A lesson from Timothy Snyder’s book “On Tyranny.”
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“MAGA Seduction: Resisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience” (2020): https://a.co/d/1KNX3uQ
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Thank you Pat!! you are right on.
Bezos cares about one thing…money. More of it. Never enough of it. Money is his God just as it is Trump's God, and Musk's God.
I disagree. Hatred fuels my heart to fight back. I'm terrified. I'll channel that fear and hatred in preparation for what seems inevitable. You seem like a good dude. I subscribed because of that reason, despite the fact that I'm not religious. We need folks like you, peacekeepers, for the coming days, sure, but we also need people who are willing to weaponize their own fear and anger. So, I'll just do that for the both of us, sir. I'm glad I found you here.
2 Thessalonians Ch 2:5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
Thank you!
Do not forget that Christians who voted for Trump have abandoned, Jesus, abandoned God, abandoned democracy, abandoned decency, and abandoned love. They have made power and control and hate the central tenets of their new "faith" for Trump. I think many of them did so by blindly following church leaders who have lied to them and manipulated them into believing lies. What Trump does in the next four years will determine the future not only of our nation, but also the future of Christianity in our nation.
I think every classic republican in gov who bowed down to Trump (not the magaheads, they are a lost cause) should learn this concept of Do Not Obey in Advance. Because, I think a lot of them are the examples made in this video- and they probably also went along with things to the Jone's effect mixed with the point made in 'On Tyranny.'
We have known Fox and NewsMax were propaganda. In the last election we saw CNN and others in the media shy away from objective reporting. Look at how many local TV stations are owned by conservative Sinclair Broadcasting. Wealthy conservatives now control the media.
Religion has become the biggest procrastination on the human project. It makes good people do bad things. A child could improve the 10 commandments. Religion is so disgusting.
The motto of the WP PREDATED Jeff Bezos.
DO NOT GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR ANY ETHICAL STANDARDS AT ALL. HE HAS NONE.
This will be an exceedingly evil administration. Christians are to obey God rather than man. Call out the sin and evil. Do not act like it is not sinful. Do not keep quiet about the sin.
Trump and his sycophants are fueled by their hate and their greed. You don’t hear the people who are in it solely because of their greed ( because they are just going to let the hate mongers do the dirty work. However , you sure as shit ARE hearing and seeing it from the people who are fueled by their hate. They are marching in the streets with their hate out and proud and on full display. They are making up “ victim hood “ narratives on social media ( NOBODY IS COMING AFTER YOU WW OF MAGA!).
Thank you. I have been so angry with Trumpism. I am no longer afraid. I know Jesus Christ personally
In a country that has spent its entire life fighting against Dictators and cruel rulers, it is NOW going to have the first person to have caused an insurrection that failed in the FULL light of the public Saying he is going to be a dictator! Being allowed to desecrate the seat of the president.
For Bezos and all other billionaire media moguls, Democracy dies in the darkness wasn't a warning it was a rallying cry.
Brother Pat – you miss an important point – High Level Democrats seem to be on a course who preach a kind of censorship when they call for control of social media like Hilary Clinton! You again are too Donald Trump focused. You have in the past said a lot of how disappointed you have become in the direction of the Republican Party, but you ignored the downward evil trend of the Democratic Party. It really astounds me how have reflected on your time as a Pro-Life activist, but have stated that you gave (if I remember your words correctly) money to the Kamala Harris Campaign. Please correct me if I am wrong on this point…..I am patiently waiting (but not really expecting) for a response.
In America our governmental authority is the constitution. The president, the house, your mayor's are not our authority therefore rebellion against them is not a rebellion against God…. Electing them however was rebellion towards God
Thank you and say no more.
Thank you for this message of encouragement and strength. We can attempt to resist and speak out all we want. The fact is that this has not happened over the past few decades to sufficient degree to avoid this situation, so it's fair to conclude that the resistance will be similarly tepid now that the Police, National Guard, and Military will be used with full force to achieve the aims of MAGA and Trump.
Really, what is one going to do when a detachment of combat ready armed police or military knock down your door and charge you with treason for speaking out?
Moderate America had its chance to avoid this and has failed miserably. Moderate America will now continue to capitulate as Joe and Mika have, one by one, step by step, with the true heroes in very small number being publicly humiliated and possibly tortured as a message to those sitting on the fence.
You will ALL submit, capitulate, reason, justify, defend, and ultimately cooperate with the crimes as you all have been doing for decades wrt the atrocities that America has committed in other lands and in secret.
Even Obama is going to bend the knee and submit (after first sufficiently testing the waters). So there.
Do not be like Mika & Joe.
More important than just the right of free speech is the right to do the right thing. One of the main tactics of spreading malevolence is to convince or force others to do the wrong thing. Stalinism was founded on rewarding those who harmed other citizens and actualized evil. Instead of community, everyone becomes a threat to everyone else, is out to get them, and wants to get even or ahead.