Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'good Christian' abortion meltdown

[Guno צְבִי]

Many of us, though, aren’t Christian, and don’t want to try to be Christian. Just to take one example: Jewish people’s experience of Christian morality has not been universally uplifting, to say the least.

Some will argue that antisemitism is not real Christianity. But you can’t just disavow a couple of thousands years of persecution and hate. And if Christianity equals virtue, where does that leave Jewish people — or Muslims, or atheists, or Buddhists, for that matter?

Of course there are good Christians, as there are good people of every faith, and of no faith. But one of the hallmarks of immoral forms of Christianity is a belief that Christianity can only be good — and that the good can only be Christian.


This is the logic of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the rabidly Trumpist politics she represents. Sociologist Philip Gorski argued in a 2019 article that evangelical white Christians loved Trump not despite his violent and scabrous language, but precisely because he told them they were better than everyone else. Evangelicals, Gorski said, responded to “Trump’s racialized, apocalyptic, and blood-drenched rhetoric.” That rhetoric harkened back to the Christian language deployed to justify slavery and Native American genocide.

Trump told white evangelical Christians that they had a right and a duty to impose their morality, through force, on others. Marjorie Taylor Greene is following through on a tradition of dispossession and cruelty when she insults abortion supporters or tries to seize control of people’s bodies in the name of a higher morality.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...wn-ncna1280110

[Guno צְבִי]

Christianity is a powerful and important tradition in the U.S.; it shouldn’t just be left to the Greene's and the Trump's. But part of contesting their hold on Christianity is refusing to acquiesce to Christian supremacy. It means acknowledging non-Christians in discussions of America, and in discussions of goodness.

[Doc Dutch]

Christianity is a powerful and important tradition in the U.S.; it shouldn’t just be left to the Greene's and the Trump's. But part of contesting their hold on Christianity is refusing to acquiesce to Christian supremacy. It means acknowledging non-Christians in discussions of America, and in discussions of goodness.

They won't because this isn't' about Christianity. This is about using religion as a tool to acquire power. Another thing Trump was fairly good at even though he never invented a fucking thing.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Christianity is a powerful and important tradition in the U.S.; it shouldn’t just be left to the Greene's and the Trump's. But part of contesting their hold on Christianity is refusing to acquiesce to Christian supremacy. It means acknowledging non-Christians in discussions of America, and in discussions of goodness.

Don't lose heart. You might be shocked at how many Americans -- including most Christians-- reject that bullshit.

[Jack]

Religious Quacks. Bad for Society. They all want to impose 'God's Law' on the rest of us. (Can you imagine a 'No Bacon' Law? ... what IDIOTS!)

[Nordberg]

Trump said she is very smart this weekend. https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-ta...e-trump-smart/ I guess compared to him it is possible.

[Doc Dutch]

Trump said she is very smart this weekend. https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-ta...e-trump-smart/ I guess compared to him it is possible.

Trump praises all women who give him a handjob.

Marjie will say whatever gets her attention just like Trump does. Last Friday it was abortion, next week it'll be something else be it Jewish Space Lasers or space alien technology in the vaccine.

[AProudLefty]

Trump praises all women who give him a handjob.

Marjie will say whatever gets her attention just like Trump does. Last Friday it was abortion, next week it'll be something else be it Jewish Space Lasers or space alien technology in the vaccine.

[PoliTalker]

Hello AProudLefty,

Good Christian woman.

[Doc Dutch]

Hello AProudLefty,

Good Christian woman.

Disagreed. She, like Trump, only plays one on TV.

[Jack]

Some of the Religious Quacks claim: "We are the Chosen People". This sounds familiar ... and dangerous.

[Old Trapper]

Some of the Religious Quacks claim: "We are the Chosen People". This sounds familiar ... and dangerous.

Like most of your kind of special idiot you do not know what you are talking about.

[Jack]

Like most of your kind of special idiot you do not know what you are talking about.

Well Einstein, maybe YOU could explain it?

Another claim is that 'God gave us this Land'. Really? God is giving out Land Titles? Remarkable.

[Doc Dutch]

Some of the Religious Quacks claim: "We are the Chosen People". This sounds familiar ... and dangerous.

Like most of your kind of special idiot you do not know what you are talking about.

Well Einstein, maybe YOU could explain it?

Another claim is that 'God gave us this Land'. Really? God is giving out Land Titles? Remarkable.

I'm not seeing what Old Trapper means either.

The whole point of groups of people spreading around the globe is a belief their group is "special". The whole point of Manifest Destiny is "we're special". This isn't just a religious belief, but also a political and racial belief with all of them often coming together as we saw in the colonization of the Americas and Africa.

[Jack]

I'm not seeing what Old Trapper means either.

The whole point of groups of people spreading around the globe is a belief their group is "special". The whole point of Manifest Destiny is "we're special". This isn't just a religious belief, but also a political and racial belief with all of them often coming together as we saw in the colonization of the Americas and Africa.

The OP is targeting 'Christians'.
Jack is targeting ALL the 'Religious Quacks'.

(Let me help. Guno constantly rails against 'Christians', while embracing 'Judaism'. 'Forbidding the eating of Pork' and 'swinging a chicken around your head' are perfectly normal to Guno, but 'worshipping a Man-God' is crazy)