Ha...I actually wrote that down on a post it note when I heard him say that...That was good. Hopefully this can be in the "US continues to go forward" thread soon. I liked his last few words. Something like, "The culture war is a smoke screen. It's not left vs right. It's top vs bottom." Mic drop.
That interview is a 2,601,196 views on Youtube which is right at The Late Show average viewership. I suspect it will end up with far more views than if it had just aired normally. Which is exactly what should happen when our government attempts back-door censorship.
“How must it diminish God to be associated with something so small, as a present political party?”Colbert discussing not being able to do the interview.
It's a class war. So quit voting for millionaires and especially billionaires.That was good. Hopefully this can be in the "US continues to go forward" thread soon. I liked his last few words. Something like, "The culture war is a smoke screen. It's not left vs right. It's top vs bottom." Mic drop.
Wilson has wired himself thoroughly in the centers of lunatic power in Washington. He opened a branch of his church in a building owned by Mark Meadows' pet think-tank. (Hegseth and his family are regular worshipers.) There, he preaches to the nation's capital his unique view of what the Jesus Movement was aiming for all those centuries ago. From CNN:More importantly, he's built up a Christian educational empire where he's got nearly 500 schools across the country, coast to coast, in nearly every state in the country. And as he told me, he sees his educational enterprises as munitions factories. He likes to use war terminology. So, you know, he sees his students as basically foot soldiers in the culture wars that he wants to win. And this school system has been really effective, as has his media empire. He's got popular streaming shows. He's got a publishing house called Canon Press that churns out dozens of titles. He himself has written dozens of books, and they've been pretty influential in these circles.
“Every society is theocratic,” Wilson said in an interview with CNN at his Christ Church in Idaho. “The only question is who’s ‘Theo’? In Saudi Arabia, Theo is Allah. In a secular democracy, it would be Demos, the people. In a Christian republic, it’d be Christ."
Annnnnnnd, we're off!Wilson believes in a patriarchal society where women are expected to submit to their husbands. Women are banned from leadership positions in his church. He supports repealing the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, (though he says it’s not a top priority) wants to outlaw abortion and says homosexuality should be a crime. Wilson says he was grateful for the first Trump administration and the appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices that led to the repeal of Roe v. Wade. Now in the second Trump administration he wants to see the high court repeal the 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage nationwde. Asked how the president fits into his mission, Wilson says: “Trump is the wrecking ball. He is the wild card. He is, he’s the thing that nobody really anticipated.”
And people worry that romance is dead.Wilson and his pastors say they would support repealing the 19th Amendment, which gives women the right to vote, because they believe each household should have a sole vote from the head of the household (widows or single women would still get a vote, they say). “This is a key in the way that we’re thinking about the world itself. So I believe that the household is a unit, and so the household should have one vote,” said Jared Longshore, executive pastor at Christ Church in Moscow, who delivered the sermon at the opening of Christ Church Washington DC last month. “I would ordinarily be the one that would cast the vote, but I would cast the vote having discussed it with my household,” said Toby Sumpter, another pastor at Christ Church. Wilson’s writings on sex and marriage have sparked criticisms that his theology opens the door to spousal abuse and even marital rape. In a passage from his 1999 book titled, “Fidelity: What it Means to be a One-Woman Man,” Wilson writes: “A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.”
linkHis most controversial commentary is arguably about slavery. He co-wrote a booklet in the 1990s on slavery in the South, which included the claim: “Slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since.” Asked if he still believes there was affection between the races, Wilson said: “Well, yes, it depends on which master, which slave you’re talking about.”“Slavery was overseen and conducted by fallen human beings, and there were horrendous abuses and there were also people who owned slaves who were decent human beings and didn’t mistreat them,” he said. “I think that system of chattel slavery was an unbiblical system, and I’m grateful it’s gone.”
I despise "Christian" Nationalism because it is not true Christianity, however, it is hard for me to take an author seriously when they use the terms "Secretary of Flex" and "preacherman".From Esquire Magazine
Pete Hegseth invited a white Christian nationalist to lead prayer at the Pentagon
Secretary of Flex Pete Hegseth this week chose a preacherman named Doug Wison to lead the prayer meeting at the Pentagon. Let's meet him, shall we?
Wilson presides over the Christ Church, a congregation located in Moscow, Idaho, which should be very loud warning siren to those of us who a) lived through the White Punks in Camo days of the 1990s and, b) thoroughly read the brave reporting of David Neiwert down through the years since. As an outright white Christian nationalist, Wilson is very much of that tradition. From NPR, via reporter Heath Druzin:
Wilson has wired himself thoroughly in the centers of lunatic power in Washington. He opened a branch of his church in a building owned by Mark Meadows' pet think-tank. (Hegseth and his family are regular worshipers.) There, he preaches to the nation's capital his unique view of what the Jesus Movement was aiming for all those centuries ago. From CNN:
Annnnnnnd, we're off!
And people worry that romance is dead.
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I thought about cleaning up and removing the language, but that's not real and well Esquire gonna EsquireI despise "Christian" Nationalism because it is not true Christianity, however, it is hard for me to take an author seriously when they use the terms "Secretary of Flex" and "preacherman".
This right here is why Doug Wilson and those like him are full of bs and not in any way interested in Jesus.
And the rest of the world.TUCKER: “You’ve appealed to Genesis - are you saying Israel has a Biblical right to the entire Middle East?”
HUCKABEE: “It would be fine if they took it all.”
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TUCKER: “You’ve appealed to Genesis - are you saying Israel has a Biblical right to the entire Middle East?” HUCKABEE: “It would be fine if they took it all.”🤔 Trump’s Christian Zionist ambassador to Israel @govmikehuckabee tells Tucker Israel can take Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc.www.threads.com
No wonder the Epstein survivors wonder if people in high places are trying to groom American society to accept child sexual abuse and pedophilia as normal. I hope people for the mid-term elections will have the good moral sense to vote incumbents the hell out of there, who don't seem to object to that.This right here is why Doug Wilson and those like him are full of bs and not in any way interested in Jesus.
How can you appear on stage or give blessing /consent to a man that by your very words should be “executed for not following biblical law. Pete is a drunken adulterer three times married.
Oh but he’s white wealthy and has power so we are going to look the other way on his “biblical transgressions.”
Doug has not only looked the other way but he has blessed the wedding of a known pedophile in his church in Idaho that resulted in the individual sexually assaulting his own child.