More like Late-stage American Greed Posing Sanctimoniously as Christianity.
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Trump must now become a Kenyan citizen? Iâll sign that petition.
For Trump:
Proverbs 1:7, The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.â
For his followers:
Hosea 4:6-7, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
Proverbs 1:22, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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He wasnât tight-lipped. As usual, he said a lot words, signifying nothing. I mocked him for not having a prepared answer to what all candidates get asked at one time or another. He could have said that he doesnât think in this day and age that Bible scriptures are relevant to a presidential campaign. I would have applauded that. Instead, he just pulls some bullshit words out of his ass and it shows me how ill-prepared he is for even the Republican nomination because this matters to the GOP. Itâs just another confirmation that we have a candidate who doesnât do the most mimimal homework and seriously just phones it in.
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Except that quote is actually from Hammurabi and the bible verse itself is a warning against that kind of behaviour. It even starts with âYou have heardâŚâ
Simply let your âYesâ be âYes,â and your âNo,â âNo.â Anything more comes from the evil one. 38You have heard that it was said, âEye for eye and tooth for tooth.â 39But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;âŚ
Matthew 5:38
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1 Kings 16:11
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
because tyranny, because a wall, and because the construction âone that pisseth against a wallâ for âmanâ is hella funny despite the horrible context.
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Actually, thatâs the so-called âApostleâ âPaulâ writing to Timothy.
So the proper phrase is âFuck you, Saul of Tarsus, you canât fool us with your fake-ass âconversionâ. Go troll someone more gullible.â
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You keep talking about Boing Boing as if itâs the de facto representative of âthe Left.â While there might be left-leaning, left-aligned, uber-progressive, or whatever people who comment here, âthe Leftâ isnât some unified front and Boing Boing canât take credit or blame or claim to represent the entirety of diversity that might entail âthe Left.â Your attempt to pin down âthe Leftâ to what a few individuals on a chat forum say negates any of your claims about âthe Left.â
Trump hasnât moved the GOP to the left. Heâs moved them to the Trump, which isnât really on a single axis spectrum, except to the far end of narcissistic and megalomaniacal.
And creating a false dilemma between a wall project that would be ineffective, expensive, over-budget, and an international relations nightmare and another terrible idea isnât a valid argument.
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Huh?
Weâre mocking him for the usual Trump stuff: being a phony. Whether heâs a phony about religion or the specifics of his policies or how he will force Mexico to pay for a wall, itâs all the same bullshit-- made up bluster and machismo and no clue as to what heâs actually talking about.
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What do you have against Kenya, that you would do that to them? 
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2 Kings 2:23-24
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It worked out well for chinaâŚoh waitâŚit was a stupid idea even back then. 
I believe the publisher of BoingBoing is an avid Clinton supporter, donât expect them to stop anytime soon.
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Interesting how much of the Bible is derivative from the Sumerian and Babylonian mythological cannon. Reading Stephensonâs âSnow Crashâ piqued my interest in that topuc enough to look into it further, and it completely changed my perspective on Judaism and Christianity.
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I was with you until you said that I should vote for an avowed acolyte of Kissenger. War is part and parcel of HRC. Although I will not even consider a vote for Trump, using the propensity for war and violence to suggest Clinton is a safer bet is just wrong. In that regard, Trump is an unknown quantity. Clinton has PROVEN her proclivity for arms proliferation and interventionist violence for a decade or two now. If Iâm given a choice between those two turds, I wonât give my consent to either.
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He wasnât tight-lipped. As usual, he said a lot words, signifying nothing. I mocked him for not having a prepared answer to what all candidates get asked at one time or another. [/quote]
We probably have different ideas of what qualifies as a lot of words. I view his responses as terse and guarded. Obviously if he came and said outright that heâs not a very religious man, heâd never fly with the GOP. He seems to do what most politicians do⌠go to church and go through the motions, regardless of whether they believe or not. We live in a nation where being openly agnostic is political death. Weâre starting to see exceptions, and thatâs a great thing, but you wonât see the GOP give up on it just yet.
You can say heâs not doing his homework. You have a right to that opinion. Evidence is on his side though that he either did his homework or didnât need to do it in the first place and rightly invested his time elsewhere. Heâs become the GOP nomine after facing off against 17 opponents, while far under-spending those that made it out of the gates. Considering that religion is very important to the GOP, heâs done well enough on the issue to avoid losing or even slowing his landslide win. Cruz hammered Trump on religion and got nowhere. He held the line pretty good for a man that didnât do his homework!
Democrats needed a nominee that could win on merit. They needed someone with a clean closet and sound policies. They had someone like that until they went all in for Hillary before the primary even started. President Trump will be deserved punishment for some, a call to action for others, and an acceptable compromise for most.
In any case, Iâm voting Trump over Hillary. So please keep the Trump articles coming. Positive or negative, it all wins votes for him!
I think that may be true, though I donât have time to Google it. Even so, it doesnât change the meaning of the passage much, and the bible, in several other passages, frequently alludes to the difficulties wealth presents to spiritual attainment. But the Republican approach to Christianity has long been a sort of âpick and chooseâ sort.
In the New Testament, sure. Exodus 21:24 is still the Bible, though. And much more Trumpâs style. I suspect heâs also a fan of Exodus 20:5.
