborg
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I would posit that Trump is the perfect representative of the 'vapid, power-hungry and immoral' religious right. They share everything in common.
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