Bannon talks about the “Church Militant”, too.
I think the only way to do it is to cite the separation of church and state; i.e., I don’t care what your religious affiliation is, if that affiliation unduly influences your performance as a public servant, you shouldn’t have the job.
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Made in His image.
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Waaaaay OT here, but i can’t help myself. The title to this article reminded me of a joke that i have to share. Apologies in advance.
Three young women enter a convent to dedicate their lives as nuns to God.The Mother Superior must first interview each of them to ensure that they each have to proper motivations to become Sisters of the Catholic Church. She approaches the first young woman and asks, “What would you otherwise do if you had not decided to become a nun?” The woman replies, “I would become a school teacher so that i could help my fellow man.” The Mother Superior replied, “:OH! Very good! Very good! You may enter.” The Mother Superior goes to the 2nd woman and ask the same question. “What would you have chosen to do if you had not decided to become a nun?” The 2nd young woman replies, “I would have chosen to become a nurse, so that i could help my fellow man.” To this, the Mother Superior replies with the same delight. “Wonderful answer. Go right on in.” So, the Mother Superior approaches the 3rd young woman and asks, again, “What would you have chosen to do if you had not decided to become a nun.” This young woman replies, “Well, i think that i would become a prostitute, so that i could help my fellow man.” The Mother Superior could not believe what she had just heard. She clenched her chest and fell to her knees, overcome by disbelief. Gasping to catch her breath, she asked “What did you just say?” To which the girl replied, “I think that i would become a prostitute so that i could help my fellow man.” Upon hearing this a second time, the Mother Superior let out a huge gasp of relief, pleased at this response, saying, “Oh, thank goodness. For a moment i thought you said a protestant.”
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Yep. Same here. Went to Catholic grade school and high school, 1950s and 1960s. We raised money for “pagan babies,” who, because they were not baptized Catholics, would never make it to heaven.
To this day I wonder where the money really went.
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“are there no SANE people in Trump’s wheelhouse?”
I first read this as “Trump’s whorehouse”
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He is draining the swamp, it empties into the WH.
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OK. You started it.
One day, the beloved bell-ringer at the local church dies. So, the priest puts an ad in the paper for a new bell-ringer.
The next day, this scrawny little guy with a funny face shows up for an interview. The priest asks him for his qualifications. The guy says, “Well, I think it would be best if I just showed you.”
So the guy and the priest go up the bell tower. The priest tries to hand the guy the rope to pull the bell, but the guy waves him off and says, “Watch this.”
The guy takes a few steps back, then runs full-speed past the priest and slams, face-first, into the bell. The guy staggers back and falls to the ground.
The bell makes the finest, most beautiful sound the priest has ever heard. So he says, “Sorry to ask, but that was just great–would you do it again?”
So, OK, the guy gets ahold of himself and does it again. Again smashing his face. Again the beautiful sound. And again the priest has to hear it again.
So, the guy aims himself and runs, but he’s so smashed up and dizzy that this time he misses the bell, and falls out of the tower, to the street below. He’s squashed flat.
A crowd gathers around. Shortly, a policeman approaches and questions a man in the crowd, “Do you know this guy?”
The man answers “Nah, I don’t know him, but his face rings a bell.”
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Only if he proves he can spell Presbyterian.
So trump’s adding a Catholic Ayatollah to the swamp! Oh goody!
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Money is the One True God. All the rest is window dressing for the rubes. At least that’s what my decades-long observation of leading Right Wing religious authorities leads me to conclude…
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Jesus declared, “I am the spaghetti of life.” With a side of meatballs. - John 6:35.
I read this as “Church of the Subway” and thought, well, everyone is welcome here.
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The extremely religious can willfully be incredibly ignorant, virulently hateful and are capable of unspeakable evil. Preshitident Anusmouth’s bigoted policies are bringing out the white christian supremacist vermin like moths to a light.
The next day the priest interviews another guy for the bell-ringer position. Like the first guy, this guy wants to show the priest how he can do the job.
This guy, too, refuses the rope, and runs full-speed toward the bell. But just as he’s about to smash into it, he trips. He misses the bell, falls from the tower, and lands near where the first guy landed, squashed just as flat.
The crowd gathers 'round. The cop shows up, and asks the same man he asked the day before, “So, do you know this guy?”
The man answers, “Nah, I don’t know him, but he’s a dead ringer for the guy who was here yesterday.”
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That’d work.
Ba-dum-bum.
Lol.
Heathen! The color red is reserved for the holy tomato-based baptismal sauce.
Repent, or your pot will boil over.
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My regrets.
Wassat about freedom of religion??
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