Oh Dear
If you are watching the bloody festivities in Jerusalem today signifying that Donald Trump is kowtowing to the religious right’s attempt to bring about Armageddon, there’s one thing you might want to watch.
Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, a man you can calibrate your gaydar by, is accompanying Trump so he can lead the prayer.
Jeffress – note the halo in his official picture
Pastor Jeffress, in a now infamous 2011 interview, also said that “every other religion in the world is wrong: Islam is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell; Mormonism is wrong, it is a heresy from the pit of Hell, and, “Judaism, you can’t be saved being a Jew.”
If you don’t know what dispensationalism is, go Goggle it. Right-wingers are trying like hell to rush the end times so they can watch God throw your sorry butt into the pits of hell. They think they’re gonna get a ringside seat as an award for waiting to draw a crowd before they pray.
This is gonna be a damn smokin’ mess. It’s not gonna bring Jesus back any sooner, but watching Jews and Palestinians die is almost as much fun for them.
I turned off the damn teevee. What they are doing to Sweet Jesus is obscene.
This guy and his orange hero need to be tied together and put in a deep, dark closet. Neither should even be allowed to make a statement to anyone – much less the press. Both are horrible creatures.
1People such as Jeffress are not Christians. They are bigoted, hateful, stupid, but not Christians.
2Christ is great enough to forgive them their sins, which include breaking most if not all of the 10 Commandments. I have a difficult time even thinking of forgiveness for them for the harm they do.
The lip smacking at bringing about Armageddon and casting billions of people in to the “Lake of Fire” is truly obscene.
“Christians” who have truly failed to learn the lessons of Jesus of Nazareth.
3All of y’all that don’t subscribe to the notion of the FSM or whosever & co can skip this diversion, unless you are interested in yet another example of evangelical hypocrisy and scriptural ignorance.
Hey beautiful JJ, go sit down among your hibiscus by the pool w your Good Book and read Matthew 25:31-46. We have had this gospel read at the weddings and funerals in my family now for the last 3 iterations because we are a very mixed group now; the thing that jumps out at me is that EVERYONE is confused: the people invited into heaven want to know why, and the people excluded don’t understand why either. It’s a very dicey thing, this conviction that you are so saved by the blood of Jesus that nothing counts against you! It’s dangerous, because it breeds hubris and complacency. It had never been much preached in my brand until lately (if you don’t believe in abortion or gay marriage you’re good? WTF!?) – we are the ones that used to subscribe to the notion that “sh*t happens to you because you are bad”!
4It’s not easy to keep the peace, when the ‘relocation’ of nearly a million Palestinians began with the hillbilly “hold my beer” Zionists in Europe with complicit Americans ‘solution’ to the Jewish problem. Now comes this ‘pastor’ with the gift of dog being the dismissal of Islam, Mormons and the Jewish state all in the whacked out idea that some fantasy character loves Christians best and will be sending a space ship or a moonbeam or some yet to be determined method of transportation to deliver them to a magical kingdom in the sky, location uncertain.
I’d try running that fable past KJ and Jack, but they’d never buy it.
5I am informed by my church going neighbor that the Book of Revelation informs her large congregation that Trump is the anti-Christ. She expects them all to be Raptured up any day now.
But she did renew her TDL.
6I say if they start WW 3, the non-moronic survivors need to hunt the dominionists down.
Because they musta missed the magic bus to heaven. It will be a neighborly thing to boost them on their way.
7My sainted father was a member of First Baptist Church in Dallas and a zombie follower of Rev W.A. Criswell. MsF died in 1990, some years before Robert Jeffress was “elected” the Grand Imperial Pooh-Bah of FBCD. I wish msF was alive to hear the idiotic spew which came from Jeffress’ mouth disguised as a prayer. Gag me.
If this guy represents the majority view of Southern Baptists, the majority of the denomination is deeply disturbed and disturbing.
8I wish the damn fools would just rapture away and leave the rest of us to clean up the planet.
9The Rapture already occurred: Trump = the Tribulation.
10A man on CNN said that John Hagee will be there as well and that Hagee. He, like Jeffries, is a pre-millenial, post-dispensational, rapture freak. (Hagee played one of the passengers who got raptured in the first Left Behind movie — the one with Kirk “Banana Man” Cameron.) One of the things that these Real True Christians agree on is that the nation of Israel is a ore-requisite to the Rapture and subsequent battle of Armageddon. Hagee opined that Hitler played a part in the establishment of the nation saying “God needed a hunter and Hitler was that hunter.” He later backed off of that statement but the part about the Nazis and the Holocaust were instrumental in getting Israel established does kinda make sense — assuming you agree with the premise that God needs Israel to exist before he can gather up the Real True Christians and consign the rest of us to be eternally tortured for the entertainment of the RTCs who will be watching. Which is so absurd that it calls into question the attachment of people like Hagee and Tim LaHaye, and Fallwell the elder and their ilk to their proverbial cookies which they all seem to have lost.
11Can you imagine what Israel would do if Palestinians murdered 52 Israelis in a day? I can’t wish enough grief on Hagee and Jeffress.
12Bigotry is a poisonous and deadly disease.
Now you know why humans ae so f*cked up.
Bigotry – Fear and Hate of anybody who does not look, act, think or believe like you do.
Racial, Religious, Moral and Political are some of the most common and deadly Bigotry’s.
There are many stages of the disease, visible, active, latent, dormant and infectious etc.
apparent, or actualized; existing as potential: latent ability. 2. Pathology. (of an infectious agent or disease) remaining in an inactive or hidden phase; dormant.
13Well, this is going to put the kibosh on that Peace Prize that Metamucilini covets so much. There was absolutely no reason to relocate the embassy except Sheldon Adelson’s checkbook. There was no reason to send Jeffress and Hagee except maybe no real clergyperson would go. With this debacle and breaking the Iran agreement, we are officially a rogue state.
14These Rapturists are not much different than those drowning witches back in the day, later characterized as “Kill ’em all, let God sort ’em out”. They hate life on earth so much they are willing to destroy it in the belief of their being the few lifted to heaven. That the rest of the world dies is of no concern and if there’s no rapture for them, they’ll never know anyway.
15The problem with literalism, unless you are using the original language used for the text (and know vernacular and euphemisms of the period it was written in), is *which* translation is the one and true one? Who did the translation, and their biases and screw ups, especially in a chain of translation, can alter what is deemed infallible.
And nothing of Man is infallible.
Not to mention, why nothing more modern? What does it mean if God has nothing to comment upon charging times…
16Charles R Phillips, I like the way you think. I sometimes I wonder if a head start isn’t in order to make sure they get window seats in the God Train.
17(I’m gonna get in trouble here…)
I’ve thought since the 1970’s that we, or somebody, ought to carpet nuke that so-called ‘holy land’ (a misnomer if ever there was one) into dust and glass, leaving it lethally radioactive for at least a few millennium…
The entire area is a cancer upon the Earth, y’all know how most cancers are treated (surgery, chemo, radiology), what are we waiting for?
(the ex made a trip over there not too long ago, was pretty disappointed with it overall)
18This move was intended to provoke Palestinian anger and protest, by Netanyahoo and his BFF, Dump.
19I saw some of that stuff the “pastor” was slinging on the TV. I do not know why Bibi Netanyahu just sat there during that con job. Now my faith in the removal of the US embassy to Jerusalem has hit not just bottom but the core of the earth. That was one bad idea, that removal, and that preacher!!! Yeeeesh!!!
20Well gee thanks MissJJ That was a whole bag of worms I would much rather not have looked at!
Are we in the Tribulation? Sure feels like it
“Dispensational premillennialists hold that the second coming of Christ, and subsequent establishment of the millennial kingdom, is to be preceded by a seven-year-long period known as the “Tribulation,” the earthly activity of the Antichrist as well as the outpouring of God’s wrath on mankind. Dispensational premillennialists hold that the nation of Israel will be saved and restored to a place of preeminence in the millennium. Thus, Israel will have a special function of service in the millennium that is different from that of the Church.”
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