As you scan this week’s weird religious news items it becomes rather clear that the looming midterms has the right-wing religious kicking their rhetoric into overdrive. The essence of it all is that all democrats are supposedly evil incarnate and only voting GOP will bring order back to the universe.
You can paint me completely unsurprised.
What is also rather interesting to observe is that you don’t see either left-wing or moderate Christians promoting such blatant BS or conspiracy mongering. This is not “All Believers”, nor is it even both sides, but rather it is an on going saga of the right-wing fundamentalists becoming more and more extreme and detached from reality.
What Happened during the Past Week?
Despite some rather robust evidence that the pipe bomber was a radicalised Trump supporter, the false flag claims continued to be rather dishonestly promoted and generally never corrected …
- Liz Crokin: Bombs Sent to Democrats May Have Been ‘A White Hat Operation’
- Gary Bauer Criticizes Bomb Recipients For Not Working More Closely With Trump, Fans Fears of ‘Migrant Army’
Not all took that stance, some went with alternative claims …
As for the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, apparently that was caused by all the left-wing rhetoric …
… and the solution is? Yep, more guns …
- Religious Leaders Quote Bible to Justify Armed Guards Outside Houses of Worship
Charisma’s Steve Strang continued to declare his rather blatant moral bankruptcy by defending outright tax fraud …
“Soros” is the socially acceptable term for anti-Semitic tropes these days …
- Texas County Clerk: Soros Wants to ‘Control’ Our Elections. Also, Pray for Synagogue Survivors.
- Right-Wing Evangelicals Slam Soros for ‘Killing America,’ Ask Progressive Christians to Repent
Democrat apparently equates to “evil” …
- Andrew Wommack: ‘The Democrats Have Totally Abandoned Any Sense of Morality and Civility and It’s Evil’
- Steve Strang almohad this bizarre claim. He warned that Democrats are paving the way for the Antichrist:
“The battle for this nation isn’t Republican versus Democrat or black versus white; it’s a spiritual battle. Now is the time for Spirit-filled believers to rise up, intercede and vote.”
- E.W. Jackson: ‘Voting the Righteousness of God is Going to Mean Voting Republican’
- Alex McFarland: The Democratic Platform Is ‘Ungodly’ and ‘Amounts to Treason Against the U.S. Constitution’
(Somebody should perhaps remind these folks who the literal Nazi’s and racists align with … Hint: It’s not the democrats)
Apparently cell-phone radiation causes Democrats (I can only wonder how he explains the existence of Democrats prior to the existence of cell phones) …
This guy believes God is going to slaughter more SCOTUS members so Trump can slot in right-wing alternatives …
Some evangelicals were quite determined to cosy up to the Saudi prince …
- The fact that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman may have orchestrated the brutal murder of a critical journalist did not seem to bother a group of Trump-loving evangelicals who traveled to meet with him.
… and others were quite determined to have a go at dreaming up the weirdest possible conspiracy theory ever …
What happens when the Christian Left confronts the Christian right about it’s rather blatant hypocrisy? This does…
- A Religious Leader Was Removed from a Jeff Sessions Event While Quoting the Bible
(It is interesting to note that there is a growing Christian Left that is starting to find its voice)
Meanwhile elsewhere …
Voters in Ireland did a good job …
- After Historic Vote, Blasphemy May No Longer Be a Crime in Ireland
- This Was the Moment When Blasphemy Became Legal in Ireland
… and the Pakistan judiciary has quashed a Blasphemy case …
- Pakistani Supreme Court Overturns Asia Bibi’s Death Sentence in Blasphemy Case
Finally there is also the insight that the young are not as gullible as the older generation, and they will be expressing how they feel next Tuesday …
- Many Young Evangelicals Are Realizing Democrats Practice What Christians Preach