The Steeple People and Morality
It’s gonna come as no surprise to you that in 2011 white evangelicals by 60 percent believed that a public official who “commits an immoral act in their personal life” cannot still “behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.”
Clinton on their minds.
However, in 2016, right after the release of the Access Hollywood tape, that number dropped to 20%. Holy cow, that’s a 40% drop of their morality pants.
So, this got pollsters curious. Is the drop due to enlightenment or something else? So this time, they asked people about Clinton and Trump specifically.
White evangelicals had a substantially different reaction when asked about Trump or Clinton. When primed to think about Trump, only 6 percent of them say that an elected official who acts immorally in private is incapable of being ethical in public life. But when Bill Clinton is mentioned, that rises to 27 percent — a 21-point increase.
The study is worth a look-see. It explores other details but the results are always the same – Evangelical Christians believe Democrats are so unworthy of their respect.
“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.”
But Faux Corp is a hurricane level wood thrower…
1Yes!
Morality on a sliding scale!
The 10 Adjustable & Fluctuating Commandments:
2(a few examples)
* Thou shalt not commit adultery more than ____ times.
* Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day, on the golf course, where thou shalt strive for a holy-in-one.
* Thou shalt not steal unless you want it more than they do.
That poll doesn’t seem to mention the Babtist Rethugs (unless p/o the Evanges), they’d probably outdo those top-ranked Catholic Rethugs in the hypocrisy differential spread.
3They don’t respect Democrats? Well, that makes us even.
4These folks have been indoctrinated from the pulpit, often for decades, and their preachers are mostly right-wingers. They’re constantly pushed to have faith, but NOT to question where their faith is placed.
5According to the second pair of bars from the left, there is such a thing as Evangelical Democrats. Golly! Who knew?
6The effect has been well-documented. The Republicans have no principles except to be opposed to anyone not a RWNJ.
This link is to reddit (sorta like 4chan for sane people, but at least it has some connection with reality). But it has a set of links to more reputable sites, delineating just how wildly the Republicans will change their views based on who happens to be president:
https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/760jtn/ooof_trump/doafykp/?sh=a7423449&st=J8PCXU38
7Organized religion has, and is, nothing more than a scam run by shills and hucksters so they can gain wealth and power in this world.
8The fabricated hereafter is nothing more than an invention to pacify the population from seeking justice in the present.
Temples to this scam, such as notre dame, should be required to post huge signs on entry and wherever ones eye might alight stating ( using Notre Dame as an example)
“Fleecing the gullible for over 800 years in the to enable oppression, greed and bigotry. Remember the silks, gold and jewels that our hierarchy enjoy don’t pay for themselves so indulge your hidden deviancy and contribute to the largest pedophile ring in history.
Opposition to science and education while encourageing poverty and slavery is our mainstay in keeping the peons and serfs as peons and serfs”
I think more evangelicals are dropping their own pants and then forgiving themselves; they forget that forgiveness is up to God!
9I believe Lenin called organized religion, “Pap for the masses”. turns out, he was right.
10Folks, it’s about abortion. The steeple people will vote for the devil himself as long as he will get Roe v Wade overturned.
11Being a traditional liberal, I try to keep an open mind, even if I sometimes have to use a crowbar.
I admit to giving Clinton more of a pass than Trump, but it’s a question of the kind of moral transgression. Clinton was unfaithful to his wife, which stinks, and possibly abusive to women, which is much harder to forgive because it’s violent. I balanced that against finally having a Democrat in the WH making decisions on the SCOTUS, environmental policy, abortion policy, and many other matters after twelve years of Reagan and Papa Bush. I believed that Bill Clinton was overall a good person and definitely a good President.
Trump has few if any virtues at all as far as I can see. He lies, he cheats at everything, he stiffs people he hires, he brags about abusing women, he has no empathy whatsoever, he is an all-round argument for retroactive birth control. If Trump were the Democratic candidate and it were a choice between him and a moral person who would implement policies and choose judges as Trump has been doing… I guess I’d have to vote the platform and not the candidate, but I’d hate the necessity for doing it, and I wouldn’t cheer about it afterwards.
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