Republicans, Really

 The Daily Kos has Republicans down so right today.

And oh, yeah...86 45

BYEDON

Quote of the Day -- Happy Sunday!

Have a great day, y'all.

Donald Trump is a "Man of God"?

It's one thing for President Trump to have supporters, sure, and a lot of us don't understand even that but there are those who take this even further. In fact, they take it much, much further.

Evangelical Christians see Trump as ‘man of God’

Millions of Americans Believe God Made Trump President

And it gets worse, too.

Evangelicals Call Trump A God 

Donald Trump.

Donald J Trump. A "man of God". Or worse, a God himself.

Right.

To clear this up, let's make a list, even just a short list of hings we know about Donald J Trump:

• He was given 493 million dollars from his father, upon his father's death
• He declared bankruptcy at least 6 times, in his business dealings
• He was found guilty of fraud through his Trump University and had to repay 25 million dollars
• He was found guilty by a judge, in a court of law, for stealing 2 million dollars from a charity. And it was a charity for American Veterans from which he stole this money
• He was married and cheated on this first wife
• He ended up divorcing his first wife and marrying the woman with whom he cheated on this first wife
• He cheated on his second wife
• He ended up divorcing his second wife and marrying the woman with whom he cheated on that second wife
• He cheated on his third wife
• He paid $130,000 to the woman with whom he cheated on his third wife in order to buy her silence because, after all, he was in the middle of campaigning for election to the Presidency, the highest office in the nation

And that's all just for starters. There's a lot more, certainly, but I think the above all make my point.

If that's a God, that is one warped, even sick God, if not also universe.

The Current Republican Party: Sunday Edition

GOP Jesus.

Christians and Capitalism: Like Oil and Water

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, shows five quick, easy ways Americans ignore Jesus and his teachings.

And this is a short, short list. Not least of which being the wealthy not getting into heaven.


Don't bother us with details.

Happy Easter Sunday' y'all!

You heathen hypocrites!

Links:

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian - YouTube

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian - 

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Question for Republicans

Republicans: How is it you are not totally, completely embarrassed by this rambling, incoherent, lying, completely unreliable, self-serving buffoon?

Seriously, you want the White House and power so badly, this bad, that you'll even tolerate this? All this?

And you think this is somehow not bad for the country, for the nation?

Really?

If you'll tolerate all this, what won't you tolerate?  When will he or someone, anyone, have gone too far?

Reputedly, a Canadian Asks Some Very Good and Relevant Questions of Us

People Whom I Can't Understand Vote Republican

Herewith, a short list of people who I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they would be or call themselves or, God forbid, vote Republican.

• Gays
• Transgendered
• Black Americans
• Middle Class Americans
• Lower Class Americans
• Elderly (unless they're already wealthy, of course)
• Women
• People in the military
• Veterans
• Anyone with an education
• Anyone who considers themselves to be Christian

I just don't get it.

God knows they're out there but...

Wow.

Links:

GOP platform 2016: Republicans vote against same-sex marriage

Anti-Gay Politicians | List of US Leaders Against Gay Rights

How Voter ID Laws Discriminate Against Racial Minorities

GOP Voter ID Laws Would Disenfranchise Millions Of Blacks

Getting a photo ID so you can vote is easy. Unless you're poor, black

AARP warns senators against supporting GOP healthcare bill

After Passing Senate Tax Bill, GOP to Target Seniors' Earned Benefits

Unjust GOP budget and tax plan cuts the safety net for seniors

Senate Republicans reject equal pay bill

GOP blocks minimum wage, sick leave proposals 

House rejects $2 billion in new funding for VA's healthcare

Republicans Vote Against our Veterans — Again

GOP Voted Against 7 Bills to Help Veterans

41 Republican Senators Voted Against a Landmark Veterans Bill

U.S. Senate Republicans block veterans' health bill

How often do Republicans undermine veterans? Here's a list

Senate Fight Stalls Funding for Troops, Veterans 

That Bible We Base So Much On?

We ought to know the source(s).

Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

Quote of the Day -- Sunday Edition

And yes, folks, I Googled it. He really did say this.

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A Little Holiday Perspective

A bit of human history for y'all.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

On Religion

For a lot of religions, there's a lot of truth in here, and not just satire. (click on picture for easier reading).

Enjoy your Sunday, y'all.

On Jesu Cristo

Quote from FB friend Diana Pleasant-Hughes' page:

“Let’s remember, Jesus was a Jewish man of color, born homeless to an unwed teenager, who spent his formative years as an illegal immigrant before returning to his home country to hang out with twelve men, prostitutes, and socially untouchable tax collectors while he taught a radical social doctrine of equality, love, and forgiveness that included paying taxes, free healthcare, and the sharing of resources within a community.”

Link:  The Real Face Of Jesus - What Did Jesus Look Like?

Think the Bible Is Against Same Sex Attraction?

Sure, some do think the Christian Bible is against same sex couples, against homosexuals and homosexuality.

It's because of this one little line--one--from Leviticus 18:22:

"You shall not lie with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination."
Know what else Leviticus says?  Too many don't.

And this is just part of what the book from the "Good Book" says. There's more, besides.

Do you know what Jesus said about gays?

Nada.

Nothing.

Not one thing.

Religious Fundamentalists: America vs. the Middle East

This is magnificent. There are only two problems with it.

First, it doesn't make its point in 60 seconds or less and

second, the people who should see it won't and worse, even if they did, they either wouldn't get it or would deny there's any truth to it.

For the rest of us, enjoy.

And So, the Holidays Begin

Link: Church Sign Revival

Happy Columbus Day

AK Press

It seems there are still some people out there who celebrate Columbus Day. If you happen to know any of them, please share this description from Bartolome de las Casas of the sort of civilized and heroic behavior Columbus brought to the "new" world:

"And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house. They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike. They took infants from their mothers' breasts, snatching them by the legs and pitching them headfirst against the crags or snatched them by the arms and threw them into the rivers, roaring with laughter and saying as the babies fell into the water, 'Boil there, you offspring of the devil!' Other infants they put to the sword along with their mothers and anyone else who happened to be nearby. They made some low wide gallows on which the hanged victim's feet almost touched the ground, stringing up their victims in lots of thirteen, in memory of Our Redeemer and His twelve Apostles, then set burning wood at their feet and thus burned them alive. To others they attached straw or wrapped their whole bodies in straw and set them afire. With still others, all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and hung them round the victim's neck, saying, "Go now, carry the message," meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the mountains. They usually dealt with the chieftains and nobles in the following way: they made a grid of rods which they placed on forked sticks, then lashed the victims to the grid and lighted a smoldering fire underneath, so that little by little, as those captives screamed in despair and torment, their souls would leave them...."

Quote of the Day -- On Poverty...and Empathy

Happy Easter

Pagan Origin of Easter

The pagan roots of Easter

What You Didn't Know About What You Already Know About Easter

The Pagan Christ - Wikipedia

Quotes of the day -- Sunday Edition

Rather timely, given the Republican/Right Wing/Christian Right fiasco in Indiana this week.