Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele blasted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins for giving President Donald Trump a “mulligan” on paying hush money to former adult film star Stormy Daniels.
“I have very simple admonition: just shut the hell up and don’t preach to me about anything ever again,” Steele suggested.
“After telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter, the outright behavior and lies don’t matter, just shut up!” Steele blasted.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
The Egregious Hypocrisy Of Evangelicals
I often post about evangelicals. Their arrant hypocrisy is something I cannot abide. Another example of that hypocrisy has some people steaming mad:
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It makes no difference the faith, Lorne, the fundamentalist strain is never really moral or just. That's true for Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and, as we've seen lately in Myanmar, even Buddhism. Religion should never indulge "mine enemy's enemy" and yet fundamentalism does it all the time and often with great violence and suffering. It's inherent in fundamentalist creed that every other religion is posited as a challenge, a threat to its own, something that they have a duty to vanquish, erase. Michael Steele's brief remarks were inspirational.
ReplyDeleteGiven that such fundamentalism is the benchmark by which the media and others judge religion, Mound, it is unfortunate that its adherents are so singularly lacking in either insight or humility. They make a mockery of the concept of spiritual belief.
DeleteThe other person in that clip that should shut is Mathews. Talk about burying the lead.
ReplyDeletePlease feel free to elaborate on this, ffibs.
Delete.. best not open the door too wide here..
ReplyDeletemy experience as a young altar boy..
who was sent to 'straighten me out'
at De La Salle College..
it aint pretty ..
Suffice it to say..
I pull zero punches
recounting the abuse
that were attempted on me
when I was a tiny scrawny lad of 11
oh.. it was all perpetrated in the 'name of god'
or under the 'banner of heaven'..
I took no pleasure revisiting 'Brother' Gerald
and 'Brother Andrew' who were somewhat shocked
to have a former student with a long memory
visit them.. I was not longer a 4 foot victim
but a 6' 4 athlete, fresh off a national championship
with an astounding recollection of their vicious assaults
not just on me but any student they 'educated'
Those two extemely violent 'religious' disasters
were confirmed by a retired parish priest
who confided to me a few years ago at a reunion
they were examples of where 'religion' failed horribly
'religion' in essentially any context, especially 'christian'
fails to transmit to me.. it just sails off somewhere
kind of like an incorrect email address .. or junk mail ..
I hear you, Sal. As a student in the Catholic school system, I and many others suffered all kinds of abuse, both physical and verbal, also from those who professed belief in a loving God. It is hard not to be cynical after such experiences.
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