“The document, compiled with multiple people and groups who worked in and with the Trump administration, calls for erasing terms including “abortion,” “reproductive health,” “gender” and “gender equality” from “every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists.” — from a WaPo story about religious right theocrats’ plans for a second Trump administration. Please note that some leaders of the religious right now consider reproductive health a bad thing.
“The problem that we faced is grappling with the fact that the Southern Baptist Convention, having more than 10 million members and nearly 50,000 churches, as America’s largest Protestant body, had no meaningful plan to help its churches prevent or respond to sexual abuse.”
“In private, around the same time, Pressler started to molest and rape a 14-year-old, telling the teenager he taught in his Southern Baptist youth group that he was “special” and their “relationship” was special but needed to be kept secret because “no one but God would understand,” according to the allegations in the lawsuit filed in 2017.” — from an obit on Paul Pressler, Southern Baptist icon and sexual predator.
John Fea on Pressler: “Some Southern Baptist leaders like to talk about the conservative takeover of the denomination in the early 1980s as the greatest moment in the denomination’s history. These same Southern Baptists are now in the very awkward position of having to remember the leader of that takeover in light of the fact that he sexually abused boys and young men.” Fred Clark discusses how a tainted leader can taint your theology.
“God gave man‚ man is the leader of his family. His wife, the Bible says, is to be submissive to her husband. And the children. And so, yes, I 100% believe in the order that God laid out.”— Republican SC Senatorial candidate Mark Burns.
““People are like, ‘Oh, I want a female VP.’ I don’t. I don’t want a female VP. I want both president and vice president to be men, alpha strong men that love Jesus, that only bow their knee to him, Jesus Christ.” — former Repub Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor, a flat-earther who’s called for executing people who disagree with her brand of Christianity.
Billions in taxpayers dollars now go to religious schools. I bet those parents and educators would be outraged to be told they’re welfare queens.
Texas wants to teach the Bible in public schools.
Christian radio is suing on the grounds they don’t get a break on streaming royalty rates.
“Even the smallest nudge is enough to set things in motion. Move the flags from the front of the sanctuary. Say from the pulpit that character matters. Preach the Beatitudes. Recommend a book. Things start becoming visible. You are warned. You persist. And then everything you thought you knew starts to change—long-standing relationships, spiritual friendships, trust. Maybe also your employment status.” — a pastor writing about how opposing Trump has affected his life.
“We have an epidemic of senior leaders in evangelicalism who lack character. And their boards are often stacked with yes-men, who are no better. Giving these boards a new standard will do nothing to stop the scandals plaguing the church.” — a look at a new effort to stop predators in pulpits. Fish rots from the head.
“Just a reminder that when Georgia GOP district chair Kandiss Taylor told Stew Peters that she wanted “extreme accountability” for those who oppose Christian nationalism, she meant public execution.”
“Given the weaponization of the word “antichrist,” I don’t recommend its deployment in most contexts, but I think it can be deployed meaningfully in some. And if “identity in Jesus Christ” is the preferred parlance of a governor who’s executed a pastor and targeted his own sister and forbidden the teaching of history in public schools and made of Tennessee a forced-birth state, it might be time to offer a life-sustaining theology as an alternative to the weapons-grade theology within which “identity in Jesus Christ” functions as a cheat code for publicly abusive people.“
Racist pastor John MacArthur doesn’t believe MLK was a Christian. He also doesn’t believe mental illness is real. Perhaps another example of crank magnetism.
Right-winger Stew Peters is pissed gays and atheists correct his lies about Christianity.
“Some of the most beautiful and treasured parts of American democracy — the equality of all citizens, the separation of church and state, and freedom to believe in and practice any (or no) religion — are the targets of the Christian supremacists, who seek not comity but domination, not peace but a sword. They are plotting the end of America as we know it. Openly.”
“If a previous generation of the Christian right would have preferred their children to be home-schooled; the Christian nationalists may want to see government-funded chaplains in schools.”
Christian conservatives talk very loud about freedom of religion and protecting it from secular law — unless it’s the freedom to care for immigrants.
“A South Florida pastor accused of sexually battering a 15-year-old girl in his church became a wanted man Monday after skipping out on scheduled court hearings. He’s believed to be on the run.“
An interviewer asks anti-abortion Catholic Republican Richard Holtorf “If an abortion was a good choice for your girlfriend, why is it bad other women?” Holtorf founders for an answer.
