They heard the hate and xenophobia and joined the cult.

@MizJ and a cult it is.

I read somewhere that Hitler had a good relationship with the Catholic Church. Not surprising since both were mass murderers

@abyers1970
The Catholic Church and the Red Cross helped many members of Nazi military to hide and resettle in Latin America!,,

@of-the-mountain Wonder how many little children were supplied to the priests for doing this

Trump is a conveyor belt of falsehoods. Lying means you know what the truth is and say something different. Trump is so completely ignorant of history, science, moral principles, humanity, etc that whatever little idea pops into his head he TRULY believes is 100% factually correct, even though he just made it up. It's being delusional, and is common with narcissists. Trump is so far into psychotic narcissism that he doesn't even perceive the world accurately - it's all filtered through a "good for me" or "bad for me" lens. Everything is distorted, then acted upon.

Truth

He panders to them, thus Pence.

The problem is that for a period of about 2 weeks while they are asymptomatic they are spreading it in their communities.

But hey, according to Humpty Dumpty Trumpty that IS a Badge of Honour, dying from Covid, I mean, isn't it?

Growing up I felt very confused living in a Southern Baptist family. The Bible said to love and forgive yet my family regularly would say very bad things about people who were not white. I can recall one time my Grandpa saying derogatory things about a black man he didn’t even know. As a kid, I could understand not liking someone if they did something bad to you but it made no sense to me not liking someone you hadn’t even met.

@abyers1970

Religious fundamentalism is sometimes a cloak for narcissism. You're encouraged to believe you're better.. the chosen ones, superior in the eyes of god etc..
The judgement of people would always be there; the religion just makes it "right."

@Athena I agree. I call it a spiritual country club. I actually got mad one time when the preacher referred to “lost” people going to hell as “crispy critters”. That’s about as pathetic as it gets

@abyers1970

Wow! You should post that.
There was a post here a couple of days ago about how atheists are "so mean to believers." No free pass for being unnecessarily unkind. However, theists have to take responsibility for the club they belong to and what it stands for.
The only reason the word "atheist" exists is in response to theism which has been responsible for the cruelest acts.

My experience is that most Christian faiths are supportive of different races & nationalities, and most are decent caring people. Many even now support the whole LGBTQ alphabet. Like the churches (and synagogues) along the southern border that took in immigrants and provided them with refuge including meals & a place to sleep in direct defiance of Trump's request to give them up to ICE and Border Control. It is the EVANGELICALS who are in bed with Trump and are morally bankrupt. My understanding is that way back they were a "normal" Christian belief but during & soon after the Civil war they got mixed up with / interbred with the original white nationals like the KKK. As those "good old boys" lost power in politics they migrated to the church to regain control and power. The metamorphosis created the "white only, male dominating, tolerance is weakness" group we see today. They follow the Bible and teachings of Jesus to the same extent as the Taliban & Al Qaeda follow Mohammed and the Koran - ZERO. Fundamentalism in any form is very dangerous. Regardless of your own belief or lack thereof, don't paint all Christians to be the monsters found in the evangelical churches.

"When hunting monsters, be sure you don't become one."

Having just joined I would quit just as fast

Thanks