#TrumpsTyrany, #WTF, #StrangerThanFiction, #DelusionalDisorder, #SilenceIsViolence,#FakeChristian, #YourReligionNotMine, #WWJD, #NotWJWD, #NotTheGoldenRule, #ShameOnYou, #Immoral.

He'd toss the resolute desk and chase the fascists out.

#WhatWeNeed, #WhatWeWant, #Hope, #GoodLeadership, #HumanRights, #FakeChristian, #YourReligionNotMine, #WWJD, #NotWJWD, #NotTheGoldenRule, #ShameOnYou,

"His mission is to eradicate '#WokeJesus'": How money, lies and religion are abused to gut #democracy

Journalist Katherine Stewart's "Money, Lies, and God" takes readers into Trump's movement to end America

By Amanda Marcotte
Published February 18, 2025

"Money, God and lies: These are the three pillars of the movement that led to Donald Trump's disturbing victory in November. A well-funded #propaganda machine that exploits people's cultural #fears and spiritual yearnings, turning them away from their economic self-interests and toward an #authoritarian movement to end democracy. Katherine Stewart spent months traveling and researching the various people — from far-right priests to atheist #billionaires — who have come together to #bamboozle millions of Americans into backing a political movement that wants to take away their rights and safety.

"In her new book 'Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy,' Stewart offers a grounds-eye view of the machine that led so many Americans to vote against themselves and their democracy. She spoke with Salon about her experiences and how it is that disinformation has gotten its hooks into so many Americans."

Read more:
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/18/his-mission-is-to-eradicate-woke-jesus-how-money-lies-and-religion-are-abused-to-gut-democracy/
#MoneyLiesAndGod #MoneyChangers #WWJD #WWRJD

My youngest, who died of non-#COVID natural causes, was a #Satanist. He didn't sacrifice animals or anything. He just thought that #god was acting like some modern-day #Christians who ask, "What would #Jesus do?" #WWJD and then, when someone does it, is all. "Not Like That!" God gives everyone #FreeWill, and when #LucIfer dares to actually /use/ it...

My view on the topic of #god and #religion:

The existence of #evil demonstrates that the omni-omni god(s) cannot exist.

I love how philosophers describe it as, "The Problem of evil." I mean, yes, evil is a problem, but not for the reasons they say it is.

The existence of god(s) is metaphorical. In coding, god(s) would be the #else condition. Anything that is not known, understood, and explainable by a person, or people as a whole, can be explained by postulating god(s). Because people want to know #Why. And asking why starts as soon as a child can communicate.

It's like how the #Greeks had to answer why #planets appear to sometimes move beckwards. They didn't know (and couldn't know) the real reason for retrograde motion because they were absolutely certain that the planets orbited around Earth. They invented epicycles, little circles planets made that caused them to appear to be going backwards. God(s) get invented the same way.

Which is why there is often #religious tension around #science. Because science is a #system for figuring things out, it sometimes figures out that previous answers for Why questions turn out to be wrong. This why Galileo was tortured. He publicly stated that the Greeks were wrong about retrograde motion.

#Religion happens when a person/group leverages collective #ignorance for personal/group gain.

Always the Ten Commandments, never the #Beatitudes.

Nobody ever asks why, or #WWJD.

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/07/the-beatitudes-are-woke/

Elon Musk bought a president and stole all of U.S. money. Trump is full hd fascist dictator like he promised. USians are like: "that sucks but we will win the next election!"
Donald Trump is your God now and Elon Musk is Jesus. There won't be elections anymore.

Happy Sunday! Grateful we got some rain. Today’s wind and welcome rain clouds meant we decided not to bike in to town for church this morning (our home church is FPC Monterey—type CHURCH in our website search window if curious about FPC; it’ll be 1st hit).

We did listen online—including to Travis Norvell of Minneapolis, the Pedaling Pastor. We discovered him pre-2022, when we were still on the bird site. To our knowledge, he's not on Mastodon, but Pedaling Pastor is on Bluesky. Here ya go, his Jan 26 message, which we resonate with. https://bsky.app/profile/pedalingpastor.bsky.social/post/3lgnz55qsvs2d /

Remember, before you speak, before you act, ask yourself "What Would Jesus Do?"

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde: Hold my beer... #wwjd #letsgo

used as a cover for "All Fools Day" by Edmund Cooper, art by Chris Foss

I like reading dystopian fiction. (haven't read this yet)

I like that she's got a cross on a necklace.

I guess whatever's in the air that she doesn't want to breathe is okay on bare skin. I hope she doesn't get a rash.

I love that busted vehicle in the background. She has a rifle on her shoulder, that says a lot. Orange sky. How did it come to this?!

#art @art #scifiart #dystopia #airQuality #wwjd

George Phillips, #Puritan, on the rich man in Luke 16:19-31. “Graceless” persons presume that the needy are naughty. Which would make Jesus, with nowhere to lay his head, one of the naughty, as well.

There’s a link between receiving (spiritual) grace and demonstrating (physical) grace to the needy here.

Today, would we reserve the label of “graceless” for those who would urge a better care for the needy?

How can you exhibit grace?

Hard hats, not red hats, y’all.

#WWJD

Merry Christmas #wwjd #homelessness

“The biblical concept of Jubilee calls for rest of the land – for the liberation of land from exploitation, extraction and drilling – to allow regeneration and renewal of our only planetary home. We know that the clock is ticking on #ClimateChange. We need to put a stop to #FossilFuel extraction and production if we are to prevent the worst consequences of climate change. This is why churches are supporting and calling for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty now.” https://www.pcusa.org/creation-is-a-gift-from-god-and-we-are-called-to-steward-it