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Posted by: anybody ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 08:33AM

Religious extremism messes with your mind...

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/rick-wiles-we-are-going-to-impose-christian-rule-in-this-country/

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/05/christian-tv-host-rick-wiles-we-will-impose-christian-rule-in-this-country

"On Wednesday night’s episode of his “TruNews” program, during which he praised Alabama’s radical new anti-abortion law and warned that those who support reproductive rights will spend eternity being “aborted continuously forever” by demons in Hell, End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles also found time to blame Jews for the legalization of abortion in this nation in the first place, declaring that “we would not have abortion in America if it was not for powerful, influential rich Jews in America.”

Wiles returned to that theme on last night’s program, where he read from an op-ed in the Israeli paper Haaretz written by Debra Nussbaum Cohen, in which she argued that Alabama’s law is “a threat to my religious freedom as a Jew … because according to classical Jewish text and most rabbinic interpreters, a developing embryo or fetus is not ‘an unborn child’ or ‘person,’ but has the legal status of an appendage of the pregnant woman. It is part of her body, not a separate person, until the moment that a majority of a viable baby capable of independent life has been born.”

Wiles, who is deeply anti-Semitic and dedicates many of his TruNews programs to railing against Israel and the Jews yet still regularly receives press credentials from the White House, blasted Cohen’s op-ed and boldly declared that Christians are going to take back America from the Jews “and we are going to impose Christian rule.”

“We Christians are standing up and pushing out Zionism,” Wiles said. “That’s what we’re doing. Zionism brought the slaughter of 65 million babies to America and we’re going to end it and we are going to impose Christian rule in this country.”

“Why are you imposing Judaism on me?” he asked. “Because that’s exactly what’s been done in America since 1973 with Roe v. Wade. Judaism was imposed on me, on my Christian nation and we became a Jewish nation that kills babies. That’s against my Christian beliefs … Judaism became the law of the land in America. That’s precisely what the courts have ruled. They have based their rulings on the Zohar, on the Talmud, and now we have Zionistic Talmudic law ruling this country and resulting in the death of millions of babies. And Ms. Cohen, we Christians are standing up and we’re telling you that we’re done with Zionism, we’re done with your values. We are going to impose Christian values in America again, whether you like it or not.”

Wiles went on to declare that Jews have been able to impose their values on America because they controls the banks, the technology, and the media in this country, and have even been able to gain control over most Christian churches through bribery."

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Posted by: babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 09:16AM

Once again religion becomes parody. Maybe I should go back to church for a good laugh.

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Posted by: NormaRae ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 10:07AM

"Religious Freedom" is the dog whistle that is being used to unite the racists. IMHO, it is going to get worse before it gets better. It's the last stand of the old-school WASPS. WASCS and WASMS, for that matter too. Their bigoted, misogynistic and homophobic way of life is threatened. That, they are not making up. It is. So they have waged a war of hate. It obviously has nothing to do with the Bible. Christ was very very clear about our duty to our fellow man. Very unclear (i.e., silent) about abortion and gender non-conformance.

They supposedly have this affinity toward Christ, even the mormons are throwing JS under the bus to be all about "the Savior." But to justify their hate they have to pull some obscure verse out of the Old Testament and go through all kinds of contortions to make it fit their narrative. They need so badly to believe Jesus is on their side. Because if he isn't, the result is just unthinkable. He might have meant what he said about loving your neighbor and doing "unto the least of these, and not judging. Can't have that.

So let's contort the US Constitution to say that religious freedom means that the religious group that by far is a majority in the country has the freedom to make the rules and not be criticized. And do not tell them to read their Bible. The millionaire pastors and prophets will do that for them.

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Posted by: rowleyda ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 01:24PM

I laugh at these people who want to bring back "Christian rule in this country." First, they know little if anything about the US Constitution. No where in this document will you find words such as: Christianity, god, Jesus. It is a secular text and framework for a secular society. Our founding fathers were well-schooled men of the enlightenment. They understood history and, especially, religious tyranny and that was the last thing they wanted. A democratic republic is what they wanted and what they got, thank the stars. And no, god did not write the US Constitution with his finger tip.

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Posted by: CrispingPin ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 10:50AM

“Christian” rule with a decidedly anti-Semitic slant. What could possibly go wrong?

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Posted by: stillanon ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 10:55AM

Right? Is this the 2nd coming of "Positive Christianity"? It's amazing the current crop of idiots that have no sense of irony or history.

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Posted by: Old Al ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 11:44AM

Christianity is too diverse in this country for this to ever happen. Getting them all to agree on anything would be impossible.

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Posted by: Dave the Atheist ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 11:48AM

Wiles has no clue what "zionism" is. He just hates jews. I need not ask what he thinks should be done with Atheists.

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Posted by: Tevai ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 12:48PM

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> Wiles has no clue what "zionism" is. He just hates
> jews.

This was my question as well. I have been continually bewildered by the (right-wing "Christian") conflation of the two different things. There is a great deal of real life complexity here that many Christians (in particular) seem to have no knowledge of.


> I need not ask what he thinks should be done
> with Atheists.

This is a good question: What DO Christians (those who are trying to impose their own, quite specific, "Christian" values, as well as Christian government(s), on the USA) think "should be done" about atheists?

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Posted by: doyle18 ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 03:49PM

The last time church and state were combined, people were burned at the stake. I'm assuming he wants to do that to atheists and others who aren't WASP's.

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Posted by: NormaRae ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 03:22PM

I know. He said they are pushing Zionism in this country. That makes no sense. Zionism isn't about Jewish theology. It's about a homeland in Israel. True Zionists have already migrated to Israel. The others are only Zionist sympathizers who are like "I ain't gonna go but here's my money for the cause."

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Posted by: Anonymous Muser ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 12:38PM

But these cretins are waiting for their so-called rapture and Armageddon, which (per them) can't come until the world is steeped in vice and evil. Were they to succeed in remaking the US in their image, the country would be oh so much more "righteous" and therefore less likely to see their precious end of the world.

Wouldn't it make more sense (from their POV) to hasten the rapture and Armageddon, 2nd coming, etc., by encouraging abortion and the like, to get Jesus here faster? All this "taking America back" seems to defeat their own purpose for being.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 02:01PM

"I know that ghawd gave me the freedom to take away your freedom! And why did ghawd give me this gift? Because he knew I would use it for good! He taught me what was right and with his divine aid I will bring to heel all that is wrong with this world, starting with you, you uppity Mexican!"
--Rick Wiles, on the occasion of the attempted martyrdom of Judic West

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Posted by: Greyfort ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 03:34PM

anybody Wrote:
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> Zionism brought the slaughter of 65 million
> babies to America and we’re going to end it and
> we are going to impose Christian rule in this
> country.”


What? I'm scratching my head in confusion over that one.

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Posted by: babyloncansuckit ( )
Date: May 19, 2019 03:54PM

He should join the Mormons and get his endowment. Then he can rule and reign in the House of Israel forever.

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