Idiot Roy Moore spokesperson left utterly speechless when Jake Tapper teaches him about the Bible in Congress

And it’s not even Christmas. Tapper should have corrected him: “I think you meant ‘Happy Hanukkah’. And thank, you.”

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Heh, I often told myself that about Nixon, too.

Seriously, I’m not a lawyer, nor a professional of political science. I’m not even a US citizen. And yet I’ve known all the things that confused this idiot for years. At this point it’s not merely ignorance, it’s Ignorance as one of the Great Poisons defined in Buddhist doctrine.

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I thought the video was buffering when his mouth stuck open. Turned out his brain was buffering.

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How many times I’ve seen Homer Simpson do that…

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The Founder Fathers never imagined that a Muslim could be elected. Hang on, they did.

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He’s not a Christian, but he plays one on TV.

Edited to add: And to explain (and therefore kill) the joke for younger/non-usanian people, there use to be a series of commercials for an over the counter medication where an actor would say “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV”

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Yep. And that’s in the original Constitution, not even the Bill of Rights.

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Mine: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pterosaurs-mark-p-witton/1119704746?ean=9780691150611&pcta=n&st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_New+Core+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP165115&gclid=Cj0KCQiA38jRBRCQARIsACEqIeuGL5E6fdVg6Up1PXxLtoz7YgHU4uKsZPaR7q-1CPf_LGKNla1dia0aAsQqEALw_wcB

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I’d swear in on one just to piss people off

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My understanding is that his church was the Marble Collegiate Church, where Norman Vincent Peale was minister for 50 years. Power of positive thinking and all that. So, yes.
After that, you get into a fruitless argument over whether “christian” is simply a group designation or a description of behavior that hews to certain ideals. Not an interesting discussion.

All I know is: lots of people who claim to be christian end up saying that other christians aren’t truly scottish when faced with prosperity gospel.

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Nah, they reproduce via mitosis.

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I was lucky enough to be able to vote for Keith Ellison when he become the first Muslim in Congress. Fun fact: he swore the oath on Thomas Jefferson’s copy of the Koran.

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So an atheist could swear on The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth which was Jefferson’s expurgated bible with all the miracles taken out.

It would piss me off… not because it’s anti-religious, but because it’s so pro-consumerism.

Consumerism and religion, IMO, are the two things that are destroying the world (or at least the US) right now. Two prongs of a deadly pitchfork. In fact, I think the corporate overloads running the country may even be more dangerous than the religious fanatics, but how do you rank two infinities?

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Just for Tapper kicks:

:grinning:

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Well, let’s be frank: prosperity gospel is pretty thoroughly and unambiguously incompatible with the teachings and deeds of Jesus Christ, as seen in the various Gospels. I’m not going to say that the Christians who follow it aren’t Christians, but I will say that they’re Doing It Wrong.

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From what I’ve read, Christian socialism seems to have the most traction in the UK:

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It makes me wonder if this guy is genuinely that clueless, or is he’s playing some cynical political charade in order to appeal to a certain low-information supporter? Its hard to believe that someone of his age, with enough functionality to be in a position like his, would have no knowledge of such a basic element of civics and government.

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Matthew 19:24 “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

So Trump’s got that going for him, which is nice.