Atheism

Its thoughts and curses when they are bad.

Let's just accept that calling someone a Christian ought to be treated as an insult, rather than pretending that the rampaging tide of assholes somehow representat an outlier.

If only it could be so easy.

Ostensibly, the only significant difference between a megachurch pastor and the end-times-sign-holding street corner crier is audience approval.

You're thinking of Tommy Tallarico.

No but I have to remind myself every time he shows up.

That said oof guy might try taking credit for his achievements

His Mom is very proud!

The tax exempt thing should really be reformed

Religious people want to be told how to live/think. It's the exact same with the trump cult. "Why do they keep supporting him?" I hear all the time. Well, you see, there is no thinking going on there. Just thoughtless following. This keeps them from having to feel responsible for their choices.

You mean that's not what Jesus would do?

As in "Who will rid me of this turbulent" one? He kind of is, actually.

Many well-educated people will not get this for the obvious reason, but . . .

People who are not in rural areas have almost no idea just how HARD and for how long this Trump shit has been pushed in the churches, to the point that right now, any person of the Christian faith who also drank the Kool-Aid and is deeply involved in the "Christian" politics of the right wing is thrust into a real and immediate crisis of conscience if they even think about leaving the politics. And this is by design.

Meanwhile, James Talarico, a very vanilla, scandal-free, middle-of-the-road Christian whose actual faith appears to be genuine and unimpeachable is speaking out, saying the two are NOT the same, and in doing so is providing a very specific off-ramp for people who have confused/conflated the cult of Trump with the cult of Christ, which the politicians and propagandists did deliberately so that even the thought of leaving the cult of Trump could be punished with the fear of hellfire.

In short, Talarico is incredibly dangerous to the shaky right wing because he's specifically laying a path for anyone who wants off the Trump train to still believe they can be a Christian.

And that's why the Pharisees need him to die. But not kill him themselves, because that would be a sin. Unless God did it himself, in his mercy. Or maybe someone else might get the job done, a heretic or infidel or unemployed guy down at the Walmart parking lot. So they're not gonna sin themselves, they're just gonna pray for a holy hitman of some kind, because that's alright. But not before they dehumanize him with literally fictional language describing him as an orc and unbeliever ("barbarian") because otherwise someone might remember there's a commandment against killing somewhere, but that doesn't apply to fictional monsters and infidels, or something.

Don't come at me, I'm not a believer, just an explainer, lol

And so meddlesome... smhead

Beat me to it. Blatant heresy. Directly and completely contradicts biblical canon and principals from the altar. He's a liar, a hypocrite, and a vile human being. Of course Hegseth goes to that guy's church.

Because of that awful genz 70s stache

I bet he diddles kids.

Jesus was a doomsday cultist who believed literally that God's kingdom was on earth as in people were going to raise from the dead.

This is the reason for his faked resurrection by his followers. To fulfill this insane prophecy and also explains why the authorities at the time were so suspect of the "prince of peace".

Without this context his story is confusing and makes no sense.