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When Prophecy fails....Evangelicals freak out over Biden win. (Original Post) Yavin4 Nov 2020 OP
Crazy world to visit. pat_k Nov 2020 #1
i won't watch the vid.. did "prophecy" Cha Nov 2020 #2
Me neither. Why subject myself to that craziness? New Breed Leader Nov 2020 #9
Yeah, I try to stay away as Cha Nov 2020 #10
"We stop, and we override the will of man for the will of god." Grokenstein Nov 2020 #3
They probably made it "God's will" because Trump... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2020 #4
Add all these to the long list of churches and ministries that need to be taxed. Mariana Nov 2020 #5
Funny and terrifying at the same time. Crunchy Frog Nov 2020 #6
Republican Jesus fell asleep at the wheel. KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2020 #7
The First Church of False Profits safeinOhio Nov 2020 #8
Tax these fuckers. W_HAMILTON Nov 2020 #11
👆 This. crickets Nov 2020 #45
GOD chose Biden for President! All things through the Lord! GA Senate blue! Jesus! Nimble_Idea Nov 2020 #12
I take so much pleasure TlalocW Nov 2020 #13
That Was Some Trip To Crazy Town COL Mustard Nov 2020 #14
Maybe, Just maybe, the lord wanted Joe Biden to win? UCmeNdc Nov 2020 #15
Then there's the ones who want to bring about The End of Times captain queeg Nov 2020 #16
religion is a scam KG Nov 2020 #17
it is certainly proof people can be made to believe anything Skittles Nov 2020 #18
And once again, their "spaceship" never came... hlthe2b Nov 2020 #19
LOL - He was the choir director at my church TexasBushwhacker Nov 2020 #28
OMG, really? Did any of your church go on to follow him to "Heaven's Gate?" hlthe2b Nov 2020 #29
Not exactly. He did meet his spiritual partner at the church TexasBushwhacker Nov 2020 #32
K & R Celerity Nov 2020 #20
I'm a little freaked out by what looks like black leather urinals on Kenneth Copeland's stage Siwsan Nov 2020 #21
they go with the onethatcares Nov 2020 #22
Yea - I noticed that, too. Siwsan Nov 2020 #23
I guarantee you that Paula has taken the cane to Donny and he loved it. elevator Nov 2020 #44
Kenneth Copeland's mouth is the definition of "maw" TexasBushwhacker Nov 2020 #34
maybe thats for the "abundance of rain"? milestogo Nov 2020 #37
The easiest thing in the world to confront the crazy is this Peacetrain Nov 2020 #24
We need to start covertly video monitoring evangelical churches, find out which ones Roisin Ni Fiachra Nov 2020 #25
I'm going to watch the online services from... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2020 #35
We need an Evangelical TV sitcom SmartVoter22 Nov 2020 #26
Absolutely! Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2020 #31
They're always welcome to drink some special kool aid Blue Owl Nov 2020 #27
A lot of these "prophets" haven't got a handle on how this prophecy thing works The Genealogist Nov 2020 #30
Seems like the Bible is pretty clear about the Anti-Christ. Dave Starsky Nov 2020 #33
As God as my witness, I'll never pass up a chance to repost this JHB Nov 2020 #36
I love it. Dave Starsky Nov 2020 #38
Pretty much. KentuckyWoman Nov 2020 #39
I've wondered how people like... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2020 #41
So the "Linus" guy with the blanket ... Whiskeytide Nov 2020 #40
He's her son. Yavin4 Nov 2020 #43
Paula is the one with Dumdum's ear Warpy Nov 2020 #42
Half those people are scam artists and don't believe a fucking thing from their own mouths. Goodheart Nov 2020 #46
I Hear a Sound of Victory. jayfish Nov 2020 #47
Bat Shit Crazy nt Progressive Jones Nov 2020 #48

pat_k

(9,313 posts)
1. Crazy world to visit.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:31 AM
Nov 2020

My heart goes out to the poor people who choose to be trapped in this lunatic world.

Cha

(297,034 posts)
10. Yeah, I try to stay away as
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:12 AM
Nov 2020

much as possible from the crazy shit.. but we still get it.

I thought it would be funny if they were sure trump was going to win bc they willed it or something & then shock he didn't.

trump did everything possible to drive the American people away except his damn cult.. and then they're surprised he Loses in two Landslides?

I call them Landslides.

Grokenstein

(5,721 posts)
3. "We stop, and we override the will of man for the will of god."
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 04:41 AM
Nov 2020

Whether insane or grifting, and I couldn't say which is worse, these creeps need to be shut down.

Dear religious figure: Meddle in politics, immediately and irrevocably lose your tax-exempt status.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
4. They probably made it "God's will" because Trump...
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 04:48 AM
Nov 2020

... was such a disaster.

Plague? God's will.
Famine? God's will.
Voting for Trump? God's will. (Or his voters might feel guilty.)

Mariana

(14,854 posts)
5. Add all these to the long list of churches and ministries that need to be taxed.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:00 AM
Nov 2020

Please, please, please President Biden, please order the IRS to vigorously enforce the Johnson Amendment. This shit has to end.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)
7. Republican Jesus fell asleep at the wheel.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:04 AM
Nov 2020

........... ...........

Some Christian, somewhere in America forgot to tithe and say their prayers before bedtime in October.

They unleashed Gawd's holy punishment on America......


Thanks for posting the video, Yavin4!.....

Nimble_Idea

(1,803 posts)
12. GOD chose Biden for President! All things through the Lord! GA Senate blue! Jesus!
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:32 AM
Nov 2020

and so it shall be. To smite the false prophets, the enablers of the Devil and putrid hateful hearts pumping its sickness in this great land. Lord bring the angels for everlasting Liberal rule, so that thy will is done!

TlalocW

(15,378 posts)
13. I take so much pleasure
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 05:44 AM
Nov 2020

In either declaring God has chosen Biden as the next president to evangelicals (they hate it when you use their bullshit lines) or pointing out what their favorite preacher predicted (many of them in this video) and reminding them of what Deuteronomy 18:20-22 says about false prophets, and how their fave preacher meets the definition.

TlalocW

COL Mustard

(5,888 posts)
14. That Was Some Trip To Crazy Town
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:17 AM
Nov 2020

But it totally justifies Trump’s efforts to steal the election. I mean really, who are we to go against God???

captain queeg

(10,133 posts)
16. Then there's the ones who want to bring about The End of Times
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:29 AM
Nov 2020

I guess trump could certainly be the vehicle for bringing the end of the world

TexasBushwhacker

(20,164 posts)
28. LOL - He was the choir director at my church
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:55 AM
Nov 2020

back in the 60s. Icy blue eyes, beautiful baritone voice, didn't like kids.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,164 posts)
32. Not exactly. He did meet his spiritual partner at the church
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:21 AM
Nov 2020

Her name was Bonnie Nettles and she was a registered nurse. It was at the First Unitarian Church in Houston. She was married, with 3 children still at home. She abandoned her family in 1973 to join Applewhite and form Heaven's Gate. She died in 1985, but he continued with the cult until the mass suicide in 1997.

onethatcares

(16,165 posts)
22. they go with the
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 08:50 AM
Nov 2020

black leather dominatrix boots paula white is wearing. Pretty f...ing weird but that's just my take on it.

Siwsan

(26,257 posts)
23. Yea - I noticed that, too.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:02 AM
Nov 2020

It's startling how so many of the 'prophets' were so wrong.

Also startling how these so called preachers fully support someone who continually breaks every one of their commandments and every single one of the 7 deadly sins, as often and as vigorously as his body allows.

 

elevator

(415 posts)
44. I guarantee you that Paula has taken the cane to Donny and he loved it.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 08:38 PM
Nov 2020

Hell, seeing her in those boots I'm almost ready.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,164 posts)
34. Kenneth Copeland's mouth is the definition of "maw"
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:26 AM
Nov 2020

"maw"

noun

the jaws or throat of a voracious animal.
"a gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw"

INFORMAL
the mouth or gullet of a greedy person.

Peacetrain

(22,874 posts)
24. The easiest thing in the world to confront the crazy is this
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:03 AM
Nov 2020

God’s elect will be deceived, Jesus spoke strongly in Mark about the coming deception, in that it will be so intense that even the elect might be deceived. This will happen when

“false messiahs and false prophets … appear and perform signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.” (Mark 13:22)

Roisin Ni Fiachra

(2,574 posts)
25. We need to start covertly video monitoring evangelical churches, find out which ones
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:18 AM
Nov 2020

are Trump worshiping fascist cells, and get their tax exempt status revoked.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
35. I'm going to watch the online services from...
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:26 AM
Nov 2020

... my sister's evangelical church later this morning.

I'd like to see if that church's head-asshole is promoting Trump. I talked to my sister this morning, and I heard her idiot husband trying to talk-up Trump in the background for all of the "good" he did regarding the pandemic!

I had to get off the phone before losing my cool.

At least my sister has never denied the reality of Covid. If not for my sister, her Bible-thumping husband might've died from Covid by now. He's also more mean-spirited than my sister, regularly watching Fox News and such. Then she plays the role of "obedient wife" as usual.

SmartVoter22

(639 posts)
26. We need an Evangelical TV sitcom
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:40 AM
Nov 2020

Religion is protected under the 1st Amendment, but many evangelicals confuse that protection with free speech. The later allowing anyone to have an opinion about anything.
An opinion does not infringe on a religions right to exist, as many right-wing Christians think it does and that is what i find funny. They are confusing faith and political viewpoints as some biblical mandate.

Why not create a modern TV sitcom about this confusion in America?
The zany antics of biblical-blanketed envangelicals confronting the science-based reality of 21st century society could, if well written, produced and acted could have similar realizations, about our societal foibles, that "All in The Family" brought.

Blue Owl

(50,330 posts)
27. They're always welcome to drink some special kool aid
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 09:49 AM
Nov 2020

If things just get so horrible for them here on planet earth...

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
30. A lot of these "prophets" haven't got a handle on how this prophecy thing works
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:09 AM
Nov 2020

Just do a little searching on the internet, and see how many thousands of failed predictions for the end of the world there are.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
33. Seems like the Bible is pretty clear about the Anti-Christ.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:22 AM
Nov 2020

And it's pretty obvious that Donald J. Trump ticks off all the boxes.

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Most Evangelicals don't read the Bible. It's a complicated book, and it's better for them to just get it digested from their crazy, greedy leaders.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
36. As God as my witness, I'll never pass up a chance to repost this
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:27 AM
Nov 2020






From http://www.dumbingofage.com/2016/blog/antichrist/

A little context: the cartoonist, Dave Willis, grew up in a strict conservative evangelical household, and Joyce, the little kid/older kid/young woman in this progression, is sort of his alter-ego about how that religious bubble bursts for some people, and of some of the hypocrisies that manifest in the people for whom it doesn't burst.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
38. I love it.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:34 AM
Nov 2020

Growing up, my biggest problem with the Antichrist story was that it seemed absolutely ridiculous that anyone so transparently evil and depraved could attain such a level of power and devotion, particularly among the "true believers".

Well, here we are!

KentuckyWoman

(6,679 posts)
39. Pretty much.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:35 AM
Nov 2020

I've got one of these in my family. They are beside themselves the children are "rejecting god".
Worst of all, their daughter has "taken up with a black fellow".

I just amazes me these people manage to get through life....

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
41. I've wondered how people like...
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:45 AM
Nov 2020

... Karl Pilkington have survived our modern-day world, but then I recalled my previous blue-collar coworkers who only seemed to know what to do if they had personally experienced something in the past. If it was a new problem, they were lost because they didn't have the abstract-thinking skills to work out a logical course of action.

Karl Pilkington and his concrete-thinking mind:




Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
40. So the "Linus" guy with the blanket ...
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 10:39 AM
Nov 2020

... walking around on the stage with White-Cain was REAL!? I thought he was edited in until you see the wide angle shot. Wow. Very weird. And she advises the head of the Republican Party.

Warpy

(111,224 posts)
42. Paula is the one with Dumdum's ear
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 07:57 PM
Nov 2020

and telling him every day that he was sent by god to....I dunno, she's not real clear on what the plan is.

These are a bunch of damned carnival barkers.

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