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They don't. They never have and they never will. We had a president who was faithful to his wife and loyal to his family. But you know what the Christian right did? They trashed them and said they were un American and called her some extremely ugly things including an "ape in high heels" and even floated a conspiracy theory that she was a man in drag and that her daughters were paid actors.
They rally behind one of the most boorish, loathsome, and pig headed presidents we've ever had in American history because they are as boorish, loathsome, and pig headed as he is. That's why they are able to overlook his affairs with porn stars and pee tapes with Russian hookers. These people who love and support Trump are people who are just like them - serial cheaters and multiple divorcees who've committed some disgusting sex acts that would make the pee tape seem amateur by comparison. He's just like them.
That's why they supported his zero tolerance policy of ripping immigrant children away from their families because they don't give a shit about children. These assholes support child torture because they've probably tortured children themselves. Some of the holier than thou types like Rick Wiles and Theodore Shoebat? I wouldn't be surprised if they actually had real skeletons in their closet.
Really the only people who the Christian right really care about is other straight white Christian males. Bill Clinton has an affair with an adult female? They grill him for 8 years without hesitation and still continue to to THIS FUCKING DAY! But Trump literally walks in on underage women dressing in a locker room because he could - something that would get you or I placed on a registered sex offender list for the rest of our lives - he gets a mulligan!
Yes that's right - for all of Trump's failings, and his absolutely disgusting and appalling sex crimes, and the fact that he tortures children, they're willing to give him a second pass just like he's playing professional golf. Oh and that's something else Trump sucks at, but we'll save that for another subject.
Because the bottom line for the Christian right is that they don't give a fuck about you. They don't think America should be a land of peace and prosperity where everyone of all ages, races, sexes and creeds is welcome. They just want it to be for red blooded, white 'Mericans. They only think straight, white Christians should be able to own property, to have health care, to get married, to start businesses, and to be prosperous.
What they really want - and why they praise Trump, is that Trump is giving them exactly what they want - the judiciary. That's why he's nominating the most unqualified judges this country has ever seen. Because they can be easily controlled and manipulated by the Christian right. And they'll get it. Which is why they don't give a fuck. They want absolute power and they will praise the most boorish, loathsome jackass in the world to get it. Because he's just like them.
msongs
(67,405 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)"God is all knowing, all powerful, but somehow, he just can't handle money! God's got a big money problem!"
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)Quemado
(1,262 posts)Do you hate the same people that we hate?
atreides1
(16,079 posts)With access to power, they can push their bigoted, hate filled, racist, and misogynistic agenda!!!
Initech
(100,070 posts)spike jones
(1,678 posts)You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ― Anne Lamott
walkingman
(7,612 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)sorry campers. Womp womp as you Repubs like to say.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Certainly don't practice the compassionate teachings of Jesus about love, tolerance, forgiveness, generosity, protecting the weak and vulnerable. They are a degenerate cult, which is all wrapped up in spiritual materialism. And for those of you unfamiliar with the label "spiritual materialism," it is using spirituality to enhance one's ego, to gain material stuff, power, and position.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Initech
(100,070 posts)SDJay
(1,089 posts)call themselves "alpha males" as the clown in one of the bumper stickers above seems to believe. In my experience, these are the biggest frickin fraidy cats around. The only time they're "brave" is when they're yelling at their TV from their musty couch or at their radio from inside their cars with the windows up.
It's actually almost funny. Alpha males. Right.
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Next time one of them complain about being discrimated against and start quoting scripture, abruptly stop that person and tell him or her to go fuck themself.
Initech
(100,070 posts)SamKnause
(13,103 posts)I don't give a flying fuck about them.
Nosy ignorant busy-bodies.
They are diseased.
They should have to prove their bullshit lies.
Separation of Church and State !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stay the fuck out of the government !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I am a gay man. They'd like to have the ability to legally murder me. They don't care about each other, either. Trump doesn't care about them a whit, except where he can exploit them for his own gain.
erronis
(15,241 posts)Or Christians, LLP. Trademark and Intellectual Property rights belong to them.
(Jesus Christ, or whatever his real name was, need not apply for employment.)
It's always been just a business. Ever since somebody declared themselves a "pope" and some other people made their own branches of the enterprise.
I don't know enough about Islam but I'm guessing the same money-making and power-grabbing schemes abound there.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)I've never entertained the notion of caring for people who would see me dead or abused.
Racerdog1
(808 posts)Politics by fear and religion by fear, one in the same. Both geared to taking mindless peoples money and playing with what little brain matter they may have.
Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)Have not had a reason to go against that opinion in better than 30 years.
DFW
(54,378 posts)trickyguy
(769 posts)They would just as soon see us all disappear - or worse yet be exterminated.
Kind of like in WWII only we'd be the big scapegoats for all their problems.
But the beautiful irony in all that is there will be a new generation of children
born as I write this, and some of them will grow up to be LGBT citizens.
And what's next? Kill them all.
No, I think this next generation will somehow have more empathy and want a better
world for ALL of us. At least that's my hope.
SDJay
(1,089 posts)which I'm pretty sure means many of these "Christians" wouldn't recognize it at all, these scum are hypocritical, heretical pharisees. They are nothing like the Jesus anyone can read about in the bible. Actual Jesus, instead of Scam the Rubes Jesus, didn't hate:
Brown people
Poor people
Foreigners
Women
Gay folks
Sick people
In fact, Actual Jesus often spoke bluntly about how we need to be kind to the sick and the poor, among other things.
Basically, and as I said yesterday with regards to my fundie family members, fuck them. They're way more hateful than most atheists I know and some are downright evil.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)They've done more to kill my church (ELCA) than you can imagine. A whole generation hears "church" and "Christianity" and immediately lumps us with them.
Willie Pep
(841 posts)I am a Catholic but I have visited my mom's church a number of times and I was shocked by how few young people there were. I am using the term "young" broadly to mean anyone under 50.
I am really sad to see so many of the mainline Protestant churches decline, as this article about churches in Minnesota points out.
http://www.startribune.com/as-minnesota-churches-close-a-way-of-life-fades/486037461/
I am not gloating as a Catholic since we have our own problems with people leaving the church, much of it self-inflicted due to the abuse scandals and cover-ups. I actually wish the mainline Protestants were stronger since they tend to act as a bulwark against the right-wing which claims to have a monopoly on Christianity. Sadly, the growing branches of Christianity in America and around world seem to be of the charismatic or prosperity gospel variety.
Initech
(100,070 posts)Religious institutions have just devolved into crazy conspiracy theory shitholes. The Russians knew who to target and where it would do the most damage. It's scary what is happening now.