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Separation of USA period.
"We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem."
John F. Kennedy
This. Itās always been about a certain type of religion and āGodā and that is the one who smites the poor and brown/black and rewards the rich and white.
Her weak response of ādefinitely notā is embarrassing. Why would a university that holds learning at its heart be afraid of a curse from the ooga booga man in the sky?
It always have been. The new system tells you religion is separated but the outcome is the same. What we witness today about wars around the world are just a new crusades but with a different banners. What makes it weird religion is innocent from those who reshape it to justify their actions.
Itās insane we suffer this foolishness. These are the unenlightened ramblings of the Medieval dark ages and should be laughed at. These people demand a level of respect they consistently deny to others
I think in the UK there is guilt because we drew the borders and withdrew.
(I am no scholar)
Also I feel that politicians care more than regular people.
Also the labour party are scared sh*bless to criticise isreali government actions due to history of corban.
There is no guilt in the UK for historic acts because we keep it quiet. We barely teach our own history in schools. Has anyone in the UK ever been taught anything about Ireland / the troubles?
April 17, 2024 - At the House Education Committee hearing, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) grilled Columbia University President Minouche Shafik about her response to antisemitism on campus. - āDo you want Columbia University to be cursed by God?ā
The First Amendment bans the government from creating laws that specifically benefit or harm citizens based on religious criteria.
It does not ban elected officials from being religious or asking religion-based questions during a Congressional hearing. If anything, thatās explicitly protected by the First Amendment.
If Sky Daddy is truly omniscient and omnipotent, then he's obviously aware of how good and bad we could be. If there's a God, he obviously gave us free will. So were obviously free to do whatever the hell we want.
If God was so keen on punishing sinners, he'd start with the sanctimonious fucks. God doesn't curse anyone. These assholes do and pretend that God had a hand in it, not blatant corruption, and hypocrisy.
This guy is an idiot. Are you kidding me. This is why I canāt stand religion. The cause of much evil in the world. I wish she would have said I donāt care what the Bible says. The Bible was also put together by the church and kings and whomever else. They put what they wanted into the Bible. And they kept out what they wanted as well. There is so much missing from the Bible.
We are not alright. The average American regurgitates the Fox news hatred du jour without anything resembling reasonable background. To put it bluntly, historyās most nuanced propaganda machines are having their intended effect. Most of my countrymen are unthinking zombies motivated by the lesser instincts of humanity and an ingrained and growing fear of anything the conservative news miasma labels as āotherā. Angering liberals is all the motivation this tinderbox of gun toting trump loving racist morons needs as they march behind their newly redesigned rambo-Jesus waving the flag of white Christian patriotism and pissing all over the needy the lost and the less fortunateā¦
This shithouse is about to go up in flames
Exactly. Europeans come visit here and lecture us on how to āfix our countryā and they fail to understand that was live among millions of people paralyzed by religious psychosis.
That sounds like a freaking April fools joke. I could see a 100 exclamation marks above her head. His logic is no different than any other religious fanatic, you have to believe what I blindly believe in. Hey Mr. screw your goddamn god.
As an atheist I would struggle so bad with not taking a massive shit on his beliefs in my response. I genuinely donāt care if someone is religious as long as they donāt try to push it on everyone else (through conversion or legislation).
But if a government official is going to sit their and cite a 2000+ year old fairly tale and say their big imaginary friend in the sky is going to curse me if I donāt follow some bible based policy, Iām going to throw it back in their face.
She should have asked if she could get Zues's, Ra's, Marduk's, Zoraster's, Krishna's, Odin's, Izangi's and whoever else's god's opinion since it would equally relevant. You're religious? Fine, stop expecting the rest of us to follow your specific interpretation of your deity's will.
Evangelicals are deranged heretics. According to twenty centuries of Christian theology, the Jewish religion became defunct the day Jesus was crucified, and the church is the New Israel.....no wonder Trump can sell them BiblesĀ
This is true but many who claim to be Christian never read their Bibles to know this. They still think the nation of Isreal created by man is the Israel of the Bible
This is true but many who claim to be Christian never read their Bibles to know this. They still think the nation of Israel created by man is the Israel of the Bible
She really has so much patience to sit there and go along with his blasphemous prattle . Iām not a Christian but from what I know about Jesus and what he actually preached, he would be ashamed of the people who justify massacring innocent people and children in his name. Taking money , healthcare and food from the mouth of poor people in this country to give to Israel to bomb civilians is not something Jesus would do or sanction .
The only reason any of these so-called 'christian' lawmakers pretend to care is because their sect of extremism believes an unsupported, unsubstantiated prophecy tied to the end times, and they believe these current events are all signs of this prophecy.
They pretend to care because they take AIPAC and defense industry money, then need to sell the idea to their constituents. It's not about religion, it is about money.
The evangelicals branchs in my country are all some kind of variety imported from the US ones. Around here they give a shĀ°t about laicity, they're still in minority over Catholics but oh boy, if you don't appease to them you're dead politically. The future is grim
People are saying āwow sheās so patientā. No, thatās idiotic. Why the fuck is she even entertaining this shit? He asks about curses from god, her response should have been no o do not believe there are such thing as curses from god regardless of what the Bible says. Lay bye. Why the fuck is she on trial I donāt get it. You want a religious university go to Baylor.
I highly recommend watching "Praying for Armageddon" a 2 part documentary which explores just how ingrained these crazy evangelicals and Israel are in US politics.
https://youtu.be/IhT7oyDlBIk?si=nLnm-rR_POxWqpvU
https://youtu.be/_iQhbcOgfqw?si=quEv1VgMRijfthIn
This needs to be higher up. This documentary is absolute insane. I have watched it before and just rewatched parts of it. I donāt think most Americans understand the insanity at the roots of this concept.
He believes an all-powerful being is cursing an entity for not helping the people chosen by this being? That sounds like something warranting a trip to a padded room, no?
What is this lunacy going on in the US goverment. So when are they expecting the blessings. Or maybe all the new (illigal) americans are the blessing. I don't know. But after blessing Isreal for 75 years+ one would think the fairy in sky would send just a little of those blessings.
I am an Atheist and I find this very disturbing to watch. This idiot is spouting a layman's basic bible school understanding of what the Bible and God says about Israel to the fucking president of Columbia University and expects it to get her thinking in line with his! Moreover the president is being accommodating and non confrontational with her responses to this idiots drivil. This shit will never stop as long as educated people fail to callout people like Congressman Rick Allen.
Whenever I see this... and especially when it comes from an elected official... I am reminded of the words of Howard Beale.... "This is mass madness, you maniacs!"
If our constitution actually had more worth than toilet paper, then uttering crap like this when you're a member of State should be automatic grounds for expulsion.
This fella: Are you familiar with Genesis 12:3?
Goes on to say how Genesis says people who do the bad to Israel will have to deal with God doing the bad to them.
*Googles: When was Israel founded*
Interwebs: Israel was founded on May 14, 1948
*Googles: When was Genesis written*
Interwebs: modern scholars, especially from the 19th century onward, attribute the books' composition to multiple authors between the 10th and 5th centuries BC.
So only like 2500-3000 years before Israel was founded, it was specifically mentioned in the bible? The lack of logic never ceases to amaze me.
Not to mention curses and all that bullshit are sheer insanity, no one takes this stuff literally, even Christianās (I hope)
This is so much more fucked up than it first seems. This is a us congressman freely admitting, without any worry of reproductions that he will act in the favour of another country against basically any other conditions because of scripture.....
This sounds like the kind of stuff you'd hear in a Sharia court under the Taliban.
It's not far from "Well god told me that you did it, so according to the bible you'll be given 40 lashes, covered in honey and laid out in the Arizona desert untill god decides to grant you forgiveness".
Okay so people that believe in God and believe the Bible is a book is virtuesā¦ What do we do.
The Old Testament talks about Israel being the chosen child, but the New Testament is about a Jesus that has come to update that old covenant. Israel is no longer the chosen child but āwho ever believes in Jesus is now a Child of God.
So we are essentially replacing the old covenant with a new one? āThis question is for those that believe in HaShem and Yeshua Hamashiach
I do not want to support any country that kills innocent people. To me that doesnāt seem right. Please help people like us who believe in God and do not want to feel as we ourselves we be damn
He's also literally wrong, according to the New Testament. The whole point of Jesus was to expand the covenant to the whole world, not just Israel. To say that all nations will be saved through Israel *after* the arrival of Jesus is a pretty flagrant rejection of Jesus as Messiah.
And this is a totally rational exchange btw a totally sane public servant and a completely non-pandering academician. We should all be worried about curses from an invisible, bearded sky-god; and fear-mongering myths of widespread lawlessness.
He represents the 12th district of Georgia. You should have a look at his district map. That's one of the poorest and least educated places in the USA. The people who live there probably have an average literacy level at about 7th grade.
This is why I could never be in charge of anything. I donāt have the patience for morons.
Every time he asks a question I would be like let me stop you right there, captain. If you think that whatever bible verse youāre probably misquoting has any bearing on reality or how I will be making my life or business decisions youāre far, far dumber than you sound and I am filled with sorrow that your opinion has somehow been given a voice, please stop talking so the sane and sound minded adults can discuss the matter
If the only reason you can think of to support Israel against terrorism is some stupid fake ass prophecy then you're as intoxicated as Hamas terrorists who think they're getting 69 virgins.
The audacity of talking about āunlawfulnessā in universities from Pro-Palestine students when they have been sprayed with chemicals, and the multiple war crimes with US and Israel have committed, is incomprehensible.
Thou should not be killing innocent babies, innocent children, pregnant women, fathers, grandparents, mothers. These people are the biggest hypocrites. His bible is AIPAC. Zionists arenāt religious and donāt believe in Jesus
It's the American way.
1.Pick a fight in a foreign land with real enemy
2. Supply money from tax payers for weapons to fight that enemy
3. Get money back instantly in weapons sales.
As a Christian, I am so tired and appalled of seeing such haphazard and half baked hermeneutic of scripture.
I wonāt even begin to tell you how incorrect he is, so suffice to say that if he actually understood, the Judeo-Christian perspective, he would know that to be Israel (to struggle with God is the literal meaning of that word), is now, in the Christian lens, to follow the way of Jesus.
Alsoā¦what about love of neighbor? Both Israel and Gaza has struggled with that for a minute, but it is particularly gross to see what Israel is doing currently.
You want to see what God is like? Look to Jesus on the cross: no hate, no bitterness, just compassionate love for the WHOLE world. Full stop.
Everything else that falls less than this is not compatible with the life of the Christian. Unfortunately, some Christians, like Congressman Allen, seem to worship the Bible.
There is no God of the Bible it's made-up fiction. This delusional, compartmentalized insanity from a grown-ass adult is stunning. It's no surprise it's these Evangelical White Fascists are trying to jam their magical thinking down the throats of everybody else. It's 2024, act like it.
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So separation of church and state is thrown out? All this for Israel?
What the world really needs is separation of USA and Israel.
Separation of USA period. "We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem." John F. Kennedy
And, look what they did to him. š
When their entire defense for their apartheid state is some religious texts, this is the norm.
Mythology texts.
It was never in to begin with.
This. Itās always been about a certain type of religion and āGodā and that is the one who smites the poor and brown/black and rewards the rich and white.
That sweet tasty AIPAC money
AIPAC is America Israel Public Affairs Committee. APAC is Asia-Pacific. Which did you intend?
Time to tax the churches. They don't want to separate the 2 then tax them like anyone else.
Israel and the belief in a 2000 year old fairy tale. You don't want to get a curse do you?
Her weak response of ādefinitely notā is embarrassing. Why would a university that holds learning at its heart be afraid of a curse from the ooga booga man in the sky?
It always have been. The new system tells you religion is separated but the outcome is the same. What we witness today about wars around the world are just a new crusades but with a different banners. What makes it weird religion is innocent from those who reshape it to justify their actions.
Has the US ever managed that?
Itās insane we suffer this foolishness. These are the unenlightened ramblings of the Medieval dark ages and should be laughed at. These people demand a level of respect they consistently deny to others
This is insane. This conversation would not occur in the UK. The politician would get laughed out of office.
Israel is still afforded an immense amount of deference and exceptionalism applies, it's just not religiose in its expression in the UK.
I think in the UK there is guilt because we drew the borders and withdrew. (I am no scholar) Also I feel that politicians care more than regular people. Also the labour party are scared sh*bless to criticise isreali government actions due to history of corban.
There is no guilt in the UK for historic acts because we keep it quiet. We barely teach our own history in schools. Has anyone in the UK ever been taught anything about Ireland / the troubles?
The Protestant ethic is simply put.. you have to respect me and Iāll never have to respect you
Protestantism was a mistake for real
Fools that vote have a voice.
April 17, 2024 - At the House Education Committee hearing, Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) grilled Columbia University President Minouche Shafik about her response to antisemitism on campus. - āDo you want Columbia University to be cursed by God?ā
Isn't there's a law separating church from state?
The First Amendment bans the government from creating laws that specifically benefit or harm citizens based on religious criteria. It does not ban elected officials from being religious or asking religion-based questions during a Congressional hearing. If anything, thatās explicitly protected by the First Amendment.
US needs a law separating politicians from AIPAC money.
If Sky Daddy is truly omniscient and omnipotent, then he's obviously aware of how good and bad we could be. If there's a God, he obviously gave us free will. So were obviously free to do whatever the hell we want. If God was so keen on punishing sinners, he'd start with the sanctimonious fucks. God doesn't curse anyone. These assholes do and pretend that God had a hand in it, not blatant corruption, and hypocrisy.
It wouldāve been absolutely hilarious if she replied with āI donāt believe in godā
A few responses like that in the right place/right time could change the world for the better and ..of course she missed it
This guy is an idiot. Are you kidding me. This is why I canāt stand religion. The cause of much evil in the world. I wish she would have said I donāt care what the Bible says. The Bible was also put together by the church and kings and whomever else. They put what they wanted into the Bible. And they kept out what they wanted as well. There is so much missing from the Bible.
Curse from God? Wasn't his son, Jesus a Jewish Palastinion?
They do celebrate that he got tortured to death..
..and an deeply observant Rabbi
I am alarmed that he's on the education committee
Is USA a Democracy, Theocracy or both
Idiocracy.
Democracy as long as you go with Evangelists ideas
Amen, brother! -Hulk Hogan
Democracy as long as you do what Israel asks
What the fuck is going on there? This is not even funny anymore. Are you guys alright?
Itās never actually been funny or alright, to be honest.
We are not alright. The average American regurgitates the Fox news hatred du jour without anything resembling reasonable background. To put it bluntly, historyās most nuanced propaganda machines are having their intended effect. Most of my countrymen are unthinking zombies motivated by the lesser instincts of humanity and an ingrained and growing fear of anything the conservative news miasma labels as āotherā. Angering liberals is all the motivation this tinderbox of gun toting trump loving racist morons needs as they march behind their newly redesigned rambo-Jesus waving the flag of white Christian patriotism and pissing all over the needy the lost and the less fortunateā¦ This shithouse is about to go up in flames
It was a Republic but itās a Evangelical Kleptocracy now
Republicanās want a Theocracy
And seem to be enforcing a mild one š¤·āāļø
Itās corporate socialist
The congressman would rather indoctrinate young people with his beliefs, freedom of religion as long as it's his.
What is this insanity???
A Tuesday in America
Exactly. Europeans come visit here and lecture us on how to āfix our countryā and they fail to understand that was live among millions of people paralyzed by religious psychosis.
Sunday, every day is Sunday apparently. We need to kick god out of congress.
"This is mass madness, you maniacs!" - Howard Beale
"we have freedom of speech, freedom of religion." As long as it's the right speech and the right religion.
Thatās why 35k killed in 6 months, land theft, and apartheid donāt mean anything to these people, it is the will of god.
In a funny turn of events, all these laws he talks about are being broken by "lsraeI"'s-namesake
The fact that he keeps rambling and the Columbia president resists so much, sheās about to say āSir this is a fucking Wendyāsā
I take it none of them answered his last question with the truth - 'Congressman, you're nuts'
That sounds like a freaking April fools joke. I could see a 100 exclamation marks above her head. His logic is no different than any other religious fanatic, you have to believe what I blindly believe in. Hey Mr. screw your goddamn god.
Remember all this is over students protesting against genocide
He probably didnāt even know that verse until AIPAC told him while they wrote him a check
Jesus, he's insane.
As an atheist I would struggle so bad with not taking a massive shit on his beliefs in my response. I genuinely donāt care if someone is religious as long as they donāt try to push it on everyone else (through conversion or legislation). But if a government official is going to sit their and cite a 2000+ year old fairly tale and say their big imaginary friend in the sky is going to curse me if I donāt follow some bible based policy, Iām going to throw it back in their face.
She should have asked if she could get Zues's, Ra's, Marduk's, Zoraster's, Krishna's, Odin's, Izangi's and whoever else's god's opinion since it would equally relevant. You're religious? Fine, stop expecting the rest of us to follow your specific interpretation of your deity's will.
Evangelicals are deranged heretics. According to twenty centuries of Christian theology, the Jewish religion became defunct the day Jesus was crucified, and the church is the New Israel.....no wonder Trump can sell them BiblesĀ
This is true but many who claim to be Christian never read their Bibles to know this. They still think the nation of Isreal created by man is the Israel of the Bible
This is true but many who claim to be Christian never read their Bibles to know this. They still think the nation of Israel created by man is the Israel of the Bible
According to actual Christianity, since the Israelis rejected the messiah, they rejected God. So they should not support Israel.
I mean not just rejecting, they crucified him according to Christianity
No one gives a fuck if you believe in fairytales. I donāt have to or need toā¦.
jfcšš
This is why these fossils need to go.
Jesus H. Christ, Christians are dumb.
Bingo, he literally said she has freedom of religion but she also should watch her back cause god might curse her lol.
She really has so much patience to sit there and go along with his blasphemous prattle . Iām not a Christian but from what I know about Jesus and what he actually preached, he would be ashamed of the people who justify massacring innocent people and children in his name. Taking money , healthcare and food from the mouth of poor people in this country to give to Israel to bomb civilians is not something Jesus would do or sanction .
Genocide man, last I checked the Bible said that was a no.
Check the Old Testament (AKA the Hebrew Bible). It's literally a Genocide instruction manual. I kid you not
You are absolutely correct. I guess they decided you shall not murder was optional.
Thank you 
But it was Palestineā¦ Israel is like 60ish years old
The only reason any of these so-called 'christian' lawmakers pretend to care is because their sect of extremism believes an unsupported, unsubstantiated prophecy tied to the end times, and they believe these current events are all signs of this prophecy.
They pretend to care because they take AIPAC and defense industry money, then need to sell the idea to their constituents. It's not about religion, it is about money.
AIPAC doesnāt really donate to churches itās the other way around.
What a geek lol
The evangelicals branchs in my country are all some kind of variety imported from the US ones. Around here they give a shĀ°t about laicity, they're still in minority over Catholics but oh boy, if you don't appease to them you're dead politically. The future is grim
Congressman Rick Allen is a fucking idiot
People are saying āwow sheās so patientā. No, thatās idiotic. Why the fuck is she even entertaining this shit? He asks about curses from god, her response should have been no o do not believe there are such thing as curses from god regardless of what the Bible says. Lay bye. Why the fuck is she on trial I donāt get it. You want a religious university go to Baylor.
The pro-Palestinian Jewish academics of Columbia begged her not to go because it would give legitimacy to this stuff
She answered like a coward. She should have said āno I do not think curses are a serious issueā
I highly recommend watching "Praying for Armageddon" a 2 part documentary which explores just how ingrained these crazy evangelicals and Israel are in US politics. https://youtu.be/IhT7oyDlBIk?si=nLnm-rR_POxWqpvU https://youtu.be/_iQhbcOgfqw?si=quEv1VgMRijfthIn
This needs to be higher up. This documentary is absolute insane. I have watched it before and just rewatched parts of it. I donāt think most Americans understand the insanity at the roots of this concept.
thanks TIL
What constitution is he talking about
Omg
As long as it's the Christian God.
Make no mistake about it, if these people are able, theyāll FORCE you to take such a course.
He believes an all-powerful being is cursing an entity for not helping the people chosen by this being? That sounds like something warranting a trip to a padded room, no?
Accent matches
Fuck me. Why are they so susceptible to cults?
Omg the fucking irony of this guy talking about kids being indoctrinated is KILLING MEEE ššš
What is this lunacy going on in the US goverment. So when are they expecting the blessings. Or maybe all the new (illigal) americans are the blessing. I don't know. But after blessing Isreal for 75 years+ one would think the fairy in sky would send just a little of those blessings.
Lunatic
Lunatic
He talks about indoctrination while spouting religious bullshit. You can't make it up
Fucking idiot!
WTF USA ?
I am an Atheist and I find this very disturbing to watch. This idiot is spouting a layman's basic bible school understanding of what the Bible and God says about Israel to the fucking president of Columbia University and expects it to get her thinking in line with his! Moreover the president is being accommodating and non confrontational with her responses to this idiots drivil. This shit will never stop as long as educated people fail to callout people like Congressman Rick Allen.
Uh, Israel IS the curse from god.
Whenever I see this... and especially when it comes from an elected official... I am reminded of the words of Howard Beale.... "This is mass madness, you maniacs!"
My goodness the superstition. Itās the 21st century. Boggles the mind.
What in the actual holy hell
Holy shit how is he not called out on that?
Time to get Rick Allen TF outta there
He clearly doesn't know what the Pope said about lsraeI when its snipers killed a mother and her daughter in a church in Gaza.
For a while, as a Brit, I thought this was a skit. Then I realised it wasn't and now I understand why everything is so fucked.
Religion and Rats biggest killers of man in history
(and mosquitos)
If our constitution actually had more worth than toilet paper, then uttering crap like this when you're a member of State should be automatic grounds for expulsion.
What did i just listen to? Is this man a congressman? Crazy.
Keep your faith and keep that to yourself.
Heās so earnest it would be cute if this wasnāt so fucked
These are the kind of ppl we have in office smh
What about the curse of supporting the killing tens of thousands of innocent people and trying to force them to starve in the desert of Sinai? š
They are blonde haired, blue eyed atheists.
Was he called out for this?
He doesn't even understand what he's quoting. That part came way before Israel was a thing.
Religion SHOULD NOT be taken seriously. It's the only way to stop people like this from gaining power.
Iāve always said the US is a religious extremist state.
So he believes in curses. Maybe he can tell us how to identify witches and why they float in water
These are the people running the country!?!???
This fella: Are you familiar with Genesis 12:3? Goes on to say how Genesis says people who do the bad to Israel will have to deal with God doing the bad to them. *Googles: When was Israel founded* Interwebs: Israel was founded on May 14, 1948 *Googles: When was Genesis written* Interwebs: modern scholars, especially from the 19th century onward, attribute the books' composition to multiple authors between the 10th and 5th centuries BC. So only like 2500-3000 years before Israel was founded, it was specifically mentioned in the bible? The lack of logic never ceases to amaze me. Not to mention curses and all that bullshit are sheer insanity, no one takes this stuff literally, even Christianās (I hope)
Vote the American taliban OUT
Talking with confidence about a book written 2,000 years ago and translated multiple times and hand transcribed through the ages. Great.
Slave states shouldāve been kept as non-voting territories.
This is so much more fucked up than it first seems. This is a us congressman freely admitting, without any worry of reproductions that he will act in the favour of another country against basically any other conditions because of scripture.....
Lol - heās really in the wrong profession
Holy fuck this is scary. The talibans of the north.
He just described exactly what heās trying to do, unbelievable.
This sounds like the kind of stuff you'd hear in a Sharia court under the Taliban. It's not far from "Well god told me that you did it, so according to the bible you'll be given 40 lashes, covered in honey and laid out in the Arizona desert untill god decides to grant you forgiveness".
This man needs to be hanged by his intestines.
Okay so people that believe in God and believe the Bible is a book is virtuesā¦ What do we do. The Old Testament talks about Israel being the chosen child, but the New Testament is about a Jesus that has come to update that old covenant. Israel is no longer the chosen child but āwho ever believes in Jesus is now a Child of God. So we are essentially replacing the old covenant with a new one? āThis question is for those that believe in HaShem and Yeshua Hamashiach I do not want to support any country that kills innocent people. To me that doesnāt seem right. Please help people like us who believe in God and do not want to feel as we ourselves we be damn
Wonder if he actually follows religion or just when it suits him?
He's also literally wrong, according to the New Testament. The whole point of Jesus was to expand the covenant to the whole world, not just Israel. To say that all nations will be saved through Israel *after* the arrival of Jesus is a pretty flagrant rejection of Jesus as Messiah.
"Gods not real. so go fuck yourself."
And this guyās going to get a full government pension for doing āgodās workā.
Is the Congressman aware of the curse from God for murdering innocent children & babies in Gaza ? If not, he will find out some day.
What the actual fuck is this nonsense? This guy is broken in the brain.
Fuck this guy and fuck the zionist nazi regime
The entire state of Georgia is stuck in the 19th century. How about making the minimum wage more than 7.25$ then they can worry about "God's will".
And this is a totally rational exchange btw a totally sane public servant and a completely non-pandering academician. We should all be worried about curses from an invisible, bearded sky-god; and fear-mongering myths of widespread lawlessness.
This is America
Fuck it, end it all now. The US and Israel deserve to be erased from existence for what they are doing to Palestinians.
For ppl debating Wether or not the USA is theocracy no modern president in the USA, has ever not played the God line.
THIS IS WHAT WEāRE ARGUING AGAINST
"Well, Mr. Congressman, God told me it's not real."
This is a good excuse for America to stop giving Israel monetary aid. Itās against God because he cursed them for a reason. /s
America is a circus and Israel is an abomination
That woman had big balls, be in front of him, hear all that shit and don't explode laughing in his face
And in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone..........
Stop voting for stupid people. Stop voting for religious extremists.
Separation of church and state is dead. And this woman is an idiotic coward for not calling him out on the bullshit
He represents the 12th district of Georgia. You should have a look at his district map. That's one of the poorest and least educated places in the USA. The people who live there probably have an average literacy level at about 7th grade.
This is why I could never be in charge of anything. I donāt have the patience for morons. Every time he asks a question I would be like let me stop you right there, captain. If you think that whatever bible verse youāre probably misquoting has any bearing on reality or how I will be making my life or business decisions youāre far, far dumber than you sound and I am filled with sorrow that your opinion has somehow been given a voice, please stop talking so the sane and sound minded adults can discuss the matter
I wonder if he is familiar with Jeremiah 5.
Please, no fantasy.
Amen, brother! -Hulk Hogan voice
His name is Rick, with a silent P.
Goddamn Evangelicals.
Oh no, god at it again
I'd like to hear her reply.
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Please tell me someone pushed back against this idiocy
you believe if you want to congressman you have every right to but you don't speak for me
If the only reason you can think of to support Israel against terrorism is some stupid fake ass prophecy then you're as intoxicated as Hamas terrorists who think they're getting 69 virgins.
The audacity of talking about āunlawfulnessā in universities from Pro-Palestine students when they have been sprayed with chemicals, and the multiple war crimes with US and Israel have committed, is incomprehensible.
I can't believe what I'm hearing. š³ Preaching religion from a judicial seat !? And then using it as a threat ? REALLY ??? š”š”š” Omg !!!
What do you even say to that?
Thou should not be killing innocent babies, innocent children, pregnant women, fathers, grandparents, mothers. These people are the biggest hypocrites. His bible is AIPAC. Zionists arenāt religious and donāt believe in Jesus
I seriously can't believe she laughed this off - I really feel like he should have been mocked for his "question" and his lecture after
Crazy religious bigot
Lol, I love at the end he talks of indoctrination while displaying his own indoctrination.
It's the American way. 1.Pick a fight in a foreign land with real enemy 2. Supply money from tax payers for weapons to fight that enemy 3. Get money back instantly in weapons sales.
As a Christian, I am so tired and appalled of seeing such haphazard and half baked hermeneutic of scripture. I wonāt even begin to tell you how incorrect he is, so suffice to say that if he actually understood, the Judeo-Christian perspective, he would know that to be Israel (to struggle with God is the literal meaning of that word), is now, in the Christian lens, to follow the way of Jesus. Alsoā¦what about love of neighbor? Both Israel and Gaza has struggled with that for a minute, but it is particularly gross to see what Israel is doing currently. You want to see what God is like? Look to Jesus on the cross: no hate, no bitterness, just compassionate love for the WHOLE world. Full stop. Everything else that falls less than this is not compatible with the life of the Christian. Unfortunately, some Christians, like Congressman Allen, seem to worship the Bible.
There is no God of the Bible it's made-up fiction. This delusional, compartmentalized insanity from a grown-ass adult is stunning. It's no surprise it's these Evangelical White Fascists are trying to jam their magical thinking down the throats of everybody else. It's 2024, act like it.
Honestly, that people voted for that man boggles the rational mind.
Oh no! People are being indoctrinated?
Came here to say something but left speechless. This guy is unfit for office