The Islamophobia is implicit in supporting Trump’s immigration policies, at least around these parts in Maine.
I’m always glad to hear from a fellow lifter here in the Trump thread.
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It is an interesting angle to try, but I don’t see him doing a whole lot of reaching across the aisle to pull in new voters. We have Democratic Socialist “churches” in Lewiston and elsewhere in Maine, too. These 501(c)(3) organizations use Christian clothing, Christian rituals, Christian language, Christian scripture, and Christian identities to advance their sincere beliefs in socialist revolutionary thought. That’s how you end up with a Texas Senate candidate like Talarico
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No. His policies don’t line up with Christian beliefs, and people who vote from a religious perspective recognize it. He’s a Christian in the same way a man wearing a dress is a woman.
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You need to celebrate diversity harder. Like really hard. Then you’ll see it.
Damn, I guess the struggle is real. Alex Jones told me to wake up and I thought I did - now I find I ain’t woke enough. Argh!!
muttering
sand kicking
head clutching
Man, why do they gotta make fitting in to be so hard???
I dunno man. I don’t make the rules. I just enforce them.
He’s using it to justify transitioning kids and opening the Southern border. That won’t play here at all.
It’s interesting to learn what you guys have in common when you evaluate people.
Noem out
There’s nothing Christian about gay race communism. It is, among other things, organized theft achieved by fundamentally deceptive rhetoric.
The best historical comparison for Talarico is Jim Jones, whose People’s Temple was the prototype for advancing revolutionary socialist thought under the guise of Christianity. He was a progressive left superstar until, well, you know…
Not REAL socialism happened again.
Trump fires Noem…nominates Mark Mullin
Now he is a real fighter.
I like the move, but I don’t know a whole lot about Mark Mullin. At a glance, he seems solid.
Bye bye, Noem.
That surprises me a little
I’m aware of him but I haven’t done a deep dive. For the last several years my attention has been mostly on state and local politics. If someone outside of that world grabs my attention I tend to go learn more. He just hasn’t captured my attention for whatever reason, same as most Senators and Congressional Representatives.
Here’s some Jim Jones quotes I pulled from Grok. The People’s Temple idea never went away, it just rebranded itself after not REAL socialism led to mass murder again. Here in Maine they tend to call themselves Unitarian Universalists.
Here are some notable quotes and paraphrased statements from his sermons and teachings where he ties social justice ideals (equality, anti-capitalism, communal living, care for the oppressed) to Christianity:
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“God is love, and love is socialism. And socialism means, from each according to his ability to each according to his need.”
(He equates biblical love/charity with socialist redistribution, echoing Acts 2:44-45 and 4:32-35.) -
“When God is Socialism, God is [love].”
(Directly identifying God with socialism as the embodiment of divine love and justice.) -
“Socialism means that all the means of production that man has […] are owned by the same people, the family of man, the family of God. There is only one source of ownership—love. No one can privately own the land. No one can privately own the air. It must be held in common. So then, that is love, that is God, Socialism.”
(Framing communal ownership as godly love, contrasting with private property/capitalism.) -
“Jesus means justice, revolutionary justice.”
(Redefining Jesus as a symbol of radical social/revolutionary justice rather than traditional salvation.) -
“Build a heaven here. He [Jesus] said ‘thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth.’… The kingdom is within you. Here’s…”
(Echoing the Lord’s Prayer to argue for creating egalitarian, just society on earth now, via socialist means, rather than waiting for heaven.) -
“The only thing that brings perfect justice, freedom, and equality, perfect love in all of its beauty and holiness, is socialism, socialism, socialism.”
(Presenting socialism as the path to divine ideals of justice and love.) -
“If you’re born in capitalist America, racist America, fascist America, then you are born in sin. But if you’re born in socialism, you’re not born in sin.”
(Contrasting sinful capitalism/racism with socialist redemption, using Christian “born in sin” language.) -
Publicly, he couched his views in terms like “apostolic social justice” and “living the Acts of the Apostles” (referring to communal sharing in the early church as true Christianity).
Objectivity?