My sense of humor is out of control, my recollection of 'Blessed are the Cheesemakers' is inescapable. It was fine, you were gentle. Your astonishment was palpable.
Thank you Will. Many years ago, I read Eric Metaxas's book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In it, Metaxas describes how the Nazi's were able to corrupt Lutheranism - editing out any references to humility, meekness, mercy and forbidding the use of the word "Hallelujah" because it was Jewish. (I don't understand how Metaxas has become a Trump supporter now, but that's not my point.) I would love to read more delving into parallels between the way Nazi's Lutheranism and right-wing evangelicalism (I refuse to call it Christianity).
excellent dissection of the lip service that Trump and his phoney Christian followers pay to the very basics of Christianity. They are all cruel and unusual, and so creatively speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Will, I doubt if Trump ever heard any of things Jesus said from the minute of his birth to today. Even if he did, he would have said this guy is a looney. The problem is, there's always been people who don't know any better, the real sacrilege is the people who know the truth but laugh and applaud just the same.
I think the mistake here is believing that when Trump talks about God he is talking about anyone but himself. Like a bad pope, He approves of everything He does and He can do no wrong.
These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed. Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals. They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God’s curse. They have wandered off the right road and followed the footsteps of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to earn money by doing wrong. But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice.
These people are as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed to blackest darkness. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception. They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
My sense of humor is out of control, my recollection of 'Blessed are the Cheesemakers' is inescapable. It was fine, you were gentle. Your astonishment was palpable.
Thank you Will. Many years ago, I read Eric Metaxas's book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In it, Metaxas describes how the Nazi's were able to corrupt Lutheranism - editing out any references to humility, meekness, mercy and forbidding the use of the word "Hallelujah" because it was Jewish. (I don't understand how Metaxas has become a Trump supporter now, but that's not my point.) I would love to read more delving into parallels between the way Nazi's Lutheranism and right-wing evangelicalism (I refuse to call it Christianity).
excellent dissection of the lip service that Trump and his phoney Christian followers pay to the very basics of Christianity. They are all cruel and unusual, and so creatively speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
Christians in name only... Thank you for calling them out.
Will, I doubt if Trump ever heard any of things Jesus said from the minute of his birth to today. Even if he did, he would have said this guy is a looney. The problem is, there's always been people who don't know any better, the real sacrilege is the people who know the truth but laugh and applaud just the same.
Hey Will! You need to have a chat with Dan McClellan. I think you would dig his scholarly criticism of Christian nationalism
Donald Trump is one of the worst human beings in the history of this planet
Well said Will. I wish all these fake Christians who laughed at his cruel jokes had to sit through this podcast and explain themselves.
I think the mistake here is believing that when Trump talks about God he is talking about anyone but himself. Like a bad pope, He approves of everything He does and He can do no wrong.
Will, I love you but I just can’t listen to this senile old goat bleating!
Thank you, Will, for this thoughtful, astute analysis. It’s time Trump and these so-called Christians were confronted with Christ’s actual teachings.
2 Peter 2:12-22
These false teachers are like unthinking animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed. They scoff at things they do not understand, and like animals, they will be destroyed. Their destruction is their reward for the harm they have done. They love to indulge in evil pleasures in broad daylight. They are a disgrace and a stain among you. They delight in deception even as they eat with you in your fellowship meals. They commit adultery with their eyes, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lure unstable people into sin, and they are well trained in greed. They live under God’s curse. They have wandered off the right road and followed the footsteps of Balaam son of Beor, who loved to earn money by doing wrong. But Balaam was stopped from his mad course when his donkey rebuked him with a human voice.
These people are as useless as dried-up springs or as mist blown away by the wind. They are doomed to blackest darkness. They brag about themselves with empty, foolish boasting. With an appeal to twisted sexual desires, they lure back into sin those who have barely escaped from a lifestyle of deception. They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you. And when people escape from the wickedness of the world by knowing our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then get tangled up and enslaved by sin again, they are worse off than before. It would be better if they had never known the way to righteousness than to know it and then reject the command they were given to live a holy life. They prove the truth of this proverb: “A dog returns to its vomit.” And another says, “A washed pig returns to the mud.”
This is hard to listen to. It's grotesque.
What a Goddamn surreal image! Holy shit! ;)
The audience sounds exactly like the “Christians” I grew up with.
Religion for the last couple of millennia has been used as a cudgel to keep people in line, and to justify the most horrible things in world history.
Christopher Hitchens was right about everything.