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This week’s opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem is another reminder that Sen. Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” speech, an early denunciation of the evils of McCarthyism in the 1950s, still remains politically relevant, particularly to the Republican Party in the age of Donald Trump. Smith decried the lack of leadership that she believed could result in “national suicide” and urged her Republican colleagues to maintain their political integrity and intellectual honesty: “I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny — Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.”
Smith’s speech alludes to the “Four Horsemen” of Revelation 6:1-8. In its biblical context, these horsemen serve as apocalyptic images of God’s judgment awaiting humankind in the end times. Her four horsemen, though, are human-inspired pestilences damaging both the Republican Party and the United States.
Smith’s biblical imagery makes the speech especially applicable to a certain subset of the Republican Party — white evangelical Christians who support a president whose life exemplifies everything Jesus’ teachings oppose. But for some white evangelicals, the ends justify the means. For example, since many of them believe that the restoration of Israel with Jerusalem as its capital is one of the factors leading to the end of the world as portrayed in the Book of Revelation, it is no accident that two white evangelical pastors offered prayers at the opening of the embassy in Jerusalem.
They didn't vote for Trump to be their spiritual counselor.
How many presidents promised to do this and how many ignored it? Trump was following through on that promise.
Some evangelicals see the end of the world now anyway with all the corruption going on. They just may be right.
If there soon is an end to the world, it will be because the evangelicals voted in an incompetent petulant man-child who as president has access to the nuclear codes.
If there soon is an end to the world, it will be because the evangelicals voted in an incompetent petulant man-child who as president has access to the nuclear codes.
And hes had access to these for how long now....without anything drastic happening...I guess thats just luck or?
They didn't vote for Trump to be their spiritual counselor.
How many presidents promised to do this and how many ignored it? Trump was following through on that promise.
Some evangelicals see the end of the world now anyway with all the corruption going on. They just may be right.
They appear to be deliberately hastening The End.
But that is according to their plan, not God's plan. They put God in a box, and try to make Him work to their own schedule. Very pagan concept, really.
The burning lava in Hawaii is a picture of your soon-coming habitation. So, mock on!
Mock what?
Trump? That lying, lecherous con man?
Evangelical Fundies? ... the Pharisees and hypocrites of modern America?
No mocking here, simply righteous indignation.
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