Conservative Christians need to stop pretending Charlie Kirk was doing God’s work here, because his actual words and the actual words of Jesus are compelling testimony that he wasn’t.
John Pavlovitz
Maybe it is time for conservatives to realize the irony of desperately seeking the kindness of empathy that they work tirelessly to withhold from others, a gentleness and decency they so often turn into a punchline.
America First, flag-waving alleged patriots who claim to believe in Law and Order and to treasure women’s rights are violating these survivors a second time.
Thoughts and prayers won't take weapons from the hands of terrorists and prior offenders and the mentally ill. They won't make a single street safer.
Republican political and religious leaders have managed to fabricate a nonexistent national danger involving an infinitesimal number of people who are already among the most vulnerable and at-risk communities in this nation.
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself, if Trump is so damn for America, how can he hate so many people who call this place home and who dream of calling it home?
How does America endure a President who is mortally allergic to the truth and fluent in lies? The answer isn't in abandoning the truth ourselves.
The invitation to the bigger table is open to the world, and that absolutely includes people across the political aisle, but active hatred and discrimination are not welcome here...
The cognitive dissonance is almost beyond comprehension: to be able to tell yourself a story that you believe in defending the “sanctity of life,” while actively championing the single most common tool used to commit mass murders.
Ignoring fascism doesn’t make it go away; it ensures its survival. We’re here in this precarious place, partly because so many people took the way of least resistance.
So far, the files have exposed this Republican Party as a vile and morally inverted cadre of broken humans marching and voting in lock-step to protect predators and pedophiles and laugh in the face of their survivors.
How do otherwise reasonable, self-respecting adult women find themselves staunch defenders of a man whose entire grotesque body of work declares that he has complete contempt for them?
All hatred is rooted in ignorance, and since hatred is the Republican Party’s sole political platform, they must propagate a steady stream of that ignorance.
If they’re honest, most MAGA Republicans feel more affinity to a vicious, vengeful billionaire in Lex Luthor than in Clark Kent’s alter ego’s boundless benevolence toward the disparate human beings in his path.
Weaponized patriotism is an intoxicant for easily manipulated people whose identities are shaped by those they hate, the neighbors and strangers they’ve been convinced are threats to be eradicated and dangers to be sent away.
Six months after leaving office, Joe Biden is doing the work our sitting President should be doing but cannot and will not do.
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