Civil Commotion

If I were Creflo Dollar, I’d probably be feeling sorry for myself right about now. First, all he does is ask his followers to give him a $65-million jet, and the whole world hoots with laughter. Now, for merely pointing-out that Jesus died to make him rich, it starts all over again.

Now, Tom Rich joins the scourging with a well-aimed whack of his own.

So yes, for these pastors, Jesus absolutely did bleed and die for the purpose of the PASTORS’ financial prosperity.

Jesus sure didn’t die for the prosperity of their pew sitters. If Jesus died for Creflo’s and the other mega pastors’ financial gain, then it stands to reason that Jesus also died to turn the pew sitters over to spiritual abuse at the hands of these charlatans.

When will people wake up? Maybe they aren’t asleep, just brain dead.

Yup. If you take clowns like Creflo, Perry, Albert and Mac seriously — you’re definitely brain dead; simple as that.

But that has always been the unhappy truth about religion. It is merely a device to enable predators to fleece damaged, insecure simpletons by investing them with a cheap and misguided sense of virtue.

… goes to Creflo Dollar.

Works for him, I guess, and why not? The stupid are like the poor: They will always be with us. Somebody is going to pick their pockets, so why not him? At least he gets more retweets and favorites than Piper and Mohler.

UPDATE:   This is fun: The tweet has been taken down since wicked people like myself started laughing at him.

John Piper is approaching Tullian Tchividjian levels of abuse.

“blackhole of discontentment”? Never forget, then: Y’all are no damn good.

So: The Republican caucus has the same problem in the House of Representatives as it has in the country writ large. You can’t get nominated without the support of the crazies, and you can’t win the larger election if you have that crazy vibe.

Kevin McCarthy drops out of House speaker race

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has dropped out of the race to succeed Speaker John Boehner, a shocking move that throws the House into chaos.

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An influential group of conservatives endorsed a long-shot candidate, Rep. Daniel Webster, on Wednesday, placing McCarthy’s ability to win the House floor vote later this month in doubt.

How will they elect a President when they can’t even nominate a Speaker?

The only Republican with a prayer of winning next year is the one who reads out the loonies. It looked for a while as though Jeb Bush might be the one who could do that, but he clearly lacks the wherewithal; that’s too bad because, in spite of a lot of baggage, he is the only one of the bunch with presidential presence.

Because, you know, it’s been all downhill ever since Eve was beguiled by that serpent and stole a piece of fruit.