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Let me be clear that I am not attacking Christians here.  Supply-side Jesus is completely opposite to the Jesus that authentic Christians worship.  Supply-side Jesus was invented to justify the Republican false gospel of hate, greed and racism for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.  Many practitioners of this obscenity prey on their congregants and promise miracles, but when Supply-side Jesus can’t cut it, and there is no miracle, guess whose fault it is.

One of the most sad and telling claims of so-called ‘faith healers’ from Benny Hinn to Todd Bentley is that the reason people are not healed at their healing conferences or through their television ministries is not because the faith healer wasn’t able to cure the ailment or sickness but because of the lack of faith of the person (and often the inadequate size of their financial gifts) who sought the healing. If only the person had genuine faith, so it goes, then the healing would’ve worked, so don’t blame the healer!

Today on the 700 Club [Theocons delinked], we saw an example of that when a viewer called in wondering why it is that when he prayed with Pat Robertson during his show for a healing of his knee pain the pain came back the next day. Robertson responded that people can “give up” his healings because “you don’t believe that it’s real” and never claimed the healing, “this is mine.”… [emphasis added]

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Here’s the video.

It does not take rocket science to figure out how connected Robertson is with God.  A few years back Disney World announced that they had discontinued their policy to discriminate against LGBT employees.  Robertson quickly prophesied that God had told him Orlando would be smitten with a hurricane in retribution for Disney World’s satanic policy.  The next hurricane to hit the US made landfall at Virginia Beach and damaged Robertson’s headquarters.  God must have a wonderful sense of humor.

Rick “Google Me” Santorum thought he had the unified endorsement of the Theocon and InsaniTEA wings of the Republican Party.  However the endorsement is not so clear as it seemed when Tony Perkins lied to America, announcing a consensus  of support for Santorum.  This is the first time I have ever used the Washington Times, an extreme Republican paper, as a source.  I am doing so now to avoid claims of bias.

A civil war is breaking out among evangelical leaders over allegations of a rigged election and ballot stuffing at a Saturday gathering of religious and social conservatives.

At the meeting about 150 religious conservative activists at the Benham, Texas, ranch of Nancy and Paul Pressler, Rick Santorum supporters claimed the former Pennsylvania senator was chosen on the third ballot as the consensus candidate to try to stop Mitt Romney’s march to the Republican presidential nomination.

The meeting was called to avoid a continued division within social conservatives’ ranks.

But in back-and-forth emails, Protestant fundamentalist leaders who attended – most of them backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to be the anti-Romney candidate — are accusing Catholic participants of conniving to rig the vote.

They said they were conned into leaving after the second ballot on Saturday. They said pro-Santorum participants held a third ballot which Mr. Santorum won with more than 70 percent of the vote — far higher than the nine-vote margin he won on the first ballot.

“My view is that the vote was manipulated,” said a prominent social conservative who asked not to be named.

Now, a prominent evangelical political organizer is saying to others confidentially he has evidence that in a least one instance a participant was seen writing Mr. Santorum’s name on four separate ballots and putting them in the ballot box… [emphasis added]

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Neither claims of voter fraud and nor rigged elections represent anything new to the Republican party, but this has to hurt.  Not only is it embarrassing for them to be seen as too contentious to function honorably, but also, it defeats their purpose, leaving support even more divided between Newter and the Frothmeister, thus helping Multiple Mitt.

Rachel Maddow fills in the details.

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I bet vulture capitalists are partying down over this, especially the most multiple one.

Loving others is a principal tenant of Christianity, but far to many people many people fail to realize that authentic Christianity and Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity are completely unrelated.  Here is an example of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity in action.

ThinkProgress reported last week that Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R) was forced to apologize to First Lady Michelle Obama after forwarding an email to fellow lawmakers that called her “Mrs. YoMama” and compared her to the Grinch.

Earlier that same week, the Lawrence Journal-World was sent another email that O’Neal had forwarded to House Republicans that referred to President Obama and a Bible verse that says “Let his days be few” and calls for his children to be without a father and his wife to be widowed.

Nick Sementelli at Faith in Public Life notes that Psalm 109, which is a prayer for the death of a leader, became a popular conservative meme after Obama’s election. The “tongue-in-cheek” prayer for the president was seen on bumper stickers. The relevant part of the psalm reads:

Let his days be few; and let another take his office

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

May his children be wandering beggars; may they be driven from their ruined homes.

May a creditor seize all he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

May no one extend kindness to him or take pity on his fatherless children.

O’Neal forwarded the prayer with his own message: “At last — I can honestly voice a Biblical prayer for our president!… [emphasis original]

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I have often been accused of hating Republicans, but revealing the facts about their avowed beliefs, policies and actions is accuracy, not hatred.  Furthermore, the most harm I have ever wished on any Republican is unemployment from public office, and/or prosecution for crimes with all the rights and protections the law allows.

The People at Faith in Public Life, noted above, in an act of authentic Christianity, have a petition for Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal to resign.  I signed it and invite you to join me.

It’s hard to get past a holiday without the pseudo-Christian followers of Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) finding an excuse to display their gospel of bigotry, hate and intolerance.  For Thanksgiving they reached a level of stupidity in their fear mongering seldom seen before.  Cower under your beds!  Your Thanksgiving turkey, they say, is a secret agent of Islam.

Red-blooded Christian Americans, consider yourselves warned. The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer has discovered a plot to secretly infiltrate America’s ovens with Muslim turkeys:

I want to talk a little bit about Butterball turkeys. And I want to let you know [that] every single Butterball turkey sold in the United States of America has been sacrificed to Allah.

 

Every single turkey that Butterball sells has been ritually slaughtered according to Islamic practice and has had an Islamic prayer prayed over that bird while it is being slaughtered.

If your Thanksgiving turkey starts speaking Arabic or insists on wearing a hijab, now you know the reason. But this is no joking matter to Fischer, who raises the possibility of a pressure campaign against Butterball this Christmas…

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Here’s the video:

The problem, of course, is that Geller and Fischer, are practicing a Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian holiday ritual. They are lying.

Mellissa Harris Perry debunks this Republican lie.

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I am thankful that, as a Christian, I can also honor the faith of those who are not, and I am thankful that authentic Muslims are far more Christian than Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.