Lauren Boebert loves to preach the dominionist philosophy and talk about how the church should run government. That’s nothing new.
But here she goes next level. She tells the crowd that we are in the “end end times” (you are Bobo; better buy another restaurant, this Congress gig is blowing up in your face) and she thinks this is sane and proper behavior.
Or maybe this is her new gig. Maybe instead of becoming a Fox News host, she’s going to become a wingnut preacher. Maybe both? She could start having visions and handling snakes.
We need more God in Government. Notice how both words start with G-O? That is not a coincidence. This is divine spelling. And we must act upon it. A certain VD starts with G-O, but we won't talk about that
— Daddio 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🌊💙BLM 🌈♀️ (@KidCreole3) September 13, 2022
I think you’re a little out over your skis, Lauren. If I may be so bold as to quote scripture on the top of when Christ will return, Matthew 24:36 say, “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels…” So if the angels don’t know, you sure as $hit don’t. Sit down and STFU.
Wait I thought the last day was in 2011?? Guess they keep having to reschedule it by two weeks. pic.twitter.com/QtZ1RHcwvA
— Ricky 🇺🇸🗳🏳️🌈🇺🇦🌻 (@rickyx2001) September 13, 2022
Here’s an image of the MAGA Messiah in his last of the last days. Maybe that’s what prompted this doomsaying. And when MAGA Messiah goes, he won’t go alone.
— Hon. Don Gerard (@DonGerard) September 13, 2022
One can only hope she is. pic.twitter.com/1vyQKOTW4W
— Steve “OUST the GOP” Basile. #BetoForTexas (@AustinBaze) September 13, 2022
I post this here in utter awe. Anybody know how this creature is doing this?
The second coming of Jesus already happened… here's a clip of one of his latest miracles. pic.twitter.com/LBFbj8XbLO
— Perch The Cabbie (@Perchthecabbie) September 13, 2022
That’s my idea of the wonder of God. Not that bimbo talking trash and grifting, but this magnificent animal doing the seemingly impossible. Spinoza saw God in the harmony of nature. He also said, “Most people parade their own ideas as God’s Word, mainly to compel others to think like them under religious pretexts.” Case in point.
Maybe she should stop worrying about when Jesus is coming and go back to Colorado and get her kids & husband under control before they destroy any more of their neighbor’s property.
That’d be practicing what you’re preaching and evangs and other cons avoid that whenever possible.
For these religious wingnuts this is their version of the Trump administrations periodic “Infrastructure Week.” They’ve trotted this bullshit out so many time…Long before Trump came along, while he was squatting in the WH and have been doing it since. It will never stop. I’m agnostic, but if I’m wrong and the God/Jesus of the bible are real I have no doubt they’d be howling in laughter at these asshats. And sides-spasming-can’t-breathe, tears blinding their vision laugher when one of these goobers talks about getting into heaven!
Given the hatred and discord these people create, I have my doubts the creator of the universe is having a good chuckle.
Part of how I went from Christian, to Deist (like so many of our founders) to agnostic was realizing that for all the wonderous beauty that can be found on Earth, from nature to human behavior there is also a huge amount of destruction, ugliness and cruelty – again both in nature and human behavior. Given many species on earth feel pain (both physical and emotional) and are to some degree sentient, a look around the world shows a great deal of suffering, much if not most could be if not avoided then minimized if human beings in particular were as evolved as we want to believe we are. The natural world, mother nature has and always will create destruction as a matter of course. Enormous storms so that weather systems can balance out atmospheric conditions. Earthquakes, massive floods, volcanic eruptions including super-volcanic ones such as what’s under the Yellowstone area and will one day erupt again and affect the earth in a bad way for hundreds, if not thousands of years depending on how bad the next one is. But no species has proven more capable and worse, willing of creating massive damage to our planet, and unleashed horrific cruelty on millions of people at a time which as we know via two World Wars I grew up learning all about on a far more massive scale?
WTF kind of just and loving God or other deity would be down with that? I think of an aria from the opera Othello in which Iago notes at the beginning he believes in a cruel, vengeful God. Some of that Old Testament shit I guess. And let’s face it, there are some serious examples of God being an asshole in the Old Testament. As an adult I increasingly confronted that question. Between that and other stuff that’s core to Christianity and other religions about “God” I simply couldn’t process the belief in some entity out there resembling the God people of different religions worship. And again, if I’m wrong that God is at best a bad practical joker who doesn’t realize or worse doesn’t care how much suffering results from pranks gone bad.
So maybe you’ve moved me to a point of saying this – if there’s a creator out there, that creator has fucked up and allowed appalling, unimaginable levels of suffering. And if that creator, as you suggest doesn’t chuckle then that same creator who is supposedly possessed of literally the powers of creation doesn’t stop allowing it to happen. That creator doesn’t intervene. Jesus? Mohammed? Abraham? Doesn’t matter – IF said prophets were God’s means of “intervening” then it sure as hell didn’t take, at least anywhere near on the scale necessary. Hell, more wars (with the resulting death and destruction) have been fought on religious grounds than for any other reason! Even ones not initiated & fought for religious reasons have wound up having religion looped in somewhere because while the person(s) starting them didn’t give two shits about religion it made for the justification they needed.
So again, if there’s a creator/deity out there that allows all this, if I’m wrong then I see not reason to worship. If I choose to worship something, it is mother nature. The Sun which is life giving in so many ways. The air I breathe. The water I drink. Fertile ground that allows the food I eat to grow, and provides plants and minerals that can be made into medicines that heal me when I am sick. I’ll worship mother earth. The earth is something real, that I can see and touch, and which touches me in so many ways every day of my life.
One final thought. Having grown up playing organized sports, then later in the Marines and both before and after finding myself in leadership positions at work and in organizations I’ve been a leader. Hell, the Marines do a lot of teaching and training about leadership! I’m mid sixties and have seen my share of leaders both good and bad, and worked alongside or under quite a few. And the God people I talk with in my life, whether that person of faith is Christian, Jewish or Muslim is a piss poor leader if he/she is actually out there.
The mysterious thing about the stories in the Bible is how much clarity it displays concerning human nature. Just hypothetically, if God didn’t allow human beings the CHOICE of good versus evil, how could anyone argue we have free will? Genesis relates that the proverbial garden was paradise but contained the tree of knowledge. According to the story, God didn’t let evil loose upon the earth. WE DID. If there was no choice to begin with then we would just be puppets or servants. Of course there are many questions that can be raised, like, if GOD is everywhere & knows everything, why didn’t God know where Adam was after he sinned? Arriving at simple conclusions concerning the mysteries of the universe isn’t really the way to go either way. Believing the Bible fell out of the sky is provably false. Rejecting it based on limited experience with what people do or teach about it is just as blind in a different way. The book clearly states from cover to cover that GOD IS A MYSTERY. By definition the universe/God/any name WE COME UP WITH is essentially & eternally a mystery. Science has proven that. The speed of light will go around the earth 7x in one second. That’s unimaginably fast, yet it is SLOW concerning the vastness of space. Every light we see in the night sky is the PAST. We have observed light from 13.7 billion light years ago, traveling at that speed. It would take 26.000 years at that speed to reach the center of our galaxy & there are an estimated 350 billion galaxies. The biggest mystery is how humans are so goddamn sure of anything to do with the universe. Of course the book advises us to ultimately not rely on our limited knowledge. We walk by faith not by sight. You have no faith you might believe but I beg to differ. You have faith those painted orange lines on the road will keep those machines whizzing by inches from you WILL STAY ON THEIR SIDE. You have faith that plane you climbed on will land safely. I could go on but you know the examples are endless. The character John Constantine noted at the end of the movie named Constantine, ” I guess He has a plan for each of us. I had to die twice just to figure that out. Like the book says, He works His work in mysterious ways. Some people like it. Some people dont.”
A new song from.Disney’s new movie Disencanto:”We Don’t talk about Boebert.” I.mean. Bruno was a prophet, right?
One up one down. See what I mean? Ha.
Second Coming has been predicted pretty much since the second century CE. There was a big millenialist movement around the turn of the first millenium. Several in medieval times. Big swell in America in the 1800s. Jews have had their own history of Messianism. Wouldn’t surprise me if other beliefs also generated this sort of thing.
She can work for her psychopathic deity, or she can work in government for the people, but she’s not succeeding in trying to do both at once.
I can’t remember who said this but: I dream of the day when the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. Feel free to substitute.
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” Denis Diderot
So she knows the Second Coming – odd isn’t it that the guy she is especting said “But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”
So God and Government starty with ‘go’ – so does goofball, gobsh**e, gorgon, goo, gouger and goat.
Christians have been expecting the Second Coming since the mid-to-late 1st century (a decade or so after Jesus’s post-resurrection appearance before His disciples–recognized by Christians as “Pentecost,” even though the term at the time referred to the festival of Shavuot which took place fifty days after Passover).
I wonder how Lauren Boebert keeps getting these church preaching gigs when she doesn’t have a license to preach, & is basically too dumb to know what the scriptures say about the coming of Jesus, as every comment before mine mentions. She’s just another grifter, & if she loses to her opponent in the midterms, I can see her thinking she’s some sort of evangelist, & turning it into another chance to fleece a flock. She can take advantage of the fact that she’s the stupidest (hopefully former) member of Congress to help her grift…
Now I grant you, x-tians don’t generally ask us, the Jews, what are take is on deities taking the reins of government off of the hands of our leaders. My guess why is because it is a big nothing-burger. According to our sources, please remember we had the main guy talking to us after getting us out of Egypt, the change from humans running the world’s affairs to a deity doing it is supposed to be very seamless. That doesn’t scare folks tho’. Thus we have some guy pulling a horror story out of his ass. I guess if you have a religion based on some guy doing tricks that were completely unverifiable and who did not even come close to meeting the definition of messiah other than the ones that have created so many “messiahs” before and since, you have to have more to increase your base.
I’m a Jew and the history of the Jews staying true to God’s commandments are checkered at best. As I type they are running an apartheid system that’s been in place since 1948. Soliders trained to kill, armored, with automatic weapons, standing behind barricades, are shooting and killing children throwing rocks. Some guy doing tricks? Guess you missed all the ‘tricks’ Moses did for Pharoah. Talking burning bushes? Friend you live in a glass house. As Jesus responded to the Jewish leaders in the gospel of John when they said you can’t talk to us that way because WE are the descendents of Abraham; he replied, you’re right. You are the descendents of those who killed the prophets. Ouch.