Deranged Magat Syndrome

[jon-nyc]

Or “DMS” for short.

The Jericho March.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/what-i-saw-at-the-jericho-march/

[bachophile]

[LuFins Dad]

This has gotten beyond ridiculous. I can’t believe how many people that I normally consider pretty reasonable (and at least somewhat intelligent) are getting sucked up into this...

[Doctor Phibes]

The cult of personality is pretty disturbing, considering his personality.

[Loki]

@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

The cult of personality is pretty disturbing, considering his personality.

How mostly peaceful though?

[taiwan_girl]

Wow. Interesting article.

[Loki]

@taiwan_girl said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

Wow. Interesting article.

Agreed. This was my favorite part:

A Catholic priest who read my tweetstorm about all this today e-mailed:

Reading your tweets about these Jericho marches, I couldn’t help but think about the famous Regensburg Lecture, given by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 (the one with the “controversial” quote about Muhammad).

Benedict’s crux of the lecture was that the proper understanding of God was to emphasize God’s Intellect over his Will. God, as we know, is the Logos, reason itself. A God who is Logos would NEVER ask us to do anything unreasonable, because to do so would go against His very Nature. The lecture went on to essentially say that too many people (from modernist philosophers to Islamic Fundamentalists) perceive God as more of a “will” than an “intellect”; that kind of understanding leads people to think “God told me to fly a plane into an office building; it kinda sounds loony, but God told me to do it, so I’m gonna do it. No matter how unreasonable the demand, if God asks me to do something, I should do it, because he’s God.”

Benedict then went on to say that the world needs to rediscover the God who is Logos, who is reason itself.

I unfortunately think that too many American Christian fundamentalists now emphasize God’s Will over His Intellect, and these Jericho Marches are just the beginning of a bad current of philosophy beginning to enter American Christian life. Obviously the threats from the Left are real and pressing, but we can’t descend into illogical madness as our means to fight against it. Truth is the best weapon we have, and the God of Truth, Goodness and Beauty will always guide us towards those things.

[Larry]

There's at least a few things bothering me about this. First, it misrepresents "evangelical" Christianity o an audience of people who know nothing about Christianity to start with, who bring their preconceived notions about "evangelicals" to the table as they read an article written by a guy they give credibility to because he states that he's a Christian without noticing that while yes he's a Christian, he's a 3 years Catholic, knowing no more about "evangelical" Christians than a nonchristian. Second, from this he attempts to portray all "evangelicals" as Alex Jones types, cultists, who are worshiping Trump. Maybe a tiny few do. But it would be a tinier % than the tiny percent of "evangelicals" who go around thinking God "told them" something or sent some sort of prophetic vision to them. So this article misrepresents both protestant Christians as well as the reason Trump supporters support him by focusing on a few oddballs that most protestants roll their eyes at too.

The vast majority of Protestant Christians do not fit this man's depiction, and 99.999999% of Trump supporters do not worship Trump, or support him because of any religious view. I for one find the entire notion ridiculous.

But I will just speak for myself, and then tell you that the vast majority of Trump supporters are just like me. I do not "speak in tongues", i do not think Trump is a religious figure, I do not support Trump because God told me to. My religious views have absolutely nothing to do with it. I'm a 69 year old man who has spent his entire life exposed to Christians. None of them outside of one or two small denominations speak in "tongues" and it is extremely rare to run into anyone who believes God chose them to send messages. The only one I've run into in years actually was Dewey, who said that God told him to become a pastor and that it was ok to suck dicks. I will add by the way that the very same ones who are now mocking Christians as a bunch of cult worshiping self appoi Ted prophets were the same ones who told me to shut up and respect his silly religious views when I told him God had not told him anything and that he should get out of the ministry.

I support Trump because he took on the corrupt political class and exposed them. I support Trump because he accomplished more GOOD for this country than any president since Reagan. And I support him because he did all this in spite of the fact that the media, the democrat party, the rich donor groups, big tech, have attacked him every single day of his presidency, and done everything they could to get rid of him - and because the lemmings who make up the democrat base have taken part in it and supported it with a genuine religious cult like manner.

Which is another reason I support Trump. I have been watching the Left/democrat bunch for decades. I have watched their descent into mentally illness for more years than some of you have been alive. I can remember when the democrats were literally a political party. I have watched as the mental illness began setting in, I watched it overtake them, i have watched as their political views shifted, and I have watched as it turned into a religion. And, I have watched its base go from rational thinkers who simply disagreed with the right over policy issues to brainwashed cultists who will accept whatever their religious leaders (the democrat party) tells them to accept. And I have watched as they use the method of projecting to accuse their opponents of the very thing they themselves are guilty of.

For you see, it's not republicans, Christians, or Trump supporters who are motivated by religion. It's the exact other way around.

[Jolly]

@lufins-dad said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

This has gotten beyond ridiculous. I can’t believe how many people that I normally consider pretty reasonable (and at least somewhat intelligent) are getting sucked up into this...

That's because all Evangelicals are drooling fools.

Don't you know that?

[jon-nyc]

[Loki]

[jon-nyc]

You prefer everyone look the other way and pretend this isn't happening.

But no, it's not trolling - it was a real question and the respondents treated it as such (even listed some examples from lower levels of government that I wasn't aware of, and Ludendorff which is interesting)

[Horace]

Is there a reason why this is self-evidently a full blown crank conspiracy theory?

[Loki]

@jon-nyc said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

You prefer everyone look the other way and pretend this isn't happening.

But no, it's not trolling - it was a real question and the respondents treated it as such (even listed some examples from lower levels of government that I wasn't aware of, and Ludendorf which is interesting)

I’m sure there are several examples of people over the decades but most don’t have time to do it. Also his big role with Trump was how many months a whopping 3??

And yes he is completely whacked out. Worse than Giuliani.

[jon-nyc]

@horace said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

Is there a reason why this is self-evidently a full blown crank conspiracy theory?

Obama, the FBI, and the CEO of Overstock.com arranged that Hillary take an 18MM bribe so that they could hold it over her head for the express purpose of making sure she didn't get rid of Obamacare?

[Horace]

Well, bribes to politicians are not self evidently absurd. The rest seems an over-specification of what the tweet actually said.

[Horace]

I recall a story about Hillary having quite a career as a cattle futures trader, as a young politician. You should google it, jon.

[Loki]

A quick google search, here are the top 10 Obama.

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/labor/89613-president-obamas-top-10-failed-nominees-and-appointees-sen-demint

[Doctor Phibes]

I see Horace is teetering on the brink....

[Horace]

@doctor-phibes said in Deranged Magat Syndrome:

I see Horace is teetering on the brink....

I hope someday to have the courage to never take a side and sneer at everything just like you, phibes.