God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

We’ve all heard the question. What are they thinking? How can so-called Christians support a president who has lived the life of a crime boss, with all the classic deceit, corruption, and damage?  How to politically seduce an Evangelical First, we need some context. Going back a few years, there are several influential movements that came together like streams in a watershed, resulting in a political-spiritual swamp just waiting for the right creature to thrive there. Like the dinosaurs in the La Brea Tar Pits, today’s Evangelicals are caught in the ooze of that swamp, a snare that was decades in the making. Make no mistake, it’s a Republican swamp. That is not to say that Democrats are always innocent, but todays miasma has a Republican stink. The first was the Koch movement to set up think tanks, foundations, and institutions to spread, not just conservative policy, but winner take all libertarian ideocracy. They played the long game over decades, and they succeeded in changi...

President Trump, Sergei Lavrov, and Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office, where Trump let slip some important top secret information The First Church of Fox News I have been railing at Steve Schultz, the founder of Elijah List, a news group for modern “apostles” and “prophets” to air their revelations, throughout the entire Trump saga. I’m offended that they call Democrats “the enemy,” as if all Democrats are Jezebel, the enemy of God, whereas the prophets are all Elijah, the persecuted and misunderstood, and the Evangelicals are “my people,” and they are all persecuted. I’m amazed that their god is as much a Republican as the Virgin Mary is a Catholic. Their god apparently watches Fox News and then sends his angels with messages of Republican talking points and governmental policy. Their god never chastises Russia, is not concerned about the need for public assistance, always lifts up Trump as his anointed, “the man in God’s hand who will never be impeached,” turns a blind eye to all t...