@Cassiodorus

miz attwood was channeling edward abbey in that volume. : ) but lest we frget, both Mikes Pence and Pompeo subscribe to Rapture theology, so very dangerous to foreign policy, "who cares about nuclear war? the laird will beam me up."

sorry to be MIA for so long. i mooked up my right knee somehow yesterday afternoon, and it's seriously knocked the stuffing outta me.

Rather, Trump is the logical outcome of their sacrifice of any sort of moral principles they might have claimed to have for whatever political goals they actually have. They've done this before -- remember that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were best buds with Efrain Rios-Montt...

The Saudi fellow next to Trump and Christopher-Lee-as-Saruman reminds me of the Church of Petr-O-Leum that one can read in Maddaddam, the last novel of Margaret Atwood's Maddaddam trilogy. Atwood imagined fundamentalism to take on a specifically ecological character in the future, with the Church of Petr-O-Leum worshiping fossil fuels as headed by "The Rev," and "The Rev"'s two sons Zeb and Adam heading breakaway organizations, Zeb of an eco-terrorist organization called Maddaddam and Adam an eco-pacifist cult called "God's Gardeners."

@Fishtroller 02

'the family', and i vaguely remember hillary clinton in that mix. obomba was the first i'd seen actually funnel taxpayer dollars into christian charities with the excuse that ''the infrastructure was already in place. he was also a member of rev. "goddam amerika!" wright's church until he threw him under the bus later...

don't quote me on this, but at the behest of billionaire gates, he and rahm also shut down a hella lot 'failing schools' and created charter schools in those publicly-owned buildings for $1 a year or something. how many were chritianist charter schools? i dunno.

but i will say that trump is runnin' the table with fundies, including erik prince's sis calvinist betsy devos as scty. of amerikan mis-education. now this is from 2017, but 'Betsy DeVos: a terrifying confluence of Church, State, Kleptocracy, & the Unbearable Whiteness of Being', May 19, 2017 café babylon

It's overly replete with devos quotes, a number via nancy hanover at wsws.org, including:

Her hyperlink above goes to her Dec. 13, 2016 ‘Betsy DeVos: Religion and profit in the war on public education—Part 1’. For me, it was a hair-raising exposé. After noting that DeVos’s husband Rich/Dick (alternately; no pun
really intended) is the eldest scion of the pyramid sales dynasty Amway Corporation, and that she’s stated that her aim is in displacing public schools from the center of communities, so that the Church can resume its rightful role.

Oh, and Hanover says that Herr Trump’s first choice for Secretary of Education was reportedly Moral Majority co-founder Jerry Falwell, Jr., head of Liberty U. Also noteworthy is pro-charter Arne Duncan’s praise of Detroit as ‘education reform ground zero’ largely as the result of the DeVos family’s ‘spadework’ at their home base in Michigan, and that:

“Michigan now boasts the greatest proportion of charter schools run by a for-profit management organization of any state, 80 percent. Moreover, over half of Detroit students attend charter schools, the second highest percentage of any major school district. Two separate year-long studies of charter schools revealed that more than a billion dollars in Michigan has been spent with almost no oversight, including the funding of “ghost schools” that never opened.”

but if i'm reading your correctly, you seem to be comparing the 'left' and 'right' as: Ds and Rs. if so, i don't see the D team as Left.

but of course there's a #NationalPrayerBreakfast on twitter, and right on top is fascist franklin graham, who's an order of magnitude beyond rev. billy, imo. shucks' jeff sharlet may be down thread somewhere.

but yes, of course it was christians who'd colonized turtle island, all in the name of 'our manifest destiny decreed by God' to tame the godless savages, now reaching further into bolivia, VZ, and cuba. in bolivia, the coup leader janine anez even admitted it...publicly!
and note how euro-pale-faced guaido supporters are, not those darker hued indigenous folks. and boy, howdy, is anez arresting any MAS supporters ahead of the may elections.

Mañana 10 de Febrero, la valerosa tierra de Oruro está de efeméride, hemos llegado para participar de las diferentes actividades en homenaje al 239 aniversario de su grito libertario. ¡Gracias a todos los que fueron a darme la bienvenida! pic.twitter.com/CsddLTHeT1

— Jeanine Añez Chavez (@JeanineAnez) February 9, 2020

to this country. Obama went to those breakfasts too and one year he stated that he was there "representing the American people".

If it isn't the evangelicals and right wing catholics who are boldly taking down the wall of separation of church and state, it is also the liberal protestants and catholics who are enabling them.

If you read The family by Jeff Sharlet, you will find out all you need to know about that breakfast.

Trump is doing nothing more than running with the keys left on the table by the Democrats. I could go on and on with the evidence that Democrats dragged Christianity into the White House and the Oval office too, but it would take too long. Here is a good book to start with.

https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate/dp/1501238213

This is an example of why I get infuriated with the Left. They so often complain bitterly when the Right does the same shit the Left is guilty of also doing.