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dalton99a

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16. Bottom line - Nothing will change:
Sun Jul 22, 2018, 09:41 PM
Jul 2018
“I think they are trying to frame him,” she said, referring to the unflattering stories about the president.

By “they,” she meant liberals and others she believed were not only trying to undermine Trump’s agenda, but God’s agenda for America, which she believed was engaged in a great spiritual contest between good and evil, God and Satan, the saved and the unsaved, for whom God had prepared two places.

There was Heaven: “Most say it’s gonna be 15,000 miles wide and that high,” Jewell said. “We don’t know whether when it comes down how far it will come, if it’s gonna come all the way or if there will be stairs. We don’t know that. But it’s gonna be suitable to each person. You know that old song, ‘Lord, build me a cabin in the corner of Gloryland?’ See, that’s not right. It’s not gonna be you have a cabin over here and I have one over there. It’s gonna be suitable to each person. So, whatever makes me happy. I like birds. So outside my window, there will be birds.”

And there was Hell: “Each person is gonna be on an islandlike place, and fire all around it. And they’re gonna be in complete darkness, and over time, your eyes will go. And worms’ll eat on you. It’s a terrible place, the way the Bible describes it.”

It was a binary world, not just for Jewell Killough but for everyone sitting inside the sanctuary of First Baptist Church, who prayed all the time about how to navigate it.
I read that article. Ilsa Jul 2018 #1
Pay wall. Can't read it Roland99 Jul 2018 #3
Bottom line - Nothing will change: dalton99a Jul 2018 #16
Jesus H Fucking Christ. No wonder Jim Jones and David Koresh were able to "recruit" so many Roland99 Jul 2018 #17
Yep. Trump got himself a full-blown cult. dalton99a Jul 2018 #19
LMFAO arithia Jul 2018 #21
But wait, there is more - the appliances! dalton99a Jul 2018 #28
oh dear lord wut arithia Jul 2018 #31
LOL. Wow. dalton99a Jul 2018 #33
I don't want to argue with this woman, but... Whiskeytide Jul 2018 #25
Of COURSE they were valued RandomAccess Jul 2018 #2
Much the same way cattle and chickens were rpannier Jul 2018 #20
Exactly RandomAccess Jul 2018 #35
This is the kind of Christianity that really devalues the religion. Initech Jul 2018 #4
Funny you say that. I have a theory that the Religious Right was created to counter Liberation McCamy Taylor Jul 2018 #5
As an avid consumer of..... reACTIONary Jul 2018 #22
I think it was Napolean who said maxrandb Jul 2018 #34
religion for LOL KG Jul 2018 #6
Christians using the Bible to justify slavery? oberliner Jul 2018 #7
Not since the 19th century. paleotn Jul 2018 #10
Hah! I grew up in an urban Southern Baptist church in the 70s GulfCoast66 Jul 2018 #26
You forgot the sarcasm tag. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #23
To religo-wing nuts... paleotn Jul 2018 #8
Wow, how awful. irisblue Jul 2018 #9
This is what I watched when they taught about slavery when I was in school. Scurrilous Jul 2018 #11
They're beyond the reach of reason or decency dalton99a Jul 2018 #12
1 Timothy 2:12 brooklynite Jul 2018 #13
What a waste of reptile skin. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2018 #14
Donald is so devout keithbvadu2 Jul 2018 #15
"God always had a hand in elections": dalton99a Jul 2018 #18
And God told me... nancy1942 Jul 2018 #24
I bet her daddy was at this lynching exboyfil Jul 2018 #27
reading the whole article...it's evident why they REALLY like Trump. the fear of immigration/blacks Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #29
It is sheer naked bigotry dalton99a Jul 2018 #30
i see a yearning for the 1950s from Sheila Butler.. before all that "Rosa Parks stuff" Demovictory9 Jul 2018 #32
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