MAGA makes cowards of men. The end product of choosing to live in the MAGA machine is the utter evisceration of one's courage, one's integrity, and one's decency. What comes out of the machine's churn at the other end is scarcely recognizable as a man.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

To say “yes” to Christian Nationalism in any form or to culture war ... is to say “yes” to the offer Satan made to Jesus at the Mount of Temptation.

1/ Time to put on my Theo Prof hat: This will def be something @wearenotenemies.bsky.social talk a little about sometime in a Sacred Shenanigans episode, soon. It's criminally easy to lump all of the MAGA Christen/CN/Theobro groups into one bucket. But ... that isn't accurate, in the least.

Right about now a lot of American anti-vax loons are starting to feel like they've been had. Dear anti-vaxxers ... even your worm-ridden deity doesn't believe what he preaches. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak

Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR

theguardian.com

1/ New Episode: @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon sit down with @wthrockmorton.bsky.social about his new book "The Christian Past that Wasn't." Warren walks them through some myths commonly held by Christian Nationalists today about America's founding & talks about what the future looks like.

Tomorrow, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and I are dropping a great episode. We interviewed @wthrockmorton.bsky.social about his new book “The Christian Past that Wasn’t” and the current Christian Nationalist monster trying to eat the United States. Warren is a rare mind and person. Wonderful ep.

Watching the news and commentary over Fauci before Congress, today, reminds one of this fact: It’s impossible to convince a person to love their neighbor, particularly if that person subscribes to conspiracy theories or weighs communal danger and duty by how it affects themselves alone.

1/ I’ve been working on a long-form critique of Shenvi’s book “Post-Woke.” Going to use it in lectures this fall as an example of power corrupting doctrine, particularly considering how it basically matches/cheerleads the Heritage/MAGA forced societal agenda.

The never wanted people to leave who were here illegally. They wanted every minority to leave. And this couple was threatened via their children despite their legal status.

RNS@rns.org · 2w ago

(RNS) — Pastor Nepthali Zozaya Saucedo, 36, said he and his wife, who came to the U.S. legally, were repeatedly pressured to sign voluntary departure papers but that they had refused.

You have to laugh at twitter. I just got locked for some days over there for telling a man who complained about women at the gym to follow Jesus’s words and pluck his eye out. Hilarious considering Twitter sells itself as free speech incarnate.

Because this will surely help bring peace to the Middle East. Lol. www.nbcnews.com/world/saudi-...

U.S. signs landmark nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia

The U.S. will support creating a civilian nuclear power program in the kingdom under the agreement, a senior administration official told NBC News.

nbcnews.com

1/ Personal Post: Our daughter took us to lunch at her favorite cafe, today, and told us about her final exam in a law class she took, yesterday. Apparently, she was sweating the final because people who had taken it before her said it was incredibly difficult.

Personal Post: We’ve just arrived in France, for a quick visit to see our daughter who is in Uni here. For the next few day, this will be me and emotional support baguette.

"When Satan offers to give him all the kingdoms of the earth, Jesus refuses, but the church accepts." - Jacques Ellul

Socialism to MAGA is when someone MAGA deems unworthy or undeserving, such as the poor, minority, or stranger … gets treated by the body politic/community the way Christ would treat them.

1/ NEW EPISODE: @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk current events: Graham Platner, Fear, Lindsey Graham, America's CCP-style governance, Communism, the compromise of politics, and Ben hits the pulpit & teaches on mutual submission. Bonus: A stuff racoon makes a brief appearance.

No, they don't. The MAGA Christen regret nothing. The shift that is being seen is ONLY because they're embarrassed. They lust for all that Trump is doing. They crave it. They simply don't want to blamed for it. www.alternet.org/trump-maga-e...

White evangelicals now regret the deal they made with the devil: report

Although U.S. President Donald Trump continues to suffer from weak approval ratings in poll after poll, one group that, on the whole, still holds him in high regard is white evangelical Christian fund...

alternet.org

I came down with a life-threatening issue, last year. When it began, the med cost per month was less than 4k. Now it's 4800. I have to get regular infusions that help keep me alive that were 60k and now are over 70k, each time. MAGA makes everything more expensive. Including breathing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Trump brags about cutting drug prices by 600 percent

1/ The problem with Christians engaging in the political sphere to fulfill their policy lust is that the political world measures a person's worth solely by their effectiveness, by whether they "win." Christ measures each person with a generous scale of infinite inherent value.

1/ Reminder: The main reason MAGA is screaming bloody murder over the valid post-mortem criticisms of Lindsey Graham is because they’re now realizing that in death there is no way they can hide behind the pedophilic rapist they support.

You can smell the date-rape drugs in the pic even over the internet. This is like a yearbook picture for Stalker High.

@bsky.app why is your app now demanding my location and/or verification when I live in an area that doesn’t require it. Why does it do it only on cell and not my WiFi? What data are you scrapping now? Are you following Elon Musk’s playbook? Shame on you. Shame, shame.

Lindsey Graham is now finding out what hypocrisy, venality, and the capricious support of a pedo rapist is going to cost him. I hope grace holds him because his grave holds an all the evil he committed in name of his policy lust and his lust for approval by a rapist. “Reposted for spelling error

You have to hand it the Falwell's. They're so committed to educating young people ... that they took 15 million dollars to educate one lonely pool-boy about sex. www.beliefnet.com/columnists/n...

Liberty University Pays Jerry Falwell, Jr., $15M Through Disclosed Sex Scandal Settlement

Top Religious News From Around the World

beliefnet.com

1/ This is an excellent, must read article. When doctrine or belief is used to dehumanize and reduce those made imago dei to targets or arbitrarily defined engines of evil … that doctrine or belief is antichrist. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Demon Next Door

A growing number of charismatic Christians see themselves as waging a spiritual battle against the forces of Satan. Sometimes those forces are right across the street.

theatlantic.com

I love my country as a father who loves the son who has done wrong goodness is still there hope remains we will persevere heinleinsociety.org/this-i-belie...

This I Believe - The Heinlein Society

"THIS I BELIEVE" by Robert A. Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein wrote these words in 1952 and delivered them to a national radio audience in a broadcast interview by Edward R. Murrow. His wife, Virginia Hei...

heinleinsociety.org

Two things about those disillusioned people: They don’t understand that Trump DID put America first … and that he considers himself alone to BE America. He raided the legal system and the coffers only for himself.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

El-Sayed: "There's no room I've been to where somebody doesn't come up & say, 'I voted for Trump & I'm voting for you.' That might break some minds in NY or DC, but here in MI people understand we're struggling & they say, 'I want America first. I thought that's what that guy was gonna give me.'"

Ananias and Sapphira are rolling in their graves.

Roys Report@roysreport.bsky.social · last mo.

Calvary Spokane pastor Ben Ortize claimed his $1.2 million home was a parsonage serving an online ministry — one that, among other things, organized "high-end" tours to London. After church members complained, county commissioners revoked the home's tax exemption. roysreport.com/calvary-chap...

1/ NEW EPISODE: In this free-wheeling uncut episode, @wearenotenemies.bsky.social and Bon talk about the recent passing of Al Mohler's resolution to silence women in the SBC, the hypocrisy in the resolution, and what the future looks like for those with their necks under the boots of Mohler's ilk.

1/ We've been buried all week unexpectedly packing up my parent's home. My father is close to a century, and some specific health problems are finally catching up to him. Ministers their entire lives they collected, as all ministers inevitably do, more books than anyone can use.