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#2620949 13-Dec-2020 16:31

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#2620968 13-Dec-2020 17:48

So much for separation of church and State that the US founding fathers over 240 years ago desperately wanted.

I can't figure out the speaker in this video; I suspect it's the Georgia republican candidate.

I wonder if the racist group "The Proud Boys," who were violently protesting the night before and some wearing bullet-proof vests, wondered if they should cheer or not.

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#2625952 23-Dec-2020 15:17

He is crying...

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#2625956 23-Dec-2020 15:49

If evangelicals like him ate fruitcake for xmas - technically they'd be cannibals.

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#2628669 31-Dec-2020 17:34

Over the years, I've had evangelic use "Pascal's mugging / Pascal's wagers" as justification in staying religiously conservative.

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#2636735 17-Jan-2021 06:59

Sorry for the long post. It's about disgraced West Virginia lawmaker who stormed the U.S. Capital.

Washington Post: Before he stormed the Capitol, ex-W.Va. lawmaker harassed women at an abortion clinic

Derrick Evans walked with his phone out in front of him, camera facing forward, as he advanced on the patient in the abortion clinic parking lot. Surrounding the car, clinic volunteers tried to shield the patient with umbrellas and their own bodies. It was no use: On this February morning in 2019, Evans captured the patient on Facebook live, streaming to tens of thousands of followers.

“You will not do this in secret in West Virginia,” Evans said. He wore a “Make America Great Again” hat, as he did every week when he protested outside the Women’s Health Center, the only abortion clinic left in the state.

Evans was a fixture at the clinic for much of 2019, with a reputation for harassment so severe that the clinic erected a 10-foot fence to deter him. A volunteer escort obtained a restraining order against him, accusing him of stalking her. When Evans was around — often accompanied by dozens of supporters — women would cry in the waiting room, said clinic patient Hunter Crites, afraid they’d be identified and screamed at as soon as they stepped outside.

By the time Evans stepped foot in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, he had amassed over 32,000 followers on Facebook — and enough votes in the 2020 election to win him a seat in the West Virginia legislature. Everywhere he went — the abortion clinic, Black Lives Matter protests, drag brunches — Evans brought along his phone, and his following, doing what he could to shame and agitate the people around him.

On Jan. 6, those followers cheered him on as the state lawmaker joined a pro-Trump mob pushing its way into the U.S. Capitol, chanting, “Who’s house? Our House!” Wearing a helmet, Evans told the viewers of his live stream that he had been pepper sprayed in the eye, but was marching forward anyway.

“We’re in!” he shouted on his Facebook Live as he walked into the Rotunda of the revered building. “Derrick Evans is in the Capitol! Let’s go!”

Days later, Evans resigned from his office in the House of Delegates after he was arrested and charged with two federal misdemeanors of unlawfully entering restricted grounds and violent entry and disorderly conduct. Evans’s arrest and resignation, just weeks after he was sworn into office, punctuated a years-long effort to build a brand as a confrontational local activist known for harassing people he deemed as immoral or threatening. Usually, his targets were women or people of color.
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Many of the women who had been the subject of Evans’s taunts were not surprised to see him join the group storming the U.S. Capitol. For almost two years, staff and volunteers at the abortion clinic urged police officers and legislators to take Evans’s behavior seriously, said Jamie Miller, the clinic escort who was granted the restraining order. Instead, he was voted into elected office.

An interview with Derrick Evans with a sympathetic reporter, who implies it's the victims' fault.

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Reporter: You've been very vocal about where you can protest at abortion clinics.

Derrick Evans: Oh yeah, so they passed an ordinance that your can't get within 100 foot of a health care facility. (30 meters)

And you can't be within 8 foot of someone else (2.4 meters)

And it's really confusing. It's really confusing for a lot of people. I think everyone is confused right now.

So we'll have to play that by ear, and see how it goes.

It's not just for abortion clinics. It's also for health care facilities. Not for sure if the hospital here are union or not, but if that's the case, they would not be allowed to picket outside there if there was ever going to be a strike

And there's other concerns such as pastors and preachers going around to hospitals praying for people. Are they going to breaking the ordinance, if they come up within 8 foot of someone when they come into their room and ask them if they can prayer for them or not. We won't know (the complete strangers not affiliated with the hospital getting within 8 feet of patients uninvited.)

Reporter: City Council said it was an issue of safety, public safety. The Charleston Police department asked for this ordinance.

You've been on that picket line quite a bit. Did you see anything where this was needed?

Derrick Evans: No, I believe once that police once should have been enforcing the laws that were already on the books.

I have to say our Charleston police department here, they've done a great job of trying to mediate things, and abide by the constitution. So I have to give them a lot of credit in that regard.

But you know, there's was a some 150 phone calls made against us to the police, and I was never arrested because I never broke the law (except my restraining orders, until the Police asked for a new law specifically about me ).

And one of those things was why were there never anything done about false police reports?

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#2659665 19-Feb-2021 13:33

The Christian Prophets Who Say Trump Is Coming Again:

“The January 20 inauguration date doesn’t really mean anything,” Enlow said in the January 29 video, which has gotten north of 100,000 views on YouTube. According to Enlow, more than 100 other “credible” Christian prophets around the world had likewise declared that Trump, somehow, would be restored to power soon.

Indeed, Enlow was not alone out on that limb. Greg Locke, a Nashville pastor with a massive social media following, said after Trump’s loss that he would “100 percent remain president of the United States for another term.” Kat Kerr, a pink-haired preacher from Jacksonville, Florida, declared repeatedly last month that Trump had won the election “by a landslide” and that God had told her he would serve for eight years. In his video, Enlow went further. “There’s not going to be just Trump coming back,” he said. “There’s going to be at least two more Trumps that will be in office in some way.” Donald Trump, he proclaimed elsewhere, was “the primary government leader on Planet Earth.”

Enlow, Locke and Kerr are among dozens of Christian prophets in America—religious leaders with followings among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians who claim the ability to predict the future based on dreams, visions and other supernatural phenomena. Some prophets are church leaders, while others operate independently. There are no official requirements for prophet status, though followers generally expect prophets to get at least a few prophecies right.

In 2015, spurred by the lengthy prophecy of a 27-year-old wunderkind named Jeremiah Johnson, many Pentecostals and charismatics embraced the idea that God had chosen Trump to restore America’s Christian moorings. Trump’s surprise win in 2016 offered a dramatic validation, and in 2020 dozens of prophets declared that he would win election again. This time, they were wrong. Yet, in the wake of Joe Biden’s victory, instead of apologizing or backtracking, a number of prophets continue to assert that it is God’s will for Trump to be in the White House and that a miraculous reversal is nigh. Enlow, who did not respond to a request for comment for this article, has said Trump’s victory will be made clear by March.

It’s well known that Trump received strong support from white evangelicals in the 2020 election; estimates hover around 80 percent. But the role that prophecy plays in that support might be underexplored. In a survey conducted last year, two political scientists found that nearly half of America’s church-attending white Protestants believed Trump was anointed by God to be president—a portion of the population that other scholars have dubbed “prophecy voters.”

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#2659860 19-Feb-2021 15:08

You can bet Melania will be far away if he comes again.

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