Saturday, August 10th, 2019
Stephan: Here you have the voice and thinking of christofascism. And who is the sanctimonious, Robert Jeffress, talking to? Why the 42 percent of Americans, according to the Gallup Organization,[https://news.gallup.com/poll/170822/believe-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx] who are Creationists.
That's right "More than four in 10 Americans continue to believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago, a view that has changed little over the past three decades."
Does 42% sound familiar? Trump's approval rating today is 42.1%, according to FiveThirtyEight.
Trump’s spiritual advisor fundamentalist pastor Robert Jeffress
During an appearance on Fox News this Thursday alongside Ethan Bearman of Left Coast News, megachurch pastor and Trump evangelical advisor Robert Jeffress pushed back against skepticism over the “thoughts and prayers” response to mass shootings commonly echoed by religious conservatives, saying that the solution lies in teaching children that God will hold them accountable for their actions.
In the segment which he shared on the YouTube channel for his church, Jeffress argued against the claim that evangelicals aren’t willing to find real-world solutions to gun violence, but added that “if we depend upon legislation alone to solve the gun problem, we’re going to be sadly disappointed.”
Speaking to Fox News host Shannon Bream, Jeffress, who is the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, said “there is a spiritual component” to gun violence that should be addressed “not in place of legislation, but certainly alongside any proposed legislation.”
Bream then mentioned a recent op-ed by former Arkansas governor Mike […]
