Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 02:00 pm
After so many of them had difficulty coming to grips with the idea of Donald Trump, Religious Right figures are falling over themselves to rally to the sinful reality star. And it’s getting kind of silly.
You’ve already seen Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s immoral contortions. Pastor John “We’re a pagan nation without shame” Hagee took to his “Hagee Hotline” Wednesday and told his audience that “God will not hold us harmless” if we fail to vote for small-handed woman shamer Donald Trump. It might be past time for religious conservatives to come to grips with the idea that this “believe or die” b.s., this never-ending divine hategasm, just doesn’t sell anymore.
And what does God have against women anyway? Trump wants women punished for terminating a pregnancy, and Steve Doocy can tell all the lies he wants, but in the Old Testament God was literally the terminator of pregnancies, ending them left and right, often violently wombs ripped open by a sword.
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2 Kings 15:16: â€He [Menahem, king of Israel] sacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.†Hosea 9:14: “Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.†Hosea 13:15-16: “I will have no compassion…the people of Samaria…will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashes to the ground; their pregnant women ripped open.†And that’s just a sampling of what God the Abortion doctor can do when he sets his mind to it.
But hey, according to Hagee, at least Trump will make America, which has armies all over the place imposing freedom on the world, militarily great again:
“I’m going to vote for the candidate that’s going to make the U.S. military great again. I’m going to vote for the party that is going to solve the immigration problem, not the one that has created the immigration problem. I’m going to support the party that brings jobs back from China … I’m not going to vote for the party that has betrayed Israel for the past seven years.”
Yeah? How about all those ties Trump has made in China? Is he going to have those made in Texas instead?
“If you can read a newspaper, you know who I’m talking about. No candidate is perfect, but I want you to go vote and may God give us a leader who has the courage to put America first and stand up for we the people.”
America first. Except for when Trump can have his clothes made cheaper in China or Mexico.
Watch this insane tirade courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
Hagee isn’t clear on who, exactly, he thinks created the “immigrant problem.” The only other choices in this election so far are Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and neither of them created the problem, which really isn’t that much of a problem since at this point, more immigrants are leaving the country than entering it (and who can blame them?).
If that wasn’t enough of an “endorsement” of Trump, there is Zack Drew, “The Jim Bakker Show†co-host who has his own show called “Revelation In The News.” Back in April, Drew told Rick Wiles that God loves himself some Donald Trump and actually went one better than Hagee, saying God would literally kill Trump’s enemies.
The “end-time battle” and “harvest” have begun, Drew warns, and “If you are corrupt, God is going to expose you himself, and he is going to remove you.”
Oh dear.
“The kingdom of darkness is attacking this man like never before. God is using this man — he’s not rattling the gates, because when you rattle the gates you don’t make entry — this man is literally splitting the kingdom of darkness right open.â€
Drew, by the way, as Brian Tashman at RWW reminds us, promised God would sweep Obama away in 2012 and put Trump in the White House. So, yeah, take that into account when you consider his prophecies.
It is difficult to believe that anyone could be positively motivated by this kind of mystic mumbo jumbo these days. It is certainly all the argument you need in favor of separation of church and state. Is this going to be Trump’s foreign policy: “Do what I say or God will kill you!”?
If Trump and his cronies got more amateurish than they already are, well…that’s just impossible isn’t it? Trump and his supporters are like a bunch of petulant children just stamping their feet and making faces, and his entire campaign has been one sustained tantrum. To use Trump’s own words, it is “very sad.”
So we’re to believe God was tickled pink by Trump’s speech about his “little wine” and “little crackers”? Apparently. And unless Glenn Beck is right and God is going to kill us for not voting for Ted Cruz, we’re apparently in a boatload of trouble if we don’t vote for Trump. BOHICA babeee. All we can do with all this divine butt-thumping is to make lemonade.
Really, I wouldn’t worry. And if God does kill us? Well, as our Space Age Socrates, Captain Kirk once said in response to fear of the unknown, “Then this’ll be your big chance to get away from it all.”
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
