MAGAt 'pastor' tells 'Christians': Stop praying for unity and arm yourselves for civil war

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Appearing on The Jim Bakker Show this Monday, Trump-loving pastor Rick Joyner had some grim news for his fellow Christians: start forming militias in anticipation of the coming civil war over the “evil that is taking over our land.”

“I tell you we have to be ready to defend our families, our communities, our neighbors, our churches, everything because it is coming home,” Joyner said. “I don’t believe there’s going to be a neighborhood exempt from what’s coming.”

Joyner went on to say the God showed him in a prophetic dream that militias will soon be “popping up like mushrooms all over the country.”

“Even Jesus said at one point, ‘I didn’t come to bring peace, I came to bring a sword,’” Joyner added. “We’re in that time right now. You can go on praying for unity and for the parties to come together and all that, but it’s not the time for that. That’s not going to happen right now.”

“There’s a time for peace and a time for war … Well, we’re not headed towards peace right now, we’re headed towards conflict and war, and we need to prepare for it. We need to put out the word. People need to be prepared.”


https://deadstate.org/right-wing-pastor-tells-christians-stop-praying-for-unity-and-arm-yourselves-for-civil-war/

[mainer]

1. Scared of "what's coming"

What, exactly, is coming? People who’ll pry Dr Seuss from his hands?

[Volaris]

21. More scraps for the dirty poors than he would otherwise approve of.

He very well knows that if government can actually meet people's needs and increase their overall happiness, he will have to figure out a way to make his own damn house payment.

Cant be having any of that, no sir.

[IcyPeas]

24. He mentions people coming over the border (in the linked video)

So I guess he wants to defend his neighborhood from brown people and children.

Is he Ron Johnson's pastor? They are the same: racists.

[RicROC]

2. stop praying?

Seems to me that's a very unChristian attitude. Rick Joyner is therefore, not the head of a church but instead a political organization. TAX IT!

[Marcuse]

3. Fear of demographics equals fear of Democrats.

[Laurelin]

4. Years ago

I took my daughters to a concert at some Texas megachurch (I don't remember the name). There was this huge painting on a wall of Jesus in camouflage, armed to the teeth. Pretty much gave me the horrors. My church still teaches the Prince of Peace view of Jesus. Also that God is love. I hadn't realized what the not so silent majority believed. Some time later a Baptist friend told me about a dream ("vision&quot he had of being in his church, shooting invaders. And I thought churches welcomed guests.

It's like a whole 'nother country.

[DFW]

5. And when that civil war is declared, Rick Joyner will be right behind you

Like about 500 miles behind you, watching it all on CNN, and sipping on a whiskey sour while he comments on the phone to some cable TV show, asking for people to send him money.

[ms liberty]

6. This. All day. n/t

[Whiskeytide]

15. Today's republicans would throw the people out of the Temple for...

... interfering with the business activities. Praise be to the Capitalists.

[jcgoldie]

7. Sounds just like what Jesus would do...

[panader0]

8. As an atheist, I never understood why "Christians" needed guns.

What was Jesus packing? They claim to follow a man called "The Prince of Peace", a man who,
according to the Bible , said to "turn the other cheek", and yet these hypocrites arm themselves
to the teeth.. Hell, we go to war for our supposed "Christian" values. I have never owned a gun,
except for a BB gun when I was a kid that my parents bought me.
"There's a time for peace and a time for war" this guy says, trying to quote Ecclesiastes, which is
an Old Testament book. In my limited knowledge, Christ is in the New Testament.

[Girard442]

11. In the Era of Trump I've come to believe...

...that Evangelicals see Jesus as a Santa Claus that appeals to slightly older children.

[Mariana]

12. Even Jesus wasn't above using violence, when he got angry enough.

According to the stories, when he was offended by the activities on the Temple grounds, he flew into a rage. Then he went and constructed a weapon, attacked the moneychangers, drove the animals out into the street, and vandalized the place.

[panader0]

14. What was the weapon?

[Mariana]

16. A "scourge" in some translations, or a whip made of cords.

John 2 : 13-15, NIV - When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

9. Jihad, christo-fascist style.

Attn: FBI

[Zoonart]

10. Exactly this!

Now tie in this post:

Multiple State Bills Would Grant Churches "Blanket Immunity" from All Wrongdoing
https://www.democraticunderground.com/123059046

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

18. Wow. "Religiously motivated hate groups could avoid prosecution for criminal activities

associated with exercising their beliefs"

They get more dangerous by the minute.

[Zoonart]

20. Yep... really disturbing.

I grew up in the Protestant tradition. My family were the pillars of the church we attended. My Grandfather literally built the church and my family's names are on the plaques that designate the donation of the beautiful stained glass windows.

By the time my parents passed, they had mostly left the church. They were disturbed by the clear drift to the right by the congregation.
I had long before taken my own spiritual journey to Buddhism and they practically disowned me for it.

I am glad they did not live to see what passes for Christianity in this country today. They were spared Trumpism and COVID and there is some comfort in that.

[tanyev]

13. The thing is, Jesus never challenged Roman government.

His strongest words and actions were always directed toward the local religious leaders.

[Volaris]

22. Innit it interesting how they always miss that part?

[Maeve]

17. Live by the sword...

[IL Dem]

19. So when are we going to remove tax-exempt status from churches?

N/T

[Progressive Jones]

23. Clearly, this Joyner character needs to be monitored closely. One false move and ... nt