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Mike Pence’s selective piety
“The overwhelming majority of Americans enjoy their faith, and we have all different kinds of faith in this country,” Pence said during an event broadcast on C-Span. “My Christianity is the most important thing in my life. I try and start every day by opening the good book. My wife and I try to have a prayer together before I leave every morning. I can honestly tell you my faith sustains me in all that I do.”
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Pence had a lot to say about a religious joke by a comedian who is paid to say such things, but nothing about the immoral example his boss has set. It’s in stark contrast to when Pence presented himself as deeply devout Christian on a talk show he hosted years ago and declared adultery a serious offense that said something disturbing about leaders who commit such acts.
It’s why Pence’s words about his faith ring hollower by the day. They sound hypocritical, situational, unprincipled. They also illustrate just how much damage white evangelical Christians have done to the religion they profess to love. They’ve created a new reality, one in which leaders’ actions don’t matter, so long as they have the right ideology and can help secure a few long-sought political victories. It underscores why liberal Christians in the South are going to have to lead the flock out of this self-imposed spiritual wilderness.
If religious leaders can make God-centered arguments in favor of an unrepentant man like Trump – and plenty of high-profile white Christian conservatives have – no behavior can be deemed out-of-bounds. It has put a stain on the religion that won’t be easily washed away, no matter how piously people like Pence speak about the faith.
Is VP Pence clueless or a hypocrite?
What will be the consequences of this selective blindness?
“My Christianity is the most important thing in my life."
I honestly think Pence as president would be worse than Trump.
That's exactly what makes you so onerous. You would place [your interpretation of] religion above constitution and country.
Is VP Pence clueless or a hypocrite?
What will be the consequences of this selective blindness?
Some just don't understand the Word.Hypocrite. He cannot be clueless to his boss's un-Christian like behavior and by not standing up against it, he appears to condone it.
This is a guy who won't go to a dinner party without his wife but won't stand up and denounce someone having an extra-marital affair with a porn star because of who that guy is? gtfohwtbs
Is VP Pence clueless or a hypocrite?
What will be the consequences of this selective blindness?
This is laughable. A socialist judging a Christian on Christian values. :lol:
Trump is no longer the worst person in government
Donald Trump, with his feral cunning, knew. The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections:
Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.
. . . and The Handmaid's Tale approaches reality.Mike Pence, Holy Terror
Are you sure you want to get rid of Donald Trump?
There are problems with impeaching Donald Trump. A big one is the holy terror waiting in the wings.
That would be Mike Pence, who mirrors the boss more than you realize. He’s also self-infatuated. Also a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel.
To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn’t genuinely possess: the conviction that he’s on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of Christianity.
Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy.
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" “My Christianity is the most important thing in my life. I try and start every day by opening the good book. My wife and I try to have a prayer together before I leave every morning. I can honestly tell you my faith sustains me in all that I do.” "
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" They also illustrate just how much damage white evangelical Christians have done to the religion they profess to love. "
Liberal/Demo tactic on attacking someone who is proud to express and practice his religious freedom shared with his wife and now he's damaging his religion using the term "white" against him.
The race card B0t exe has definitely been enabled here.
The problem that some who call themselves Christian refuse to acknowledge in their claims of oppression - not all Americans are Christians AND not all Americans who call themselves Christian agree with the claims of religious persecution.
Pence is not attacked for his faith, he is attacked for his attempts to force his specific beliefs to be enshrined in to secular law.
"laughable"? Yes, your level of ignorance is definitely laughable. There are socialists who are Christians and there are 'Christians' who behave in very un-Christ-like ways.
You may have heard of a guy named George Will, it is my understanding that he calls himself "conservative". A couple months past he wrote a column which focused on VP Pence. Mr Will does know a few polysyllabic words and how those words may be used to provide the readers with his, George Will's, opinions.
More recently, yesterday, Frank Bruni wrote a piece in the NYTimes laying out his views on just how 'Christian' Mike Pence would be as President:
. . . and The Handmaid's Tale approaches reality.
Some just don't understand the Word. Show me one who does not sin. Vice president Pence loves God. Some hate both. We're hear often that Trump has not repented. Most don't even know what that means. M-Bob
Bruni talks like an idiot, and Will went off the deep end. I would trust their opinion on Christianity anymore than I'd trust yours.
I honestly think Pence as president would be worse than Trump.
That's exactly what makes you so onerous. You would place [your interpretation of] religion above constitution and country.
This is laughable. A socialist judging a Christian on Christian values. :lol:
I can't wait to see them excuse Trump paying for an abortionIs VP Pence clueless or a hypocrite?
What will be the consequences of this selective blindness?
Ahh, Jesus wasn't a Christian. Jesus WAS a socialist.
This is laughable. A socialist judging a Christian on Christian values. :lol:
Yeah, well Jesus is God; he can do that if he wants. But I don't trust regular people, we see how that goes.
Yeah, well Jesus is God; he can do that if he wants. But I don't trust regular people, we see how that goes.
The problem that some who call themselves Christian refuse to acknowledge in their claims of oppression - not all Americans are Christians AND not all Americans who call themselves Christian agree with the claims of religious persecution.
Pence is not attacked for his faith, he is attacked for his attempts to force his specific beliefs to be enshrined in to secular law.
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