Hegseth's Pastor Calls For God To Kill James Talarico
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Surely if a church cannot support a political candidate without losing tax-exempt status, then calling for the death of a candidate should mean they lose tax exemption and then pay double taxes.
The tax exempt thing should really be reformed
Eliminated, you say? I agree.
if they do charitable thingies, they could just spin that off into a proper 501c3 and call it good.
The whole reason churches get a break is because they supposedly do charity-type stuff like soup kitchens or running shelters. Most will only do charity if it's tied to proslytization, so, yeah.
The first time I really thought about it, I was surprised that churches were willing to let the government tell them what they were allowed to preach in exchange for money.
But then I realized that it was proof that all churches are scams. If you're a tax exempt church in America, then you're doing it for the money, not because it is morally right.
Jesus himself said the money belongs to Caesar.
Christianity is a fraud.
These people are sick.
You mean that's not what Jesus would do?
Probably is what Jesus would do.
The only reason he wasn’t a white supremacist is that he wasn’t white.
Matthew 15:22-28 jesus refuses to heal a woman's daughter until she compares herself to a dog because she is a Canaanite and only worthy to eat the scraps off of Israel's plate.
Jesus could still be hateful when he wanted.
Why does this guy look like a 16 year old with a Dollar Tree mustache?
I bet he diddles kids.
He's a jesus-freak, the statistically most likely person on earth to diddle kids outside of trump's circle
Because of that awful genz 70s stache
Can anyone just do that? Let me try..."God, please kill Hegseth's pastor!"
Also, if your pastor is calling for the killing of other people, I've got some bad news for you about your church and you being "Christian"
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.
We could all try to wish Cancer upon them
A plague of crabs upon their houses!
Can we wish with donations of asbestos?
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.
Jesus literally taught and died to a people who hated Him and killed Him for His words. I understand this is Lemmy and people will dog on me for being a Christian, but I hope we can acknowledge that from your perspective we can separate the delusional (me) from these guys are actually just ghouls that twist who Jesus was.
The Bible has enough for unbelievers to hate without people making stuff up.
You’re not delusional. You read the book, and you believe in something. No one should have a problem with that.
I don’t think the guy in the article read the book or believes in anything. Seems like he’s pretty much shit.
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.
Well the followers faked his resurrection because he died without having done the world domination thing that the messiah was supposed to do.
Don’t worry, he just ran out for smokes. He’ll be back soon and start doing all the messianic things then.
Christian Nationalism is quite the oxymoron, isn't it?
"Jesus said, 'My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.'"
Have you ever looked at what the messiah was supposed to do?
The messiah was supposed to be a king of the line of David who was supposed to defeat the enemies of Israel, and lead the nation to subjugate the entire world and usher in a new age of “peace.”
Jesus said, himself, that he would bring in that new age of peace and toss everyone who wasn’t his followers into fire for eternal torment.
It’s unsurprising that nationalism crops up… even if Jesus wasn’t, uh, you know. Christian.
Yeah, and? Have you ever looked at what Jesus commanded his followers to do?
What Jesus said, when addressing the idea of people who would be thrown into fire, was this:
Those are the people being eternally tormented - those who would not serve the least of these.
There's so much more to expound on as well.
Jesus, in his Sermon on the Mount:
Later, in Acts, Peter meets a centurion, who is the first Gentile to receive the Holy Spirit:
The Messiah was indeed prophesied to defeat the enemies of Israel. He was also prophesied to be rejected by the people of Israel.
I won't say the problem isn't organized religion.
Which would also line up with how Jesus acted toward the Pharisees and Sadducees.
From the Sermon on the Mount:
Later, in the Temple:
Jesus showed up, flipped the script on organized religion, and they killed him. I do think Christian Nationalism is an oxymoron. It makes a show of faith and positions a government as an authority of God. This is not what Jesus commanded.
Bonus Verses:
why do you assume I haven't.
One of the last commands he gives to teach ALL. not just the nice stuff. All the stuff. Jesus taught obedience to the written law, and the commands of the prophets. (Mat 28:20, John 14:15,21)
Jesus never overturned anything from the law. he taught obedience to it, and told them to adhere to everything. If you tell a kid how to keep their room clean, and you say "you need to do these things"... like getting rid of trash, putting toys away, laundry in a hamper or pile out the way or something, make the bed, all that stuff... and they're like "but what's the most important thing"... and you're like "Getting rid of the trash"... and that's the only thing they do, you're not going to be very happy with them, are you? no. You might say something like "hey it's great that you're doing the trash, but I need you to do the other stuff too. if you don't you'll get grounded"
So when Jesus says "hey, these are the two greatest commandments"... he's not disregarding anything. he's not saying you don't have to put your laundry away, just that it's more important to get the stanky trash outta there.
And he even says this:
It's very important to note that his beef with the pharisees is that they've left the written law and moved to an oral tradition. You can see this, for example, in mark 7:8-13
Some people at the time were saying "hey, this stuff is for god" and using that as a justification to not fulfill their obligations to their parents (support in old age.) Keep very front and center here, that the law Jesus is citing as this lovely little gotcha is Deuteronomy 21:18-21:
It's also important that we recognize that what we have a very different understanding of "neighbor" and Jesus would have. (or indeed the author of Leviticus said (where he got that from.) he would not have considered slaves, for example, to be neighbors, and that it was perfectly fine to beat them for any old reason. Even to the last inch of their lives, so long as they didn't die that day. Very loving, no?
It's good to know that I'm dealing with someone that thinks eternal torture is justifiable in any form.
until you read the other stuff he said...
the "blessed be's" aren't commandments. all he's saying is some vague assurance that people who are in a bad way will be taken care of. He's not directing anyone to actually take care of them (and indeed, elsewhere, he tells such to not worry since god will take care of it. mat 6:25+26, luke 12:22-24. please ignore that birds do regularly cache food, and that they do starve, and such, that's unimportant....)
Blatantly irrelevant. The Apostles and early church made the distinction between christian and non-christian, rather than inclusion in an ethnic identity. they still didn't consider slaves to be people. or women, for that matter. Or else they wouldn't have said things like "slave, obey your master", and would have said things like "masters, free your slaves". Even in the letter to Philemon about Onesimus, Paul didn't say "free your salves' or even "free this slave". and indeed he made the slave carry the letter back.
yes. yes. the suffering servant. which is a personification of the people of Israel. this is actually part of number of declarations by Deutero-Isaiah promising the restoration and liberation of the kingdom of Israel. It was written in the sixth century during the babylonian captivity which started around 586bce, with the fall of Jerusalem, and ended about 539 bce when Cyrus (persians) roflstomped the babylonians, and the second temple being rebuilt and rededicated around 516.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Jesus, and was fulfilled ~500+ years prior. If you're about to add that there was some sort of second fulfillment... you're reading things into it to justify something that simply isn't there. No one, not I, not you, not the first century jews listening to Jesus have any reason at all to believe this was about Jesus.
And lets be totally clear: even if it was somehow inexplicitly about jesus... The jews in the first century weren't in exile. The temple wasn't destroyed, it wasn't rebuilt (the second temple was destroyed around 70 ce. when the romans roflstomped them again.)
Christianity is an organized collection of religions.
you mean by being a fundamentalist going back to the organized system of laws? yeah. he told them not to be pompous assholes. so what?
That's from Jeremiah 7. just so we're clear... this is from before the Babylonian exile (Jeremiah goes into the exile a bit.) in the 7th century BCE. Specifically. In it god is condemning them for worshiping other gods and being assholes... and he causes the Babylonians to do the invasion thing and do the enslavement thing. Which then leads into deutero-isiah's promise to restore the nation.
It- again- has absolutely nothing at all to do with jesus, and Jesus didn't fulfill anything about what god said he would actually cause. There was no burning, and the land of jerusalem didn't become a wasteland (which it did after the Babylonians came through.)
No he didn't? he called for going back to an older version of organized religion. And once again. what was the messiah supposed to do? Institute a global, authoritarian theocracy, in which non-israelites serve the israelites. What did Jesus say he was going to do? institute a global authoritarian theocracy in which non-believers would be thrown into eternal torment. It's only when none of that happened that people started going "oh, he meant spiritually"... and that's a load of horseshite.
The amount of excuses made for what is ultimately a bunch of lies and false prophecies is astounding. I would suggest you ignore what the anonymous authors of the gospels were saying about all the prophecies jesus fuflilled and instead go back and read the actual passages in which the messianic prophecies were given. And while you're reading them, go look up the events surrounding them and when jewish- not christian- shcolars say those prophecies were fulfilled or were about.
because the authors of mathew and luke couldn't even speak the same languages as Jesus, never mind read ancient hebrew. Hell they barely could understand the greek translations they were using. (For example, the whole virgin birth thing comes from Isaiah 7:14, in which there's no virgins mentioned. the original hebrew word translates to 'a young woman who is with child',)
oh. so it was all just meant to be "spiritual"? tell me, how does one defeat oppressors spiritually? did he cast Dissonant Whispers? or maybe Vicious Mockery.
Which brings us back to what I said originally. I rather assume he had a cheesy-car-salesman-grin and a hand out. Like every charlatan pretending to be a faith healer who sees a whale come by.
I have no ill will towards Christians, so long as they aren't moralizing hypocrites or pushing theocracy onto others. Jesus is a pretty dope figure. I admire those who follow that example. It is heretics like this that lie about doctrine and teach hate that give Christianity the taint that it has.
I'm an atheist, but that doesn't make us enemies. Not necessarily. Growing up, if someone said God bless you, I just said thanks. And if someone said Merry Christmas to Jews or Muslims, the point was that it was wishing someone well, right? And if someone wanted to say grace, I just bowed my head and listened politely.
But long about the mid-80's, evangelicals decided that just my existence, or that of Jews or Muslims or Buddhists, was somehow persecuting them even though I'd never said a bad word about them, and frankly felt more kinship to them than those traditions that were foreign to me.
Circumstances have taught me that we are all united in a struggle to survive, to lift one another up and thus lift ourselves up, and leave a better world behind than the one we entered. And that includes people with whom I disagree — sometimes vehemently.
I think faith is a dangerous thing, but for some it can be ennobling. Whatever issues I might have with doctrine and dogma, people who truly embrace the teachings of Jesus in the Bible are my brother in cause, if not in spirit ('cause I don't believe in that stuff).
John 13:34 friendo
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
"As I have loved you" literally died for His enemies so that they might know God and we still have people saying those Psalms are for people you disagree with politically and not Satan. 😭
That pastor would have to weigh and consider dying for trump, there's no shot he could joyfully die for someone he considered an enemy.
you're making the massive assumption that a historical jesus figure actually existed. either way, the reality is if you're still christian you're holding an umbrella over these ghouls and continuing to legitimize their disgusting message.
and you're a freckle on my ballsack
The fact that his followers don't call him out for his insane bloodlust is very telling. These people don't even have a foundation in their own religion let alone any moral compass at all.
These hatemongers are undeserving of religious designation and should instead be labeled as the stochastic terrorists they are.
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.
Is there a polymarket where I can bet how long it'll be before Kegbreath's "pastor" is caught with CSAM?
Hegseth's pastor is a heretic.
Brooks Potteiger, Hegseth's pastor:
Jesus Christ, Matthew 5:43-45:
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.
Not only does he go to it. I can almost guarantee you based on the behavior of other fundamentalist Christians he probably directly sought this guy's church out for how extreme his views are.
KILL people!
-Pro Lifers!
If that shitstain you call God hasnt sent the child rapist in charge and all of the GOP leaders who have broken almost every rule to hell then it isn't going to send the rest of us.
I call for God to kill Hegseth's pastor. He's clearly a Devil worshiper. If you follow a religion of hate, you're worshiping Satan. Most Evangelical Christians worship the Devil.
Not so sure.. when I read the Bible God's killing people right and left, sometimes out of vengeance, anger, spite, and more. If anything the Satan guy seems heck of a lot more chill.
Nah, Book of Job has Satan egging God on to do that stuff, he's an enabler
What a bunch of bullshit. Really? "God did really awful things to Job and his family because Satan was egging him on".
Give me a break. Satan doesn't kill a single person in the entire Bible. Yahweh committed several genocides.
My point is they are collaborators and neither is chill
Neither exist so it doesn't really matter
You know damn well that he is gayer than mayor mcgayerson at the gay day parade during gaytowns gay days celebration gala. A self hating gay man. That’s really the tragedy. Now, everyone is the enemy and all he can do is spread the toxicity.
Isn't that the robox oof guy?
His Mom is very proud!
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
I didn’t know James Talarico was a priest…
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
Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head. I'm not Christian, but I think that some of the stories hold value, and this is very reminiscent of the pharisees. But it also fits neatly into the antichrist narrative, where Christians who don't defect to the beast of the sea are a small group who become persecuted by the defectors who insist that they're the real Christians.
And so meddlesome... smhead
Orcs? He has mixed up his fiction.
Does that count as a death threat?
Two answers.
Yes, as a layperson, this like either a direct threat or at very least an incitement to violence. If this is wrong, lawyers please chime in :)
Unless there are charges, it might as well be legal. Laws, rights etc mean nothing if the enforcement behind them is corrupted. That doesn't mean there are no laws for us, but it does mean that laws hold far less weight against those in power.
Any minute now, I'm sure.
Anyone for cribbage?
Hmmm, what is the cristian equivalent of fatwa again :thinkingface:
That's exactly what it is
Thoughts and prayers, but bad ones
Its thoughts and curses when they are bad.
Aha! Found the source of the infection.
Ha, nutty fucker.
But what happened to "GOD LOVES YOU"