Political hatred is the DUMBEST hatred because politicians only care about themselves and the way they gin up votes is by having voters hate each other and spite vote.
Behind the scenes they all get together and laugh at the utter stupidity of voters.
Politics is truly the playground of the demons.
Wicked politicians are indeed appointed by God, but it is in his anger, and because we do not deserve to be placed under his government. He gives a loose rein to tyrants and wicked men, in order to punish our ingratitude, as if he had forsaken or ceased to govern us. — John Calvin
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Everyone wants tyranny to be abolished; but when they are set free, they cannot bear this either. Therefore he concedes that wicked politicians exist in order to punish their subjects, but he also teaches that one should nevertheless put up with them. — Martin Luther
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Wicked men love wicked politicians for being the servants of satan; but faithful men must honour and obey government, as an office of God. — Richard Baxter
This essay in The Atlantic about Elizabeth Warren is right on the mark.
It is a brilliant analysis and the perfect explanation of why America is headed for rack and ruin: Americans like stupid and incompetent.
The campaigns of those who deviate from the traditional model of the American president—the campaign of anyone who is not white and Christian and male—will always carry more than their share of weight. But Warren had something about her, apparently: something that galled the pundits and the public in a way that led to assessments of her not just as “strident” and “shrill,” but also as “condescending.” The matter is not merely that the candidate is unlikable, these deployments of condescending imply. The matter is instead that her unlikability has a specific source, beyond bias and internalized misogyny. Warren knows a lot, and has accomplished a lot, and is extremely competent, condescending acknowledges, before twisting the knife: It is precisely because of those achievements that she represents a threat. Condescending attempts to rationalize an irrational prejudice. It suggests the lurchings of a zero-sum world—a physics in which the achievements of one person are insulting to everyone else. When I hear her talk, I want to slap her, even when I agree with her.
Read the whole.
I don’t expect the President, or any elected official, to be the ‘pastor in chief’ but I do expect them, and all politicians deserving of my vote, to be virtuous. If they can’t be that, they don’t have my support. And I honestly don’t understand Christians who set such a low bar that they accept the immoral.
This is precisely why ‘Evangelicals’ have lost the battle for society’s soul: they long ago simply became a part of the political ideology game. You can’t challenge culture when you embrace it wholeheartedly and you can’t challenge politicians when you have cast your lot in with them. Every ‘Evangelical’ that elevates party fidelity or political ideology above their Christian faith is a Judas. Which is why, again, any pastor or theologian who endorses any politician has betrayed their calling, and their Lord.
It’s completely shocking that the #DNC didn’t want to support a guy who became a Democrat virtually 3 days before he ran as a Democrat for the party’s Presidential nomination … #SaidNoOneEver
Many of you will know how Chris Tilling cruelly abandoned our lifelong friendship to hitch his wagon to Doug Campbell (roomie thief) for SBL 2016 in San Antonio.
Well, to prove the old adage ‘you reap what you sow’, it turns out that Tilling was massively dissed by Campbell (roomie thief) during a Wipf and Stock interview- saying, as you’ll see, that Tilling ‘is a joke’!
Cruel! And Unusual! PUNISHMENT! #Glory. #TakeThatYouWretch.
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Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn’t survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood. Now that he’s a candidate for U.S. Senate, the story is coming back to bite him.
Weirdo. But the ideal politician for Florida. Or Texas. Same thing.
From the twitter:
He’ll never say it out loud, but he’s right to think it.
And shame on any Pastor who would.
I say this because I received an email inviting me to a training session at the ‘personal invitation of Senator Ted Cruz’.
Insofar as this is clearly an event intended to harvest workers for the camp of Cruz and other politicians who think it appropriate to attempt to co-opt theologians and clerics I reject the invitation and furthermore declare that any pastor who would attend such an event is to the Church of Christ the same as the clerics who were co-opted by Nazi ideology and the German Christian movement.
Any Pastor who takes up the cause of politics has laid down the Cross. It is not our place to support politicians or the State. Rather, it is our task to stand toe to toe with the State. And that you cannot do if the State has you in its pocket.
So, Senator Cruz and the ‘Oklahoma Renewal Project’ and ‘The American Renewal Project’, I am not interested. Instead, I will continue to proclaim Scripture to power. It’s a shame clerics who join with you have abandoned their calling. But they have.
I’ve finally found one I can get behind (!) more than any politician presently living, serving, or running. The candidate I am endorsing is smarter, wiser, and more astute than any of them. I’m very proud to endorse, for all offices, him!
Why do you continue to elect a man who clearly has severe mental problems? From the twitter-
An Alabama congressman with virulently anti-immigrant beliefs has a new theory on who may be causing the current measles outbreak: “illegal aliens.” Appearing on the Matt Murphy radio show Tuesday morning, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was asked by the host whether he saw any correlation between immigration and the measles outbreak that has erupted in the United States.
Brooks began by offering a red herring that “illegal aliens” are bringing new diseases into the country, before going on to suggest that they could be behind measles as well. Said Brooks: “It might be the enterovirus that has a heavy presence in Central and South America that has caused deaths of American children over the past 6 to 9 months. It might be this measles outbreak. There are any number of things.” Lest one thinks Brooks is heartless on the subject of immigration, he implores listeners that “You have to have sympathy for the plight of the illegal aliens” who “have not been blessed with the kind of health care, the kind of immunizations that we demand of our children in the United States.” Still, he argues, the requirement that children be vaccinated before entering school “to some degree is suspended for illegal alien children.”
During the interview, Brooks also floated the idea of impeaching President Obama for his handling of immigration.
Why do we elect people so stupid?
If their hope is to lose another Presidential election. She’s absolutely unhinged.
During her address to the Freedom Summit in Iowa Saturday, the former Alaska governor andpossible 2016 presidential candidate embarked on a verbal tangent, seeming to grasp for the right words. “The man can only ride you when your back is bent,” she said amid stammers. “So strengthen it! Then the man can’t ride you, America won’t get taken for a ride, because so much is at stake.” The gaffe led the Democratic National Committee to issue a sarcastic two-word response: “Thank you!”
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Palin’s speech also included moments of stronger oratory, as when she said that the 2016 campaign would be a “war for the sovereignty of the United States of America. We don’t sit on our thumbs next time when one of our own is being crucified, and falsely accused of whatever the hit accusation of the day happens to be: racism, sexism, whatever.” She also brandished a “Ready for Hillary” bumper sticker and implied that she was ready to take on Hillary Clinton. “Now I’m ready for Hillary,” she said. “Are you? Are you coming?”
Republicans, is this really among the best you have to offer this Country? If not, then why do you invite her to speak (to use that term loosely) at your political events? Do you enjoy shooting yourself in the foot parading this ignoramus before the public? Are you really that senseless?
This, for me, is what is so infuriating about the modern Republican Party: it’s blatant and unashamed forked tongue. On the one hand it wants ‘freedom’ for Cuba but on the other it’s more than happy to bow down to corporations in order to enslave American low wage earners. It’s disgusting.
Worst of all, they don’t even recognize their own double standard. They just aren’t smart. And stupid hurts.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
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