Very good comparison! The PBS three part series about Julius Caesar (pbs.org/show/julius-caesar-the-making-of-a-dictator) emphatically makes this point without mentioning any current events or people. I highly recommend it. Pretty scary!
Careful, though. When you see the methodology and tactics he used and recognized the parallels to today, it's scarier than anything Halloween can provide.
Pentecostalism has perilous elements. Its emphasis on supernatural revelations can make its members vulnerable to charlatans who claim to hear directly from God. Its emotionalism can lead to radicalism. And its culture — with an emphasis on divine revelation and miracles that other evangelicals often find puzzling or hard to believe — can lead to an insularity that walls off Pentecostals from mainstream sources of news and information.
In addition, much of the remarkable growth in Pentecostalism is occurring in independent, nondenominational churches. This means that there is no institutional discipline or accountability for misconduct. There are no true binding statements of theological belief. Indeed, there isn’t really a consensus Pentecostal theology at all — aside from the basics of belief in Jesus, high regard for the biblical text, and the belief in miracles and prophecies.
Is Shady Vance a Manchurian Candidate who will be ushered into the Presidency by a ‘Inside job’ Trump Assassination?
JD Vance = Commander Fred Waterford, Architect and Commander of Gilead, Handmaid’s Tale Hula Series.
I am getting the creepiest feeling that NAR (the New Apolistic Reformation), the Christian Nationalist Kingpin network, aka. the JudeoChristian Zionist MAGA Kingpins, are only using Trump to get elected and into power; and then, as soon as they can manage it…Trump is successfully assassinated and JD Vance is placed into the Presidency.
Why do I think such a thing? Because Leonard Leo, the Kingpin of all Kingpins won't even talk to Trump anymore. He’s disgusted by the man who is clearly not religious zealot material.
Who else purportedly ‘hated’ Trump with a passion? Equated him with Hitler, no less…Yes, we know exactly who also despised Trump…
Leonard Leo is Trump’s former judicial adviser. Leo helped build the Supreme Court’s conservative 6-3 Catholic supermajority by selecting three justices while leading an outside network to help pay operatives to bring cases before the Supreme Court, where he determines which cases the justices consider, and unduly influences the court’s decisions. He is a current member of the fundamentalist Catholic groups, ‘The ‘Knights of Malta’ and ‘Opus Dei’, both powerful, secretive old-money Aristocracy conservative Catholic prelatures that prescribe to the same mission as the Vatican Holy War crusaders, Inquisitors, colonists and slavery capitalists. Opus Dei has been declared a cult by the Belgian government and is monitored by its intelligence agency. Leo is also part of the very influential conservative ‘Lawyers Network’, and leads a sprawling dark-money operation that distributes funds throughout the conservative movement to influence elections, judicial appointments and policy battles.
Leo is one, if not the most powerful unelected political operative in the United States. In 2021, he was gifted an unprecedented $1.6 billion, the largest known donation to a political advocacy group, his 501(C)4 nonprofit ‘the Marble Freedom Trust’, for the purpose of shifting American society further to the right.
This ‘dark money’ donatation by Barre Seid, son of Russian Jewish Immigrants and ultra-secretive right-wing ‘Big Data storage’ industrialist and funder of climate change denial and Islamophobic propaganda. In a nut shell - an unHoly JudeoChristian duo who have successfully captured SCOTUS and courts all over the country, particularly in swing states and counties where the white majority is quickly shifting towards being the minority.
In a recent report on the strained relationship between Leo and Trump, The Washington Post wrote that Leo “has told others he no longer talks to Trump’s advisers and is largely focused on spending billions to reshape the country in a more conservative direction with a focus on non election issues.” ????
Well, This Letter From a Conservative Kingmaker Is Downright Chilling!
So you are both blind and deaf? Because this lady speaks the truth as it is. (And I absolutely do not mean that as an insult to actual blind and deaf people)
AND I ABSOLUTELY didn’t mean to rattle your cage sunshine 😁 Perhaps were you Capable of an actual refutation THEN 😂 But, I gotta luv the Mockingbirds And their ittle Baby Parrots 💥🤷♂️😁✋
We have done it to ourselves with what was a good, but a less complete version of today…
Very good comparison! The PBS three part series about Julius Caesar (pbs.org/show/julius-caesar-the-making-of-a-dictator) emphatically makes this point without mentioning any current events or people. I highly recommend it. Pretty scary!
Still need to watch that.
Careful, though. When you see the methodology and tactics he used and recognized the parallels to today, it's scarier than anything Halloween can provide.
It is alive and well and hurting us all. Read this article from Minnesota. https://www.startribune.com/tolkkinen-christian-nationalism-is-neither-christian-nor-patriotic/601161631?utm_source=gift
Great suggestion.
George Washington warned us. Donald Trump is the tyrant George Washington feared—and his reelection threatens to unmake the nation that the first president helped create, @RadioFreeTom writes in our new cover story. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/george-washington-nightmare-donald-trump/679946/?gift=4dTfJpaWKAxPRgFrKJwrACrpB5MP58jMTMdWHvWNiuk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
Very good summary of Project 2o25 and the Religious Right.
Thank you! More to come.
The Perilousness of Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism has perilous elements. Its emphasis on supernatural revelations can make its members vulnerable to charlatans who claim to hear directly from God. Its emotionalism can lead to radicalism. And its culture — with an emphasis on divine revelation and miracles that other evangelicals often find puzzling or hard to believe — can lead to an insularity that walls off Pentecostals from mainstream sources of news and information.
In addition, much of the remarkable growth in Pentecostalism is occurring in independent, nondenominational churches. This means that there is no institutional discipline or accountability for misconduct. There are no true binding statements of theological belief. Indeed, there isn’t really a consensus Pentecostal theology at all — aside from the basics of belief in Jesus, high regard for the biblical text, and the belief in miracles and prophecies.
Is Shady Vance a Manchurian Candidate who will be ushered into the Presidency by a ‘Inside job’ Trump Assassination?
JD Vance = Commander Fred Waterford, Architect and Commander of Gilead, Handmaid’s Tale Hula Series.
I am getting the creepiest feeling that NAR (the New Apolistic Reformation), the Christian Nationalist Kingpin network, aka. the JudeoChristian Zionist MAGA Kingpins, are only using Trump to get elected and into power; and then, as soon as they can manage it…Trump is successfully assassinated and JD Vance is placed into the Presidency.
Why do I think such a thing? Because Leonard Leo, the Kingpin of all Kingpins won't even talk to Trump anymore. He’s disgusted by the man who is clearly not religious zealot material.
Who else purportedly ‘hated’ Trump with a passion? Equated him with Hitler, no less…Yes, we know exactly who also despised Trump…
Leonard Leo is Trump’s former judicial adviser. Leo helped build the Supreme Court’s conservative 6-3 Catholic supermajority by selecting three justices while leading an outside network to help pay operatives to bring cases before the Supreme Court, where he determines which cases the justices consider, and unduly influences the court’s decisions. He is a current member of the fundamentalist Catholic groups, ‘The ‘Knights of Malta’ and ‘Opus Dei’, both powerful, secretive old-money Aristocracy conservative Catholic prelatures that prescribe to the same mission as the Vatican Holy War crusaders, Inquisitors, colonists and slavery capitalists. Opus Dei has been declared a cult by the Belgian government and is monitored by its intelligence agency. Leo is also part of the very influential conservative ‘Lawyers Network’, and leads a sprawling dark-money operation that distributes funds throughout the conservative movement to influence elections, judicial appointments and policy battles.
Leo is one, if not the most powerful unelected political operative in the United States. In 2021, he was gifted an unprecedented $1.6 billion, the largest known donation to a political advocacy group, his 501(C)4 nonprofit ‘the Marble Freedom Trust’, for the purpose of shifting American society further to the right.
This ‘dark money’ donatation by Barre Seid, son of Russian Jewish Immigrants and ultra-secretive right-wing ‘Big Data storage’ industrialist and funder of climate change denial and Islamophobic propaganda. In a nut shell - an unHoly JudeoChristian duo who have successfully captured SCOTUS and courts all over the country, particularly in swing states and counties where the white majority is quickly shifting towards being the minority.
In a recent report on the strained relationship between Leo and Trump, The Washington Post wrote that Leo “has told others he no longer talks to Trump’s advisers and is largely focused on spending billions to reshape the country in a more conservative direction with a focus on non election issues.” ????
Well, This Letter From a Conservative Kingmaker Is Downright Chilling!
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/leonard-leo-letter-85-fund-network-conservative-agenda-weaponize.html
The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — andwhat he plans to do next.
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
an Interesting Box on which ya stand but a Shame it’s wobbly as a dilapidated ole chair
So you are both blind and deaf? Because this lady speaks the truth as it is. (And I absolutely do not mean that as an insult to actual blind and deaf people)
AND I ABSOLUTELY didn’t mean to rattle your cage sunshine 😁 Perhaps were you Capable of an actual refutation THEN 😂 But, I gotta luv the Mockingbirds And their ittle Baby Parrots 💥🤷♂️😁✋