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Robert B. Elliott's avatar

“Born again” Christians see themselves as part of an exclusive club or clan. They feel a strong affinity with others who have shared a conversion experience in which they have shed their ego, acknowledged guilt for “original sin” from their birth, accepted an unshakeable conviction that Jesus was the son of God who died to absolve them of their sins, and that while all non-believers are doomed to burn in eternal hellfire after death, they will be among the relatively small number who will be spared that horror and will spend eternity in a glorious heaven in the presence of God.

It is logical, therefore, that they should cling together and be of aid and comfort to others in this club (cult). We should not b surprised that pretenders, imitators, and phony or hypocrites are out to get into the action and trying to get a piece of the pie, or that White supremacists are exploiting the situation fully. It is to be expected that a billionaire who has been rewarded by God with great wealth should go to great lengths to support and assist a Supreme Court justice and his wife who have been rewarded in other ways and who have professed to be believers. Their loyalty and fealty are to God and to each other and they are part of a movement to change and to save the world, each in their own capacity. The cause is righteous. To interfere is to represent Satan, evil, and liberal license.

There is nothing to investigate. There are no mysteries to solve. You are either on the side of good and God in their clouded eyes, or you are a dangerous and duplicitous enemy. If you are not with them, you are against them, and if you are against them you deserve nothing less than pain, punishment, death, and destruction. So, who you gonna to call? Ghostbusters? Or Merrick Garland, or perhaps Americans United for Separation of Church and State? Just do not ask your local schools to combat superstition and ignorance. They have other priorities.

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Ginger's avatar

Reading this, the first thing that cam to mind was how similar Orban's rise to power was to Netanyahu's rise. Both started out as savvy reformers and then.... Sorry if any Jewish people are offended by the comparison. I don't mean this in any ethnically discriminatory way. These guys are all power hungry individuals in the end, regardless of their ethnicity.

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