Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, the polar opposite of real, authentic Christians, love to twist the Bible to meet their own perverse ends. One of them, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is now driving Fuhrer Trump’s* foreign policy. Not only is he committing war crimes, but also, he is casting his Fuhrer as a Biblical character. How sick!
The Washington Post has reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was the main force that pushed Trump into assassinating Iranian Major General Soleimani. Pompeo, according to a New York Times reporter, had a fixation with a bible passage about Queen Esther protecting Israel from Iran. Pompeo’s extreme hostility towards Iran is motivated by his extreme religious beliefs.
In November, Mr. Pompeo told a reporter for The New York Times Magazine that the Bible “informs everything I do.” The reporter noticed an open Bible in his office, with a Swiss Army knife marking his place at the end of the book of Queen Esther.
Mike Pompeo is a conservative evangelical Christian who believes in the rapture and that God is working through Trump and himself… [emphasis added]
Inserted from <Daily Kos>
Here is Pompeo interviewing on CBN (a pseudo-Christian propaganda outlet, that specializes in soaking watchers for money).
Barf Bag Alert!!
So they see their role as protecting Israel from Iran. They are not. They are just creating more chaos.
Remember. These people are NOT Christians. They are the same people, who opposed Jesus and had him murdered. He called them Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes. Today they are called Republicans. This is what Jesus said about them, from Matthew 23:
23 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples:
2 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses. 3 So obey everything they teach you, but don’t do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else.
4 They pile heavy burdens on people’s shoulders and won’t lift a finger to help. 5 Everything they do is just to show off in front of others. They even make a big show of wearing Scripture verses on their foreheads and arms, and they wear big tassels for everyone to see. 6 They love the best seats at banquets and the front seats in the meeting places. 7 And when they are in the market, they like to have people greet them as their teachers.
8 But none of you should be called a teacher. You have only one teacher, and all of you are like brothers and sisters. 9 Don’t call anyone on earth your father. All of you have the same Father in heaven. 10 None of you should be called the leader. The Messiah is your only leader. 11 Whoever is the greatest should be the servant of the others. 12 If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored…
…23 You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs, and you’re in for trouble! You give God a tenth of the spices from your garden, such as mint, dill, and cumin. Yet you neglect the more important matters of the Law, such as justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These are the important things you should have done, though you should not have left the others undone either. 24 You blind leaders! You strain out a small fly but swallow a camel.
25 You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs, and you’re in for trouble! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, while inside there is nothing but greed and selfishness. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of a cup, and then the outside will also be clean.
27 You Pharisees and teachers are in for trouble! You’re nothing but show-offs. You’re like tombs that have been whitewashed. On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth. 28 That’s what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.
29 You Pharisees and teachers are nothing but show-offs, and you’re in for trouble! You build monuments for the prophets and decorate the tombs of good people. 30 And you claim that you would not have taken part with your ancestors in killing the prophets. 31 But you prove that you really are the relatives of the ones who killed the prophets. 32 So keep on doing everything they did. 33 You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell?… [emphasis added]
RESIST!!
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Such a weak character, spreading hate and discontent throughout, to feed their needs/wants.
(and to line their pockets $$$ too).
They will all get their ‘just’ rewards’, so saith the Lord.
Good post, Tom.
I’m not watching that. But I’ll bet he didn’t mention that Esther was only there because her predecessor, Queen Vashti, had standards of decency – she refused to dance naked at a drunken party her husband was having with his buddies, and thus pissed him off. In fact, the king is the one in the whole book that Trump most resembles. Had he been there, he would have just grabbed both Vashti and Esther (and probably Zeresh too) by the pussy. Pompeo may think he is Mordecai, but, in fact, he is trying out for the part of Haman.
To spell something else out clearly, “Israel” and “Judaism” are not synonyms. If you restrict the term “Israel” to just Netanyahu’s government (which I admit is not fair, just as it’s not fair to think of the entire United States as “Trump”), they are virtual opposites. I would bet cash money that Pompeo is an anti-Semitic as they come. His kind of “protection” is one we can do without.
Pompeo needs Jews defending the Holy lan, so all but 144,000 can become crispy critters for refusing to accept Republican Supply-side Jesus during the Great Tribulation.
Whited sepulchers indeed! Far too many Christians spend a lot more time thumping on the Bible than actually reading it. The good news, it’s easy to use Scripture as a weapon against these forked-tongued Pharisees.
Pompeo, Barr, and the rest of the Evangelical types have no place in our government. Their rapture story is a fairy tale, and is none of their biblical agenda ought to drive a country’s foreign, or, for that ,matter, any, foreign policy. This is, reportedly, the only country in which people generally take biblical passages literally. In much of Europe, as I have read, they laugh at this practice.
Sorry, but I will not put myself through a listening to the CBN hogwash.
SIDENOTE:
The painting at the top of your post is by Hieronymus Bosch – who was a prolific producer of the macabre and nightmarish visions, frequently in Diptychs, Triptychs and Polyptychs. The only reason I know that is I’m a huge fan of author Michael Connelly.
Connelly mostly writes murder mysteries and has a series of books focusing on Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch. And in every Bosch novel he gives a brief background WRT how he got his unusual name.
Your selection, I believe, is “The Violent Forcing of the Frog”. Scroll down to “The Frog” selection:
https://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-from-heaven-to-hell/full/
I noticed the Bosch. Hhis work is often associated with the last judgment and hell, and you can see why just from this one. Some of the music which has been based on his art – there is a 20th century piece called IIRC “The Garden of Good and Evil” which includes literally destroying a cello. Not a piece for which one wants to break out the Strad.
Thanks, Nameless. Now I know where those illustrations came from.
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen to all!